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1909 American League Statistics & Leaders

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League Standings     Minor League Standings
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Division Team W L WPct GB Chicago (A) 94 60 .610 -- Detroit 85 69 .552 9 Washington 82 72 .532 12 St. Louis (A) 80 74 .519 14 Cleveland 79 75 .513 15 Philadelphia (A) 76 78 .494 18 New York (A) 63 91 .409 31 Boston (A) 57 97 .370 37

Post-Season Results
World Series (4-2)	Philadelphia (N) Phillies over Chicago (A) White Sox

League Batting Stats     Help
Team	R/G	R	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
CHA	4.5	687	154	5219	1351	154	63	11	442	486	.259	.317	.319	.636
DET	4.2	645	154	5310	1330	172	60	19	442	476	.250	.308	.316	.624
WS1	4.1	624	154	5195	1233	202	74	30	465	685	.237	.300	.322	.622
PHA	4.0	615	154	5356	1373	165	66	11	346	714	.256	.301	.318	.619
SLA	3.7	572	154	5263	1259	162	56	19	366	686	.239	.289	.302	.591
CLE	3.6	557	154	5234	1239	151	50	22	382	587	.237	.289	.297	.586
NYA	3.5	542	154	5298	1268	154	77	12	383	537	.239	.291	.304	.595
BOS	3.1	474	154	5249	1177	133	56	11	391	854	.224	.278	.277	.555
Totals	3.8	4716	1232	42124	10230	1293	502	135	3217	5025	.243	.297	.307	.604
Average		590	154	5266	1279	162	63	17	402	628

League Pitching Stats     Help
Team	R/G	R	G	ERA	IP	H	H/G	BB	BB/G	SO	SO/G	SV
CHA	3.4	518	154	2.60	1403.0	1227	8.0	455	3.0	611	4.0	35
SLA	3.6	562	154	2.83	1398.7	1164	7.6	443	2.9	657	4.3	13
DET	3.7	564	154	2.83	1406.7	1249	8.1	411	2.7	770	5.0	15
WS1	3.8	582	154	3.16	1392.7	1311	8.5	304	2.0	572	3.7	32
CLE	3.8	588	154	3.01	1406.7	1332	8.6	308	2.0	618	4.0	20
PHA	3.9	598	154	2.98	1394.0	1280	8.3	444	2.9	587	3.8	7
NYA	4.2	640	154	3.35	1398.3	1319	8.6	465	3.0	679	4.4	6
BOS	4.3	664	154	3.52	1397.3	1348	8.8	387	2.5	531	3.4	8
Totals	3.8	4716	1232	3.04	11197.3	10230	8.3	3217	2.6	5025	4.1	136
Average		590	154		1400	1279		402		628		17

League Miscellaneous Stats     Help
Team	ExpW	ExpL	Diff	AS	aAS	BAW	PAW	RAW	FAW	PRF	PHrF	Attendance		Manager
BOS	54	100	3	0	0	0	1	1	4	1.04	1.54	1,475,744		Shashank Misra
CHA	96	58	-2	0	0	0	0	2	14	0.88	0.48	1,853,904		Carl Mitchell
CLE	73	81	6	0	0	3	3	1	7	1.01	0.88	1,832,215		Mark Kossoff
DET	86	68	-1	0	0	1	0	1	5	1.00	0.52	1,324,398		Rodney McBride
NYA	65	89	-2	0	0	0	0	1	2	0.98	0.89	1,653,313		Charles Box
PHA	79	75	-3	0	0	2	1	0	6	1.01	1.00	1,638,308		Mark Goercke
SLA	78	76	2	0	0	0	2	0	12	1.04	0.63	2,018,474		Rich Hale
WS1	82	72	0	0	0	1	0	1	8	1.05	2.51	1,769,425		Randy Lawrence

League Win Shares     Help
Team	Total	Offensive	Pitching	Fielding	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	OF
CHA	282	153.08	84.69	44.20	8.82	2.74	6.31	5.64	10.60	10.10
DET	255	127.49	86.70	40.78	6.67	0.84	5.71	4.06	8.28	15.24
WS1	246	119.97	86.95	39.06	11.09	4.19	2.25	5.99	4.11	11.44
SLA	240	102.62	92.98	44.37	3.05	2.84	3.62	6.48	8.38	20.01
CLE	237	103.90	90.64	42.42	10.43	2.89	5.38	6.06	8.06	9.63
PHA	228	115.98	77.26	34.74	7.73	3.38	4.17	4.56	4.84	10.07
NYA	189	92.56	63.53	32.88	5.40	1.96	4.89	5.83	7.03	7.78
BOS	171	66.75	68.03	36.19	5.97	2.99	7.13	7.24	4.38	8.49

League Award Winners
Silver Slugger Award:	Tris Speaker	WS1	.300, 6 HR, 72 RBI
Cy Young Award:	George Merritt	PHA	25-13, 2.29, 358.0 IP, 147 K
Rookie of the Year Award:	Larry Doyle	CHA	.287, 2 HR, 77 RBI
Gold Glove Award Winners
P	Ralph Glaze	CHA	.986, 24 PO, 45 A, 1 E
C	Joe Connor	CLE	.958, 453 PO, 90 A, 24 E 33.9% (74-218) Runners Thrown Out
1B	Frank Laporte	BOS	.980, 1696 PO, 130 A, 38 E
2B	Mike McCormick	BOS	.983, 318 PO, 550 A, 15 E
3B	Frank Baker	PHA	.931, 73 PO, 331 A, 30 E
SS	Joe Tinker	CHA	.955, 232 PO, 580 A, 38 E
LF	Jimmy Sheckard	DET	.928, 266 PO, 5 A, 21 E
CF	Harry Lumley	NYA	.948, 337 PO, 10 A, 19 E
RF	Chief Wilson	SLA	.973, 250 PO, 4 A, 7 E

League Batting Leaderboards     Help

(*) indicates hit-less at-bats added to meet minimum plate appearances requirement.

Batting Average Waldron CLE .308* Laporte BOS .306 Speaker WS1 .300 Evers DET .300 Collins WS1 .298	On-Base Pct Speaker WS1 .394 Barrett CHA .390 Evers DET .380 Collins WS1 .380 Hinchman CLE .366	Slugging Pct Speaker WS1 .416 Lumley NYA .413 Laporte BOS .399 Wilson SLA .390 Collins WS1 .384	OPS Speaker WS1 .810 Collins WS1 .764 Laporte BOS .754 Evers DET .753 Wilson SLA .750
XR Speaker WS1 89.5 Barrett CHA 87.3 Sheckard DET 85.7 Collins WS1 85.4 Hinchman CLE 82.5	Games Huggins DET 153 Cree WS1 152 Speaker WS1 152 Evers DET 151 Hickman WS1 150	At-Bats Sheckard DET 604 Hickman WS1 603 Donahue SLA 580 Evers DET 574 Doyle CHA 571	Runs Barrett CHA 109 Collins WS1 92 Doyle CHA 92 Elberfeld WS1 91 Huggins DET 91
Hits Sheckard DET 176 Evers DET 172 Laporte BOS 170 Doolan PHA 168 Speaker WS1 168	Total Bases Lumley NYA 235 Speaker WS1 233 Sheckard DET 231 Hickman WS1 228 Laporte BOS 222	Singles Donahue SLA 144 Conroy NYA 142 Fultz PHA 142 Burch CLE 140 Evers DET 140	Doubles Hickman WS1 39 Speaker WS1 33 Lajoie CLE 32 Lumley NYA 29 Sheckard DET 29
Triples Lumley NYA 22 Stahl NYA 17 Sheckard DET 13 Barrett CHA 11 Elberfeld WS1 11	Homeruns Cree WS1 6 Speaker WS1 6 Degroff DET 5 Ellis WS1 5 Hickman WS1 5	RBIs Hickman WS1 111 Krueger CHA 94 Evers DET 90 Laporte BOS 79 Doyle CHA 77	Stolen Bases Barrett CHA 91 Hinchman CLE 69 Huggins DET 69 Dougherty CLE 67 Sheckard DET 63
Caught Stealing Bay CHA 37 Tinker CHA 28 Doyle CHA 27 Barrett CHA 23 Wilson SLA 23	Walks Barrett CHA 86 Speaker WS1 85 Huggins DET 78 Sweeney NYA 77 Collins WS1 76	Strikeouts Carr SLA 104 Dougherty CLE 96 Bescher BOS 92 Wilson SLA 83 Cree WS1 78

League Pitching Leaderboards     Help

ERA Reulbach DET 2.01 Merritt PHA 2.29 Hall PHA 2.36 Harvey CHA 2.38 Iburg WS1 2.39	Wins Merritt PHA 25 Caldwell SLA 24 Bender NYA 22 White DET 22 Reulbach DET 20	Losses Burchell NYA 22 Dygert SLA 22 Bender NYA 18 Brady WS1 17 Camnitz NYA 17	Winning Pct Harvey CHA .739 White DET .667 Merritt PHA .658 Dowling CHA .654 Caldwell SLA .649
Saves Robitaille WS1 24 Curran CHA 23 Fisher DET 12 Willis SLA 9 Applegate CHA 7	Games Pitched Curran CHA 77 Applegate CHA 62 Sitton WS1 46 High BOS 43 Bender NYA 42	Games Started Bender NYA 42 Caldwell SLA 42 Burchell NYA 41 Merritt PHA 41 Dygert SLA 40	Complete Games Merritt PHA 34 Bender NYA 33 Burchell NYA 30 Caldwell SLA 30 Dygert SLA 29
Shutouts Caldwell SLA 10 Reulbach DET 6 Shields CLE 6 Merritt PHA 5 Cunningham BOS 4	Innings Pitched Caldwell SLA 362.3 Bender NYA 361.7 Merritt PHA 358.0 Burchell NYA 354.3 White DET 340.0	Hits Allowed Bender NYA 361 Burchell NYA 328 Merritt PHA 313 Brady WS1 308 Shields CLE 302	Homeruns Allowed Cunningham BOS 9 Burchell NYA 8 Kisinger CLE 8 Hahn BOS 7 Phillippe CLE 7
Strikeouts Caldwell SLA 224 White DET 213 Reulbach DET 209 Myers NYA 179 Shields CLE 168	Walks Allowed Dygert SLA 155 Myers NYA 118 White DET 99 Rucker PHA 96 Dorner CLE 95	Walks per 9IP McGeehan CLE 1.1 Shields CLE 1.2 Brady WS1 1.4 Merritt PHA 1.4 West WS1 1.6	Hits per 9IP Myers NYA 6.1 Groom CHA 6.7 Reulbach DET 7.0 Caldwell SLA 7.3 Dorner CLE 7.4
Strikeouts per 9IP Myers NYA 8.3 Reulbach DET 6.1 Groom CHA 5.9 Owen DET 5.7 White DET 5.6	WHiP McGeehan CLE 0.97 Caldwell SLA 1.02 Merritt PHA 1.03 Reulbach DET 1.03 West WS1 1.04	OAVG Myers NYA .191 Groom CHA .206 Reulbach DET .213 Caldwell SLA .219 Owen DET .220	OOBP McGeehan CLE .265 Shields CLE .270 Caldwell SLA .270 Reulbach DET .271 Merritt PHA .273
OSLG Reulbach DET .239 Myers NYA .259 Dowling CHA .262 Groom CHA .264 Owen DET .270	OOPS Reulbach DET .510 Owen DET .547 Merritt PHA .550 Groom CHA .553 Caldwell SLA .557

League All-Stars

No All-Stars selected

League Top Salaries
Rank	Name	Team	Salary
1.	Jimmy Sheckard	DET	$ 19,200,000
2.	Nap Lajoie	CLE	$ 15,009,000
3.	Tom Walker	SLA	$ 11,000,000
4.	Doc Nance	SLA	$ 9,557,001
5.	Doc White	DET	$ 9,500,000
6.	Emmet Heidrick	PHA	$ 9,049,600
7.	Bill Friel	SLA	$ 9,000,000
8.	Danny Green	PHA	$ 8,950,000
9.	Pop Foster	PHA	$ 8,900,000
10.	Patsy Dougherty	CLE	$ 8,850,000
11.	George Bone	SLA	$ 8,000,000
12.	Joe Tinker	CHA	$ 7,000,000
13.	George Merritt	PHA	$ 6,950,000
14.	Jim Delahanty	PHA	$ 6,450,000
15.	Bill Coughlin	DET	$ 6,400,000
16.	Otto Krueger	CHA	$ 6,300,000
17.	Dave Fultz	PHA	$ 6,175,000
18.	Otto Hess	SLA	$ 6,000,000
19.	Jimmy Barrett	CHA	$ 5,500,000
	Freddy Parent	SLA	$ 5,500,000
	Jim Jackson	CHA	$ 5,500,000
22.	Miller Huggins	DET	$ 5,470,000
23.	Charlie Shields	CLE	$ 5,210,000
24.	Charlie Hickman	WS1	$ 5,200,000
25.	John Terry	BOS	$ 5,111,111

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