1914 Major League Baseball season

1914 MLB season
League	Major League Baseball
Sport	Baseball
Duration	April 13 – October 13, 1914
Number of games	154
Number of teams	16
Regular Season
Season MVP	AL: Eddie Collins (PHA); NL: Johnny Evers (BSN)
AL champions	Philadelphia Athletics
AL runners-up	Boston Red Sox
NL champions	Boston Braves
NL runners-up	New York Giants
World Series
Champions	Boston Braves
Runners-up	Philadelphia Athletics

The 1914 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 13 to October 13, 1914. The Boston Braves and Philadelphia Athletics were the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The Braves then defeated the Athletics in the World Series, four games to none.

This was the last of four seasons that the Chalmers Award, a precursor to the Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award (introduced in 1931), was given to a player in each league.

Awards and honors

	American League		National League
Type	Name	Stat	Name	Stat
AVG	Ty Cobb DET	.368	Jake Daubert BKN	.329
HR	Home Run Baker PHA	9	Gavvy Cravath PHP	19
RBI	Sam Crawford DET	104	Sherry Magee PHP	103
Wins	Walter Johnson WSH	28	Pete Alexander PHP	27
ERA	Dutch Leonard BSR	0.96	Bill Doak SLC	1.72
SO	Walter Johnson WSH	225	Pete Alexander PHP	214
SV	Roy Mitchell SLB Red Faber CHW Jack Bentley WSH Jim Shaw WSH	4	Slim Sallee SLC Red Ames CIN	6
SB	Fritz Maisel NYY	74	George Burns NYG	62

American League	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
Philadelphia Athletics	99	53	0.651	—	51–24	48–29
Boston Red Sox	91	62	0.595	8½	44–31	47–31
Washington Senators	81	73	0.526	19	40–33	41–40
Detroit Tigers	80	73	0.523	19½	42–35	38–38
St. Louis Browns	71	82	0.464	28½	42–36	29–46
Chicago White Sox	70	84	0.455	30	43–37	27–47
New York Yankees	70	84	0.455	30	36–40	34–44
Cleveland Naps	51	102	0.333	48½	32–47	19–55

National League	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
Boston Braves	94	59	0.614	—	51–25	43–34
New York Giants	84	70	0.545	10½	43–36	41–34
St. Louis Cardinals	81	72	0.529	13	42–34	39–38
Chicago Cubs	78	76	0.506	16½	46–30	32–46
Brooklyn Robins	75	79	0.487	19½	45–34	30–45
Philadelphia Phillies	74	80	0.481	20½	48–30	26–50
Pittsburgh Pirates	69	85	0.448	25½	39–36	30–49
Cincinnati Reds	60	94	0.390	34½	34–42	26–52

Federal League	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
Indianapolis Hoosiers	88	65	0.575	—	53–23	35–42
Chicago Federals	87	67	0.565	1½	43–34	44–33
Baltimore Terrapins	84	70	0.545	4½	53–26	31–44
Buffalo Buffeds	80	71	0.530	7	47–29	33–42
Brooklyn Tip-Tops	77	77	0.500	11½	47–32	30–45
Kansas City Packers	67	84	0.444	20	37–36	30–48
Pittsburgh Rebels	64	86	0.427	22½	37–37	27–49
St. Louis Terriers	62	89	0.411	25	32–43	30–46

Team	Manager	Comments
Boston Red Sox	Bill Carrigan
Chicago White Sox	Nixey Callahan
Cleveland Naps	Joe Birmingham
Detroit Tigers	Hughie Jennings
New York Yankees	Frank Chance and Roger Peckinpaugh
Philadelphia Athletics	Connie Mack
St. Louis Browns	Branch Rickey
Washington Senators	Clark Griffith

Team	Manager	Comments
Baltimore Terrapins	Otto Knabe
Brooklyn Tip-Tops	Bill Bradley
Buffalo Buffeds	Larry Schlafly
Chicago Federals	Joe Tinker
Indianapolis Hoosiers	Bill Phillips
Kansas City Packers	George Stovall
Pittsburgh Rebels	Doc Gessler and Rebel Oakes
St. Louis Terriers	Mordecai Brown and Fielder Jones

September 21 – Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators has four wild pitches in an inning.[1]

Pellowski, Michael J (2007). The Little Giant Book of Baseball Facts. United States: Sterling Publishing Co. pp. 352. ISBN 9781402742736.

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1914 MLB season by team
American League	Boston Chicago Cleveland Detroit New York Philadelphia St. Louis Washington
National League	Boston Brooklyn Chicago Cincinnati New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh St. Louis
Federal League	Baltimore Brooklyn Buffalo Chicago Indianapolis Kansas City Pittsburgh St. Louis
1914 World Series