1905 St. Louis Browns season

1905 St. Louis Browns
Major League affiliations
American League (since 1900)
Location
Sportsman's Park (since 1902)
St. Louis, Missouri (since 1902)
Results
Record	54–99 (.353)
League place	8th
Other information
Owner(s)	Robert Hedges
Manager(s)	Jimmy McAleer
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In the 1905 St. Louis Browns season they finished 8th in the American League with a record of 54 wins and 99 losses.

Offseason

• December 26, 1904: Jesse Burkett was traded by the Browns to the Boston Americans for George Stone and cash.
• February 1905: The Browns traded a player to be named later to the Chicago White Sox for Branch Rickey. The Browns completed the deal by sending Frank Roth to the White Sox in June.

Regular season

Season standings

American League	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
Philadelphia Athletics	92	56	0.622	—	51–22	41–34
Chicago White Sox	92	60	0.605	2	50–29	42–31
Detroit Tigers	79	74	0.516	15½	45–30	34–44
Boston Americans	78	74	0.513	16	44–32	34–42
Cleveland Naps	76	78	0.494	19	41–36	35–42
New York Highlanders	71	78	0.477	21½	40–35	31–43
Washington Senators	64	87	0.424	29½	33–42	31–45
St. Louis Browns	54	99	0.353	40½	34–42	20–57

Record vs. opponents

1905 American League Records Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Team	BOS	CWS	CLE	DET	NY	PHI	STL	WSH
Boston	—	6–16–1	14–8	10–12	13–8	7–15	15–7	13–8
Chicago	16–6–1	—	13–9	11–11–1	15–7–1	9–12–1	14–7–1	14–8–1
Cleveland	8–14	9–13	—	12–10	12–10	7–15	14–8–1	14–8
Detroit	12–10	11–11–1	10–12	—	13–8	9–13	13–9	11–11
New York	8–13	7–15–1	10–12	8–13	—	8–11–1	15–7	15–7–1
Philadelphia	15–7	12–9–1	15–7	13–9	11–8–1	—	15–7–1	11–9–1
St. Louis	7–15	7–14–1	8–14–1	9–13	7–15	7–15–1	—	9–13
Washington	8–13	8–14–1	8–14	11–11	7–15–1	9–11–1	13–9	—

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	Joe Sugden	90	266	46	.173	0	23
1B	Tom Jones	135	504	122	.242	0	48
SS	Bobby Wallace	156	587	159	.271	1	59
OF	George Stone	155	635	189	.298	7	52
OF	Emil Frisk	124	429	112	.261	3	36
OF	Ben Koehler	142	536	127	.237	2	47

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
Ike Van Zandt	94	322	75	.233	1	20
Frank Roth	35	107	25	.234	0	7
Charlie Starr	26	97	20	.206	0	6
Charles Moran	27	82	16	.195	0	5
Charlie Gibson	1	3	0	.000	0	0
Branch Rickey	1	3	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
Harry Howell	38	323	6	25	2.81	127
Fred Glade	32	275	6	25	2.81	127
Barney Pelty	31	258.2	14	14	2.75	114

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
Jim Buchanan	22	141.1	5	9	3.50	54
Cy Morgan	13	77.1	2	5	3.61	44
Harry Ables	6	30.2	0	3	3.82	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
Ike Van Zandt	1	0	0	0	0.00	3

References

• 1905 St. Louis Browns team page at Baseball Reference
• 1905 St. Louis Browns season at baseball-almanac.com