Major League Baseball Season Recap 1913

Familiar foes met in the 1913 World Series, and the outcome was the same. A rematch of the 1911 series pitted the Philadelphia Athletics against the New York Giants. This time the Athletics won in five games, climaxed by Eddie Plank’s two-hitter. Frank Baker and Eddie Collins, Philadelphia’s top two hitters, were also the batting stars of the series, hitting .450 and .421 respectively.

The Athletics were not severely tested in the pennant race — but not for lack of trying by Washington pitcher Walter Johnson (36-7, 1.14 ERA, 243 strikeouts, 346 IP), who led the AL in every category of pitching performance. Detroit’s Ty Cobb (.390) and Cleveland’s Joe Jackson (.373) were the class of the league in hitting. New York won its third straight National League crown with a lineup virtually unchanged from the previous year. Christy Mathewson led the team with 25 wins and topped the league in ERA at 2.06; catcher Chief Meyers and SS Art Fletcher were the leading hitters for the Giants. The league leaders in hitting were Brooklyn’s Jake Daubert (.350) and Philadelphia’s Gavvy Cravath (19 HR, 128 RBI). The Phillies’ Tom Seaton topped the National League in wins (27) and strikeouts (168).

Nine Players Who Debuted in 1913

Edd Roush
Wally Pipp
Billy Southworth
Wally Schang
Milt Stock
Bubbles Hargrave
Bob Shawkey
Dutch Leonard
Pep Young

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World Series – Philadelphia A’s AL over New York Giants NL 4 games to 1

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October 7, 1913

The A’s take Game 1 of Series behind Chief Bender and Eddie Collins 6-4

October 8, 1913

Giants score 3 in 10th to beat A’s behind Mathewson

October 9, 1913

In Game 3 of the World Series, rookie right-hander Joe Bush throws a complete game, limiting the Giants to five hits in the A’s 8-2 victory at the Polo Grounds

October 10, 1913

Wally Schang drives in 4 to put A’s up 3-1 over Giants

October 11, 1913

Philadelphia Athletics win the World Series as Eddie Plank outduels New York Giants pitching great Christy Mathewson

December 3, 1913

History of the World Series – 1913

July 22, 2019

Polo Grounds V

July 22, 2019

Shibe Park

The stories that shaped the year:

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January 7, 1913

Future Hall of Fame first baseman Johnny Mize is born in Demorest, Georgia

January 8, 1913

New York Highlanders sign Frank Chance to a three-year contract to be their next manager

January 10, 1913

Cincinnati Reds purchase pitcher Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown from the Chicago Cubs

January 11, 1913

With the Philadelphia Phillies franchise in disarray following the expulsion of President Horace Fogel, William H. Locke and his cousin William F. Baker buy the club.

January 22, 1913

The New York Giants give the Yankees permission to use the Polo Grounds for this season only, as the lease on the Hilltop grounds has expired

January 24, 1913

Detroit Tigers President Frank Navin blames the length of the games on the coaches’ boxes

February 1, 1913

Olympic hero Jim Thorpe signs with the New York Giants of the National League.

March 4, 1913

1913 – The New York Yankees become the first major league team to conduct spring training outside of the United States, when they begin the spring in Bermuda, where is projected a series of exhibition games.

March 8, 1913

The Federal League is organized as a six-team outlaw circuit and elects John T. Powers president

March 28, 1913

St. Louis Browns make an unusual “trade,” sending infielder Clyde “Buzzy” Wares to a minor league team in exchange for the rental of a stadium

April 5, 1913

Ebbets Field Opens

April 9, 1913

Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies play the first game in the history of Ebbets Field

April 10, 1913

New York Highlanders become the New York Yankees

April 13, 1913

In a game which features President Woodrow Wilson throwing out the first pitch, Washington’s Walter Johnson starts a 56 inning scoreless streak

April 29, 1913

Wearing White Sox uniforms, the Reds are defeated by the Cubs, 7-2, at Chicago’s West Side Park. Cincinnati forgot to pack uniforms and had to don those worn by their opponents’ crosstown rivals.

May 3, 1913

The Philadelphia Phillies defeat the visiting New York Giants for the third time in a row, a come-from-behind 3 – 2 victory. The Phillies tie the score at two apiece when Gavvy Cravath hits a two-run pinch-homer in the 8th inning off Christy Mathewson. After the first two batters are retired in the 9th, Philadelphia pushes across a run to win.

May 10, 1913

The Yankees commit eight errors, but still end up beating the Tigers, 10 – 9, in 10 innings. Three of the miscues are by SS Claud Derrick, who will field just .872 for the year. In a move 10 days later that is perhaps related, the Yanks deal for SS Roger Peckinpaugh.

May 10, 1913

Walter Johnson two-hits the White Sox to run his consecutive string of scoreless innings pitched to 52 2/3.

May 14, 1913

At Sportsman’s Park, Walter Johnson tops Jack Coombs’ record of 53 consecutive scoreless innings when he stretches the mark to 56 innings. But after the Washington Senators back him with six runs, Johnson gives up a run in the 4th inning against the St. Louis Browns to end his streak of 56 scoreless innings. Ahead 9 – 1, Johnson is relieved by Joe Boehling and Washington wins, 10 – 5.

May 16, 1913

Pirates OF Ed Mensor will draw eight walks all year, but one of them comes in the 3rd inning against New York, ending Christy Mathewson’s string of perfect control at 47 innings. Mathewson takes a 7 – 1 lead into the 8th, but Ham Hyatt roasts a fastball into the RF stands to lead off and the Bucs follow with five singles. Matty holds on for a 7 – 4 win.

May 19, 1913

5/19/1913 – The Yankees scored seven runs in the top of the eighth inning to beat the Browns, 8-6. In that inning Frank Chance ground out as a pinch hitter for the pitcher, Ray Fisher, who was in the ninth spot in the lineup. When the New Yorkers approached the bottom of the order again in the same inning, Chance hit in the eighth spot instead of shortstop Claud Derrick. This time Chance singled and knocked in two runs. St. Louis protested to umpire Hildebrand after the inning was over but he correctly told them that it was too late.

May 22, 1913

The Giants send Red Ames, Heinie Groh and outfielder Josh Devore to Cincinnati for P Art Fromme and infielder Eddie Grant. The little-used Groh will star in Cincinnati, and eventually manage the team. Devore will be sold to the Phillies in August. Grant, a starter until today, will not play until June 4th, so there is some confusion about whether he was sold on that date or part of today’s trade.

May 22, 1913

Browns rookie Dwight Stone gives up six hits, seven walks and plunks three batters, but still beats the Yankees, 7 – 0. The visiting New Yorkers strand a modern major league-record 15 runners in the shutout by Stone, who will win just one more game this season. Ed Klepfer is the losing pitcher in his only decision of the year. The record will be matched three times and finally topped, in 1994. The National League record of 14 runners stranded in a shutout was set less than two weeks earlier by Pittsburgh against the Phillies.

May 22, 1913

Ruling that a ballplayer on the field is a “public person,” a New York judge throws out cases brought by New York and Boston players against a motion picture company that took movies of the 1912 World Series.

May 29, 1913

5/29/1913: Art Devlin hit a home run in a game against Brooklyn in Boston with a man on base. This blast came in the second inning but was lost to rain.

May 30, 1913

John McGraw joins Fred Clarke, Cap Anson, Frank Selee and Connie Mack as managers who have won 1,000 games.

May 30, 1913

Red Sox outfielder and future Hall of Famer Harry Hooper becomes the first major leaguer to start both games of a doubleheader with a home run. The feat will not be repeated until 1993, when A’s leadoff hitter Rickey Henderson opens each game of a twin bill against Cleveland with a homer.

June 4, 1913

1913 – The Cards peck Christy Mathewson for 11 hits and 6 runs in 6 innings‚ and hold on to win‚ 6 – 4.

June 6, 1913

The Yankees lose their thirteenth game without a victory when the team is defeated by the Indians at the Polo Grounds, 2-1. The 9-34 club’s futility, which sets a franchise record, includes a 3-3 tie to Boston during the 14-game span.

June 7, 1913

At the Polo Grounds, the New York Yankees finally win a game, 3 – 2, over the Chicago White Sox. The Yanks are now 10-34.

June 7, 1913

The St. Louis Cardinals and New York Giants combine for 26 hits with New York emerging with a 9 – 8 win. Christy Mathewson, the last of five Giants hurlers, picks up the win against reliever Sandy Burk.

June 10, 1913

A bounce home run by Fred Luderus into the right field stands at Redlands Field is the difference as the Phillies defeat the Reds‚ 3 – 2. Cincinnati Enquirer reporter Jack Ryder writes “the feat was thought impossible.” The ball bounced over a 10-foot high wall 400 feet from home plate. “There is little chance of another hit like that of Luderus being made on this field for many seasons.”

June 11, 1913

The Browns end the A’s 15-game winning streak‚ winning 5 – 2‚ but Philadelphia’s 5-game lead over Cleveland will be maintained to the end.

June 11, 1913

With the score tied 5 – 5‚ Ivy Olson of Cleveland steals home in the top of the 15th for the winning run over the Red Sox. Jack Graney then steals home for an insurance run‚ marking the only time teammates would steal home in extra innings in the same game. Dutch Leonard watches on the mound for Boston.

June 14, 1913

Ray Schalk hits his first career homerun off the Big Train Walter Johnson

June 19, 1913

Wilbur Good hits the first pinch-hit home run in Chicago Cubs history, off Grover Alexander in the 8th inning, in a 2 – 1 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies.

June 20, 1913

1913 – After New York wins the opener, 9 – 3, Washington starter Bert Gallia hits three of the first four batters he faces in the 1st inning of the nightcap. Three more New York batters are plunked, by relievers Joe Engel (2) and Tom Hughes (1), for a record six. The outcome is the same as New York wins again, 9 – 3. New York leadoff hitter Bert Daniels puts his name in the record book when he gets hit three times.

June 21, 1913

6/21/1913 – In the top of the seventh inning in Philadelphia, Les Nunamaker of the Red Sox pinch hit for pitcher Hugh Bedient. Nunamaker remained in the game catching and the new hurler, Charles Hall, entered in the eighth spot replacing starting catcher Bill Carrigan. The Sox started at the two spot in the top of the eighth inning. After Steve Yerkes made an out, five consecutive Boston players singled which scored two runs with one runner out at the plate. The next hitter should have been Hall, but Nunamaker batted out of turn and made the third out of the frame. Hooper should have started the ninth for the Red Sox but Hall batted out of turn. (They had the eighth and ninth place hitters reversed.) Once Hall made and out, Harry Hooper batted out of turn and singled. He eventually scored the winning run but the Athletics did not notice.

June 22, 1913

George Pearce of the Cubs stops the Cards on one hit, a single by Ed Konetchy. Pearce wins, 6 – 0, over Pol Perritt.

June 22, 1913

The White Sox post their 1,000th victory in the 13-year history of the franchise when the team beats the Browns, 2-0, in the nightcap of a doubleheader sweep. Big Ed Walsh tosses a complete-game shutout with Shano Collins driving in both runs in the Comiskey Park contest.

June 24, 1913

The Giants tally 11 hits off Cardinal pitcher Dan Griner, but fail to score. St. Louis wins, 1 – 0.

June 25, 1913

At Washington Park, the Superbas bang reliever Pete Alexander, scoring seven runs in six innings, but the Phillies outslug Brooklyn to win, 11 – 8.

June 25, 1913

Frank Baker, a nemesis for Walter Johnson, cracks a three-run homer in the 3rd inning to key  A’s victory

June 26, 1913

After failing in Cincinnati and moving across the Ohio River to Covington, Kentucky, the Federal League team decides to relocate again. The franchise shift to Kansas City, which is American Association territory, will cause Organized Baseball to “declare war” on the upstart league.

June 26, 1913

Nats catcher Eddie Ainsmith swipes second base, third base, and home

June 26, 1913

Brooklyn sees Grover Alexander for a second day in a row, this time beating the Phillies righty, 4 – 2, in a doubleheader sweep by the Superbas. The Phils now lead the Giantsby a half-game.

June 27, 1913

Washington’s Walter Johnson tops the A’s, 2 – 0, to start a 14-game winning streak. He won’t lose for another two months.

June 30, 1913

The same ball is used for the entire game in the Reds’ 9 – 6 win over the Cubs.

June 30, 1913

At Philadelphia, New York’s thrilling 11 – 10 win over the Phils puts the Giants on top to stay. Hooks Wiltse pitches the first nine innings for New York before wilting, and Christy Mathewson relieves. In the 10th, Buck Herzog singles off Grover Alexander and Matty wins his 14th. The fireworks continue after the game when John McGraw, walking to the clubhouse with several Phillies, is belted and then jumped by several Philly fans. McGraw is cut up and Phils P Ad Brennan is identified as the instigator of the fight. After investigating, National League President Tom Lynch will suspend both McGraw and Brennan for five days, with Brennan also fined $100.

July 2, 1913

Christy Mathewson allows 13 hits but the Giants continue to pummel the Phils, winning 8 – 4. Matty gives up no walks to run his streak to 34 innings.

July 3, 1913

The Giants hand Pete Alexander his third loss in the four-game series, as Jeff Tesreau wins, 4 – 2, in 11 innings. New York is now in first place by 3 1/2 games.

July 3, 1913

The Red Sox tally 15 hits off Washington’s Walter Johnson, but lose, 1 – 0, in 15 innings. This a major league frustration record for most hits in a shutout. Ray Collins takes the loss.

July 4, 1913

Red Sox pitcher Smoky Joe Wood smokes two doubles in the 4th inning against the A’s, setting a record for pitchers.

July 5, 1913

The Giants win their 11th straight, beating Brooklyn, 3 – 2. Christy Mathewson the winner extends his walkless streak is at 47 innings.

July 6, 1913

At St. Louis, the Senators push across two runs in the top of the 9th to take a 3 – 2 lead, Walter Johnson, the fourth Washington pitcher, shuts out the Browns in the 9th and is awarded the win. As reported in Sporting Life, President Ban Johnson rules “that when a pitcher leaves the box at the end of an inning he shall not receive benefit of any runs made in the following inning. He says all runs should aid the reliever, not the previous pitcher.”

July 10, 1913

Led by Ward Miller’s two-run triple, the Cubs stop the Giants, 3 – 2. The victory ends the New Yorkers’ win streak at 14 games and stops Christy Mathewson’s win streak at nine. Matty’s skein of consecutive innings without a free pass continues however, and stands at 52.

July 12, 1913

Philadelphia’s Boardwalk Brown walks 15 Tigers in 7 2/3 innings, but staggers to a 16 – 9 win. Brown has only one walkless inning – the 1st. Ty Cobb, out for a week with an injured knee, plays 2B for the only time in his career, and makes three errors in his five fielding chances.

July 15, 1913

Veteran Three-Finger Brown, sold to the Cincinnati Reds over the winter after a 5-6 year with the Chicago Cubs, loses his match-up with New York Giants rival Christy Mathewson, 4 – 2. Matty walks none to run his streak to 61 innings.

July 15, 1913

Jake Stahl, hobbled by a foot injury, resigns as Boston Red Sox manager. C Bill Carrigan replaces him.

July 16, 1913

In a game against the Cubs, Superbas’ second baseman George Cutshaw handles 14 chances without an error. The infielder’s defensive prowess helps Brooklyn beat Chicago at Ebbets Field, 4-2.

July 18, 1913

1913 – At the Polo Grounds, the Cards win the opener of two, 4 – 3, with help from the error-prone Giants. In blanking the Cards, 5 – 0, in the nitecap, Christy Mathewson finally yields a base on balls, ending a record string of 68 walkless innings pitched. Ed Konetchy draws the pass in the 8th. Matty’s record won’t be topped until Bill Fischer in 1962.

July 20, 1913

1913 – The Tigers ship 38-year-old George Mullin (1-6), five times a 20-game winner, to Washington. Mullin pitched a no-hitter a year ago on his birthday.

July 22, 1913

In a game against the Superbas (Dodgers), Slim Sallee becomes the first pitcher in Cardinal history to steal home. In the third inning, the Redbird southpaw scores the first run in St. Louis’s 3-1 victory over Brooklyn at Ebbets Field.

July 25, 1913

A 15-inning, 8 – 8, tie game between St. Louis and the Nationals is called for darkness. Reliever Walter Johnson fans a major-league record 15 in the last 11 innings, but he hits rookie catcher Sam Agnew with a pitch, breaking his jaw. Browns P Carl Weilman sets a major-league record by striking out six times. He becomes the first player in history to strike out six consecutive times in a game, as Johnson gets him four times, and Joe Engel and Long Tom Hughes once each. Johnson’s strikeout mark for relievers will last this century before another Johnson, Randy, breaks it, in 2001.

July 25, 1913

Pirates outfielder Max Carey scores five runs against the Phils without a hit

July 29, 1913

Rube Marquard wins his 9th in a row for the Giants, beating the Cards, 2 – 1.

July 30, 1913

Ivey Wingo swipes second, third, and home in the Cardinals’ 9-1 rout of Boston at Robison Field in St. Louis. The Redbirds’ catcher accomplishes the stolen base cycle in the same frame, stealing all three bases in the bottom of the second inning.

August 1, 1913

At Chicago, the Giants win, 5 – 2, on a controversial call in the 8th inning. Art Fletcher is called safe at second base by umpire Bill Byron on an steal attempt, prompting a shower of abuse from the crowd. Moments later, Fletcher scores the go-ahead run on a triple by Chief Meyers off Bert Humphries. The beneficiary of the offense is Christy Mathewson, who wins his 20th game, the 11th straight season he’s topped the mark.

August 2, 1913

It’s Walter Johnson Day in Washington. President Wilson is on hand to help mark the Big Train’s 6th anniversary in a Nationals uniform. Johnson is presented with a silver cup filled with 10-dollar bills ($674) and returns the favor with a 3 – 2 win over Detroit, his 24th win of the year.

August 2, 1913

The Federal League takes a big step toward another baseball war, voting to expand into the East.

August 6, 1913

The Pirates pound Giants ace Christy Mathewson for 10 hits and 9 runs in 5 innings, including 7 in the 5th. C Larry McLean is traded from the last-place Cardinals to the Giants for Doc Crandall. One of the biggest players of this era at 6′ 5″ and 230 pounds, the veteran catcher will bat .500 in the World Series. The popular Crandall will make two pinch hitting appearances before the Giants reacquire him in a week.

August 8, 1913

On April 25, the American Association minor league contest was stopped with the score tied 1-1 due to rain, and replayed on June 15, resulting in a 6-6 tie after nine innings when the game is stopped because of darkness. The game is started again on August 7, and after the 13th, the 2-2 contest is halted once more due to darkness, but after four attempts, Minneapolis finally beats Indianapolis today, 11-2.

August 8, 1913

Earl Hamilton‚ in his last start of the year‚ pitches the Browns to a 6 – 4 win over the Yankees. Hamilton is 3-0 against New York this year‚ two of them one-hitters.

August 8, 1913

The Yankees pick up 3B Fritz Maisel from Baltimore (International League) for $12‚000 plus 3B Ezra Midkiff (who is hitting .197) and OF Bert Daniels (.216). Daniels will return to the majors next year with the Reds and improve his batting average by 3 points.

August 9, 1913

1913 – In Cincinnati, the Giants coast to a 11 – 2 win over the Reds. Christy Mathewson leaves with a victory after seven innings.

August 12, 1913

1913 – Art Fromme‚ with relief help from Christy Mathewson‚ beats Brooklyn‚ 6 – 5. Matty comes on in the 11th and gives up a lead-off triple to Zack Wheat‚ but the Giants pitcher cuts down the chaff that follows‚ and New York wins‚ 6 – 5.

August 13, 1913

Doc Crandall is rescued from the basement: John McGraw buys him back from the Cards 12 days after trading him. According to historian Merritt Clifton, Doc has a sore arm and is sent back as damaged goods. He will pitch for Brattleboro to get his arm in shape before rejoining the Giants for the stretch drive.

August 13, 1913

In a great pickup, the Cubs send P Lew Richie to the Kansas City Blues for Hippo Vaughn.

August 13, 1913

Goober southpaw Harry Hedgpeth pitches two complete nine-inning games when he starts both ends of a Virginia League doubleheader against Richmond. In the opener, the Peterburg pitcher one-hits the Colts, 1-0, and then follows up the gem with a 10-0 no-hitter.

August 14, 1913

At the Polo Grounds, the Pirates broadside Christy Mathewson for eight hits and eight runs in just three innings. Honus Wagner goes 4 for 5 on the afternoon with two hits off Matty: one a single and the other a three-run homer. The only time the Giants get Hans out is when a pitch hits his bat as he tries to get out of way and the ball rolls fair. The Giants make a game of it, but lose, 8 – 6.

August 14, 1913

William H. Locke, who bought the 2nd-place Phils earlier this year, dies. His cousin William Baker will succeed him.

August 14, 1913

8/14/1913: Cardinal Ed Konetchy blasted the ball into the left-field stands in the third inning of the first game off Rube Marquard. The ball caromed off the seats back onto the field and umpire Ernie Quigley called it a double.

August 16, 1913

Bob Fisher hits 2 inside the park homeruns, he is 2nd Dodger in two weeks to do it

August 17, 1913

1913 – The A’s break another attendance record in Cleveland, drawing 25,017 to watch the home team’s 6 – 2 win.

August 18, 1913

The Cubs stroke nine straight hits, that includes six singles, two doubles, and a home run, off reliever Erskine Mayer in the top of the ninth inning at the Baker Bowl. Chicago’s late offensive barrage produces six runs, helping the team to coast to an easy 10-4 victory over the Phillies. (Many sites erroneously list this game as being played on August 19, with Grover Alexander giving up the big inning.)

August 20, 1913

Edd Roush makes his his major league debut

August 21, 1913

The Giants increase their National League lead to 10 games by smoking Eddie Stack and the Cubs, 8 – 2. Christy Mathewson rolls to his 22nd win, allowing eight hits. Johnny Evers collects three hits, including a homer in the 5th.

August 24, 1913

1913 – In Chicago, Walter Johnson wins his 14th straight, a 2 – 1 decision over the White Sox. Johnson fans the side in the 8th inning, then with two on and two out in the 9th, strikes out Eddie Collins.

August 25, 1913

Braves veteran Art Devlin slaps the game-winning hit in the 9th for Boston and gets rewarded by manager George Stallings by being sent down to Rochester, never to return to the major leagues. His .229 average might have had something to do with it.

August 25, 1913

Ty Cobb swipes home in the 5th inning to help the Tigers edge the Senators, 6 – 5.

August 25, 1913

Carl Weilman becomes the first major leaguer to strike out six consecutive times in a single game. The Browns hurler accomplishes the dubious feat as the losing pitcher in a 3-0 defeat to the A’s at Sportsman’s Park.

August 26, 1913

1913 – Cincinnati’s Chief Johnson surrenders just three hits to New York, but loses a 1 – 0 decision to Christy Mathewson. Fred Merkle triples in the 7th and scores the only run.

August 28, 1913

1913 – Walter Johnson’s 14-game winning streak is ended, although it takes Boston 11 innings to beat him 1 – 0. Boston manages a 2nd-inning single by Steve Yerkes and doesn’t have another baserunner until Yerkes singles again in the 11th, and reaches third as the ball goes through the legs of CF Clyde Milan. A fielder’s choice and a single win it. Johnson strikes out 10, including five in a row, and walks none.

August 30, 1913

1913 – The Giants score six runs against Grover Cleveland Alexander, but the Phillies come back from the 6 – 0 deficit to score eight against Christy Mathewson. With two outs in the top of the 9th, and the Phils leading 8 – 6 over New York, umpire Bill Brennan, acceding to a request by the wily John McGraw, orders Phils captain Mickey Doolan (Phils manager Red Dooin had been ejected during the 6-run 6th) to have spectators removed from the CF bleachers, where they are waving hats, newspapers, and handkerchiefs to distract the batters. When Doolan refuses, Brennan forfeits the game, 9 – 0, to the Giants. Bedlam ensues and later, when the two umpires and Giants players try to board the train at the North Philadelphia Station, they are attacked by fans. The police draw their revolver to control the crowd. The Phils protest the forfeit and National League president Thomas Lynch will reverse the umpire and rule the game an 8 – 6 Phils win. The Giants then appeal. NL directors say both Brennan and Lynch are wrong, and order the game completed from the point at which it was stopped. The game will be finished October 2nd, with the outcome the same.

August 30, 1913

With the Phillies ahead 8-6, umpire William Brennan forfeits the game to the Giants in the top of the ninth inning when the Baker Bowl fans sitting in the bleachers continue to distract New York batters by waving their handkerchiefs and straw hats. After National League president Thomas Lynch reverses the decision, giving Philadelphia the victory, the circuit’s board of directors orders the game, which will end with the same score, to be completed in NY on October 2 prior to a scheduled doubleheader between the two clubs at the Polo Grounds.

September 1, 1913

In Pittsburgh‚ the Pirates arrive late by train from Chicago for a morning/afternoon doubleheader against Cincinnati. For the morning game‚ they wear their road grays‚ losing 5 – 4 in 10 innings. In their home whites for the p.m. game‚ they win‚ 5 – 1.

September 1, 1913

Frederick W. Thayer‚ inventor of the catcher’s mask‚ dies at 65.

September 3, 1913

1913 – Boston sidearmer Lefty Tyler spins a one-hitter over the Giants to win, 2 – 1. The Braves reach Christy Mathewson for eight hits and two runs.

September 4, 1913

1913 – Cleveland lefty Vean Gregg strikes out Ty Cobb three times in a row, but Cobb doubles in the winning run in the 12th.

September 4, 1913

In his major league debut, 22 year-old Hal Schwenk pitches 11 innings, giving up 12 hits, but earns a complete-game victory when St. Louis defeats the White Sox at Sportsman’s Park, 5-4. The Browns’ rookie southpaw will never again appear in a big league game.

September 5, 1913

The Phils score the only run this afternoon in a doubleheader in Boston. The visitors win the opener, 1 – 0, then the two play 10 innings of scoreless baseball before the game is called. Grover Cleveland Alexander misses his 20th win, but will reach the mark in three days.

September 6, 1913

Ed Reulbach pitches Brooklyn to a 2 – 0 whitewash of the Giants

September 6, 1913

Athletics 2B Eddie Collins steals home twice in a 9 – 2 victory against the Red Sox to tie the major league mark.

September 6, 1913

Browns interim manager Jimmy Austin is replaced by Branch Rickey. Austin (2-6) took over when George Stovall (50-84) was fired.

September 7, 1913

In an effort to beat the impending inclement weather, Galveston, playing host to San Antonio, finishes the regular season with a 49 minute game, a 4-0 victory by the hometown Pirates, who manage to compile 13 hits during the brief Texas League contest. The players are encouraged to play the game at a rapid pace by the teams owners, who want to avoid having to give the fans rain checks for games next year.

September 10, 1913

Honus Wagner is given a souvenir bat carved from a piece of wood taken from naval hero Oliver Perry’s flagship Niagara, which was sunk in Lake Erie 100 years earlier.

September 14, 1913

Cubs hurler Larry Cheney sets record allowing 14-hit in shutout 

September 15, 1913

1913 – Frank L. Hough, sports editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, and one of two writers who owned 25 percent of the Philadelphia Athleticswhen the team was founded, dies.

September 19, 1913

1913 – The Giants continue to both lead the league and sport cold bats, barely holding on to split with the Cardinals. Christy Mathewson drops the opener, 1 – 0, in 10 innings when Fred Snodgrass misplays a fly ball into a triple. New York takes the nitecap, 2 – 0.

September 24, 1913

Christy Mathewson beats Ed Reulbach, 2 – 1 for 25th win

September 27, 1913

1913 – The Giants lose to Brooklyn, but the pennant is theirs, as the Phils lose to Boston, 9 – 3.

September 29, 1913

Senators’ legend Walter Johnson beats the Philadelphia A’s, 1-0, to finish the season with 36 victories

September 30, 1913

The Phillies are 2 and 1 for the day, finishing the game of August 30 with the Giants, and splitting two more. The Phils win, 8 – 6, with the loss going to Christy Mathewson, in the disputed game. Mathewson and Rube Marquard then combine to beat the Phils, 8 – 3 before the Quakers return the favor, 4 – 3.

September 30, 1913

Washington shuts out the A’s again, winning 3 – 0, as 17-year-old outfielder Merito Acosta collects two hits and swipes third base in the 4th inning. Yesterday, the Cuban teenager was caught trying in his steal attempt.

October 7, 1913

The A’s take Game 1 of Series behind Chief Bender and Eddie Collins 6-4

October 8, 1913

Giants score 3 in 10th to beat A’s behind Mathewson

October 9, 1913

In Game 3 of the World Series, rookie right-hander Joe Bush throws a complete game, limiting the Giants to five hits in the A’s 8-2 victory at the Polo Grounds

October 10, 1913

Wally Schang drives in 4 to put A’s up 3-1 over Giants

October 11, 1913

Philadelphia Athletics win the World Series as Eddie Plank outduels New York Giants pitching great Christy Mathewson

October 18, 1913

In Cincinnati, the Giants rout the White Sox, 11-2, beginning a five-month world-wide barnstorming trip that will include stops in Australia, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East

October 19, 1913

The New York Giants and Chicago White Sox, fortified with other players, start their world tour in Cincinnati

November 2, 1913

St. Louis Browns player-manager George Stovall, fired the previous summer, is the first major league player to jump to the Federal League, signing to manage the Kansas City Packers.

November 17, 1913

Wilbert Robinson is named the Dodgers’ new manager

November 21, 1913

The Phillies become the first major league team to play in Wilmington, NC when they beat the International League’s Baltimore Orioles, 5-1, in front of nearly 2,000 fans at the city’s Sunset Park. After the Wilmington Baseball Stock company is formed in November and successfully raises money to improve the playing conditions at the local park, Philadelphia selects the Port City to be its spring training home for the next two seasons, departing after finishing their 1915 exhibition schedule, citing logistical problems.

November 24, 1913

1913 – Joe Tinker is out as the Cincinnati Reds manager, but is still their property as a player. On December 12th he will be sold to the Brooklyn Robins for $25,000, $10,000 of which goes to him. Pitcher Earl Yingling and outfielder Herbie Moran are sent to Cincinnati later as part of the deal. When Brooklyn owner Charles Ebbets puts off signing Tinker, he jumps to the Federal League, signing to manage the Chicago Whales for $12,000.

December 6, 1913

1Exhibition teams made up of members of the Chicago White Sox and New York Giants play at Keio University Stadium in Tokyo, Japan

December 9, 1913

John K. Tener, one-time pitcher and congressman, now governor of Pennsylvania, is elected National League president for four years

December 12, 1913

While John McGraw is on his world tour, Giants president Harry Hempstead makes a swap with the Reds. The Reds send OF Bob Bescher to the Giants for young catcher Grover Hartley and Buck Herzog, who replaces Joe Tinker as manager and shortstop.

December 12, 1913

The Pirates clean house in an eight-player swap with the Cardinals. Going to St. Louis is Dots Miller, a 1909 World Series hero, 14-game winner Hank Robinson, 3B Cozy Dolan, infielder Art Butler, and OF Chief Wilson, king of the triple. The Pirates receive pitcher Bob Harmon, 3B Mike Mowrey, and 1B Ed Konetchy, whom the Bucs had been after for years.

December 12, 1913

The Cubs fire Johnny Evers as manager, but expect him to continue as a player. He declines.

December 12, 1913

The Reds trade outfielder Bob Bescher to the Giants for shortstop Buck Herzog, who will become the player-manager of the team, replacing Joe Tinker in the Cincinnati dugout. In his 2+ plus seasons, the club’s new skipper will compile a 165-226 (.422) record, never finishing higher than seventh-place in the eight-team circuit.

December 23, 1913

1913 – The Sporting News reports that 15 men died from baseball injuries during the 1913 season, according to a list compiled by J.R. Vickery of Chicago. The only name given is that of J. Whetstone of New Orleans, who suffered “a broken spine sustained in sliding to a base”; all other fatalities were the result of foul tips or pitched balls. The list “does not include a major league player or even a minor league athlete of sufficient experience to be widely known.”

December 24, 1913

The first native american Indian player Louis “Chief” Sockalexis passes away