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Awards for May and baseball standings at the start of June, 1901
Here are the awards for May:
AL Best Batter: First baseman Buck Freeman (Boston Americans), with a .352 average.
NL Best Batter: Third baseman Jimmy Sheckard (Brooklyn Superbas), with a .375 average.
AL Best Pitcher: Starting pitcher Ted Lewis (Boston Americans), with a 6-1 record and 3.02 ERA.
NL Best Pitcher: Starting pitcher Al Orth (Philadelphia Phillies), with a 7-0 record and 1.06 ERA.
AL Rookie of the Month: Starting pitcher Roy Patterson (Chicago White Sox), with a 5-3 record and 2.26 ERA.
NL Rookie of the Month: Starting pitcher Happy Townsend (Philadelphia Phillies), with a 6-0 record and 1.67 ERA
And, looking at the standings, Boston is one game ahead of Brooklyn in the AL, while Philadelphia is 2 and a half games ahead of Pittsburgh in the NL, with a good deal of the season left to go...
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