Major League Baseball Season Recap 1910 World Series – Philadelphia A’s AL over Chicago Cubs NL 4 games to 1 World Series MVP – Babe Ruth Award – Awards – </strong? Major League Cy Young Award Cy Young Award National League Cy Young Award American League MVP Awards – NL AL Major League Rookie of The Year – NL Rookie…
1910 – John Harris sells the Boston National League team to a syndicate headed by William Hepburn Russell, a New York lawyer and city official, for $100,000. The team will be nicknamed the Rustlers by journalists, after their new owner.
On December 13, 1910, former major leaguer Dan McGann is found dead in a hotel room in Louisville, Kentucky, having shot himself in the chest. McGann, 39 years old, was apparently distressed over several family tragedies. A first baseman, McGann batted .300 four times and played in the 1905 World Series for John…
The American League champion Philadelphia Athletics put up some pretty good numbers in 1910, too — collectively and individually. The young A’s won 102 games and took the AL pennant by 14 1/2 games. They boasted .300 hitters in second baseman Eddie Collins and outfielders Rube Oldring and Danny Murphy and a 31-game winner in…
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