1921 New York Yankees season

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1921 New York Yankees
1921 American League Champions
LeagueAmerican League
BallparkPolo Grounds
CityNew York City, New York
OwnersJacob Ruppert and Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston
General managersEd Barrow
ManagersMiller Huggins
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The 1921 New York Yankees season was the 19th season for the Yankees. The team finished with a record of 98–55, winning their first pennant in franchise history, winning the American League by 41⁄2 games over the previous year's champion, the Cleveland Indians. New York was managed by Miller Huggins. Their home games were played at the Polo Grounds.

Regular season

With star slugger Babe Ruth hitting 59 home runs, setting a new major league home run record for the third consecutive year, while also having his greatest overall season statistically, the Yankees appeared to be the team to beat in the World Series. Their landlords, the New York Giants, had rebuilt after slipping a bit in the late 1910s, and had won the National League pennant. For the first time, all the games of a World Series would be held in the same ballpark, the Polo Grounds. The best-5-of-9 Series (its last before returning to the best-4-of-7 format) saw the Yankees take a 2 games to 0 lead and later a 3–2 series lead, but Ruth suffered a serious injury in game 3 that limited his appearances in the remaining games, save for one pinch-hit appearance, and the Giants rallied to win the Series 5 games to 3.

Season standings

American League
Team W L Pct. GB Home Road
New York Yankees 98 55 .641 — 53‍–‍25 45‍–‍30
Cleveland Indians 94 60 .610 4½ 51‍–‍26 43‍–‍34
St. Louis Browns 81 73 .526 17½ 43‍–‍34 38‍–‍39
Washington Senators 80 73 .523 18 46‍–‍30 34‍–‍43
Boston Red Sox 75 79 .487 23½ 41‍–‍36 34‍–‍43
Detroit Tigers 71 82 .464 27 37‍–‍40 34‍–‍42
Chicago White Sox 62 92 .403 36½ 37‍–‍40 25‍–‍52
Philadelphia Athletics 53 100 .346 45 28‍–‍47 25‍–‍53

Record vs. opponents

1921 American League record

Sources:
Team BOS CWS CLE DET NYY PHA SLB WSH
Boston — 15–7 8–14 15–7 7–15 12–10 9–13 9–13
Chicago 7–15 — 7–15 8–14 13–9 14–8 7–15 6–16
Cleveland 14–8 15–7 — 13–9 8–14 15–7 17–5 12–10
Detroit 7–15 14–8 9–13 — 5–17 14–7–1 12–10 10–12
New York 15–7 9–13 14–8 17–5 — 17–5 13–9 13–8
Philadelphia 10–12 8–14 7–15 7–14–1 5–17 — 5–17 11–11–1
St. Louis 13–9 15–7 5–17 10–12 9–13 17–5 — 12–10
Washington 13–9 16–6 10–12 12–10 8–13 11–11–1 10–12 —


Roster

1921 New York Yankees
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders Manager

Coaches

Player stats

= Indicates team leader

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 Wally Schang 134 424 134 .316 6 55
1B Wally Pipp 153 588 174 .296 8 98
2B Aaron Ward 153 556 170 .306 5 75
3B Frank Baker 94 330 97 .294 9 71
SS Roger Peckinpaugh 149 577 166 .288 8 71
OF Babe Ruth 152 540 204 .378 59 171
OF Bob Meusel 149 598 190 .318 24 138
OF Elmer Miller 56 242 72 .298 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
Mike McNally 71 215 56 .260 1 24
Chick Fewster 66 207 58 .280 1 19
Braggo Roth 43 152 43 .283 2 10
Ping Bodie 31 87 15 .172 0 12
Chicken Hawks 41 73 21 .280 2 15
Fred Hofmann 23 62 11 .177 1 5
Al DeVormer 22 49 17 .347 0 7
Johnny Mitchell 13 42 11 .262 0 2
Tom Connelly 4 5 1 .200 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
Carl Mays 49 336.2 27 9 3.05 70
Waite Hoyt 43 282.1 19 13 3.09 102
Bob Shawkey 38 245.0 18 12 4.08 35
Bill Piercy 14 81.2 5 4 2.98 35
Harry Harper 8 52.2 4 3 3.76 22

Note: Carl Mays was team leader in saves with 7.

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
Rip Collins 28 137.1 11 5 5.44 64
Jack Quinn 33 119.0 8 7 3.78 44
Alex Ferguson 17 56.1 3 1 5.91 9
Babe Ruth 2 9.0 2 0 9.00 2

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
Tom Sheehan 12 1 0 1 5.45 7
Tom Rogers 5 0 1 1 7.36 0

World Series

Main article: 1921 World Series
Game Date Visitor Score Home Score Record

(NYG-NYY)

Attendance
1 October 5 New York Yankees 3 New York Giants 0 0–1 30,202
2 October 6 New York Giants 0 New York Yankees 3 0–2 34,939
3 October 7 New York Yankees 5 New York Giants 13 1–2 36,509
4 October 9 ‡ New York Giants 4 New York Yankees 2 2–2 36,372
5 October 10 ‡ New York Yankees 3 New York Giants 1 2–3 35,758
6 October 11 ‡ New York Giants 8 New York Yankees 5 3–3 34,238
7 October 12 ‡ New York Yankees 1 New York Giants 2 4–3 36,503
8 October 13 ‡ New York Giants 1 New York Yankees 0 5–3 25,410
New York Giants win 5–3

Awards and honors

Major league records

  • Babe Ruth, major league record, Most total bases in one season (457)[1]

Franchise records

  • Babe Ruth, Yankees single season record, runs scored in a season (177)

Notes

  1. ^ Baseball's Top 100: The Game's Greatest Records, p.54, Kerry Banks, 2010, Greystone Books, Vancouver, BC, ISBN 978-1-55365-507-7

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