1910 All-Star Team - Spalding's Baseball Guide Published 1911
SPALDING'S QFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 111
The World's Series of 1910
BY WILLIAM G. WEART, PHILADELPHIA.
The Athletics were keyed up to the struggle. Every man was impressed with the importance of the games and .made aware of the great ability of the opposing combination. In T--.?.paring for the struggle, Manager Mack, of the Athletics, did not overlook a point and his team went into the series trained to the minute.
The Cubs did not appear to take the situation so seriously. Several of them admitted that they had underestimated the strength of their rivals, a blunder which they realized too late and one for which no excuse can be found. The American League champions had proven their ability by mowing down all opposition in their organization and creating a new record for the American League by being the first team in ten years to win more than 98 games. They had 102 victories to 49 defeats.
Manager Mack permitted his players to relax after winning the American League championship, and then, after a proper period of rest, "hardened" them for the meeting with the Cubs. The latter apparently let down after they saw they had the National League's bunting captured and they took things easy up to the time that they faced the Athletics.
The week before the World's Series was the crucial one. During September efforts were made to advance certain dates for championship games in the National League in order that the World's Series might be started before the middle of October. These efforts proved unsuccessful, and the American League then decided upon an experiment, which was really the turning point of the struggle between Philadelphia and Chicago. This was the decision to organize an All-Star team of American League players which would play the Athletics a series of games and put them "on edge" for the games with Chicago.
The plan worked better than even the originator of the idea could have imagined, and Manager Mack himself declared that the series with the All-Stars was the "salvation of the Athletics." The games between the Athletics and the All-Stars were played during the week before the World's Series, four taking place at Philadelphia and one at Washington. The All-Stars won the first four contests, but were shut out in the fifth.
The members of the All-Stars, who played such an important part in deciding the World's Series, were : Manager James McAleer of Washington, Pitchers Walsh and White of Chicago and Johnson of Washington, Catchers Street of Washington and Sullivan of Chicago, First Baseman Stahl of Boston, Second Baseman Elberfeld of Washington, Shortstop McBride of Washington, Third Baseman Harry Lord of Chicago, and Outfielders Cobb of Detroit, Speaker of Boston, and Milan of Washington, with Schaeffer and Cunningham of Washington as substitutes.
While the Athletics were "hardening" themselves for the blue ribbon event of the Base Ball world, the Cubs were apparently taking it easy. They had some off days and they played a few games with St. Louis.
1911 Spalding's Base Ball Guide
The World's Series of 1910
BY WILLIAM G. WEART, PHILADELPHIA.
The Athletics were keyed up to the struggle. Every man was impressed with the importance of the games and .made aware of the great ability of the opposing combination. In T--.?.paring for the struggle, Manager Mack, of the Athletics, did not overlook a point and his team went into the series trained to the minute.
The Cubs did not appear to take the situation so seriously. Several of them admitted that they had underestimated the strength of their rivals, a blunder which they realized too late and one for which no excuse can be found. The American League champions had proven their ability by mowing down all opposition in their organization and creating a new record for the American League by being the first team in ten years to win more than 98 games. They had 102 victories to 49 defeats.
Manager Mack permitted his players to relax after winning the American League championship, and then, after a proper period of rest, "hardened" them for the meeting with the Cubs. The latter apparently let down after they saw they had the National League's bunting captured and they took things easy up to the time that they faced the Athletics.
The week before the World's Series was the crucial one. During September efforts were made to advance certain dates for championship games in the National League in order that the World's Series might be started before the middle of October. These efforts proved unsuccessful, and the American League then decided upon an experiment, which was really the turning point of the struggle between Philadelphia and Chicago. This was the decision to organize an All-Star team of American League players which would play the Athletics a series of games and put them "on edge" for the games with Chicago.
The plan worked better than even the originator of the idea could have imagined, and Manager Mack himself declared that the series with the All-Stars was the "salvation of the Athletics." The games between the Athletics and the All-Stars were played during the week before the World's Series, four taking place at Philadelphia and one at Washington. The All-Stars won the first four contests, but were shut out in the fifth.
The members of the All-Stars, who played such an important part in deciding the World's Series, were : Manager James McAleer of Washington, Pitchers Walsh and White of Chicago and Johnson of Washington, Catchers Street of Washington and Sullivan of Chicago, First Baseman Stahl of Boston, Second Baseman Elberfeld of Washington, Shortstop McBride of Washington, Third Baseman Harry Lord of Chicago, and Outfielders Cobb of Detroit, Speaker of Boston, and Milan of Washington, with Schaeffer and Cunningham of Washington as substitutes.
While the Athletics were "hardening" themselves for the blue ribbon event of the Base Ball world, the Cubs were apparently taking it easy. They had some off days and they played a few games with St. Louis.
1911 Spalding's Base Ball Guide
