1901 Philadelphia Athletics season

1901 Philadelphia Athletics season

MLB yearly infobox-pre1969
name = Philadelphia Athletics
season = 1901
misc =

current league = American League
y1 = 1901
division = Western Division
y2 = 1969
Uniform
ballpark = Columbia Park
y4 = 1901
city = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
y5 = 1901
owners = Benjamin Shibe and Connie Mack
managers = Connie Mack
television =
radio = |
The Philadelphia Athletics' 1901 season involved the A's finishing 4th in the American League with a record of 74 wins and 62 losses. The franchise that would become the modern Athletics originated in 1901 as a new franchise in the American League. The Western League had been renamed the American League in 1900 by league president Bancroft (Ban) Johnson, and declared itself the second major league in 1901.

Regular season

In 1901, Johnson created new franchises in the east and eliminated some franchises in the West. (Seeks to snare Duffy of Boston, Chicago Daily Tribune, January 29, 1901, pg. 9.) Philadelphia seems to have been a new franchise created to compete with the National League’s Philadelphia Phillies. Former catcher Connie Mack was recruited to manage the club. Mack in turn persuaded Phillies minority owner Ben Shibe as well as others to invest in the team, which would be called the Philadelphia Athletics. He himself bought a 25 percent interest.

The other 1901 American League teams included the newly-created Baltimore Orioles (now the New York Yankees) and Boston Americans (now Red Sox), as well as a Kansas City franchise relocated to Washington as the Senators (now the Minnesota Twins and previous members the Chicago White Stockings (now White Sox), Cleveland Blues (now Indians), Detroit Tigers, and Milwaukee Brewers (later the St. Louis Browns and now the Baltimore Orioles).

In by|1901, Nap Lajoie jumped to the crosstown Philadelphia Athletics, owned by Connie Mack. [ [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/deaths/nap_lajoie_obituary.shtml Nap Lajoie Obituary ] ] Lajoie's batting average that year was .426, still a league record. The same year Lajoie became the second Major Leaguer to be intentionally walked with the bases loaded after Abner Dalrymple in 1881.

eason standings

Notable transactions

*July 20, 1901: Snake Wiltse was signed as a free agent by the Athletics. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/w/wiltssn01.shtml Snake Wiltse page at Baseball Reference] ]

Roster

Starting pitchers

References

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/PHA/1901.shtml 1901 Philadelphia Athletics team page at Baseball Reference]
* [http://baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1901&t=PHA 1901 Philadelphia Athletics team page at www.baseball-almanac.com]


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