1927 in the Negro Leagues

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1927 in the Negro Leagues

Contents 1 Standings 1.1 Negro National League 1.2 Eastern Colored League 1.3 Independent Teams 2 Leading Players 2.1 Batters 2.2 Pitchers 2.3 Achievements 3 Postseason

[edit] Standings

BOLD indicates League Champion

[edit] Negro National League

Source: The Negro Leagues Book by Dick Clark and Larry Lester

Rank	Team	G	W	L	WPCT
1	Chicago American Giants	46	32	14	0.696
2	Kansas City Monarchs	54	36	18	0.667
3	St. Louis Stars	51	32	19	0.627
4	Detroit Stars	46	28	18	0.609
5	Birmingham Black Barons	52	23	29	0.442
6	Memphis Red Sox	44	19	25	0.432
7	Cuban Stars (West)	38	15	23	0.395
8	Cleveland Hornets	47	10	37	0.213

[edit] Eastern Colored League

Source: The Negro Leagues Book by Dick Clark and Larry Lester

Rank	Team	G	W	L	T	WPCT
1	Atlantic City Bacharach Giants	89	54	35	0.607
2	Harrisburg Giants	73	41	32	0.562
3	Cuban Stars (East)	65	33	32	0.508
4	Baltimore Black Sox	70	35	35	0.5
5	Hilldale	81	36	45	0.444
6	Brooklyn Royal Giants	46	15	31	0.326

[edit] Independent Teams

Source: Teams list from The Negro Leagues Book by Dick Clark and Larry Lester; records are from The Complete Book of Baseball's Negro Leagues, John Holway

• Chappie Johnson's Stars
• Nashville Elite Giants
• New York Lincoln Giants
• Pennsylvania Red Caps of NY
• Philadelphia Giants
• Pittsburgh Homestead Grays
• St. Louis Giants

[edit] Leading Players

[edit] Batters

[edit] Pitchers

[edit] Achievements

• Laymon Yokely pitched a no-hitter for the Baltimore Black Sox against the Cuban Stars on May 15 in the second game of a double-header, winning 8-0. Yokely had already won the first game of the double-header in relief.
• Joe Strong of the Black Sox no-hit Hilldale 2-1 in 11 innings on August 4. His was the only extra inning no-hitter in Negro Leagues history. No winning no-hitter in the white or integrated majors ever went further than 10 innings.
• Willie Powell of the Chicago American Giants no-hit the Memphis Red Sox 5-0 on August 14 in the second game of a double-header.
• Webster McDonald of the Chicago American Giants had a no-hitter against Memphis on August 15, the day after Powell's gem, but went into extra innings tied 1-1. J.C. McHaskel broke up the no-hitter in the 10th inning, and Memphis scored a run on two hits in the 11th to beat McDonald 2-1. McDonald had been the losing pitcher in Red Grier's World Series no-hitter the previous season.
• Luther Farrell of the Bacharach Giants pitched a rain-shortened 7-inning no-hitter on October 8 against the Chicago American Giants in the Colored World Series, winning 3-2.

[edit] Postseason

In the Negro World Series, the Chicago American Giants (NNL) defeated the Atlantic City Bacharach Giants (ECL), 5 games to 3.

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