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1941 Chicago American Giants Statistics

1940 Season 1942 Season

Record: 12-20-2, Finished 6th in Negro American League

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

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Negro League team records include only league games. Player stats include league games, interleague games (against major Negro League competition), and games against select top-level independent Black Baseball teams. Player stats do not include the extensive amount of exhibitions and barnstorming games Negro League teams often played. Negro League data is not complete. Research is still ongoing and we’ll continue to publish updates as more information becomes available. More about data coverage

Top 12 Players

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Team Batting

League Register

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	Oscar Boone	30	9	32	30	4	11	1	0	0	5	0		2		.367	.406	.400	.806	152	12			0
2	1B	Ed Young	28	14	57	53	6	14	2	1	0	6	1		3		.264	.304	.340	.643	101	18			1
3	2B	Billy Horne	25	14	49	44	4	5	0	0	0	0	0		4		.114	.188	.114	.301	-5	5			1
4	SS	Tice James	26	7	27	25	2	5	1	1	0	3	0		1		.200	.231	.320	.551	72	8			1
5	3B	Curtis Henderson	29	12	47	43	3	9	1	1	0	2	4		4		.209	.277	.279	.556	74	12			0
6	LF	Willie Hudson*	23	11	33	28	3	9	1	1	1	4	0		5		.321	.424	.536	.960	199	15			0
7	CF	Jimmie Crutchfield*	31	14	62	61	7	16	1	1	0	3	3		1		.262	.274	.311	.586	83	19			0
8	RF	Clyde Spearman*	28	2	8	8	1	2	0	0	0	0	0		0		.250	.250	.250	.500	56	2			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
9		Art Pennington#	18	10	45	39	2	7	0	0	0	3	0		3		.179	.238	.179	.418	31	7			3
10	C	Pepper Bassett#	30	8	23	23	0	4	0	0	0	1	0		0		.174	.174	.174	.348	9	4			0
11	SS	John Lyles#	29	5	23	20	3	5	0	0	1	1	0		3		.250	.348	.400	.748	134	8			0
12		Donald Reeves*	29	7	23	21	2	3	0	0	0	2	0		2		.143	.217	.143	.360	13	3			0
13	3B	Ted Gibson?		7	16	14	1	4	0	0	0	0	0		0		.286	.286	.286	.571	79	4			2
14	3B	Alex Radcliff	35	2	9	8	1	2	1	0	0	0	0		0		.250	.250	.375	.625	95	3			1
15	IF	Ralph Wyatt	23	2	8	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	0		0		.250	.250	.250	.500	56	2			0
16		Bonnie Serrell*	21	1	4	4	1	1	0	0	0	1	0		0		.250	.250	.250	.500	56	1			0
17		Gaines?		1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0			0
18	2B	Bill Bradford*	27	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	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
19	P	Willie Cornelius	34	8	19	15	1	5	0	0	0	1	0		0		.333	.333	.333	.667	109	5			4
20	P	Henry Merchant*	23	9	14	13	1	3	1	0	0	0	0		1		.231	.286	.308	.593	85	4			0
21	P	Willie Ferrell?	27	4	9	9	0	2	0	0	0	1	0		0		.222	.222	.222	.444	39	2			0
22	P	Gentry Jessup	26	3	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		0		.200	.200	.200	.400	25	1			0
23	P	Ted Alexander	28	5	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0			0
24	P	Charlie Shields*	18	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0			0
25	P	Verdell Mathis*	27	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0			0
		Team Totals	27.1	34	519	477	42	110	9	5	2	33	8		29		.231	.275	.283	.558	74	135			13
		Rank in 6 NAL teams				5	5	5	5	5	2		4		5		4	5	5	5		5
		Non-Pitcher Totals	27.0	34	468	431	40	99	8	5	2	31	8		28		.230	.277	.285	.562	76	123			9
		Pitcher Totals	28.0	34	51	46	2	11	1	0	0	2	0		1		.239	.255	.261	.516	61	12			4
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

League Register

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	Willie Cornelius	34	0	6	.000	2.66	8	8		2	0	0	50.2	46	26	15		19		21	3		2		141		1.283	8.2		3.4	3.7	1.11
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
2	RP	Willie Ferrell*	27	2	0	1.000	5.23	4	1		1	1	0	20.2	24	13	12		5		7	1		1		73		1.403	10.5		2.2	3.0	1.40
3	RP	Gentry Jessup	26	0	1	.000	3.65	3	1		1	0	0	12.1	9	5	5		5		0	2		0		106		1.135	6.6		3.6	0.0	0.00
4	RP	Henry Merchant*	23	1	0	1.000	4.66	4	0		0	0	0	9.2	8	5	5		5		0	0		0		84		1.345	7.4		4.7	0.0	0.00
5	RP	Ted Alexander	28	0	0		8.64	3	0		0	0	1	8.1	11	8	8		5		4	0		0		45		1.920	11.9		5.4	4.3	0.80
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
6		Willie Hudson*	23	0	1	.000	10.80	3	1		0	0	0	6.2	8	10	8		11		6	0		1		37		2.850	10.8		14.9	8.1	0.55
7		Ted Gibson?		0	2	.000	5.40	2	2		0	0	0	5.0	6	5	3		4		6	1		0		75		2.000	10.8		7.2	10.8	1.50
8		Charlie Shields*	18	0	0		6.75	2	0		0	0	0	4.0	7	5	3		1		0	0		1		61		2.000	15.8		2.3	0.0	0.00
9		Verdell Mathis*	27	0	1	.000	18.90	1	1		0	0	0	3.1	10	8	7		1		3	0		0		22		3.300	27.0		2.7	8.1	3.00
10		Pepper Bassett	30	0	0		5.40	1	0		0	0	0	1.2	2	1	1		1		0	0		0		86		1.800	10.8		5.4	0.0	0.00
		Team Totals	29.2	3	11	.214	4.93	34	14		4	1	1	122.1	131	86	67		57		47	7		5		78		1.537	9.6		4.2	3.5	0.82
		Rank in 6 NAL teams		5	1		5				5	3	3	5	3	4	3		5		5
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