1917 Chicago White Sox season

The 1917 Chicago White Sox dominated the American League with a record of 100–54. The 100 wins is a club record that still stands.[1] Their offense was first in runs scored while their pitching staff led the league with a 2.16 ERA.

1917 Chicago White Sox
1917 World Series Champions
1917 American League Champions
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Owner(s)Charles Comiskey
Manager(s)Pants Rowland
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Facing the New York Giants in the 1917 World Series, the team clinched the series in six games, thanks in large part to the workhorse efforts of Eddie Cicotte and Red Faber. It would be the team's last world championship until 2005.

Regular season
1917 Chicago White Sox

Season standings
American League W L Pct. GB Home Road
Chicago White Sox 10054 0.649 — 56–21 44–33
Boston Red Sox 9062 0.592 9 45–33 45–29
Cleveland Indians 8866 0.571 12 44–34 44–32
Detroit Tigers 7875 0.510 21½ 34–41 44–34
Washington Senators 7479 0.484 25½ 42–35 32–44
New York Yankees 7182 0.464 28½ 35–40 36–42
St. Louis Browns 5797 0.370 43 31–46 26–51
Philadelphia Athletics 5598 0.359 44½ 29–47 26–51

Record vs. opponents
1917 American League Records

Sources:
Team BOS CWS CLE DET NYY PHI STL WSH
Boston —10–12–110–129–1213–9–118–3–117–5–113–9–1
Chicago 12–10–1—14–816–612–1015–716–615–7–1
Cleveland 12–108–14—12–1015–716–614–811–11–2
Detroit 12–96–1610–12—13–9–112–1014–811–11
New York 9–13–110–127–159–13–1—15–713–98–13
Philadelphia 3–18–17–156–1610–127–15—11–1111–11
St. Louis 5–17–16–168–148–149–1311–11—10–12
Washington 9–13–17–15–111–11–211–1113–811–1112–10—

Game log
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BoldWhite Sox team member
1917 White Sox game log

Roster
1917 Chicago White Sox
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

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Other positions

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Coaches

Player stats

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
CRay Schalk14042496.226251
1BChick Gandil149553151.273057
2BEddie Collins156564163.289067
3BBuck Weaver118447127.284332
SSSwede Risberg14947496.203145
LFJoe Jackson146538162.301575
CFHappy Felsch152575177.3086102
RFNemo Leibold125428101.236029

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
Shano Collins8225259.234113
Fred McMullin5919446.237012
Byrd Lynn357216.22207
Eddie Murphy535116.314016
Ted Jourdan17345.14702
Joe Jenkins1091.11103
Zeb Terry210.00000
Jack Fournier110.00000
Bobby Byrne110.00000
Ziggy Hasbrook210.00000

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Eddie Cicotte49346.228121.53150
Red Faber4124816131.9284
Reb Russell35189.11551.9554
Joe Benz1994.2732.4725

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Lefty Williams452301782.9785
Jim Scott24125671.8737

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G W L SV ERA SO
Dave Danforth5011692.6579
Mellie Wolfgang50005.093

Awards and honors

League top five finishers

Eddie Cicotte

  • #1 in AL in wins (28)
  • #1 in AL in earned run average (1.53)
  • #2 in AL in strikeouts (150)

Happy Felsch

  • #2 in AL in runs batted in (102)

1917 World Series
Main article: 1917 World Series

There were accusations of this series not being completely "on the level," especially after the Black Sox Scandal of 1919. The most notable play involved Heinie Zimmerman of the Giants chasing Eddie Collins across home plate in the deciding game. Zimmerman was later banned from organized baseball for throwing games.

AL Chicago White Sox (4) vs. NL New York Giants (2)

GameScoreDateLocationAttendance
1New York Giants – 1, Chicago White Sox – 2October 6Comiskey Park32,000
2New York Giants – 2, Chicago White Sox – 7October 7Comiskey Park32,000
3Chicago White Sox – 0, New York Giants – 2October 10Polo Grounds33,616
4Chicago White Sox – 0, New York Giants – 5October 11Polo Grounds27,746
5New York Giants – 5, Chicago White Sox – 8October 13Comiskey Park27,323
6Chicago White Sox – 4, New York Giants – 2October 15Polo Grounds33,969

Notes
  1. Chicago White Sox Franchise Encyclopedia

References
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