1948 Season- Seamheads Negro Leagues Database

1948 Season


Negro American League


1947 / 1949

Top Hitter


Willard
Brown

Top Pitcher


Jim
LaMarque

Leaders

WHIP

# Player Team WHIP
1
Ford Smith
KCM
1.11
2
Jim LaMarque
KCM
1.19
3
Bill Powell
BBB
1.20
4
Jim Cohen
IC
1.26
5
Vibert Clarke
CBE
1.35
6
Willie Cathey
IC
1.37
7
Jimmie Newberry
BBB
1.41
8
Gene Richardson
KCM
1.43
9
Hilton Smith
KCM
1.48
10
Johnny Williams
IC
1.49


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
63
28
2
.692
-
68
40
3
.630
5.8
4.7
Piper Davis
Rickwood Field (Birmingham, AL)
2
67
34
3
.663
1.0
69
36
3
.657
7.1
4.9
Buck O'Neil
Blues Stadium (Kansas City, MO)
3
48
54
3
.471
20.5
49
58
4
.458
5.4
5.5
Alonzo Boone
League Park (Cleveland, OH)
4
43
65
4
.398
28.5
48
69
4
.410
4.8
6.5
Larry Brown
Martin Park (Memphis, TN)
5
40
61
5
.396
28.0
45
78
7
.366
4.5
5.9
Ramiro Ramírez, Buster Haywood
Victory Field (Indianapolis, IN)
6
38
57
1
.400
27.0
38
60
2
.388
4.9
5.5
Quincy Trouppe
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