1910 American League

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The 1910 season of the American League was the tenth 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	155	102	48	5	.658	-.-	673 (4.34)	441 (2.85)	0.266	0.320	0.355	1.79	0.965
2	New York Highlanders	156	88	63	5	.564	14.5	626 (4.01)	557 (3.57)	0.248	0.312	0.322	2.61	0.956
3	Detroit Tigers	155	86	68	1	.555	18.0	679 (4.38)	582 (3.75)	0.261	0.323	0.344	2.82	0.957
4	Boston Red Sox	158	81	72	5	.513	22.5	638 (4.04)	564 (3.57)	0.259	0.316	0.351	2.45	0.954
5	Cleveland Naps	161	71	81	9	.441	32.0	548 (3.40)	657 (4.08)	0.244	0.292	0.308	2.88	0.964
6	Chicago White Sox	156	68	85	3	.436	35.5	457 (2.93)	479 (3.07)	0.211	0.269	0.261	2.03	0.954
7	Washington Senators	157	66	85	6	.420	36.5	501 (3.19)	550 (3.50)	0.236	0.299	0.288	2.46	0.959
8	St. Louis Browns	158	47	107	4	.297	57.0	451 (2.85)	743 (4.70)	0.218	0.277	0.274	3.09	0.943

League leaders

Bold indicates league record, Italics indicate all-time record

Batting

Statistic	Leader	Team	Number
Games Played	Nap Lajoie	Cleveland Naps	159
At Bats	Nap Lajoie	Cleveland Naps	591
Runs Scored	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	106
Hits	Nap Lajoie	Cleveland Naps	227
Doubles	Nap Lajoie	Cleveland Naps	51
Triples	Sam Crawford	Detroit Tigers	19
Home Runs	Jake Stahl	Boston Red Sox	10
Total Bases	Nap Lajoie	Cleveland Naps	304
Runs Batted In	Sam Crawford	Detroit Tigers	120
Stolen Bases	Eddie Collins	Philadelphia Athletics	81
Walks	Donie Bush	Detroit Tigers	78
Hit by Pitch	Bert Daniels Doc Gessler Red Killefer	New York Highlanders Washington Senators Washington Senators	16
Sacrifice Hits	Harry Hooper	Boston Red Sox	34
Batting Average	Nap Lajoie	Cleveland Naps	0.384
On-Base Percentage	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	0.456
Slugging Percentage	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	0.551
On-Base plus Slugging	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	1.007
On-Base plus Slugging Plus	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	206

Pitching

Statistic	Leader	Team	Number
Wins	Jack Coombs	Philadelphia Athletics	31
Losses	Ed Walsh	Chicago White Sox	20
Win-Loss Percentage	Chief Bender	Philadelphia Athletics	0.821
Appearances	Jack Coombs Walter Johnson Ed Walsh	Philadelphia Athletics Washington Senators Chicago White Sox	45
Games Started	Walter Johnson	Washington Senators	42
Complete Games	Walter Johnson	Washington Senators	38
Shutouts	Jack Coombs	Philadelphia Athletics	13
Games Finished	Charley Hall Jim Scott	Boston Red Sox Chicago White Sox	17
Saves	Ed Walsh	Chicago White Sox	5
Innings Pitched	Walter Johnson	Washington Senators	370.0
Batters Faced	Walter Johnson	Washington Senators	1402
Hits Allowed	Walter Johnson	Washington Senators	262
Home Runs Allowed	Sailor Stroud	Detroit Tigers	9
Base-on-Balls Allowed	Cy Morgan	Philadelphia Athletics	117
Hit Batsmen	Cy Morgan Jack Warhop	Philadelphia Athletics New York Highlanders	18
Strikeouts	Walter Johnson	Washington Senators	313
Wild Pitches	Walter Johnson	Washington Senators	21
Balks	Ed Walsh	Chicago White Sox	2
Runs Allowed	Bill Bailey	St. Louis Browns	133
Earned Runs Allowed	George Mullin	Detroit Tigers	92
Earned Run Average	Ed Walsh	Chicago White Sox	1.27
Walks plus Hits per Inning Pitched	Ed Walsh	Chicago White Sox	0.820

Postseason

In the World Series, the American League champion Philadelphia Athletics defeated the National League's Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 1.

Umpires

• Harry Colliflower
• Tom Connolly
• Bill Dinneen
• Rip Egan
• Billy Evans
• Doc Kennedy*
• John Kerin
• Silk O'Loughlin
• Bull Perrine
• Jack Sheridan

* Denotes a fill-in umpire

Further Reading

• Rick Huhn: The Chalmers Race: Ty Cobb, Napoleon Lajoie, and the Controversial 1910 Batting Title That Became a National Obsession, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8032-7182-1
• Bob Muldoon: "The 'First-Ever All-Star Game' in 1910. October 11-15, 1910: All-Stars vs. AL Champs Athletics; All-Stars Win Series - Four Games to One", Baseball Research Journal, SABR, Volume 51, Number 2 (Fall 2022), pp. 26-30.
• Tom Ruane: "A Retro-Review of the 1910s (the 1910 edition)", Retrosheet.org [1]