1909 American League

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The 1909 season of the American League was the ninth 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	Detroit Tigers	158	98	54	6	.620	-.-	666 (4.22)	493 (3.12)	0.267	0.320	0.342	2.26	0.960
2	Philadelphia Athletics	153	95	58	0	.621	3.5	605 (3.95)	408 (2.67)	0.256	0.313	0.343	1.93	0.961
3	Boston Red Sox	152	88	63	1	.579	9.5	597 (3.93)	550 (3.62)	0.263	0.311	0.333	2.59	0.955
4	Chicago White Sox	159	78	74	7	.491	20.0	492 (3.09)	463 (2.91)	0.221	0.284	0.275	2.05	0.964
5	New York Highlanders	153	74	77	2	.484	23.5	590 (3.86)	587 (3.84)	0.248	0.305	0.311	2.65	0.948
6	Cleveland Naps	155	71	82	2	.458	27.5	493 (3.18)	532 (3.43)	0.241	0.281	0.313	2.40	0.957
7	St. Louis Browns	154	61	89	4	.396	36.0	441 (2.86)	575 (3.73)	0.232	0.280	0.279	2.88	0.958
8	Washington Senators	156	42	110	4	.269	56.0	380 (2.44)	656 (4.21)	0.223	0.270	0.275	3.04	0.957

League leaders

Bold indicates league record, Italics indicate all-time record

Batting

Statistic	Leader	Team	Number
Games Played	Donie Bush	Detroit Tigers	157
At Bats	Roy Hartzell	St. Louis Browns	595
Runs Scored	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	116
Hits	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	216
Doubles	Sam Crawford	Detroit Tigers	35
Triples	Frank Baker	Philadelphia Athletics	19
Home Runs	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	9
Total Bases	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	296
Runs Batted In	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	107
Stolen Bases	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	76
Walks	Donie Bush	Detroit Tigers	88
Hit by Pitch	Dave Altizer	Chicago White Sox	16
Sacrifice Hits	Donie Bush	Detroit Tigers	52
Batting Average	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	0.377
On-Base Percentage	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	0.431
Slugging Percentage	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	0.517
On-Base plus Slugging	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	0.948
On-Base plus Slugging Plus	Ty Cobb	Detroit Tigers	194

Pitching

Statistic	Leader	Team	Number
Wins	George Mullin	Detroit Tigers	29
Losses	Bob Groom	Washington Senators	26
Win-Loss Percentage	George Mullin	Detroit Tigers	0.784
Appearances	Frank Smith	Chicago White Sox	51
Games Started	Frank Smith	Chicago White Sox	40
Complete Games	Frank Smith	Chicago White Sox	37
Shutouts	Ed Walsh	Chicago White Sox	8
Games Finished	Frank Arellanes	Boston Red Sox	15
Saves	Frank Arellanes	Boston Red Sox	8
Innings Pitched	Frank Smith	Chicago White Sox	365.0
Batters Faced	Frank Smith	Chicago White Sox	1427
Hits Allowed	Frank Smith	Chicago White Sox	278
Home Runs Allowed	Charlie Smith	Washington Senators/Boston Red Sox	6
Base-on-Balls Allowed	Bob Groom	Washington Senators	105
Hit Batsmen	Jack Warhop	New York Highlanders	26
Strikeouts	Frank Smith	Chicago White Sox	177
Wild Pitches	Heinie Berger	Cleveland Naps	13
Balks	Bill Burns Ed Walsh	Washington Senators/Chicago White Sox Chicago White Sox	3
Runs Allowed	Dolly Gray	Washington Senators	123
Earned Runs Allowed	Dolly Gray	Washington Senators	87
Earned Run Average	Harry Krause	Philadelphia Athletics	1.39
Walks plus Hits per Inning Pitched	Ed Walsh	Chicago White Sox	0.938

Postseason

In the World Series, the American League champion Detroit Tigers were defeated by the National League's Pittsburgh Pirates, 4 games to 3.

Umpires

• Tom Connolly
• Bill Dinneen
• Rip Egan
• Billy Evans
• Tim Hurst
• John Kerin
• Silk O'Loughlin
• Bull Perrine
• Jack Sheridan

Further Reading

• Tom Ruane: "A Retro-Review of the 1900s (the 1909 edition)", Retrosheet.org [1]