1912 Chalmers Award (MVP)

While I was bumping around the net looking for some info I found this to be very interesting:

The 1912 voting for the Chalmers Award (the MVP award for that era) had Ty Cobb who hit .409 that year finishing 7th in the voting. Here are the results

Rank ..Tm Vote Pts 1st Place Share G AB.. R... H HR RBI SB BB. BA.. OBP SLG. OPS W L ERA WHIP G GS SV IP H HR BB SO

1	Tris Speaker	BOS	59.0		92%	153	580	136	222	10	90	52	82	.383	.464	.567	1.031
2	Ed Walsh	CHW	30.0		47%	62	136	12	33	0	12	0	14	.243	.313	.287	.600	27	17	2.15	1.084	62	41	10	393.0	332	6	94	254
3	Walter Johnson	WSH	28.0		44%	55	144	16	38	2	20	2	7	.264	.298	.403	.701	33	12	1.39	0.908	50	37	2	369.0	259	2	76	303
4	Clyde Milan	WSH	23.0		36%	154	601	105	184	1	79	88	63	.306	.377	.379	.756
5	Joe Wood	BOS	22.0		34%	43	124	16	36	1	13	0	11	.290	.348	.435	.784	34	5	1.91	1.015	43	38	1	344.0	267	2	82	258
6	Eddie Collins	PHA	18.0		28%	153	543	137	189	0	64	63	101	.348	.450	.435	.885
7	Frank Baker	PHA	17.0		27%	149	577	116	200	10	130	40	50	.347	.404	.541	.945
7	Ty Cobb	DET	17.0		27%	140	553	120	226	7	83	61	43	.409	.456	.584	1.040
9	Joe Jackson	CLE	16.0		25%	154	572	121	226	3	90	35	54	.395	.458	.579	1.036
10	Heinie Wagner	BOS	12.0		19%	144	504	75	138	2	68	21	62	.274	.358	.359	.717

joe wood ops'ing more than today's league avg, walter johnson ops'ing more than half the 2nd basemen/ss in today's league...maybe i gotta re-evaluate the "inflated" stats of cobb, speaker, lajoie et al.

I was pleasantly surprised to see Cylde Milan so high up in the voting. He was always one of my all-time favorite deadball no-namers. Part of the reason I got to liking him was when I was playing around with a stat to measure power and speed, he name was always right there with Cobb and Wagner.

Jay