Turkey Stearnes

Norman Thomas Stearnes

Inducted into Hall of Fame in 2000

[edit] Biographical Information

Outfielder Turkey Stearnes was a longtime member of the Detroit Stars and one of the Negro Leagues' most prolific sluggers.

He was primarily a center fielder

Year	Age	Team	League	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	BA	SLG
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1923	22	Detroit Stars	NNL	69	279	70	101	18	14	17	85	2	17	.362	.710
1924	23	Detroit Stars	NNL	55	221	50	77	7	10	8	60	1	19	.348	.579
1925	24	Detroit Stars	NNL	91	354	45	129	24	11	19	60	11	44	.364	.655
1926	25	Detroit Stars	NNL	86	316	25	123	30	8	19	62	16	37	.389	.715
1927	26	Detroit Stars	NNL	83	307	58	108	23	12	19	66	12	42	.352	.691
1928	27	Detroit Stars	NNL	81	318	81	102	16	7	24	85	6	30	.321	.642
1929	28	Detroit Stars	NNL	64	241	60	97	16	4	16	51	12	36	.402	.701
1930	29	Detroit Stars Lincoln Giants	NNL ANL	34 18	126 72	17 28	40 27	9 3	9 4	2 6	15 29	6 8	13 11	.317 .375	.579 .778
1931	30	Detroit Stars Kansas City Monarchs	NNL NNL	32 12	117 40	25 4	45 2	8 0	1 2	9 0	20 2	6 1	14 3	.385 .050	.701 .150
1932	31	Chicago American Giants	NSL	45	172	43	55	9	3	5	17	11	24	.320	.494
1933	32	Chicago American Giants	NNL	24	109	26	35	10	2	5	31	0	7	.321	.587
1934	33	Chicago American Giants	NNL	46	187	50	64	5	7	10	29	10	15	.342	.604
1935	34	Chicago American Giants	NNL	37	127	35	56	8	4	6	27	7	23	.441	.709
1936	35	Philadelphia Stars	NNL	36	147	30	44	2	1	7	22	1	13	.299	.469
1937	36	Chicago American Giants Detroit Stars	NAL NAL	6 13	26 45	4 9	6 14	1 2	0 1	1 1	4 8	0 1	4 4	.231 .311	.385 .467
1938	37	Chicago American Giants Kansas City Monarchs	NAL NAL	17 8	69 31	13 4	21 7	4 0	1 2	2 0	10 1	6 2	5 2	.304 .226	.478 .355
1939	38	Kansas City Monarchs	NAL	29	101	21	30	4	0	3	12	8	10	.297	.426
1940	39	Kansas City Monarchs	NAL	25	86	14	23	3	1	4	22	2	14	.267	.465
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Totals		18 seasons		914	3502	712	1209	203	104	183	718	129	387	.345	.619
		Per 162 g	5.64	162	621	126	214	36	18	32	127	23	69

Source: Shades of Glory, Hogan et al., pp. 398-399