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

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

2. 48 – Ed Steele, 1945 Birmingham Black Barons (8 in 27 NAL games)

3. 42 – David Whatley, 1937 Birmingham Black Barons (7 in 27 NAL games)

4. 41 – Matt Carlisle, 1935 Homestead Grays (11 in 44 NN2 games)

5. 38 – Chief Wilson, 1912 Pittsburgh Pirates (36 in 152 games)

Chief Wilson before a game at Chicago’s West Side Grounds in 1909. (Getty Images)

6. 37 – Sanford Jackson, 1932 Indianapolis ABCs (6 in 26 NSL games)

7. 37 – Norman “Turkey” Stearnes, 1930 Detroit Stars (8 in 35 NNL games)

8. 37 – Babe Melton, 1928 Cleveland Tigers (13 in 57 NNL games)

9. 36 – Roy Parnell, 1932 Monroe Monarchs (11 in 49 NSL games)

10. 35 – Mule Suttles, 1926 St. Louis Stars (19 in 89 NNL games)

1. 256 – Barry Bonds, 2004 San Francisco Giants (232 in 147 games)

While projections of most Negro League player statistical totals put their numbers among the very best of all time in any league, no player’s projected walk total comes remotely close to Bonds’. While most baseball fans understand Bonds to be the undisputed walk king of the American and National Leagues, he also holds this title over any Negro League player, further cementing him as one of the most feared, if not the most feared, hitters of all time.

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