Eastern Colored League team season
The 1925 Hilldale Club baseball team represented the Hilldale Club in the Eastern Colored League (ECL) during the 1925 baseball season. The team compiled a 53–18–1 (.743) record, won the ECL pennant, and defeated the Kansas City Monarchs in the 1925 Colored World Series. Frank Warfield was Hilldale's player-manager. The team played its home games at Hilldale Park in Darby, Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia suburb.[1]
The team included three players who were late inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame: third baseman Judy Johnson, catcher Biz Mackey, and catcher Louis Santop.
The team's leading batters were:
- Judy Johnson - .389 batting average, .576 slugging percentage, six home runs, 66 RBIS in 70 games
- First baseman George Carr - .355 batting average, .623 slugging percentage, 10 home runs, 64 RBIS, 24 stolen bases in 71 games
- Biz Mackey - .348 batting average, .562 slugging percentage, 54 RBIs in 62 games
- Left fielder Clint Thomas - .341 batting average, .541 slugging percentage, 61 RBIs in 71 games
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The team's leading pitchers were Nip Winters (17–8, 3.02 ERA, 85 strikeouts), Reuben Currie (11–1, 4.57 ERA), and Phil Cockrell (11–2, 3.15 ERA).[3]
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