1925 Hilldale Club season

Eastern Colored League team season

1925 Hilldale club

League| Eastern Colored League
Ballpark| Hilldale Park
City| Darby, Pennsylvania
Record| 53–18–1 (.743)
League place| 1st
Managers| Frank Warfield

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]

## References

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1. ^ "1925 Hilldale Club". Seamheads.com. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
2. ^ "1925 Hilldale Club Batting". Seamheads.com. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
3. ^ "1925 Hilldale Club Pitching". Seamheads.com. Retrieved September 8, 2020.

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Hilldale Club 1925 Colored World Series champions

Otto Briggs
Bullet Campbell
George Carr
Phil Cockrell
Rube Curry
George Johnson
Judy Johnson
Script Lee
Joe Lewis
Biz Mackey
Newt Robinson
Red Ryan
Louis Santop
Jake Stephens
Clint Thomas
Frank Warfield
Namon Washington
Nip Winters

Manager
Frank Warfield

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Hilldale Club

* Operated 1916–1932
* Based in Darby, Pennsylvania

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* Eastern Colored League
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Hall of Famers|

* Oscar Charleston
* Martín Dihigo
* Judy Johnson
* John Henry Lloyd
* Biz Mackey
* Louis Santop

Colored World Series
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* 1925

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* 1924: Kansas City Monarchs
* 1925: Hilldale Club
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Eastern Colored League|

* Atlantic City
* Baltimore
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* Cuban Stars (East)
* Harrisburg
* Hilldale
* New York
* Wilmington

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