1946 Season- Seamheads Negro Leagues Database

1946 Season


Negro National League II


1945 / 1947

Top Hitter


Tommy
Butts

Top Pitcher


Leon
Day

Leaders

Slugging %

# Player Team SLG
1
Josh Gibson
HG
.653
2
Larry Doby
NE
.592
3
Henry Kimbro
BEG
.557
4
Monte Irvin
NE
.548
5
Buck Leonard
HG
.538
6
Lennie Pearson
NE
.504
7
Johnny Davis
NE
.494
8
Silvio García
NYC
.486
9
Pat Patterson
NE
.479
10
Doc Dennis
PS
.463

ERA+

# Player Team ERA+
1
Rufus Lewis
NE
222
2
Leon Day
NE
183
3
Luis Tiant
NYC
178
4
Barney Brown
PS
166
5
Wilmer Fields
HG
163
6
Max Manning
NE
154
7
Leniel Hooker
NE
143
8
Barney Morris
NYC
132
9
Henry McHenry
PS
126
10
Dave Barnhill
NYC
125


Standings
Glossary

Negro National League II

vs NN2 vs All Teams
# Team
W
L
T
W%
GB
W
L
T
W%
R/G RA/G Managers Ballpark
1
51
21
2
.708
-
57
24
3
.704
6.6
4.4
Biz Mackey
Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
2
38
34
3
.528
13.0
43
34
3
.558
5.2
4.6
Felton Snow
Bugle Field (Baltimore, MD)
3
39
35
3
.527
13.0
51
39
4
.567
6.1
4.9
Vic Harris
Griffith Stadium (Washington, DC), Forbes Field (Pittsburgh, PA)
4
36
33
2
.522
13.5
37
38
2
.493
4.6
5.0
José María Fernández
Polo Grounds (New York, NY), Yankee Stadium (Bronx, NY) (Queens, NY)
5
31
36
2
.463
17.5
33
38
4
.465
5.0
4.8
Goose Curry
44th & Parkside (Philadelphia, PA), Shibe Park (Philadelphia, PA)
6
12
48
0
.200
33.0
18
52
0
.257
3.2
6.8
Marvin Barker
Yankee Stadium (Bronx, NY), Polo Grounds (New York, NY) (Queens, NY)
* = 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