New York Highlanders - The World War I Era (1910-1919)

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Titles:

Top New York Players of the Teens

None

Pitchers:

BallPark:

Ray Caldwell (28.5) - 68

Hilltop Park (1910-1912)

Russell Ford (26.9) - 54

Polo Grounds (1913-1919)

Bob Shawkey (16.7) - 47

Ray Fisher (18.3) - 44

Team Name:

Jack Warhop (13) - 30

Highlanders (1910-1912)

George Mogridge (11.5) - 29

Yankees (1913-1919)

Jack Quinn (6.09) - 26

Hank Thormahlen (4.6) - 12

Owner:

Hippo Vaughn (5.74) - 9

Frank Farrell & William S. Devery (1910-1914)

Jake Ruppert (1915-1919)

Catchers:

Ed Sweeney (6.1) - 24

General Managers:

Les Nunamaker (7.22) - 17

Frank Farrell (1900-1914)

Jake Ruppert (1915-1919)

First Basemen:

Wally Pipp (15.34) - 43

Managers:

Jack Knight (5.52) - 22

George Stallings (1910)

Hal Chase (4.04) - 20

Hal Chase (1910-1911)

Harry Wolverton (1912)

Second Basemen:

Frank Chance (1913-1914)

Del Pratt (8.53) - 20

Roger Peckinpaugh (1914)

Fritz Maisel (7.79) - 17

Wild Bill Donovan (1915-1917)

Miller Huggins (1918-1919)

ShortStop:

Roger Peckinpaugh (25.39) - 64

Hall of Famers:

Jake Ruppert

Third Base:

Miller Huggins

Home Run Baker (17.12) - 36

Dazzy Vance

Frank Chance

Outfield:

Home Run Baker

Birdie Cree (13.95) - 49

Bert Daniels (8.71) - 27

MVP:

Harry Wolter (9.36) - 24

None

Roy Hartzell (7.08) - 24

Ping Bodie (3.61) - 18

No Hitters:

Hugh High (3.94) - 18

George Mogridge (1917)

Doc Cook (3.21) - 15

Lee Magee (0.49) - 12

Notable Events:

Frank Gilhooley (4.62) - 9

1910 - A forgettable decade that doesn't start turning around even after awful

Notable Events:

owners Devery and Farrell sell the club to Jacob Ruppert midway thru it.

1915 - First baseman Wally Pipp, 22, is purchased from Detroit

1910 - Righthander Ray Fisher, 22, is purchased from Hartford

1915 - Ace righthander Bob Shawkey, 24, is purchased from the A's Connie

1910 - Righthander Ray Caldwell, 22, is purchased from McKeesport

Mack firesale - he wasn't an ace yet, just promising

1912 - The Highlanders add pinstripes to their uniforms. They had added

1916 - Future HOF third baseman Home Run Baker, 30, is purchased from the

the interlocking NY to their uniforms earlier in 1909

A's. He had been in a salary dispute with Connie Mack.

1913 - The club signs a lease to play at the Polo Grounds, a much

1918 - The Yanks hire Miller Huggins as manager. The Huggins hiring was the

bigger ballpark than Hilltop Park. Harry Hemphill had just bought the

second step in turning the franchise around. The Ruppert ownership was the first.

National League Giants from John T. Brush, who was a throwback to

the early thugs who ran the NL.The Giants owned the Polo Grounds

1918 - Righthander Urban Shocker, 26, is dealt to the Browns in a bad trade

and as long as the vindictive Brush had owned the club, they would

never lease to the American League's major league New York entry.

1919 - Lefthander Lefty O'Doul, 22, Is a rookie. O'Doul was a great hitter whose

ability to pitch hurt his career as it muddied the waters regarding at what position

1913 - No longer playing at Hilltop Park, the Highlanders name,

he should really be playing. The Yankees couldn't decide what to do with him.

never popular anyway, gives way to the Yankees, a brand is born.

There's a real irony here as the Yankees would purchase lefthander Babe Ruth from

Boston and convert him into an outfielder while they had another top slugger right

1913 - In a bad deal, the impatient Yankees dump 6-4 220lb

under their noses that they didn't convert into an outfielder from a lefthanded hurler.

twenty four year old lefthander Hippo Vaughn. Sometimes big guys

Altho' O'Doul was no Ruth, he was a great hitter in his own right and it's interesting

need a little time to find themselves, but Frank Farrell, who was

to see how differently the Yankees handled the two players and how it affected

running the club, knew more about barstools and whiskey than he

their careeers. O'Doul would have been awesome next to Ruth in the lineeup.

did about baseball and he let Vaughn go for nothing. The Big Hippo

Outfield defense would have been a problem, however. Both had great throwing

went on to have a near HOF career with the Cubs.

arms, obviously, but neither was a gazelle.

1915 - Jacob Ruppert buys the club from the Yankees' lowlife owners

1919 - The Boston Red Sox to Yankees fire sale begins helping the Yankees

Frank Farrell and William Devery. Baseball was now going legit in New York

move up twenty games in the standings to third place. The Yankees get OF

and moving away from the Tammany Hall tied thugs like Farrell, Devery

Duffy Lewis and starting pitchers Dutch Leonard, Carl Mays and Ernie Shore

and thug in general John Brush of the Giants. It was a good thing.

from Boston. (New York turns around and sells Leonard to Detroit before he

Unfortunately for the Yankees, they didn't have anyone in the front office

ever throws a pitch for the Yanks). The dismantling of the Red Sox, mostly to the

who knew how to build a winner even after Ruppert bought the club.

Yankees, was a third huge step in the turnaround of the Yankees.