You got it....Peter
Jimmy Collins' Boston Americans won a dramatic Playoff game vs the NY Highlanders in 1904 to win the American League Pennant.
However, the NY Giants (NL Champs) refused to play Boston in the World Series. Pulliam, Brush, and McGraw simply declared that
their Giants were the "World Champions". Actually, they feared that Boston had a better team and that the Giants would lose.
There is an excellently written book regarding this event, titled....."The Year they Called Off The World Series".....by Benton Stark.
I highly recommend this book, especially if you are a true-blue "dead-ball" era fan.
And, you T206 fans will really enjoy reading it, as you'll find many of those T206 guys come alive.
TED Z
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Last edited by tedzan; 12-10-2015 at 06:09 PM.
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