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1913 Chicago Cubs Season
The 1913 Chicago Cubs season was the 42nd season of the Chicago Cubs franchise, the 38th in the National League and the 21st at West Side Park. The Cubs finished third in the National League with a record of 88–65. Offseason * December 15, 1912: Joe Tinker, Grover Lowdermilk and Harry Chapman were traded by the Cubs to the Cincinnati Reds for Red Corriden, Bert Humphries, Pete Knisely, Mike Mitchell and Art Phelan. Regular season 240px, Season standings Record vs. opponents Roster 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'' Other batters ''Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in'' Pitching Starting pitchers ''Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts'' Other pitchers ''Note: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Side Park
West Side Park was the name used for two different ballparks that formerly stood in Chicago, Illinois. They were both home fields of the team now known as the Chicago Cubs of the National League. Both ballparks hosted baseball championships. The latter of the two parks, where the franchise played for nearly a quarter century, was the home of the first two world champion Cubs teams ( and ), the team that posted the best winning percentage in Major League Baseball history and won the most games in National League history (), the only cross-town World Series in Chicago (1906), and the immortalized Tinker to Evers to Chance double-play combo. Both ballparks were primarily constructed of wood. The first West Side Park (1885–1891) The initial stadium was the club's home beginning in , succeeding Lakefront Park. Although the park's useful life turned out to be as short as the ball club's stay at the Lakefront (seven years), it was also memorable, as the team won back-to-back Nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Lavender
James Sanford Lavender (March 25, 1884 – January 12, 1960) was an American professional baseball player who played in Major League Baseball as a pitcher from 1912 to 1917. He played a total of five seasons with the Chicago Cubs of the National League from 1912 to 1916; after being traded to the Philadelphia Phillies, he played an additional season in 1917. During his playing days, his height was listed at , his weight as , and he batted and threw right-handed. Born in Barnesville, Georgia, he began his professional baseball career in minor league baseball in 1906 at the age 22. He worked his way through the system over the next few seasons, culminating with a three-season stint with the Providence Grays of the Eastern League from 1909 to 1911. Lavender primarily threw the spitball, and used it to win 16 games as a 28-year-old rookie in 1912. In July 1912, he defeated Rube Marquard, ending Marquard's consecutive win streak at 19 games, which at the time tied the record for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Archer
James Patrick Archer (May 13, 1883 – March 29, 1958) was an Irish-born catcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) who spent nearly his entire career with four National League teams, primarily the Chicago Cubs, for whom he played from 1909 to 1917. Born in Dublin, he also played for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1904, the American League's Detroit Tigers in 1907, and the Pirates, Brooklyn Robins and Cincinnati Reds in 1918. As a catcher, he could remain squatting and still throw out runners attempting to steal second base due to his unique arm strength, which became his trademark, acquired from the healing of burns that shortened his muscles after an industrial accident in which Archer fell into a vat of boiling sap at the age of 19. His family immigrated to Montreal when he was an infant, later moving to Toronto when he was three; he attended Toronto's De La Salle College and St. Michael's College School. He was working at a barrelmaker in Toronto in 1902 when he suffered the burns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zip Zabel
George Washington "Zip" Zabel (February 18, 1891, Wetmore, Kansas—May 31, 1970, Beloit, Wisconsin) was a professional baseball pitcher. He played all or part of three seasons in Major League Baseball in 1913-15 for the Chicago Cubs. Zabel attended Baker University, in Baldwin City, Kansas, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1916 in chemistry. On June 17, 1915, Zabel set the record for most innings pitched in relief in one game. He came into the game in relief for Bert Humphries with two outs in the first inning, and pitched the final innings to earn the win over the Brooklyn Robins (now the Los Angeles Dodgers) and opposing pitcher Jeff Pfeffer, who pitched the complete game. After that game, Zabel only played one more start in the majors, as he had begun to experience arm trouble as a result of the game. He then played two years in the minors in Los Angeles and Toronto before retiring from baseball in July 1917. Afterwards, he went to work for Fairbanks Morse in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doc Watson (baseball)
Charles John "Doc" Watson (January 30, 1885 – December 30, 1949) was an American professional baseball player who played as a pitcher in Major League Baseball Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world. MLB is composed of 30 total teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), .... External links Major League Baseball pitchers Chicago Cubs players Chicago Whales players St. Louis Terriers players La Crosse Pinks players La Crosse Outcats players Milwaukee Brewers (minor league) players Houston Buffaloes players Shreveport Gassers players Saskatoon Quakers (baseball) players Edmonton Elks players Baseball players from Ohio People from Carroll County, Ohio 1880s births 1949 deaths {{US-baseball-pitcher-1880s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hippo Vaughn
James Leslie "Hippo" Vaughn (April 9, 1888 – May 29, 1966) was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. In a career that spanned thirteen seasons, he played for the New York Highlanders (1908, 1910–1912), the Washington Senators (1912), and the Chicago Cubs (1913–1921). Vaughn won over twenty games in five seasons for the Cubs. His highlight year was , where he earned a National League-leading 22 wins when the season was ended a month early due to government restrictions brought about by World War I. That same year, Vaughn also led the National League in earned run average (ERA) and strikeouts to become the ninth triple crown winner in the modern era and the fifteenth overall. His nickname of "Hippo" came from his height of 6 feet 4 inches and weight of 215 pounds. Early life Vaughn was born in Weatherford, Texas to Josephine and stonemason Thomas Vaughn. He began his career in baseball in 1906 in the Texas League, playing for the Temple Boll Weevils. He pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Toney
Fred Toney (December 11, 1888 – March 11, 1953) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, New York Giants and St. Louis Cardinals from 1911 to 1923. His career record was 139 wins, 102 losses, and a 2.69 earned run average. Toney twice won 20 games in a season (1917, 1920) and also led the National League in saves in 1918. Career Minor leagues Fred Toney was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on December 11, 1888. As a youth he reportedly developed arm strength while working on a farm, using his spare time to throw rocks across the Cumberland River. Toney broke into baseball as a 16-year old in 1909, when he began pitching in the Blue Grass League, a newly formed circuit of semi-professional baseball clubs based in small Kentucky towns."Giant Fred Toney Doped to Start with Cub Team," ''Muncie Star Press,'' vol. 33, no. 332 (March 26, 1911), p. 11. While pitching for the Winchester Hustlers, Toney was spotted by Chicago ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Stack
William Edward Stack (October 24, 1887 – August 28, 1958) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world. MLB is composed of 30 total teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), ... from 1910 to 1914. References External links 1887 births 1958 deaths Major League Baseball pitchers Brooklyn Dodgers players Chicago Cubs players Philadelphia Phillies players St. Viator Irish football players Baseball players from Chicago {{US-baseball-pitcher-1880s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Smith (pitcher)
Charles Edwin Smith (April 20, 1880 – January 3, 1929) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from through for the Cleveland Bronchos (1902), Washington Senators (1906–1909), Boston Red Sox (1909–1911) and Chicago Cubs (1911–1914). Listed at , 185 pounds, Smith batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. His older brother, Fred Smith, was an infielder in the majors. Smith always was a bad-luck pitcher either due to injury or playing on a bad baseball team. He had a promising debut for Cleveland on August 6, 1902, defeating future Hall of Famer Rube Waddell and the Philadelphia Athletics, 5–4, at League Park. Then, working with two days' rest, he shut out the Baltimore Orioles, 7–0, ending his rookie season with a 2–1 record in three starts. He spent three years in the minors before joining the Senators in 1906. In three seasons for Washington, he posted ERAs of 2.91, 2.61 and 2.41, but finished with negative records of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lew Richie
Elwood Lewis Richie (August 23, 1883 in Ambler, Pennsylvania – August 15, 1936 in South Mountain, Pennsylvania), was a professional baseball player was a pitcher in the Major Leagues from 1906 to 1913. He played for the Chicago Cubs, Boston Doves and Philadelphia Phillies. Biography Richie signed to play for the Tri-State League's Williamsport Millionaires, Williamsport team in 1906. The Tri-State League was an "outlaw league" whose contracts were not respected by Major League Baseball, and Richie jumped his 1906 Williamsport contract to sign with the Phillies. Richie was a gifted musician and minstrel show performer during his playing career. Minstrel entertainer George "Honey Boy" Evans practiced with the Phillies in spring training in 1908. Richie brought his instruments to Savannah, Georgia where the team trained, and he and Evans organized the other players into a minstrel troupe for evening entertainment. External links References {{DEFAULTSORT:Richie, Lew 1883 bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Reulbach
Edward Marvin "Big Ed" Reulbach (December 1, 1882 – July 17, 1961) was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Chicago Cubs during their glory years of the early 1900s. Career Reulbach played college baseball at the University of Notre Dame in 1903 and 1904. He played for the University of Vermont in 1905, accumulating a 4-0 record before signing a contract with the Chicago Cubs in May. In the 1906 World Series (ultimately won in six games by the Chicago White Sox), Reulbach shone in Game 2 at South Side Park, giving up only one hit, a seventh-inning single to Jiggs Donahue. This rare World Series low-hit game (there have only been five in the 100-plus years of the Series) was matched by fellow Cubs star Claude Passeau in 1945 when he threw just the second one-hitter in Series history, surpassed by Don Larsen's perfect game in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series. Reulbach's best year was 1908, when he won 24 games for the National League and World Series champion Cubs, their l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Pierce (baseball)
George Thomas Pierce (January 10, 1888 – October 11, 1935) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He played all or part of six seasons in the majors, from to , for the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals The St. Louis Cardinals are an American professional baseball team based in St. Louis. The Cardinals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central division. Since the 2006 season, the Cardinals hav .... External links 1888 births 1935 deaths Major League Baseball pitchers Chicago Cubs players St. Louis Cardinals players Baseball players from Illinois Lansing Senators players Augusta Tourists players Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players Providence Grays (minor league) players Scranton Miners players Toledo Iron Men players Kansas City Blues (baseball) players Sportspeople from DeKalb County, Illinois {{US-baseball-pitcher-1880s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
