Show HISTORY OF POST SEASON CONTESTS GREAT SERIES IN WHICH ALL FANS ARE interested UNHEARD OF UNTIL 1884 providence TEAM victorious winner of national league championship defeated american association champions in initial games contests for the temple cup serles series between major leagues post season games the great series of battles to which all tans fans are now looking forward with intense eagerness were unheard of until 1884 when the providence team winner of the national league championship and the mets winners of tho the american association played three games at the polo grounds providence won them all 6 to 0 3 to 1 and 11 to 2 the next year the chicago Clit cago nationals and the st louis browns winners respectively in the national league and the american association played a seven game series the first being played in chicago the next three in ili st louis the fifth in pittsburg the sixth in ili cincinnati and the seventh in chicago each team won three games and one was a tie in 1886 the chicago and st louis teams again played off and comis keys team won four games to ansons team the pitchers tor for chicago were mccormick McCorm lck and dark clark son for st louis carruthers foutz and hudson detroit winner of the natto national nal league pennant and the selfsame self same st si louis drowns fought it out in 1887 and detroit won 10 of tho the 14 games which were played in st louis detroit pittsburg new york brooklyn philadelphia doston boston washington and baltimore the receipts of these ganies games were in 1888 the new york nationals beat the st louis american association champions six out of ten games for the worlds championship the otal receipts were in the post season series of 1883 the new york nationals won six of the nine games played placed with the champion brooklyn team of the american association keefe welch crane ciano and oday pitched ditched against terry lovett Car carruthers Carru fliers theis and hughes tile the advent of of the pla players ly es league generally regarded as an outlaw organization detracted from tile the interest in the post season series of 1890 between the brooklins Brook lyns lyna of the national league and the of the amerian association each team 1 aou on three games anil one end ava was a a tit he nothing ina 1 n a postseason post season way happened in 1891 bo in 1892 came the double season championship of the new 12 club national league one season ending in july and the other tn in october boston won the first series and cleveland tho the second in tho the playoff play off the games came out in this way boston vs cleveland 11 innings 00 0 0 boston vs cleveland 43 4 3 boston vs cleveland 32 3 2 boston vs cleveland 40 4 0 boston vs cleveland 12 1 boston vs cleveland 83 8 3 the four serles series for the temple cup in 1894 1895 1896 and 1897 attracted much attention in 1894 new york won four straight games from baltimore in 1895 cleveland won tour four of the tha E five ga games M e s from baltimore the net receipts receipt were only in 1896 the Balti mores won tour four straight games from cleveland in 1897 the Balti mores won four out of five games from boston for the temple cup from 1897 to 1903 there were no postseason post season games then the boston americans won five of the eight games played with pittsburg nationals for the worlds pennant the receipts exceeded in 1905 the new york nationals won four out of five games with the philadelphia athletics the total receipts were lite outcome of the series bet between w een the white sox and cubs in 1906 and the cubs and tigers in 1907 Is familiar history tho the six games at chicago in 1906 resulted october 9 sox 2 cubs 1 october 10 cubs 7 sox 1 october 11 sox 3 cubs 0 october 12 cubs 1 sox 0 october 13 sox 8 cubs cuba 6 october 14 sox 8 cubs 3 last year the games came out il ii this way october 8 cubs 3 tigers 3 october 9 cubs 3 tigers 1 october 10 cubs 5 tigers 1 october 11 cubs 6 tigers 1 october 12 cubs 2 tigers 0 the players share of tho he receipts in 1906 was and in 1907 |