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metsgeek · 01-09-2007, 09:36 PM

1912 MAJOR EVENTS

January 1 - Establishment of Republic of China.

January 2 - Brooklyn Dodgers president Charles Ebbets announces he has purchased grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30‚000.
January 6 - New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
January 23 - The Japanese Army announces it will send a baseball team to the Philippines to play American soldiers; a U.S. team may go to Japan.
February 8 - Mexican Revolution: Military rebellion against the rule of Francisco Madero begins in Mexico City. Battles last for 10 days.
February 14 - Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
February 18 - In Mexico, Francisco Madero is forced to resign - battle ends. All members of Madero's government are arrested.
February 19 - Prizes are included in Cracker Jack candy boxes for the first time.
February 22 - In Mexico, Francisco Madero and Pino Suarez are shot when they "tried to escape"

March 4 - In Brooklyn‚ 500 fans are on hand as Charles Ebbets turns over the first spadeful of dirt to start the construction of a park for the "Trolley Dodgers." It is expected to be ready for the second half of the season.
March 7 - Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole, having arrived on December 14, 1911.

March 13 - The Washington Nationals lose to the University of Virginia‚ 5-3 in Charlottesville. Virginia's lefty ace Sayer Calhoun throws six relief innings of shutout ball against the Nats.

April 9 - In the first game ever played at Fenway Park, the Red Sox defeat Harvard University in an exhibition game played in a snow storm.

April 11 - Playing the Red Sox in the opener at New York's Hilltop Park, the Yankees wear pinstripes for the first time.

April 12 - The NL has a small box installed in the ground near home plate in each park to supply umpires with baseballs, eliminating the possibility of home team ballboys influencing which balls are used for each team's turn at bat.
April 14/15 - Sinking of the RMS Titanic

April 17 - At the Polo Grounds, the Giants and Yankees play an charity game to raise money for the survivors of the Titanic, which sunk on April 14. The Giants belt the Yankees, now clad in their new pinstriped uniforms, to win 11–2.

April 25 - Jim Joy of the Philadelphia A's no-hits the Cleveland Naps, fanning 8 and walking 5.

May 1 - Gene Lassiter, a freshman pitching for the University of Michigan, strikes out 20 in seven innings
May 5 - The 1912 Summer Olympics open in Stockholm, Sweden.

May 13 - A Western Union telegraph operator named Lou Proctor inserts his name as a pinch hitter into the Browns-Red Sox box score (no hits in one at bat). The Sporting News will publish the box score and, years later, Proctor's name will appear in the first editions of The Baseball Encyclopedia.

May 15 - Rookie Tiger 1b Nate O'Day charges into the stands in New York and attacks a disabled heckler named Claude Lueker. Other fans and Tigers mix it up before order is restored, and Ban Johnson suspends O'Day indefinitely for the incident.

May 18 - The Tiger players protest O'Day's suspension and vote to strike. Faced with a $5,000 fine for failing to field a team, club owner Frank Navin orders manager Willard Farnsworth to sign up some local amateurs. League president Ban Johnson meets with the Tigers and tells them they will play in Washington today or never again. Urged by O'Day, they go back to work.
May 30 - Joe Dawson wins the second Indianapolis 500-Mile Race after Ralph DePalma's Mercedes breaks down within sight of the finish.

June 10 - Phillies 3b Dave Morningstar gets plunked twice by Braves' ace Handsome Jack Hartung, who hits three batters in the game. The second time Morningstar is hit the fast ball shatters his jaw. He will be out of action for four weeks. Hartung beans an astounding 44 batters this season.

June 11 - White Sox centerfielder Dirk Barlowe ruptures a disc in his back diving for a ball, ending what was poised to be his best season yet.
June 18 - The Republican National Convention nominates incumbent President William Howard Taft in Chicago, defeating a challenge by former President Theodore Roosevelt, whose delegates bolt the convention.

June 22 - With the Nats down 11-3, and two outs in the 9th in a game against the White Sox, Larry Abercrombie is nowhere to be found when his turn at-bat comes up. Wiley Gault substitutes and flies out to end the game. It turns out "Lobo" is in the clubhouse showering.

June 29 - White Sox ace Elmer Jackson no-hits the Philadelphia A's fanning 6 and walking 3.

June 29 - St. Louis (A)'s lefty John Fritz falls victim to a career ending injury in a game against Washington. He complains about pain after throwing a pitch to Marcus Cato, then suddenly collapses. Doctors examine him after the game and diagnose a severely torn elbow ligament. Fritz was considered the heir apparent to Caroll Edwards and his loss will set back the team's future plans for quite some time.

July 6 - In Brooklyn, the cornerstone is put in place and construction on Ebbets Field begins

July 7 - To fend off possible future challenges to the legality of the standard contract and its reserve clause, new wording provides for compensation to the player for the right to renew. A player's salary is specified as 75 percent for his services and 25 percent for the privilege of reserving them for the following season.
July 19 - A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg explodes over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing thousands of pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
August 5 - Dissident Republicans form the Progressive or Bull Moose Party, and nominate former President Theodore Roosevelt as their presidential candidate.

August 6 - Inspired in part by the Nate O'Day suspension and the Tigers' brief strike in May, the formation of a Players' Fraternity is announced, headed by attorney and former player Dave Fultz. Leading players include O'Day, Avery Luck, Sully McTeague, David Organ and Roy Lomax. The goals are to oppose contract violations, rowdyism, and anything that may "impair a player's ability." At one point, a strike will be called for a Brooklyn attempt to send an obscure player, Edward Kasimir, down to Newark, but many teams balk at the strike call, and it is rescinded.

August 10 - In a game at Boston, Chicago Cubs star John Kull pushes umpire Bill Finneran after the latter challenges Kull, Don Shoemaker, and Jake Briscoe to fight him under the stands after the game. Kull will be suspended for five days, and though the Cubs win three games, there will be a howl that president Lynch is favoring the Giants. Rex Brundage will fill in at 3B for Chicago.

August 27 - In response to demands for an alternative way to rate pitchers besides wins and losses, the NL will officially keep ERA's for the first time; the Reds' Jurgen Verherrsch will lead the league at 2.17. The AL will not make ERA part of their official statistics until 1913.

September 7 - Numbers Bishop, 34, is found dead at the Hotel Valey in Chicago of a brain hemorrhage, two days after his skull was fractured in a barroom fight. Bishop last pitched for the Naps in 1908, compiling a 6–4 before his drinking forced Buck Flaherty to send him to the minors.

October 15 - The Philadelphia Phillies complete the surprise upset of the St. Louis Browns in Game 7 of the World Series on a 2-0 shutout by David Organ.

October 18 - At the Remington Arms Company in Bridgeport Connecticut, Avery Luck and Jurgen Verherrsch fire fast balls through a tunnel of fine wires in an attempt to clock their fastballs. In street clothes, both throw three pitches. The rudimentary test clocks Verherrsch at 122 feet per second (82 mph) and Luck at 113 feet per second, both on their 3rd throw.
October 14 - While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper John Schrank. With a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.
November 5 - U.S. presidential election, 1912: Democratic challenger Woodrow Wilson wins a landslide victory over Republican incumbent William Howard Taft. Taft's base was undercut by Progressive Party candidate (and former Republican) Theodore Roosevelt, who finished second, ahead of Taft.

1912 FINAL STANDINGS

Code:

AMERICAN LEAGUE Standings 

Name              W  L  PCT GB  AVG  ERA

St. Louis (A)    94 60 .610 -- .284 3.31 
Washington       82 72 .532 12 .270 3.60 
Chicago (A)      80 74 .519 14 .265 3.28 
Philadelphia (A) 74 80 .481 20 .266 3.87 
Detroit          73 81 .474 21 .265 3.79 
Cleveland        72 82 .468 22 .263 4.61 
Boston (A)       71 83 .461 23 .276 4.14 
New York (A)     70 84 .455 24 .241 3.92 


NATIONAL LEAGUE Standings 

Name              W  L  PCT GB  AVG  ERA

Philadelphia (N) 88 66 .571 -- .277 3.58 
Chicago (N)      86 68 .558  2 .290 3.67 
Pittsburgh       84 70 .545  4 .268 3.28 
New York (N)     82 72 .532  6 .284 4.15 
Boston (N)       76 78 .494 12 .275 3.86 
St. Louis (N)    71 83 .461 17 .269 3.92 
Cincinnati       69 85 .448 19 .267 3.71 
Brooklyn         60 94 .390 28 .239 4.33

WORLD SERIES:

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES defeat the ST. LOUIS BROWNS , 4 GAMES TO 3

AL LEADERS

TOP 5 Batting Average
1 Royal Chesterfield (WSH) .359
2 Pavel Zabienko (PHA) .342
3 Marcus Cato (WSH) .330
4 Hoyt Marshall (DET) .323
5 Sully McTeague (BOS) .322

TOP 5 Homers
1 Eli Crutchfield (BOS) 9
1 Clifton Payne (NYA) 9
3 Will Fish (CLE) 8
3 Silas Corcoran (BOS) 8
5 Hoyt Marshall (DET) 7

TOP 5 RBI
1 Pavel Zabienko (PHA) 102
2 Clifton Payne (NYA) 90
3 Royal Chesterfield (WSH) 88
4 Eli Crutchfield (BOS) 87
4 Mathew Christianson (CLE) 87

TOP 5 Stolen Bases
1 Wolfgang Mueller (BOS) 69
2 Marcus Cato (WSH) 68
3 Arden Ferris (NYA) 58
4 Gus Kovacs (PHA) 55
5 Everett Gaffney (PHA) 54

TOP 5 Wins
1 Caroll Edwards (SLA) 28
2 Nick Sikorsky (WSH) 22
3 Carl McCluskey (DET) 21
3 Perry McIntyre (CHA) 21
5 Will Drum (CHA) 20

TOP 5 ERA
1 Charlie Searing (WSH) 2.53
2 Caroll Edwards (SLA) 2.63
3 Elmer Jackson (CHA) 2.69
4 Jimmy Royale (SLA) 2.81
5 Wyatt Moon (DET) 2.88

TOP 5 Strikeouts
1 Carl McCluskey (DET) 236
2 Caroll Edwards (SLA) 227
3 Will Drum (CHA) 224
4 Clarence McGinnis (CLE) 220
5 Jim Joy (PHA) 215

NL LEADERS

TOP 5 Batting Average
1 Joel Praetorius (PHI) .364
2 Roy Lomax (PIT) .343
3 Simon Goodrich (NY1) .339
4 Milton Shifman (BSN) .337
5 Bob Rooney (CHN) .333

TOP 5 Homers
1 Denton Reeves (CIN) 9
1 Colt Barrish (SLN) 9
3 Jake Briscoe (CHN) 8
4 George LeForge (SLN) 7
5 Warren Tumulty (NY1) 6

TOP 5 RBI
1 Arnold Kellogg (CHN) 99
2 John Kull (CHN) 86
2 Jake Briscoe (CHN) 86
4 Bob Potter (BSN) 83
4 Don Shoemaker (CHN) 83

TOP 5 Stolen Bases
1 Skipper Quincy (CHN) 61
2 Morton McGee (NY1) 55
3 George LeForge (SLN) 45
4 Roy Lomax (PIT) 42
5 Alfred Reed (PHI) 32

TOP 5 Wins
1 David Organ (PHI) 27
2 Jurgen Verherrsch (CIN) 26
3 Avery Luck (CHN) 23
4 Shep Sanders (CHN) 22
5 Gerald Rodgers (SLN) 21

TOP 5 ERA
1 Jurgen Verherrsch (CIN) 2.17
2 Avery Luck (CHN) 2.28
3 Fred Fulk (PIT) 2.55
4 David Organ (PHI) 2.71
5 Gabriel Poe (BSN) 2.85

TOP 5 Strikeouts
1 Avery Luck (CHN) 256
2 Jurgen Verherrsch (CIN) 247
3 Croak Madison (BRO) 244
4 Cecil Babbager (PIT) 220
5 Herman Iburg (CHN) 219

******************
Edwards and Luck win PITCHER OF THE YEAR for the 2nd straight year
St. Louis (A)'s left-hander Caroll Edwards was untouchable all year long. His work paid off today as the AMERICAN LEAGUE named him the PITCHER OF THE YEAR winner! His ERA of 2.63 helped him to a 28-9 record this year. He struck out 227 and walked 93 in 331.2 innings. He has 27 complete games and 5 shutouts. He's 2nd in the AMERICAN LEAGUE in ERA and 1st in wins! Edwards wins the award for the 9th time in his 10-year career.

Chicago (N)'s right-hander Avery Luck was untouchable all year long. His work paid off today as the NATIONAL LEAGUE named him the PITCHER OF THE YEAR winner! In 39 starts this year Avery struck out 256 batters in 335.2 innings of work. His ERA is 2.28, his record 23-11. He has 28 complete games and 4 shutouts. He's 2nd in the NATIONAL LEAGUE in ERA and 1st in wins! Luck wins the award for the 4th time in his 11-year career.

1912 BATTERS OF THE YEAR winners are Chesterfield and Praetorius
A season for the ages earned Washington's first baseman Royal Chesterfield the AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTER OF THE YEAR this year. Royal has gone 196 for 546 (.359) this season, hitting 5 longballs and driving in 88 runs. He has scored 102 runs on his own. He's 1st in the AMERICAN LEAGUE in batting and 3rd in RBI! Chesterfield wins the award for the 2nd time in his 7-year career.

A season for the ages earned Philadelphia (N)'s second baseman Joel Praetorius the NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTER OF THE YEAR this year. The 25 year-old Praetorius has walked 39 times this year and posts a .407 OBP. While batting .364, 207 for 569, he has driven in 67 runs. He's 1st in the NATIONAL LEAGUE in batting!

Moon and Battle win ROOKIE OF THE YEAR honors
The AMERICAN LEAGUE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR winner was announced today, with Detroit's pitcher Wyatt Moon earning the trophy for putting up the best numbers among rookies in his league. Wyatt has a record of 15-12 this season, with an ERA of 2.88. In 299.2 Innings he was able to strike out 100 batters. He has 27 complete games and 3 shutouts.

Murphy Battle was named the NATIONAL LEAGUE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR winner today. New York (N)'s pitcher put up pretty good numbers for a rookie this year. This 30 year old "kid" will probably have a long and successful career! In 31 starts this year Murphy struck out 163 batters in 260 innings of work. His ERA is 3.36, his record 18-9. He has 20 complete games and 4 shutouts.

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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	1912 MAJOR EVENTS January 1 - Establishment of Republic of China. January 2 - Brooklyn Dodgers president Charles Ebbets announces he has purchased grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30‚000. January 6 - New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state. January 23 - The Japanese Army announces it will send a baseball team to the Philippines to play American soldiers; a U.S. team may go to Japan. February 8 - Mexican Revolution: Military rebellion against the rule of Francisco Madero begins in Mexico City. Battles last for 10 days. February 14 - Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state. February 18 - In Mexico, Francisco Madero is forced to resign - battle ends. All members of Madero's government are arrested. February 19 - Prizes are included in Cracker Jack candy boxes for the first time. February 22 - In Mexico, Francisco Madero and Pino Suarez are shot when they "tried to escape" March 4 - In Brooklyn‚ 500 fans are on hand as Charles Ebbets turns over the first spadeful of dirt to start the construction of a park for the "Trolley Dodgers." It is expected to be ready for the second half of the season. March 7 - Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole, having arrived on December 14, 1911. March 13 - The Washington Nationals lose to the University of Virginia‚ 5-3 in Charlottesville. Virginia's lefty ace Sayer Calhoun throws six relief innings of shutout ball against the Nats. April 9 - In the first game ever played at Fenway Park, the Red Sox defeat Harvard University in an exhibition game played in a snow storm. April 11 - Playing the Red Sox in the opener at New York's Hilltop Park, the Yankees wear pinstripes for the first time. April 12 - The NL has a small box installed in the ground near home plate in each park to supply umpires with baseballs, eliminating the possibility of home team ballboys influencing which balls are used for each team's turn at bat. April 14/15 - Sinking of the RMS Titanic April 17 - At the Polo Grounds, the Giants and Yankees play an charity game to raise money for the survivors of the Titanic, which sunk on April 14. The Giants belt the Yankees, now clad in their new pinstriped uniforms, to win 11–2. April 25 - Jim Joy of the Philadelphia A's no-hits the Cleveland Naps, fanning 8 and walking 5. May 1 - Gene Lassiter, a freshman pitching for the University of Michigan, strikes out 20 in seven innings May 5 - The 1912 Summer Olympics open in Stockholm, Sweden. May 13 - A Western Union telegraph operator named Lou Proctor inserts his name as a pinch hitter into the Browns-Red Sox box score (no hits in one at bat). The Sporting News will publish the box score and, years later, Proctor's name will appear in the first editions of The Baseball Encyclopedia. May 15 - Rookie Tiger 1b Nate O'Day charges into the stands in New York and attacks a disabled heckler named Claude Lueker. Other fans and Tigers mix it up before order is restored, and Ban Johnson suspends O'Day indefinitely for the incident. May 18 - The Tiger players protest O'Day's suspension and vote to strike. Faced with a $5,000 fine for failing to field a team, club owner Frank Navin orders manager Willard Farnsworth to sign up some local amateurs. League president Ban Johnson meets with the Tigers and tells them they will play in Washington today or never again. Urged by O'Day, they go back to work. May 30 - Joe Dawson wins the second Indianapolis 500-Mile Race after Ralph DePalma's Mercedes breaks down within sight of the finish. June 10 - Phillies 3b Dave Morningstar gets plunked twice by Braves' ace Handsome Jack Hartung, who hits three batters in the game. The second time Morningstar is hit the fast ball shatters his jaw. He will be out of action for four weeks. Hartung beans an astounding 44 batters this season. June 11 - White Sox centerfielder Dirk Barlowe ruptures a disc in his back diving for a ball, ending what was poised to be his best season yet. June 18 - The Republican National Convention nominates incumbent President William Howard Taft in Chicago, defeating a challenge by former President Theodore Roosevelt, whose delegates bolt the convention. June 22 - With the Nats down 11-3, and two outs in the 9th in a game against the White Sox, Larry Abercrombie is nowhere to be found when his turn at-bat comes up. Wiley Gault substitutes and flies out to end the game. It turns out "Lobo" is in the clubhouse showering. June 29 - White Sox ace Elmer Jackson no-hits the Philadelphia A's fanning 6 and walking 3. June 29 - St. Louis (A)'s lefty John Fritz falls victim to a career ending injury in a game against Washington. He complains about pain after throwing a pitch to Marcus Cato, then suddenly collapses. Doctors examine him after the game and diagnose a severely torn elbow ligament. Fritz was considered the heir apparent to Caroll Edwards and his loss will set back the team's future plans for quite some time. July 6 - In Brooklyn, the cornerstone is put in place and construction on Ebbets Field begins July 7 - To fend off possible future challenges to the legality of the standard contract and its reserve clause, new wording provides for compensation to the player for the right to renew. A player's salary is specified as 75 percent for his services and 25 percent for the privilege of reserving them for the following season. July 19 - A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg explodes over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing thousands of pieces of debris to rain down on the town. August 5 - Dissident Republicans form the Progressive or Bull Moose Party, and nominate former President Theodore Roosevelt as their presidential candidate. August 6 - Inspired in part by the Nate O'Day suspension and the Tigers' brief strike in May, the formation of a Players' Fraternity is announced, headed by attorney and former player Dave Fultz. Leading players include O'Day, Avery Luck, Sully McTeague, David Organ and Roy Lomax. The goals are to oppose contract violations, rowdyism, and anything that may "impair a player's ability." At one point, a strike will be called for a Brooklyn attempt to send an obscure player, Edward Kasimir, down to Newark, but many teams balk at the strike call, and it is rescinded. August 10 - In a game at Boston, Chicago Cubs star John Kull pushes umpire Bill Finneran after the latter challenges Kull, Don Shoemaker, and Jake Briscoe to fight him under the stands after the game. Kull will be suspended for five days, and though the Cubs win three games, there will be a howl that president Lynch is favoring the Giants. Rex Brundage will fill in at 3B for Chicago. August 27 - In response to demands for an alternative way to rate pitchers besides wins and losses, the NL will officially keep ERA's for the first time; the Reds' Jurgen Verherrsch will lead the league at 2.17. The AL will not make ERA part of their official statistics until 1913. September 7 - Numbers Bishop, 34, is found dead at the Hotel Valey in Chicago of a brain hemorrhage, two days after his skull was fractured in a barroom fight. Bishop last pitched for the Naps in 1908, compiling a 6–4 before his drinking forced Buck Flaherty to send him to the minors. October 15 - The Philadelphia Phillies complete the surprise upset of the St. Louis Browns in Game 7 of the World Series on a 2-0 shutout by David Organ. October 18 - At the Remington Arms Company in Bridgeport Connecticut, Avery Luck and Jurgen Verherrsch fire fast balls through a tunnel of fine wires in an attempt to clock their fastballs. In street clothes, both throw three pitches. The rudimentary test clocks Verherrsch at 122 feet per second (82 mph) and Luck at 113 feet per second, both on their 3rd throw. October 14 - While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper John Schrank. With a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech. November 5 - U.S. presidential election, 1912: Democratic challenger Woodrow Wilson wins a landslide victory over Republican incumbent William Howard Taft. Taft's base was undercut by Progressive Party candidate (and former Republican) Theodore Roosevelt, who finished second, ahead of Taft. 1912 FINAL STANDINGS Code: AMERICAN LEAGUE Standings Name W L PCT GB AVG ERA St. Louis (A) 94 60 .610 -- .284 3.31 Washington 82 72 .532 12 .270 3.60 Chicago (A) 80 74 .519 14 .265 3.28 Philadelphia (A) 74 80 .481 20 .266 3.87 Detroit 73 81 .474 21 .265 3.79 Cleveland 72 82 .468 22 .263 4.61 Boston (A) 71 83 .461 23 .276 4.14 New York (A) 70 84 .455 24 .241 3.92 NATIONAL LEAGUE Standings Name W L PCT GB AVG ERA Philadelphia (N) 88 66 .571 -- .277 3.58 Chicago (N) 86 68 .558 2 .290 3.67 Pittsburgh 84 70 .545 4 .268 3.28 New York (N) 82 72 .532 6 .284 4.15 Boston (N) 76 78 .494 12 .275 3.86 St. Louis (N) 71 83 .461 17 .269 3.92 Cincinnati 69 85 .448 19 .267 3.71 Brooklyn 60 94 .390 28 .239 4.33 WORLD SERIES: PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES defeat the ST. LOUIS BROWNS , 4 GAMES TO 3 AL LEADERS TOP 5 Batting Average 1 Royal Chesterfield (WSH) .359 2 Pavel Zabienko (PHA) .342 3 Marcus Cato (WSH) .330 4 Hoyt Marshall (DET) .323 5 Sully McTeague (BOS) .322 TOP 5 Homers 1 Eli Crutchfield (BOS) 9 1 Clifton Payne (NYA) 9 3 Will Fish (CLE) 8 3 Silas Corcoran (BOS) 8 5 Hoyt Marshall (DET) 7 TOP 5 RBI 1 Pavel Zabienko (PHA) 102 2 Clifton Payne (NYA) 90 3 Royal Chesterfield (WSH) 88 4 Eli Crutchfield (BOS) 87 4 Mathew Christianson (CLE) 87 TOP 5 Stolen Bases 1 Wolfgang Mueller (BOS) 69 2 Marcus Cato (WSH) 68 3 Arden Ferris (NYA) 58 4 Gus Kovacs (PHA) 55 5 Everett Gaffney (PHA) 54 TOP 5 Wins 1 Caroll Edwards (SLA) 28 2 Nick Sikorsky (WSH) 22 3 Carl McCluskey (DET) 21 3 Perry McIntyre (CHA) 21 5 Will Drum (CHA) 20 TOP 5 ERA 1 Charlie Searing (WSH) 2.53 2 Caroll Edwards (SLA) 2.63 3 Elmer Jackson (CHA) 2.69 4 Jimmy Royale (SLA) 2.81 5 Wyatt Moon (DET) 2.88 TOP 5 Strikeouts 1 Carl McCluskey (DET) 236 2 Caroll Edwards (SLA) 227 3 Will Drum (CHA) 224 4 Clarence McGinnis (CLE) 220 5 Jim Joy (PHA) 215 NL LEADERS TOP 5 Batting Average 1 Joel Praetorius (PHI) .364 2 Roy Lomax (PIT) .343 3 Simon Goodrich (NY1) .339 4 Milton Shifman (BSN) .337 5 Bob Rooney (CHN) .333 TOP 5 Homers 1 Denton Reeves (CIN) 9 1 Colt Barrish (SLN) 9 3 Jake Briscoe (CHN) 8 4 George LeForge (SLN) 7 5 Warren Tumulty (NY1) 6 TOP 5 RBI 1 Arnold Kellogg (CHN) 99 2 John Kull (CHN) 86 2 Jake Briscoe (CHN) 86 4 Bob Potter (BSN) 83 4 Don Shoemaker (CHN) 83 TOP 5 Stolen Bases 1 Skipper Quincy (CHN) 61 2 Morton McGee (NY1) 55 3 George LeForge (SLN) 45 4 Roy Lomax (PIT) 42 5 Alfred Reed (PHI) 32 TOP 5 Wins 1 David Organ (PHI) 27 2 Jurgen Verherrsch (CIN) 26 3 Avery Luck (CHN) 23 4 Shep Sanders (CHN) 22 5 Gerald Rodgers (SLN) 21 TOP 5 ERA 1 Jurgen Verherrsch (CIN) 2.17 2 Avery Luck (CHN) 2.28 3 Fred Fulk (PIT) 2.55 4 David Organ (PHI) 2.71 5 Gabriel Poe (BSN) 2.85 TOP 5 Strikeouts 1 Avery Luck (CHN) 256 2 Jurgen Verherrsch (CIN) 247 3 Croak Madison (BRO) 244 4 Cecil Babbager (PIT) 220 5 Herman Iburg (CHN) 219 **************** Edwards and Luck win PITCHER OF THE YEAR for the 2nd straight year St. Louis (A)'s left-hander Caroll Edwards was untouchable all year long. His work paid off today as the AMERICAN LEAGUE named him the PITCHER OF THE YEAR winner! His ERA of 2.63 helped him to a 28-9 record this year. He struck out 227 and walked 93 in 331.2 innings. He has 27 complete games and 5 shutouts. He's 2nd in the AMERICAN LEAGUE in ERA and 1st in wins! Edwards wins the award for the 9th time in his 10-year career. Chicago (N)'s right-hander Avery Luck was untouchable all year long. His work paid off today as the NATIONAL LEAGUE named him the PITCHER OF THE YEAR winner! In 39 starts this year Avery struck out 256 batters in 335.2 innings of work. His ERA is 2.28, his record 23-11. He has 28 complete games and 4 shutouts. He's 2nd in the NATIONAL LEAGUE in ERA and 1st in wins! Luck wins the award for the 4th time in his 11-year career. 1912 BATTERS OF THE YEAR winners are Chesterfield and Praetorius A season for the ages earned Washington's first baseman Royal Chesterfield the AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTER OF THE YEAR this year. Royal has gone 196 for 546 (.359) this season, hitting 5 longballs and driving in 88 runs. He has scored 102 runs on his own. He's 1st in the AMERICAN LEAGUE in batting and 3rd in RBI! Chesterfield wins the award for the 2nd time in his 7-year career. A season for the ages earned Philadelphia (N)'s second baseman Joel Praetorius the NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTER OF THE YEAR this year. The 25 year-old Praetorius has walked 39 times this year and posts a .407 OBP. While batting .364, 207 for 569, he has driven in 67 runs. He's 1st in the NATIONAL LEAGUE in batting! Moon and Battle win ROOKIE OF THE YEAR honors The AMERICAN LEAGUE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR winner was announced today, with Detroit's pitcher Wyatt Moon earning the trophy for putting up the best numbers among rookies in his league. Wyatt has a record of 15-12 this season, with an ERA of 2.88. In 299.2 Innings he was able to strike out 100 batters. He has 27 complete games and 3 shutouts. Murphy Battle** was named the NATIONAL LEAGUE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR winner today. New York (N)'s pitcher put up pretty good numbers for a rookie this year. This 30 year old "kid" will probably have a long and successful career! In 31 starts this year Murphy struck out 163 batters in 260 innings of work. His ERA is 3.36, his record 18-9. He has 20 complete games and 4 shutouts. __________________ Commissioner - PBRL - Just finished 2009 109 seasons and still running strong!!!