1941 Chicago American Giants Statistics

1940 Season 1942 Season

Record: 16-29-2, 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	Pepper Bassett#	30	10	31	28	1	6	0	0	0	2	0		2		.214	.267	.214	.481	45	6	0	0	1		0
2	1B	Ed Young	28	16	63	58	8	16	2	1	0	10	0		4		.276	.333	.345	.678	104	20	0	1	0		0
3	2B	Billy Horne	25	16	56	50	4	7	1	0	0	3	0		5		.140	.218	.160	.378	14	8	0	0	1		0
4	SS	Tice James	26	9	35	32	1	5	1	1	0	3	0		1		.156	.206	.250	.456	37	8	0	1	1		0
5	3B	Curtis Henderson	29	13	48	44	4	9	1	1	0	3	3		4		.205	.271	.273	.544	64	12	0	0	0		0
6	LF	Art Pennington#	18	11	47	42	3	7	0	0	0	1	1		4		.167	.239	.167	.406	23	7	0	0	1		0
7	CF	Jimmie Crutchfield*	31	16	71	69	7	18	1	1	0	3	4		2		.261	.282	.304	.586	76	21	0	0	0		0
8	RF	Donald Reeves*	29	7	22	21	2	3	0	0	0	1	0		1		.143	.182	.143	.325	-2	3	1	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
9	UT	Willie Hudson*	23	12	35	31	4	10	1	1	1	4	1		3		.323	.382	.516	.898	169	16	0	0	1		1
10	C	Oscar Boone	30	9	31	30	4	11	1	0	0	5	0		1		.367	.387	.400	.787	137	12	0	0	0		0
11	SS	John Lyles#	29	5	21	20	3	5	0	0	1	1	0		1		.250	.286	.400	.686	105	8	0	0	0		0
12	UT	Ted Gipson?	33	9	17	17	0	4	0	0	0	0	0		0		.235	.235	.235	.471	42	4	0	0	0		0
13	OF	Henry Merchant*	23	8	16	13	1	3	1	0	0	0	0		3		.231	.375	.308	.683	106	4	0	0	0		0
14	OF	Clyde Spearman*	28	3	13	13	2	5	0	0	0	0	0		0		.385	.385	.385	.769	131	5	0	0	0		0
15	IF	Ralph Wyatt	23	2	9	9	0	2	0	0	0	0	0		0		.222	.222	.222	.444	34	2	0	0	0		0
16	OF	Bonnie Serrell*	21	2	9	9	2	2	0	0	0	1	0		0		.222	.222	.222	.444	34	2	0	0	0		0
17	3B	Alex Radcliff	35	2	8	6	1	2	1	0	0	0	0		1		.333	.429	.500	.929	179	3	0	0	1		0
18	1B	Archie Ware*	23	1	5	5	1	1	0	0	0	1	0		0		.200	.200	.200	.400	20	1	0	0	0		0
19		Jonas Gaines	26	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0		0
20	2B	Bill Bradford*	27	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	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
21	P	Willie Cornelius	34	9	21	17	1	6	0	0	0	3	0		2		.353	.421	.353	.774	133	6	0	0	2		0
22	P	Willie Ferrell?	27	5	13	13	0	2	0	0	0	1	0		0		.154	.154	.154	.308	-7	2	0	0	0		0
23	P	Gentry Jessup	26	4	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		0		.250	.250	.250	.500	50	1	0	0	1		0
24	P	Ted Alexander	28	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0		0
25	P	Charlie Shields*	18	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	1		0
26	P	Verdell Mathis*	27	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0		0
		Team Totals	27.2	47	583	537	49	125	10	5	2	42	9		34		.233	.281	.281	.562	69	151	1	2	10		1
		Rank in 6 NAL teams				5	5	5	5	5	3		5		5	4	5	6	5	6		5		6
		Non-Pitcher Totals	27.1	47	523	486	47	113	9	5	2	38	9		29		.233	.279	.284	.562	69	138	1	2	6		1
		Pitcher Totals	27.8	47	60	51	2	12	1	0	0	4	0		5		.235	.304	.255	.558	68	13	0	0	4		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

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	7	.000	3.02	9	9	0	3	0	0	56.2	49	27	19	1	21	1	20	4	0	0	243	118	3.63	1.235	7.8	0.2	3.3	3.2	0.95
2	SP	Ted Gipson	33	0	3	.000	9.64	3	3	0	0	0	0	4.2	9	10	5	1	6	0	3	1	0	0	31	40	8.78	3.214	17.4	1.9	11.6	5.8	0.50
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	RP	Willie Ferrell*	27	2	0	1.000	2.73	5	1	2	1	1	0	29.2	26	14	9	0	10	0	15	1	0	0	132	131	2.88	1.213	7.9	0.0	3.0	4.6	1.50
4	RP	Gentry Jessup	26	0	1	.000	1.93	4	1	3	1	0	0	14.0	12	4	3	0	10	0	8	3	0	1	67	189	4.43	1.571	7.7	0.0	6.4	5.1	0.80
5	RP	Ted Alexander	28	0	0		5.19	3	0	1	0	0	1	8.2	10	7	5	0	4	0	6	0	0	0	40	72	2.78	1.615	10.4	0.0	4.2	6.2	1.50
6	RP	Henry Merchant*	23	1	0	1.000	6.48	4	0	2	0	0	0	8.1	11	8	6	0	6	0	3	0	0	1	43	57	4.22	2.040	11.9	0.0	6.5	3.2	0.50
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
7		Willie Hudson*	23	0	1	.000	12.27	3	1	1	0	0	0	7.1	8	11	10	1	11	0	6	0	0	0	43	31	7.42	2.591	9.8	1.2	13.5	7.4	0.55
8		Charlie Shields*	18	0	0		8.10	2	0	2	0	0	0	6.2	10	7	6	0	3	0	2	0	0	0	35	47	3.53	1.950	13.5	0.0	4.1	2.7	0.67
9		Verdell Mathis*	27	0	1	.000	18.90	1	1	0	0	0	0	3.1	10	8	7	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	20	21	1.88	3.300	27.0	0.0	2.7	8.1	3.00
		Team Totals	29.1	3	13	.188	4.52	47	16	11	5	1	1	139.1	145	96	70	3	72	1	66	9	0	2	654	80	3.86	1.557	9.4	0.2	4.7	4.3	0.92
		Rank in 6 NAL teams		5	1		4				5	4	3	5	2	3	3	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