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1931 Philadelphia Athletics season

Field	Value
name	Philadelphia Athletics
season	1931
misc	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

|}} The 1931 Philadelphia Athletics season involved the A's finishing first in the American League with a record of 107 wins and 45 losses. It was the team's third consecutive pennant-winning season and its third consecutive season with over 100 wins. However the A's lost the 1931 World Series to the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games. The series loss prevented the Athletics from becoming the first major league baseball team to win three consecutive World Series; the New York Yankees would accomplish the feat seven years later. The Athletics, ironically, would go on to earn their own threepeat in 1974, some forty-three years after the failed 1931 attempt.

1931 was also the A's final World Series appearance in Philadelphia. Their next AL pennant would be in 1972, after they had moved to Oakland.

Offseason

November 29, 1930: Homer Summa and Ossie Orwoll were traded by the Athletics to the Portland Beavers for Herb Lahti (minors).
December 10, 1930: Cy Perkins was purchased from the Athletics by the New York Yankees.

Regular season

1931 was the greatest season of Lefty Grove's career. He went 31–4, with a 2.06 ERA and 175 strikeouts, easily winning the pitching triple crown. He was voted league Most Valuable Player. Combined with the efforts of 21- and 20-game winners George Earnshaw and Rube Walberg, Philadelphia allowed the fewest runs of any AL team.

Slugger Al Simmons won the batting title with a .390 average and came in third in MVP voting.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Roster

1931 Philadelphia Athletics
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

	= Indicates team 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	122	459	160	.349	17	89
1B	139	515	150	.291	30	120
2B	130	497	146	.294	5	37
3B	101	355	97	.273	3	46
SS	86	294	79	.269	6	40
LF	128	513	200	.390	22	128
CF	102	440	142	.323	8	56
RF	137	534	150	.281	8	77

Other batters

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

G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
79	280	76	.271	5	33
67	224	51	.228	0	20
65	223	58	.260	2	20
62	197	48	.244	5	44
49	143	32	.224	2	21
42	113	27	.239	1	12
19	44	10	.227	0	4
9	24	9	.375	0	3

Pitching

Starting pitchers

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

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
44	291.0	20	12	3.74	106
41	288.2	31	4	2.06	175
43	281.2	21	7	3.67	152
30	162.1	15	4	4.21	59
16	111.0	10	5	4.22	30

Note: George Earnshaw was team leader in saves with 6.

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
25	118.0	7	5	2.97	18
19	70.1	2	4	3.71	23
6	16.0	0	3	5.06	2
6	13.0	0	1	6.23	7
3	11.0	1	0	4.09	1

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
	2	0	0	0	19.29	1

Awards and honors

League top five finishers

Mickey Cochrane

#4 in AL in batting average (.349)

George Earnshaw

#2 in AL in strikeouts (152)
#3 in AL in wins (21)

Jimmie Foxx

#4 in AL in home runs (30)

Lefty Grove

AL leader in wins (31)
AL leader in ERA (2.06) (Grove's 2.06 ERA was 2.32 runs below the league average.)
AL leader in strikeouts (175)

Al Simmons

AL leader in batting average (.390)
#3 in AL in slugging percentage (.641)
#4 in AL in RBI (128)
#4 in AL in on-base percentage (.444)

1931 World Series

Main article: 1931 World Series

NL St. Louis Cardinals (4) vs. AL Philadelphia Athletics (3)

	Game		Score		Date		Location		Attendance
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

Farm system

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Harrisburg

Notes

References

[https://www.baseball-reference.com/s/summaho01.shtml Homer Summa page at Baseball Reference]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/p/perkicy01.shtml Cy Perkins page at Baseball Reference]
''Baseball's Top 100: The Game's Greatest Records'', p.51, Kerry Banks, 2010, Greystone Books, Vancouver, BC, {{ISBN. 978-1-55365-507-7
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., ''The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball'', 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007

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