1915 Detroit Tigers season
The 1915 Detroit Tigers team is remembered for its all-star outfield of Ty Cobb, Sam Crawford, and Bobby Veach—who finished #1, #2, and #3 in the American League in both runs batted in and total bases.
Baseball historian Bill James ranks the Tigers' 1915 outfield as the best in major league history.
In thirteen seasons with the Tigers, Stanage caught 1,074 games – second only to Bill Freehan in team history.
In 1926, he was named the American League's MVP with a .358 batting average and an all-time MLB record 64 doubles.
Third baseman Ossie Vitt played seven seasons with the Tigers and was a poor hitter but a good fielder.
Pitcher Hooks Dauss played his entire fifteen-year career with the Tigers and is the team's all-time win leader.
Pitcher Jean Dubuc was a pitching phenom at Notre Dame before entering professional baseball.
Dubuc is also credited with having signed Hank Greenberg while serving as a major league scout for the Tigers.
On August 16, 1915, Boland retired the first 26 Cleveland Indians batters he faced, only to give up a hit to Ben Paschal.
In 1926, Boland returned to the news for comments he made concerning a game-fixing scandal involving Ty Cobb.
Boland, then a paving contractor in Detroit, was the Tigers pitcher in a 1919 game against Cleveland that Cobb had reportedly agreed to fix.
Infielders Coaches Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg.
= Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in Note: pitchers' batting statistics not included Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts The following members of the 1915 Detroit Tigers are among the Top 100 players of all time at their position, as ranked in The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract in 2001:
