Alt-1916: Status at the "All-Star Break"

Since last time, I've plowed forward with running the 1916 season.  I've gotten to the July break where the All-Star Game would go if there were to be one, though of course there isn't. So it's a bit more than halfway through the season. Last season's pennant winners, the White Sox and Rustlers, are in good shape to repeat (in the Rustlers' case, it'd be three in a row). The Yankees have had a very streaky season, and to my dismay the streaks haven't made any sense--we had a rotten April (11-14), a great May (18-11), and a mediocre June (14-12).  The Yankees have a winning record against every team in the league except Chicago (3-10) and the 9th-place St. Louis Browns (4-8), and they've lost 6 in a row against the Browns. Indeed, if the Yankees were 8-4 against St. Louis instead of 4-8 they'd be hot on the heels of the White Sox.

The Red Sox have overcome a slow start and are now sitting in 2nd place, a few games ahead of the scrum that the Yankees are currently leading. The Philadelphia Athletics had a torrid start and were 35-19 at the end of May, though they've gone 12-24 since then. Since the 1916 A's were historically bad the more recent performance is more what I was expecting, though the fact Mack's dismantling of the team was interrupted in this timeline is clearly one of the major points of departure--a lot of players who ended up fueling the Red Sox pennants in 1916 and 1918 may stay in Philadelphia. Looking further ahead, the presumed lack of a Black Sox scandal may keep the Chicago team strong into the 20s. Since the White Sox have already won a pennant ahead of schedule and are on track to win in 1916, they may dominate for a while...

At the other end of the American League is the Kansas City Packers.  They're on pace for a 108-loss season and endured a 4-24 June, which mostly included a jaw-dropping 22-game losing streak. This losing streak would have been the longest in the 20th century, and has only been exceeded in real life by the 1961 Philadelphia Phillies and a few 19th-century teams. 

Stats-wise I'll just put up a few images with the American League batting and pitching leaders, and then call it a post. Click on the images to see the whole thing rather than the crop that shows up otherwise.