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1929 Season

1928 / 1930

1929 World Series
Philadelphia Athletics Dressed to the Nines	Defeated	Chicago Cubs Dressed to the Nines

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Hornsby

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Hudlin

All-1929 Team

WAR data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com

Left Field	Tm	WAR	Off	Fld
Al Simmons	PHA	7.9	6.3	0.9
Lefty O'Doul	PHI	7.4	7.5	-0.7
Riggs Stephenson	CHN	4.7	4.9	-0.7
Chick Hafey	SLN	4.3	4.4	-0.5

Center Field	Tm	WAR	Off	Fld
Hack Wilson	CHN	6.1	6.2	-0.3
Earle Combs	NYA	4.9	5.1	-0.5
Earl Averill	CLE	4.3	5.0	-1.1
Johnny Frederick	BRO	3.8	3.9	-0.3

Right Field	Tm	WAR	Off	Fld
Babe Ruth	NYA	8.1	7.9	-0.5
Mel Ott	NY1	7.4	6.8	0.0
Chuck Klein	PHI	5.1	5.8	-1.2
Kiki Cuyler	CHN	4.9	4.8	-0.4

Shortstop	Tm	WAR	Off	Fld
Travis Jackson	NY1	5.7	3.5	3.2
Jimmie Dykes	PHA	4.1	4.8	-0.2
Joe Cronin	WS1	3.7	3.8	0.8
Red Kress	SLA	3.5	3.3	1.1

Second Base	Tm	WAR	Off	Fld
Rogers Hornsby	CHN	10.4	9.4	1.6
Tony Lazzeri	NYA	7.8	7.4	0.8
Charlie Gehringer	DET	5.8	6.8	-0.6
George Grantham	PIT	3.7	4.0	-0.1

Third Base	Tm	WAR	Off	Fld
Joe Sewell	CLE	4.4	3.4	1.4
Pinky Whitney	PHI	3.7	3.4	0.8
Marty McManus	DET	3.1	3.0	0.4
Willie Kamm	CHA	2.8	2.5	0.7

First Base	Tm	WAR	Off	Fld
Jimmie Foxx	PHA	7.9	7.5	-0.2
Lou Gehrig	NYA	7.7	7.3	-0.4
Lew Fonseca	CLE	5.5	5.4	-0.7
Dale Alexander	DET	5.0	5.6	-1.4

Catcher	Tm	WAR	Off	Fld
Mickey Cochrane	PHA	4.7	4.7	0.3
Bill Dickey	NYA	3.3	3.1	0.6
Jimmie Wilson	SLN	2.5	2.4	0.5
Wally Schang	SLA	2.2	2.0	0.4

Starting Pitcher	Tm	IP	WAR	Pit	Off
Willis Hudlin	CLE	280.3	7.4	7.5	-0.2
Lefty Grove*	PHA	275.3	7.2	7.1	0.1
Firpo Marberry	WS1	250.3	6.8	6.4	0.3
Wes Ferrell	CLE	242.7	6.6	6.1	0.6
Red Lucas	CIN	270.0	6.4	5.3	1.1
Dolly Gray	SLA	305.0	6.3	6.3	-0.1
Rube Walberg*	PHA	267.7	6.1	6.0	0.1
Burleigh Grimes	PIT	232.7	5.9	5.3	0.6
Watty Clark*	BRO	279.0	5.4	5.8	-0.4
George Earnshaw	PHA	254.7	5.2	5.5	-0.3

Swingman	Tm	IP	WAR	Pit	Off
Eddie Rommel	PHA	113.7	1.7	1.7	-0.0
Carl Mays	NY1	123.0	1.6	1.1	0.5
Jack Scott	NY1	91.7	1.6	1.3	0.3
Dutch Henry*	MULT	116.3	1.5	1.3	0.2

Relief Pitcher	Tm	IP	WAR	Pit	Off
Ralph Judd	NY1	50.7	0.9	1.2	-0.3
Paul Hopkins	MULT	18.3	0.8	0.8	-0.1
Pat Simmons	BOS	7.0	0.5	0.5	-0.0
Ray Lucas	NY1	8.0	0.5	0.4	0.0
Mike Cvengros*	CHN	64.0	0.4	0.2	0.3
Chad Kimsey	SLA	64.3	0.4	0.1	0.3
Red Peery*	BSN	44.0	0.4	0.3	0.1
Rube Ehrhardt	CIN	49.3	0.3	0.4	-0.1
Cy Moore	BRO	68.0	0.3	0.3	-0.0
Bunny Hearn*	BSN	18.3	0.2	0.2	0.0

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The statistics used were obtained free of charge from The Baseball Databank.

Wins Above Replacement data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com.

Defensive Regression Analysis data used here was obtained with permission from Michael Humphreys, author of Wizardry.

The transaction and player splits data used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Retrosheet.
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Uniform images used with permission from Marc Okkonen, author of Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century.
Images can also be viewed at the Hall of Fame online exhibit Dressed to the Nines

Win Shares are calculated using the formula in the book Win Shares by Bill James