1913 Philadelphia Athletics season

The 1913 Philadelphia Athletics season involved the A's finishing first in the American League with a record of 96 wins and 57 losses. The team then defeated the New York Giants in the 1913 World Series, 4 games to 1. In 2001, baseball historian Bill James ranked the 1913 incarnation of the Athletics' famous "$100,000 infield" as the best of all time in major league history (first baseman Stuffy McInnis, second baseman Eddie Collins, third baseman Frank "Home Run" Baker, shortstop Jack Barry).[1]

1913 Philadelphia Athletics
1913 World Series Champions
1913 American League Champions
Major League affiliations
Location
Other information
Owner(s)Connie Mack, Benjamin Shibe, Tom Shibe and John Shibe
Manager(s)Connie Mack
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1913 Fatima baseball card of Philadelphia Athletics

Regular season

Season standings
American League W L Pct. GB Home Road
Philadelphia Athletics 9657 0.627 — 50–26 46–31
Washington Senators 9064 0.584 6½ 42–35 48–29
Cleveland Naps 8666 0.566 9½ 45–32 41–34
Boston Red Sox 7971 0.527 15½ 41–34 38–37
Chicago White Sox 7874 0.513 17½ 40–37 38–37
Detroit Tigers 6687 0.431 30 34–42 32–45
New York Yankees 5794 0.377 38 27–47 30–47
St. Louis Browns 5796 0.373 39 31–46 26–50

Record vs. opponents
1913 American League Records

Sources:
Team BOS CWS CLE DET NYY PHI STL WSH
Boston —10–118–1313–914–6–111–1117–56–16
Chicago 11–10—9–13–113–911–1011–1112–1011–11
Cleveland 13–813–9–1—14–714–8–19–1316–6–17–15
Detroit 9–139–137–14—11–117–1511–1112–10
New York 6–14–110–118–14–111–11—5–1711–116–16
Philadelphia 11–1111–1113–915–717–5—15–614–8
St. Louis 5–1710–126–16–111–1111–116–15—8–14–1
Washington 16–611–1115–710–1216–68–1414–8–1—

Roster
1913 Philadelphia Athletics
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

 Outfielders
  • Danny Murphy
 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
CJack Lapp8223854.227120
1BStuffy McInnis148543176.324490
2BEddie Collins148534184.345373
3BFrank Baker149564190.33712117
SSJack Barry134455125.275385
OFRube Oldring137538152.283571
OFEddie Murphy137508150.295130
OFJimmy Walsh9730377.254027

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
Amos Strunk9429289.305046
Wally Schang7920755.266330
Tom Daley6214136.255011
Billy Orr306713.19407
Danny Murphy405919.32206
Ira Thomas225315.28306
Harry Davis7176.35304
Press Cruthers3123.25000
Harry Fritz5130.00000
Doc Lavan5141.07101
George Brickley5122.16700
Wickey McAvoy491.11100
Monte Pfeffer130.00000
Joe Giebel131.33300

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
Eddie Plank41242.218102.60151
Boardwalk Brown43235.117112.9470
Bob Shawkey18111.1652.3452
Charlie Boardman29022.004
Pat Bohen18011.135
Jack Coombs25.10010.130

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
Chief Bender48236.221102.21135
John Taff717.2016.629
Ensign Cottrell210105.403

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
Bullet Joe Bush3915633.8281
Byron Houck4114604.1471
Weldon Wyckoff172404.3831
Herb Pennock142105.1317
Dave Morey20004.501

1913 World Series
Main article: 1913 World Series
The World Series team

AL Philadelphia Athletics (4) vs. NL New York Giants (1)

GameScoreDateLocationAttendance
1Athletics – 6, Giants – 4,October 7Polo Grounds36,291
2Giants – 3, Athletics – 0 (10 innings)October 8Shibe Park20,563
3Athletics – 8, Giants – 2October 9Polo Grounds36,896
4Giants – 5, Athletics – 6October 10Shibe Park20,568
5Athletics – 3, Giants – 1October 11Polo Grounds36,682

References
  1. Bill James, "The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract" (2001), pp. 548–550


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