1942 Negro World Series
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| Kansas City Monarchs | Four games to None | Washington-Homestead Grays |
| (28-10, NAL) | (21-11, NNL) |
[edit] Introduction
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The 1942 Negro World Series marked the resumption of the Negro World Series after more than a decade, and was the first of seven consecutive official postseason series to crown a champion of the two Negro Leagues. This series featured future Hall of Fame performers Ray Brown, Willard Brown, Josh Gibson, Buck Leonard, Satchel Paige, Hilton Smith, and Jud Wilson. Games were played in five different cities (including one game that was thrown out]] and the series was notable for the appearance of Paige in every single venue.
The Kansas City Monarchs swept the Washington-Homestead Grays in four games, though the series included one exhibition game, and the results of one game were thrown out after a protest.
[edit] The Teams
The two teams that met in this series were two of the most storied teams in Negro Leagues history. The Kansas City Monarchs had won consecutive pennants from 1937 to 1940, their skein having been interrupted in 1941 by the Birmingham Black Barons. The Homestead Grays had likewise won their fifth pennant in six seasons, 1942 being their third consecutive. The teams had split two pre-season games and had met twice in exhibitions during the regular season, the Grays beating the Monarchs in extra innings in both games, 1-0 and 3-2, Paige taking one no-decision and one loss in the two games. Most media discussion before the series concentrated on whether Paige would be seeking revenge on the Grays or whether the Grays now held a "jinx" over Paige, and most prominent black sportswriters installed Homestead as a slight favorite.
[edit] Kansas City Monarchs
Coming off a relatively disappointing 1941 season that saw the death of their long-time manager Andy Cooper and a playoff loss to Birmingham, the Monarchs dominated the Negro American League this year. Brown (.310) led the league with 9 homers, more than the next two players combined, second baseman Bonnie Serrell hit .406 to lead the loop, while third baseman Newt Allen (.318), catcher Joe Greene (.366), outfielder Ted Strong (.322), and shortstop Jesse Williams (.315) all topped .300. First baseman Buck O'Neil hit .269/~.289/.352, being more prized for his running and defensive games. Paige (7-5, 1.95) and Hilton Smith (4-3) were surprisingly the weak members of the staff, Smith having spent most of the season's second half with a sore arm. Booker McDaniels (6-0, 1.76) and Jack Matchett (6-1, 1.56) were the top two hurlers in the league in RA and first and third in winning percentage. Connie Johnson went 4-0 as well. After manager Cooper's illness and death, Newt Allen managed the team in 1941 but decided not to manage further after the end of the season. Dizzy Dismukes managed the club during its pre-season, but turned over the reins to Frank Duncan while assuming the duties of business manager (a title that would be the equivalent of General Manager today) and club secretary.
[edit] Homestead Grays
Guided by player-manager Vic Harris, Homestead edged the Baltimore Elite Giants and Newark Eagles in both halves of the season for the Negro National League title. The team's stars were catcher Josh Gibson (.347, a NNL-leading 14 homers), and pitchers Ray Brown (13-4, 2.61, second in the league in wins) and Roy Partlow (7-1, 1.29, the lowest RA). While the team had many big names, many of its key players were past their prime. Leonard hit .172, Harris .216 and Wilson .243. Sammy Bankhead (.283) was one of the few players other than Gibson to hit, meaning the team was relying heavily on one bat and two arms.
[edit] The Games
[edit] Game One
September 8 at Griffith Stadium, Washington, DC
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas City Monarchs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 14 | 0 | |
| Homestead Grays | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | |
| W: Jack Matchett (1-0) L: Roy Welmaker (0-1) | |||||||||||||
| HR: none | |||||||||||||
| Umpires: John Craig, -- Kemp, and Hosley "Scrip" Lee | |||||||||||||
| Attendance: 22,129 | |||||||||||||
The Series' opening game was a scoreless tie for the first five innings, but the Monarchs capitalized on the Grays' shoddy fielding and pummeled them over the last four, routing them 8-0. The Grays committed six errors, five of which contributed directly to Monarchs scoring.
Satchel Paige and Roy Welmaker matched each other zero for zero for the first five innings, Paige allowing three baserunners to Welmaker's seven. Paige retired the first 10 men he faced until Sam Bankhead lined a single to center and Howard Easterling grounded a sharp single through second, placing runners on first and second. Josh Gibson hit Paige's second pitch to him 420 feet to deep left-center for a long fly out, moving both runners up 90 feet. Paige then retired Buck Leonard, ending the Grays' only threat. A walk to Vic Harris in the fifth would prove to be the last base runner the Grays would manage.
A light drizzle began to fall as the top of the sixth inning began. It lasted the remainder of the game, though it did not delay or interfere with play.
The Monarchs scored an unearned run in this inning. Newt Allen singled to center with one out and took second on Ted Strong's single. Welmaker had escaped two earlier jams with double plays, and it seemed he would do so again when Willard Brown chopped a made to order grounder to second baseman Matthew "Lick" Carlisle. However, shortstop Bankhead fumbled Carlisle's toss, and Allen scored with Gibson fumbled Bankhead's throw and let the ball roll to the backstop. Strong was tagged out at the plate by Leonard when he tried to score on Gibson's muff. The entire sequence was scored 4-E6 / 6-E2 / 2-3, marking one putout, two errors, and three assists.
Jack Matchett relieved Paige to begin the bottom of the sixth, and retired the Grays in order.
The roof fell in on the Grays in the seventh inning. After the first two men went out, Jesse Williams got a squib single. Matchett singled to left and Williams took an extra base when Vic Harris couldn't pick the ball up cleanly. Williams then scored on a textbook double steal. Third baseman Jud Wilson let Simm's roller get past him for an error, allowing Matchett to score. Allen doubled to center to plate Simms, making the score 4-0.
Another error allowed Willard Brown to reach leading off the eighth. A double by Joe Greene tallied Brown with the Monarchs' fifth unearned run, while Buck O'Neil's triple scored Greene with their first earned run. Welmaker toughened a bit at that point, striking out Serrell and Williams, and then retiring Matchett to leave O'Neil stranded on third.
Allen made his third single of the day with one out in the ninth. Strong forced him at second, but then scored on Brown's triple to deep center, reported in the Baltimore Afro-American at 435 feet. Greene completed the scoring when he singled Brown home.
Matchett, having replaced Paige after the fifth, retired all twelve men he faced, and received credit for the victory in relief.
[edit] Game Two
September 10 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas City Monarchs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 1 | |
| Homestead Grays | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 2 | |
| W: Hilton Smith (1-0) L: Roy Partlow (0-1) S: Satchel Paige | |||||||||||||
| HR: none | |||||||||||||
| Umpires: John Craig, Raymond "Mo" Harris, and Win Harris | |||||||||||||
| Attendance: 5,219 | |||||||||||||
The Monarchs went up two games to none with a victory in the second game. The game was close and low-scoring most of the way until the two teams combined for 10 runs in the last two innings.
Rain had fallen in Pittsburgh most of the day, and bad weather threatened throughout the game, and attendance was held down as a result. Satchel Paige was slated to start the game, but sore-armed Hilton Smith started instead and delivered five scoreless innings before tiring. Paige entered the game in relief in the sixth.
The Monarchs scored in the first when Ted Strong singled with two out., moved to second on Willard Brown's walk, and scored on Joe Greene's single. They added another in the fourth on a double steal when Jesse Williams stole second and Greene beat the throw back to the plate. Grays catcher Josh Gibson protested strongly that he had tagged Greene out, but to no avail.
The Grays loaded the bases in the seventh on three singles with two outs, but Paige preserved the lead by striking out Josh Gibson on three pitches, running the Grays' streak of scoring futility in this series to 16 innings.
The Monarchs then loaded the bases on three singles in their half of the eighth, and then expanded their lead to 5-0 in the eighth when Bonnie Serrell tripled to deep center, scoring Strong, Browne, and Greene. Serrell tried to stretch his hit into an inside the park grand slam home run, but was thrown out at the plate.
The Grays finally broke into the scoring column in the bottom of the eighth, pushing four runs across. Buck Leonard led off the inning with a single. Sam Bankhead singled, with Leonard taking second. Left fielder Bill Simms then dropped Ray Brown's fly ball, scoring Leonard and sending Bankhead to second. Jud Wilson tripled to right-center, scoring both Bankhead and Brown. After Whatley was retired on a heads-up play without allowing the runner to advance, Jerry Benjamin brought Wilson in with a grounder to short, making the score 5-4 Monarchs.
The Monarchs were not yet done, however. Simms singled to lead off, partially atoning for his error in the eighth, and moved to second on Herb Souell's bunt. Brown walked and Greene singled to load the bases, and then Buck O'Neil singled to left, scoring Simms and Brown. Vic Harris gave the Monarchs one last run when he fumbled O'Neil's hit, with Greene coming in to score. Paige retired the side in order in the bottom of the ninth, earning the save while Smith got the win, with a final score 8-4.
It is one of the great legends of Negro League play that Satchel Paige deliberately walked the bases loaded in the late innings of this game in order to face and strike out Josh Gibson, taunting him as he did. As frequently told in one form, Paige came into the game in the seventh inning with a 2-0 lead. With two out in the inning, the Grays' leadoff man Jerry Benjamin tripled. With two out and a man on third, Paige, after some discussion with his manager, intentionally walked the next two batters so he could face Gibson, the most feared hitter in all of black baseball, with the bases loaded. Paige then taunted Gibson while throwing fastballs ("this one's gonna be a pea at your knee"), getting two called strikes on Gibson and then striking him out swinging. The story has also occasionally been told as having happened in the ninth inning with the winning runs on base, and sometimes Gibson was said to have watched all three strikes sail by without ever taking his bat off his shoulder.
According to local contemporary newspaper reports of the game, Paige retired Chet Williams, the inning's first batter, gave up a single to pitcher Roy Partlow, retired Benjamin on a force play, then surrendered two-out singles to Vic Harris and Howard Easterling, loading the bases in front of Gibson. Paige did strike out Gibson on three pitches to end the inning and preserve the lead, but there is no record of him taunting Gibson. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Josh fouled off the first two tosses weakly, then fanned on the third." The box score of the game show that Paige did not walk a man.
The first account of this mythical version first appeared in the 1948 book, Pitchin' Man, nearly two years after Gibson's death, and was told in its more familiar form in his 1962 autobiography, Maybe I'll Pitch Forever, 20 years after the fact, and would be repeated and embellished by many others in the years since.
[edit] Game Three
September 13 at Yankee Stadium, New York
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas City Monarchs | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 16 | 3 | |
| Homestead Grays | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 4 | |
| W: Jack Matchett (2-0) L: Ray Brown (0-1) | |||||||||||||
| HR: KC: Ted Strong (1); Willard Brown (1); WAS-HOM: Howard Easterling (1) | |||||||||||||
| Umpires: Fred McCreary, Bert Gholston, and John Craig | |||||||||||||
| Attendance: 25,290 | |||||||||||||
A first inning two-out home run by Howard Easterling put the Grays up with a 2-0 lead over Paige, and Paige, after facing only nine batters in the first two innings, retired from the game, leaving it to Jack Matchett, who had relieved in Game One. Matchett allowed the Grays only one run over the remainder of the game, while consecutive home runs by Ted Strong and Willard Brown into the right field stands in the third netted four runs, and the Monarchs piled on five more runs in the fourth and fifth innings. An unearned run by the Grays in the sixth completed the scoring. Matchett cruised to his second victory of the Series, and the Monarchs moved to a commanding 3-0 series lead. Ray Brown pitched the entire game for the Grays, giving the rest of its pitching staff a break.
Grays shortstop Sam Bankhead was injured during pre-game practice when he ran into a wall. He was sent to the hospital for x-rays, which revealed a broken arm. He did not return to play in the series.
A second game was scheduled between the two teams that night. It was standard practice of the Negro Leagues to make the second game of any double-header a seven-inning game, and the teams agreed that it would be treated as an exhibition game and not counted in the statistics or standings of the CWS.
September 13 at Yankee Stadium, New York (Game 2)
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas City Monarchs | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 2 | |||
| Homestead Grays | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | |||
| W: Gread McKinnis L: Roy Welmaker | |||||||||||||
| HR: KC: Joe Greene | |||||||||||||
| Umpires: Fred McCreary, Bert Gholston, and John Craig | |||||||||||||
Gread McKinnis, who had pitched all season for the Birmingham Black Barons, was recruited by the Monarchs to pitch this game, and threw a three-hit shutout. Joe Greene hit a double and an inside-the-park home run to pace the Monarchs to a 5-0 victory.
[edit] Game Four (disallowed)
September 20 at Ruppert Stadium, Kansas City
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homestead Grays | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 0 | |
| Kansas City Monarchs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | |
| W: Leon Day L: Satchel Paige | |||||||||||||
| HR: none | |||||||||||||
| Umpires: Billy Donaldson, Wilber "Bullet" Rogan, and Hurley McNair | |||||||||||||
| Attendance: 8,542 | |||||||||||||
There was a one-week hiatus between the games in New York and the game in Kansas City. The Monarchs were the second tenant in their ballpark (after the Kansas City Blues), and had to wait for an open date. The Grays scheduled an exhibition game on September 16 against the Baltimore Elite Giants during the gap, losing 2-1. Wartime travel restrictions played a role in the time lag as well, as the teams were unable to charter their own transportation to travel from the east to the midwest.
In their only game in their home park, Kansas City took their lone loss. Faced with several injuries (including Sam Bankhead's broken arm and Roy Partlow developing a painful boil under his pitching arm), Grays owner Cum Posey signed shortstop Bus Clarkson from the Philadelphia Stars and pitcher Leon Day, outfielder Ed Stone and second baseman Lenny Pearson from the Newark Eagles for the remainder of the series.
Day struck out 12 in shutting down Kansas City while Paige again was reached by the Gray's augmented lineup; this time he got neither support nor relief in the defeat. Paige held the Grays scoreless for four innings, but a two-out walk, double and triple in the fifth scored two. They scored an unearned run in the seventh and talled again in the ninth, while heads-up running by Monarch first baseman John "Buck" O'Neil averted a shutout in the eighth. According to the Kansas City Call, "the game was interrupted several times and no less than a dozen balls thrown out because someone was using emery on the ball." Most of the protests were coming from Monarch batters accusing the Grays of scuffing the ball.
The Monarchs vocally objected to the use of "ringers" before the start of the game, but played the game under official protest for the fans who showed up. After the game, Grays owner Posey claimed that he had received verbal permission from Monarchs co-owner Tom Baird to sign the players, but the Monarchs other owner, J.L. Wilkinson, denied knowledge of any such agreement. Monarchs secretary and business manager William "Dizzy" Dismukes stated "We didn't play the Homestead Grays. We lost to the National League All-Stars." A committee composed of officers from both leagues upheld the protest, and the game was thrown out, leaving the Monarchs still ahead in the series, 3-0.
Home plate umpire Billy Donaldson was one of the longest-tenured Negro League umpires, having begun his Negro Leagues career in 1923. First base ump Bullet Rogan spent his playing and managing careers with the Monarchs, and was now a regular NAL ump. Rogan won two games in the first Colored World Series.
Another game was scheduled for September 24 in Wrigley Field in Chicago, but was canceled because of rain, and the series moved back east. It was announced in the newspapers that all remaining games would be played in Philadelphia.
[edit] Game Four (official)
September 29 at Shibe Park, Philadelphia
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas City Monarchs | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 13 | 2 | |
| Homestead Grays | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 1 | |
| W: Satchel Paige (1-0) L: Johnny Wright (0-1) | |||||||||||||
| HR: KC: Joe Green (1) | |||||||||||||
| Umpires: Fred McCreary, Franklin Forbes, and Phil Cockrell | |||||||||||||
| Attendance: 14,029 | |||||||||||||
Paige was the scheduled starter in the last game but was not present at starting time, so Matchett got the call. Matchett struggled this time, however, allowing five runs in 3 2/3 innings. Paige arrived in the 4th inning (claiming to have been delayed by a traffic ticket in Lancaster, PA), and immediately relieved Matchett, not allowing a hit or run in the 5 1/3 innings he pitched. The Monarchs' bats came alive then, taking the lead in the seventh inning, and padding it further in the eighth. Roy Partlow, who was listed as injured during the "ringer" controversy, started for the Grays, but left in the second inning. Josh Gibson also made an early exit from the game, leaving after only two innings. Johnny Wright took the loss in relief.
Phil Cockrell, umpiring at third base in this final game, was the losing pitcher in the first Colored World Series in 1924.
[edit] Summary
Kansas City hit .345/.392/.503 vs. Homestead's .206/.276/.250, outscoring them 34-12. The Monarchs' hitting stars were many, including Bonnie Serrell (.556/.579/.722), Jesse Williams (.471/.526/.588), Joe Greene (.444/.500/.667) and Willard Brown (.412/.500/.765) in the rout. Buck O'Neil's .353 series batting average was barely better than the team standard. Hilton Smith (1-0, 0.00), Satchel Paige (1-0, 2.20) and Jack Matchett (2-0, 0.00) shut down the vaunted Homestead hitters, with a team ERA of 1.00.
For Homestead, all the pitchers - Partlow (0-1, 6.00), Brown (0-1, 9.00), Welmaker (0-1, 6.10) and Wright (0-1, 10.29) - were ineffective, giving the team an aggregate 7.50 ERA. Among the hitters, Howard Easterling (.313/.421/.500) was the only effective starer, while Buck Leonard (.250/.250/.250), Vic Harris (.125/.222/.125), and Josh Gibson (.077/.200/.077) were almost completely shut down.
With the game in Kansas City thrown out, the Grays were the home team in each of the four official games. Even counting the two non-official games, the visiting team was the winner in each of the six games.
In the four games that counted, Monarch second baseman Bonnie Serrell made ten hits and shortstop Jesse Williams stole five bases. If records of the Colored World Series were considered part of Major League canon, Serrell's mark would have tied the record for a four-game World Series set by Babe Ruth in 1928, while Williams' would have established a new and as of yet unbroken four-game World Series mark.
[edit] Hitting
[edit] Kansas City Monarchs
| Name | Pos | G | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SB | BA | OBP | SLG |
| Bill Simms | LF | 4 | 21 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | .286 | .318 | .381 |
| Newt Allen | 3B | 3 | 14 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .286 | .333 | .357 |
| Ted Strong | RF | 4 | 19 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | .316 | .381 | .526 |
| Willard Brown | CF | 4 | 17 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | .412 | .500 | .765 |
| Joe Greene | C | 4 | 18 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | .444 | .500 | .667 |
| Buck O'Neil | 1B | 4 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | .353 | .421 | .588 |
| Bonnie Serrell | 2B | 4 | 18 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | .556 | .579 | .722 |
| Jesse Williams | SS | 4 | 17 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | .471 | .526 | .588 |
| Satchel Paige | P | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Jack Matchett | P | 3 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .250 | .250 | .250 |
| Hilton Smith | P | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Herb Souell | 3B | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Totals | 4 | 165 | 34 | 57 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 29 | 13 | 10 | .345 | .392 | .503 |
[edit] Washington-Homestead Grays
| Name | Pos | G | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SB | BA | OBP | SLG |
| Jerry Benjamin | CF | 4 | 19 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .211 | .211 | .211 |
| Sam Bankhead | SS | 2 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .375 | .286 |
| Howard Easterling | RF-3B-2B-SS | 4 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .313 | .421 | .500 |
| Josh Gibson | C | 4 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .077 | .200 | .077 |
| Buck Leonard | 1B | 4 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 |
| Jud Wilson | 3B | 4 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | .286 | .500 | .429 |
| Vic Harris | LF | 4 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .125 | .222 | .125 |
| Lick Carlisle | 2B | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Roy Welmaker | P | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Chet Williams | 2B-SS | 3 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 |
| Roy Partlow | P-RF | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 |
| Ray Brown | RF-P | 3 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | .444 | .583 | .667 |
| Johnny Wright | P | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Spoon Carter | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | *** | *** | *** |
| Dave Whatley | PH | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Robert Gaston | C | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Totals | 4 | 136 | 12 | 28 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 1 | .206 | .276 | .250 |
[edit] Pitching
[edit] Kansas City Monarchs
| Name | G | GS | CG | W | L | S | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | ERA |
| Satchel Paige | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16.33 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 2.20 |
| Jack Matchett | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 14.67 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 0.00 |
| Hilton Smith | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5.00 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.00 |
| Totals | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 36.00 | 28 | 12 | 4 | 12 | 24 | 1.00 |
[edit] Washington-Homestead Grays
| Name | G | GS | CG | W | L | S | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | ERA |
| Roy Welmaker | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10.33 | 17 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 6.10 |
| Roy Partlow | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9.00 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6.00 |
| Johnny Wright | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7.00 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 10.29 |
| Spoon Carter | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.67 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Ray Brown | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9.00 | 16 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 9.00 |
| Totals | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 36.00 | 57 | 34 | 30 | 13 | 27 | 7.50 |
[edit] Sources
- Books
- Pitchin' Man by LeRoy (Satchel) Paige and Hal Lebowitz, 1948
- Maybe I'll Pitch Forever: A Great Baseball Player Tells the Hilarious Story Behind the Legend by Leroy Paige and David Lipman, 1962
- The Negro Leagues Book edited by Larry Lester and Dick Clark, 1994
- The Complete Book of Baseball's Negro Leagues by John Holway, 2001
- "The Historical Satchel Paige: True Stories and Tales Truly Told", Satchel Paige and Company: Essays on the Kansas City Monarchs, Their Greatest Star and the Negro Leagues edited by Leslie A. Heaphy, 2007
- Newspaper coverage
- mainstream (i.e., white) newspapers
- Chicago Daily Tribune: September 21, 27, 28, and 30, 1942
- Christian Science Monitor: September 14 and 21, 1942
- Hartford Courant: September 14 and 28, 1942
- Kansas City Kansan: September 20, 21, and 22, 1942
- Kansas City Times: September 21, 1942
- New York Times: September 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 30, 1942
- Philadelphia Inquirer: September 30, 1942
- Philadelphia Record: September 29 and 30, 1942
- Pittsburgh Press-Gazette: September 10, 11, 14, and 21, 1942
- Pittsburgh Post: September 10, 11, 14, and 21, 1942
- Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph: September 9, 11, and 14, 1942
- The Sporting News: September 10 and 24, 1942 and October 1 and 8, 1942
- Washington Post: September 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, and 28, 1942
- Washington Times-Herald]]: September 6, 7, 8, and 9, 1942
- Negro dailies, weeklies, and semi-weeklies
- Atlanta Daily World: September 17 and 26, 1942
- Baltimore Afro-American: September 12, 15, 19, 22, 26, and 29, 1942 and October 3, 6, 10, and 17, 1942
- Chicago Defender: September 5, 12, 19, and 26, 1942 and October 3, 10, and 24, 1942
- Kansas City Call: September 11, 18, and 25, 1942 and October 2, 1942
- New York Amsterdam News: September 5, 12, 19, and 26, 1942 and October 3 and 10, 1942
- Pittsburgh Courier: September 12, 19, and 26, 1942 and October 3 and 10, 1942
- mainstream (i.e., white) newspapers
