Show ROME HOME RUN BAKERS COMING OUT DA DAY y ED FIRE illumined philadelphia oct 16 1911 that day marked the rise of 0 a new national figure in baseball it save the tha major leagues R their feret real homo home run player in years a being supposed to inhabit the bush buel league jungles exclusively it was waa coming out day ot 0 3 franklin baker who saved a worlds pennant tor for the athletics and immortalized no an a batsman no swing owing on a ball ever had greater effect on the championship than dakers Bai drive that day the setting for this historic home run was nil all that could be asked to ranko it spectacular christy mathewson had humbled the jackmen in the fai same of tho the series the saturday previous at new york the athletics were hard pressed everything seemed to favor the giants even the batting a twin blight of scalping on the leading american sporting classic pointed to mcgraw and his bla speed boys as the favorites rube marquard made his debut as an a postseason post season pitcher on that day for the giants ho was opposed by eddie plank macks veteran south paw the battle was it a tie lie after five innings of slab duelling buelling du elling in which marquard far seemed to have a shade the better of the tha comparison lie iio had bad allowed only two safeties sat etlea while plank had been hit for three base clouts clonts one a double by herzog it was evident that u single hit might win tho the game and it did up to the ano sixth inning the athletics a could not fathom the youthful southpaws deceptive speed and the giants were unable to make maka conuel lions with planks cross dri firing dring I 1 eddie collins Col llna who has a habit ol of franklin baker starting trouble tor for his opponents opponent a mado rai tor for the blanta olanta in the last halt of tho the sixth tuning inning when he be drove drova a n double to left led with two men out paly only one obstacle lay jay between marvard SIar and rf sf at this period of 0 the game g and that was wag tho the next player up in philadelphian Phila delphias batting order if he be could dispose of that batain batsman nn he might win his bis spurs spars an aa a rival ot at mathewson Ila in the ilia big series in this crisis airoso the stolid but unassuming hero ot of the day a figure whose name was blazoned on a hundred flaming coming headlines at ai nightfall J franklin haker enger eager and confident stepped tu to the plate his last appearance at bat that day the first uttering ot of marquard was ball lie sent beat the second one ona over the edalo cds of the plate waist high baker put all the force ot of his massive shoulders into that classic owing awing liv hi tact met the sphere with a crash that was heard bround around oe baseball world tho the ball salted sailed out almost in a line caromed chromed off the hand ota ton tan perched on od tho the right field tence fence slid and rolled tar outside park tor for a home run thal tha won the game and put the athletic on tho the road to victory that drive duplicated by baker aaker on the following day at new york kept the worlds gag flag in philadelphia in mi 1911 it wall wag the talk ot of the day froin tho the street gamin to the tha chief executive of the united states it gave baker a howe home run handle for or hla his name camo which nil all his ht exploits lo la the ta american league had failed ailed to bristik biln lillo lilia hy by UBI a Do dewlee wlee |