1911 Major League Baseball season

The 1911 major league baseball season began on April 12, 1911. The regular season ended on October 12, with the New York Giants and Philadelphia Athletics as the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The postseason began with Game 1 of the eighth modern World Series on October 14 and ended with Game 6 on October 26. In the second iteration of this World Series matchup, the Athletics defeated the Giants, four games to two, capturing their second championship in franchise history, and the second team to win back-to-back World Series.

This was the first of four seasons that the Chalmers Award, a precursor to the Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award (introduced in 1931), was given to a player in each league.

This is the most recent major league season from which no stadiums remain in use. The Boston Red Sox have used Fenway Park as their home field since the 1912 season. The Boston Doves and Brooklyn Superbas renamed as the Boston Rustlers and Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers, respectively.

The 1911 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 12 with all but the Chicago White Sox and Detroit Tigers playing. The American League would see its final day of the regular season on October 8, while the National League would see its final day of the regular season was on October 12. The World Series took place between October 14 and October 26.

An asterisk (*) denotes the ballpark a team played the minority of their home games at

19 tie games (4 in AL, 15 in NL), which are not factored into winning percentage or games behind (and were often replayed again) occurred throughout the season.

The postseason began on October 17 and ended on October 26 with the Philadelphia Athletics defeating the New York Giants in the 1911 World Series in six games.

• Chalmers Award: Frank Schulte (CHC, National); Ty Cobb (DET, American)

The 1911 season saw three teams play their last seasons at their respective venues.

• The Boston Red Sox would play their last game at the Huntington Avenue Grounds on October 7 against the Washington Senators, moving into Fenway Park for the start of the 1912 season.
• The Cincinnati Reds would play their last game at the Palace of the Fans on October 12 against the Chicago Cubs, moving into Redland Field for the start of the 1912 season.
• The Detroit Tigers would play their last game at Bennett Park on September 10 against the Cleveland Naps, moving into Navin Field for the start of the 1912 season.

The 1911 season saw two teams play in new venues due to fires.

• Prior to the start of the season, the Washington Senators home at National Park burned down on March 17. The Senators played there for seven seasons, and the venue was previously home to the defunct AA/NL Washington Senators from 1891 through 1899. A new venue, also called National Park, was quickly built on the same site, in time for Opening Day on April 12 to play a game with fans in attendance. The Senators would go on to play there for the rest of their tenure in Washington, D.C. for 50 seasons through 1960, before moving to Minnesota as the Minnesota Twins.
• On April 14, after only two home games, much of the New York Giants home, the Polo Grounds, burned down, forcing the team to play 28 home games at the home of the New York Highlanders, Hilltop Park for the remaining April and May home games. Following a month long road trip, the Giants returned to a reconstructed Polo Grounds, now called Brush Stadium after owner John T. Brush, on June 28 and would play their remaining 45 home games there.^[22][23]

• 1911 in baseball (Events, Births, Deaths)

• 1911 Major League Schedule at Baseball Reference
• 1911 in baseball history from ThisGreatGame.com