1904 New York Highlanders season

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		As the Highlanders the team enjoyed success only twice, finishing in second place in the American League in 1904 and 1910, but otherwise much of their first fifteen years in New York was spent in the cellar.
		New York Highlanders, 1903-1910, "Yankees" as early as 1904, used more and more interchangeably with "Highlanders" as their first decade in New York progressed.
		New York Yankees statistical records - Hitting and pitching records for single game, single season and career
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_York_Yankees (6026 words)

	Jack Chesbro National Baseball Hall of Fame
		"Happy Jack" Chesbro was an early spitball ace whose 1904 performance with the New York Highlanders still rates among the game's most remarkable seasons.
		Hurling for pennant winners in Pittsburgh and New York, Chesbro was a league leader in winning percentage three times; wins, appearances and games started twice each; and once each in complete games, innings and shutouts.
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	baseballhalloffame.org /hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/chesbro_jack.htm (280 words)

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		The baseball world of today still points to the 1904 season when Chesbro kept his team, the old New York Highlanders, in the league race until the very last day of the season, losing the last and deciding contest by delivering an uncontrolled spitter which resulted in a wild pitch, losing the game.
		At that time it was the phenomenal success which Happy Jack Chesbro experienced with this delivery that brought it to general attention.
		Short and terse, the bulletin was, at least insofar as it concerned old Jack Quinn, but to a number of old?time fans it brought back memories, pleasant memories of a bygone day.
	urbanshocker.net /indexspitball_hittrail.htm (2034 words)

	ESPN.com: November Classic Moments
		His best season came in 1904, when he won 41 games with the New York Highlanders, now known as the Yankees.
		Chesbro, nicknamed Happy Jack, had a 197-128 record in 11 seasons.
		That season Chesbro completed 48 games in 51 starts, both 20th-century records, and pitched 454 2/3 innings.
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	Encyclopedia article on New York Yankees [EncycloZine]
		Consequently the field was known as Hilltop Park and the team became known as the New York Highlanders.
		As a result of a feud with league president Ban Johnson, who rigidly enforced rules about rowdyism on the field of play, McGraw jumped leagues to manage the New York Giants in the middle of the 1902 season.
		As the Highlanders the team enjoyed success only twice, finishing in second place in the American League in 1904 and 1910, but otherwise much of the next fifteen years was spent in the cellar.
	encyclozine.com /New_York_Yankees (6488 words)

	Jack Chesbro National Baseball Hall of Fame
		"Happy Jack" Chesbro was an early spitball ace whose 1904 performance with the New York Highlanders still rates among the game's most remarkable seasons.
		Hurling for pennant winners in Pittsburgh and New York, Chesbro was a league leader in winning percentage three times; wins, appearances and games started twice each; and once each in complete games, innings and shutouts.
		From 1901 to 1906, he won 154 games - an average of 25 per season.
	www.baseballhalloffame.org /hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/chesbro_jack.htm (280 words)

	The Forum at NYYFans.com - The New York Highlanders 1904 - 1908
		Though the SS, Kid Elberfeld lead this dubious category with 48, it would be a throwing error by Williams that would prove costly against the Pilgrims on the last day of the season.
		Kid was the Highlanders' everyday shortstop from mid-1903 through 1907.
		Kid Elberfeld, known as “The Tobacco Kid" was a 5'5 “tough” who played a fiery brand of baseball, challenging base runners to slash him out of their way, living up to the title "The Tabasco Kid".
	www.nyyfans.com /forums/printthread.php?t=21766 (2919 words)

	Encyclopedia article on New York Yankees [EncycloZine]
		As the Highlanders the team enjoyed success only twice, finishing in second place in the American League in 1904 and 1910, but otherwise much of the next fifteen years was spent in the cellar.
		With the change of parks in 1913, the team also officially changed its name to New York Yankees, a name which had been in informal but increasing use for the prior few years.
		Also played at the original Oriole Park in Baltimore, 1901-1902; Hilltop Park in Manhattan, New York City, 1903-1912; the Polo Grounds in Manhattan, New York City, 1913-1922; and Shea Stadium in Queens, New York City, 1974-1975.
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