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1905 Major League Baseball season

This article is about the 1905 Major League Baseball season only. For information on all of baseball, see 1905 in baseball.

The 1905 Major League baseball season began on April 14, 1905. The regular season ended October 8, with the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Athletics as regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The postseason began with Game 1 of the second modern World Series on October 9 and ended with Game 5 on October 14. The Giants defeated the Athletics, four games to one, capturing their first modern[a] championship in franchise history.

The 1905 schedule consisted of 154 games for all teams in the American League and National League, each of which had eight teams. Each team was scheduled to play 22 games against the other seven teams of their respective league. This continued the format put in place for the 1904 season. This format would last until 1919.

Opening Day took place on April 16 with all but the Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Naps playing. The final day of the regular season was on October 8. The World Series took place between October 9 and October 14.

World Series
     
AL Philadelphia Athletics 1
NL New York Giants 4
Team name Wins %± Home attendance %± Per game
Chicago White Sox[6] 92 3.4% 687,419 23.4% 8,383
Philadelphia Athletics[7] 92 13.6% 554,576 8.3% 7,494
New York Giants[8] 105 −0.9% 552,700 −9.4% 7,272
Chicago Cubs[9] 92 −1.1% 509,900 16.1% 6,295
Boston Americans[10] 78 −17.9% 468,828 −24.8% 6,089
Pittsburgh Pirates[11] 96 10.3% 369,124 8.4% 4,732
St. Louis Browns[12] 54 −16.9% 339,112 6.6% 4,293
Philadelphia Phillies[13] 83 59.6% 317,932 125.9% 4,183
Cleveland Naps[14] 76 −11.6% 316,306 19.5% 4,108
Cincinnati Reds[15] 79 −10.2% 313,927 −19.9% 3,974
New York Highlanders[16] 71 −22.8% 309,100 −29.6% 4,121
St. Louis Cardinals[17] 58 −22.7% 292,800 −24.3% 3,803
Washington Senators[18] 64 68.4% 252,027 91.3% 3,273
Brooklyn Superbas[19] 48 −14.3% 227,924 6.2% 2,960
Detroit Tigers[20] 79 27.4% 193,384 8.8% 2,545
Boston Beaneaters[21] 51 −7.3% 150,003 6.6% 1,974

For the first time in Major League history, two teams with over 100 losses played each other, when the Brooklyn Superbas (100 losses) and Boston Beaneaters (100 losses) met in their final series of the season.[22]

  1. ^ the Giants previously won two pre-modern World Series in 1888 and 1889.
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