Negro Leagues
Kansas City Monarchs
Active 1920–1948 · 228 players · 10 Hall of Famers
A defunct franchise with no continuous modern successor. Its players are attributed here to Kansas City Monarchs itself — never folded into an unrelated modern club, which would fabricate a lineage that never existed. See the full index of lost clubs.
Mount Rushmore
The four largest measured careers at this club, by StatVault VAL attributed to Kansas City Monarchs itself. A season counts here only when Kansas City Monarchs is the one club whose recorded span covers it — 35 contested seasons are credited to nobody rather than double-counted. 62 of 228 players on this roster carry a measurable VAL.
- 1920–192763.9
- 1920–193861.0HOF ’98
- 1937–1948 · P51.8HOF ’01
- 1923–194549.8
Club Leaders · top 15
| # | Player | Years | Club VAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hurley McNair | 1920–1927 | 63.9 |
| 2 | Bullet RoganHOF | 1920–1938 | 61.0 |
| 3 | Hilton SmithHOF±1 | 1937–1948 | 51.8 |
| 4 | Newt Allen±2 | 1923–1945 | 49.8 |
| 5 | Willard BrownHOF±1 | 1937–1948 | 49.3 |
| 6 | Newt Joseph | 1922–1930 | 46.0 |
| 7 | Dobie Moore | 1920–1926 | 45.2 |
| 8 | Dink Mothell | 1920–1930 | 36.3 |
| 9 | Heavy Johnson | 1922–1924 | 32.0 |
| 10 | Frank Duncan±4 | 1921–1945 | 27.5 |
| 11 | Herb Souell | 1940–1948 | 25.4 |
| 12 | Wade Johnston±1 | 1923–1927 | 24.2 |
| 13 | George Carr | 1920–1922 | 23.7 |
| 14 | Lemuel Hawkins±1 | 1921–1927 | 23.7 |
| 15 | Buck O'NeilHOF | 1938–1948 | 22.2 |