1911 New York Highlanders season

1911 New York Highlanders
League	American League
Ballpark	Hilltop Park
City	New York City, New York
Owners	William Devery and Frank Farrell
Managers	Hal Chase

The 1911 New York Highlanders season saw the team finishing with a total of 76 wins and 76 losses, coming in sixth in the American League.

New York was managed by Hal Chase. Home games were played at Hilltop Park. The alternate and equally unofficial nickname, "Yankees", was being used more and more frequently by the press.

Regular season

Relations between the New York Highlanders and the enemy New York Giants seemed to be at a boiling point until a fateful April day when a fire destroyed the main portion of the grandstand at the Polo Grounds, the Giants' home field just a few blocks away (and downhill) from the Hilltop. The Highlanders invited the Giants to play at Hilltop Park for the remainder of the 1911 season. Although the Giants were able to return to their partially rebuilt home two months later, this good deed would be remembered and returned to the Highlanders two years later.

Season standings

American League	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
Philadelphia Athletics	101	50	0.669	—	54–20	47–30
Detroit Tigers	89	65	0.578	13½	51–25	38–40
Cleveland Naps	80	73	0.523	22	46–30	34–43
Boston Red Sox	78	75	0.510	24	39–37	39–38
Chicago White Sox	77	74	0.510	24	40–37	37–37
New York Highlanders	76	76	0.500	25½	36–40	40–36
Washington Senators	64	90	0.416	38½	39–38	25–52
St. Louis Browns	45	107	0.296	56½	25–53	20–54

Record vs. opponents

1911 American League record Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Team	BOS	CWS	CLE	DET	NYH	PHA	SLB	WSH
Boston	—	11–11	11–11	10–12	12–10	9–13	12–9	13–9
Chicago	11–11	—	6–15–2	8–14	13–9	9–11–1	17–5	13–9
Cleveland	11–11	15–6–2	—	6–16	14–8–1	5–17	15–7	14–8
Detroit	12–10	14–8	16–6	—	7–15	12–10	14–8	14–8
New York	10–12	9–13	8–14–1	15–7	—	6–15	16–5	12–10
Philadelphia	13–9	11–9–1	17–5	10–12	15–6	—	20–2	15–7
St. Louis	9–12	5–17	7–15	8–14	5–16	2–20	—	9–13
Washington	9–13	9–13	8–14	8–14	10–12	7–15	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	Ed Sweeney	83	229	53	.231	0	18
1B	Hal Chase	133	527	166	.315	3	62
2B	Earle Gardner	102	357	94	.263	0	39
SS	John Knight	132	470	126	.268	3	62
3B	Roy Hartzell	144	527	156	.296	3	91
OF	Birdie Cree	137	520	181	.348	4	88
OF	Bert Daniels	131	462	132	.286	2	31
OF	Harry Wolter	122	434	132	.304	4	36

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
Walter Blair	85	222	43	.194	0	26
Otis Johnson	71	209	49	.234	3	36
Charlie Hemphill	69	201	57	.284	1	15
Cozy Dolan	19	69	21	.304	0	6
Bob Williams	20	47	9	.191	0	8
Roxey Roach	13	40	10	.250	0	2
Mike Fitzgerald	16	37	10	.270	0	6
Stubby Magner	13	33	7	.212	0	4
Guy Zinn	9	27	4	.148	0	1
Johnny Priest	8	21	3	.143	0	2
Mike Handiboe	5	15	1	.067	0	0
Gene Elliott	5	13	1	.077	0	1
Ed Wilkinson	10	13	3	.231	0	1
Jim Curry	4	11	2	.182	0	0
Joe Walsh	4	9	2	.222	0	0
Bill Bailey	5	9	1	.111	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
Russ Ford	37	281.1	22	11	2.27	158
Ray Caldwell	41	255.0	14	14	3.35	145
Jack Warhop	31	209.2	12	13	4.16	71
Ray Fisher	29	171.2	10	11	3.25	99
Hippo Vaughn	26	145.2	8	10	4.39	74

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
Jack Quinn	40	174.2	8	10	3.76	71
King Brockett	16	75.1	2	4	4.66	25
Red Hoff	5	20.2	0	1	2.18	10
Andy Coakley	2	11.2	0	1	5.40	4
Harry Ables	3	11.0	0	1	9.82	6

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
Ed Klepfer	2	0	0	0	6.75	4

External links

• 1911 New York Highlanders team page at www.baseball-almanac.com
• 1911 New York Highlanders at Baseball Reference