1901 Regular Season Leaders

1901 World Series and Finale

World Series Game One, Tuesday, October 8, 1901 The heat of the long hot Chicago summer had broken just in time for the commencement of the inaugural World Series and it was a beautiful Tuesday afternoon at South Side Park in Chicago. The home team, the Chicago White Stockings, had not played an official game in ten days, but were happy for the time off and were happy to have catcher Billy Sullivan back and able to play after his finger injury in the last week of the season plus pitcher Roy Patterson had rejoined the club after he had been allowed to return home before the end of the season. The visitors, the Pittsburgh Pirates, had just completed their regular season two days previous, but were happy for the day off on Monday and were ready to go as well. South Side Park, Chicago IL There was a concern as to whether this event would ever happen as both the leagues were still at war with each other, but both leagues, both teams, and the players all saw an opportunit

Week 7 Summary

Week 7 is in the books and the season has reached the month of June. The pennant races are still bunched up with a lot of churn seen in the middle of the pack, but Pittsburgh and Boston remain atop of the standings in their respective leagues. Each league still has two teams that haven’t reached the thirty games played mark yet, the two at the top in the AL and two of the three at the bottom in the NL. The AL has surpassed the NL in the number of games played, despite the NL getting a week head start on their new compatriots. Both leagues have started their eastern and western swings and at this point, the only teams that haven’t face each other yet are Baltimore and Cleveland, which will get fixed immediately when Week 8 commences. 1901 New York Ginats In the AL, Boston is fifth in the league in hitting and fourth in ERA, but thanks to Cy Young's 9-0 start and 0.89 ERA they enjoy a comfortable 4.5 game lead. Baltimore is second in the league in hitting and ERA and has man

Week 6 Summary

Week six is in the books and it was another rough and tumble week in1901. Boston and Pittsburgh remain atop of their respective leagues, but behind them, there was quite a bit of shuffling. Behind Boston in the AL sits Chicago, but only three games separate Chicago from seventh place Washington. Philadelphia has won seven of its last ten, but the remainder are all taking turns knocking each other around. In the NL Brooklyn was in seventh place two weeks ago, but by dint of an 8-2 streak, they find themselves in second place, tied with Philadelphia who is on a 2-8 run and have lost their last seven in a row. Similar to Philadelphia, Boston was in third place just two weeks ago but are in the middle of a 1-9 stint of games and need to pull themselves out of it if they want to get back into the race. 1901 Washington Senators Ginger Beaumont still leads the NL in hitting (.422), just ahead of Ed Delahanty (.389) and Chicago teammates Danny Green (.359) and Topsy Hartsel (.357

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