  the much-anticipated 1921 world series featured john mcgraw's new york giants, dedicated practitioners of the dead-ball era's "inside game", and the new york yankees, who relied on the "power game" exemplified by babe ruth, who was coming off of what was arguably his best year ever statistically. the series was a closely contested matchup which ended on a double play featuring a baserunning miscue. == background == the series was the last of the experimental best-five-of-nine series, which the giants won five games to three. all eight games were played at the polo grounds in upper manhattan, new york, each team alternating as the nominal "home team" since the yankees had subleased the stadium from the giants for the 1913 through 1922 seasons, so that it was the home park for both teams during the regular season in those ten years. this marked the first time in world series history that the series occurred at a single site. it happened again the following year in the same place with the same two teams, and in 1944 at st. louis' sportsman's park between the cardinals and the browns. for new yorkers, this was the first subway series i
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