1923 Hilldale Club season

The 1923 Hilldale Club baseball team represented the Hilldale Club in the Eastern Colored League (ECL) during the 1923 baseball season. The team compiled a 40–21–1 (.653) record and won the ECL pennant. John Henry Lloyd was Hilldale's player-manager. The team played its home games at Hilldale Park in Darby, Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia suburb.^[1]

The team included four players who were late inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame: manager/shortstop John Henry Lloyd, third baseman Judy Johnson, catcher Biz Mackey, and catcher Louis Santop.

The team's leading batters were:

• Biz Mackey - .423 batting average, .588 slugging percentage, 44 RBIs in 51 games
• John Henry Lloyd - .367 batting average, .507 slugging percentage, in 41 games
• Center fielder George Johnson - .352 batting average, .549 slugging percentage, eight home runs, 46 RBIS, 13 stolen bases in 59 games

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The team's leading pitchers were Nip Winters (10–3, 2.36 ERA, 95 strikeouts) and Red Ryan (9–5, 2.48 ERA).^[3]

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