» September 12, 1900: Sammy Strang, a rookie 3B, breaks in with seven hits for the Chicago Colts in a doubleheader against the Giants. Chicago catcher Johnny Kling and Giants pitcher Win Mercer collide at the plate in the 7th inning of the 2nd game, and Mercer is carried off the field unconscious. Chicago coasts, 9-1 in the opener, with Mercer the loser to Jock Menefee. New York takes the nitecap, 7-6, when Dummy Taylor fashions a 7-inning win over Jack Taylor.
» April 27, 1901:
Behind Sam Crawford's five hits, including a triple and a HR, the Reds beat Chicago, 9-2. Jack Taylor surrenders the hits and loses.
» May 15, 1901: Christy Mathewson (6-0) tosses his 3rd straight shutout outpitching Jack Taylor to beat the Colts, 4-0. The Giants move into 1st place with the win over Chicago.
» July 1, 1901: Colts 1B Jack Doyle, harassed by a Polo Grounds fan, jumps into the stands and hits him once with his left reinjuring his hand, which he had broken several weeks before. The Giants' Dummy Taylor trims Chicago's Jack Taylor, 6-4.
» July 19, 1901: In Chicago, Jack Taylor allows 10 hits to the Giants, but is unscored on until the 9th. The Colts paste Christy Mathewson for 12 hits to win, 5-2. Chicago has now won three in a row over the visiting New Yorkers, and will take the next two games in the series as well.
» April 17, 1902:
The Reds open a new ball park called "the Palace of the Fans" and inaugurate the occasion by losing to Chicago, 6-1. Jack Taylor wins his 2nd straight opener.
» May 7, 1902:
The Cubs' Jack Taylor beats Christy Mathewson 4-0 at Chicago's West Side Grounds. Taylor gives up just two hits, while Matty allows five. Following a Giants' protest tomorrow that Taylor was pitching from in front of the rubber, this game will later be ruled invalid and all the records will be thrown out, including Taylor's win and Matty's loss.
» August 18, 1902:
Christy Mathewson shuts out Chicago, 5-0, to give New York its 4th straight win over the host Windy City squad. Jack Taylor takes the loss.
» September 1, 1902: In today's split with the Phillies, Tinker, Evers, and Chance appear together in the Chicago Cubs lineup for the first time, but not in the positions that will earn them immortality. Johnny Evers, a New York State League rookie, starts at SS, with Joe Tinker at 3B, Frank Chance at 1B, and veteran Bobby Lowe at 2B. Philadelphia takes the opener, 11-3 behind White, while Chicago is victorious in the nitecap, 6-1, behind Jack Taylor's pitching.
» May 2, 1903: At Pittsburgh, Jack Taylor matches up with the Buccaneers' rookie Cy Falkenberg for the second time in a week and again Chicago wins. This time, 10-5: on the 26th of April, it was 9-6.
» May 6, 1903:
The Pirates Deacon Phillippe, en route to 25 wins, lets one get away when the Cubs score nine runs on nine hits in the top of the 9th for an 11-4 triumph at Exposition Park. Dick Harley leads off the 9th with a single, the first hit off Phillippe since the 2nd inning. Doc Casey drills a bases-loaded single to make the score 6-4, and Evers follows with a two-run triple. The scoring ends when Chance is forced at 2B. Jack Taylor is the winner, the 3rd time in 11 days he's beaten the Bucs.
» May 26, 1903: The first place Giants (22-9) top Chicago, 4-3, at the Polo Grounds, scoring the winning run in the bottom of the 9th. Mathewson is the winner over Jack Taylor.
» June 22, 1903: At the Polo Grounds, a crowd of 19,000 is on hand for the twinbill with Chicago; Iron Joe McGinnity wins the opener, 5-4, in 10 innings, over Jack Taylor. But Chicago takes the nitecap, scoring six runs against Christy Mathewson in the 9th inning to enable Jock Menefee to pick up a win, 10-6. Matty gives up 13 hits and 10 runs in losing his 4th game of the year.
» September 20, 1903: In front of a packed house of 25,000+, the Cubs miss taking over second place from the Giants by losing to New York, 6-2. Jack Taylor loses to Joe McGinnity, with umpire Bob Emslie getting blamed for "frequent and inexcusable blunders" (The Chicago Inter Ocean). Pittsburgh leads by nine games.
» October 1, 1903:
In the first City Series between the Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Nationals, Jack Taylor shuts out the Sox, 11–0, on three hits at the West Side Grounds. The Colts win the next two games, but Taylor will lose his next three starts and the series will end tied at seven apiece on October 15. Sox owner Charles Comiskey is willing to play it out but the Colts Jim Hart is not (according to historian Benton Stark). Hart is convinced that Taylor lost his games deliberately for money and will trade the star in two months.
» December 12, 1903: During the post-season City Series in Chicago, the Cubs veteran Jack Taylor is chided for losing three games to the White Stockings and Cubs president John Hart is convinced that gambling was involved. Taylor is traded to the St. Louis Cardinals with rookie C Larry McLean for pitcher Mike O'Neill and a righthander who was 9–13 in his first season, Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown.
» May 7, 1904: In St, Louis, the first-place Giants provoke a protest in winning 2-1, with a pair in the 9th off starter Jack Taylor. John McGraw, pinch running after a single by Jack Warner, scores on a single by Roger Bresnahan. As McGraw rounded 3B, with 1B coach Gilbert following him, the entire Giant team collects along the 3B line yelling, St. Louis 1B Jake Beckley complains to the ump about it and, when one of the Giants dashes to home from the coach's box, Beckley fires to an uncovered home plate, thinking it is Bresnahan trying to score. Which he then does for the win. St. Louis manager Kid Nichols protests the game, claiming, correctly, that the players left the bench in violation of rule 56, section 17. The rule states: "if one or more members of the team at bat stand or collect around a base for which a base runner is trying, thereby confusing the fielding side and adding to the difficult of making such play, the base runner shall be declared out for the interference of his teammate or teammates." NL president Pulliam rejects the complaint and many fans and writers agree, saying the protest is unmanly, as noted by historian Benton Stark (The Year They Called off the World Series).
» July 30, 1904: Cardinal pitcher Jack Taylor walks seven and tosses three wild pitches to help the host Pirates beat St. Louis, 5–2. The outcome will be viewed suspiciously because several local gamblers bet heavily on Pittsburgh before the game, but the real reason is Taylor and Jake Beckley's late night public drinking.
» August 27, 1904: At Robison Field, the Giants score seven runs in three innings off Jack Taylor and Christy Mathewson eases to a 9–3 win over the Cards.
» October 6, 1904: Cardinals P Jack Taylor hurls his 39th consecutive complete game of the season-a modern ML record. His streak started on April 15th and totals 352 innings pitched.
» February 15, 1905: Accused of throwing games, Cardinals righthander Jack Taylor is acquitted by the National League Board of Directors in New York, but he is found guilty of bad conduct and fined $300.
» May 11, 1905: Christy Mathewson strikes out the side in the first inning and whitewashes the Cardinals, 4-0, on five hits. Jack Taylor takes the loss for St. Louis.
» June 24, 1905: Chicago Zephyrs rookie righthander Ed Reulbach wins an 18-inning marathon duel with the Cards' Jack Taylor 2–1 in St. Louis. First baseman Frank Chance has 27 putouts and two assists for Chicago.
» July 21, 1905: At the Polo Grounds, the Giants score six runs in the 2nd inning against St. Louis, with Sam Mertes' grand slam providing the big blow. Christy Mathewson is given the afternoon off after five innings, with New York in command, 10-2. New York wins, 14-2, pinning the loss on Jack Taylor.
» September 12, 1905: Cards pitcher Jack Taylor allows just three Pirate hits-all by Honus Wagner-and teammate Harry Arndt swipes home in the bottom of the 9th to give St. Louis a 2-1 victory. Wagner will spoil two more no hitters by collecting the only hits: against Art Fromme on May 27, 1911 and facing Phil Douglas on October 2, 1914.
» June 17, 1906:
At the Polo Grounds, Mathewson appears in old form, yielding eight hits in beating the Cardinals, 2-1. Jack Taylor takes the loss when 2B Pug Bennett bobbles Roger Bresnahan's grounder in the 8th and a run scores.
» July 1, 1906: Righthander Jack Taylor, 8-9 with the St. Louis Cardinals, returns to the Cubs in exchange for 2nd-string C Pete Noonan, rookie P Fred Beebe, and cash. New Chicago owner Murphy is not as apoplectic on the subject of Taylor as his predecessor Hart, and the acquisition denies the Giants of Taylor's services. Taylor will help the Cubs by going 12-3 the rest of the year.
» August 9, 1906: The Cubs' Jack Taylor beats Brooklyn 5-3 and posts his 187th consecutive straight complete game, a major league record. The streak will end in four days when he again pitches against Brooklyn.
» August 13, 1906: The Cubs' Jack "Brakeman" Taylor is knocked out by Brooklyn in the 3rd inning, breaking a string of 187 complete games and 15 relief appearances in which he finished each game. The record run began June 20, 1901. In 10 years he will fail to finish only eight of 286 starts. With relief help from Orval Overall, Chicago wins, 11-3.
» August 21, 1909:
Jack Taylor, former iron man pitcher in the NL, hurls two complete games in the Central League. On the mound for Dayton, he shuts out Terra Haute on two hits to win 4-0 in game one, then wins 1-0 in 11 innings in game 2. On June 4th, pitching for Grand Rapids in the same league, Taylor threw a 1-0 no-hitter over Fort Wayne.
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