1926 Chicago American Giants Statistics

1925 Season 1927 Season

Record: 57-24-3, Finished 2nd in Negro National League

Postseason:
Won World Series (5-4-2) over Atlantic City Bacharach Giants
Won NNL Championship Series (5-4) over Kansas City Monarchs

Managers: Rube Foster (27-17-1) and Dave Malarcher (30-7-2)

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

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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	Pythias Russ	22	49	196	178	33	49	9	7	3	33	4		15		.275	.342	.455	.797	104	81		3
2	1B	Jim Brown#	34	75	299	262	44	81	16	4	5	46	7		32		.309	.395	.458	.853	119	120		5
3	2B	Charley Williams?	29	74	284	268	32	66	9	3	1	25	1		14		.246	.289	.313	.602	55	84		2
4	SS	Sanford Jackson	26	81	309	293	41	58	9	4	1	30	10		15		.198	.239	.266	.506	30	78		1
5	3B	Dave Malarcher#	31	80	329	284	55	75	8	1	1	27	9		40		.264	.365	.310	.675	76	88		5
6	LF	Sandy Thompson*	31	79	306	276	38	88	11	2	1	46	9		26		.319	.386	.384	.770	99	106		4
7	CF	George Sweatt	32	73	270	240	35	65	9	4	0	37	5		26		.271	.352	.342	.694	80	82		4
8	RF	Jelly Gardner*	30	68	284	247	57	82	12	4	0	18	6		37		.332	.419	.413	.832	115	102		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	OF	John Hines	25	51	178	162	27	49	7	2	2	30	3		15		.302	.365	.407	.773	99	66		1
10	1B	Willie Ware	26	33	107	104	12	26	3	0	0	9	1		3		.250	.271	.279	.550	42	29		0
11	3B	John Shackelford*	20	12	33	32	2	7	0	1	0	1	0		1		.219	.242	.281	.524	35	9		0
12	OF	Steel Arm Tyler?	20	12	27	26	1	2	0	0	0	1	0		1		.077	.111	.077	.188	-51	2		0
13	OF	Sam Crawford	34	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		0		1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	418	1		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
14	P	Rube Curry	27	26	65	62	6	18	0	1	0	10	0		3		.290	.323	.323	.646	67	20		0
15	P	Bill Foster#	22	27	64	60	6	15	2	0	1	5	0		4		.250	.297	.333	.630	62	20		0
16	P	George Harney	36	31	62	58	6	18	2	2	1	7	0		4		.310	.355	.466	.820	110	27		0
17	P	Webster McDonald*	26	21	43	41	5	7	1	0	1	6	0		2		.171	.209	.268	.478	22	11		0
18	P	Robert Poindexter	28	12	22	21	1	4	0	0	0	5	0		1		.190	.227	.190	.418	9	4		0
19	P	Willie Powell*	22	10	22	22	0	2	0	0	0	2	0		0		.091	.091	.091	.182	-53	2		0
		Team Totals	28.9	84	2901	2637	401	713	98	35	17	338	55		239		.270	.337	.353	.690	78	932		25
		Rank in 8 NNL teams				4	5	5	5	5	6		5		4	3	6	5	7	6		5		5
		Non-Pitcher Totals	29.2	84	2596	2347	376	647	93	32	14	302	55		224		.276	.345	.360	.706	82	846		25
		Pitcher Totals	26.8	84	305	290	25	66	5	3	3	36	0		15		.228	.266	.297	.562	45	86		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	Bill Foster*	22	13	4	.765	1.80	27	17	6	12	5	1	174.2	115	42	35	4	56		111	7	0	0	671	252	3.14	0.979	5.9	0.2	2.9	5.7	1.98
2	SP	Rube Curry	27	10	4	.714	2.96	21	17	3	10	2	1	137.0	143	55	45	4	30		53	5	1	1	572	154	3.40	1.263	9.4	0.3	2.0	3.5	1.77
3	SP	Webster McDonald	26	10	3	.769	3.56	21	13	5	8	0	1	116.1	108	60	46	8	23		77	8	1	1	484	128	3.40	1.126	8.4	0.6	1.8	6.0	3.35
4	SP	Robert Poindexter	28	4	2	.667	3.26	12	8	3	4	1	1	58.0	50	22	21	4	24		22	3	0	1	238	140	4.56	1.276	7.8	0.6	3.7	3.4	0.92
5	SP	Willie Powell	22	4	4	.500	4.75	10	10	0	1	0	0	55.0	63	33	29	1	25		40	1	0	1	246	96	3.23	1.600	10.3	0.2	4.1	6.5	1.60
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	CL	George Harney	36	11	6	.647	2.41	28	12	14	11	1	4	149.2	137	55	40	5	34		72	6	0	0	616	189	3.30	1.143	8.2	0.3	2.0	4.3	2.12
7	RP	Steel Arm Tyler	20	2	1	.667	1.27	7	4	2	1	0	0	35.1	42	11	5	0	8		14	0	0	0	153	360	2.92	1.415	10.7	0.0	2.0	3.6	1.75
		Team Totals	26.9	54	24	.692	2.75	84	81	33	47	9	8	726.0	658	278	222	26	200		389	30	2	4	2980	166	3.37	1.182	8.2	0.3	2.5	4.8	1.95
		Rank in 8 NNL teams		3	7		1				3	1	2	3	4	2	2	2	3		1
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