1920 Chicago White Sox season

1920 Chicago White Sox
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Owner(s) Charles Comiskey
Manager(s) Kid Gleason
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The 1920 Chicago White Sox season was a season in American baseball. The team was in contention to defend their American League pennant going into the final week of the season. However, for all intents and purposes, the season ended on September 26, when news of the Black Sox Scandal became public. Owner Charles Comiskey suspended the five players who were still active (the sixth, ringleader Chick Gandil, opted to retire after the 1919 season).[1] At that time, the White Sox were only a half-game behind the Cleveland Indians, but went 2–2 over their last four games to finish two games out. They would not finish in the first division again until 1936.[2]

Regular season

Shoeless Joe Jackson finished third in AL batting average, and Eddie Collins was fifth. Along with the St. Louis Browns, the team was the first in major league history to have three players with at least 200 hits each: Jackson, Collins, and Buck Weaver.[3]

Season standings

American League W L Pct. GB Home Road
Cleveland Indians 9856 0.636 — 51–27 47–29
Chicago White Sox 9658 0.623 2 52–25 44–33
New York Yankees 9559 0.617 3 49–28 46–31
St. Louis Browns 7677 0.497 21½ 40–38 36–39
Boston Red Sox 7281 0.471 25½ 41–35 31–46
Washington Senators 6884 0.447 29 37–38 31–46
Detroit Tigers 6193 0.396 37 32–46 29–47
Philadelphia Athletics 48106 0.312 50 25–50 23–56

Record vs. opponents

1920 American League Records

Sources:
Team BOS CWS CLE DET NYY PHI STL WSH
Boston —12–106–1613–99–1313–9–19–1310–11
Chicago 10–12—10–1219–310–1216–614–817–5
Cleveland 16–612–10—15–79–1316–615–715–7
Detroit 9–133–197–15—7–1512–10–110–1213–9
New York 13–912–1013–915–7—19–312–1011–11
Philadelphia 9–13–16–166–1610–12–13–19—8–146–16
St. Louis 13–98–147–1512–1010–1214–8—12–9–1
Washington 11–105–177–159–1311–1116–69–12–1—

Roster

1920 Chicago White Sox
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
CRay Schalk151485131.270161
1BShano Collins133495150.303163
2BEddie Collins153602224.372376
3BBuck Weaver151629208.331275
SSSwede Risberg126458122.266265
LFJoe Jackson146570218.38212121
CFHappy Felsch142556188.33814115
RFNemo Leibold10841391.220128

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
Fred McMullin4612725.197013
Eddie Murphy5811840.339019

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
Red Faber4031923132.99108
Eddie Cicotte37303.121103.2687
Lefty Williams3929922143.91128

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
Dickey Kerr45253.22193.3772
Roy Wilkinson34145794.0330
Shovel Hodge419.2112.295
Joe Kiefer24.20115.431

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
George Payne121105.467
Spencer Heath400015.430

League leaders

Happy Felsch

  • #4 in AL in home runs (14)

Shoeless Joe Jackson

  • #3 in AL in batting average (.382)
  • #3 in AL in slugging percentage (.589)
  • #4 in AL in runs batted in (121)
  • #4 in AL in on-base percentage (.444)

Lefty Williams

  • #2 in AL in strikeouts (128)

Notes

  1. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/sports/year_in_sports/09.28a.html
  2. ↑ Chicago White Sox Team History & Encyclopedia
  3. ↑ "Letters to the Editor". Baseball Digest. 60 (3): 11. March 2001.

References

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