1925 Detroit Stars season
negro National League (1920–1931)|Negro National League team season
The 1925 Detroit Stars baseball team competed in the Negro National League during the 1925 baseball season. The team compiled a 56–44 record (.560) in games against National League opponents. The Stars played their home games at Mack Park located on the east side of Detroit, about four miles from downtown, at the southeast corner of Fairview Ave. and Mack Ave. The team was owned by John A. Roesink and managed on the field by catcher-manager Bruce Petway.
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The Stars led the Negro National League with 628 runs scored and ranked second to the Kansas City Monarchs with a team batting average of .288.
Center fielder Turkey Stearnes was the team's batting star. He led the Negro National Leaghe in hits (135), home runs (19), RBIs (126), and slugging percentage (.668). He also finished second in batting average (.371), one point behind Wilson Redus, and second in runs scored (93), one run behind Cool Papa Bell. Stearnes died in 1979 and was posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2000.
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