
October 23-25, 1884: The first "World Series"
This chapter is not about a single game. Instead, it is about…

October 23, 1886: Curt Welch’s winning slide
After the 1885 season the two major-league pennant winners, the…

October 21, 1887: Sam Thompson's triple trouble
Sam Thompson may have been the best hitter in baseball in 1887.…

October 16, 1888: Tim Keefe leads Giants to tense victory in Game One
In October 1888, the atmosphere at New York Giants headquarters…

October 18, 1889: Genesis of a rivalry: Brooklyn vs. New York
In 1889, for the first time, both the National League and the…

October 29, 1889: Giants win back-to-back World’s Series
They might have called it the first “Subway Series” if there…

October 1892: The Split-Season Playoff
Major-league baseball faced a serious crisis in the early 1890s.…

October 2, 1903: Patsy Dougherty hits a pair of home runs as Bill Dinneen shuts out Pirates in Game 2
Boston right-hander Bill Dinneen shut out the Pirates, 3-0, allowing…

October 1, 1903: Deacon Phillippe, Pirates beat Boston's Cy Young in first 'World’s Series' game
In what is widely considered the first World Series, Barney Dreyfuss,…

October 3, 1903: 'Police unable to control crowd,' but Pirates prevail in Game 3
The headline ran in the Boston Globe: “Swarm on the Field;…

October 6, 1903: Deacon Phillippe wins third World Series game for Pirates … and it’s only Game 4
The Pirates, back home at Exposition Park, took a three-games-to-one…

October 7, 1903: Boston breaks open Game 5 with back-to-back big innings
Roaring Bill Kennedy took the mound for the Pirates in Game…

October 8, 1903: Boston's Bill Dinneen wins Game 6 to even World Series at three apiece
Both teams managed 10 base hits, but the Bostons scored twice…

October 10, 1903: Pirates' Deacon Phillippe finally proves mortal as Boston wins Game 7
Two calculations contributed to the hosts calling for a day off…

October 13, 1903: Big Bill Dinneen leads Boston to a triumph in first modern World Series
The first World Series ever played was a best-of-nine competition,…

October 14, 1908: Cubs win World Series for second year in a row
For the second season in a row, the Chicago Cubs claimed the…

October 14, 1909: Tigers top Pirates in 'most exciting' Game Six
The third time was supposed to be the charm for manager Hughie…

October 16, 1909: Pirates' hopes rest in hands of a Babe
The first postseason meeting between the champions of the American…

October 17, 1911: Home Run Baker, A's get the best of Giants' Christy Mathewson in Game 3
“Mighty Baker Pulls Another Home Run Hit,” squawked the headline…

October 8, 1912: Red Sox finally get a measure of revenge against John McGraw in Game 1
The Boston Red Sox had finished 14 games ahead of the Washington…

October 9, 1912: Giants make 5 errors and still finish in tie with Red Sox in Game 2
No one won. No one lost. Game Two of the 1912 World Series ended…

October 10, 1912: Josh Devore’s spectacular catch saves Game 3 for the Giants
Rube Marquard (26-11) faced Buck O’Brien (20-13) in Game…

October 11, 1912: Smoky Joe Wood holds Giants to one run and wins his second game of World Series
It was Smoky Joe Wood vs. Jeff Tesreau once more in Game Four…

October 12, 1912: Boston rookie Hugh Bedient outpitches Christy Mathewson in Game 5
It was a dark, damp, foggy, gloomy day. Up until noontime,…