1909 New York Highlanders season

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1909  New York Highlanders
League American League
Ballpark Hilltop Park
City New York City, New York
Record74–77 (.490)
League place5th
Owners William Devery and Frank Farrell
Managers George Stallings
  1908
1910  

The 1909 New York Highlanders season saw the team finishing with a total of 74 wins and 77 losses, coming in fifth in the American League.

Contents

New York was managed by George Stallings, the team's fourth manager in as many years. Games were played at Hilltop Park. The alternate and equally unofficial nickname, "Yankees", was being used more and more frequently by the media. The eventually-famous curving "NY" logo appeared for the first time, on the sleeve and cap of the uniform.

Regular season

Season standings

American League
Team W L Pct. GB Home Road
Detroit Tigers 9854.64557194135
Philadelphia Athletics 9558.62149274631
Boston Red Sox 8863.58347284135
Chicago White Sox 7874.5132042343640
New York Highlanders 7477.49023½41353342
Cleveland Naps 7182.46427½39373245
St. Louis Browns 6189.4073640372152
Washington Senators 42110.2765627481562

Record vs. opponents


Sources:
TeamBOSCWSCLEDETNYHPHASLBWSH
Boston 13–9–114–89–1313–910–1113–716–6
Chicago 9–13–18–13–16–15–214–8–112–1010–12–119–3–1
Cleveland 8–1413–8–18–14–18–149–1314–811–11
Detroit 13–915–6–214–8–114–88–1418–3–116–6–2
New York 9–138–14–114–88–148–1413–8–114–6
Philadelphia 11–1010–1213–914–814–814–819–3
St. Louis 7–1312–10–18–143–18–18–13–18–1415–7–1
Washington 6–163–19–111–116–16–26–143–197–15–1

Roster

1909 New York Highlanders
Roster
PitchersCatchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Other positions

Manager

Coaches

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

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

PosPlayerGABHAvg.HRRBI
C Red Kleinow 7820647.228015
1B Hal Chase 118474134.283463
2B Frank LaPorte 8930992.298031
SS John Knight 11636085.236040
3B Jimmy Austin 136437101.231139
OF Willie Keeler 9936095.264132
OF Ray Demmitt 123427105.246430
OF Clyde Engle 135492137.278371

Other batters

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

PlayerGABHAvg.HRRBI
Kid Elberfeld 10637990.237026
Birdie Cree 10434390.262227
Charlie Hemphill 7318144.243010
Ed Sweeney 6717647.267021
Walter Blair 4211023.209011
Earle Gardner 228528.329015
George McConnell 13439.20905
Al Orth 22349.26505
Neal Ball 8296.20703
Joe Ward 9285.17900
Bobby Vaughn 5142.14300
Eddie Tiemeyer 383.37500
Jack Wanner 381.12500
Irish McIlveen 430.00000

Pitching

Starting pitchers

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

PlayerGIPWLERASO
Jack Warhop 36243.113152.4095
Joe Lake 31215.114111.88117
Rube Manning 26173.07113.1771
King Brockett 26170.01082.1270
Slow Joe Doyle 17125.2862.5857
Pete Wilson 1493.2653.1744
Doc Newton 422.1032.8211
Al Orth 13.00012.001

Other pitchers

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

PlayerGIPWLERASO
Tom Hughes 24118.2782.6569
Jack Quinn 23118.2951.9736
Jack Chesbro 949.2046.3417
Dick Carroll 25.0003.601
George McConnell 24.0012.254

Relief pitchers

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

PlayerGWLSVERASO
Butch Schmidt 10007.202
Russ Ford 10009.002

References