1906 Chicago Cubs season


The 1906 Chicago Cubs season was the 35th season of the Chicago Cubs franchise, the 31st in the National League and the 14th at West Side Park. The team won the National League pennant with a record of 116–36, a full 20 games ahead of the second-place New York Giants. The team's.763 winning percentage, with two ties in their 154-game season, is the highest in modern MLB history. The 2001 Seattle Mariners also won 116 games, but they did that in 162 games with a.716 winning percentage.
In a major upset, the Cubs were beaten by the Chicago White Sox in the 1906 World Series.

Regular season

Led by new manager Frank Chance, the Cubs dominated the NL. They led the league in both runs scored and fewest runs allowed by large margins. Their record of 116 wins has never been beaten, although it was tied by the 2001 Seattle Mariners.
The team included four future Hall of Famers: manager and first baseman Chance, second baseman Johnny Evers, shortstop Joe Tinker, and pitcher Mordecai Brown. Brown finished second in the NL in wins to Joe McGinnity, but his 1.04 ERA set a major league record. Although the record was broken by Dutch Leonard in 1914, Brown's mark still stands as the National League record.
The pitching staff led the majors with a team earned run average of 1.76. Six members of the pitching staff had double digit victories – Mordecai Brown, Jack Pfiester, Ed Reulbach, Carl Lundgren, Orval Overall, and Jack Taylor. In addition, Mordecai Brown set a major league record with the lowest earned run average attained with at least 250 innings pitched. The offensive star was third baseman Harry Steinfeldt, who led the NL in both hits and RBI.
The team's.763 winning percentage also set a modern-era record, and was the best overall since 1885. However, it set neither a National League record nor even a franchise record, as the 19th-century White Stockings finished with better records on three occasions. The all-time major league record belongs to the 1884 St. Louis Maroons of the Union Association at.832.
On August 9, Jack Taylor threw the last of a major league record 187 consecutive complete games that he pitched, a streak that began in 1901 when Taylor was pitching for the Chicago Orphans. Taylor had been re-acquired from the St. Louis Cardinals on July 1, having been traded to the Cards after the 1903 season.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Roster

Player stats

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
PosPlayerGABHAvg.HRRBI
C107343107.312246
1B136474151.319371
2B154533136.255151
SS148523122.233164
3B151539176.327383
OF149549144.262145
OF146563158.281760
OF127498119.239033

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in
PlayerGABHAvg.HRRBI
7022657.252035
6419550.256220
348321.253010
531.33300
210.00000
110.00000

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts
PlayerGIPWLERASO
36277.12661.04144
31250.22081.51153
332181941.6594
27207.21762.21103
17147.11231.8334
181441231.8894
1072.1352.9925
11000.000

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts
PlayerGIPWLERASO
1470612.7055

1906 World Series

AL Chicago White Sox vs NL Chicago Cubs

Awards and honors