Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site duts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!nsc!amdahl!duts!jwm00 From: jwm00@duts.UUCP (John McKenna) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: RE:Re: World Series Begins Message-ID: <149@duts.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 12:03:45 EST Article-I.D.: duts.149 Posted: Wed Oct 30 12:03:45 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 05:49:05 EST References: <289@mb2c.UUCP> <15800019@uiucdcsb> Organization: Amdahl Corp, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 37 > > >> Does anybody know when the last World Series was where the > >> two teams were from the same state? > * Written 8:45 am Oct 18, 1985 by mlt@mb2c.UUCP in uiucdcsb:net.sport.baseball */ > >I believe it was 1974, when the Oakland A's defeated the Dodgers. The first > >time this ever happened was 1904 ( I think ) when the Cubbies and Sox both > >made the Series, then only in its second year. > > I don't think there was a 1904 World Series because the NL was mad at the > AL for winning the first one. > > Stephen L. Borodkin > > USENET: ...!{pur-ee,ihnp4}!uiucdcs!borodkin > CSNET: borodkin%uiuc@csnet-relay.arpa > ARPA: borodkin@uiuc.arpa There was no 1904 World Series due to the personal animosity between the NL champion Giants manager John McGraw and American League president Ban Johnson. Interestingly enough the initial reason cited for a lack of play came from Giants president John T. Brush when he declared the American League an inferior league. This may have been the first salvo fired in the decades long feud between the two league's adherents. An unfortunate byproduct of McGraw's feud was that the AL champion Boston Pilgrims #1 starter Cy Young and the Giants ace Christy Mathewson did not face one another. The Cubs and the White Sox played in the '06 Series. ( AL in 6). Trivia question(easy) : Which major league pitcher had a win total of greater than 500 and yet never won the coveted Cy Young award? Answer : Cy Young. See I told you it was easy.