The Chicago Cubs became the first back-to-back World Series Champions after Orval Overall won his second game of the series. Overall threw a three-hit complete game shutout and a first inning RBI by Frank Chance would prove to be the difference in the game. Orval Overall worked around four walks and a wild pitch by striking out 10 batters. Overall finished the 1908 World Series with a 0.98 ERA. There were only 6,210 fans in attendance at Bennett Park when the Cubs won their last World … [Read more...]

Mordecai ‘Three Finger’ Brown won his second game of the 1908 World Series with a complete game four-hit shutout. Brown was 29-9 with a 1.47 ERA in 1908. Brown threw over 312 innings and recorded 27 complete games in 31 starts and he also made 13 appearances out of Frank Chance’s bullpen that season. The Cubs scored one of their three runs on a ninth inning error by Ty Cobb but it was a two-run third inning that was the difference in game four of the 1908 World Series. Game Four – Bennett … [Read more...]

The Tigers bounced back in game three of the 1908 World Series at West Side Grounds in Chicago behind a complete game by George Mullin. The Tigers’ right-hander was 17-13 in the regular season with 26 complete games. Jack ‘The Giant Killer’ Pfiester took the hill for Frank Chance. Pfiester was a 12-game winner in 1908 and led the National League in ERA in 1907 (1.15) but finished ninth in the NL with a 2.00 ERA in 1908. Pfiester received his nickname because of his dominance of John McGraw’s … [Read more...]

Game Two of the 1908 World Series shifted to the West Side Grounds in Chicago and was dominated by both starting pitchers. Orval Overall made the start for Frank Chance a day after pitching a third of an inning in relief. Hughie Jennings went with 18-game winner Bill Donovan. Both pitchers threw a complete game and kept the opposition of the bases until the later innings. The Cubs broke a scoreless tie with a six-run eighth inning and the only run Overall allowed came on a Ty Cobb single in the … [Read more...]

The year was 1908 and it was the first time the ball was dropped in New York, the first time Mother’s Day was celebrated and the last time the Cubs won the World Series. The year is embedded in the mind of every Cubs fan but do you know how they won their second World Championship? The Cubs won the series four games to one over the Detroit Tigers and in the process became the first back-to-back champions in World Series history. Over the next five days the CCO will take a look back at how … [Read more...]