1919 New York Yankees season

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1919 New York Yankees
Major League affiliations
  • American League (since 1901)
Location
  • Polo Grounds (since 1913)
  • New York City, New York (since 1903)
Other information
Owner(s)Jacob Ruppert and Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston
Manager(s)Miller Huggins
Local televisionnone
Local radionone
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The 1919 New York Yankees season was the 17th season for the Yankees in New York and its 19th overall. The team finished with a record of 80–59, 7½ games behind the American League champion Chicago White Sox. New York was managed by Miller Huggins. Their home games were played at the Polo Grounds.

Offseason[]

  • December 18, 1918: Future Chicago Bears football coach George Halas was signed as a free agent by the Yankees.[1]

Regular season[]

Season standings[]

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American League 		W L Pct. GB Home Road
Chicago White Sox 88 52 0.629 — 48–22 40–30
Cleveland Indians 84 55 0.604 3½ 44–25 40–30
New York Yankees 80 59 0.576 7½ 46–25 34–34
Detroit Tigers 80 60 0.571 8 46–24 34–36
St. Louis Browns 67 72 0.482 20½ 40–30 27–42
Boston Red Sox 66 71 0.482 20½ 35–30 31–41
Washington Senators 56 84 0.400 32 32–40 24–44
Philadelphia Athletics 36 104 0.257 52 21–49 15–55

Record vs. opponents[]

1919 American League Records
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Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Team BOS CWS CLE DET NYY PHI STL WSH
Boston — 9–11 4–15 9–11 10–9 14–6 9–10–1 11–9
Chicago 11–9 — 12–8 11–9 12–8 17–3 11–9 14–6
Cleveland 15–4 8–12 — 8–12 13–7 16–4 11–9 13–7
Detroit 11–9 9–11 12–8 — 8–12 14–6 14–6 12–8
New York 9–10 8–12 7–13 12–8 — 18–2 12–8 14–6–2
Philadelphia 6–14 3–17 4–16 6–14 2–18 — 7–13 8–12
St. Louis 10–9–1 9–11 9–11 6–14 8–12 13–7 — 12–8
Washington 9–11 6–14 7–13 8–12 6–14–2 12–8 8–12 —


Roster[]

1919 New York Yankees
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Other batters

Manager
  • Miller Huggins

Coaches

Player stats[]

Batting[]

Starters by position[]

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
C Muddy Ruel 79 233 56 .240 0 31
1B Wally Pipp 138 523 144 .275 7 50
2B Del Pratt 140 527 154 .292 4 56
SS Roger Peckinpaugh 122 453 138 .305 7 33
3B Frank Baker 141 567 166 .293 10 83
OF Ping Bodie 134 475 132 .278 6 59
OF Duffy Lewis 141 559 152 .272 7 89
OF Sammy Vick 106 407 101 .248 2 27

Other batters[]

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
Chick Fewster 81 244 69 .283 1 15
Truck Hannah 75 227 54 .238 1 20
Al Wickland 26 46 7 .152 0 1
Aaron Ward 27 34 7 .206 0 2
George Halas 12 22 2 .091 0 0
Bill Lamar 11 16 3 .188 0 0
Frank Gleich 5 4 1 .250 0 1
Curt Walker 1 1 0 .000 0 0
Fred Hofmann 1 1 0 .000 0 0
Frank Kane 1 1 0 .000 0 0

Pitching[]

Starting pitchers[]

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Jack Quinn 38 266 15 14 2.61 97
Bob Shawkey 41 261.1 20 11 2.72 122
Hank Thormahlen 30 188.2 12 8 2.62 62
Carl Mays 13 120 9 3 1.65 54

Other pitchers[]

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
George Mogridge 35 169 10 9 2.77 58
Ernie Shore 20 95 5 8 4.17 24
Allen Russell 23 90.2 5 5 3.47 50
Pete Schneider 7 29 0 1 3.41 11

Relief pitchers[]

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G W L SV ERA SO
Luke Nelson 9 3 0 0 2.96 11
Walt Smallwood 6 0 0 0 4.98 6
Bob McGraw 6 1 0 0 3.31 3
Lefty O'Doul 3 0 0 0 3.60 2

Notes[]

  1. ^ George Halas page at Baseball Reference

References[]

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