1907 American League

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The 1907 season of the American League was the seventh 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	Detroit Tigers	153	92	58	3	.601	-.-	694 (4.54)	532 (3.48)	0.266	0.308	0.335	2.33	0.958
2	Philadelphia Athletics	150	88	57	5	.587	1.5	582 (3.88)	511 (3.41)	0.254	0.307	0.329	2.35	0.958
3	Chicago White Sox	157	87	64	6	.554	5.5	588 (3.75)	474 (3.02)	0.238	0.296	0.283	2.22	0.966
4	Cleveland Naps	158	85	67	6	.538	8.0	530 (3.35)	525 (3.32)	0.241	0.288	0.310	2.26	0.960
5	New York Highlanders	152	70	78	4	.461	21.0	605 (3.98)	665 (4.38)	0.249	0.292	0.315	3.03	0.947
6	St. Louis Browns	155	69	83	3	.445	24.0	542 (3.50)	555 (3.58)	0.253	0.303	0.313	2.61	0.959
7	Boston Red Sox	155	59	90	6	.381	32.5	464 (2.99)	558 (3.60)	0.234	0.276	0.292	2.45	0.959
8	Washington Senators	154	49	102	3	.318	43.5	506 (3.29)	691 (4.49)	0.243	0.297	0.299	3.11	0.951

League leaders

Bold indicates league record, Italics indicate all-time record

Batting

Statistic	Leader	Team	Number
Games Played	Jiggs Donahue	Chicago White Sox	157
At Bats	Jiggs Donahue	Chicago White Sox	609
Runs Scored	Sam Crawford	Detroit Tigers	102
Hits	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	212
Doubles	Harry Davis	Philadelphia Athletics	35
Triples	Elmer Flick	Cleveland Naps	18
Home Runs	Harry Davis	Philadelphia Athletics	8
Total Bases	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	283
Runs Batted In	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	119
Stolen Bases	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	49
Walks	Topsy Hartsel	Philadelphia Athletics	106
Hit by Pitch	Bill Hinchman	Cleveland Naps	15
Sacrifice Hits	Bill Bradley	Cleveland Naps	46
Batting Average	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	0.350
On-Base Percentage	Topsy Hartsel	Philadelphia Athletics	0.405
Slugging Percentage	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	0.468
On-Base plus Slugging	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	0.848
On-Base plus Slugging Plus	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	166

Pitching

Statistic	Leader	Team	Number
Wins	Addie Joss Doc White	Cleveland Naps Chicago White Sox	27
Losses	Al Orth Barney Pelty	New York Highlanders St. Louis Browns	21
Win-Loss Percentage	Bill Donovan	Detroit Tigers	0.862
Appearances	Ed Walsh	Chicago White Sox	56
Games Started	Ed Walsh	Chicago White Sox	46
Complete Games	Ed Walsh	Chicago White Sox	37
Shutouts	Eddie Plank	Philadelphia Athletics	8
Games Finished	Tex Pruiett	Boston Red Sox	15
Saves	Bill Dineen Tom Hughes Ed Walsh	Boston Red Sox/St. Louis Browns Washington Senators Chicago White Sox	4
Innings Pitched	Ed Walsh	Chicago White Sox	422.1
Batters Faced	Ed Walsh	Chicago White Sox	1663
Hits Allowed	George Mullin	Detroit Tigers	346
Home Runs Allowed	Bill Dineen	Boston Red Sox/St. Louis Browns	8
Base-on-Balls Allowed	Frank Smith	Chicago White Sox	111
Hit Batsmen	Barney Pelty	St. Louis Browns	19
Strikeouts	Rube Waddell	Philadelphia Athletics	232
Wild Pitches	Bob Rhoads Ed Walsh	Cleveland Naps Chicago White Sox	14
Balks	Tex Pruiett	Boston Red Sox	2
Runs Allowed	George Mullin	Detroit Tigers	153
Earned Runs Allowed	George Mullin	Detroit Tigers	103
Earned Run Average	Ed Walsh	Chicago White Sox	1.60
Walks plus Hits per Inning Pitched	Cy Young	Boston Red Sox	0.982

Postseason

In the World Series, the American League champion Detroit Tigers were defeated by the National League's Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 0with one tie.

Umpires

• Nick Altrock*
• Chief Bender*
• Bill Bernhard*
• Cliff Blankenship*
• Tom Brown
• Tom Connolly
• Bill Dinneen*
• Rip Egan
• Billy Evans
• Charlie Hickman*
• Harry Howell*
• Tim Hurst
• Pete O'Brien*
• Silk O'Loughlin
• Boss Schmidt*
• Jack Sheridan
• Jack Stafford

* Denotes a fill-in umpire

Further Reading

• Tom Ruane: "A Retro-Review of the 1900s (the 1907 edition)", Retrosheet.org [1]