1908 MLB season | |
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League | Major League Baseball |
Sport | Baseball |
Duration | April 14 – October 14, 1908 |
Number of games | 154 |
Number of teams | 16 |
Pennant Winners | |
AL champions | Detroit Tigers |
AL runners-up | Cleveland Naps |
NL champions | Chicago Cubs |
NL runners-up | New York Giants |
World Series | |
Champions | Chicago Cubs |
Runners-up | Detroit Tigers |
The 1908 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 14 to October 14, 1908. The Chicago Cubs and Detroit Tigers were the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. In a rematch of the prior year's postseason, the Cubs then defeated the Tigers in the World Series, four games to one.
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AL | Detroit Tigers | 1 | ||
NL | Chicago Cubs | 4 |
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1 National League Triple Crown pitching winner |
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Team name | Wins | %± | Home attendance | %± | Per game |
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New York Giants[1] | 98 | 19.5% | 910,000 | 69.0% | 11,375 |
Chicago Cubs[2] | 99 | -7.5% | 665,325 | 57.5% | 8,530 |
Chicago White Sox[3] | 88 | 1.1% | 636,096 | -4.5% | 8,155 |
St. Louis Browns[4] | 83 | 20.3% | 618,947 | 47.7% | 7,935 |
Boston Red Sox[5] | 75 | 27.1% | 473,048 | 8.3% | 6,143 |
Philadelphia Athletics[6] | 68 | -22.7% | 455,062 | -27.3% | 5,834 |
Detroit Tigers[7] | 90 | -2.2% | 436,199 | 46.8% | 5,592 |
Cleveland Naps[8] | 90 | 5.9% | 422,262 | 10.5% | 5,414 |
Philadelphia Phillies[9] | 83 | 0.0% | 420,660 | 23.3% | 5,393 |
Cincinnati Reds[10] | 73 | 10.6% | 399,200 | 25.7% | 5,184 |
Pittsburgh Pirates[11] | 98 | 7.7% | 382,444 | 19.7% | 4,967 |
New York Highlanders[12] | 51 | -27.1% | 305,500 | -12.7% | 3,968 |
Brooklyn Superbas[13] | 53 | -18.5% | 275,600 | -11.8% | 3,579 |
Washington Senators[14] | 67 | 36.7% | 264,252 | 19.1% | 3,388 |
Boston Doves[15] | 63 | 8.6% | 253,750 | 24.9% | 3,253 |
St. Louis Cardinals[16] | 49 | -5.8% | 205,129 | 10.7% | 2,664 |