1907 National League

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The 1907 season of the National League was the thirty-second 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	Chicago Cubs	155	107	45	3	.690	-.-	574 (3.70)	390 (2.52)	0.250	0.311	0.311	1.73	0.967
2	Pittsburgh Pirates	157	91	63	3	.580	17.0	634 (4.04)	510 (3.25)	0.254	0.319	0.324	2.30	0.959
3	Philadelphia Phillies	149	83	64	2	.557	21.5	512 (3.44)	476 (3.19)	0.236	0.299	0.305	2.43	0.957
4	New York Giants	155	82	71	2	.529	25.5	574 (3.70)	510 (3.29)	0.251	0.322	0.317	2.45	0.963
5	Brooklyn Superbas	153	65	83	5	.425	40.0	446 (2.92)	522 (3.41)	0.232	0.281	0.298	2.38	0.959
6	Cincinnati Reds	156	66	87	3	.423	41.5	526 (3.37)	519 (3.33)	0.247	0.299	0.318	2.41	0.963
7	Boston Doves	152	58	90	4	.382	47.0	502 (3.30)	652 (4.29)	0.243	0.301	0.309	3.33	0.961
8	St. Louis Cardinals	155	52	101	2	.335	55.5	419 (2.70)	608 (3.92)	0.232	0.277	0.288	2.70	0.947

League leaders

Bold indicates league record, Italics indicate all-time record

Batting

Statistic	Leader	Team	Number
Games Played	Miller Huggins	Cincinnati Reds	156
At Bats	Spike Shannon	New York Giants	585
Runs Scored	Spike Shannon	New York Giants	104
Hits	Ginger Beaumont	Boston Doves	187
Doubles	Honus Wagner	Pittsburgh Pirates	38
Triples	Whitey Alperman John Ganzel	Brooklyn Superbas Cincinnati Reds	16
Home Runs	Dave Brain	Boston Doves	10
Total Bases	Honus Wagner	Pittsburgh Pirates	264
Runs Batted In	Sherry Magee	Philadelphia Phillies	85
Stolen Bases	Honus Wagner	Pittsburgh Pirates	61
Walks	Miller Huggins Roy Thomas	Cincinnati Reds Philadelphia Phillies	83
Hit by Pitch	Art Devlin	New York Giants	15
Sacrifice Hits	Otto Knabe	Philadelphia Phillies	40
Batting Average	Honus Wagner	Pittsburgh Pirates	0.350
On-Base Percentage	Honus Wagner	Pittsburgh Pirates	0.408
Slugging Percentage	Honus Wagner	Pittsburgh Pirates	0.513
On-Base plus Slugging	Honus Wagner	Pittsburgh Pirates	0.921
On-Base plus Slugging Plus	Honus Wagner	Pittsburgh Pirates	187

Pitching

Statistic	Leader	Team	Number
Wins	Christy Mathewson	New York Giants	24
Losses	Stoney McGlynn	St. Louis Cardinals	25
Win-Loss Percentage	Ed Reulbach	Chicago Cubs	0.810
Appearances	Joe McGinnity	New York Giants	47
Games Started	Stoney McGlynn	St. Louis Cardinals	39
Complete Games	Stoney McGlynn	St. Louis Cardinals	33
Shutouts	Christy Mathewson Orval Overall	New York Giants Chicago Cubs	8
Games Finished	Joe McGinnity	New York Giants	11
Saves	Joe McGinnity	New York Giants	4
Innings Pitched	Stoney McGlynn	St. Louis Cardinals	352.1
Batters Faced	Stoney McGlynn	St. Louis Cardinals	1426
Hits Allowed	Stoney McGlynn	St. Louis Cardinals	329
Home Runs Allowed	Vive Lindaman	Boston Doves	10
Base-on-Balls Allowed	Stoney McGlynn	St. Louis Cardinals	112
Hit Batsmen	Jake Weimer	Cincinnati Reds	23
Strikeouts	Christy Mathewson	New York Giants	178
Wild Pitches	Red Ames	New York Giants	20
Balks	10 players tied		1
Runs Allowed	Stoney McGlynn	St. Louis Cardinals	159
Earned Runs Allowed	Stoney McGlynn	St. Louis Cardinals	114
Earned Run Average	Jack Pfiester	Chicago Cubs	1.15
Walks plus Hits per Inning Pitched	Mordecai Brown	Chicago Cubs	0.944

Postseason

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

Umpires

• Fred Beebe*
• Sam Brown*
• Bill Carpenter
• Bob Emslie
• Patsy Flaherty*
• Jim Johnstone
• Bill Klem
• Vive Lindaman*
• Christy Mathewson*
• Tom Needham*
• Pete Noonan*
• Hank O'Day
• Cy Rigler
• Frank Rudderham
• Elmer Stricklett*
• Jake Weimer*
• Irv Young*

* Denotes a fill-in umpire

Further Reading

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