The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-21

BRIEF HISTORY
OF BIG LEAGUES
Observation-Disclosures

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League was printed in The Citizen
yesterday. Today, we have the
American League, which began
play in 1901.
Chicago White Sox, under Clark
Griffith won the first pennant.
Connie Mack, with his Athletics,
won the second, and Boston the
third and also in 1904. The AS
won again in 1905 and Chicago in
1906. The Tigers took the flag
in 1907, 1908 and 1909. Mack's
team came back to win in 1910
and 1911; Boston, 1912; AS, 1913
and 1914; Boston, 1915 and 1916;
Chicago, 1917; Boston, 1918;
Chicago, 1919; Cleveland, 1920;
Yankees, 1921, 1922 and 1928;
Washington, 1924 and 1925; Yam
KEGS, 1928 1927 and 1928; Ath-
leticss rl92A, 1880 and 1881; Yam
KEGS, 1892; Washington, 1888;
Detroit, 1884 and 1885; Yankees,
1886.
World Series winners have been:
Chicago, 1906; Athletics, 1910,
1911, 1913, 1929 and 1880; Bos-
ton, 1912, 1915, 1916 and 1918;
;Chicago, 1917; Yankees, 1928,
1927, 1928, 1882 and 1886; SEN
| ators, 1924; Cleveland, 1920; De-
troit, 1885.
Cellar champions: Washington,
four times; St. Louis, five times;
Boston, 10 times, Yankees, twice
Cleveland, once; Philadelphia,
nine times; Chicago three times.
Leading hitters have been: La
joi for three years; Delhanty,
Flick and Stone, one year each;
Ty Cobb, nine straight years, from
1907 to 1915; Iris Speaker in
1916, then Cobb again in 1917,
1918 and 1919; Sisler in 1920;
Hickman, 1921; Sisler, 1922; Hiel-
man, 1928; Babe Ruth, 1924;
Hielman, 1925; Manush, 1926;
Hickman, 1927; Goslin, 1928;
Fonseca, 1929; Simmons, 1880
and 1881; Alexander, 1882; Foxx,
1888; Lou Gehrig, 1884; Myers,
1895; Appling, 1886. Highest
average was made by Ty Cobb in
1911 and Sis er in 1922, APO.
, Ty Cobb hit 400 or better for
three years, and he hit over 300
for % years.
Gehrig has played 1909 games
consecutiyely to date.
Ed, Collins and r. Wallace play
ed 25 years in the league, and Ty
Cobb, "a years.
!! Cobb was at bat IL, 429 times.
, Babe Ruth hit go home runs in
1927 and TIA in 81 years, and
led the league II years in homers.
Cy Young pitched % years in
the American circuit; Pennock and
Sam Jones, % years each. Walter
johnson twirled FL years for the
same club and was leading pitch
er for six years.
Jack Chesbro pitched AZ COM
plete games in one season, in
1884, a930
Pr Ed Walsh pitched &c games in
t190So fer the White Sox. Walsh
pitched the most innings in one
season, AGA in 1908.
Walter Johnson has the best
earned run average for a pitcher
with 1'09 in SAG innings, in 1918.
Grove has led the league seven
times and Johnson, six.
Highest percentage of games
in season, Grove, 1856, in 1881,
81 won and four lost.
Water Johnson led the league
in won and lost and earned run
average in 1913, 1914, 1918 and
1924; Grove in 1929, 1880 and
1881; Gomez, in 1884.
: Most games won by a pitcher,
Walter johnson, Ala.
Most games won in a season,
Jake iChesbrO, Al, in 1904.
Walter Johnson pitched 113
shutout games in Fl years.
Jack Coombs pitched 13 blank
contests in one season.
Walter Johnson struck out 3d.
497 in his 81 years in the big
show, and Cy Young, 1886.
Johnson led the league in fan
ming batsmen for IL years.
Credit for most strike outs in
one game goes to Teller, the SEN
sational modern pitcher, with II.
1t happened September Is, 1886,
against St. Louis Browns.
Jerome Dean, in the National
League, has famed II, also, on
July 80 1888, against Chicago
Cubs.
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