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Boston Americans 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 3 · 1903-10-01 to 1903-10-13 · 8 games · attendance 100,429 · season overview

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Champion · 1st title

Boston Americans
Manager Jimmy Collins

Runner-up

Pittsburgh Pirates
Manager Fred Clarke

Ballparks

Exposition Park III
Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds

Games

#	Date	Away at Home	Series	Park	Attendance	Win	Loss
1	1903-10-01	Pittsburgh Pirates 7 at Boston Americans 3	0–1	Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds	16,242	Deacon Phillippe	Cy Young
2	1903-10-02	Pittsburgh Pirates 0 at Boston Americans 3	1–1	Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds	9,415	Bill Dinneen	Sam Leever
3	1903-10-03	Pittsburgh Pirates 4 at Boston Americans 2	1–2	Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds	18,801	Deacon Phillippe	Tom Hughes
4	1903-10-06	Boston Americans 4 at Pittsburgh Pirates 5	1–3	Exposition Park III	7,600	Deacon Phillippe	Bill Dinneen
5	1903-10-07	Boston Americans 11 at Pittsburgh Pirates 2	2–3	Exposition Park III	12,322	Cy Young	Brickyard Kennedy
6	1903-10-08	Boston Americans 6 at Pittsburgh Pirates 3	3–3	Exposition Park III	11,556	Bill Dinneen	Sam Leever
7	1903-10-10	Boston Americans 7 at Pittsburgh Pirates 3	4–3	Exposition Park III	17,038	Cy Young	Deacon Phillippe
8	1903-10-13	Pittsburgh Pirates 0 at Boston Americans 3	5–3	Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds	7,455	Bill Dinneen	Deacon Phillippe

The players

Boston Americans

Batting	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
Jimmy Collins	8	36	5	9	1	2	0	1	1	1	3	.250
Patsy Dougherty	8	34	3	8	0	2	2	5	2	6	0	.235
Chick Stahl	8	33	6	10	1	3	0	3	1	2	2	.303
Buck Freeman	8	32	6	9	0	3	0	4	2	2	0	.281
Freddy Parent	8	32	8	9	0	3	0	4	1	1	0	.281
Hobe Ferris	8	31	3	9	0	1	0	6	0	6	0	.290
Candy LaChance	8	27	5	6	2	1	0	3	3	2	0	.222
Lou Criger	8	26	1	6	0	0	0	4	2	3	0	.231
Cy Young	4	15	1	1	0	1	0	3	0	3	0	.067
Bill Dinneen	4	12	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	.167
Duke Farrell	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.000
Jack O'Brien	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000

Pitching	G	GS	W–L	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Bill Dinneen	4	4	3–1	35.0	29	8	8	8	28	0	2.06
Cy Young	4	3	2–1	34.0	31	13	7	4	17	1	1.85
Tom Hughes	1	1	0–1	2.0	4	3	2	2	0	0	9.00

Pittsburgh Pirates

Batting	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
Ginger Beaumont	8	34	6	9	0	1	0	2	2	4	2	.265
Fred Clarke	8	34	3	9	2	1	0	0	1	5	1	.265
Tommy Leach	8	33	3	9	0	4	0	8	1	4	1	.273
Jimmy Sebring	8	30	3	10	0	1	1	4	1	4	0	.333
Kitty Bransfield	8	29	3	6	0	2	0	1	1	6	1	.207
Honus Wagner	8	27	2	6	1	0	0	3	3	4	3	.222
Claude Ritchey	8	27	2	4	1	0	0	2	4	7	1	.148
Ed Phelps	8	26	1	6	2	0	0	1	1	6	0	.231
Deacon Phillippe	5	18	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	.222
Sam Leever	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Harry Smith	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Brickyard Kennedy	1	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500
Bucky Veil	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000
Gus Thompson	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000

Pitching	G	GS	W–L	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Deacon Phillippe	5	5	3–2	44.0	38	19	15	3	22	0	3.07
Sam Leever	2	2	0–2	10.0	13	8	6	3	2	1	5.40
Bucky Veil	1	0	0–0	7.0	5	1	1	4	1	1	1.29
Brickyard Kennedy	1	1	0–1	7.0	10	10	4	3	3	0	5.14
Gus Thompson	1	0	0–0	2.0	3	1	1	0	1	0	4.50

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