YEAR IN REVIEW : 1910 National League

Off the field...

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.

In the American League...

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.

In the National League...

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]

Around the League...

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.

Baseball Almanac Top Quote

"I like it (baseball) for two reasons. First, because I enjoy it myself and second, because if by the presence of the temporary first magistrate such a healthy amusement can be encouraged, I want to encourage it." - President Taft

1910 National League Player Review

1909 | 1910 Hitting Statistics League Leaders | 1911

Base on Balls Miller Huggins St. Louis 116 Top 25
Batting Average Sherry Magee Philadelphia .331 Top 25
Doubles Bobby Byrne Pittsburgh 43 Top 25
Hits Bobby Byrne Pittsburgh 178 Top 25
Honus Wagner Pittsburgh
Home Runs Fred Beck Boston 10 Top 25
Frank Schulte Chicago
On Base Percentage Sherry Magee Philadelphia .445 Top 25
RBI Sherry Magee Philadelphia 123 Top 25
Runs Sherry Magee Philadelphia 110 Top 25
Slugging Average Sherry Magee Philadelphia .507 Top 25
Stolen Bases Bob Bescher Cincinnati 70 Top 25
Total Bases Sherry Magee Philadelphia 263 Top 25
Triples Mike Mitchell Cincinnati 18 Top 25
1910 A.L. | N.L. Retirements | N.L. Rookies | Year-by-Year

1910 National League Pitcher Review

1909 | 1910 Pitching Statistics League Leaders | 1911

Complete Games Mordecai Brown Chicago 27 Top 25
Christy Mathewson New York
Nap Rucker Brooklyn
ERA King Cole Chicago 1.80 Top 25
Games Al Mattern Boston 51 Top 25
Saves Mordecai Brown Chicago 7 Top 25
Harry Gaspar Cincinnati
Shutouts Mordecai Brown Chicago 6 Top 25
Al Mattern Boston
Earl Moore Philadelphia
Nap Rucker Brooklyn
Strikeouts Earl Moore Philadelphia 185 Top 25
Winning Percentage King Cole Chicago .833 Top 25
Wins Christy Mathewson New York 27 Top 25
1910 A.L. | N.L. Retirements | N.L. Rookies | Year-by-Year

1910 National League Standings

Team Standings | 1910 World Series

Chicago Cubs 104 50 .675 0
New York Giants 91 63 .591 13
Pittsburgh Pirates 86 67 .562 17½
Philadelphia Phillies 78 75 .510 25½
Cincinnati Reds 75 79 .487 29
Brooklyn Superbas 64 90 .416 40
St. Louis Cardinals 63 90 .412 40½
Boston Doves 53 100 .346 50½
1910 National League Team Standings

1910 National League Team Review

Hitting Statistics League Leaderboard

Base on Balls St. Louis 655
Batting Average New York .275
Doubles Philadelphia 223
Hits New York 1,391
Home Runs Chicago 34
On Base Percentage New York .354
Runs New York 715
Slugging Average Chicago .366
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Stolen Bases Cincinnati 310
Triples Chicago 84

1910 National League Team Review

Pitching Statistics League Leaderboard

Complete Games Brooklyn 103
ERA Chicago 2.51
Fewest Hits Allowed Chicago 1,171
Fewest Home Runs Allowed Brooklyn 17
Fewest Walks Allowed Pittsburgh 392
Saves St. Louis 14
Shutouts Chicago 25
Strikeouts New York 717
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baseball almanac fast facts

Jack Dalton, a .227 hitter in 1910, had five consecutive hits against Christy Mathewson (one of the greatest pitchers in baseball history) during the same game, on June 21, 1910.

On June 28, 1910, Joe Tinker stole home twice in the same game — a first in major league history — during a 11-1 Wrigley Field victory over the visiting Cincinnati Reds. Mordecai Brown was the winning Cubs pitcher.

Did you know that on October 20, 1910, Frank Chance of the Chicago Cubs became the first National League manager ejected from a World Series game.