1944 Birmingham Black Barons Statistics

1943 Season 1945 Season

Record: 47-22-0, Finished 1st in Negro American League

Postseason: Lost World Series (4-1) to Homestead Grays

Manager: Winfield Welch (41-30)

Park Factors: (Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.)
Multi-year: Batting - 100, Pitching - 100

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Top 12 Players

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Team Batting

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Team Batting
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1	C	Ted Radcliffe	41	22	85	76	12	15	3	0	0	11	0		5		.197	.247	.237	.484	49	18		0	4
2	1B	Piper Davis	26	32	130	123	15	26	3	2	2	13	1		7		.211	.254	.317	.571	75	39		0	0
3	2B	Tommy Sampson	31	30	124	112	18	38	4	2	0	13	1		7		.339	.393	.411	.804	147	46		3	2
4	SS	Artie Wilson*	23	31	140	132	22	50	7	5	0	14	2		6		.379	.410	.508	.918	182	67		1	1
5	3B	John Britton*	25	33	142	130	16	42	5	1	1	18	0		8		.323	.367	.400	.767	136	52		1	3
6	LF	Lester Lockett	32	28	101	94	12	20	4	1	0	11	0		5		.213	.253	.277	.529	63	26		0	2
7	CF	Felix McLaurin#	22	27	110	99	13	22	0	1	1	5	3		8		.222	.287	.273	.560	72	27		1	2
8	RF	Ed Steele*	28	32	131	112	25	40	6	4	3	23	3		14		.357	.442	.563	1.004	208	63		3	2
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
9	UT	Leroy Morney#	35	15	42	39	3	7	1	0	0	4	0		3		.179	.238	.205	.443	37	8		0	0
10	OF	Leandy Young	35	12	38	37	4	10	2	0	0	1	0		0		.270	.270	.324	.595	83	12		0	1
11	C	Pepper Bassett#	33	9	28	28	0	2	0	0	0	2	0		0		.071	.071	.071	.143	-56	2		0	0
12	OF	Johnie Scott*	30	7	24	24	3	9	1	1	0	5	0		0		.375	.375	.500	.875	168	12		0	0
13	1B	English?		2	4	4	0	1	1	0	0	1	0		0		.250	.250	.500	.750	129	2		0	0
14	1B	Harrington?		1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0	0
15	C	Raymond Taylor	33	2	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0	0
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
16	P	Alfred Saylor#	32	15	42	40	3	6	1	0	0	0	0		0		.150	.150	.175	.325	0	7		0	2
17	P	Alvin Gipson	30	11	26	26	0	6	0	0	0	2	0		0		.231	.231	.231	.462	42	6		0	0
18	P	John Huber*	36	9	26	26	3	8	3	0	0	3	0		0		.308	.308	.423	.731	124	11		0	0
19	P	Fay Washington?	29	3	9	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0	0
20	P	Alonzo Boone	36	1	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0	1
21	P	Dan Bankhead	24	2	5	5	4	4	0	1	0	3	0		0		.800	.800	1.200	2.000	512	6		0	0
22	P	Jimmie Newberry	25	3	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0		1		.000	.500	.000	.500	57	0		0	2
23	P	Earl Bumpus*	30	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0	0
24	P	Johnny Markham	35	2	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0	0
25	P	Johnny Williams	26	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0	0
26	P	Specs Ellis?		2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0	1
27	P	Tom Hunter?		1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0	0
28	P	Gready McKinnis	30	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0	0
29	P	Pee Wee Jenkins	21	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0							0		0	0
		Team Totals	28.9	69	1234	1138	155	306	41	18	7	129	10		64		.269	.313	.355	.668	105	404		9	23
		Rank in 6 NAL teams				2	2	2	2	2	2		6		4	5	2	4	1	2		2		1
		Non-Pitcher Totals	28.6	69	1104	1015	144	282	37	17	7	121	10		63		.278	.326	.368	.694	113	374		9	17
		Pitcher Totals	31.5	69	130	123	11	24	4	1	0	8	0		1		.195	.202	.244	.446	37	30		0	6
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB

Team Pitching

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Team Pitching
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
1	SP	Alfred Saylor	32	5	6	.455	3.77	15	11	3	8	0	0	102.2	115	56	43	5	13	0	32	2	0	0	427	91	3.13	1.247	10.1	0.4	1.1	2.8	2.46
2	SP	Alvin Gipson	30	2	6	.250	3.73	11	8	2	5	1	1	62.2	57	30	26	0	19	0	34	3	0	0	266	92	2.65	1.213	8.2	0.0	2.7	4.9	1.79
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
3		John Huber	36	0	3	.000	4.03	5	4	1	1	0	0	29.0	25	19	13	1	8	0	9	2	0	0	129	86	3.54	1.138	7.8	0.3	2.5	2.8	1.13
4		Fay Washington	29	1	2	.333	2.92	3	3	0	1	0	0	24.2	17	10	8	2	14	0	21	1	0	0	100	119	3.86	1.257	6.2	0.7	5.1	7.7	1.50
5		Jimmie Newberry	25	1	0	1.000	3.18	3	1	2	1	0	0	11.1	8	4	4	0	6	1	6	0	0	0	52	112	3.21	1.235	6.4	0.0	4.8	4.8	1.00
6		Dan Bankhead	24	2	0	1.000	1.86	2	1	1	1	1	0	9.2	6	2	2	0	3	0	15	0	0	0	38	192	0.51	0.931	5.6	0.0	2.8	14.0	5.00
7		Earl Bumpus*	30	1	0	1.000	2.00	1	1	0	1	0	0	9.0	8	3	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	37	179	2.79	1.000	8.0	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.00
8		Alonzo Boone	36	1	0	1.000	0.00	1	1	0	1	1	0	9.0	4	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	31		2.35	0.556	4.0	0.0	1.0	3.0	3.00
9		Johnny Markham	35	0	0		3.52	2	0	2	0	0	0	7.2	9	4	3	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	34	103	2.29	1.304	10.6	0.0	1.2	3.5	3.00
10		Specs Ellis*		0	1	.000	10.13	2	2	0	0	0	0	5.1	11	8	6	1	4	0	2	0	0	0	30	37	6.62	2.813	18.6	1.7	6.8	3.4	0.50
11		Gready McKinnis*	30	0	1	.000	4.50	1	1	0	0	0	0	4.0	4	3	2	0	5	0	1	0	0	0	22	84	5.93	2.250	9.0	0.0	11.3	2.3	0.20
12		Johnny Williams	26	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9		2.68	0.375	3.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
13		Tom Hunter?		0	1	.000	27.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	2	5	3	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	8	18	11.68	3.000	18.0	0.0	9.0	0.0	0.00
14		Pee Wee Jenkins*	21	0	0		13.50	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.2	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	42	2.68	3.000	27.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
15		Pepper Bassett	33	0	0			0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		Team Totals	31.2	13	20	.394	3.64	69	33	13	19	3	1	279.1	269	145	113	9	76	1	127	10	0	0	1187	96	3.11	1.235	8.7	0.3	2.4	4.1	1.67
		Rank in 6 NAL teams		3	6		5				2	2	3	2	5	5	5	6	5		3
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W