Boston Red Sox - The First World War Era (1910-1919)

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Titles:

Top Red Sox Players of the Teens

1912 - World Champs (Beat Giants)

Pitchers:

1915 - World Champs (Beat Phillies)

Smokey Joe Wood (26.77) - 60

1916 - World Champs (Beat Brooklyn)

Dutch Leonard (27.8) - 59

1918 - World Champs (Beat Cubs)

Babe Ruth (20.67) - 57

Ray Collins (23.66) - 51

BallPark:

Carl Mays (16.55) - 45

Huntington Avenue Grounds (1910-1911)

Ernie Shore (12.7) - 34

Fenway Park (1912-1919)

Rube Foster (11.35) - 30

Hugh Bedient (6.87) - 27

Team Name:

Sam Jones (1.6) - 20

Red Sox

Charlie Hall (5.14) - 19

Eddie Cicotte (3.4) - 18

Owner:

Herb Pennock (1.93) - 14

John I. Taylor (1910-1911)

Buck O'Brien (8.2) - 13

James R. McAleer (1912-1913)

Bullett Joe Bush (3.49) - 12

Joseph J. Lannin (1913-1916)

Harry Frazee (1917-1919)

Catchers:

Wally Schang (5.6) - 18

General Managers:

Bill Carrigan (9.31) - 16

None

Pinch Thomas (4.45) - 9

Managers:

First Basemen:

Patsy Donovan (1910-1911)

Dick Hoblitzel (8.38) - 25

Jake Stahl (1912-1913)

Jake Stahl (5.55) - 17

Bill Carrigan (1913-1916)

Clyde Engle (5.81) - 15

Jack Barry (1917)

Stuffy McInnis (4.07) - 13

Ed Barrow (1918-1919)

Del Gainer (5.41) - 5

No Hitters:

Second Basemen:

Smokey Joe Wood (1911)

Heinie Wagner (8.61) - 25

Rube Foster (1916)

Steve Yerkes (3.9) - 12

Hub Leonard (1916)

Babe Ruth / Ernie Shore (1917)

ShortStop:

Hub Leonard (1918)

Everett Scott (11.27) - 26

Hall of Famers:

Third Base:

Waite Hoyt

Larry Gardner (30.33) - 68

Herb Pennock

Babe Ruth

Outfield:

Tris Speaker

Tris Speaker (49.49) - 126

Harry Hooper

Harry Hooper (32.71) - 105

Duffy Lewis (22.67) - 69

MVP:

Babe Ruth (19.27) - 35

Tris Speaker (1912)

Tilly Walker (3.38) - 17

Hal Janvrin (1.23) - 13

Notable Events:

Amos Strunk (2.28) - 10

Smokey Joe Wood (4.01) - 0

1910 - Coming into the decade, the team owner John Taylor

had started building was now starting to come into it's own.

Notable Events:

The Sox are young and talented. Catcher Bill Carrigan

infielder Larry Gardner and outfielders Tris Speaker, Duffy

1915 - The Red Sox win 101 games and the World Series by

Lewis and Harry Hooper were position players that became

by beating the Phillies.

fixtures during the Teens. What really made the Sox great

during the decade was their pitching. Those guys weren't

1916 - Superstar outfielder Tris Speaker is traded to Cleveland

here yet in 1910.

for righthander Sad Sam Jones, 23, who will end up with 229

wins in his big league career, plus a large sum of cash (in those

1912 - Fenway Park opens. It is one of the many concrete and steel

days) of $55K. This trade was the culmination of a salary

parks being built in the era and one of only two that lasts to this day.

dispute between Speaker and owner Joe Lannin. Lannin never

forgot that Speaker had extracted a big payday from Boston

1912 - John Taylor sells the club to James R.McAleer, but

back in 1914 when Brooklyn of the newly formed rival Federal

retains ownership of Fenway Park which he leases to the

League offered Speaker big bucks which Lannin was forced

new owners. Taylor needed the money from the sale in order

to counter. Now that there was no more Federal League,

to complete building the park. Fenway being the more

Lannin, obviously one to hold a grudge, wanted to cut Speaker's

valuable asset, in Taylor's mind, than the Red Sox team

salary in half. When Speaker balked, he was traded.

1912 -The Sox win the World Series, going 105-47 in the

1916 - The Red Sox win the pennant and the World Series again

regular season. That's a monumental 27 game improvement

this time beating the Dodgers in the World Series. The loss of

from the previous season. Twenty two year old Smokey Joe

Speaker was mitigated by the great pitching

Wood is the dominant figure on a talented team, going 34-5.

He hurts his arm the following year and is never quite the same.

1917 - Harry Frazee buys the Red Sox. This is the beginning of

Two other pitchers are big factors in the huge improvement,

armegeddon for Boston. The Sox finish second.

Charlie O'Brien and Hugh Bedient. Both win twenty. O'Brien, 30,

wins only thirteen games the rest of his career. For Bedient, 22,

1918 - Ed Barrow is hired as Sox Manager. Barrow's got

1912 is a career season and he is out of the majors by the time

game and it doesn't take him long to bring the Sox back to the top

he is twenty six

1918 - Over in Philadelphia, Connie Mack is completing the fire

1913 - Joseph Lannin buys the club. Bill Carrigan becomes

sale that gutted his championship club. Boston had purchased

manager. Both continue leading the club on a steady course.

second baseman Jack Barry in 1915. Now they get the last

remnants of the great A's clubs picking up outfielder Amos Strunk,

1913 - Twenty One year old Dutch Leonard is purchased from

catcher Wally Schang and ace righty Bullet Joe Bush for $60K

Denver and spends six years as a big part of the rotation.

and three lesser lights. In a separate deal, the Sox pick up twenty

seven year old star first baseman Stuffy McInnis in a deal for

1914 - Ray Collins, 27, wins twenty. This is the best, and last,

expendable Larry Gardner and Tilly Walker

of his five seasons as a solid member of Boston's rotation. He

hurts his arm the following season and is gone from the big

1918 - The Sox sport one of the great young pitching rotations in

leagues after that

baseball history: Babe Ruth, 23; Sad Sam Jones, 25;

Bullet Joe Bush, 25; Carl Mays, 26; and Dutch Leonard, 26.

1914 - Babe Ruth's contract is purchased from the minor league

Baltimore Orioles. Babe is the greatest talent the game has

1918 - Bolstered by their acquisitions from the A's,

ever known. He debuts at nineteen years old and develops into

the Red Sox win their fourth World title in seven years,

a great left handed pitcher. .

this time it’s the Cubs who are their post season victims

1914 - Pitchers Rube Foster, 26, and Ernie Shore, 23, also debut

1919 - The talented pitching just keeps rolling in. Nineteen year

in the starting rotation. Each will put in four solid years as Red

old righthander and future Hall of Famer Waite Hoyt is picked

Sox starters. Foster had been purchased from Houston in '13

up after the Giants dropped him. Herb Pennock, acquired

Shore had been purchased along with Ruth from Baltimore.

a few years earlier, comes up from the minors

1915 - Future Hall of Fame lefthander Herb Pennock, 21, is

1919 - Frazee begins the dismantling of his great club. Dutch

picked up on waivers from the A's. It will be another four years

Leonard, Ernie Shore and Duffy Lewis are dealt to the

before he joins Boston's starting rotation due to the logjam of

Yankees for four warm bodies and $15K

of great Sox starters on the club.

1919 - Babe Ruth moves from the mound to the outfield. He

1915 - Righthander Carl Mays, 23, joins the club. He had been

plays 130 games in the outfield and hits twenty nine home

let go by the Tigers earlier. Mays will go on to win 207 games

runs. He also goes 9-5 in 133 innings on the mound, but the

in his career.

split duty definitely affects his sharpness. Babe outhomers

four AL teams and the rest of the Red Sox hit only four homers

combined. Babe is only twenty four years old.