History of the World Series – 1913

History of the World Series – 1913

Giants Manager John McGraw, whose team had won the National League pennant by 12 1/2 games, did have the services of pitching aces Rube Marquard, Christy Mathewson and Jeff Tesreau throughout the Series, which conceivably could have been enough to overcome Connie Mack’s Philadelphia Athletics. Conceivably . . . The Athletics roughed up Marguard in…