User:Couillaud

• I am a native of Kansas City, KS, and a current resident of Overland Park, KS
• Member of SABR since 1982
• Member of SABR's Negro Leagues Committee since 1991

Research/background credits

• The Minor League Encyclopedia, Vols. 1 & 2, proofreading and fact-checking;
• The 1923 Negro National League Yearbook by Replay Publishing, research and writing;
• The Negro Leagues Book by SABR, some background work;
• The Professional Baseball Players Database software produced by Pat Doyle, programming and fact-checking;
• I received credit in Total Baseball VI for submitting biographical and statistical corrections (Bill Kenworthy and Jack Enzenroth).

I contribute mostly to Negro League entries, and those involving Kansas City teams. My main expertise is in some aspects of the Negro Leagues, the 1915 Federal League, and some teams of the the 1884 Union Association.

BTW, "Couillaud" (pronounced KOO-yo) is a family name from my French Canadian heritage.

Currently, I am slowly adding the seasonal statistics (as published in the book Shades of Glory or provided by the Hall of Fame during the special Negro Leagues election in 2006) to all Negro League Hall of Famers, plus those 22 non-HoFers who were considered but not chosen in that election. The stats cover 1920-48, which means that the earliest players will have no collected Negro League stats; players who played part of their career during that period and part of it either before or after that time will have partial career statistics, while many players will have stats for their full career. Players who moved from the Negro Leagues to the majors will not show their Major League statistics, which may be referenced elsewhere.

Here's the current list of Negro League ballplayers with career statistics between 1920 and 1948 I have added so far:

(boldface indicates member of the Baseball Hall of Famer) Batters

• Newt Allen
• John Beckwith
• James "Cool Papa" Bell
• Willard Brown
• Roy Campanella
• Oscar Charleston
• Ray Dandridge
• Herbert "Rap" Dixon
• Josh Gibson
• John Preston "Pete" Hill
• Sammy Hughes
• William Julius "Judy" Johnson
• Buck Leonard
• John Henry Lloyd
• Dick Lundy
• James Raleigh "Biz" Mackey
• Walter "Dobie" Moore
• John "Buck" O'Neil
• Jackie Robinson
• Wilber "Bullet" Rogan
• Louis Santop "Top" Loftin
• Norman "Turkey" Stearnes
• George "Mule" Suttles
• Cristobal Torriente
• Jud "Boojum" Wilson

Pitchers

• Chet Brewer
• Ray Brown
• Andy Cooper
• José Méndez
• Robert Leroy "Satchel" Paige
• "Cannonball" Dick Redding

I am adding more as I have time.

I am also slowly building articles on the Colored World Series of 1924-27 and 1942-48. The article on the 1942 Series was mostly mine, and was a featured article for awhile.