$Unique_ID{BAS00076} $Title{Postseason Play: World Series 1906} $Subtitle{} $Author{ Ivor-Campbell, Frederick} $Subject{World Series 1906 Chicago White Sox Cubs} $Log{} Total Baseball: The Highlights of the Game Postseason Play: World Series 1906 Frederick Ivor-Campbell Chicago White Sox (AL), 4; Chicago Cubs (NL), 2 GAME 1 AT CHI-N OCT 9 ---------------------------------------- CHI-A 000 011 000 2 4 1 CHI-N 000 001 000 1 4 2 Pitchers: ALTROCK vs BROWN Attendance: 12,693 GAME 2 AT CHI-A OCT 10 ---------------------------------------- CHI-N 031 001 020 7 10 2 CHI-A 000 010 000 1 1 2 Pitchers: REULBACH vs WHITE, Owen (4) Attendance: 12,595 GAME 3 AT CHI-N OCT 11 ---------------------------------------- CHI-A 000 003 000 3 4 1 CHI-N 000 000 000 0 2 2 Pitchers: WALSH vs PFIESTER Attendance: 13,667 GAME 4 AT CHI-A OCT 12 ---------------------------------------- CHI-N 000 000 100 1 7 1 CHI-A 000 000 000 0 2 1 Pitchers: BROWN vs ALTROCK Attendance: 18,385 GAME 5 AT CHI-N OCT 13 ---------------------------------------- CHI-A 102 401 000 8 12 6 CHI-N 300 102 000 6 6 0 Pitchers: WALSH, White (7) vs Reulbach, PFIESTER (3), Overall (4) Attendance: 23,257 GAME 6 AT CHI-A OCT 14 ---------------------------------------- CHI-N 100 010 001 3 7 0 CHI-A 340 000 01X 8 14 3 Pitchers: BROWN, Overall (2) vs WHITE Attendance: 19,249 The Cubs and White Sox have played more postseason City Series than any other clubs, but this was their only all-Chicago World Series. The Cubs were the clear favorites: league leaders in batting, fielding, and pitching (with a team ERA of only 1.76). They were one of baseball's greatest teams ever, with a still-record 116 wins, finishing 20 games ahead of the second-place Giants. The White Sox, by contrast, although their pitching and fielding were good enough to rank second in the American League, were the junior circuit's weakest hitters, batting as a team only .230, 32 points below the Cubs. But in the Series the "hitless wonders" prevailed. Though they hit only .198 and yielded eight unearned runs to the Cubs' two, the Sox bunched their hits for 20 earned runs--double the Cubs' total. Meanwhile, Sox pitchers held the Cubs to a .196 BA, and produced a team ERA less than half that of Cub pitchers. Game One was a pitcher's duel as the Cubs' Mordecai (Three Finger) Brown and the Sox' Nick Altrock traded four-hitters and one earned run apiece. But Brown lost the game when his error in the seventh led to the Sox' second run. The Cubs snapped back to take Game Two on Ed Reulbach's one-hit 7-1 win. Although Reulbach issued six walks, he didn't really need the five unearned runs handed his club by Sox errors. In Game Three the Sox regained the Series lead as Ed Walsh two-hit the Cubs, fanning 12 for the Series' first shutout. The Cubs' Jack Pfiester also pitched shutout ball in eight of his nine innings, but George Rohe's bases-loaded triple in the sixth gave the Sox more than enough to defeat him. Brown brought the Cubs back the next day, evening the Series with a two-hit shutout of his own, winning when Altrock yielded his only run on pairs of singles and sacrifice bunts in the seventh. The rest of the Series belonged to the hitless wonders, who rocked three Cub pitchers for 12 hits and eight runs to take Game Five, and buried Brown and Orval Overall under 14 hits and another eight runs in Game Six to capture their first world championship. CHI (A) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nick Altrock, p .250 2 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 George Davis, ss .308 3 13 4 4 3 0 0 6 0 1 1 Jiggs Donahue, 1b .333 6 18 0 6 2 1 0 4 3 3 0 Patsy Dougherty, of .100 6 20 1 2 0 0 0 1 3 4 2 Eddie Hahn, of .273 6 22 4 6 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 Frank Isbell, 2b .308 6 26 4 8 4 0 0 4 0 6 1 Fielder Jones, of .095 6 21 4 2 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 Ed Mc Farland, ph .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bill O'Neill, of .000 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Frank Owen, p .000 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 George Rohe, 3b .333 6 21 2 7 1 2 0 4 3 1 2 Billy Sullivan, c .000 6 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 Lee Tannehill, ss .111 3 9 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Babe Towne, ph .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ed Walsh, p .000 2 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 Doc White, p .000 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 TOTAL .198 187 22 37 10 3 0 19 18 35 6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nick Altrock 1 1 1.00 2 2 2 0 0 18.0 11 2 2 5 Frank Owen 0 0 3.00 1 0 0 0 0 6.0 6 2 3 2 Ed Walsh 2 0 1.20 2 2 1 0 1 15.0 7 2 6 17 Doc White 1 1 1.80 3 2 1 1 0 15.0 12 3 7 4 TOTAL 4 2 1.50 8 6 4 1 1 54.0 36 9 18 28 CHI (N) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mordecai Brown, p .333 3 6 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 Frank Chance, 1b .238 6 21 3 5 1 0 0 0 2 1 2 Johnny Evers, 2b .150 6 20 2 3 1 0 0 1 1 3 2 Doc Gessler, ph .000 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 Solly Hofman, of .304 6 23 3 7 1 0 0 2 3 5 1 Johnny Kling, c .176 6 17 2 3 1 0 0 0 4 3 0 Pat Moran, ph .000 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Orval Overall, p .250 2 4 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 Jack Pfiester, p .000 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Ed Reulbach, p .000 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 Frank Schulte, of .269 6 26 1 7 3 0 0 3 1 3 0 Jimmy Sheckard, of .000 6 21 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 1 Harry Steinfeldt, 3b .250 6 20 2 5 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 Joe Tinker, ss .167 6 18 4 3 0 0 0 1 2 2 3 TOTAL .196 184 18 36 9 0 0 11 18 28 9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mordecai Brown 1 2 3.20 3 3 2 0 1 19.2 14 7 4 12 Orval Overall 0 0 2.25 2 0 0 0 0 12.0 10 3 3 8 Jack Pfiester 0 2 6.10 2 1 1 0 0 10.1 7 7 3 11 Ed Reulbach 1 0 2.45 2 2 1 0 0 11.0 6 3 8 4 TOTAL 2 4 3.40 9 6 4 0 1 53.0 37 20 18 35 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------