1943 Chicago American Giants Statistics

1942 Season 1944 Season

Record: 37-33-1, Finished 4th in Negro American League

Postseason: Lost NAL Championship Series (3-2) to Birmingham Black Barons

Manager: Ted Radcliffe (42-38)

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	Ted Radcliffe	40	29	105	102	7	28	2	0	0	8	1		2		.275	.288	.294	.583	80	30		0	1	0
2	1B	Ed Young	30	28	111	104	15	31	6	2	1	13	0		5		.298	.336	.423	.759	134	44		1	1	0
3	2B	Art Pennington#	20	31	127	118	18	28	2	4	2	16	1		9		.237	.291	.373	.664	105	44		0	0	0
4	SS	Ralph Wyatt	25	27	122	110	18	22	2	1	1	9	5		11		.200	.273	.264	.536	66	29		0	1	0
5	3B	Alex Radcliff	37	30	126	122	13	45	7	1	1	19	2		4		.369	.389	.467	.856	164	57		0	0	0
6	LF	John Bissant	29	28	113	103	18	29	2	3	1	8	4		9		.282	.339	.388	.728	125	40		0	1	0
7	CF	Lloyd Davenport*	31	34	155	147	23	46	6	2	1	17	3		8		.313	.348	.401	.750	132	59		0	0	0
8	RF	Johnny Smith*	26	23	99	94	12	19	4	0	0	6	0		4		.202	.235	.245	.479	48	23		0	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
9	UT	Bill Charter?		21	87	85	10	21	3	0	2	10	1		2		.247	.264	.353	.617	90	30		0	0	0
10	UT	Willie Cornelius	36	16	48	42	8	8	2	0	1	7	0		4		.190	.261	.310	.570	76	13		0	2	0
11	2B	Henry Smith		9	34	33	2	7	0	0	0	0	1		0		.212	.212	.212	.424	31	7		0	1	0
12	OF	Willie Ferrell?	29	7	26	25	4	5	0	1	0	1	0		1		.200	.231	.280	.511	58	7		0	0	0
13	UT	Charlie Shields*	20	7	25	24	1	6	0	1	0	0	0		1		.250	.280	.333	.613	89	8		0	0	0
14	MI	Herbert Buster?	28	2	9	9	3	6	2	0	1	3	0		0		.667	.667	1.222	1.889	479	11		0	0	0
15	3B	Charlie Harris?		1	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		0		.250	.250	.250	.500	55	1		0	0	0
16	2B	Gray?		1	4	4	0	2	0	0	0	1	0		0		.500	.500	.500	1.000	210	2		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
17	P	Gentry Jessup	28	16	44	44	2	13	2	1	0	5	0		0		.295	.295	.386	.682	110	17		0	0	0
18	P	Leroy Sutton	22	9	26	24	0	6	1	0	0	0	0		1		.250	.280	.292	.572	77	7		0	1	0
19	P	Ollie West*	29	5	12	12	3	6	0	0	1	3	0		0		.500	.500	.750	1.250	284	9		0	0	0
20	P	Eddie Locke*	20	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0	0	0
21	P	Francis Jackson?	39	1	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0		0		1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	519	2		0	0	0
		Team Totals	29.5	71	1281	1210	157	331	41	16	12	126	18		61		.274	.309	.364	.673	108	440		1	9	0
		Rank in 6 NAL teams				3	3	3	2	2	1		5		6		1	4	1	1		2		6
		Non-Pitcher Totals	29.5	71	1147	1084	144	296	36	15	10	111	18		56		.273	.309	.362	.671	107	392		1	6	0
		Pitcher Totals	29.8	71	134	126	13	35	5	1	2	15	0		5		.278	.305	.381	.686	112	48		0	3	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

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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	Gentry Jessup	28	6	6	.500	3.34	14	10		8	0	1	94.1	94	43	35	1	27		47	2		1	401	114	2.72	1.283	9.0	0.1	2.6	4.5	1.74
2	SP	Willie Cornelius	36	4	4	.500	3.92	10	10		6	0	0	62.0	65	35	27	1	22		11	3		0	273	98	3.72	1.403	9.4	0.1	3.2	1.6	0.50
3	SP	Leroy Sutton	22	4	2	.667	2.79	9	5		4	1	0	58.0	54	24	18	1	12		13	2		1	238	137	3.15	1.138	8.4	0.2	1.9	2.0	1.08
4	SP	Ollie West	29	3	2	.600	4.60	5	5		3	0	0	31.1	31	21	16	1	12		18	2		3	139	84	3.26	1.372	8.9	0.3	3.4	5.2	1.50
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
5		Charlie Shields*	20	1	0	1.000	3.04	3	2		0	0	0	23.2	26	14	8	0	10		12	0		0	111	127	2.91	1.521	9.9	0.0	3.8	4.6	1.20
6		Willie Ferrell*	29	1	0	1.000	0.00	1	1		1	1	0	9.0	3	0	0	0	1		1	0		0	29		2.77	0.444	3.0	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.00
7		Ted Radcliffe	40	0	1	.000	1.04	2	1		1	0	0	8.2	8	1	1	0	3		5	0		0	36	383	2.54	1.269	8.3	0.0	3.1	5.2	1.67
8		Francis Jackson?	39	0	0		0.00	1	0		0	0	0	5.0	3	0	0	0	2		1	0		0	20		3.45	1.000	5.4	0.0	3.6	1.8	0.50
9		Eddie Locke	20	0	0		9.00	1	0		0	0	0	2.0	3	3	2	0	1		3	0		0	10	51	1.15	2.000	13.5	0.0	4.5	13.5	3.00
10		Henry Smith		0	0			0	0		0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0		0	0
		Team Totals	28.5	19	15	.559	3.28	71	34		23	2	1	294.0	287	141	107	4	90		111	9		5	1257	118	3.09	1.282	8.8	0.1	2.8	3.4	1.23
		Rank in 6 NAL teams		4	4		1				3	3	3	5	2	1	1	1	3		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