What If Negro League Legends Had the Stats to Rewrite Baseball History?

What If Negro League Legends Had the Stats to Rewrite Baseball History?

1. 81 – Willard Brown, 1948 Kansas City Monarchs (23 in 46 NAL games)

The Hall of Famer helped lead the Monarchs to five straight NAL pennants between 1937-43. After crossing the English Channel on the D-Day invasion of France with the U.S. Army, Brown returned to baseball, soon becoming the third black player in the AL and the first to hit a home run. He returned to the NAL a year later in 1948, when he had the best season in the league’s history.

2. 75 – Ted Strong, 1937 Chicago Giants/Indianapolis Athletics/Kansas City Monarchs (12 in 26 NAL games)

3. 74 – Willard Brown, 1947 Kansas City Monarchs (22 in 48 NAL games)

4. 73 – Walter Fenner “Buck” Leonard, 1935 Homestead Grays (18 in 40 NN2 games)

Buck Leonard played in a Negro National League-record 11 All-Star games. Playing alongside Gibson, he helped propel the Grays dynasty throughout the 1930s and ’40s. He had the ability to drive the ball anywhere in the park and was referred to as “the Black Lou Gehrig.”

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