Negro Leagues
Memphis Red Sox
Active 1924–1948 · 248 players · 5 Hall of Famers
A defunct franchise with no continuous modern successor. Its players are attributed here to Memphis Red Sox 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 Memphis Red Sox itself. A season counts here only when Memphis Red Sox is the one club whose recorded span covers it — 115 contested seasons are credited to nobody rather than double-counted. 39 of 248 players on this roster carry a measurable VAL.
- 1924–193017.1
- 1938–194810.0
- 1927–19308.2
- 1925–19288.0
Club Leaders · top 15
| # | Player | Years | Club VAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carl Glass±2 | 1924–1930 | 17.1 |
| 2 | Neil Robinson | 1938–1948 | 10.0 |
| 3 | Cliff Bell±1 | 1927–1930 | 8.2 |
| 4 | Steel Arm Tyler±2 | 1925–1928 | 8.0 |
| 5 | Verdell Mathis±2 | 1940–1948 | 8.0 |
| 6 | Willie Spearman | 1924–1925 | 6.0 |
| 7 | Willie Jefferson | 1938–1939 | 5.8 |
| 8 | Goose Curry±7 | 1929–1943 | 5.3 |
| 9 | Porter Moss | 1938–1944 | 5.1 |
| 10 | Cowan Hyde | 1927–1948 | 3.9 |
| 11 | Eugene Bremer±1 | 1938–1940 | 3.5 |
| 12 | Kid Lowe | 1925–1930 | 3.1 |
| 13 | Sanford Jackson | 1924–1925 | 2.9 |
| 14 | Square Moore±1 | 1924–1925 | 2.9 |
| 15 | Fred Bankhead±1 | 1938–1947 | 2.8 |