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October 21, 2024
SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
bender answered the question in yesterday's Huddle.
posted by NoMich at 01:53 PM on October 21, 2024
...and so he did. Both Tomase and the AI bot were wrong in saying that 1944 was the answer. I didn't see Benders answer this morning before I posted. My apologies, but the circumstances in 1944 were nonetheless interesting.
posted by Howard_T at 04:23 PM on October 21, 2024
Well, I'd say the 1944 answer and JWS corollary are also both fun and interesting, too!
posted by bender at 10:41 PM on October 23, 2024
For those of you who have been waiting with 'bated breath for the answer to the question in yesterday's Huddle, here it is.
The Cardinals won the 1944 world series in 6 games. Their opponent was the St. Louis Browns who were the lease holders on Sportsmans Park. Since all of the series games were played at Sportsmans Park, and the Browns were leasing it, this was technically the Browns home field.
One interesting bit of trivia was that a Junior World Series was held in Baltimore in 1944, and it outdrew the St. Louis version. This aroused interest in locating a major league team in Baltimore. 10 years later the Browns became the Baltimore Orioles.