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1929 Philadelphia Athletics season

Field	Value
name	Philadelphia Athletics
season	1929
misc	World Series champions
American League champions
image	Philadelphia Athletics Jersey Logo (1928 to 1949).svg
league	American League
ballpark	Shibe Park
city	Philadelphia
record
league_place	1st
owners	Connie Mack, Tom Shibe and John Shibe
managers	Connie Mack

American League champions |}} The 1929 Philadelphia Athletics season involved the A's finishing first in the American League with a record of 104 wins and 46 losses. After finishing in second place to the New York Yankees in 1927 and 1928, the club won the 1929 pennant by a large 18-game margin. The club won the World Series over the National League champion Chicago Cubs, four games to one.

Offseason

January 5, 1929: Homer Summa was purchased by the Athletics from the Cleveland Indians.

Regular season

Led by longtime owner-manager Connie Mack, the Athletics dominated during the regular season. Mack had purchased quite a few players from the Baltimore Orioles minor league club, and many of them would contribute to the A's 1929–31 dynasty.

The most famous of these players was ace Lefty Grove. In 1929, Grove led the American League in ERA and strikeouts on his way to a 20–6 record. Big George Earnshaw was the number two pitcher on the squad. He led the league in wins (24) and was second in strikeouts. Led by these two, Philadelphia allowed the fewest runs of any AL team.

On the offensive side, the A's boasted future Hall of Famers Mickey Cochrane, Jimmie Foxx, and Al Simmons. Simmons beat out Babe Ruth for the RBI crown in 1929.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Roster

1929 Philadelphia Athletics
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

	= Indicates team leader

	= Indicates league leader

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	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	135	514	170	.331	7	95
1B	149	517	183	.354	33	118
2B	129	475	110	.232	3	36
3B	101	379	105	.277	1	40
SS	91	303	76	.251	2	47
LF	143	581	212	.365	34	157
CF	139	578	181	.313	16	82
RF	147	556	184	.331	8	93

Other batters

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
INF	119	401	131	.327	13	79
OF	37	81	22	.272	0	10
C	38	76	16	.211	0	9
INF	25	56	13	.232	0	4
OF	30	51	13	.255	0	6
IB	29	49	13	.265	1	11
OF	45	45	12	.267	1	9
2B	8	27	2	.074	0	0
OF	12	16	5	.313	0	2
SS	4	8	4	.500	0	3
PH	9	7	0	.000	0	0
C	3	6	1	.167	0	0
OF	2	6	0	.000	0	0
3B	2	4	1	.250	0	1
SS	4	4	0	.000	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	GS	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
42	37	275.1	20	6	2.81	170
40	33	267.2	18	11	3.60	94
44	33	254.2	24	8	3.29	149
35	18	161.0	11	9	3.97	41

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
39	152.2	11	6	3.60	49
32	113.2	12	2	2.85	25
11	54.2	7	2	3.29	20
3	10.0	0	0	8.10	2

Note: Bill Shores was team leader in saves with 7.

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
	19	1	0	1	4.58	11
	12	0	2	1	4.80	12

1929 World Series

Main article: 1929 World Series

AL Philadelphia Athletics (4) vs. NL Chicago Cubs (1)

	Game		Score		Date		Location		Attendance
1
2
3
4
5

Farm system

Awards and honors

League leaders

Lefty Grove, American League leader, strikeouts

More recent honors

Al Simmons and the 1929–1931 Athletics were the subject of an August 19, 1996, cover story in Sports Illustrated with the teaser, "The Team that Time Forgot". Author William Nack wrote, "according to most old-timers who played in that era, the 1927 and '28 Yankees and the 1929 and '30 Athletics matched up so closely that they were nearly equal, with the A's given the nod in fielding and pitching and the Yankees in hitting."

On August 16, 2009, the Oakland Athletics celebrated the 80th anniversary of the 1929 team by wearing 1929 home uniforms against the Chicago White Sox. First pitches were thrown out by Kathleen Kelly, the granddaughter of Connie Mack, and Jim Conlin, the grandson of Jimmie Foxx. The A's won the game on a walk-off home run by Mark Ellis.

References

"Homer Summa Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More".
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., ''The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball'', 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007
''Baseball's Top 100: The Game's Greatest Records'', p. 51, Kerry Banks, 2010, Greystone Books, Vancouver, BC, {{ISBN. 978-1-55365-507-7
Nack, William. (August 19, 1996). "Lost in History".
(August 11, 2009). "A's celebrate 80th anniversary of 1929 season with Turn-Back-the-Clock Day". [[MLB.com]].
Loberstein, Adam. (August 16, 2009). "Ellis' homer gives A's walk-off victory". [[MLB.com]].

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