1911 in baseball

Year in baseball
this year = 1911

Champions

*World Series: Philadelphia Athletics over New York Giants (4-2)

Awards and honors

*Chalmers Award
**Ty Cobb, Detroit Tigers, OF
**Wildfire Schulte, Chicago Cubs, OF

MLB Statistical Leaders

Events

*July 29 - In the first game of a double-header, Smoky Joe Wood pitches a no-hitter against the St. Louis Browns in a 5-0 Boston Red Sox victory.
*August 27 - Chicago White Sox hurler Ed Walsh tosses a no-hitter against the Boston Red Sox. Chicago defeats Boston, 5-0.
*September 12 - In the nitecap of a game billed as a pitchers' duel, Boston Rustlers' Cy Young and the New York Giants' Christy Mathewson face each other before 10,000 fans, Boston's largest crowd of the year. Young gives up three home runs and nine runs in less than three innings. After the Giants build a 9–0 lead, Giants' manager John McGraw lifts Mathewson, who pitched just two innings, preferring to save his ace for the pennant race against the Cubs and Phillies. This is the only time the two pitchers ever face each other.
*October 26 - The Philadelphia Athletics defeat the New York Giants, 13-2, in Game 6 of the World Series to win their second consecutive World Championship. Philadelphia wins the series, four games to two. The six consecutive days of rain between Games 3 and 4 caused the longest delay between World Series games until the 1989 earthquake-interrupted Series, which incidentally featured the same two franchises, albeit on the west coast.

Births

January-March

*January 1 - Lindsay Brown
*January 1 - Hank Greenberg
*January 4 - Izzy León
*January 5 - Ted Petoskey
*January 9 - Jim Tyack
*January 11 - Roy Hughes
*January 17 - Hank Leiber
*January 18 - Pinky May
*February 8 - Don Heffner
*February 11 - Rae Blaemire
*February 11 - Yank Terry
*February 13 - Herb Hash
*February 14 - Bill Marshall
*February 22 - Bill Baker
*March 18 - Al Benton
*March 24 - Jim Bucher
*March 27 - Walter Stephenson

April-June

*April 2 - Cotton Pippen
*April 10 - Roger Wolff
*April 22 - Jake Daniel
*April 25 - Bobby Estalella
*May 10 - Roland Gladu
*May 12 - Archie McKain
*May 15 - Howie Storie
*May 18 - Al Niemiec
*May 20 - Bert Delmas
*June 8 - Van Lingle Mungo
*June 9 - Frank McCormick
*June 17 - Bill Humphrey

July-September

*July 11 - Vito Tamulis
*July 14 - Julio Bonetti
*July 29 - Roy Henshaw
*August 4 - Tuck Stainback
*August 10 - Taffy Wright
*August 11 - Connie Marrero
*August 23 - Nels Potter
*September 3 - Lindsay Deal
*September 5 - Buddy Hassett
*September 6 - Harry Danning
*September 18 - Tommy de la Cruz

October-December

*October 12 - Red Bullock
*November 13 - Buck O'Neil
*November 16 - Clay Bryant
*November 24 - Joe Medwick
*December 1 - Walter Alston
*December 5 - Don Padgett
*December 7 - Denny Galehouse
*December 7 - Don Johnson
*December 11 - Coaker Triplett
*December 21 - Nino Bongiovanni
*December 21 - Josh Gibson
*December 29 - Bill Knickerbocker

Deaths

*April 14 - Addie Joss, 31, pitcher for Cleveland who won 20 games four times (1905-08), led AL in ERA twice with career 1.89 mark; pitched 1-hitter in major league debut, and two no-hitters including 1908 perfect game
*April 25 - Jack Rowe, 54, catcher and shortstop for Buffalo and Detroit who batted .300 four times, led NL in triples in 1881; did not strike out in entire 1882 season, later a minor league manager
*August 5 - Bob Caruthers, 47, pitcher who compiled the highest career winning percentage among major leaguers with 250 decisions; led American Association with 40 victories in both 1885 and 1889, pacing St. Louis and Brooklyn to respective pennants; batted .300 twice, later an umpire
*August 31 - Will White, 56, pitcher who won over 200 games for Cincinnati teams in 10-year career, led league in wins and strikeouts twice each; first major leaguer to wear eyeglasses, and batterymate of brother Deacon from 1877-79