1948 Kansas City Monarchs Statistics

1947 Season

Record: 67-34-3, Finished 1st in Negro American League

Postseason: Lost NAL Championship Series (4-3-1) to Birmingham Black Barons

Manager: Buck O'Neil (62-32-2)

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	Mickey Taborn	25	44	170	147	15	44	10	0	0	23	2		21		.299	.387	.367	.754	103	54		0	2
2	1B	Tom Cooper		31	128	107	17	31	2	3	1	13	2		16		.290	.387	.393	.780	109	42		1	4
3	2B	Curt Roberts	18	46	196	180	25	44	10	1	0	20	5		14		.244	.299	.311	.610	63	56		0	2
4	SS	Gene Baker	23	46	200	181	39	45	9	7	3	28	5		15		.249	.306	.425	.732	94	77		0	4
5	3B	Herb Souell#	35	46	211	196	41	56	8	6	2	22	6		14		.286	.336	.418	.755	101	82		1	0
6	LF	Elston Howard	19	20	84	80	16	20	5	3	1	13	1		3		.250	.286	.425	.711	88	34		1	0
7	CF	Willard Brown	33	46	197	174	43	71	23	2	7	54	8		22		.408	.477	.684	1.161	208	119		1	0
8	RF	Hank Thompson*	22	47	206	175	50	59	13	5	5	29	12		27		.337	.431	.554	.986	162	97		2	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
9	OF	Johnie Scott*	34	33	129	110	24	33	6	1	1	23	7		16		.300	.398	.400	.798	114	44		2	1
10	1B	Buck O'Neil	36	25	96	89	8	19	1	0	0	11	2		7		.213	.271	.225	.496	34	20		0	0
11	OF	Charley Hall#	24	1	2	2	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
12	P	Jim LaMarque*	27	18	55	45	9	15	3	0	1	11	0		7		.333	.434	.467	.901	141	21		1	2
13	P	Hilton Smith	41	13	30	28	6	9	2	1	0	5	0		1		.321	.345	.464	.809	115	13		0	1
14	P	Ford Smith#	29	13	27	26	4	5	3	0	0	3	0		0		.192	.222	.308	.530	41	8		1	0
15	P	Gene Collins*	23	12	23	20	4	6	3	0	0	1	0		2		.300	.391	.450	.841	125	9		1	0
16	P	Gene Richardson*	20	8	19	18	2	1	1	0	0	0	0		1		.056	.105	.111	.216	-42	2		0	0
17	P	Connie Johnson	25	12	18	18	3	3	1	0	0	1	1		0		.167	.167	.222	.389	3	4		0	0
18	P	Leonard Johnson?	28	3	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0	0
19	P	Tincy Jamerson?	17	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0							0		0	0
		Team Totals	27.2	104	1799	1604	306	461	100	29	21	257	51		166		.287	.358	.425	.783	109	682		11	18
		Rank in 6 NAL teams				1	1	1	1	1	1		1		1	6	2	2	2	2		1		3
		Non-Pitcher Totals	27.1	104	1619	1441	278	422	87	28	20	236	50		155		.293	.365	.434	.798	113	625		8	15
		Pitcher Totals	28.2	104	180	163	28	39	13	1	1	21	1		11		.239	.299	.350	.649	73	57		3	3
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	Jim LaMarque*	27	9	4	.692	3.20	16	13	3	12	1	1	118.0	117	52	42	3	24	0	80	8	0	3	495	151	2.55	1.195	8.9	0.2	1.8	6.1	3.33
2	SP	Hilton Smith	41	4	2	.667	3.96	11	7	3	4	0	0	63.2	72	39	28	2	22	0	39	1	0	1	285	122	3.03	1.476	10.2	0.3	3.1	5.5	1.77
3	SP	Gene Collins*	23	4	4	.500	4.66	11	7	3	4	1	1	56.0	33	43	29	0	60	0	62	5	0	2	270	104	4.03	1.661	5.3	0.0	9.6	10.0	1.03
4	SP	Ford Smith	29	4	2	.667	2.43	8	7	1	6	1	1	55.2	49	24	15	0	13	0	41	5	0	3	229	200	2.26	1.114	7.9	0.0	2.1	6.6	3.15
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	RP	Connie Johnson	25	3	1	.750	4.02	10	4	4	3	0	2	47.0	53	28	21	2	19	0	29	2	0	3	213	120	3.42	1.532	10.1	0.4	3.6	5.6	1.53
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		Gene Richardson*	20	2	3	.400	3.43	8	5	3	1	0	0	44.2	47	27	17	1	17	0	37	0	0	0	198	141	2.53	1.433	9.5	0.2	3.4	7.5	2.18
7		Leonard Johnson	28	1	2	.333	12.00	3	3	0	0	0	0	15.0	27	25	20	2	7	0	3	2	0	0	82	41	5.89	2.267	16.2	1.2	4.2	1.8	0.43
8		Tincy Jamerson	17	0	0		16.20	1	1	0	0	0	0	1.2	4	3	3	1	4	0	0	1	0	0	14	35	19.56	4.800	21.6	5.4	21.6	0.0	0.00
		Team Totals	27.9	27	18	.600	3.92	104	47	17	30	3	5	401.2	402	241	175	11	166	0	291	24	0	12	1786	123	3.08	1.414	9.0	0.2	3.7	6.5	1.75
		Rank in 6 NAL teams		1	5		2				1	1	1	1	6	6	6	4	6		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