IN THE NEWS: In the first of two games the Indians blow a 40 lead over the Tigers and Jim Bagby, in a rare relief appearance replacing Duster Mails, loses in the 10th, 54. Sewell's 2-base error put the winning run on base. Cleveland rebounds in the 2nd game and has a 103 lead in the 8th when the game is called because of darkness. Ray Caldwell wins his 20th game, a decision that assures the Indians of at least a tie for the pennant.
With the White Sox makeshift lineup, they take a 30 lead, but the St. Louis Browns knock out Red Faber in the 3rd and wins, 86. the Tribe leads by two games with two remaining.
Grover Alexander outlasts Jesse Haines as both go 17 innings in the Cubs, 32, win over St. Louis. For Haines, it is his 20th loss of the year. It is Alexander's 27th win of the year, tops in the National League.
IN THE NEWS: Jim Bagby wins his 31st game, clinching the pennant for the Indians with a 101 win over the Tigers. Tris Speaker contributes three hits to finish the year at .388, 2nd to George Sisler's .407. The Sox 107 victory over the Browns is not needed by the Indians. The Indians' victory is due primarily to a .303 team BA (the Browns lead the league at .308) and the pitching of Jim Bagby, 31-12, Stan Coveleski, 24-14, and Ray Caldwell, 20-10. A big boost came from Duster Mails, brought up from the Pacific Coast League at the end of August, who won seven without a loss on a 1.85 ERA. Despite the heavy hitting in the American League, there are ten 20-game winners; the White Sox have four of themRed Faber, Eddie Cicotte, Dickie Kerr, and Lefty Williams.
With the last two games rained out, fans get their money's worth in Pittsburgh as the Pirates and Reds, battling to determine 3rd place, play the century's only tripleheader. Starting at noon, the Reds win the first, 134, to clinch 3rd place. The Reds win game two as well, 73, with a number of players at odd positions: Reds put catcher Ivy Wingo at 2B, with pitchers Bressler, Ruether, Coumbe, and Eller at field positions. The Pirates take the finale 60, called after six innings because of darkness. The only "tribill" played this century is played in five hours. Clyde Barnhart, who made his major league debut ten days earlier, doubles in the first two games, and singles in the 3rd, the only player to hit in all three games. .
Shaken by the possible effects of the scandal surrounding baseball, club owners begin a series of meetings to reform the game. Albert D. Lasker, a Chicago advertising man and minority stockholder, of the Cubs, proposes a 3-man board of non baseball men, with the chairman to be paid $25,000 year. Among the names mentioned: Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, former president William Howard Taft, General George Pershing, Senator Hiram Johnson, General Leonard Wood, and extreasury secretary William McAdoo.
IN THE NEWS: In the Browns' 167 win over Chicago, George Sisler has three hits and gets his 257th hit of the season to set a ML record. His four total bases today gives him a major-league record 399 for the year. Sisler throws in three stolen bases and, acceding to the demands of the fans, also hurls a scoreless 9th inning in relief, striking out 2.
At Cincinnati, Reds recruit Dazzy Swartz makes his big-league debut, hurling a 12-inning complete game, scattering 17 hits, and losing to the Cards, 63. He adds a 2-for-4 at-bat, but never plays another game in the ML.
IN THE NEWS: Eddie Collins has two hits in the nitecap against the Browns, as the White Sox win 52. Collins has hit safely since August 21, and will ring up a 22-game hitting streak through September 13.
In Boston, 33,000 are on hand for a doubleheader and to see Ruth return to the Yankee lineup. The Babe hits his 45th in the opener to give New York a 53 win. In the nitecap, Carl Mays pitches to a mixture of boos and cheers. Mays takes a 53 lead into the 9th, then he fails to back up home on a play at the plate. A loose ball allows Joe Bush to score the winning run and Boston wins 65.
Brooklyn's Leon Cadore gives up 12 hits but coasts to a 100 shutout over the Braves.
IN THE NEWS: Before the start of the World Series, Brooklyn owner Charles Ebbets gives his approval for the addition of rookie Joe Sewell to the Indians' roster. Sewell joined the team after September 1st and was not eligible for the series. The tradition of low-scoring World Series games continues when the Indians manage to collect only five hits off Brooklyn's Rube Marquard (10-7) and two relievers. Stan Coveleski's (24-14) 5-hitter gives the Indians a 31 opening win.
IN THE NEWS: When Wheeler Johnston pinch-hits for Cleveland in the 9th inning of game 2, his brother Jimmy is playing 3B for Brooklyn. They become the first brothers to take opposite sides in a World Series. Spitballer Burleigh Grimes (23-11) strands 10 Indians while the Robins chip away at Jim Bagby (31-12) for three single tallies and a 30 Series evener.
Hal Chase and Heinie Zimmerman are indicted on bribery charges as an aftermath of the investigation into the 1919 World Series. John McGraw testified that he dropped the two after the 1919 season for throwing games and trying to entice Fred Toney, Rube Benton and Benny Kauff to join them. Zimmerman denies the charges, Chase ignores them, but the duo will be banned for life from baseball by Judge Landis.
IN THE NEWS: Two Brooklyn runs in the first lead to a quick exit for Cleveland starter Ray Caldwell (20-10). John "Duster" Mails and George Uhle shut down the Robins, but southpaw Sherry Smith (11-9) gives up three hits; the visitors' only run results from an error by Zack Wheat on Tris Speaker's double. It's a 21 win, and 21 Series lead for Brooklyn.
IN THE NEWS: On their way to Cleveland, the Yanks play an exhibition game against the Pirates and suffers injuries to starters, Muddy Ruel (split finger) and Ping Bodie (sprained ankle). With Carl Mays skipping the Indians series to avoid any scenes, New York is short handed.
IN THE NEWS: Several hours before the start of game 4, Brooklyn's Rube Marquard, a Cleveland native, is arrested when he tries to sell a World Series ticket to an undercover cop for $350. He will be found guilty and fined a dollar and court costs ($3.80). For their first World Series game on the lakefront, 25,734 Indians fans watch their home team score two in the first and two in the 3rd off Leon Cadore (15-14) and Al Mamaux. Cleveland wins game 4, 51.
IN THE NEWS: In the bottom of the first of an event-laden game, Grimes gives up hits to Charlie Jamieson, Bill Wambsganss, and Speaker. OF Elmer Smith then hits the first grand slam in World Series history, jumping on a Grimes spitter in the opening inning. In the 3rd, P Jim Bagby comes up with two on and crashes another Grimes delivery for a 3-run home run, the first ever by a pitcher in World Series play. Bagby is roughed for 13 hits, but he gets out of jams with the aid of three DPs and an unassisted triple play. In the 5th with Pete Kilduff on 2B and Otto Miller on 1B, relief pitcher Clarence Mitchell hits a line drive at SS Wambsganss, who steps on 2B and tags the off-and-running Miller before he can retreat. Cleveland dominates, 81.
IN THE NEWS: In game 6, Brooklyn's P Sherry Smith gives up a 6th-inning single to Tris Speaker and double to George Burns. That's all the scoring for the day, as Brooklyn reject Duster Mails yields three hits for a 10 win and 42 lead for Cleveland in the best-of-9 series.
IN THE NEWS: Stan Coveleski wins his 3rd complete game of the Series, and the Indians wrap it up, as Dodger bats are silent again. Burleigh Grimes is nicked for single scores in the 4th, 5th, and 7th, for a 30 loss. Utility IF Jack Sheehan plays 3B for Brooklyn and gets his 2nd hit of the Series, the same number of hits he had during the season. These four are his only ML hits. Brooklyn manager Robinson, upset with Marquard's arrest, keeps Rube on the bench: the Dodgers have already made the decision to unload the pitcher. Rube's wife, "Blossom Seeley" her vaudeville name, comes to the same conclusion and files for divorce next week.
IN THE NEWS: Carl Mays, who started yesterday, opens today for the Yankees in Detroit. This time he is more effective, stopping Detroit on two runs. Ruth hits his 49th home run and Mays drives in the final run of a 42 win.
The Indians and Sox both win, the Tribe edging the A's, 32, and the Sox mauling the Nats, 156.
IN THE NEWS: The Yankees increase their American League lead to one 1/2 games by topping the Tigers 133. Cleveland the Sox are both shut out, the A's beating the Indians 80 and Washington whitewashing the Sox 70. The Sox are now two 1/2 games back.
IN THE NEWS: The Tigers Bobby Veach and the Giants George Burns hit for the cycle, the only time it has ever happened twice in the same day. The Giants beat Pittsburgh in 10 innings, 43, as Burns adds a 2nd double to his cycle. Detroit, behind Veach's 6-for-6, outlasts Boston in 12 innings, despite 20 Bosox batters receiving walks. Eight Tigers walk.
The first place Indians top the A's, 93, while the White Sox, behind Red Faber, are again beating the Yankees, 64. Faber gets first inning help from Eddie Collins, Joe Jackson, and Happy Felsch who all hit two-out triples: Collins and Jackson triple later as Chicago totals an American League record six triples. The 3rd place Sox are one 1/2 games back.
The Cards set a National League record by cracking out 12 consecutive hits in the 4th and 5th innings against the Braves. Ten of the hits occur in the 4th inning when St. Louis scores eight runs. The last two outs come as Milt Stock tries to stretch a single and Austin McHenry tries the same on a double. Both are thrown out. In the 5th inning, Doc Lavan opens with a double and Cliff Heathcote singles before a Redbird finally makes an out. St. Louis wins 94.
IN THE NEWS: National League directors meet in New York, joined by Jacob Ruppert, Cap Huston, Charles Comiskey, and Harry Frazee of the American League. They name a committee to draw up an agreement along the lines of Albert Lasker's proposal, and give the five AL clubs still backing Ban Johnson an ultimatum: come in by November 1st or the Yankees, White Sox, and Red Sox will pull out of the AL and join a 12-team NL (with a team in Detroit to complete the roster). The AL five turns it down, and bluff and counterbluff blow through the autumn air.
IN THE NEWS: Behind Jim Bagby, the Indians top the Red Sox, 20, in a Sunday game at home. It is Bagby's 29th win of the year and keeps the Indians one 1/2 games ahead of Chicago.
In New York, Babe Ruth's movie opens at Madison Square Garden. It has been retitled Heading Home. In St. Louis, the Browns beat the Yankees 61. The White Sox top the A's to stay one 1/2 game behind the Tribe.
IN THE NEWS: Carl Mays stops the Yanks four game loss streak with a 43 win over the Browns. Ruth tallies the winning run in the 11th inning for NY, giving the Babe an American League-record 148 runs scored. Ty Cobb had 147 in 1911. Ruth doubled off Carl Weilman in the 11th after striking out twice on slow curves.
In Cleveland, Duster Mails cancels the Red Sox 83, for the Indians' 6th win in a row. The A's lose to the White Sox 136.
At New York, the Giants and Reds break even, with New York taking the 1st game, 52, with three unearned runs. The Reds win game 2, 93, as Hod Eller strikes out 8, including George Burns three times. Cincinnati 2B Maurice Rath, who will hit only two home runs in 506 ABs, collects both of them in game 2: both are inside-the-park home runs, in the 7th and 8th innings.
IN THE NEWS: In the first game of a twinbill, Babe Ruth hits his 50th home run in the first inning, off the Senators Jose Acosta. He then adds number 51 in a 4-for-4 second game, a 21 win, to give the Yankees a sweep. The other three hits off loser Shaw are by Phelps.
At League Park, Duster Mails pitches Cleveland to a Friday afternoon 20 victory over the White Sox, dropping them to one 1/2 games back. In the 5th, Mails walks three straight batters on 12 pitches, but stays in and strikes out the side. No Sox reach base after that.
IN THE NEWS: Behind Shoeless Joe Jackson's homer and two doubles and the pitching of Claude Williams, the White Sox beat host Cleveland 51, to shave the Indians lead down to a 1/2 game. Jackson is hitting .387.
The A's lose their 100th game, falling to the Red Sox, 42. Dugan has three doubles, and finishes the series with seven two base hits.
IN THE NEWS: In his last game of the season, Pittsburgh's Babe Adams walks one in an 80 loss to the Reds. He has walked 18 in 263 IP, making him the stingiest pitcher ever for one season.
Rube Marquard pitches his final victory as a Dodger, a 42 win over his former team, the Giants, and allows just five hits. The Giants will lose tomorrow to Boston and the Dodgers will clinch the pennant.
In St. Louis, an overflow Sunday crowd of 30,000 watch the Indians top the Browns 75 behind seven innings of strong relief by George Uhle. Joe Sewell knocks home four runs and Steve O'Neill contributes a drive that hits a mounted policeman's horse for a ground rule double.
Chicago's Eddie Cicotte tosses a seven hitter in beating the Tigers, 81. The Sox stay a half-game in back of the Tribe.
IN THE NEWS: The Indians continue on their warpath by topping the Browns, 84. Duster Mails wins his 6th straight and Tris Speaker breaks out of a slump by collecting two hits. He had been 1-for-19. Charlie Jamieson adds four hits.
Behind the pitching of Dickie Kerr, the White Sox top Detroit, 20. In the clubhouse following the game, copies of the Chicago papers are spread on the table. The headlines feature Philadelphia writer Jimmy Isaminger's interview with Billy Maharg where Maharg admits to his involvement, and that of former pitcher Bill Burns, in the scandal.
At the Polo Grounds, the Braves eliminate the 2nd-place Giants in game two by a 32 score on Tony Boeckel's homer in the 9th. The Giants win the opener, 21. The loss cinches the pennant for Brooklyn.
Carl Mays and the Yankees beat the A's, 30, as Mays allows just four hits. It is his 3rd straight shutout over Philadelphia and his 10th straight win against them. Babe Ruth drives in all the runs on a pair of homers over the RF fence off Rommel, his 52nd and 53rd homers of the campaign. He hit two other liners to left and center that were close to the wall.
IN THE NEWS: On the strength of Jim Bagby's 30th win, the Indians beat the Browns 95. The Indians now lead the idle Sox by one game and by three 1/2 over the New York, which can do no better than tie for the pennant now.
At Cincinnati, the Reds take a pair from the Pirates, winning 20 and 53. Dolf Luque leaves with a sore arm after one inning of the lidlifter and Hod Eller throws eight innings to win. Eller then goes five 1/3 innings of game two but leaves without a decision.
The Illinois grand jury indicts the eight Chicago players in the 1919 World Series scandal, and Charles Comiskey immediately suspends the seven players (Chick Gandil had retired before the season). Yankees owners Jacob Ruppert and Cap Huston send a telegram to Chicago owner Charles Comiskey offering to place their entire team at his disposal, following the suspension of eight players in the scandal. Comiskey says he cannot accept the proposal.
IN THE NEWS: The Yankees sign Red Sox manager Ed Barrow as business manager, completing the front office team that will build the game's most successful record. Hugh Duffy replaces Barrow in Boston.
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