Negro Leagues

1940 Negro League Baseball Season Roster

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$23.00In Stock
Release Date February 24, 2025
Highlights
  • Classic Franchises: Homestead Grays dominate the East, Kansas City Monarchs rule over the West
  • Stars Galore: Monte Irvin, Buck Leonard, Ray Brown and others
  • MLB Preview: Roy Campanella, Monte Irvin and other future HOFers
Full Summary

16 team league, offered as a Windows roster (no cards).

The 13 league teams are supplemented with the League’s two Associated Members (Brooklyn Bacharachs and Cincinnati Buckeyes) and the historically important Miami Clowns.

No Josh Gibson who, as many others, was enjoying his baseball life down Mexico way. No problem for the Grays, who again won big. Buck Leonard was sensational- his 1.128 OPS was league best. Monte Irvin (Newark) won the title at .351, followed by Leonard (.348, 125 W, 128 R, 118 RBI), Miami’s Sardo Wilson (.343), New Orleans’ Chili Mayweather (.339) who t-4 with Baltimore’s Big Bill Hoskins. Brooklyn’s player-manager Showboat Thomas led by 1 with 46 D from his teammate Buddy Burbage and Baltimore’s Sammy Hughes, with Irvin just 2 back. Cuban’s Alejandro Crespo and Homestead’s Howard Easterling tied for T lead with 15. Leonard’s 36 HR bested Newark’s Mule Suttles by 1, Lennie Pearson by 3, Buzz Clarkson by 7, and Irvin by 8. And their Ace Stone was t-8th with 25. Newark out-homered runner up Homestead by…70 and Baltimore by 71!

Homestead’s Ray Brown was the stand-out pitcher with his league leading 26 W (8 L) and just .02 from KC’s Little Walker’s ERA title (2.53). Double Duty (40 field games) Brown played a very good LF to a .779 OPS. Another 19 pitchers won 20 or more, including Baltimore’s Emory Adams (24-11) and Chicago’s Lefty Bowe (24-16), Birmingham’s Dan Bankhead (23-8), Newark’s Squab Hill (23-11), and Homestead’s Wild Man Walker (23-10). Miami’s Dave Barnhill impressed with 23 CG and 166 strikeouts.

For 1940, the Leagues decided to get tougher with players hitting umpires, captains pulling their team off the field as protest, players jumping clubs, and the like. Fines were increased to $50 for a first offense. Unfortunately, nothing was done to put in place an impartial Commissioner, so the verbal wars among ownership raged on.

13 Hall of Famers (Ray Brown, Willard Brown, Roy Campanella, Oscar Charleston, Monte Irvin, Buck Leonard, Biz Mackey, Buck O’Neil, Satchel Paige, Hilton Smith, Turkey Stearnes, Mule Suttles, Jud Wilson) and 20 SOM Negro Stars (Newt Allen, Jerry Benjamin, Larry Brown, Rev Cannady, Dewey Creacy, Frank Duncan, Vic Harris, Bill Holland, Sammy Hughes, Fats Jenkins, Max Manning, Verdell Mathis, Webster McDonald, Spoony Palm, Red Parnell, Bill Perkins, Frog Redus, Neil Robinson, Tubby Scales, Dick Seay).

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