1914 Major League Baseball Season
The 1914 Major League Baseball season began on April 14, 1914.
The regular season ended on October 7, with the Boston Braves and Philadelphia Athletics as the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The postseason began with Game 1 of the 11th World Series on October 9 and ended with Game 4 on October 13. The Braves swept the Athletics in four games.
| 1914 MLB season | |
|---|---|
| League | Major League Baseball |
| Sport | Baseball |
| Duration | April 14 – October 13, 1914 |
| Number of games | 154 |
| Number of teams | 16 |
| Regular Season | |
| Season MVP | AL: Eddie Collins (PHA) NL: Johnny Evers (BSB) |
| AL champions | Philadelphia Athletics |
| AL runners-up | Boston Red Sox |
| NL champions | Boston Braves |
| NL runners-up | New York Giants |
| World Series | |
| Champions | Boston Braves |
| Runners-up | Philadelphia Athletics |
In competition with Major League Baseball, the Federal League declared itself as a "third major league" for its own 1914 season, with its own eight teams, in competition with the established National and American Leagues.
This was the last of four seasons that the Chalmers Award, a precursor to the Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award (introduced in 1931), was given to a player in each of the established National and American Leagues.
Teams
An asterisk (*) denotes the departure from a ballpark mid-season.
Schedule
The 1914 schedule consisted of 154 games for all teams in the American League and National League, each of which had eight teams. Each team was scheduled to play 22 games against the other seven teams of their respective league. This continued the format put in place for the 1904 season. This format would last until 1919.
Opening Day, April 14, featured all sixteen teams, only the third time every team has started their season on the same day (with the 1912 season being the second). The National League would see its final day of the regular season on October 6, while the American League would see its final day of the regular season was on October 7. The World Series took place between October 9 and October 13.
Standings
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Postseason
Bracket
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| AL | Philadelphia Athletics | 0 | ||
| NL | Boston Braves | 4 | ||
Managers
American League
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League leaders
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National League
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Awards and honors
Home field attendance
| Team name | Wins | %± | Home attendance | %± | Per game |
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| Boston Red Sox | 91 | 15.2% | 481,359 | 10.1% | 6,093 |
| Chicago White Sox | 70 | -10.3% | 469,290 | -27.2% | 5,794 |
| Detroit Tigers | 80 | 21.2% | 416,225 | 4.4% | 5,336 |
| Boston Braves | 94 | 36.2% | 382,913 | 84.1% | 4,847 |
| New York Giants | 84 | -16.8% | 364,313 | -42.2% | 4,554 |
| New York Yankees | 70 | 22.8% | 359,477 | 0.5% | 4,609 |
| Philadelphia Athletics | 99 | 3.1% | 346,641 | -39.4% | 4,444 |
| St. Louis Cardinals | 81 | 58.8% | 256,099 | 25.8% | 3,242 |
| St. Louis Browns | 71 | 24.6% | 244,714 | -2.2% | 3,021 |
| Washington Senators | 81 | -10.0% | 243,888 | -25.1% | 3,167 |
| Chicago Cubs | 78 | -11.4% | 202,516 | -51.7% | 2,665 |
| Cleveland Naps | 51 | -40.7% | 185,997 | -65.6% | 2,354 |
| Pittsburgh Pirates | 69 | -11.5% | 139,620 | -52.8% | 1,813 |
| Philadelphia Phillies | 74 | -15.9% | 138,474 | -70.5% | 1,775 |
| Brooklyn Robins | 75 | 15.4% | 122,671 | -64.6% | 1,553 |
| Cincinnati Reds | 60 | -6.3% | 100,791 | -60.9% | 1,309 |
Events
- September 21 – Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators has four wild pitches in an inning.
References
External links
- 1914 Major League Baseball season schedule at Baseball Reference Retrieved January 14, 2018
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