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		Although Cleveland won the AL pennant, Wambsganss was so despondent during the World Series vs Brooklyn, that he cried his heart out to another dear buddy, F.C. Lane, the editor of Baseball Magazine.
		Bill Wambsganss had recorded baseball's first ever and still the only unassisted triple play in World Series' play.
		On being told that Wambsganss was German for a kind of overcoat, 'Wamby' thereafter often said, "I don't know if it fits me or not, but I have worn it all my life, and will do so till the end.
	www.baseballhistorian.com /html/green_box.cfm?random_fact_id=546 (492 words)

	1920 World Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This Series is noted for the unassisted triple play turned by Cleveland's Bill Wambsganss in Game 5.
		CLEVELAND, Sunday Oct. 10, 1920 - Bill Wambsganss' unassisted triple play highlighted the most unusual game in World Series history today and helped the Cleveland Indians to a wild 8-1 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers.
		Second baseman Wambsganss moved slightly to his right, tipped onto his toes, sprung a little bit and grabbed the ball with his gloved hand.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1920_World_Series (498 words)

	Bill Wambsganss Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
		Bill Wambsganss was born on Monday, March 19, 1894, in Cleveland, Ohio.
		Wambsganss was 20 years old when he broke into the big leagues on August 4, 1914, with the Cleveland Naps.
		Did you know that Bill Wambsganss (October 10, 1920), Mickey Morandini (September 20, 1992)and Randy Velarde (May 29, 2000) are the only second baseman in Major League history to ever turn an unassisted triple play?
	www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=wambsbi01 (289 words)

	Baseball and Jackie Robinson - Early Baseball Pictures (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
		Also notable is Bill Wambsganss, third from right, who executed an unassisted triple play in the fifth game of the World Series that year.
		Wambsganss, and his tripple [sic] play victims, Kilduff, Mitchell and Miller of the Brooklyn B.B. Club.
		Wambsganss then stepped on second base before Pete Kilduff (who had run towards third base) could get back and tagged out Otto Miller as he neared second base.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/collections/robinson/jrgmmaj.html (662 words)

	Game 5 of 1920 World Series
		CLEVELAND, Sunday Oct. 10, 1920 -- Bill Wambsganss' unassisted triple play highlighted the most unusual game in World Series history today and helped the Cleveland Indians to a wild 8-1 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers.
		Bill Wambsganss tags Otto Miller to complete the only unassisted triple Play in World Series history.
		DP: Olson, Kilduff to Konetchy; Jamieson to O'Neill; Gardner, Wambsganss to D.
	members.tripod.com /~ayche1/10101920.html (403 words)

	A Bucket Full of World Series Dirt
		When, in game 5 of the 1920 World Series, Cleveland second baseman Bill Wambsganss spun around and tagged out Brooklyn's Otto Miller, Wambsganss completed the only unassisted triple play in Series history.
		Bucketfoot is in complete denial about the outcome of game 1 of the 1988 Series and it is the official policy of Bucketfoot to make no reference to such a painful moment...
		Bill McKechnie is the only manager to manage three different teams in the World Series...
	www.bucketfoot.com /archive/dirt.html (643 words)

	Sim Dynasty.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Bill Wambsganss has retired from the Cleveland Zajocas
		The Cleveland Zajocas have promoted Bill Wambsganss to the major league team.
		The Cleveland Zajocas have renamed Rick Peden to Bill Wambsganss.
	www.simdynasty.com /player.jsp?id=1460828 (226 words)

	Game #18 - Game 7, '60 Series
		It is Don Larsen, imperfect pitcher of the New York Yankees, pitching perfectly, and it's Cookie Lavagetto depriving Bill Bevens of no-hit glory.
		But through all of this, there is one moment that inhabits the dreams of kids playing stickball more than any other: winning Game 7 with a ninth-inning home run to defeat a heavily favored Goliath.
		Law, drawing his third start of the Series, was staked to a 4-0 lead when Rocky Nelson cracked a two-run homer in the first inning off Bob Turley (9-3, 3.27 ERA in 1960), and Bill Virdon stroked a two-run single in the second against reliever Bill Stafford.
	www.baseball-statistics.com /Greats/Century/Games/Maz.htm (1294 words)

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		And it's Bill Wambsganss making an unassisted triple play.
		It's Bill Mazeroski homering in the bottom of the ninth to win it all.
		Boston evened the Series, though, when Bill Dinneen threw a three-hitter and Patsy Dougherty walloped two homers in a 3-0 triumph.
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		For 34 years, baseball's most glamorous slugging record belonged to Babe Ruth, a larger-than-life, gregarious character who hit 60 home runs in 1927 and challenged anybody to match it.
		In the fifth game of the series against the Brooklyn Dodgers, Wambsganss caught a line drive with runners on first and second.
		Wambsganss retired as a player in 1926, and he eventually became the manager of the minor league's Fort Wayne Chiefs of the Central League, and the Fort Wayne Daisies in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1945.
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	1920 World Series
		Bill Wambsganss (Cleveland), Pete Kilduff (Brooklyn), Clarence Mitchell (Brooklyn), Otto Miller (Brooklyn)
		This incident haunted him throughout his career, and is felt my many to be the reason he was never elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
		Wambsganss wears a fl armband in the above photo in memory of Chapman.
	oldballgame.freeservers.com /joeweb61.html (495 words)

	World Series Classic Moments, Fall Classic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		With runners breaking from first and second in the fifth inning, Wambsganss stabbed a liner off the bat of Brooklyn pitcher Clarence Mitchell, stepped on second to double off Pete Kilduff, and then tagged out approaching runner Otto Miller.
		The first Pirates batter was Bill Mazeroski, who had yet to hit the ball out of the infield all day.
		When Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski ended the 1960 World Series with his famous home run, Joe Carter was just six months old.
	www.baseballhalloffame.org /history/WS_moments (3421 words)

	Playing the name game produces uninspiring results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Getting back to Agbayani, the comment reminded me that I had read somewhere that the same term (or something similar) had been applied to former Cleveland second baseman Bill Wambsganss before I was born.
		Once I had associated Agbayani and Wambsganss, the question occurred to me: Would it be possible to construct a line up of major leaguers whose surnames were, if not weird, at least strikingly unusual?
		In fact, the only thing some remember from that Series is that Wambsganss — Wamby to the press corps — turned an unassisted triple play in Game 5.
	www.thedailystar.com /sports/2001/03/31/sphamilton.html (1274 words)

	Debatable, Silly, Shameful or Sublime - AOL News
		Wilson's grounder then bounced between first baseman Bill Buckner's legs as Knight scored for a 6-5 victory.
		Bill Dickey walked and Joe Gordon doubled to make it 7-4, the final score.
		With runners on first and second in the fifth inning of Game 5, Wambsganss, the Cleveland Indians' second baseman, snared Clarence Mitchell's line drive, stepped on second to double Pete Kilduff, then tagged Otto Miller coming from first base.
	articles.news.aol.com /sports/_a/debatable-silly-shameful-or-sublime/20031020144509990001 (900 words)

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		In 1913, when the St. Louis Browns concluded spring workouts, they didn't have enough money to pay the rent they owed on the Montgomery, Ala., ballpark where they'd trained.
	www.billy-ball.com /news/2006_06_09.asp (1361 words)

	Cleveland Indians : News : Cleveland Indians News
		In that 1920 season, the Tribe faced the Brooklyn Robins, a franchise the Indians wouldn't play again until the 2003 season, when they played the Los Angeles Dodgers as part of Interleague play.
		History does remember little about Wambsganss, aside from the triple play.
		Nor do many remember the splendid series that Coveleski, a control pitcher with a wicked spitball, had.
	cleveland.indians.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20051012&content_id=1247504&vkey=news_cle&fext=.jsp&c_id=cle (624 words)

	World of Special Finance 2005
		The last time it happened was in 2003 when Boston Red Sox third baseman Bill Meuller hit one in the 7th inning and again in the 8th against the Texas Rangers.
		The unassisted triple play (catching a line drive, then tagging bases and/ or runners for three outs in one play, by one player) has only occurred a mere 12 times in major league history.
		Bill Wambsganss was the first player to do it during a World Series game.
	www.wosfmagazine.com /archive/april/4-05davis.htm (1198 words)

	Lakewood Lore - Elmer Meinke recalls Cleveland Indians' William Wambsganss (Bill Wamby) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		After all, how many Lakewoodites can say they were there -- at League park on Oct. 10, 1920 -- when Indians second baseman Bill Wamby made the only unassisted triple play in World Series history.
		Suffice to say, Cleveland, after winning the fifth game, 8-1, then went on to cop the series and take the world championship crown.
		At the end of his big league career, Wamby, whose real name was William Adolph Wambsganss, came to Lakewood where he managed amateur teams.
	www.lkwdpl.org /lore/lore93.htm (527 words)

	Bill Wambsganss - Statistics - The Baseball Cube (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Bill Wambsganss - Statistics - The Baseball Cube
		The order of teams does not reflect the order of teams played during a season for the Bill Wambsganss.
		Its important to note that the report is based on the same statistics displayed on the TBC web site and so players with incomplete statistics will have an incomplete teammates report.
	www.thebaseballcube.com /players/W/bill-wambsganss.shtml (1095 words)

	Bill Wambsganss \| BaseballLibrary.com
		In the fifth inning, Wambsganss stabbed a line drive off the bat of Brooklyn pitcher Clarence Mitchell, stepped on second to double up Pete Kilduff, and tagged Otto Miller, the runner from first, who thought the ball had gone through for a hit.
		Bagby is roughed for 13 hits, but he gets out of jams with the aid of three DPs and an unassisted triple play.
		In the 5th with Pete Kilduff on 2B and Otto Miller on 1B, relief pitcher Clarence Mitchell hits a line drive at SS Wambsganss, who steps on 2B and tags the off-and-running Miller before he can retreat.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/W/Wambsganss_Bill.stm (309 words)

	Bill Wambsganss Trivia Question
		On October 10, 1920, during the fifth inning, Bill Wambsganss caught a line drive hit by Clarence Mitchell.
		He then stepped on second to put out Pete Kilduff and personally tagged Otto Miller who was coming from first.
		This unassisted triple play is probably the most amazing fielding feat to ever take place during any World Series game.
	www.usefultrivia.com /sports_trivia/world_series_trivia_002a.html (58 words)

	Bill Wambsganss Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com
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		View Bill Wambsganss's uniforms at Dressed to the Nines
		Statistics may come from our work, the Baseball Databank, or other sources including SABR.org.
	www.baseball-reference.com /w/wambsbi01.shtml (606 words)

	Hall of Fame Voting XV: 1954 - The Baseball Clubhouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The 15th ever balloting was polled and three new members were elected.
		Rabbit Maranville, Bill Dickey, and Bill Terry rose through the ranks of candidates and gained the needed 75%.
		Any world where Rabbit Maranville, Bill Dickey, and Bill Terry are better players than Joe DiMaggio is one I don't want to see.
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	Bill Landis Psychic
		by Indians second baseman Bill Wambsganss in the fifth.
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		by Bill and Judy Guggenheim, book about after-death communication - ADC experiences, death and dying, grief, bereavement, life after death, and afterlife.
	www.which-tarot.com /23/bill-landis-psychic.html (711 words)

	JS Online: JS Online
		While baseball lists 10 unassisted triple plays in the regular season, there was also one in the postseason - and perhaps the most famous ever.
		Cleveland's Bill Wambsganss turned an unassisted triple play in the fifth game of the 1920 World Series against Brooklyn.
		Velarde's error on Posada's grounder the batter before made the triple play possible.
	www.onwisconsin.com /sports/brew/may00/tp052900.asp?format=print (340 words)

	Minor League Baseball: History: Top 100 Teams
		By Bill Weiss & Marshall Wright, Baseball Historians
		The Blues’ best-known infielder was 35-year-old Bill Wambsganss, whose name frequently appeared in box scores as “Wamby.” In 1929, his last full season, he played 103 games at second and third, batting.295.
		Wamby had played ten years with Cleveland, two with the Red Sox and one with the Athletics (1913-26) with a.259 career average.
	www.minorleaguebaseball.com /app/milb/history/top100.jsp?idx=28 (2689 words)

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		Fred Dunlap didn't have a glove and played second base and won the league fielding four times.
		Bill Wambsganss got an unassisted triple play in the 1920 World Series.
		He was playing second base when there was a man on first and second when a line drive was hit and Bill caught it stepped on second and tagged the runner coming from first.
	dixiesd.marin.k12.ca.us /dixieschool/web/suskind/sports/base3.html (444 words)

	Amazon.com: Reviews for The Glory of Their Times: Books: Lawrence Ritter,Fred Snodgrass,Sam Crawford,Hans Lobert,Rube ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		As the decades go by even the old-timers among us haven't been around long enough to remember them.
		They've pretty much become historical, iconic figures, like the stoic-looking George Washington on a dollar bill.
		It's a bit of a sad reminder of the inexorable march of time, but what a great relief to know that this treasure chest of a book is around to keep their memories alive.
	www.amazon.com /Glory-Their-Times-Lawrence-Ritter/dp/customer-reviews/1565112539 (2774 words)

	Bill Wambsganss Bibliography \| BaseballLibrary.com
		The complete index is available for purchase, and The Baseball Index Research Service can perform complicated searches for a nominal fee.
		Named people: Wambsganss, Bill; Davis, Harry; Speaker, Tris; Street, Gabby; Owens, Brick; Hargrave, Bubbles; McCormick, Moose
		Named people: Dinneen, Bill; Phillippe, Deacon; Ruth, Babe; Snodgrass, Fred; Wambsganss, Bill; Owen, Mickey; Martin, Pepper; Dean, Dizzy; Jackson, Joe; Lombardi, Ernie; Larsen, Don; Mays, Willie; Rhodes, Dusty; Burdette, Lew; Mazeroski, Bill; Robinson, Frank; Gibson, B
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/sabr/tbi/W/Wambsganss_Bill.tbi.stm (891 words)

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