1905 New Orleans Pelicans season
Template:Infobox baseball season yearly The 1905 New Orleans Pelicans season represented the New Orleans Pelicans baseball team in the Southern Association and won their first league pennant, finishing with a record of 84 – 45.[1] An outbreak of yellow fever resulted in a quarantine of New Orleans.[2] The Pelicans were forced to play most of their games out of town.[3] The team was led by pitcher Jimmy Dygert and Otto Williams.[4][5] The team also included Ted Breitenstein, George Rohe and Erve Beck.[6] Breitenstein went 21–5, and Dygert put up a record of 18–4.[7][8]
References
- ^ "Spalding's Official Baseball Record". February 17, 1915 – via Google Books.
- ^ https://www.neworleansbar.org/uploads/files/HeinemannArticle.pdf
- ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=b6spAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA193
- ^ "History of New Orleans Baseball". www.neworleansbaseball.com.
- ^ "Pelicans nickname has century-plus history in New Orleans". New Orleans Pelicans.
- ^ https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/team.cgi?id=2b517415
- ^ https://www.statscrew.com/minorbaseball/leaders/l-SOUA/y-1905
- ^ Gisclair, S. Derby (February 17, 2004). "Baseball in New Orleans". Arcadia Publishing – via Google Books.