1905 Philadelphia Athletics season

MLB yearly infobox-pre1969
name = Philadelphia Athletics
season = 1905
misc = 1905 AL Champions

current league = American League
y1 = 1901
division = Western Division
y2 = 1969
Uniform
ballpark = Columbia Park
y4 = 1901
city = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
y5 = 1901
owners = Benjamin Shibe and Connie Mack
managers = Connie Mack
television =
radio = |The Philadelphia Athletics' 1905 season involved the A's finishing 1st in the American League with a record of 92 wins and 56 losses.

Regular season

eason standings

Birth of the Elephant Mascot

After New York Giants' manager John McGraw told reporters that Philadelphia manufacturer Benjamin Shibe, who owned the controlling interest in the new team, had a "white elephant on his hands," Mack defiantly adopted the white elephant as the team mascot, and presented McGraw with a stuffed toy elephant at the start of the 1905 World Series. McGraw and Mack had known each other for years, and McGraw accepted it graciously.

Roster

World Series

NL New York Giants (4) vs AL Philadelphia Athletics (1)

References

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/PHA/1905.shtml 1905 Philadelphia Athletics team page at Baseball Reference]
* [http://baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1905&t=PHA 1905 Philadelphia Athletics team page at www.baseball-almanac.com]

succession box
title = American League Champions
Philadelphia Athletics
years = by|1905
before = Boston Amercians
by|1904
after = Chicago White Sox
by|1906
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