1911 Major League Baseball season

1911 MLB season
LeagueAmerican League (AL)
National League (NL)
SportBaseball
DurationRegular season:
  • April 12 – October 8, 1911 (AL)
  • April 12 – October 12, 1911 (NL)
World Series:
  • October 17–26, 1911
Number of games154
Number of teams16 (8 per league)
Regular season
Season MVPAL: Ty Cobb (DET)
NL: Frank Schulte (CHC)
AL championsPhiladelphia Athletics
  AL runners-upDetroit Tigers
NL championsNew York Giants
  NL runners-upChicago Cubs
World Series
ChampionsPhiladelphia Athletics
  Runners-upNew York Giants
Locations of teams for the 1911 American League season
American League

The 1911 major league baseball season began on April 12, 1911. The regular season ended on October 12, with the New York Giants and Philadelphia Athletics as the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The postseason began with Game 1 of the eighth modern World Series on October 14 and ended with Game 6 on October 26. The Athletics defeated the Giants, four games to two.

This was the first of four seasons that the Chalmers Award, a precursor to the Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award (introduced in 1931), was given to a player in each league.

This is the most recent major league season from which no stadiums remain in use. The Boston Red Sox have used Fenway Park as their home field since the 1912 season. The Boston Doves and Brooklyn Superbas renamed as the Boston Rustlers and Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers, respectively.


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