Who Has The Most Home Runs In The Negro League. Since Negro League seasons were typically much shorter than MLB seasons the sports career records for counting stats such as Barry Bondss. When I began speaking with Ashwill about the database in September Hall of Fame slugger Mule Suttles held the Negro Leagues single-season home run record with the 30 that he hit as a member of the St.
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44 rows 40 Greatest Negro League Figures. The Howe Sports Bureau credits Aaron with a 366 batting average in 26 official Negro league games with five home runs 33 runs batted in RBIs 41 hits and nine stolen bases. Louis Stars in 1926.
Recent investigations into Negro league statistics using box scores from newspapers from across the United States have led to the estimate that although as many as two thirds of Negro league team games were played against inferior competition as traveling exhibition games Gibson still hit between 150 and 200 home runs in official Negro league games.
Cool Papa Bell stole 36 bases which is the second-highest single-season Negro league total weve recorded the highest is Bells 49 in 1929. Leading the league with 52 homers a317 batting average and 112 RBI Mays was chosen Most Valuable Player for a second time in 1965. On baseballs all time lists Mays ranks third in home runs. And so Gibsons Negro Leagues-leading 238 home runs as confirmed by Seamheads can now conceivably be folded into MLBs all-time leaderboard alongside the identical totals of Earl Averill Ray Lankford and JD.
