test On October 3, 1924 At Philadelphia’s Baker Bowl, the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro National League beat the Eastern Colored League’s Hilldale Giants (PA), 6-2, in the opening game of the first Colored World Series. The ten-game event, in which KC will capture the crown, winning five games to 4 with one tie,…
On October 15, 1923, .At the Polo Grounds, Babe Ruth two-out homer in the first started the scoring. But then the Giants and their Polo Grounds crowd came to life. Three singles in the first tied the score. Center fielder Bill Cunningham knocked in a go-ahead run in the fourth, followed by catcher Frank Snyder’s homer in…
test October 11, 1923 – At the Polo Grounds, after hitting his 2nd homer of the game, this one in the 5th inning, and crossing home plate, Babe Ruth is led to the Yankee dugout by batboy Eddie Bennet, and at the same time tipping his hat right and left to the cheering crowd during…
In the first postseason game ever played at Yankee Stadium, veteran Giants outfielder Casey Stengel becomes the first player to hit a World Series homer in the Bronx ballpark, breaking a 4-4 deadlock in the top of the ninth inning with an inside-the-park round-tripper off Joe Bush. The Game 1 matchup is the first Fall Classic contest to be broadcast nationally.
1922 – For the first time, the entire World Series will be broadcast over the radio. Writer Grantland Rice does the announcing of the New York Giants-New York Yankees Series for station WJZ, in Newark, NJ, whose signal is relayed to WGY in Schenectady, NY.
Sponsor this Page On October 13, 1921, at the Polo Grounds (home for both NY teams) the New York Giants win the first “Subway Series.” The Giants defeat the New York Yankees, 1-0, to take the World Series, five games to three. The only run of the game scores on a first inning error…
test On October 5, 1921, New York is host to the first one-city World Series since 1906 and the Polo Grounds is the site for all nine games. Carl Mays of the Yankees needs 86 pitches to set the Giants down on five hits, four of them by Frankie Frisch, as Babe Ruth drives in…
1920 – Hall of Famer Stan Coveleski of the Cleveland Indians wins his third game of the World Series, a 3 – 0 shutout of the Brooklyn Robins. The victory gives the Indians the World Championship, five games to two.
1920 – In Game 6 of the World Series, 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 1 – 0 win and 4-2 lead for Cleveland in the best-of-nine series.
Indians’ Bill Wambsganss becomes the only player in World Series history to complete an unassisted triple play when he makes a leaping catch, steps on second base, and then tags the runner arriving from first base. After the play, a dead calm engulfs Cleveland’s League Park as the hometown fans try to digest what they had just witnessed.
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