1919 – The Boston Red Sox, minus holdouts Carl Mays and Babe Ruth, sail from New York aboard the USS Arapahoe. The trip to spring training is stormy and most of the players will be seasick. Ruth will sign on the 21st in New York and leave that night for Florida. Mays, unsigned, will join Ruth and the Sox in Tampa.
1918 – The Red Sox win the World Series in Game six, on Carl Mays’s 2nd victory, a 2 – 1 three-hitter. With two on and two out in the 3rd, utility OF George Whiteman lines a hard drive to RF. Max Flack drops it, allowing the only runs off Lefty Tyler. Righty Claude Hendrix, 20 – 7 during the year, finally makes an appearance, tossing a final inning for the Cubs. Cubs pitchers compile a 1.04 ERA, while Boston’s .186 BA is the lowest ever for a World Series winner, but they compensate by making just one error, a record not beaten this century in a 6-game World Series. The Red Sox will realize $1,102 each, the Cubs $671, the smallest winner’s share ever earned. The inning by inning results of the game are relayed to Fort Devans, 58 miles away, via nine homing pigeons.
1918 – On one day’s rest, Hippo Vaughn gives up only seven hits, but Carl Mays wins a 2 – 1 duel. Wally Schang has two hits for Boston. Game three of the World Series ends with the Cubs’ Charlie Pick caught in a rundown between third base and home while trying to score on a passed ball.
Carl Mays of the Red Sox wins two games, 12 – 0 and 4 – 1 over the A’s to finish at 21-13 as the season is abbreviated because of World War I.
Carl Mays tops the St. Louis Browns, 9 – 3, for a Red Sox win. With the Browns sweeping the Yankees, Boston goes into first place.
The Red Sox sweep two from the A’s, winning 3 – 2 and taking the night cap, 7 – 3 behind Carl Mays. Mays also saves the opener for Dutch Leonard.
1916 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox Pitching Staff. Rube Foster, Carl Mays, Ernie Shore, Babe Ruth, and Dutch Leonard. They were a combined 89-54 and Babe Ruth lead the way with 23 wins and a 1.75 ERA.
1915 – In the first of an important four-game series at Fenway Park, the Tigers (90-48) and Red Sox (90-44) square off. Detroit knocks out starter Rube Foster, then rookie reliever Carl Mays keeps throwing at Ty Cobb till he hits the Tiger star on the wrist. Cobb slings his bat at Mays in retaliation, and the crowd reacts by throwing bottles at Cobb. The next inning, Cobb catches a fly ball for the final out and then needs a police escort to leave the field. The Tigers win, 6 – 1.
1915 – In the first of two games, the Browns cuff Red Sox starter Babe Ruth for four unearned runs in the 3rd, and the young lefty is relieved by Carl Mays. Boston ties the score, 4 – 4, in the 4th, but the Browns eventually win, 9 – 8. In the nitecap, a 1 – 1 tie, George Sisler pitches the last two innings for the Browns.
November 12, 1891 Carl Mays is born in Atterson, KY. He is unfortunately just remembered as the pitcher in the Ray Chapman incident. However there is more to him than that and what comes up is a solid case for Cooperstown. 5 20 win seasons,a .620 winning percentage,5 seasons under 3.00 ERA, a 6 seasons…
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