1944 Season- Seamheads Negro Leagues Database

1944 Season


Negro American League


1943 / 1945

Top Hitter


Artie
Wilson

Top Pitcher


Satchel
Paige

Leaders

Slugging %

# Player Team SLG
1
Jesse Douglas
CAG
.573
2
Ed Steele
BBB
.563
3
Dave Harper
CIC/KCM
.545
4
Artie Wilson
BBB
.508
5
Parnell Woods
CBE
.506
6
Bonnie Serrell
KCM
.486
7
Alex Radcliff
CIC/CAG
.449
8
Sam Jethroe
CBE
.443
9
Art Pennington
CAG/CIC
.431
10
John Bissant
CAG
.412

ERA

# Player Team ERA
1
Robert Keyes
MRS
0.64
2
Henry Merchant
CIC
1.00
3
Satchel Paige
KCM
1.10
4
George Jefferson
CBE
1.78
5
Booker McDaniel
KCM
1.87
6
Eugene Bremer
CBE
2.41
7
Porter Moss
MRS
2.42
8
Antonio Ruiz
CIC
2.60
9
Willie Hutchinson
MRS
2.66
10
Gentry Jessup
CAG
2.68


Standings
Glossary

Negro American League

vs NAL vs Maj. Black Teams
# Team
W
L
T
W%
GB
W
L
T
W%
R/G RA/G Managers Ballpark
1
47
22
0
.681
-
58
37
0
.611
5.6
4.1
Winfield Welch
Rickwood Field (Birmingham, AL)
2
46
33
0
.582
6.0
50
44
0
.532
4.7
4.4
Parnell Woods
League Park (Cleveland, OH), Cleveland Stadium (Cleveland, OH)
3
49
41
0
.544
8.5
51
43
1
.543
4.2
4.3
Hoss Walker
Crosley Field (Cincinnati, OH), Victory Field (Indianapolis, IN)
4
39
48
0
.448
17.0
42
60
0
.412
4.0
4.7
Frank Duncan
Ruppert Stadium (Kansas City, MO)
5
49
65
0
.430
20.5
49
69
0
.415
3.9
4.3
Ruben Jones
Martin Park (Memphis, TN)
6
33
54
0
.379
23.0
34
56
0
.378
4.0
5.5
Bingo DeMoss, Lloyd Davenport, John Bissant
Comiskey Park (Chicago, IL)
* = League Champion      1 = First Half Champion      2 = Second Half Champion      
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Playing statistics for 1887-1922 and 1926-1938, as well as all Cuban League games (1902-1928) and Negro League vs. Major League games (1887-1944), copyright 2011-2018 Gary Ashwill.

Playing statistics for 1923 (except Negro League vs. Major League games), copyright 2011-2018 Patrick Rock.

Playing statistics for 1933 and 1943, copyright 2013-2018 Scott Simkus.

Playing statistics for 1924-1925, 1939-1942, and 1944-1946 Negro Leagues (not including Cuban League and Negro League vs. Major League games), copyright 2011-2018 Larry Lester, Gary Ashwill.


Defensive Regression Analysis data used here was obtained with permission from Michael Humphreys, author of Wizardry

Win Shares are calculated using the formula in the book Win Shares by Bill James