World Series Champions - Detroit Tigers (Frank McDonald)
MVP - Ty Cobb (DET) .409 average, 170 runs, 97 RBIs, 60 steals
Cy Young Award - Walter Johnson (DET) 30-9, 3.47 ERA, 189 K's
MVP - Ty Cobb (DET) .409 average, 170 runs, 97 RBIs, 60 steals
Cy Young Award - Walter Johnson (DET) 30-9, 3.47 ERA, 189 K's
Manager of the Year - Frank McDonald (DET)
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The Detroit Tigers made the Old Time Baseball League their personal playground this year, dominating this league like no one else ever has. The Tigers set a new record for wins (105), relegating everyone else to below .500 records, and had all FIVE top MVP candidates (Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Frank "Wildfire" Schulte, Sam Crawford, and Eddie Collins) and the top THREE Cy Young candidates (Walter Johnson, Russ Ford, Nap Rucker)!!!! And of course, Frank McDonald, winner of his third straight Manager of the Year award, provided the guidance and wisdom this highly talented squad needed. They easily dispatched the St. Louis Cardinals in five games to win the World Series!
The Tigers set many single-season team records during this reign of terror called the 1911 OTBL season, including...
- Most Wins with 105
- Most Runs Scored with 967 (for some context, 1903 CIN is second with 828, 1903 NYG third with just 798)
- Most Hits with 1656
- Most Doubles with 270
- Most Triples with 138
- Most Walks with 553
- Highest Team Batting Average at .303 (they are the ONLY team with an average over .300)
- Best run diffential at 324 (second is 1910 DET with just 256)
This was really the year Ty Cobb cemented his greatness, putting together the single greatest season the league has ever seen! That statement contains NO exaggeration. The Georgia Peach set new ALL-TIME single-season records for batting average (.409), on-base percentage (.452), slugging percentage (.628), OPS (1.080), runs (170), hits (254), and total bases (390). Whew!!! This other-worldly performance rightly earned Ty the MVP award.
Some of the other top performers of the season include..
-Frank "Wildfire" Schulte (DET) set a new record for RBIs in a season (133), Schulte won the Home Run title again, with 26, second best total ever behind the legendary Charlie "Piano Legs" Hickman and his 31 for the 10-3 Cincinnati Reds
-Eddie Collins (DET) set a new all-time mark for most HBPs, with 19
-Claude Hendrix (NYG) led all relievers with 27 saves
-Rube Marquard (NYG) topped the strikeout chart with 270 K's
-Russ Ford (DEA) won the ERA title at 2.68
-Slim Sallee (BOA), Doc White (BRN), and Smoky Joe Wood (BOA) each threw one-hitters
-Several players collected six hits in one game, including Jack Barry (SLN), Clyde Milan (BOA), Nap Lajoie (BOA), Dots Miller (PIT), and unsurpringly, Ty Cobb (DET)
-Chief Wilson (BRN) racked up 10 RBIs in one game
-King Cole (SLN) whiffed 14 batters in one game, tops in the league
-Neal Ball (BRN) set a new record for strikeouts by a batter with 108! Five of the top six batter strikeout seasons happened in 1911. This free-swinging attitude of the modern ballplayer could spell the end of the game as we know it :-)
-Eddie Collins (DET) set a new all-time mark for most HBPs, with 19
-Claude Hendrix (NYG) led all relievers with 27 saves
-Rube Marquard (NYG) topped the strikeout chart with 270 K's
-Russ Ford (DEA) won the ERA title at 2.68
-Slim Sallee (BOA), Doc White (BRN), and Smoky Joe Wood (BOA) each threw one-hitters
-Several players collected six hits in one game, including Jack Barry (SLN), Clyde Milan (BOA), Nap Lajoie (BOA), Dots Miller (PIT), and unsurpringly, Ty Cobb (DET)
-Chief Wilson (BRN) racked up 10 RBIs in one game
-King Cole (SLN) whiffed 14 batters in one game, tops in the league
-Neal Ball (BRN) set a new record for strikeouts by a batter with 108! Five of the top six batter strikeout seasons happened in 1911. This free-swinging attitude of the modern ballplayer could spell the end of the game as we know it :-)
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