1915 Philadelphia Athletics season

MLB yearly infobox-pre1969
name = Philadelphia Athletics
season = 1915
misc =

current league = American League
y1 = 1901
division = Western Division
y2 = 1969
Uniform
ballpark = Shibe Park
y4 = 1909
city = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
y5 = 1901
owners = Benjamin Shibe and Connie Mack
managers = Connie Mack
television =
radio = |The Philadelphia Athletics' 1915 season involved the A's finishing 8th in the American League with a record of 43 wins and 109 losses. In January, 1915, Nap Lajoie was purchased by the Philadelphia Athletics from the Cleveland Indians. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/l/lajoina01.shtml Nap Lajoie Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ] The Federal League had been formed to begin play in 1914. As the A.L. had done 13 years before, the new league raided existing A.L. and N.L. teams for players. Mack refused to match the offers of the F.L. teams, preferring to let the "prima donnas" go and rebuild with younger (and less expensive) players. The result was a swift and near-total collapse, a "first-to-worst" situation. The Athletics went from a 99–53 (.651) record and a pennant in 1914 to a record of 43–109 (.283) and 8th (last) place in 1915.

Offseason

December 8, 1914: Eddie Collins was purchased by the Chicago White Sox from the Philadelphia Athletics. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/c/collied01.shtml Eddie Collins Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]

Regular season

eason standings

Roster

References

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/PHA/1915.shtml 1915 Philadelphia Athletics team page at Baseball Reference]
* [http://baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1915&t=PHA 1915 Philadelphia Athletics team page at www.baseball-almanac.com]