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October 20, 2005
The 1917 World Series: The unheralded 1917 White Sox won 100 games, hit 18 home runs all year (it was the dead-ball era), had nine players that stole 10 or more bases during the season, and wore silly uniforms. They beat the New York Giants (play-by-play accounts) 4 games to 2, winning a snazzy championship pin. It was the Giants' fourth straight World Series defeat. [more inside]
posted by kirkaracha to baseball at 03:31 PM - 8 comments
Interesting stuff, never really knew anything about the dead ball era. Leran something new everyday
posted by HATER 187 at 04:09 PM on October 20, 2005
wishe i learned how to spell learn or when to use leran correctly in a sentence
posted by HATER 187 at 04:28 PM on October 20, 2005
Thank you for the post - I also learned about the dead ball era and interesting stuff about baseball.
posted by skydivemom at 05:50 PM on October 20, 2005
But what about the goat?
posted by Team SkidMark at 06:39 PM on October 20, 2005
what goat? Are you confusing the Sox with the Cubs curse?
posted by willthrill72 at 08:25 AM on October 21, 2005
Why do some of the white sox have on black socks?
posted by Team SkidMark at 04:13 PM on October 21, 2005
Keep it down, Keanu.
posted by yerfatma at 06:05 PM on October 21, 2005
Red Faber, the last legal spitballer in the American league, won three games for the White Sox. Charles Comiskey had promised the team a bonus if they won the pennant, but only gave them a case of cheap champagne, which Ring Lardner supposedly said, "tasted like stale piss." Many people blame Comiskey's stinginess for motivating the Black Sox to throw the 1919 series. (Although he offered 1% of the team's World Series share to the Bat and Ball Fund for American soldiers in France.) Fans watching the 1917 series. According to the WikiPedia dead-ball article, "between 1900 and 1920, there were 13 occasions when the league leader in home runs had fewer than 10 home runs for the season."