1906 Major League Baseball season

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The 1906 Major League Baseball season began on April 12. The regular season ended on October 7, with the Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox as regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The postseason began with Game 1 of the third modern World Series on October 9 and ended with Game 6 of the World Series on October 14. The White Sox defeated the Cubs, four games to two.

Schedule

The 1906 schedule consisted of 154 games for all teams in the American League and National League, each of which had eight teams. Each team was scheduled to play 22 games against the other seven teams of their respective league. This continued the format put in place for the 1904 season. This format would last until 1919.

National League Opening Day took place on April 12 with all teams playing, while American League Opening Day did not take place until April 14 with four teams playing. The final day of the regular season was on October 7. The World Series took place between October 9 and October 14.

Standings

American League v t e American League W L Pct. GB Home Road Chicago White Sox 93 58 0.616 — 54–23 39–35 New York Highlanders 90 61 0.596 3 53–23 37–38 Cleveland Naps 89 64 0.582 5 47–30 42–34 Philadelphia Athletics 78 67 0.538 12 48–23 30–44 St. Louis Browns 76 73 0.510 16 40–34 36–39 Detroit Tigers 71 78 0.477 21 42–34 29–44 Washington Senators 55 95 0.367 37½ 33–41 22–54 Boston Americans 49 105 0.318 45½ 22–54 27–51 National League v t e National League W L Pct. GB Home Road Chicago Cubs 116 36 0.763 — 56–21 60–15 New York Giants 96 56 0.632 20 51–24 45–32 Pittsburgh Pirates 93 60 0.608 23½ 49–27 44–33 Philadelphia Phillies 71 82 0.464 45½ 37–40 34–42 Brooklyn Superbas 66 86 0.434 50 31–44 35–42 Cincinnati Reds 64 87 0.424 51½ 36–40 28–47 St. Louis Cardinals 52 98 0.347 63 28–48 24–50 Boston Beaneaters 49 102 0.325 66½ 28–47 21–55

Americans White Sox Naps Tigers Athletics Browns Highlanders Senators Locations of AL teams for the 1904–1906 MLB seasons American League Beaneaters Superbas Cubs Reds Giants Phillies Pirates Cardinals Locations of NL teams for the 1904–1906 MLB seasons National League

Postseason

Bracket

Managers

League leaders

American League

National League

Milestones

The Chicago Cubs won a record 116 games while losing only 36. Their .763 winning percentage remains the highest in the modern (two-league) era.^[1] They were led offensively by third baseman Harry Steinfeldt whose 176 hits, .327 batting average and 83 RBIs were all a team-best; Steinfeldt also had 29 stolen bases. The Cubs' pitching staff consisted of Ed Reulbach, Carl Lundgren, Mordecai Brown and left-hander Jack Pfiester.

Home field attendance

Events

• July 4 – Mordecai Brown of the Chicago Cubs defeats Lefty Leifield of the Pittsburgh Pirates, 1-0, in which both pitchers allowed only one hit. Leifield recorded the only hit for Pittsburgh. This was the first double one-hitter in MLB history in the modern era (since 1901), and one of four double one-hitters ever pitched.^[18]
• September 26 – After being held scoreless for 48 consecutive innings, the Philadelphia Athletics finally score on a two-run double by Harry Davis, but still lose to the Cleveland Naps 5-3.^[19]

References

External links

• 1906 in baseball history from ThisGreatGame.com
• 1906 Major League Baseball season schedule at Baseball Reference