IN THE NEWS: Eddie Grant of the Phils is 7-for-7 against the Giants' Rube Marquard and Christy Mathewson, as the Phils sweep two. Marquard is clobbered in the opener, allowing 16 hits and nine runs, and George McQuillan outpitches Mathewson in the nitecap for a 2-1 victory. Mathewson ends the season with an ERA of 1.14 and a career-high winning percentage of .806.
In the first game of a season-ending doubleheader against Washington, Jim Curry plays second base for the Athletics and goes 1-for-4 against Walter Johnson. At 16 years, six months, and 22 days, Curry is the youngest player in American League history and the youngest major league position player in the 20th century (his birth date is reported as both 1889 and 1893). Walter Johnson's 6-5 loss to Philadelphia seals the last-place finish for Washington with 110 losses-Johnson and Bob Groom suffering 51 of them. Three years later, when Washington rises to 2nd place, Johnson and Groom will combine for 56 wins. Today, Groom and P Dolly Gray play the outfield for the Nationals. The last place finish costs Pongo Joe Cantillon his job. The new manager is Jimmy McAleer.
IN THE NEWS: The Pirates, winners of 110 games, face Detroit in the World Series, which pits the two leagues' top offensive stars, Honus Wagner and Ty Cobb. It is the first of three times that batting champs will face each other in the World Series (Al Simmons and Chick Hafey in 1931: Bobby Avila and Willie Mays in 1954 are the others) Pittsburgh manager Fred Clarke starts 27-year-old rookie righthander Babe Adams against Tigers P George Mullin. There are only 11 hits in the game, but one is a home run by Clarke, and the Pirates win 4-1 before a crowd of 29,264.
IN THE NEWS: The Tigers win the 2nd World Series game behind Bill Donovan 7-2. Ty Cobb's steal of home highlights a 3-run 3rd. Detroit has been defenseless against stolen bases in the past three World Series, giving up 16 in five games to the Cubs in 1907, 15 in five games to the Cubs in 1908, and 18 in seven games to the Pirates this year, for a total of 49 in 17 games, and the highest SB totals in all of World Series history.
IN THE NEWS: Paced by Honus Wagner's three hits, three RBI, and three stolen bases, the visiting Pirates take game 3, 8-6. Nick Maddox is the winner over Ed Summers.
IN THE NEWS: George Mullin's 5-hitter, 5-0 victory evens the Series again, as Ty Cobb drives in two runs with a double. Mullin strikes out 10 batters, as Lefty Leifield takes the loss. Lefty is not helped by six Buc errors.
IN THE NEWS: Babe Adams hurls his 2nd complete-game victory 8-4, despite a double and home run by Sam Crawford. Fred Clarke's 3-run home run breaks a tie and gives the Pirates a 3-2 Series lead.
IN THE NEWS: George Mullin outlasts three Pirates pitchers for a 5-4 win that sends the Series to a 7th game in Detroit. This is the first World Series to go the limit.
In a series between the two leagues' third-place finishers, the Red Sox defeat the Giants and win the series, four games to 1.
IN THE NEWS: Rookie Babe Adams comes through with a 6-hit, 8-0 win. It is his 3rd complete-game World Series victory and gives the Pirates their first World Championship. The two teams combine for a World Series record 34 errors, with Detroit contributing 19, also a record.
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