1938 Chicago American Giants Statistics

1937 Season 1939 Season

Record: 41-37-3, Finished 3rd 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

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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	Subby Byas#	28	28	98	90	15	25	6	0	1	11	2		8		.278	.337	.378	.715	105	34		0	0
2	1B	Luther Gilyard?	28	18	59	52	8	11	2	1	0	3	0		6		.212	.293	.288	.582	67	15		0	1
3	2B	Rainey Bibbs#	27	26	111	104	13	28	2	1	0	15	4		5		.269	.303	.308	.610	76	32		0	2
4	SS	Ormond Sampson	28	17	65	60	4	15	1	1	0	10	1		3		.250	.286	.300	.586	68	18		0	2
5	3B	Alex Radcliff	32	35	148	139	24	35	7	5	1	17	4		8		.252	.297	.396	.693	98	55		1	0
6	LF	Wilson Redus	33	37	157	137	19	41	4	2	3	15	6		15		.299	.373	.423	.796	128	58		1	4
7	CF	Turkey Stearnes*	37	19	77	69	14	18	2	1	2	10	5		7		.261	.338	.406	.743	113	28		1	0
8	RF	Herman Dunlap*	30	28	117	104	11	25	1	2	0	5	4		8		.240	.295	.288	.583	68	30		0	5
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	Ed Young	25	26	99	90	17	25	3	2	1	15	1		6		.278	.330	.389	.719	106	35		1	2
10	OF	Willie Simms*	29	18	87	79	13	19	3	1	0	7	3		7		.241	.302	.304	.606	74	24		0	1
11	MI	Billy Horne	22	16	61	53	9	15	3	1	1	10	0		5		.283	.345	.434	.779	123	23		0	3
12	SS	Joe Sparks*		20	58	48	10	10	1	1	2	7	1		8		.208	.333	.396	.729	109	19		1	1
13	C	Frank Duncan	37	14	57	45	9	15	2	1	2	11	2		9		.333	.455	.556	1.010	189	25		1	2
14	UT	Ernie Smith*	38	11	42	38	8	13	2	0	0	8	4		0		.342	.359	.395	.754	116	15		1	3
15	IF	Jesse Houston?	28	18	40	38	4	7	1	1	0	3	0		2		.184	.225	.263	.488	40	10		0	0
16	C	Paul Hardy	27	8	17	15	1	1	0	0	0	1	0		2		.067	.176	.067	.243	-28	1		0	0
17	UT	Pen Gilliard*	34	6	10	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	1		1		.250	.333	.250	.583	69	2		0	1
18	UT	Johnny Reed?	22	3	7	6	2	1	0	0	0	1	0		1		.167	.286	.167	.452	32	1		0	0
19	2B	Andrews?		1	5	4	2	2	0	0	0	1	0		1		.500	.600	.500	1.100	218	2		0	0
20	OF	Howard Easterling#	26	1	5	4	1	3	1	0	0	2	0		1		.750	.800	1.000	1.800	415	4		0	0
21	3B	Jack Marshall	29	1	5	4	1	1	0	0	0	1	0		1		.250	.400	.250	.650	89	1		0	0
22	SS	Carter?		1	4	3	3	2	0	0	0	1	0		1		.667	.750	.667	1.417	309	2		0	0
23	OF	Brinson?		1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0	0
24		Vaughn?		1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0	0
25	OF	Zell Miles	28	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0	0
26		Smith?		1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		0		1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	476	1		0	0
27		John Lyles#	26	1	1	1	0	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
28	P	Willie Cornelius	31	20	38	30	3	5	1	1	0	3	0		5		.167	.306	.267	.572	65	8		1	2
29	P	Tommy Johnson?	23	19	36	32	0	2	0	0	0	1	0		2		.063	.118	.063	.180	-47	2		0	2
30	P	Ted Trent	34	14	18	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0	1
31	P	Leland Davis		11	13	12	0	1	0	0	0	1	0		1		.083	.154	.083	.237	-31	1		0	0
32	P	Percy Forrest	21	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0	0
33	P	George White?		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0							0		0	0
		Team Totals	29.9	81	1445	1292	191	323	42	21	13	159	38		113		.250	.314	.345	.659	89	446		8	32
		Rank in 7 NAL teams				3	3	3	4	3	2		3		2	5	6	5	5	6		3		4
		Non-Pitcher Totals	30.1	81	1297	1160	184	308	40	19	13	151	38		103		.266	.329	.366	.696	100	425		7	27
		Pitcher Totals	28.1	81	148	132	7	15	2	2	0	8	0		10		.114	.182	.159	.341	-2	21		1	5
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	Tommy Johnson	23	6	2	.750	2.56	19	11	5	2	1	0	95.0	99	45	27	2	32		34	2		4	414	160	3.68	1.379	9.4	0.2	3.0	3.2	1.06
2	SP	Ted Trent	34	3	6	.333	3.67	14	10	2	3	1	0	61.1	61	31	25	3	12		42	1		0	254	112	2.95	1.190	9.0	0.4	1.8	6.2	3.50
3	SP	Jesse Houston	28	2	4	.333	4.75	12	7	3	3	0	1	53.0	59	35	28	3	25		26	1		3	239	86	4.28	1.585	10.0	0.5	4.2	4.4	1.04
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
4	CL	Willie Cornelius	31	9	1	.900	2.12	20	8	8	8	0	3	102.0	84	35	24	2	30		77	5		1	423	193	2.83	1.118	7.4	0.2	2.6	6.8	2.57
5	RP	Leland Davis		2	1	.667	6.28	4	1	2	0	0	0	14.1	21	12	10	0	6		5	0		0	68	66	3.61	1.884	13.2	0.0	3.8	3.1	0.83
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		Percy Forrest	21	0	1	.000	8.53	1	1	0	0	0	0	6.1	8	7	6	1	2		3	0		0	31	51	5.10	1.579	11.4	1.4	2.8	4.3	1.50
7		Johnny Reed	22	0	0		7.20	1	0	0	0	0	0	5.0	6	5	4	0	3		3	0		0	23	61	3.65	1.800	10.8	0.0	5.4	5.4	1.00
8		George White?		0	0		9.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	2	1	1	0	1		1	0		0	6	62	4.05	3.000	18.0	0.0	9.0	9.0	1.00
9		Alex Radcliff	32	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.2	0	0	0	0	0		0	1		0	3		7.55	0.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
10		Pen Gilliard*	34	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.1	1	1	0	0	1		0	0		0	3		12.05	6.000	27.0	0.0	27.0	0.0	0.00
		Team Totals	28.4	22	15	.595	3.32	81	38	20	16	2	4	339.0	341	172	125	11	112		191	10		8	1464	124	3.43	1.336	9.1	0.3	3.0	5.1	1.71
		Rank in 7 NAL teams		2	2		2				3	3	1	3	4	4	4	4	6		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