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1918 World Series: Boston Red Sox vs. Chicago Cubs
The Chicago Cubs won the 1918 National League pennant by 10½ games and were solid favorites to win the World Series against the Boston Red Sox. Hugh Fullerton, a sportswriter for the New York Evening World, looked at the Cubs–Red Sox match-up using a personal statistical formula – “Position Strength” – which included “hitting, waiting […]
The 1922 Browns-Yankees Pennant Race
Other pennant races have been undecided longer, had more participants, and perhaps other cities have been as involved with their teams as was St. Louis in 1922, but for the lasting effect it had on the future of a franchise, probably no race could match the impact of the one between the New York Yankees […]
Tigers Best at Triple Plays
The unassisted triple plays — seven in regular play and one in a world series — are so well publicized that we will not dwell on them in this brief summary. The assisted triple play, while not so fantastic, is still a spectacular event. Since 1901, when the American and National Leagues began operating simultaneously, […]
Player Endurance Records
One measure of player endurance is consecutive games played. Another measure, which could be considered a superior one, is highest percent of scheduled games played in ten consecutive years. Only five of the highest rated players in the percent calculation compiled long consecutive game streaks. Lou Gehrig is unquestionably the highest ranking player using either […]
1918 Red Sox: Spring Training
Frazee kicked off the new year making another move, again with Connie Mack’s Athletics, trading players to be named later for first baseman Stuffy McInnis. Mack termed the deal a “near-gift,” letting McInnis go to the team where he wanted to play even though he could have sold him for more than $25,000. Mack later […]
Introduction: When Boston Still Had the Babe: The 1918 World Champion Red Sox
Late into the infamous 86-year championship drought of the Boston Red Sox – from 1918 to 2004 – it became nearly taboo to talk seriously about the 1918 team. One reason for that reluctance was the sullied reputation of the team’s then-owner, Harry Frazee – the man who sold Boston’s beloved superstar, Babe Ruth, to […]