Baltimore Orioles 1895 pennant winners

Joe Kelley leads Orioles to pennant

Don Cundy
Baseball editor

The Orioles finished the season sixteen games over the second place Phillies with 90 wins. It takes a strong pitching staff and a deep lineup to collect so many wins. The Orioles rotation was an integral part of thier success, led by MVP Bill Hoffer at 22 wins and Duke Esper at 20 with George Hemming collecting 18 more. At the plate the Orioles were a close second in hitting with an amazing .341 team average.

Joe Kelley

Joe Kelley

Their lineup of McGraw, Keeler, Kelley, Jennings and Brodie collected over 240 stolen bases and over 400 RBI. Left fielder Joe Kelley was in the top 5 in 8 different batting catergories with a .401 average, 12 homers, 21 triples, 136 RBI, and a league leading .468 on base percentage.

1895 Year in Review

The year of the .400 hitters

Don Cundy
Baseball editor

In this our second replay season there were 6 players who hit over .400 including Ed Delahanty last years MVP who led the majors with a .414 average. The New York Giants had two players top the .400 mark, George Davis at .413 and Mike Tiernan at .400.

Jesse Burkett

Jesse Burkett shares batting title

Jesse Burkette of the Cleveland club tied Delahanty's top average mark at .414. Also some of last years feats have been bested. "Wee" Willie Keeler collected 255 hits and scored 167 runs, Sam Thompson this year's MVP amased 171 RBI and had a slugging percentage of .638, Ed Delahanty last years MVP hit 50 doubles, and "Sliding" Billy Hamilton stole a record 64 bases. Kip Selbach from the Washington club hit an amazing 35 triples. From the mound other records are set,

Willie Keeler

"Wee" Willie Keeler has 31 game hitting streak

Amos Rusie bested his strikeout record of last year with 151. Kid Nichols and this year's pitching MVP Bill Hoffer tied for the lead in wins with 22. Also Al Maul collected a record 7 shutouts. Although the hitting streak was set last year at 40 by Elmer Smith, Willie Keeler had a good run at the record when he hit safely in 31 games.


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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1895 Standings

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1895 Highlights

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