1905 Baseball Season Highlights
The 1905 baseball season was known as a "dead-ball" year, with only a few players batting over .300. The 1905 World Series was one of the most one-sided Series ever; the New York Giants won with a composite score of 15-3, and their ERA for the series was a perfect 0.00. Below, you will find highlights from the 1905 baseball season:
- The A's win their first pennant.
- The Giants repeat as National League champs.
- The Giants win the 1905 World Series four games to one, with every game a shutout.
- Christy Mathewson hurls three shutout 1905 World Series wins.
- Ty Cobb debuts with the Tigers.
- New York's Roger Bresnahan experiments with first "batting helmet" after being beaned.
- Cincinnati's Cy Seymour misses the National League Triple Crown by a margin of one home run.
- Cleveland's Elmer Flick leads the American League with .308 BA.
- Braves have record four 20-game losers, as Vic Willis loses a 20th-century record 29 games.
- The A's lead the American League with 623 runs, the fewest ever by a loop leader.
- St. Louis rookie George Stone leads the American League in hits (187) and total bases (259).
- Rube Waddell again leads American League in Ks (287).
- Christy Mathewson becomes the first in century to pitch two no-hitters, blanking Chicago on June 13.
- White Sox post new American League record 1.99 ERA and give up just 451 runs.
- Cubs post new National League record 2.04 ERA and allow just 442 runs.
- Rube Waddell leads the American League in wins (27), ERA (1.48), and win pet. (.730).
- Nap Lajoie becomes Cleveland's player/manager; team is now known as "Naps" in his honor.
- Christy Mathewson leads the National League in wins (31), ERA (1.27), and shutouts (eight).
- Cy Young typifies the plight of dead-ball hurlers when he posts an 18-19 record despite a 1.82 ERA.
- On April 26, Jack McCarthy of the Cubs makes a record three double plays by an outfielder.
- The Red Sox use only 18 players all year -- a major league record low.
- John McGraw is suspended for 15 days and fined $150 by the National League for abusing umpires.
- Rube Waddell beats Cy Young in a 20-inning game on July 4.
- Weldon Henley of the A's no-hits the Browns on July 22.
- Frank Smith of the White Sox no-hits Detroit on Sept. 6.
- Irv Young of the Braves sets modern major league rookie records with 41 starts, 41 complete games, and 378 innings.
- Bill Dinneen of Boston no-hits the White Sox on Sept. 27.
- Cincinnati's Fred Odwell, National League home run leader with nine, never hits another homer in the majors.
- Cub Frank Chance is hit by pitches a record five times in a Decoration Day doubleheader.
- Jim Dunleavy of Oakland in the Pacific Coast League plays in an organized baseball record 227 games.
- Noodles Hahn, who won 100 games before he was 25, is felled by arm trouble at 26.
- Elmer Flick leads the American League in slugging with a .462 mark.
- The Browns' Harry Howell averages 4.68 assists per game -- an ail-time record for pitchers.
- Seymour collects 325 total bases, the most in the National League during the dead-ball era.
- Brooklyn rookie Harry Mclntire loses 25 games.
- On August 24, the Cubs beat the Phillies 2-1 in 20 innings.
- The Giants boast three 20-game winners: Mathewson (31), Red Ames (22), and Joe McGinnity (21).
- Dave Fultz leaves the majors after stealing 44 bases -- the most ever by a player in his final major league season.
