1939 Chicago American Giants Statistics

National Arena League (NAL)
Team Record: 32-31
Finished 2nd in the NAL
Ballpark: American Giants Park
Manager: Felton Snow (0-1)
Manager: Candy Jim Taylor (45-41)

1939 Chicago American Giants Roster
1939 Chicago American Giants Results

The Chicago American Giants of the National Arena League ended the 1939 season with a record of 32 wins and 31 losses, finishing second in the NAL.

Felton Snow and Candy Jim Taylor coached the team.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	WP	BF
Jesse Houston	5	5	.500	3.72	13	10	2	7	0	0	77.3	79	42	32	3	37	36	1	0	335
Tommy Johnson	3	3	.500	3.44	16	6	9	1	1	1	55.0	62	27	21	2	22	20	1	1	243
Willie Cornelius	3	8	.273	4.53	15	10	3	4	0	0	99.3	95	62	50	2	28	47	1	2	423
Henry Williams	2	0	1.000	3.77	4	1	1	1	0	0	14.3	12	10	6	1	9	6	0	0	68
Lefty Bowe	2	2	.500	2.42	10	5	3	2	0	0	44.7	36	17	12	1	22	45	2	1	199
Ted Trent	2	3	.400	3.69	11	4	2	2	0	0	46.3	56	24	19	2	7	24	1	0	198
Rogers Pierre	0	0		1.35	3	0	1	0	0	0	6.7	5	1	1	0	3	3	0	0	28
Willie Simms	0	0		13.50	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.3	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	8
Percy Forrest	0	1	.000	4.91	3	3	0	1	0	0	11.0	9	8	6	0	7	3	0	0	50
Eggie Hensley	0	2	.000	15.63	3	2	0	0	0	0	6.3	13	11	11	0	3	5	0	0	35
Totals	17	24	.415	3.97	79	41	21	18	1	1	362.3	371	204	160	11	138	189	6	4	1587

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Alex Radcliff	38	169	154	24	44	9	4	1	16	1	0	11	0	.286	.333	.416	.749	64	0	0	4	0	2
Willie Simms	34	155	134	20	42	5	2	3	14	6	1	15	0	.313	.387	.448	.834	60	0	1	5	0	0
Ernie Smith	39	152	140	15	38	3	2	0	15	7	0	7	0	.271	.313	.321	.635	45	0	2	2	1	0
Ed Young	34	142	122	20	34	9	1	2	19	10	1	16	0	.279	.373	.418	.791	51	1	3	0	1	0
Subby Byas	39	152	125	18	31	5	1	2	11	3	2	22	1	.248	.373	.352	.725	44	0	3	2	0	1
Billy Horne	32	127	112	16	26	1	1	0	13	4	0	11	2	.232	.298	.259	.557	29	1	0	3	1	0
Pepper Bassett	33	123	114	13	25	5	1	0	14	1	0	5	2	.219	.256	.281	.537	32	0	1	2	1	0
Joe Sparks	33	107	94	12	20	3	4	1	13	2	0	8	1	.213	.282	.362	.643	34	0	1	4	0	0
John Bissant	17	65	60	8	17	2	1	2	8	0	0	3	1	.283	.328	.450	.778	27	0	1	1	0	0
Jesse Houston	25	48	45	7	12	2	1	0	4	0	0	3	1	.267	.313	.356	.668	16	0	0	0	0	0
Wilson Redus	23	70	62	10	12	2	0	0	7	1	0	4	1	.194	.250	.226	.476	14	0	1	2	1	0
Willie Cornelius	18	41	34	4	9	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	1	.265	.342	.265	.607	9	0	0	3	0	0
Donald Reeves	6	25	23	2	7	0	1	1	3	0	0	1	0	.304	.320	.522	.842	12	0	0	0	1	0
Red Hale	14	44	37	2	6	0	2	0	2	2	0	4	2	.162	.262	.270	.532	10	0	1	2	0	0
Luther Gilyard	4	16	15	2	4	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.267	.267	.400	.667	6	0	0	1	0	0
Fresnell	2	3	3	1	3	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.667	2.667	5	0	0	0	0	0
Lefty Bowe	10	16	16	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.188	.188	.188	.375	3	0	0	0	0	0
Rogers Pierre	4	4	4	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.750	1.250	3	0	0	0	0	0
Percy Forrest	3	6	5	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	.400	.500	.400	.900	2	0	0	0	0	0
Charley Robinson	3	13	10	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	0	.200	.385	.200	.585	2	0	0	0	0	0
Tommy Johnson	16	16	16	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.125	.125	.188	.313	3	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Williams	2	7	6	0	1	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	1	.167	.143	.167	.310	1	0	0	0	1	0
Lester Lockett	4	13	13	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.077	.077	.077	.154	1	0	0	0	0	0
Johnny Reed	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Henry Williams	4	6	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.167	.000	.167	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ted Trent	11	16	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	3	0	0
Henry McCall	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Zell Miles	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Langrum	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Eggie Hensley	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	456	1542	1368	178	343	50	22	12	148	40	5	119	16	.251	.316	.346	.661	473	2	14	34	7	3

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS%
Ed Young	1B	31	30	267.0	323	19	6	16	.983	11.528	11.032	0	0
Subby Byas	1B	8	8	68.0	92	4	7	1	.932	12.706	12.000	0	0
Luther Gilyard	1B	2	2	17.0	23	2	0	1	1.000	13.235	12.500	0	0
Jesse Houston	1B	1	0	5.3	6	0	0	1	1.000	1.125	6.000	0	0
Johnny Reed	1B	1	1	5.0	6	1	0	0	1.000	12.600	7.000	0	0
Billy Horne	2B	30	30	262.0	63	97	11	9	.936	5.496	5.333	0	0
John Bissant	2B	4	3	37.0	6	10	3	1	.842	3.892	4.000	0	0
Joe Sparks	2B	4	4	34.3	9	15	0	1	1.000	6.291	6.000	0	0
Lester Lockett	2B	3	3	20.0	7	13	0	2	1.000	9.000	6.667	0	0
Jesse Houston	2B	1	1	8.0	3	3	0	0	1.000	6.750	6.000	0	0
Subby Byas	2B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0
Alex Radcliff	3B	37	37	321.0	32	69	9	5	.918	2.832	2.730	0	0
Ed Young	3B	2	2	18.3	4	3	1	1	.875	3.436	3.500	0	0
Luther Gilyard	3B	1	1	12.0	1	2	0	1	1.000	2.250	3.000	0	0
John Bissant	3B	1	1	9.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	3.000	3.000	0	0
Joe Sparks	3B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0
Pepper Bassett	C	33	33	277.7	185	27	6	1	.972	6.872	6.424	2	29	0.0
Subby Byas	C	8	7	67.0	41	7	2	1	.960	6.448	6.000	0	4	0.0
Ed Young	C	1	1	9.7	5	1	1	0	.857	5.586	6.000	0	2	0.0
Ernie Smith	C	1	0	8.0	5	1	0	0	1.000	6.750	6.000	0	6	0.0
Willie Simms	OF	33	33	295.7	63	4	5	0	.931	2.039	2.030	0	0
Ernie Smith	OF	40	34	294.3	57	3	4	1	.938	1.835	1.500	0	0
Subby Byas	OF	24	22	184.0	31	0	0	0	1.000	1.516	1.292	0	0
Wilson Redus	OF	19	14	139.0	23	1	3	0	.889	1.554	1.263	0	0
John Bissant	OF	10	10	77.3	14	1	0	0	1.000	1.746	1.500	0	0
Donald Reeves	OF	6	6	53.0	5	0	1	0	.833	.849	.833	0	0
Charley Robinson	OF	3	3	24.7	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.095	1.000	0	0
Luther Gilyard	OF	1	1	9.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.000	2.000	0	0
Jesse Houston	OF	2	1	5.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	3.600	1.000	0	0
Fresnell	OF	2	1	5.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.800	.500	0	0
Willie Cornelius	P	15	10	99.3	2	41	2	1	.956	3.896	2.867	0	0
Jesse Houston	P	13	10	77.3	5	27	0	0	1.000	3.724	2.462	0	0
Tommy Johnson	P	16	7	55.0	1	17	0	0	1.000	2.945	1.125	0	0
Ted Trent	P	11	6	46.3	1	12	0	1	1.000	2.525	1.182	0	0
Lefty Bowe	P	10	5	44.7	1	13	0	0	1.000	2.821	1.400	0	0
Henry Williams	P	4	1	14.3	0	2	0	1	1.000	1.256	.500	0	0
Percy Forrest	P	3	3	11.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	.818	.333	0	0
Rogers Pierre	P	3	0	6.7	0	5	0	0	1.000	6.750	1.667	0	0
Eggie Hensley	P	3	2	6.3	0	4	0	0	1.000	5.684	1.333	0	0
Willie Simms	P	1	1	1.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0
Zell Miles	PH	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0			.000	0	0
Henry McCall	PH	2	0	0.0	0	0	0	0			.000	0	0
Langrum	PH	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0			.000	0	0
Joe Sparks	SS	27	23	203.3	35	53	10	3	.898	3.895	3.259	0	0
Red Hale	SS	13	13	100.0	22	33	8	4	.873	4.950	4.231	0	0
Billy Horne	SS	3	1	21.0	4	11	0	1	1.000	6.429	5.000	0	0
Joe Williams	SS	2	2	15.0	2	4	1	0	.857	3.600	3.000	0	0
Alex Radcliff	SS	1	1	10.3	1	1	2	1	.500	1.742	2.000	0	0
Lester Lockett	SS	1	1	9.7	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.862	2.000	0	0
Jesse Houston	SS	1	0	3.0	0	2	1	0	.667	6.000	2.000	0	0
Totals		442	375	3261.0	1086	514	83	54	.951	4.416	3.620	2	41	0.0

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