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Chaney White Data

Seasonal Data from Holway

1919 no data, rookie with Hilldale Daisies; cf
1920 .094 for Hilldale; cf
2-15 in playoff vs. Bkn Royal Giants
3-24 vs. major-league competition
1921 .270 for Hilldale; cf
2-10 in playoff vs. Bacharachs
6-17 in World Series vs. Chi Am Giants
1922 .270 for Hilldale; lf
1923 .295 for AC Bacharach Giants; cf
1924 .287 for AC Bacharach Giants; cf
1925 .321 for AC Bacharach Giants; cf
1926 .281 for AC Bacharach Giants; cf ;17 2b 1st in league, 4 3b 3rd
8-33 in World Series vs. Chi Am Giants
1927 .279 for AC Bacharach Giants; cf
5-33 in World Series vs. Chi Am Giants
1928 .342 for AC Bacharach Giants; rf
1929 .357 for AC Bacharach Giants; rf; 12 3b 1st in league
1930 .312 for Homestead Grays; cf
.315 for Hilldale; cf
9-38 in World Series for Grays vs. NY Lincoln Giants
1931 .272 for Phi Stars/Hilldale; cf
1932 .173 for Hilldale; cf
.240 for Bal Black Sox; ut
2-11 vs. major-league pitching
1933 .318 for Phi Stars; cf; all-star
1934 .295 for Phi Stars; cf
1935 .258 for Phi Stars; cf
1936 .410 for NY Cubans; ut

Career, calculated from Seasonal data

.286 mean avg. for 17 seasons with data
5-35 vs. major-league competition
27-113, ,239 in post-season play
1-time all star
Black Ink 3
Gray Ink 4


Comments. A nice player. Probably would have had a run as a starting outfielder in the majors, but not bound even for the Hall of Very Good.

1928 STATS

Batting:
G-61
AB-241
H-82
2B-4
3B-7 (!)
HR-3
R-59
BB-16
HBP-2
Sac-3
SB-7
AVE-.340
OBP-.386
SLG-.452

FIELDING
CF
G-60
INN-510 2/3
PO-131
A-5
E-6
DP-0
(Played 1 G in LF)

1921 Chaney White
NNL associate Hilldale Club

G-39 (team 41)
AB-148
H-46
D-9
T-1
HR-1
R-33
W-12
HP-1
SH-5
SB-13
AVE-.311
OBA-.366
SLG-.405

Sorry, still don't have fielding stats--they'll get done eventually.

I've been re-reading Maybe I'll Pitch Forever by Satchel Paige (as told to David Lipman), a book which I last read nearly 40 years ago. It's a wonderful book, full of good humor, every bit as good as I remembered it.

Satch makes a comment, which won't surprise anyone, on how he rates Josh Gibson as a hitter. It's the number five man on Satch's list, however, that caught my attention:

There's never been power like Josh's. He wasn't just a slugger either. He was a high-average man, too. If I had to rate top hitters, I'd put him ahead of Ted Williams of Boston, Joe DiMaggio of New York, and Stan Musial of St. Louis, and right in that order.

But don't you think that Josh was the only one. There were lots of others, guys like Chainey White, who played with the Homestead Grays. He was a close fifth after Josh, Williams, DiMaggio, and Musial.

This proves pretty convincingly that anecdotal evidence of this kind is valueless, whether negative on Beckwith or positive on Bell, mackey or probably this guy.