Spalding's base ball guide, and official league book for ..: a complete hand book of the national game of base ball .. . st improvement wasshown in the management of a majority of the teams, andgreatly so in that of the Athletic clubs team. Here is theseasons championship record of 1902: THE AMERICAN LEAGUE RECORD OF 1903. Clubs ^^^ ^^- ^°^ ^^^ Cleve- De- Balti- Per letic Louis ton cago land Wash, troit more Won cent. Athletic 9 11 10 12 13 16 13 83 .610 St. 10 .. 5 9 10 11 15 18 78 .574 Boston 9 15 .. 12 6 8 11 16 77 .562 Chicago 10 9 8 .. 12 12 12 11 74 .552 Cleveland 6 9 14 7 .
Spalding's base ball guide, and official league book for ..: a complete hand book of the national game of base ball .. . st improvement wasshown in the management of a majority of the teams, andgreatly so in that of the Athletic clubs team. Here is theseasons championship record of 1902: THE AMERICAN LEAGUE RECORD OF 1903. Clubs ^^^ ^^- ^°^ ^^^ Cleve- De- Balti- Per letic Louis ton cago land Wash, troit more Won cent. Athletic 9 11 10 12 13 16 13 83 .610 St. 10 .. 5 9 10 11 15 18 78 .574 Boston 9 15 .. 12 6 8 11 16 77 .562 Chicago 10 9 8 .. 12 12 12 11 74 .552 Cleveland 6 9 14 7 .. 12 8 11 69 .507 6 9 11 7 8 .. 11 9 61 .449 Detroit; 4 5 7 7 10 9 .. 10 52 ..385 Baltimore 6 2 4 8 9 11 10 .. 50 .362 Lost 53 58 60 60 67 75 83 88 544 The difference in percentage points between the leader and tail-ender was242 points, an improvement over that of the previous season. The feature of the race was the close battle for the leadin the ranks of the first division clubs, the difference inpercentage figures at the close between the winner and theclub fourth in the race being but 58 SPALDINGS OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 115 ^ FIELD WORK RECORDSOF THE TWO LEAGUES * The professional club managers of the American andNational Leagues had what may be called a pretty toughtime of it in 1902 to get anything like team work doneby their respective club teams. This was particularly thecase in the National League arena, where really compe-tent managers were met with a degree of demoralizationin their teams ranks which nullified their greatest eftortsto get the best work out of their players. The fact was,that in the absence of the valuable help which the NationalAgreement gave clubs in protecting their interests fromthe demoralizing effects of base ball wars, the players wereable to hold a winning hand in the games, and in conse-quence they did just as they pleased both on and off thefield, and in both instances to such an extent that all dis-cipline disapp
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