1914 American League

The 1914 season of the American League was the fourteenth season of the league.

Season summary[edit]

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	158	99	53	6	.627	-.-	749 (4.74)	529 (3.35)	0.272	0.342	0.352	2.78	0.966
2	Boston Red Sox	159	91	62	6	.572	8.5	589 (3.70)	510 (3.21)	0.250	0.315	0.338	2.36	0.963
3	Washington Senators	158	81	73	4	.513	19.0	572 (3.62)	519 (3.28)	0.244	0.307	0.320	2.54	0.961
4	Detroit Tigers	157	80	73	4	.510	19.5	615 (3.92)	618 (3.94)	0.258	0.331	0.344	2.86	0.958
5	St. Louis Browns	159	71	82	6	.447	28.5	523 (3.29)	615 (3.87)	0.243	0.301	0.319	2.85	0.952
6	New York Yankees	157	70	84	3	.446	30.0	537 (3.42)	550 (3.50)	0.229	0.309	0.287	2.81	0.962
7	Chicago White Sox	157	70	84	3	.446	30.0	487 (3.10)	560 (3.57)	0.239	0.296	0.311	2.48	0.957
8	Cleveland Naps	157	51	102	4	.325	48.5	538 (3.43)	709 (4.52)	0.245	0.305	0.312	3.21	0.954

Bold indicates league record, Italics indicate all-time record

Statistic	Leader	Team	Number
Games Played	Del Pratt Tris Speaker	St. Louis Browns Boston Red Sox	158
At Bats	Eddie Foster	Washington Senators	616
Runs Scored	Eddie Collins	Philadelphia Athletics	122
Hits	Tris Speaker	Boston Red Sox	193
Doubles	Tris Speaker	Boston Red Sox	46
Triples	Sam Crawford	Detroit Tigers	26
Home Runs	Frank Baker	Philadelphia Athletics	9
Total Bases	Tris Speaker	Boston Red Sox	287
Runs Batted In	Sam Crawford	Detroit Tigers	104
Stolen Bases	Fritz Maisel	New York Yankees	74
Caught Stealing	Doc Cook Eddie Murphy	New York Yankees Philadelphia Athletics	32
Walks	Donie Bush	Detroit Tigers	112
Hit by Pitch	George Burns Eddie Murphy	Detroit Tigers Philadelphia Athletics	12
Strikeouts	Gus Williams	St. Louis Browns	120
Sacrifice Hits	Chick Gandil Terry Turner	Washington Senators Cleveland Naps	38
Batting Average	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	0.368
On-Base Percentage	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	0.466
Slugging Percentage	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	0.513
On-Base plus Slugging	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	0.979
On-Base plus Slugging Plus	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	190

Statistic	Leader	Team	Number
Wins	Walter Johnson	Washington Senators	28
Losses	Joe Benz	Chicago White Sox	19
Win-Loss Percentage	Chief Bender	Philadelphia Athletics	0.850
Appearances	Walter Johnson	Washington Senators	51
Games Started	Walter Johnson	Washington Senators	40
Complete Games	Walter Johnson	Washington Senators	33
Shutouts	Walter Johnson	Washington Senators	9
Games Finished	George Baumgardner	St. Louis Browns	23
Saves	Jack Bentley Hooks Dauss Red Faber Roy Mitchell Jim Shaw	Washington Senators Detroit Tigers Chicago White Sox St. Louis Browns Washington Senators	4
Innings Pitched	Walter Johnson	Washington Senators	371.2
Batters Faced	Walter Johnson	Washington Senators	1438
Hits Allowed	Walter Johnson	Washington Senators	287
Home Runs Allowed	Jack Warhop	New York Yankees	8
Base-on-Balls Allowed	Jim Shaw	Washington Senators	137
Hit Batsmen	Hooks Dauss	Detroit Tigers	18
Strikeouts	Walter Johnson	Washington Senators	225
Wild Pitches	Walter Johnson Weldon Wyckoff	Washington Senators Philadelphia Athletics	14
Balks	Red Oldham	Detroit Tigers	3
Runs Allowed	Willie Mitchell	Cleveland Naps	127
Earned Runs Allowed	Hooks Dauss	Detroit Tigers	96
Earned Run Average	Dutch Leonard	Boston Red Sox	'0.96
Walks plus Hits per Inning Pitched	Dutch Leonard	Boston Red Sox	0.886

In the World Series, the American League champion Philadelphia Athletics were defeated by the National League's Boston Braves, 4 games to 0.

The winner of the league's Chalmers Award, given its Most Valuable Player, was Eddie Collins (collied01), a second baseman with the Philadelphia Athletics. In the award's voting, he had 63 out of a possible 64 points and 7 first place votes.

* Denotes a fill-in umpire