Jim Pendleton Marquee

Pendleton's surviving 1948 Negro American League line for the Chicago American Giants contains 17 hits, eight runs batted in and a .321 average across 13 recorded games. The small sample reflects incomplete preservation of Black baseball's box scores.

His National League career added 240 hits, 30 doubles, 19 home runs and 97 runs batted in across 444 games, with a .255 average. He played primarily in the outfield, with shorter stretches at shortstop, third base and first.

Milwaukee brought Pendleton to the National League in 1953, when he hit .299 with 75 hits, seven home runs and 48 runs across 120 games. He later played for Pittsburgh and Cincinnati before joining expansion Houston in 1962. That final season brought career highs of 79 hits, eight home runs and 36 runs batted in. He died in 1996, at seventy-two.