1905 American League

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The 1905 season of the American League was the fifth season of the league.

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Standings

Bold indicates league champion, Italics indicates World Series champion

Rank	Team	G	W	L	T	WPCT	GB	RS (RS/G)	RA (RA/G)	AVG	OBP	SLG	ERA	FPCT
1	Philadelphia Athletics	152	92	56	4	.605	-.-	623 (4.10)	492 (3.24)	0.255	0.305	0.338	2.19	0.957
2	Chicago White Sox	158	92	60	6	.582	2.0	612 (3.87)	451 (2.85)	0.237	0.297	0.304	1.99	0.968
3	Detroit Tigers	154	79	74	1	.513	15.5	512 (3.32)	602 (3.91)	0.243	0.296	0.311	2.83	0.957
4	Boston Pilgrims	153	78	74	1	.510	16.0	579 (3.78)	564 (3.69)	0.234	0.301	0.311	2.84	0.953
5	Cleveland Naps	155	76	78	1	.490	19.0	567 (3.66)	587 (3.79)	0.255	0.294	0.334	2.85	0.963
6	New York Highlanders	152	71	78	3	.467	21.5	586 (3.86)	622 (4.09)	0.248	0.299	0.319	2.93	0.952
7	Washington Senators	154	64	87	3	.416	29.5	559 (3.63)	623 (4.05)	0.224	0.267	0.302	2.87	0.950
8	St. Louis Browns	156	54	99	3	.346	40.5	511 (3.28)	608 (3.90)	0.232	0.282	0.289	2.74	0.956

League leaders

Bold indicates league record, Italics indicate all-time record

Batting

Statistic	Leader	Team	Number
Games Played	Bobby Wallace	St. Louis Browns	156
At Bats	George Stone	St. Louis Browns	632
Runs Scored	Harry Davis	Philadelphia Athletics	93
Hits	George Stone	St. Louis Browns	187
Doubles	Harry Davis	Philadelphia Athletics	47
Triples	Elmer Flick	Cleveland Naps	18
Home Runs	Harry Davis	Philadelphia Athletics	8
Total Bases	George Stone	St. Louis Browns	259
Runs Batted In	Harry Davis	Philadelphia Athletics	83
Stolen Bases	Danny Hoffman	Philadelphia Athletics	46
Walks	Topsy Hartsel	Philadelphia Athletics	121
Hit by Pitch	Jake Stahl	Washington Senators	17
Sacrifice Hits	Willie Keeler	New York Highlanders	42
Batting Average	Elmer Flick	Cleveland Naps	0.308
On-Base Percentage	Topsy Hartsel	Philadelphia Athletics	0.409
Slugging Percentage	Elmer Flick	Cleveland Naps	0.462
On-Base plus Slugging	Elmer Flick	Cleveland Naps	0.845
On-Base plus Slugging Plus	Elmer Flick	Cleveland Naps	166

Pitching

Statistic	Leader	Team	Number
Wins	Rube Waddell	Philadelphia Athletics	27
Losses	Fred Glade	St. Louis Browns	25
Win-Loss Percentage	Rube Waddell	Philadelphia Athletics	0.730
Appearances	Rube Waddell	Philadelphia Athletics	46
Games Started	George Mullin Eddie Plank	Detroit Tigers Philadelphia Athletics	41
Complete Games	Harry Howell George Mullin Eddie Plank	St. Louis Browns Detroit Tigers Philadelphia Athletics	35
Shutouts	Ed Killian	Detroit Tigers	8
Games Finished	Clark Griffith	New York Highlanders	17
Saves	Jim Buchanan	St. Louis Browns	2
Innings Pitched	George Mullin	Detroit Tigers	347.2
Batters Faced	George Mullin	Detroit Tigers	1473
Hits Allowed	George Mullin	Detroit Tigers	303
Home Runs Allowed	Norwood Gibson	Boston Pilgrims	9
Base-on-Balls Allowed	George Mullin	Detroit Tigers	138
Hit Batsmen	Eddie Plank	Philadelphia Athletics	24
Strikeouts	Rube Waddell	Philadelphia Athletics	287
Wild Pitches	Otto Hess	Cleveland Naps	18
Balks	Andy Coakley Rube Waddell	Philadelphia Athletics Philadelphia Athletics	2
Runs Allowed	George Mullin	Detroit Tigers	149
Earned Runs Allowed	Case Patten	Washington Senators	108
Earned Run Average	Rube Waddell	Philadelphia Athletics	1.48
Walks plus Hits per Inning Pitched	Cy Young	Boston Pilgrims	0.867

Postseason

In the World Series, the American League champion Philadelphia Athletics were defeated by the National League's New York Giants, 4 games to 1.

Umpires

• Tom Connolly
• Tom Connor
• Tim Hurst
• Toss Kelly
• Malachi Kittridge*
• Bobby Lowe*
• Jack McCarthy
• Deacon McGuire*
• Silk O'Loughlin
• Jack Sheridan
• George Winter*

* Denotes a fill-in umpire

Further Reading

• Tom Ruane: "A Retro-Review of the 1900s (the 1905 edition)", Retrosheet.org [1]