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Show Athletics Pitcher Lost Nineteen Games in Row Two Mackian moundsmen had an exceedingly tough season in 1916. They were John Nabors and Thomas Sheehan. Nabors lost 19 straight games ; Sheehan 1G. That was the year the Athletics dropped 20 in a row, one of the worst losing streaks on major league record. The Macks ran into 117 defeats de-feats that campaign, the highest number num-ber an American league club ever sustained. But two seasons before the Mack-Ian Mack-Ian brigade had copped its third flag in four chases. Minus Eddie Collins, Ja-ck Barry and some of the other famous fa-mous stars, however, the Quaker-town Quaker-town club took a terrific tumble, from which it didn't recover for seven seasons. |