1910 New Orleans Pelicans season

January 2025 New Orleans Pelicans (baseball) 1910 1910NOLAPelicans.jpg 280px yes 87 53 y Southern Association Pelican Park New Orleans, Louisiana 1st Charlie Frank The 1910 New Orleans Pelicans season was a season in professional baseball. The Pelicans played in the Southern Association and won their second league pennant.https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/league.cgi?id=70c034cd 1910 Southern Association Baseball-Reference Sports Reference March 31, 2020 One sportswriter ranked them as the greatest sports team in the history of New Orleans.http://blog.nola.com/gladow/2008/06/greatest_no_sports_teams_of_al_9.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160303194619/http://blog.nola.com/gladow/2008/06/greatest_no_sports_teams_of_al_9.html dead March 3, 2016 Greatest N.O. sports teams of all time: No. 1 | NOLA.com March 3, 2016 The team was owned and managed by Charlie Frank. Shoeless Joe Jackson was a member of the team. Jackson had previously played for the Philadelphia Athletics of the American League, and owner Connie Mack sent him on loan to the Pelicans for the 1910 season. Jackson had a .354 batting average for New Orleans to win his third minor league batting title. He also led the league with 82 runs scored, 165 hits, and 19 triples, and he was praised for "his sweet swing and effortless skills in the outfield." This was Jackson's only season with the Pelicans. Later that year, he returned to the American League with the Cleveland Naps and batted .387 in 20 games.https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/team.cgi?id=b397832c 1910 New Orleans Pelicans Statistics Baseball-Reference Sports Reference March 31, 2020Fleitz, David L. (2001). Shoeless: The Life and Times of Joe Jackson. McFarland. pp. 34-42.https://newspapers.com/clip/22292283/1910_southern_association_stats/ September 25, 1910 5 Joe Jackson Led Hitters Newspapers.com Atlanta Constitution Karst, James. https://www.nola.com/sports/article_41d83d45-665a-5a25-aedb-8a95171c6466.html "The last days of Shoeless Joe Jackson in New Orleans". nola.com. September 25, 2016. Retrieved March 31, 2020. Hank Butcher, George Rohe, and John W. Weimer tied for the league lead in home runs with 4 each. The team's pitchers were Ted Breitenstein, Otto Hess, Bert Maxwell, and Pat Paige. Hess had a 25–9 record, leading one writer to call the Pelicans a "two-man team" between Hess and Jackson.https://www.newspapers.com/image/138357702/ New Orleans had a Two-Man Team 20 September 1910 The Arkansas Gazette 8 Paige went 24–14, and Breitenstein went 19–9. https://www.statscrew.com/minorbaseball/leaders/l-SOUA/y-1910 1910 Southern League (SL) minor league baseball Leaders on StatsCrew.com The team coasted to an 8-game lead in the standings.https://books.google.com/books?id=7FlvDCghEh4C&pg=PA27 Baseball in New Orleans S. Derby Gisclair February 11, 2004 Arcadia Publishing 9780738516141 Google Books After clinching the pennant, New Orleans defeated the Atlanta Crackers, and "a brass band played between innings, and twice during the game snacks of pretzels and sauerkraut were delivered onto the field, where play was halted so the athletes could snack." Standings TeamWLPct.GBNew Orleans Pelicans8753.621—Birmingham Barons7961.5648Atlanta Crackers7563.54311Chattanooga Lookouts6671.482191 2Nashville Vols6476.45723Mobile Sea Gulls6375.45723Memphis Turtles6276.44924Montgomery Rebels5980.424271 2 Sources:https://www.newspapers.com/image/603857426/ How They Stand at Season's End The Tennessean 18 September 1910 18 Player statistics Batting Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average thumb|Shoeless Joe Jackson thumb|George Rohe Player G AB H Avg. Ted Breitenstein 37 99 14 .141 Charles Brooks 48 154 30 .195 Hank Butcher 123 444 112 .252 Gene DeMontreville 107 339 64 .189 Oscar Dugey 19 65 9 .138 Otto Hess 41 109 20 .183 Shoeless Joe Jackson 136 466 165 .354 Jim Lafitte 126 398 85 .214 Bill Lindsay 110 358 90 .251 Frank Manush 143 476 122 .256 Bert Maxwell 32 81 11 .136 John Mitchell 23 58 6 .103 Pat Paige 44 122 17 .139 Eddie Reagan 10 32 7 .219 George Rohe 128 458 103 .225 John W. Weimer 135 456 107 .235 Source: Pitching Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; Pct. = Winning percentage Player G W L Pct. Ted Breitenstein 31 19 9 .679 Otto Hess 40 25 9 .735 Bert Maxwell 32 14 18 .438 Pat Paige 44 24 14 .632 Source: References 30em Category:1910 in sports in Louisiana Category:New Orleans Pelicans (baseball)