1917 World Series

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1917 World Series

Team / Wins	Manager	Season
Chicago White Sox (4)	Pants Rowland	100-54, .649, GA: 9
New York Giants (2)	John McGraw	98-56, .636, GA: 10

Dates:

October 6–October 15, 1917

Umpires:

Silk O'Loughlin (AL), Bill Klem (NL), Billy Evans (AL), Cy Rigler (NL)

Future Hall of Famers:

Chicago White Sox: Eddie Collins, Red Faber, Ray Schalk. Giants: John McGraw (mgr.).

World Series

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1918 >

In the 1917 World Series, the Chicago White Sox beat the New York Giants four games to two. The Series was played against the backdrop of World War I, which dominated the American newspapers that year and next.

The strong Chicago White Sox club had finished the 1917 season with a 100-54 record, their first and only one-hundred win season in franchise history as of 2006. The Sox's next World Series winner in 2005 would finish the regular season with a 99-63 record.

The Sox won Game 1 of the Series in Chicago 2-1 behind a complete game by Eddie Cicotte. Happy Felsch hit a home run in the 4th inning that provided the winning margin. The Sox beat the Giants in Game 2 by a score of 7-2 behind another complete game effort by Red Faber to take a 2-0 lead in the series.

Back in New York for Game 3, Cicotte again threw a complete game, but the Sox could not muster a single run against Giants starter Rube Benton and lost 2-0. In Game 4 the Sox were shut out again 5-0 by Ferdie Schupp. Faber threw another complete game, but the Series was even going back to Chicago even at 2-2.

Reb Russell started Game 5 in Chicago, but only faced 3 batters before giving way to Cicotte. Going into the bottom of the 7th inning, Chicago was down 5-2, but they rallied to score 3 in the 7th and 3 in the 8th to win 8-5. Faber pitched the final 2 innings for the win. In Game 6 the Sox took an early 3-0 lead and on the strength of another complete game victory from Faber (his third of the Series) won 4-2 and clinched the World Championship. Eddie Collins was the hitting hero, batting .409 over the 6 game series while Cicotte and Faber combined to pitch 50 out of a total 52 World Series innings to lead the staff.

The decisive game underscored the Giants' post-season frustrations, featuring a famous rundown in which Giants' third baseman Heinie Zimmerman futilely chased the speedy Eddie Collins toward home plate with apparently no one to throw to. Two years before the issue of baseball betting reached its peak, Zimmerman found himself having to publicly deny purposely allowing the run to score, i.e. to deny that he had "thrown" the game. Zimmerman would eventually be banned for life due to various accusations of corruption. Conventional wisdom has it that Collins was much faster than Zimmerman, but existing photos of the play show that Zimmerman was only a step or two behind Collins, who actually slid across the plate while Zim jumped over him to avoid trampling him.

The great athlete Jim Thorpe, better known for football in general, made his only World Series "appearance" during Game 5, where he was listed in the lineup card as starting in right field; but for his turn at bat in the top of the first inning he was replaced by a left-handed hitting Dave Robertson.

The White Sox, who were essentially dismantled following the 1920 season by baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis due to the Black Sox Scandal in the 1919 World Series, did not win another World Series until 2005.

1 Summary
2 Matchups
3 Composite Box
4 Notes
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Summary

AL Chicago White Sox (4) vs. NL New York Giants (2)

Game	Score	Date	Location	Attendance
1	New York Giants - 1, Chicago White Sox - 2	October 6	Comiskey Park I	32,000^[1]
2	New York Giants - 2, Chicago White Sox - 7	October 7	Comiskey Park I	32,000^[2]
3	Chicago White Sox - 0, New York Giants - 2	October 10	Polo Grounds IV	33,616^[3]
4	Chicago White Sox - 0, New York Giants - 5	October 11	Polo Grounds IV	27,746^[4]
5	New York Giants - 5, Chicago White Sox - 8	October 13	Comiskey Park I	27,323^[5]
6	Chicago White Sox - 4, New York Giants - 2	October 15	Polo Grounds IV	33,969^[6]

[edit] Matchups

[edit] Game 1

Saturday, October 6, 1917 at Comiskey Park I in Chicago, Illinois

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
New York	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	7	1
Chicago	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	X	2	7	1

WP: Eddie Cicotte (1-0) LP: Slim Sallee (0-1)
HRs: CHW – Happy Felsch (1)

[edit] Game 2

Sunday, October 7, 1917 at Comiskey Park I in Chicago, Illinois

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
New York	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	8	1
Chicago	0	2	0	5	0	0	0	0	X	7	14	1

WP: Red Faber (1-0) LP: Fred Anderson (0-1)

[edit] Game 3

Wednesday, October 10, 1917 at the Polo Grounds IV in New York, New York

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Chicago	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	3
New York	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	X	2	8	2

WP: Rube Benton (1-0) LP: Eddie Cicotte (1-1)

[edit] Game 4

Thursday, October 11, 1917 at the Polo Grounds IV in New York, New York

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Chicago	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0
New York	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	2	X	5	10	1

WP: Ferdie Schupp (1-0) LP: Red Faber (1-1)
HRs: NYG – Benny Kauff 2 (2)

[edit] Game 5

Saturday, October 13, 1917 at Comiskey Park I in Chicago, Illinois

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
New York	2	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	5	12	3
Chicago	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	3	X	8	14	6

WP: Red Faber (2-1) LP: Slim Sallee (0-2)

[edit] Game 6

Monday, October 15, 1917 at the Polo Grounds IV in New York, New York

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Chicago	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	4	7	1
New York	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	6	3

WP: Red Faber (3-1) LP: Rube Benton (1-1)

[edit] Composite Box

1917 World Series (4-2): Chicago White Sox (A.L.) over New York Giants (N.L.)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Chicago White Sox	0	2	2	9	0	1	3	3	1	21	54	12
New York Giants	2	2	0	5	4	0	2	2	0	17	51	11
Total Attendance: 186,654 Average Attendance: 31,109
Winning Player’s Share: – $3,669 Losing Player’s Share – $2,442^[7]

[edit] Notes

^ 1917 World Series Game 1 - New York Giants vs. Chicago White Sox. Retrosheet. Retrieved on 2008-05-07.
^ 1917 World Series Game 2 - New York Giants vs. Chicago White Sox. Retrosheet. Retrieved on 2008-05-07.
^ 1917 World Series Game 3 - Chicago White Sox vs. New York Giants. Retrosheet. Retrieved on 2008-05-07.
^ 1917 World Series Game 4 - Chicago White Sox vs. New York Giants. Retrosheet. Retrieved on 2008-05-07.
^ 1917 World Series Game 5 - New York Giants vs. Chicago White Sox. Retrosheet. Retrieved on 2008-05-07.
^ 1917 World Series Game 6 - Chicago White Sox vs. New York Giants. Retrosheet. Retrieved on 2008-05-07.
^ World Series Gate Receipts and Player Shares. Baseball Almanac. Retrieved on 2008-05-07.

[edit] References

Neft, David S., and Richard M. Cohen. The World Series. 1st ed. New York: St Martins, 1990. (Neft and Cohen 66-70)
Reichler, Joseph, ed. (1982). The Baseball Encyclopedia (5th ed.), p. 2125. MacMillian Publishing. ISBN 0-02-579010-2.
Forman, Sean L.. 1917 World Series. Baseball-Reference.com - Major League Statistics and Information.. Retrieved on 2007-12-07.

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