Philadelphia Quakers take first pennant

Delahanty lifts Phily to capture pennant

Don Cundy
Baseball editor

The Quakers of Philadelphia capture our first replay baseball pennanat by one game over the Giants of New York, 83 to 82 wins on the season. The Pittsburgh club found themselves just 3 back with 80 wins. The Quakers fielded an excellent lineup posting a team batting average of .326 including Billy Hamilton, Sam Thompson, Ed Delahanty and Jack Clements all who in the top three hitters in batting average, homeruns, RBI and On base percentage.

Kid Carsey

Kid Carsey Ace starter

Their pitching staff was led by Kid Carsey, who won 21 games and was tied for the league lead, Gus Weyhig who won and 20 games and Jack Taylor who won 14 games.

1893 Year in Review

First Season is a tight race

Don Cundy
Baseball editor

Although 1893 is not the offical first season of major league baseball that was some 21 years earlier in 1871. This is the first season the pitchers mound was moved to 60'6" as it is today and four balls was considered a walk. In Bill James online article he stated the deadball era ran from 1893 to 1919.

Billy Hamilton

Billy Hamilton wins batting title

So this is where we will start our seasonal replays in 1893. In 1893 professional baseball was comprised of 12 teams who's home towns where mainly in large cities in the northeast united states. Cities that hosted clubs were New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Cleveland. The Smaller markets that were represented included, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Brooklyn, Washington, Baltimore and Louisville. In this first year the teams were scheduled to play 132 games. The first batting title was won by Philadelphia's "Slidding" Billy Hamilton who hits an amazing .437.

Elmer Smith

Elmer Smith 40 game hitting streak

Billy's teammate Sam Thompson was second in the title race with .413. The Quakers of Philadelphia did win the first pennant winning 83 games and it's players did finish on top of many leaderboards, please see MVP and the pennant winning articles on this page. Other feats accomplished in this innugural season where Elmer Smith of Pittsburgh's 40 game hitting streak. Jack Doyle of New York who stole 5 bases on August 22nd and Larry Twitchell of Louisville who's smashed a mamoth home run of 552 feet on August 25th.

Delahanty and Rusie named MVPs

Delahanty leads league with 21 homers

Don Cundy
Baseball editor

The very first batting and pitching MVPs are annonced. Philadelphia's Ed Delahanty takes the

Ed Delahanty

Ed Delahanty batting MVP

batting honors and New York's Amos Rusie is elected from the mound. Ed led the league in homers with 21, RBI with 148, slugging pct with .669, and hits with 241. He was also 3rd in batting average with .396.

Amos Rusie

Amos Rusie pitching MVP

Amos finished the season tied for the lead in wins with 21, first in strikeouts with 131 and tops in quality starts with 25.

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1893 Standings

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1893 Highlights

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