1946 Season- Seamheads Negro Leagues Database

1946 Season


Negro American League


1945 / 1947

Top Hitter


Sam
Hairston

Top Pitcher


Peanuts
Davis

Leaders

OPS

# Player Team OPS
1
Sam Hairston
CIC
.979
2
Clyde Nelson
CAG
.940
3
Archie Ware
CBE
.935
4
Ted Strong
KCM
.871
5
Willard Brown
KCM
.870
6
Reinaldo Drake
CIC
.756
7
Hank Thompson
KCM
.754
8
Willie Grace
CBE
.753
9
Quincy Trouppe
CBE
.744
10
Duke Cleveland
CIC
.729

ERA

# Player Team ERA
1
Bill Powell
BBB
1.00
2
Hilton Smith
KCM
1.69
3
Jehosie Heard
BBB
2.00
4
Gentry Jessup
CAG
2.05
5
Jimmie Newberry
BBB
2.52
6
Walter McCoy
CAG
2.59
7
Peanuts Davis
CIC
2.79
8
Jim LaMarque
KCM
3.16
9
Manuel Godínez
CIC
3.27
10
Ford Smith
KCM
3.27


Standings
Glossary

Negro American League

vs NAL vs All Teams
# Team
W
L
T
W%
GB
W
L
T
W%
R/G RA/G Managers Ballpark
1
50
16
2
.758
-
55
26
2
.679
5.6
3.8
Frank Duncan
Blues Stadium (Kansas City, MO)
2
31
26
0
.544
14.5
34
26
0
.567
4.7
4.1
Tommy Sampson
Rickwood Field (Birmingham, AL)
3
31
34
1
.477
18.5
36
40
3
.474
4.6
5.3
Quincy Trouppe
League Park (Cleveland, OH), Municipal Stadium (Cleveland, OH)
4
34
38
2
.472
19.0
36
40
2
.474
4.7
5.1
Jelly Taylor, Ruben Jones
Martin Park (Memphis, TN), Russwood Park (Memphis, TN)
5
31
41
1
.431
22.0
33
48
2
.407
4.4
5.3
Hoss Walker
Victory Field (Indianapolis, IN), Crosley Field (Cincinnati, OH)
6
31
53
2
.369
28.0
31
56
2
.356
4.5
5.6
Candy Jim Taylor
Comiskey Park (Chicago, IL)
* = League Champion      1 = First Half Champion      2 = Second Half Champion      
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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, Wayne Stivers, 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