MVP: Klein
MAN OF THE YEAR: Belle
HOMERUNS: Foxx, 4
RUNS SCORED: Ty Cobb, Chips, 16
RBI: Ted Williams, Reps; Hank Greenberg, Powers; 14 each (1st RBI champs other than Stan Musial, Richie Allen, or Babe Ruth since Season 2)
DOUBLES: Kiki Cuyler, Powers, 5
STOLEN BASES: Cobb, 14 (HBWRL record)
Pitching
EARNED RUN AVERAGE (ERA), Min. 3 Games Started
1. Carl Hubbell, Powers 1.29
2. Walter Johnson, Reps 2.51 (top 3 in ERA, six consecutive seasons)
3. Ed Reulbach, Powers 2.66
HITS/INNINGS PITCHED (H/IP), Min. 6 IP
1. Hubbell 0.95
2. Eddie Plank, Reps 1.10
3. Reulbach 1.23
4. Ed Walsh, Reps 1.25
5. Johnson 1.26
WINS: Addie Joss, Powers; Hubbell; Reulbach; 4 each (Powers: 1st team ever with 4 4-game winners)
SAVES: Whitey Ford, Powers; Steve Carlton, Chips; 2 each
STRIKEOUTS: Reulbach, 40
The Powers became the first team ever to three-peat as
regular season champions behind sophomore sensation Chuck Klein.
They also became the first team ever to sport four four-game
winners as Joss, (strikeout leader) Reulbach, and (ERA and H/IP
leader) Hubbell each accomplished that feat. Rookie Albert Belle
became the league's first Man of the Year by scoring and driving in
the league's 2,000th run, as his solo homer lifted the Powers to a
1-0 win over the Maids. The Reps never recovered from horrible
pitching during the first half and struggled to a 6-12 record,
managing just one win against the Powers and Chips combined.
When the Reps' pitching improved during the second half, their
hitting slumped.
The World Series was a rematch of Season 4's classic
Chips/Stickpins series, and was just as memorable. The favored
Powers took two of the first three games, but back-to-back shutouts
by Chips pitchers Juan Marichal and Jack Chesbro gave the Chips a
3-2 lead and took the Powers to the brink of elimination.
Including the postseason, the Chips were 8-0 in games started by
Chesbro.
In Game 6, the Powers seemed to have forced a Game 7,
leading 3-0 through 8 innings. But Cal Ripken, Jr.'s three
run homer in the top of the 9th tied the game at 3-3. But the
Powers won the game in the bottom of the 9th, when Mickey Cochrane
drew a full count, bases loaded walk off of Chips reliever Sandy
Koufax. The Powers had also won a regular season game from the
Chips, 1-0 in 10 innings, on a bases loaded walk by Koufax.
The pitchers' duel of Game 7 was won by the Powers, as Hubbell
bested Marichal and the Powers won the game 2-0; and the Series,
4-3.