1913 New York Giants
National League Champions
LeagueNational League
BallparkPolo Grounds
CityNew York City
OwnersHarry Hempstead
ManagersJohn McGraw
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The 1913 New York Giants season was the franchise's 31st season. It involved the Giants winning the National League pennant for the third consecutive year. Led by manager John McGraw, the Giants dominated the NL and finished 12½ games in front of the second place Philadelphia Phillies. They were beaten by the Philadelphia Athletics in the World Series.

Ace pitcher Christy Mathewson went 25–11 and led the NL with a 2.06 ERA. Rube Marquard and Jeff Tesreau also won over 20 games, and the Giants easily allowed the fewest runs of any team in the league.

Taken together with the 1911 and 1912 pennant winners, this team is considered one of the greatest of all-time.[1] The roster was basically unchanged from 1912.

Regular season

The Giants' opening day line-up at the Polo Grounds

Season standings

National League 		W L Pct. GB Home Road
New York Giants 101 51 0.664 — 54–23 47–28
Philadelphia Phillies 88 63 0.583 12½ 43–33 45–30
Chicago Cubs 88 65 0.575 13½ 51–25 37–40
Pittsburgh Pirates 78 71 0.523 21½ 41–35 37–36
Boston Braves 69 82 0.457 31½ 34–40 35–42
Brooklyn Dodgers 65 84 0.436 34½ 29–47 36–37
Cincinnati Reds 64 89 0.418 37½ 32–44 32–45
St. Louis Cardinals 51 99 0.340 49 25–48 26–51

Record vs. opponents

1913 National League record

Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Team BOS BR CHC CIN NYG PHI PIT STL
Boston — 10–10–1 9–13 8–14 8–14 7–15–1 11–10 16–6–1
Brooklyn 10–10–1 — 9–13 9–13 8–14 8–13–1 8–14–1 13–7
Chicago 13–9 13–9 — 13–9–1 7–14 13–9 13–9 16–6–1
Cincinnati 14–8 13–9 9–13–1 — 5–17 5–17–1 8–13–1 10–12
New York 14–8 14–8 14–7 17–5 — 14–8–3 14–8–1 14–7
Philadelphia 15–7–1 13–8–1 9–13 17–5–1 8–14–3 — 9–11–2 17–5
Pittsburgh 10–11 14–8–1 9–13 13–8–1 8–14–1 11–9–2 — 13–8–1
St. Louis 6–16–1 7–13 6–16–1 12–10 7–14 5–17 8–13–1 —


Notable transactions

Roster

1913 New York Giants roster
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Infielders

Outfielders

Other batters

Manager

Coaches

Player stats

Batting

Jim Thorpe at the Polo Grounds

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 Chief Meyers 120 378 118 .312 3 47
1B Fred Merkle 153 563 147 .261 3 69
2B Larry Doyle 132 482 135 .280 5 73
SS Art Fletcher 136 538 160 .297 4 71
3B Buck Herzog 96 290 83 .286 3 31
OF Fred Snodgrass 141 457 133 .291 3 49
OF Red Murray 147 520 139 .267 2 59
OF George Burns 150 605 173 .286 2 54

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
Tillie Shafer 138 508 146 .287 5 52
Moose McCormick 57 80 22 .275 0 15
Art Wilson 54 79 15 .190 0 8
Larry McLean 30 75 24 .320 0 9
Jim Thorpe 19 35 5 .143 1 2
Claude Cooper 27 30 9 .300 0 4
Josh Devore 16 21 4 .190 0 1
Eddie Grant 27 20 4 .200 0 1
Grover Hartley 23 19 6 .316 0 0
Milt Stock 7 17 3 .176 0 1
Heinie Groh 4 2 0 .000 0 0
John Merritt 1 0 0 ---- 0 0
Joe Evers 1 0 0 ---- 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
Christy Mathewson 40 306.0 25 11 2.06 93
Rube Marquard 42 288.0 23 10 2.50 151
Jeff Tesreau 41 282.0 22 13 2.17 167
Al Demaree 31 199.2 13 4 2.21 76
Bunny Hearn 2 13.0 1 1 2.77 8

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
Art Fromme 26 112.1 11 6 4.01 50
Red Ames 8 41.2 2 1 2.16 30
Rube Schauer 3 12.0 0 1 7.50 7

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
Doc Crandall 35 4 4 6 2.86 42
Hooks Wiltse 17 0 0 3 1.56 25
Ferdie Schupp 5 0 0 0 0.75 2

1913 World Series

Main article: 1913 World Series

Game 1

October 7, 1913, at the Polo Grounds in New York City

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Philadelphia 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 1 0 6 11 1
New York 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 4 11 0
W: Chief Bender (1–0)  L: Rube Marquard (0–1)
HR: PHI – Frank Baker (1)

Game 2

October 8, 1913, at Shibe Park in Philadelphia

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
New York 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 7 2
Philadelphia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 2
W: Christy Mathewson (1–0)  L: Eddie Plank (0–1)

Game 3

October 9, 1913, at the Polo Grounds in New York City

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Philadelphia 3 2 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 8 12 1
New York 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 5 1
W: Bullet Joe Bush (1–0)  L: Jeff Tesreau (0–1)
HR: PHI – Wally Schang (1)

Game 4

October 10, 1913, at Shibe Park in Philadelphia

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
New York 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 5 8 2
Philadelphia 0 1 0 3 2 0 0 0 x 6 9 0
W: Chief Bender (2–0)  L: Al Demaree (0–1)
HR: NYG – Fred Merkle (1)

Game 5

October 11, 1913, at the Polo Grounds in New York City

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Philadelphia 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 1
New York 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 2
W: Eddie Plank (1–1)  L: Christy Mathewson (1–1)

References

  1. ^ Neyer, Rob and Eddie Epstein. Baseball Dynasties.
  2. ^ Ben Dyer page at Baseball-Reference
  3. ^ Hank Ritter page at Baseball-Reference

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