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  World Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This dramatic Series involved great pitching from Christy Mathewson and from Boston fireballer Smokey Joe Wood, who won two of his three starts and pitched in relief in the final game, won when Boston rallied for two runs in the ninth inning thanks to two costly Giant fielding misplays.
The Cleveland Indians ruined a possible all-Boston World Series by defeating the Boston Red Sox in a playoff after the two top American League teams were tied at the end of the season.
Boston's victory breaks the Curse of the Bambino, coming from the largest upset in post season MLB history (a 3-0 deficit against the New York Yankees in the Championship Series) to sweep St. Louis.
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 Atlanta Braves - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They are most recently known for their ongoing record of 14 consecutive division championships (1991-2005, except for the strike-shortened 1994 season), the most in any professional North American sport, while collecting one World Series championship in that time (in 1995).
Prior to 1912, the Boston team had several unofficial nicknames: "Red Stockings" in the 1870s and 1880s; "Beaneaters" in the 1890s and early 1900s; "Doves" (when the Dovey family owned the franchise, 1907-1910) and "Rustlers" (when William Russell owned the franchise, 1911).
The Boston franchise that became known as the Braves took part in some of baseball's most memorable moments, achievements, and pennant races.
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 1920 UL World's Championship Series
Boston, MA (AP) Once again the Robins jumped out to an early lead in today's ball game and once again they looked to have things firmly in their control as the game progressed.
Boston starter Vance was lifted for a pinch hitter in the seventh and in the eighth Bill Terry tripled into the right-center field gap off his reliever Fred Toney.
Boston, MA (AP) The Boston Beaneaters rode a first inning rally to the Championship today at Fenway, sending the city into a frenzy and the Robins home yet again without the ultimate prize.
www.geocities.com /TheUnionLeague/20ws.html   (3169 words)

  
 First Baseball Game of the 20th Century
And on a sunny Thursday afternoon in Boston, an overflowing crowd at the South End Grounds watched the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Boston Beaneaters, 19-17, in ten innings.
Boston manager Frank Selee must have agreed, because when the game began, the man who had hit more home runs than four entire teams the previous year was sitting on the bench.
The Beaneaters’ nine-run ninth inning still stands as one of the greatest comebacks in history, and the five batters in the middle of their order combined for 18 hits in the game.
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 Boston Braves (1876-1952)
However, Boston would go on to crush the Spiders in 5 straight games to claim their 2nd straight NL Pennant.
Hurting the Beaneaters Championship quest was the loss of their beautiful ballpark's twin spires as a fire destroys the South End Grounds and much of the neighborhood.
For most of the season the city of Boston was all abuzz, as the Red Sox and Braves were in first place most of the season.
www.sportsecyclopedia.com /nl/bosbraves/BosBraves.html   (2942 words)

  
 FC Associates - National Treasures - Roger Maras
The great Beaneaters teams of the 1890's were certainly formidable with four championships and, as manager Frank Selee said many times, no one had more to do with Boston's success than Nichols and his ten straight winning seasons.
As if 1894 was not sufficiently bewildering to Boston baseball fans after the Bennett tragedy, their beloved South End Grounds ball field burnt to the ground while the Beaneaters were playing John McGraw's Orioles on May 16 th.
It is true that throughout the 1890's meetings between the Beaneaters and the Orioles often resembled gang fights more than baseball games but it was particularly satisfying for Boston area fans that they not only won in 1897 but repeated in 1898.
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 Boston Braves | BaseballLibrary.com
Boston won eight NL pennants before the end of the 19th century, becoming known as the Beaneaters in the process.
Boston did make history in 1914 when the "Miracle Braves" took less than two months to go from last to first in the second half of the season and proceeded to stun the Athletics in the World Series, becoming in the process the first team to successfully utilize platooning.
Boston's Billy Nash hits the ball over the LF fence in the bottom of the 9th, but he stays on 3B "to bother the pitcher." The tactic works, as Nash does score.
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/B/Boston_Braves.stm   (5114 words)

  
 OOTP Developments Forums - View Single Post - HOB2 1903 Season Recap
Boston was sixth in the National League, a whooping 35 games out of first place in 1901.
Boston manufactures a run in the sixth to tie the game and in the 7th McGinnity makes a mistake.
Boston gamely tries to crawl back into the game but in the end the Highlanders prevail 6-3, completing an improbbale comeback after just as unexpectedly dropping the first 3 games.
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 Origin of Boston Bean Town or Beantown
Boston was known for its production of rum, which molasses is an ingredient.
Boston was an incubator for the abolitionist movement
Boston had so much molasses in the early 1900's that in 1919 a huge vat exploded at a distillery on Commercial Street and caused the Boston Molasses Flood.
www.celebrateboston.com /gallery/beantown.htm   (331 words)

  
 Charles Radbourn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Charles Gardner Radbourn (December 11, 1854 - February 5, 1897), nicknamed "Old Hoss", was a pitcher in Major League Baseball prior to the turn of the 20th century.
As a starting pitcher for the Providence Grays (1881-1885), Boston Beaneaters (1886-1889), Boston Reds (1890) and Cincinnati Reds (1891), Radbourn compiled a 309-195 career record.
In 1884 he won the National League's pitching Triple Crown with a 1.38 ERA, 60 wins and 441 strikeouts.
www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Old_Hoss_Radbourn   (231 words)

  
 1898 Boston Beaneaters Roster by Baseball Almanac
Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a comprehensive team roster for the 1898 Boston Beaneaters with biographical data for every player who appeared in a game during the 1898 season.
This Boston Beaneaters roster places each name in the category where the most number of games were played by each player during the 1898 season.
The Boston Beaneaters played their home games at South End Grounds III where 229,275 fans witnessed their club finish the season with a.685 winning percentage.
www.baseball-almanac.com /teamstats/roster.php?y=1898&t=BS3   (219 words)

  
 Hugh Duffy | The BASEBALL Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
From 1892-1895, he and Tommy McCarthy were Boston's "Heavenly Twins" in the Beaneaters outfield, leading the club to a World Title and a National League crown.
After a season with Boston in the American Association in 1891, when he batted.341 with 83 stolen bases, Duffy was lured back to the National League by Frank Selee of the Boston Beaneaters.
Duffy was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1945, and died on October 19, 1954, in Boston.
www.thebaseballpage.com /past/pp/duffyhugh   (765 words)

  
 BIOPROJ.SABR.ORG :: The Baseball Biography Project.
Late in the evening of June 15, 1894, the night of his senior dinner, he received a telephone message from Boston Beaneaters manager Frank Selee, who was in urgent need of a fill-in for his injured catchers.
The Beaneaters won the first of two consecutive pennants with a 93-39 record and Tenney batted.318 while leading the league in at-bats.
On December 3, 1907, Boston sent Tenney to the New York Giants in an eight-player trade even though he continued to own stock in the Boston franchise, a conflict of interest that somehow escaped notice.
bioproj.sabr.org /bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&bid=878&pid=14059   (1521 words)

  
 G. S. Rowe
Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Boston was a tumultuous city, teeming with a polyglot population, and brimming with get-rich-quick schemes.
In moments of leisure they hastened to the South End Grounds to watch their beloved Boston Beaneaters, perennial challengers for National League pennants.
Boston and its Beaneaters were populated by often zany characters, scratching out a livelihood in the raw and unforgiving worlds inside and outside the ballpark.
www.gsrowe.com /mysteries.html   (233 words)

  
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April 19, 1900: In the NL opener at Boston, 10,000 fans watch the Phils win 19-17 in 10 innings, the highest scoring season opener in history.
Boston scored nine runs, including a major-league record three by pinch hitters, in the bottom of the 9th to tie the game at 17 apiece.
Stuffy McInnis completes his 119th consecutive errorless game at 1B (1300 chances), and Boston SS Everett Scott plays his 832nd consecutive game, a team record that will not be approached this century.
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/chronology/includes/F/Freeman_Buck.chr.stm   (780 words)

  
 Boston Fans were Once Spoiled by all the Baseball champions *PIC*
The Boston Reds would be formed in time to win the only Players League Pennant in 1890 before moving to the American Association in 1891 to again win the championship.
The Beaneaters would match this in the National League for 1891, making the City of Boston the undisputed champions of baseball, although some may argue which was the better team.
By that time, the National League Beaneaters, while becoming the Doves in 1907, then the Rustlers in 1911, then the Braves in 1912, made it to the top again in 1914, when they at last won the World Series and matched Chicago's feat of World Series winners in both leagues.
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 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Magazine / Swing Time
The grass was greener when the South End Grounds (left) was home to the Boston Beaneaters.
The year was 1894, and a Boston athlete was having one of the all-time great seasons.
The Beaneaters moved to an adjacent field, finished the season in third place, rebuilt their grandstand, and played here until 1915, by which time they were the Boston Braves of the National League.
www.boston.com /news/globe/magazine/articles/2004/03/07/swing_time?mode=PF   (385 words)

  
 BIOPROJ.SABR.ORG :: The Baseball Biography Project.
In 1898 Willis joined the National League's Boston Beaneaters, fresh off their fourth pennant in seven years.
Willis was expected to help the team immediately, with one sportswriter commenting: "The 'Wolf' as he is termed ought to be a great winner for Boston," and he further described the big right-hander as having good control, a change of pace, and a sweeping curve.
His services remained in dispute until after the season when he was awarded to Boston as part of the peace settlement between the two leagues.
bioproj.sabr.org /bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&bid=879&pid=15298   (2489 words)

  
 OOTP Developments Forums - View Single Post - Flashback Baseball League Timelines
Boston Beaneaters 3B Lave Cross collects career hit #2000 with a 6th inning single off of Brooklyn Superbas pitcher Bob Wicker, in Brooklyn 7-5 win (4/22/1903).
The Boston Pilgrims commit 7 errors but pound out 21 hits in 15-10 win over the New York Highlanders (5/8/1903).
Boston Pilgrims 1B Jake Beckley collects career hit #2500 with a double off of St. Louis Browns pitcher Bucky Veil, in Boston 6-4 win (8/19/1903).
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 scientific_style   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
he Boston Beaneaters pioneered the most solid, repectable style of play in the "naughty nineties." Boston built a well rounded team that
While the Baltimore Orioles and the Cleveland Spiders received most of the reconition of the time as a result of their antics, the Boston team was consistently the best team of the era.
Also bolstering the Beaneaters approach was a superb infield of Bobby Lowe, Jimmy Collins, Fred Tenney, and Herman Long.
www.bgsu.edu /departments/acs/1890s/baseball/scientific_style.html   (214 words)

  
 G. S. Rowe - Author of Historical Fiction Baseball Mysteries
He is abetted in his efforts at personal reformation by Sean Dennison, an artist for the Boston Globe and Tim Murnane, the Globe’s preeminent baseball reporter.
Will’s adventures also involve Arthur Soden, the cranky, skinflint owner of the National League Boston Beaneaters, and Lieutenant Dennis O’Dwyer, a wise-cracking homicide inspector.
Readers will step back into an earlier Boston and experience the sights, sounds, smells, concerns, and tempo of that teeming city in that raucous era.
www.gsrowe.com   (304 words)

  
 Welcome to Lelands.com - Lot 747 . 1897 Kid Nichols Individual Portrait & 1897 Boston Beaneaters Chickering Matching ...
The first is an individual cabinet card featuring Nichols in his Beaneaters uni.
The second is a team cabinet of the league champion 1897 Boston Beaneaters (they lost the Temple Cup to the storied Baltimore Orioles).
Written in the image at bottom, “Boston Base Ball Club 1897.” A powerhouse team here with Jimmy Collins, Hugh Duffy, Fred Tenney, Chick Stahl, Sliding Billy Hamilton, Bobby Lowe, Freddie Lake, and of course Charles Nichols.
www.lelands.com /bid.aspx?lot=747&auction=505   (248 words)

  
 Managers of the Boston Beaneaters (1883 - 1906) by Baseball Almanac
This is a comprehensive list of managers for the Boston Beaneaters organization.
The Braves franchise began in 1876 in Boston, moved to a Milwaukee in 1953, and came to a stop in Atlanta in 1966.
National League owners and executives were trying out a double championship concept that was stopped (on November 17, 1892) following that particular season.
www.baseball-almanac.com /mgrtmab4.shtml   (171 words)

  
 Bookreporter.com - WHEN BOSTON WON THE WORLD SERIES by Bob Ryan
Ryan masterfully describes how the Hub was the home of both the Boston Pilgrims (American League) and the Boston Beaneaters (National League).
He also tells how owners at the time refused to turn away any fan looking to pay the price of admission and how often crowds would spill into the outfield and become the actual ground rules for play.
By doing tireless research, Ryan explains Murnane's reporting about the Pilgrims' preseason in Macon, Georgia, their tremendous run for the AL pennant and the breathtaking series against Honus Wagner and the 1903 Pittsburgh Pirates.
www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0762414669.asp   (421 words)

  
 Potter Road 4th Grade Massachusetts Quilt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1902 the Boston Beaneaters were officially named the Boston Red Sox.
The Boston Red Sox is Massachusetts' Major League Baseball Team.
The famous Babe Ruth was on the Boston Red Sox.
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 John Clarkson
John Gibson Clarkson (July 1, 1861 - February 4, 1909) was a 19th century Major League Baseball pitcher.
Playing for the Worcester Worcesters (1882), Chicago White Stockings (1884 - 1887), Boston Beaneaters (1888 - 1892) and Cleveland Spiders (1892 - 1894), Clarkson compiled a career 328-178 record.
Clarkson pitched over 600 innings in a season twice and won a career-high 53 games in 1885.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john_clarkson.html   (137 words)

  
 Greeley Tribune - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1897, the Boston Beaneaters was one of the best teams in professional baseball, a group of colorful characters, tough, scarred, rough ballplayers who played because they loved the game.
Rowe studied the language and styles of the period, reading old Boston papers to discover how people spoke, thought and wrote about "base ball," which is how the word was spelled when the game first began.
The Beaneaters themselves became the Boston Braves, then the Milwaukee Braves, and, today, the Atlanta Braves.
www.greeleytrib.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030630/NEWS/306300007   (719 words)

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