The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-10-13
HEROES OF BASEBALL
SERIES
Meteors That Have Flashed
Upon Sky, Dimming
Former Stars.

There is noting so uncertain as f.
Rrring the performance Of a ball
player in a worlds series. Stars fre-
duently are dimmed while the lesser
liiRfts often shine.
! Last year Coveleskie, star, shared
! the honors with Mails a rookie, and
/ tie year before that . young busher
nv the name Of Kerr was entitled to
!, IN the honors-n any-attached to
tInt III fated series between the
IWhftesox and the Reds.
/ The first world series between the
National League and the American
lInoRue was held in 1903 between the
Redsox and the Pirates The first
hefu was Bill Dineen, now an umpire
| in the American League. Dineen
| uitched three games for the Redsox
and was individually responsible for
the defeat of the Pittsburgh crew.
| There was no series m 1904, but IN
1906 Ghristy Mathewson won undy-
inp fame when he defeated the Ath-
letics almost single handed by the
greatest pitching exhibition ever
given in a series. Matty shut out the
Athletics three times IN five days.
The scores were 80, 80, and 20, and
shutting out the Mackmen was no
cinch, either.
The big hero of the 1906 games was
George Rohe, an obscure substitute
Robes case is unique He never
amounted to anything before or az
ter that series between the Whitesox
and the Cubs, but he certainly sf1one !
with dazzling brilliancy that week |
Rohe's batting won three games abb
solutely-even after they appeared
lost.
Harry Steinfeldt was the hero, If /
anyone could be called that, of the
one-sided series between the Cubs
and Tigers in 1907. Chances men
won the series so easily that there
was little chance for star.
The 1908 series was ahost re-
petitisn Of the preceding 1ne, as the
Detroit team failed mise1hly again
against the Cubs Prank Chance and
Orvie Overall were the bright lights
,f this contest- Chance batted .421
md stole five bases, while Overall
,cored two shutost&
In 1903 Babe Adams won 4 niche in
he hall Of fame. Adams was just q
'kidr pitcher on ths Pirate staff At
he time. but hs beat the Tigers three
lines, to the great surpsiss Of svery-
ne. II
In 1910, the Athletics gave the Cubs
bad beating. Jack Coombs was thet
itching star Of this series beating
he Cubs three times. Collins and =
'aker both hit over 400. Coombs '
it 1856 himself t
Baker again starred in 1911 This t
as the series in which he earned a
is sobriquet Of Home Run Baker by c,
irving thesban over the fence on two h
ramatic occasions These homers i
ere the turning points of the SER n
S, and viii always be talked about
j long as the game endures. Baker
ltted .375 that series and Barry and
oIlins also finished we'll te
Harry Hooper was the zeal hero of >,
e 1912 game. Hooper not only hit p,
ell, but he raced back and leaned n
er short fence in the right field in
ID prevented a certain home run by TT
miraculous catch. If Hooper had ar
iled-as everybody expected he NJ
,uld-the Giants would have won M
e worlds championship because the q,
ny came in the last inning of the
It and deciding game of the hottest
rid series ever played.
Incidentally, the nan.Sez of Larry n .
vie should be listed among those we mt
We just written, for it was he who tio
the ball that was actually home ioe
a, as it went over the fence before tht
was caught ser
Zoe Wood, Hugh Bedient and Olaf ~;
ndricksen also starred in the re-
rkable series of eight games.
The series of 1913 found Baker. a,,s
lins, Bender, Plank and Barry -
wing in their usual good form for M
Athletics against the Giants. If
wever, Joe Bush takes the most ;no-
orable mention. Bush was Just a ;ne
pitcher then, in his first year in ba. s
Ied&ue, put ne went III with the MI.
es tied and pitched coolly and nit
liantly, beating the Giants easily, r.;
2. Schang did well also. nor
i 1914 Hank Gowdy was the big Em
, of Boston's roughshod 4-game ton
Dry ovsr the Athletics. Hank, a at
'tofore ordinary ball player, es- r1ee
ished the greatest worlds series Nov
ing record yet recorded hitting upol
He made six hits, Of which the
one was single. Three were chu,
Hes, one was 4 triple, and the time
r one = homer. He drew five such
on balls. fecti
1915 Duffy Lewis of the Redsox indi,
the greatest exhibition of all the
nd play ever seen in a series max
fielding and batting were phen- help,
ltal. Duffy hit .444 for the five A. G
IS against the Phillies. Hooper
80, including two homers. Blu