Team Batting Leaders of the Deadball Era - Part 1
The American Association Almanac Spring 2026 Vol. 22, No. 1 • Team Batting Leaders of the Deadball Era, Part 1 How this issue came together Work for the Spring 2026 issue began Oct. 1, 2025. The original idea was to continue with the theme of verifying published records for principal batting records from last spring when pitcher records were re-examined. That idea morphed into what follows. At its inception, the idea was to identify and record the team leader for each general batting category including runs, hits, doubles, triples, home runs, stolen bases, total bases, batting average and slugging pct. The idea was to show how these records evolved, how a record evolved, how its lineage progressed through the years. For example, Kansas City’s Mike Grady was the Association’s original home run leader with 16. Buck Freeman of Minneapolis usurped that role with 18 in 1907. Then Gavvy Cravath of Minneapolis with 29 in 1911 which became the all-time deadball era record. Th...
