The Detroit Tigers ranked second best in the 1911 American League (one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada) in runs scored but the pitching staff's earned run average of 3.73 was the second worst in the league; playing in Bennett Field, with its 8,500-seat wooden grandstand, their home attendance for the entire season was 484,988.
The Detroit Tigers ranked second best in the 1911 American League (one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada) in runs scored but the pitching staff's earned run average of 3.73 was the second worst in the league; playing in Bennett Field, with its 8,500-seat wooden grandstand, their home attendance for the entire season was 484,988.