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1916 Major League Baseball season

Sports season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 26, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The 1916 major league baseball season began on April 12, 1916. The regular season ended on October 5, with the Brooklyn Robins and Boston Red Sox as the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The postseason began with Game 1 of the 13th World Series on October 7 and ended with Game 5 on October 12. The Red Sox defeated the Robins, four games to one, capturing their fourth championship in franchise history, and the third team to win back-to-back World Series.

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“1916 Major League Baseball season” enters the record as sports season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Major, League and Baseball can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1916—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Major, League and Baseball.
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“1916 Major League Baseball season” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Major, League and Baseball provides the most credible route into that argument.

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This entry incorporates text from “1916 Major League Baseball season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.