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The 1915 season of the American League was the fifteenth 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	Boston Red Sox	155	101	50	4	.652	-.-	669 (4.32)	499 (3.22)	0.260	0.331	0.339	2.39	0.964
2	Detroit Tigers	156	100	54	2	.641	2.5	778 (4.99)	597 (3.83)	0.268	0.353	0.358	2.86	0.961
3	Chicago White Sox	155	93	61	1	.600	9.5	717 (4.63)	509 (3.28)	0.258	0.337	0.348	2.43	0.965
4	Washington Senators	155	85	68	2	.548	17.0	569 (3.67)	491 (3.17)	0.244	0.307	0.312	2.31	0.964
5	New York Yankees	154	69	83	2	.448	32.5	584 (3.79)	588 (3.82)	0.233	0.312	0.305	3.06	0.966
6	St. Louis Browns	159	63	91	5	.396	39.5	521 (3.28)	680 (4.28)	0.246	0.309	0.315	3.04	0.949
7	Cleveland Indians	154	57	95	2	.370	44.5	539 (3.50)	670 (4.35)	0.240	0.308	0.317	3.13	0.957
8	Philadelphia Athletics	154	43	109	2	.279	58.5	545 (3.54)	888 (5.77)	0.237	0.297	0.311	4.29	0.947

League leaders

Bold indicates league record, Italics indicate all-time record

Batting

Statistic	Leader	Team	Number
Games Played	Del Pratt	St. Louis Browns	159
At Bats	Eddie Foster	Washington Senators	618
Runs Scored	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	144
Hits	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	208
Doubles	Bobby Veach	Detroit Tigers	40
Triples	Sam Crawford	Detroit Tigers	19
Home Runs	Braggo Roth	Chicago White Sox/Cleveland Indians	7
Total Bases	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	274
Runs Batted In	Sam Crawford Bobby Veach	Detroit Tigers Detroit Tigers	112
Stolen Bases	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	96
Caught Stealing	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	38
Walks	Eddie Collins	Chicago White Sox	119
Hit by Pitch	Jack Fournier	Chicago White Sox	15
Strikeouts	Doc Lavan	St. Louis Browns	83
Sacrifice Hits	Ossie Vitt Buck Weaver	Detroit Tigers Chicago White Sox	42
Batting Average	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	0.369
On-Base Percentage	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	0.486
Slugging Percentage	Jack Fournier	Chicago White Sox	0.491
On-Base plus Slugging	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	0.973
On-Base plus Slugging Plus	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	185

Pitching

Statistic	Leader	Team	Number
Wins	Walter Johnson	Washington Senators	27
Losses	Weldon Wyckoff	Philadelphia Athletics	22
Win-Loss Percentage	Joe Wood	Boston Red Sox	0.750
Appearances	Harry Coveleski Red Faber	Detroit Tigers Chicago White Sox	50
Games Started	Walter Johnson	Washington Senators	39
Complete Games	Walter Johnson	Washington Senators	35
Shutouts	Walter Johnson Jim Scott	Washington Senators Chicago White Sox	7
Games Finished	Carl Mays	Boston Red Sox	27
Saves	Carl Mays	Boston Red Sox	7
Innings Pitched	Walter Johnson	Washington Senators	336.2
Batters Faced	Walter Johnson	Washington Senators	1305
Hits Allowed	Harry Coveleski	Detroit Tigers	271
Home Runs Allowed	Ray Fisher Jack Warhop	New York Yankees New York Yankees	7
Base-on-Balls Allowed	Weldon Wyckoff	Philadelphia Athletics	165
Hit Batsmen	Harry Coveleski	Detroit Tigers	20
Strikeouts	Walter Johnson	Washington Senators	203
Wild Pitches	Weldon Wyckoff	Philadelphia Athletics	14
Balks	Joe Boehling	Washington Senators	6
Runs Allowed	Weldon Wyckoff	Philadelphia Athletics	139
Earned Runs Allowed	Weldon Wyckoff	Philadelphia Athletics	108
Earned Run Average	Joe Wood	Boston Red Sox	1.49
Walks plus Hits per Inning Pitched	Walter Johnson	Washington Senators	0.933

Postseason

In the World Series, the American League champion Boston Red Sox defeated the National League's Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 1.

Umpires

• Ollie Chill
• Tom Connolly
• Bill Dinneen
• Clarence Eldridge*
• Billy Evans
• George Hildebrand
• Dom Mullaney
• Dick Nallin
• Silk O'Loughlin
• Bobby Wallace

* Denotes a fill-in umpire

Further Reading

• Tom Ruane: "A Retro-Review of the 1910s (the 1915 edition)", Retrosheet.org [1]