The Boy Scouts of America was introduced inviting boys eleven to seventeen years old an opportunity to join an organization dedicated to improving mental, moral, and physical development while stressing outdoor skills and training in citizenship and lifesaving. Originally, the movement was intended to be nonmilitary and without racial, religious, political, or class distinctions, but the Supreme Court affirmed the organization's right to limit membership to those who believe in God in 1993.
The "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People" was founded in New York, in November. The N.A.A.C.P. originally published an underground journal called "The Crisis," and was at the forefront of all the attempts by Blacks to achieve equality. For more than ninety-three years, the NAACP has continued include people of all races, nationalities and religious denominations, while remaining united on one premise, that all men and women are created equal.
Cleveland Indians ace Cy Young won his five-hundredth game on July 19th after beating the Washington Senators 5-4 at American League Park II.
Washington Senators second baseman Red Killefer set a Major League mark on August 27th after sacrificing four times in the first game of a Detroit Tigers doubleheader.
Eddie Collins of the Philadelphia Athletics set an American League record after stealing his eighty-first base of the season, on October 4, 1910, during an 8-1 victory over the visiting Boston Red Sox.
The Braves and Phillies combined on April 22nd for a Major League record fewest at bats by two teams in nine innings: forty-eight (twenty-five for Boston, twenty-three for Philadelphia). The record was tied the following season, but remained unbeaten until 1964.
On August 13th, the Pittsburgh Pirates and Brooklyn Dodgers played in perhaps, the most evenly matched game ever. Both teams finished the 8-8 tie (called on darkness) with exactly eight runs, thirteen hits, thirty-eight at bats, five strikeouts, three walks, one hit batter, one passed ball, thirteen assists, twenty-seven putouts and two errors with two pitchers used. [Box Score]
William Howard Taft became the first U.S. president to throw out the ceremonial "first pitch" after he opened the 1910 season at Washington's League Park. The Senators' Walter Johnson christened the tradition by pitching a one-hitter, beating the Philadelphia Athletics and Eddie Plank 3-0.
Both leagues agreed to adopt a resolution that would ban syndicate baseball, which had previously allowed owners to have financial interests vested in more than one team. They also mandated that all umpires were to announce any team changes to the spectators; batting orders were to be delivered to the head umpire at home plate before the game and a base runner was to be called out if he passed another runner ahead of him on the base path.
"The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics." - President Taft
1910 American League Player Review |
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Statistic | Name(s) | Team(s) | # | Top 25 |
Base on Balls | Donie Bush | Detroit | 78 | Top 25 |
Batting Average * | Nap Lajoie | Detroit | .384 | Top 25 |
Doubles | Nap Lajoie | Cleveland | 51 | Top 25 |
Hits | Nap Lajoie | Cleveland | 227 | Top 25 |
Home Runs | Jake Stahl | Boston | 10 | Top 25 |
On Base Percentage | Ty Cobb | Detroit | .455 | Top 25 |
RBI | Sam Crawford | Detroit | 120 | Top 25 |
Runs | Ty Cobb | Detroit | 106 | Top 25 |
Slugging Average | Ty Cobb | Detroit | .549 | Top 25 |
Stolen Bases | Eddie Collins | Philadelphia | 81 | Top 25 |
Total Bases | Nap Lajoie | Cleveland | 304 | Top 25 |
Triples | Sam Crawford | Detroit | 19 | Top 25 |
Statistic | Name(s) | Team(s) | # | Top 25 |
1910 N.L. | A.L. Retirements | A.L. Rookies | Year-by-Year |
1910 American League Pitcher Review |
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Statistic | Name(s) | Team(s) | # | Top 25 |
Complete Games | Walter Johnson | Washington | 38 | Top 25 |
ERA | Ed Walsh | Chicago | 1.27 | Top 25 |
Games | Ed Walsh | Chicago | 45 | Top 25 |
Jack Coombs | Philadelphia | |||
Walter Johnson | Washington | |||
Saves | Ed Walsh | Chicago | 5 | Top 25 |
Shutouts | Jack Coombs | Philadelphia | 13 | Top 25 |
Strikeouts | Walter Johnson | Washington | 313 | Top 25 |
Winning Percentage | Chief Bender | Philadelphia | .821 | Top 25 |
Wins | Jack Coombs | Philadelphia | 31 | Top 25 |
Statistic | Name(s) | Team(s) | # | Top 25 |
1910 N.L. | A.L. Retirements | A.L. Rookies | Year-by-Year |
1910 American League StandingsTeam Standings | 1910 World Series |
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Team | Roster | W | L | WP | GB |
Philadelphia Athletics | 102 | 48 | .680 | 0 |
New York Highlanders | 88 | 63 | .583 | 14½ |
Detroit Tigers | 86 | 68 | .558 | 18 |
Boston Red Sox | 81 | 72 | .529 | 22½ |
Cleveland Naps | 71 | 81 | .467 | 32 |
Chicago White Sox | 68 | 85 | .444 | 35½ |
Washington Senators | 66 | 85 | .437 | 36½ |
St. Louis Browns | 47 | 107 | .305 | 57 |
Team | Roster | W | L | WP | GB |
1910 American League Team Standings |
1910 American League Team ReviewHitting Statistics League Leaderboard |
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Statistic | Team | # |
Base on Balls | New York | 464 |
Batting Average | Philadelphia | .266 |
Doubles | Philadelphia | 191 |
Hits | Philadelphia | 1,373 |
Home Runs | Boston | 43 |
On Base Percentage | Detroit | .329 |
Runs | Detroit | 679 |
Slugging Average | Philadelphia | .355 |
Stolen Bases | New York | 288 |
Triples | Philadelphia | 105 |
Statistic | Team | # |
1910 American League Team ReviewPitching Statistics League Leaderboard |
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Statistic | Team | # |
Complete Games | Philadelphia | 123 |
ERA | Philadelphia | 1.79 |
Fewest Hits Allowed | Philadelphia | 1,103 |
Fewest Home Runs Allowed | Philadelphia | 8 |
Fewest Walks Allowed | New York | 364 |
Saves | New York | 8 |
Shutouts | Philadelphia | 24 |
Strikeouts | Philadelphia | 789 |
Statistic | Team | # |
On July 19, 1910, Cy Young of the Cleveland Naps, won 5-4 versus the Washington Senators and recorded victory number five-hundred — the first and only pitcher in baseball history to reach that incredible plateau! [Career Leaders for Wins]
* Ty Cobb stayed out of the lineup on October 9, 1910, preserving his .382 (.38189) batting average. Nap Lajoie, who was playing in St. Louis, went eight (8) for eight (8) in a doubleheader where six (6) of his hits were bunt singles. He finished with a .384 (.38409) batting average and rumor has it that the Browns "gave" Lajoie the singles by playing too deep. Ban Johnson investigated and found no wrong doing; however, Major League Baseball recognizes Cobb as the official batting champion. The Chalmers Award (MVP) was given to both Cobb and Lajoie in 1910.
Did you know that Chief Bender came within one walk of a perfect game on May 12, 1910? When the season came to an end, Bender was a first-time member of the twenty wins club; winning twenty-three games, losing five, and a sparkling 1.58 ERA.