1903 Philadelphia Athletics
75 - 60
1902 / 1904 (Organization)
2nd place in the AL (14.5 GB)
Home Record:
Away Record: 		44 - 21 (.677)
31 - 39 (.443)		 +7.4 wins
+0.4 wins
   
Scored/Expected: 597 / 577 ( +20 )
Allowed/Expected: 519 / 579 ( +60 )
Pyth Record: 76 - 59 (-1)
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Attendance: 422,473 Avg Att: 6,306 (1.49)
Att Rank: 1 / 8 Lg Avg: 4,233
       
Park Factor: 1.03    
HR Factor: 1.00 R/L HR: 1.02 / 0.92
Notes:


Formation
Filters
Home Grown
Positions
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1 Doc Powers
C
32.8
-0.2
4.6
-1.6
3
N
Not Available
2 Socks Seybold
RF
32.6
3.8
21.0
10.3
3
N
Not Available
3 Lave Cross
3B
37.1
2.2
16.8
4.0
3
N
1
1
1901
 Jumped Teams BRO NL
4 Eddie Plank
SP
27.8
7.2
27.6
15.9
3
Y
5
1
1901
 Free Agency (1st Tm)
5 Harry Davis
1B
30.0
2.9
16.1
7.8
3
N
5
21
1901
 Free Agency
6 Andy Coakley
SP
20.6
-0.8
0.0
-1.3
2
Y
Not Available
7 Tad Quinn
RP
21.8
0.0
0.4
0.1
2
Y
Not Available
8 Monte Cross
SS
33.8
2.7
17.6
4.6
2
N
10
19
1901
 Jumped Teams PHI NL
9 Topsy Hartsel
LF
29.0
3.3
18.7
10.2
2
N
1
1
1902
 Jumped Teams CHN NL
10 Ossee Schreckengost
C
28.2
1.2
10.3
2.3
2
N
5
22
1902
 Free Agency
11 Rube Waddell
SP
26.7
8.0
27.7
16.5
2
N
6
19
1902
 Jumped Teams Los Angeles (California)
12 Danny Murphy
2B
26.9
1.5
13.7
2.1
2
N
7
7
1902
 Purchased Norwich (Connecticut S
13 Bert Daly
2B
22.2
0.0
0.2
-0.4
1
Y
Not Available
14 Weldon Henley
SP
22.7
-0.6
7.1
0.7
1
Y
Not Available
15 Ed Hilley
3B
24.0
-0.0
0.2
0.0
1
Y
Not Available
16 Danny Hoffman
LF
23.3
0.0
4.3
-0.9
1
Y
Not Available
17 John Kalahan
C
24.8
-0.1
0.0
-0.1
1
Y
Not Available
18 Conny McGeehan
RP
20.9
-0.0
0.5
0.2
1
Y
Not Available
19 Ed Pinnance
SP
23.7
0.2
0.9
0.6
1
Y
Not Available
20 Chief Bender
SP
19.2
4.3
18.0
8.5
1
Y
1
1
1903
 Free Agency (1st Tm)
21 Ollie Pickering
CF
33.2
2.2
19.0
6.6
1
N
2
1
1903
 Purchased CLE AL
22 Jim Fairbank
SW
22.3
-0.1
0.5
-0.3
1
Y
8
31
1903
 Purchased Utica (New York Stat
WAR data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com


Player Pos Hometown
Chief Bender SP Carlisle, PA (US)
Andy Coakley SP Providence, RI (US)
Lave Cross 3B Milwaukee, WI (USA)
Monte Cross SS Tulsa, OK (US)
Bert Daly 2B Bayonne, NJ (USA)
Harry Davis 1B Philadelphia, PA (US)
Jim Fairbank SW Deansboro, NY (USA)
Topsy Hartsel LF Polk, OH (USA)
Weldon Henley SP Jasper, GA (USA)
Ed Hilley 3B Cleveland, OH (USA)
Danny Hoffman LF Canton, CT (USA)
John Kalahan C Philadelphia, PA (USA)
Conny McGeehan RP Drifton, PA (USA)
Danny Murphy 2B Philadelphia, PA (USA)
Ollie Pickering CF Olney, IL (USA)
Ed Pinnance SP Walpole Island, ON (CAN)
Eddie Plank SP Gettysburg, PA (USA)
Doc Powers C Pittsfield, MA (USA)
Tad Quinn RP Torrington, CT (USA)
Ossee Schreckengost C New Bethlehem, PA (USA)
Socks Seybold RF Washingtonville, OH (USA)
Rube Waddell SP Bradford, PA (USA)

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Win Shares are calculated using the formula in the book Win Shares by Bill James