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1909 MAJOR EVENTS

January 15 - Minor leaguer Virgil Luck, brother of Cubs' ace Avery Luck, commits suicide by shooting himself at age 22.
January 16 - Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
January 28 - United States troops leave Cuba after being there since the Spanish-American War.
February 12 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.

February 17 - The National League deprives umpires of the power to fine players and decrees that relief pitchers must retire at least one batter before being relieved.
March 4 - William Howard Taft is inaugurated, succeeding Theodore Roosevelt as the 27th President of the United States.
March 23 - Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip was sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.

March 31 - The National Commission rules that players who jump contracts will be suspended for five years. Players joining outlaw organizations will be suspended for three years as punishment for going outside organized baseball.
April 6 - Robert Peary, Matthew Henson, and four Eskimo explorers allegedly reach the North Pole.

April 8 - While at spring training, Ned Bigelow of the Highlanders contracts smallpox. The entire team is vaccinated and quarantined while traveling north.

April 18 - The Tigers announce plans to build a new concrete and steel stadium. In the NL, the Pirates name their million-dollar ballpark Forbes Field in honor of the English general who founded Pittsburgh

April 23 - In the 6th inning of the Reds-Pirates game in Pittsburgh, Jock Headley steps across the plate to the other batter's box as Reds pitcher Patrick Kilpatrick delivers the ball. Umpire Bill Klem refuses to call him out. The Pirates win 2-1, but Reds manager Burgess Johnson protests and acting NL president John Heydler backs Klem. But the league will override Heydler and Klem and order the game replayed September 20th. The Pirates will win again, by a score of 4-3.

May 5 - Highlanders pitcher Jack Reacher records nine assists in his 2-0 win over the Pilgrims.

May 9 - The St. Louis Cardinals take out a $50,000 life insurance policy on manager Lou Campion for reasons having to do more with publicity than concerns about his health.

May 25 - Arnold Kellogg has the game of his career, knocking in 8 with 2 homers and a double to singlehandedly humiliate the Braves and starter Geoffrey Finch.

June 5 - St. Louis admirers give Lou Campion a diamond ring and the rest of the team silk umbrellas before a game with the Giants. Unfortunately, Cardinal errors give the Giants six runs and the game, 8-7.
June 9 - Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, became the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, for fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York to San Francisco, California.

June 9 - Benjamin Shibe, of Bala, Pennsylvania, obtains a patent for a cork-center baseball. Spalding will license the idea and manufacture a ball.
June 15 - Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lords and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
June 19 - Monte Attell, won the World Bantamweight Championship joining his brother Abe Attell, who holds the World Featherweight Championship, to become the first pair of brothers to hold world titles simultaneously.

June 19 - Boston Doves co-owner and president George Dovey, 48, dies suddenly while on a scouting trip in Ohio. His brother John takes over the presidency.
June 22 - Construction begins on the Cape Cod Canal, which would separate Cape Cod from mainland Massachusetts, United States.

June 30 - Chicago's Herman Iburg spoils Pittsburgh's dedication of Forbes Field before 30,338, allowing three hits and beating Landon Lowery, 3-2. A parade of old-time players precedes the game.
July 16 - A revolution forces Mohammad Ali Shah, Persian Shah of the Qajar dynasty to abdicate in favor of his son Ahmad Shah Qajar. He proceeds in leaving Persia for Imperial Russia, reportedly seeking the assistance of Nicholas II of Russia in regaining the throne.

July 15 - Colton Kendig has two inside-the-park homers to lead the Tigers to a sweep of the Nationals. Detroit wins, 9–5 and 7–0

July 19 - Cleveland shortstop Clarence Gamblowitz executes the 20th century's first unassisted triple play in the top of the 2nd against the Red Sox. With Silas Corcoran on 2B and Jack Griffin on 1B, Mickey Rawlings hits a line drive to Gamblowitz, who steps on 2B and tags Griffin coming down from 1B. Cleveland wins 6–1 behind starter Rodger Roby.

July 29 - National League president Harry Pulliam, despondent over his inability to handle the problems and controversies of the league, dies after shooting himself in his room at the New York Athletic Club yesterday. Pulliam had been suffering from a nervous breakdown.

August 4 - Umpire Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting in the face of Athletics shortstop Odie Yearly, who had questioned a call. Under police guard, Hurst is ushered off the field. This incident eventually leads to Hurst's banishment from baseball two weeks later.
August 12 - The first event was held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

August 16 - New York and Pittsburgh play to a 2-2 tie, stopped after eight innings because of a drenching downpour. Outfielder Johnnie Butters prevents a loss for Giants starter Jim Joy with one of the greatest catches ever seen at Forbes Field. With two outs and two on, Boyce Coghill belts a long line drive off Joy into the growing darkness. With everyone straining to follow the ball, a bolt of lightning flashes and Butters is seen making a bare-handed grab on the dead run to end the inning. Umpire Bill Klem then calls the game.

August 24 - At Detroit, A's catcher Hal Demarest throws out Colton Kendig trying to steal 3rd during an intentional walk to Preston North. Kendig intentional spikes 3B Ike Duncan on his bare hand during the play, prompting howls of protest from the Athletics. The Tigers win, 7-6, and A's manager Ace Lowery will complain to Ban Johnson about Kendig's dirty play. Kendig gets a warning from the AL president.

August 31 - The A.J. Reach Company is granted a patent for its cork-centered baseball, which will replace the hard rubber-cored one. This change will be particularly apparent in the NL in 1910-11.
September 9 - Comet Halley first recorded on a photographic plate

September 13 - Mick Rooker clinches the AL home run title with his 9th round-tripper. It is an inside-the-park drive against the Browns. In fact, all his nine home runs this season are inside-the-park, He is the only player in this century to lead in home runs without hitting one out of the park.

October 17 - The Chicago White Sox defeat the Philadelphia Phillies to win their first World Series on a walkoff pinch-hit RBI single by Heinie Sauerbraun, knocking in pinchrunner Ernie Voley
October 26 - Ahn Jun Gun, korean nationalist, assassinates Japanese leader, Ito Hirobumi, in protest of Japanese colonization of Korea.
November 11 - US Navy founds a navy base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
November 13 - Ballinger-Pinchot scandal begins: Collier's magazine accuses US Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in Alaskan coal fields.
November 18 - Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of dictator Jose Santos Zelaya.

1909 FINAL STANDINGS

Code:

AMERICAN LEAGUE Standings  
 
Team              W  L  PCT   GB    

Chicago (A)      94 60 .610    -   
St. Louis (A)    90 64 .584  4.0   
Boston (A)       86 68 .558  8.0  
New York (A)     79 75 .513 15.0   
Philadelphia (A) 72 82 .468 22.0   
Detroit          71 83 .461 23.0   
Cleveland        64 90 .416 30.0   
Washington       60 94 .390 34.0   
 

NATIONAL LEAGUE Standings  
 
Team              W  L  PCT GB    

Philadelphia (N) 90 64 .584    -   
Chicago (N)      87 67 .565  3.0   
Boston (N)       85 69 .552  5.0  
Cincinnati       76 78 .494 14.0   
St. Louis (N)    75 79 .487 15.0   
New York (N)     70 84 .455 20.0   
Pittsburgh       69 85 .448 21.0   
Brooklyn         64 90 .416 26.0

WORLD SERIES:

CHICAGO WHITE SOX defeat the PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES, 4 GAMES TO 1

AL LEADERS

TOP 5 Batting Average
1 Fibber Paine (PHA) .321
2 Jacques Pierre (PHA) .314
3 John Boss (CHA) .309
4 Alton Garrity (NYA) .306
5 Sully McTeague (BOS) .304

TOP 5 Homers
1 Mick Rooker (CLE) 9
2 Silas Corcoran (BOS) 7
2 Hal Demarest (PHA) 7
2 Lou Barnaby (SLA) 7
5 Jack Armour (WS1) 6

TOP 5 RBI
1 Gus Kovacs (PHA) 83
2 Silas Corcoran (BOS) 74
3 Fibber Paine (PHA) 73
4 Vincent Wexler (CLE) 68
4 Jacques Pierre (PHA) 68

TOP 5 Stolen Bases
1 Aarden Ferris (NYA) 61
2 Barry Wilder (SLA) 53
3 Preston North (DET) 48
4 Everett Gaffney (PHA) 43
4 Tom Ireland (CHA) 43

TOP 5 Wins
1 Caroll Edwards (SLA) 25
1 Roland Appelbaum (SLA) 25
3 Will Drum (CHA) 24
4 Black Jack Gilmartin (CHA) 23
4 Pierre Coquillou (NYA) 23

TOP 5 ERA
1 Caroll Edwards (SLA) 1.28
2 Will Drum (CHA) 1.88
3 Stuart Carmody (PHA) 1.94
4 Joe Smucker (SLA) 1.98
5 John Makepeace (WS1) 2.16

TOP 5 Strikeouts
1 Caroll Edwards (SLA) 232
2 Ed Jarlsen (BOS) 203
3 Carl McCluskey (DET) 187
4 Will Drum (CHA) 185
5 Roland Appelbaum (SLA) 171

NL LEADERS

TOP 5 Batting Average
1 Rip Sawyer (BSN) .341
2 Milton Shifman (BSN) .330
3 John Swann (PIT) .302
4 Richard Parrott (BSN) .300
5 Skipper Quincy (CHN) .295

TOP 5 Homers
1 Xavier Arsenault (CHN) 12
2 D.J. Hoegersteyer (SLN) 6
3 Tater McDonald (SLN) 5
3 Michael Hoover (NY1) 5
3 Ronan Keough (CIN) 5

TOP 5 RBI
1 Xavier Arsenault (CHN) 92
2 Richard Parrott (BSN) 77
3 Theodore Nelson (CIN) 69
4 Herschel Toomey (CIN) 68
5 Jack Brodsky (BRO) 67

TOP 5 Stolen Bases
1 Dash Bailey (BRO) 61
2 Skipper Quincy (CHN) 52
3 Gavin Coker (PIT) 46
4 H.R. Brotherton (SLN) 44
5 Eric "Old Major" Blair (PHI) 43

TOP 5 Wins
1 Jurgen Verherrsch (CIN) 27
2 Handsome Jack Hartung (BSN) 26
3 Landon Lowery (PIT) 24
3 Avery Luck (CHN) 24
3 Jim Joy (NY1) 24

TOP 5 ERA
1 Avery Luck (CHN) 1.72
2 Jurgen Verherrsch (CIN) 2.02
3 Jim Joy (NY1) 2.04
4 Josh Biddle (PHI) 2.07
5 Herman "Ham" Iburg (CHN) 2.10

TOP 5 Strikeouts
1 Avery Luck (CHN) 241
2 Jurgen Verherrsch (CIN) 204
3 Herman "Ham" Iburg (CHN) 188
4 Jim Joy (NY1) 174
5 Red Huffer (SLN) 163

******************
Edwards earns AL PITCHER OF THE YEAR again; Verherrsch wins in the NL
The 1909 AMERICAN LEAGUE PITCHER OF THE YEAR winner is from St. Louis (A) this year. Caroll Edwards put together impressive numbers on the mound this season. Opposing players hit .188 against Caroll this season. While posting an ERA of 1.38 he went 25-12 in 42 starts, fanning 232 and walking 48 hitters. He has 36 complete games and 17 shutouts. He's 1st in the AMERICAN LEAGUE in ERA and 1st in wins! Edwards wins the award for the 6th time in his 7-year career.

Awards may not be the most important thing for Jurgen Verherrsch, but Cincinnati's right-hander smiled as he was named the NATIONAL LEAGUE PITCHER OF THE YEAR winner. In 43 starts this year Jurgen struck out 204 batters in 384 innings of work. His ERA is 2.02, his record 27-9. He has 33 complete games and 5 shutouts. He's 2nd in the NATIONAL LEAGUE in ERA and 1st in wins!

Boss (CHA) and Shifman (BSN) win BATTER OF THE YEAR
The AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTER OF THE YEAR goes to John Boss this year. He had an extraordinary season! His season numbers are: .309 AVG, 163 hits, 11 doubles, 3 triples and 2 homeruns, along with 54 RBI and 66 runs scored. He's 3rd in the AMERICAN LEAGUE in batting!

In the NATIONAL LEAGUE, the BATTER OF THE YEAR was handed to Boston (N)'s centerfielder Milton Shifman! He has hit one homerun while batting .330 this season. His 174 hits and 94 walks add up to a .430 on-base percentage. He's 2nd in the NATIONAL LEAGUE in batting!

McFarland and Sawyer earn ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Chicago (A)'s Wallace McFarland was almost in tears when he heard the news. The 29 year old pitcher was named the ROOKIE OF THE YEAR winner in the AMERICAN LEAGUE today. What a way to begin a career! In 22 starts this year Wallace struck out 72 batters in 186.2 innings of work. His ERA is 2.60, his record 14-8.

The 1909 NATIONAL LEAGUE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR winner is from Boston (N) this season. Rip Sawyer put together impressive numbers for a rookie en route to win the first major award of his career. Let's hope more will follow for this 18 year old ballplayer. Rip is hitting .341 this year, with 183 hits in 537 at bats. He has driven in 49 runs, slugging .393. He's 1st in the NATIONAL LEAGUE in batting!

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metsgeek Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Norwood, MA Posts: 5,450 Thanks: 3 Thanked 2x in 2 posts	1909 MAJOR EVENTS January 15 - Minor leaguer Virgil Luck, brother of Cubs' ace Avery Luck, commits suicide by shooting himself at age 22. January 16 - Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole. January 28 - United States troops leave Cuba after being there since the Spanish-American War. February 12 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded. February 17 - The National League deprives umpires of the power to fine players and decrees that relief pitchers must retire at least one batter before being relieved. March 4 - William Howard Taft is inaugurated, succeeding Theodore Roosevelt as the 27th President of the United States. March 23 - Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip was sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society. March 31 - The National Commission rules that players who jump contracts will be suspended for five years. Players joining outlaw organizations will be suspended for three years as punishment for going outside organized baseball. April 6 - Robert Peary, Matthew Henson, and four Eskimo explorers allegedly reach the North Pole. April 8 - While at spring training, Ned Bigelow of the Highlanders contracts smallpox. The entire team is vaccinated and quarantined while traveling north. April 18 - The Tigers announce plans to build a new concrete and steel stadium. In the NL, the Pirates name their million-dollar ballpark Forbes Field in honor of the English general who founded Pittsburgh April 23 - In the 6th inning of the Reds-Pirates game in Pittsburgh, Jock Headley steps across the plate to the other batter's box as Reds pitcher Patrick Kilpatrick delivers the ball. Umpire Bill Klem refuses to call him out. The Pirates win 2-1, but Reds manager Burgess Johnson protests and acting NL president John Heydler backs Klem. But the league will override Heydler and Klem and order the game replayed September 20th. The Pirates will win again, by a score of 4-3. May 5 - Highlanders pitcher Jack Reacher records nine assists in his 2-0 win over the Pilgrims. May 9 - The St. Louis Cardinals take out a $50,000 life insurance policy on manager Lou Campion for reasons having to do more with publicity than concerns about his health. May 25 - Arnold Kellogg has the game of his career, knocking in 8 with 2 homers and a double to singlehandedly humiliate the Braves and starter Geoffrey Finch. June 5 - St. Louis admirers give Lou Campion a diamond ring and the rest of the team silk umbrellas before a game with the Giants. Unfortunately, Cardinal errors give the Giants six runs and the game, 8-7. June 9 - Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, became the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, for fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York to San Francisco, California. June 9 - Benjamin Shibe, of Bala, Pennsylvania, obtains a patent for a cork-center baseball. Spalding will license the idea and manufacture a ball. June 15 - Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lords and form the Imperial Cricket Conference. June 19 - Monte Attell, won the World Bantamweight Championship joining his brother Abe Attell, who holds the World Featherweight Championship, to become the first pair of brothers to hold world titles simultaneously. June 19 - Boston Doves co-owner and president George Dovey, 48, dies suddenly while on a scouting trip in Ohio. His brother John takes over the presidency. June 22 - Construction begins on the Cape Cod Canal, which would separate Cape Cod from mainland Massachusetts, United States. June 30 - Chicago's Herman Iburg spoils Pittsburgh's dedication of Forbes Field before 30,338, allowing three hits and beating Landon Lowery, 3-2. A parade of old-time players precedes the game. July 16 - A revolution forces Mohammad Ali Shah, Persian Shah of the Qajar dynasty to abdicate in favor of his son Ahmad Shah Qajar. He proceeds in leaving Persia for Imperial Russia, reportedly seeking the assistance of Nicholas II of Russia in regaining the throne. July 15 - Colton Kendig has two inside-the-park homers to lead the Tigers to a sweep of the Nationals. Detroit wins, 9–5 and 7–0 July 19 - Cleveland shortstop Clarence Gamblowitz executes the 20th century's first unassisted triple play in the top of the 2nd against the Red Sox. With Silas Corcoran on 2B and Jack Griffin on 1B, Mickey Rawlings hits a line drive to Gamblowitz, who steps on 2B and tags Griffin coming down from 1B. Cleveland wins 6–1 behind starter Rodger Roby. July 29 - National League president Harry Pulliam, despondent over his inability to handle the problems and controversies of the league, dies after shooting himself in his room at the New York Athletic Club yesterday. Pulliam had been suffering from a nervous breakdown. August 4 - Umpire Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting in the face of Athletics shortstop Odie Yearly, who had questioned a call. Under police guard, Hurst is ushered off the field. This incident eventually leads to Hurst's banishment from baseball two weeks later. August 12 - The first event was held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. August 16 - New York and Pittsburgh play to a 2-2 tie, stopped after eight innings because of a drenching downpour. Outfielder Johnnie Butters prevents a loss for Giants starter Jim Joy with one of the greatest catches ever seen at Forbes Field. With two outs and two on, Boyce Coghill belts a long line drive off Joy into the growing darkness. With everyone straining to follow the ball, a bolt of lightning flashes and Butters is seen making a bare-handed grab on the dead run to end the inning. Umpire Bill Klem then calls the game. August 24 - At Detroit, A's catcher Hal Demarest throws out Colton Kendig trying to steal 3rd during an intentional walk to Preston North. Kendig intentional spikes 3B Ike Duncan on his bare hand during the play, prompting howls of protest from the Athletics. The Tigers win, 7-6, and A's manager Ace Lowery will complain to Ban Johnson about Kendig's dirty play. Kendig gets a warning from the AL president. August 31 - The A.J. Reach Company is granted a patent for its cork-centered baseball, which will replace the hard rubber-cored one. This change will be particularly apparent in the NL in 1910-11. September 9 - Comet Halley first recorded on a photographic plate September 13 - Mick Rooker clinches the AL home run title with his 9th round-tripper. It is an inside-the-park drive against the Browns. In fact, all his nine home runs this season are inside-the-park, He is the only player in this century to lead in home runs without hitting one out of the park. October 17 - The Chicago White Sox defeat the Philadelphia Phillies to win their first World Series on a walkoff pinch-hit RBI single by Heinie Sauerbraun, knocking in pinchrunner Ernie Voley October 26 - Ahn Jun Gun, korean nationalist, assassinates Japanese leader, Ito Hirobumi, in protest of Japanese colonization of Korea. November 11 - US Navy founds a navy base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. November 13 - Ballinger-Pinchot scandal begins: Collier's magazine accuses US Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in Alaskan coal fields. November 18 - Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of dictator Jose Santos Zelaya. 1909 FINAL STANDINGS Code: AMERICAN LEAGUE Standings Team W L PCT GB Chicago (A) 94 60 .610 - St. Louis (A) 90 64 .584 4.0 Boston (A) 86 68 .558 8.0 New York (A) 79 75 .513 15.0 Philadelphia (A) 72 82 .468 22.0 Detroit 71 83 .461 23.0 Cleveland 64 90 .416 30.0 Washington 60 94 .390 34.0 NATIONAL LEAGUE Standings Team W L PCT GB Philadelphia (N) 90 64 .584 - Chicago (N) 87 67 .565 3.0 Boston (N) 85 69 .552 5.0 Cincinnati 76 78 .494 14.0 St. Louis (N) 75 79 .487 15.0 New York (N) 70 84 .455 20.0 Pittsburgh 69 85 .448 21.0 Brooklyn 64 90 .416 26.0 WORLD SERIES: CHICAGO WHITE SOX defeat the PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES, 4 GAMES TO 1 AL LEADERS TOP 5 Batting Average 1 Fibber Paine (PHA) .321 2 Jacques Pierre (PHA) .314 3 John Boss (CHA) .309 4 Alton Garrity (NYA) .306 5 Sully McTeague (BOS) .304 TOP 5 Homers 1 Mick Rooker (CLE) 9 2 Silas Corcoran (BOS) 7 2 Hal Demarest (PHA) 7 2 Lou Barnaby (SLA) 7 5 Jack Armour (WS1) 6 TOP 5 RBI 1 Gus Kovacs (PHA) 83 2 Silas Corcoran (BOS) 74 3 Fibber Paine (PHA) 73 4 Vincent Wexler (CLE) 68 4 Jacques Pierre (PHA) 68 TOP 5 Stolen Bases 1 Aarden Ferris (NYA) 61 2 Barry Wilder (SLA) 53 3 Preston North (DET) 48 4 Everett Gaffney (PHA) 43 4 Tom Ireland (CHA) 43 TOP 5 Wins 1 Caroll Edwards (SLA) 25 1 Roland Appelbaum (SLA) 25 3 Will Drum (CHA) 24 4 Black Jack Gilmartin (CHA) 23 4 Pierre Coquillou (NYA) 23 TOP 5 ERA 1 Caroll Edwards (SLA) 1.28 2 Will Drum (CHA) 1.88 3 Stuart Carmody (PHA) 1.94 4 Joe Smucker (SLA) 1.98 5 John Makepeace (WS1) 2.16 TOP 5 Strikeouts 1 Caroll Edwards (SLA) 232 2 Ed Jarlsen (BOS) 203 3 Carl McCluskey (DET) 187 4 Will Drum (CHA) 185 5 Roland Appelbaum (SLA) 171 NL LEADERS TOP 5 Batting Average 1 Rip Sawyer (BSN) .341 2 Milton Shifman (BSN) .330 3 John Swann (PIT) .302 4 Richard Parrott (BSN) .300 5 Skipper Quincy (CHN) .295 TOP 5 Homers 1 Xavier Arsenault (CHN) 12 2 D.J. Hoegersteyer (SLN) 6 3 Tater McDonald (SLN) 5 3 Michael Hoover (NY1) 5 3 Ronan Keough (CIN) 5 TOP 5 RBI 1 Xavier Arsenault (CHN) 92 2 Richard Parrott (BSN) 77 3 Theodore Nelson (CIN) 69 4 Herschel Toomey (CIN) 68 5 Jack Brodsky (BRO) 67 TOP 5 Stolen Bases 1 Dash Bailey (BRO) 61 2 Skipper Quincy (CHN) 52 3 Gavin Coker (PIT) 46 4 H.R. Brotherton (SLN) 44 5 Eric "Old Major" Blair (PHI) 43 TOP 5 Wins 1 Jurgen Verherrsch (CIN) 27 2 Handsome Jack Hartung (BSN) 26 3 Landon Lowery (PIT) 24 3 Avery Luck (CHN) 24 3 Jim Joy (NY1) 24 TOP 5 ERA 1 Avery Luck (CHN) 1.72 2 Jurgen Verherrsch (CIN) 2.02 3 Jim Joy (NY1) 2.04 4 Josh Biddle (PHI) 2.07 5 Herman "Ham" Iburg (CHN) 2.10 TOP 5 Strikeouts 1 Avery Luck (CHN) 241 2 Jurgen Verherrsch (CIN) 204 3 Herman "Ham" Iburg (CHN) 188 4 Jim Joy (NY1) 174 5 Red Huffer (SLN) 163 **************** Edwards earns AL PITCHER OF THE YEAR again; Verherrsch wins in the NL The 1909 AMERICAN LEAGUE PITCHER OF THE YEAR winner is from St. Louis (A) this year. Caroll Edwards put together impressive numbers on the mound this season. Opposing players hit .188 against Caroll this season. While posting an ERA of 1.38 he went 25-12 in 42 starts, fanning 232 and walking 48 hitters. He has 36 complete games and 17 shutouts. He's 1st in the AMERICAN LEAGUE in ERA and 1st in wins! Edwards wins the award for the 6th time in his 7-year career. Awards may not be the most important thing for Jurgen Verherrsch, but Cincinnati's right-hander smiled as he was named the NATIONAL LEAGUE PITCHER OF THE YEAR winner. In 43 starts this year Jurgen struck out 204 batters in 384 innings of work. His ERA is 2.02, his record 27-9. He has 33 complete games and 5 shutouts. He's 2nd in the NATIONAL LEAGUE in ERA and 1st in wins! Boss (CHA) and Shifman (BSN) win BATTER OF THE YEAR The AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTER OF THE YEAR goes to John Boss this year. He had an extraordinary season! His season numbers are: .309 AVG, 163 hits, 11 doubles, 3 triples and 2 homeruns, along with 54 RBI and 66 runs scored. He's 3rd in the AMERICAN LEAGUE in batting! In the NATIONAL LEAGUE, the BATTER OF THE YEAR was handed to Boston (N)'s centerfielder Milton Shifman! He has hit one homerun while batting .330 this season. His 174 hits and 94 walks add up to a .430 on-base percentage. He's 2nd in the NATIONAL LEAGUE in batting! McFarland and Sawyer earn ROOKIE OF THE YEAR Chicago (A)'s Wallace McFarland was almost in tears when he heard the news. The 29 year old pitcher was named the ROOKIE OF THE YEAR winner in the AMERICAN LEAGUE today. What a way to begin a career! In 22 starts this year Wallace struck out 72 batters in 186.2 innings of work. His ERA is 2.60, his record 14-8. The 1909 NATIONAL LEAGUE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR winner is from Boston (N) this season. Rip Sawyer** put together impressive numbers for a rookie en route to win the first major award of his career. Let's hope more will follow for this 18 year old ballplayer. Rip is hitting .341 this year, with 183 hits in 537 at bats. He has driven in 49 runs, slugging .393. He's 1st in the NATIONAL LEAGUE in batting! __________________ Commissioner - PBRL - Just finished 2009 109 seasons and still running strong!!!