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SABR Rookie of the Year
Detail Vote, 1901-10

For more on Rookie awards and a list of Hypothetical and Retroactive winners for the Deadball Era, see Rookie of the Year: introduction and 1900-19 winners.

Perhaps 250 members of SABR [at least 240, judging by the vote for Ed Summers reported here] selected "retroactive" Rookies of the Year beginning in 1900, in elections conducted by Lyle Spatz, who reported in The Baseball Research Journal 1986. The detail vote was omitted from that report, for lack of space. The detail for 1901-10 is published here for the first time; 1911-46 remains unpublished.

SABR mimicked the process used by the BBWAA for the official award since 1980: each voter ranked as many as three candidates; 1st, 2d, and 3d votes were counted as 5, 3, and 1 points.

Rookies of the Year named by Bill Deane and STATS are noted, where they differ from those named by SABR.

Details of SABR Vote, Rookie of the Year, 1901-10

National League, 1901-10

1901
     Christy Mathewson    1030 
     Jack Harper           560 
     Kitty Bransfield      473 
     Otto Krueger           67 
     Tom Hughes             24 
     Lefty Davis            21 
     Doc White              10 

1902
     Homer Smoot           852 
     Mike O'Neill          528 
     George Barclay        417 (three SL Cardinals in the top three spots) 
     Carl Lundgren         118 
     Joe Tinker            110 
     Ed Greminger           89.5 
     George Browne          26.5 
     Pop Williams            8 
     Ham Iburg               1 
     Stan Yerkes             1 
     Clarence Currie         1 

1903
     Jake Weimer          1091 
     Johnny Evers          312 
     Oscar Jones           285 
     Henry Schmidt         270 
     Jimmy Sebring         214 
     Ed Phelps              11 

1904 
     Harry Lumley          803.5 
     Hooks Wiltse          549.5 
     Tom Walker            263.5 
     Mike Lynch            186.5 
     Miller Huggins        170 
     Art Devlin             90 
     Jim Delahanty          79 
     Spike Shannon          27 
     Fred Odwell             9 
     Frank Corridon          1 

1905 
     Ed Reulbach          1039 
     Irv Young             584 
     Del Howard            342.5 
     Frank Schulte         143.5 
     Orval Overall          24 
     Charlie Chech          20 
     Mickey Doolan          20 
     Jake Thielman           1 

1906
     Jack Pfiester        1143 
     Jim Nealon            365 
     Fred Beebe            294 
     Tim Jordan            226 
     Hans Lobert            66 
     Vive Lindaman          59 
     Pug Bennett            21 
     Lew Richie              4 

1907
     Nap Rucker            928  (smallest margin) 
     Mike Mitchell         912  (named by STATS)
     Bobby Byrne           170 
     Mike Mowrey            53 
     George Bell            50 
     Otto Knabe             37 
     Lew Moren              15 

1908
     George McQuillan     1217 
     Bob Spade             522 
     Joe Delahanty         145 
     Billy Campbell         98 
     Bill Foxen             88 
     Doc Crandall           29 
     Al Shaw                23 
     Dode Paskert           20 
     Owen Wilson            15 

1909
     Babe Adams            781  (least vote for a winner)
     Dots Miller           681  (named by Bill Deane)
     Harry Gaspar          615  (closest three-way contest) 
     Dick Egan              41 
     Al Mattern             36 
     Bill Abstein           20 
     Rube Marquard          18 
     Rube Ellis              7 
     Ed Lennox               3 
     Rebel Oakes             3 
STATS named Dick Hoblitzel, 32 games and 114 atbats in 1908

1910
     King Cole            1185 
     Josh Devore           349 
     Fred Snodgrass        216.5 
     Jake Daubert          175.5 
     Vin Campbell           90.5 
     Doc Miller             53 
     Louis Drucke           42.5 
     Cy Barger              38 
     Bill Collins           13 

American League, 1901-10

1901
     Socks Seybold         928 
     Roscoe Miller         779 
     Irv Waldron           135 
     Earl Moore            105 
     Roy Patterson          85 
     Fred Parent            85 
     Erve Beck              21 
     Bill Coughlin          13 
     Eddie Plank            13 
     George Winter          10  
     Case Patten             7 
     Ed Siever               1 

1902 
     Addie Joss           1000 
     Patsy Dougherty       823  (named by STATS)
     Harry Bemis           297 
     George Mullin          59 

1903 
     Chief Bender          984 
     Charlie Carr          818  (named by STATS)
     Norwood Gibson        251 
     Lee Tannehill          57 
     Charles Moran          39 
     Weldon Henley          10 
     Hunter Hill             5 

1904 
     Fred Glade            918 
     Frank Smith           779 
     Joe Cassidy           223 
     Otto Hess             188 
     Gus Dundon             26 
     Terry Turner           25 

1905 
     George Stone         1216 
     Bill Hogg             255  (largest margin)
     Emil Frisk            229 
     Ben Koehler           213 
     Hal Chase             177 
     Jim Buchanan           13 

1906 
     Claude Rossman       1037 
     Jack Coombs           516 
     Dave Altizer          257 
     Frank LaPorte         219 
     Jimmy Dygert           99 
     Charlie Smith          26 

1907 
     Glen Liebhardt        978 
     Simon Nicholls        794  (named by Bill Deane and STATS)
     Walter Johnson        270.5 
     Joe Birmingham         88.5 
     Denny Sullivan         44 

1908 
     Ed Summers           1220  (greatest vote)
     Amby McConnell        325 
     Ed Cicotte            238 
     Rube Manning          169 
     Eddie Collins         111 
     Neal Ball              33 
     Harry Lord             23 
     Jerry Freeman          15 
     Joe Lake                5 

1909 
     Harry Krause          970 
     Frank Baker           854  (named by Bill Deane and STATS)
     Donie Bush            249 
     Clyde Engle            51 
     Jim Scott              43 
     Jimmy Austin            9 
     Jack Warhop             3 
     Bob Groom               1 

1910 
     Russ Ford            1211 
     Duffy lewis           643 
     Jim Vaughn            142 
     Larry Gardner          90 
     Willie Mitchell        66 
     Rollie Zeider          12 

Still need 1911-1919 for both leagues. --Lyle Spatz
Acknowledgment. Lyle Spatz.


2001-02-25
Last modified: 2001-04-08 (tweak)
Paul Wendt
© Society for American Baseball Research, 2001