1907 Philadelphia Athletics season

March 2026 November 2013 Philadelphia Athletics 1907 Philadelphia Athletics Primary Logo (1902 to 1921).svg American League Columbia Park Philadelphia 88 57 y 2nd Benjamin Shibe, Tom Shibe, John Shibe, Connie Mack, Sam Jones, Frank Hough Connie Mack The 1907 Philadelphia Athletics season involved the A's finishing second in the American League with a record of 88 wins and 57 losses. Preseason 1907 Philadelphia City Series AL Philadelphia Athletics (0) vs. NL Philadelphia Phillies (4) Philadelphia Phillies – 1, Philadelphia Athletics – 0 April 3, 1907 Columbia Park 1:15 April 4, 1907 Phillies Defeat Athletics in First Game of Inter-Club Series Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 13 Philadelphia Athletics – 1, Philadelphia Phillies – 4 April 4, 1907 Philadelphia Ball Park 1:43 5,278 April 5, 1907 Phillies Take Game By 4 to 1 Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 10 Philadelphia Phillies – 1, Philadelphia Athletics – 0 April 5, 1907 Columbia Park 1:40 3,172 April 6, 1907 Phillies Take to Vickers’ Curves Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 10 Philadelphia Athletics – 5, Philadelphia Phillies – 9 April 6, 1907 Philadelphia Ball Park 1:45 5,145 April 7, 1907 Philies with Four Straight Victories Capture Series Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 14b No Game - Wet Grounds April 8, 1907 Columbia Park April 9, 1907 Wet Grounds Too Much for Teams Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 10 No Game - Rain April 9, 1907 Philadelphia Ball Park April 10, 1907 Here’s Hoping for Fine Weather for the Opening of the Base Ball Season Tomorrow Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 10 The Phillies sweep dropped the Athletics to 18–19 against the Phillies all-time in the city series. Regular season The Athletics and Detroit Tigers vied for the pennant through the 1907 season. The Tigers came into Philadelphia for a three game series on September 27, 1907 in a virtual tie for first-place. Detroit took the first game 5-4 to move in front of an official attendance of 17,926, exceeding Columbia Park's capacity. Saturday's game was postponed by rain, and Pennsylvania Blue Laws precluded play on Sunday. A double-header was scheduled for Monday. Detroit's Bill Donovan had pitched a complete game in the Friday game and was slated to start both games of the double-header. thumb|left|"As Jim Nasium saw the game from a point of vantage outside the grounds" following Athletics-Tigers game, September 30, 1907 at Columbia Park in Philadelphia Inquirer (October 1, 1907) With a week left in the season, Athletics fans were eager to see the team capture the pennant. It was estimated that the team could have sold 50,000 tickets to the Monday double-header. With Columbia Park's limited capacity, an overflow crowd spilled into a roped-off area on the outfield grass. The gates were locked 30 minutes before game time with thousands of fans outside unable to gain admittance. Fans stormed the gates and climbed over the outside fence, with more than the official 24,127 seeing the game. The Philadelphia Inquirer would remark on the crowd, "Never before in the history of the national game has so great and remarkable a gathering of its enthusiastic followers been held anywhere." Fans scaled trolley and telegraph poles to watch the game. Local residents charged as much as $1 to $5 a person ($35 to $125 in 2025-dollars) to watch the game from windows. On the Twenty-ninth street side of the park, a fan in the grandstand lowered a rope up which fans scrambled from the street and into the park. Large men charged ten-cents to boost fans over the fence and into the park. October 1, 1907 Darkness Stop Grand Struggle; Nearly Twenty-five Thousand Witness the Game From Inside and Thousands of Others Take It In From Neighboring Roofs Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1 Down by six in the fifth, the Tigers came into the ninth down 8-6. Sam Crawford opened the ninth with a single off of future Hall of Fame Rube Waddell bringing 20-year year old Ty Cobb to the plate. Cobb crushed Waddell's pitch, clearing the right-field fence by fifty-feet and onto 29th Street for a game-tying homerun. The teams both scored in the eleventh and would battle to a 9-9 tie in 17-innings before darkness ended the game.Belleville Gary September 30, 1907: Ty Cobb and Bill Donovan lead Tigers to pivotal 17-inning tie with Athletics https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/september-30-1907-ty-cobb-and-bill-donovan-lead-tigers-to-pivotal-17-inning-tie-with-athletics/#_ednref17 sabr.org Phoenix, Arizona Society for American Baseball Research November 5, 2025 The Philadelphia Inquirer would call it "the most remarkable game ever played on the Athletic ground." October 1, 1907 Athletics Foozle it in the Seventh Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 11 Reflecting on his career in 1930, Cobb would tell Grantland Rice, "The biggest thrill I ever got came in a game was against the Athletics in 1907 [on September 30]... The Athletics had us beaten, with Rube Waddell pitching. They were two runs ahead in the 9th inning, when I happened to hit a home run that tied the score. This game went 17 innings to a tie, and a few days later, we clinched our first pennant. You can understand what it meant for a 20-year-old country boy to hit a home run off the great Rube, in a pennant-winning game with two outs in the ninth."http://www.baseballspast.com/film/cobb.html Film from Baseball's Past Baseballspast.com March 19, 1930 November 8, 2013 October 6, 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131006122951/http://www.baseballspast.com/film/cobb.html dead Season standings Philadelphia Athletics Record vs. opponents PHA Roster 1907 Philadelphia Athletics Roster Pitchers Bill Bartley Chief Bender Jack Coombs George Craig Jimmy Dygert Charlie Fritz Sam Hope Eddie Plank Rube Vickers Rube Waddell Catchers Claude Berry Doc Powers Ossee Schreckengost Infielders Eddie Collins Jimmy Collins Monte Cross Harry Davis John Knight Danny Murphy Simon Nicholls Outfielders Topsy Hartsel Bris Lord Rube Oldring Socks Seybold Manager Connie Mack 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 Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI C Ossee Schrecongost 101 356 97 .272 0 38 1B Harry Davis Harry Davis (1900s first baseman) 149 582 155 .266 8 87 2B Danny Murphy Danny Murphy (second baseman) 124 469 127 .271 2 57 SS Simon Nicholls Simon Nicholls (baseball) 124 460 139 .302 0 23 3B Jimmy Collins 99 364 99 .272 0 35 OF Topsy Hartsel 143 507 142 .280 3 29 OF Rube Oldring 117 441 126 .286 1 40 OF Socks Seybold 147 564 153 .271 5 92 Other batters Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI Monte Cross 77 248 51 .206 0 18 Bris Lord 57 170 31 .182 1 11 Doc Powers 59 159 29 .182 0 9 John Knight John Knight (baseball) 40 139 29 .209 0 12 Eddie Collins 14 23 8 .348 0 2 Claude Berry 8 19 4 .211 0 1 Pitching Starting pitchers Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts Player G IP W L ERA SO Eddie Plank 43 343.2 24 16 2.20 183 Rube Waddell 44 284.2 19 13 2.15 232 Jimmy Dygert 42 261.2 21 8 2.34 151 Chief Bender 33 219.1 16 8 2.05 112 Jack Coombs 23 132.2 6 9 3.12 73 Charlie Fritz 1 3.0 0 0 3.00 1 Other pitchers Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts Player G IP W L ERA SO Bill Bartley 15 56.1 0 1 2.24 16 Rube Vickers 10 50.1 2 2 3.40 21 Relief pitchers Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts Player G W L SV ERA SO George Craig George Craig (baseball) 2 0 0 0 10.80 0 Bris Lord 1 0 0 0 9.00 0 Sam Hope Sam Hope (baseball) 1 0 0 0 0.00 0 References 1907 Philadelphia Athletics team page at Baseball Reference 1907 Philadelphia Athletics team page at www.baseball-almanac.com Category:Philadelphia Athletics seasons Philadelphia Athletics season Oakland Category:1900s in Philadelphia