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 — 69 contested seasons are credited to nobody rather than double-counted. 70 of 228 players on this roster carry a measurable VAL.
- 1920–1938117.3HOF ’98
- 1920–192761.7
- 1937–1948 · RF44.7HOF ’06
- 1923–193043.5
Club Leaders · top 15
| # | Player | Years | Club VAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bullet RoganHOF | 1920–1938 | 117.3 |
| 2 | Hurley McNair | 1920–1927 | 61.7 |
| 3 | Willard BrownHOF±1 | 1937–1948 | 44.7 |
| 4 | William Bell | 1923–1930 | 43.5 |
| 5 | Dobie Moore | 1920–1926 | 41.1 |
| 6 | Heavy Johnson | 1922–1924 | 36.0 |
| 7 | Hilton SmithHOF±1 | 1937–1948 | 34.5 |
| 8 | Newt Joseph | 1922–1930 | 31.1 |
| 9 | Newt Allen±3 | 1923–1945 | 27.6 |
| 10 | Chet Brewer±3 | 1925–1941 | 25.4 |
| 11 | Wade Johnston±1 | 1923–1927 | 22.1 |
| 12 | George Carr | 1920–1922 | 19.7 |
| 13 | Dink Mothell | 1920–1930 | 18.9 |
| 14 | Ted Strong±1 | 1937–1947 | 17.7 |
| 15 | Rube Curry | 1920–1923 | 16.5 |