The 1914 Major League Baseball season began on April 14, 1914. The regular season ended on October 7, with the
Boston Braves and
Philadelphia Athletics as the regular season champions of the
National League and
American League, respectively. The postseason began with Game 1 of the 11th
World Series on October 9 and ended with Game 4 on October 13. The Braves defeated the Athletics, four games to none.
In competition with Major League Baseball, the
Federal League declared itself as a "third major league" for its own
1914 season, with its own eight teams, in competition with the established
National and
American Leagues.
This was the last of four seasons that the Chalmers Award, a precursor to the
Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award (introduced in 1931), was given to a player in each of the established National and American Leagues.
Teams
An asterisk (*) denotes the departure from a ballpark mid-season.
The 1914 schedule consisted of 154 games for all teams in the American League and National League, each of which had eight teams. Each team was scheduled to play 22 games against the other seven teams of their respective league. This continued the format put in place for the
1904 season. This format would last until
1919.
Opening Day, April 14, featured all sixteen teams, only the third time every team has started their season on the same day (with the
1912 season being the second). The National League would see its final day of the regular season on October 6, while the American League would see its final day of the regular season was on October 7. The
World Series took place between October 9 and October 13.