1948 Indianapolis Clowns Statistics

1947 Season

Record: 40-61-5, Finished 4th in Negro American League

Managers: Ramiro Ramírez (29-56-4) and Buster Haywood (8-11-1)

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

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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	Len Pigg	28	25	69	57	5	11	1	1	0	7	0		10		.193	.333	.246	.579	57	14		2	0
2	1B	Goose Tatum#	30	20	81	68	6	17	2	0	0	15	2		9		.250	.338	.279	.617	66	19		0	4
3	2B	Ray Neil	27	25	107	98	13	32	6	1	2	15	0		7		.327	.371	.469	.841	124	46		0	2
4	SS	Coco Ferrer	33	22	97	90	12	16	2	1	0	3	1		5		.178	.221	.222	.443	19	20		0	2
5	3B	Sam Hairston	28	31	131	115	25	41	4	1	1	15	4		15		.357	.431	.435	.866	132	50		0	1
6	LF	Andrés Mesa*	29	25	106	98	11	26	1	2	0	4	0		7		.265	.314	.316	.631	69	31		0	1
7	CF	Reinaldo Drake*	25	25	102	92	12	22	3	0	0	8	2		9		.239	.307	.272	.579	56	25		0	1
8	RF	Ted Strong#	31	13	46	37	5	14	1	0	0	10	0		7		.378	.489	.405	.894	141	15		1	1
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	Henry Merchant*	30	26	80	69	10	12	4	0	0	4	1		8		.174	.260	.232	.492	32	16		0	3
10	UT	Rafael Cabrera	23	13	52	47	7	10	1	1	1	4	2		4		.213	.275	.340	.615	64	16		0	1
11	SS	Benny Felder	21	10	31	25	2	2	0	0	0	0	0		5		.080	.233	.080	.313	-14	2		0	1
12	3B	Luis Pérez?		11	31	30	3	7	0	0	0	5	0		0		.233	.233	.233	.467	25	7		0	1
13	C	Buster Haywood	38	14	30	29	4	7	0	0	0	2	1		1		.241	.267	.241	.508	37	7		0	0
14	IF	Koney Williams?		9	26	22	3	3	2	0	0	1	1		4		.136	.269	.227	.497	34	5		0	0
15	OF	Chuck Wilson*	18	8	21	21	0	5	1	0	0	3	0		0		.238	.238	.286	.524	40	6		0	0
16	OF	Les Witherspoon#	22	5	17	14	0	5	2	0	0	1	0		2		.357	.438	.500	.938	150	7		0	1
17	SS	Alex Colthirst	29	6	10	8	0	1	0	0	0	1	0		2		.125	.300	.125	.425	17	1		0	0
18	1B	Jim West#	43	3	7	7	0	2	0	0	0	2	0		0		.286	.286	.286	.571	53	2		0	0
19		Richard King	43	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		0		1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	436	1		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
20	P	Willie Cathey*		10	25	22	1	1	0	0	0	0	0		2		.045	.125	.045	.170	-53	1		0	1
21	P	Johnny Williams	30	13	24	21	1	2	0	0	0	0	1		3		.095	.208	.095	.304	-17	2		0	0
22	P	Jim Cohen	30	8	21	19	2	3	0	0	0	1	0		2		.158	.238	.158	.396	7	3		0	0
23	P	Luis Cabrera	29	5	16	13	1	3	0	0	0	4	0		3		.231	.375	.231	.606	65	3		0	0
24	P	Andy Porter	37	3	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		1		.000	.143	.000	.143	-60	0		0	0
25	P	Ladd White*	30	2	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		0		.250	.250	.250	.500	34	1		0	1
26	P	Walter Gibbons*	19	4	5	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0		0		.200	.200	.200	.400	7	1		0	0
27	P	Angel García?	25	1	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		1		.333	.500	.333	.833	126	1		0	0
28	P	Manuel Godínez?	27	3	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		0		.333	.333	.333	.667	79	1		0	0
29	P	José Velásquez?		1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0	0
30	P	Bill Blair	26	3	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0	0
31	P	Jimmie Bennett?	28	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0	0
32	P	Preacher Henry	37	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0							0		0	0
		Team Totals	28.4	106	1160	1029	125	247	30	7	4	105	15		107		.240	.313	.294	.608	63	303		3	21
		Rank in 6 NAL teams				2	3	3	4	5	5		4		2	5	6	6	6	6		3		6
		Non-Pitcher Totals	28.3	106	1045	928	118	234	30	7	4	100	14		95		.252	.324	.313	.636	71	290		3	19
		Pitcher Totals	29.0	106	115	101	7	13	0	0	0	5	1		12		.129	.221	.129	.350	-5	13		0	2
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
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	RP	Willie Cathey*		1	4	.200	5.01	10	5	5	2	0	0	55.2	61	39	31	3	15	0	40	2	0	0	245	97	2.94	1.365	9.9	0.5	2.4	6.5	2.67
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		Jim Cohen	30	1	4	.200	3.47	7	6	1	5	0	0	49.1	47	29	19	1	15	0	17	0	0	1	211	140	3.24	1.257	8.6	0.2	2.7	3.1	1.13
3		Johnny Williams	30	1	4	.200	6.02	7	4	2	4	0	0	40.1	44	35	27	2	16	0	11	5	0	0	191	80	4.42	1.488	9.8	0.4	3.6	2.5	0.69
4		Luis Cabrera	29	2	2	.500	4.09	5	5	0	3	0	0	33.0	39	20	15	1	11	0	16	2	0	1	145	119	3.36	1.515	10.6	0.3	3.0	4.4	1.45
5		Andy Porter	37	0	3	.000	6.06	3	3	0	1	0	0	16.1	23	15	11	2	5	0	7	0	0	1	78	81	4.41	1.714	12.7	1.1	2.8	3.9	1.40
6		Walter Gibbons	19	0	1	.000	9.00	3	2	1	1	0	0	13.0	27	15	13	1	6	0	5	0	0	0	72	55	4.37	2.538	18.7	0.7	4.2	3.5	0.83
7		Ladd White	30	0	1	.000	3.97	2	2	0	1	0	0	11.1	18	10	5	0	5	0	3	0	0	0	55	125	3.55	2.029	14.3	0.0	4.0	2.4	0.60
8		Manuel Godínez	27	0	1	.000	9.72	3	1	2	0	0	0	8.1	15	10	9	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	39	51	5.40	1.800	16.2	2.2	0.0	2.2
9		José Velásquez		0	1	.000	2.25	1	1	0	1	0	0	8.0	7	4	2	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	34	222	3.63	1.250	7.9	0.0	3.4	1.1	0.33
10		Angel García*	25	0	0		9.45	1	0	1	0	0	0	6.2	10	10	7	0	4	0	4	0	0	0	36	53	3.36	2.100	13.5	0.0	5.4	5.4	1.00
11		Bill Blair*	26	0	1	.000	20.25	2	1	1	0	0	0	2.2	8	8	6	0	4	0	2	0	0	0	19	27	5.76	4.500	27.0	0.0	13.5	6.8	0.50
12		Preacher Henry	37	0	1	.000	27.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.2	1	2	2	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	7	26	20.76	7.500	13.5	0.0	54.0	0.0	0.00
13		Jimmie Bennett	28	0	0		54.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	0.1	3	3	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	7	17	20.76	15.000	81.0	0.0	54.0	0.0	0.00
		Team Totals	29.3	5	23	.179	5.46	106	31	13	18	0	0	245.2	303	200	149	12	90	0	108	9	0	3	1139	90	3.72	1.600	11.1	0.4	3.3	4.0	1.20
		Rank in 6 NAL teams		5	2		4				2	3	4	2	5	5	5	6	4		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