1909 Chicago Cubs season

1909 Chicago Cubs
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Owner(s) Charles Murphy
Manager(s) Frank Chance
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The 1909 Chicago Cubs season was the 38th season of the Chicago Cubs franchise, the 34th in the National League and the 17th at West Side Park. The Cubs won 104 games but finished second in the National League, 6½ games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Cubs had won the pennant the previous three years and would win it again in 1910. Of their 104 victories, 97 were wins for a Cubs starting pitcher; this was the most wins in a season by the starting staff of any major league team from 1908 to the present day.[1]

The legendary infield of Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, Frank Chance, and Harry Steinfeldt was still intact, but it was the pitching staff that excelled. The Cubs pitchers had a collective earned run average of 1.75, a microscopic figure even for the dead-ball era. Three Finger Brown was one of the top two pitchers in the league (with Christy Mathewson) again, going 27–9 with a 1.31 ERA.

Offseason

Regular season

Season standings

National League W L Pct. GB Home Road
Pittsburgh Pirates 11042 0.724 — 56–21 54–21
Chicago Cubs 10449 0.680 6½ 47–29 57–20
New York Giants 9261 0.601 18½ 44–33 48–28
Cincinnati Reds 7776 0.503 33½ 39–38 38–38
Philadelphia Phillies 7479 0.484 36½ 40–37 34–42
Brooklyn Superbas 5598 0.359 55½ 34–45 21–53
St. Louis Cardinals 5498 0.355 56 26–48 28–50
Boston Doves 45108 0.294 65½ 27–47 18–61

Record vs. opponents

1909 National League Records

Sources:
Team BOS BR CHC CIN NYG PHI PIT STL
Boston —11–111–215–178–14–210–121–209–13
Brooklyn 11–11—5–165–17–17–1511–114–1812–10–1
Chicago 21–116–5—16–611–11–116–69–1315–7–1
Cincinnati 17–517–5–16–16—9–13–19–12–17–15–112–10
New York 14–8–215–711–11–113–9–1—12–1011–11–116–5
Philadelphia 12–1011–116–1612–9–110–12—7–1516–6
Pittsburgh 20–118–413–915–7–111–11–115–7—18–3
St. Louis 13–910–12–17–15–110–125–166–163–18—

Roster

1909 Chicago Cubs
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

 Outfielders Manager

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
1BFrank Chance9332488.272046
2BJohnny Evers127463122.263124
SSJoe Tinker143516132.256457

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
Heinie Zimmerman6518350.273021
Joe Stanley22527.13502

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Mordecai Brown50342.22791.31172
Orval Overall3828520111.42205
Ed Reulbach35262.219101.78105
Ray Brown19102.002
King Cole19100.001
Andy Coakley120118.001

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Rip Hagerman1379441.8232

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G W L SV ERA SO

Awards and honors

League top five finishers

Mordecai Brown

  • NL leader in wins (27)
  • #2 in NL in ERA (1.31)
  • #4 in NL in strikeouts (172)

Orval Overall

  • MLB leader in strikeouts (205)
  • #3 in NL in ERA (1.42)

Notes

  1. ↑ "Pitching Game Finder: From 1908 to 2018, Pitcher Won, as Starter, sorted by greatest Performances matching selected criteria by a Team". Baseball Reference. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  2. ↑ Doc Marshall page at Baseball Reference

References


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