1918 Major League Baseball season

The 1918 Major League Baseball season featured a reduced schedule — 130 games instead of 154 — due to American participation in World War I.[1]

Statistical leaders

	American League		National League
Type	Name	Stat	Name	Stat
AVG	Ty Cobb DET	.382	Zack Wheat BKN	.335
HR	Babe Ruth BSR Tillie Walker PHA	11	Gavvy Cravath PHP	8
RBI	Bobby Veach DET	78	Sherry Magee CIN	76
Wins	Walter Johnson WSH	23	Claude Hendrix CHC	20
ERA	Walter Johnson WSH	1.27	Hippo Vaughn CHC	1.74
SO	Walter Johnson WSH	162	Hippo Vaughn CHC	148
SV	George Mogridge NYY	7	Joe Oeschger PHP Wilbur Cooper PIT Fred Anderson NYG Fred Toney CIN/NYG	3
SB	George Sisler SLB	45	Max Carey PIT	58

American League	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
Boston Red Sox	75	51	0.595	—	49–21	26–30
Cleveland Indians	73	54	0.575	2½	38–22	35–32
Washington Senators	72	56	0.562	4	41–32	31–24
New York Yankees	60	63	0.488	13½	37–29	23–34
St. Louis Browns	58	64	0.475	15	23–30	35–34
Chicago White Sox	57	67	0.460	17	30–26	27–41
Detroit Tigers	55	71	0.437	20	28–29	27–42
Philadelphia Athletics	52	76	0.406	24	35–32	17–44

National League	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
Chicago Cubs	84	45	0.651	—	49–25	35–20
New York Giants	71	53	0.573	10½	35–21	36–32
Cincinnati Reds	68	60	0.531	15½	46–24	22–36
Pittsburgh Pirates	65	60	0.520	17	42–28	23–32
Brooklyn Robins	57	69	0.452	25½	33–21	24–48
Philadelphia Phillies	55	68	0.447	26	27–29	28–39
Boston Braves	53	71	0.427	28½	23–29	30–42
St. Louis Cardinals	51	78	0.395	33	32–40	19–38

Team	Manager	Comments
Boston Red Sox	Ed Barrow
Chicago White Sox	Pants Rowland
Cleveland Indians	Lee Fohl
Detroit Tigers	Hughie Jennings
New York Yankees	Miller Huggins
Philadelphia Athletics	Connie Mack
St. Louis Browns	Fielder Jones, Jimmy Austin, and Jimmy Burke
Washington Senators	Clark Griffith

The Red Sox defeated the Cubs, four games to two.

September 2 - In the last game of the season, against the Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers centrefielder Ty Cobb fields at third base and also pitches, yielding three hits and one run in two innings.[2]

"1918 All Work or Fight and No Play," This Great Game: The Online Book of Baseball. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
Paschal, John. "Once Upon A Time: When Hall of Famers Go One-And-Done". tht.fangraphs.com. Retrieved April 2, 2019.

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1918 MLB season by team
American League	Boston Chicago Cleveland Detroit New York Philadelphia St. Louis Washington
National League	Boston Brooklyn Chicago Cincinnati New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh St. Louis
1918 World Series