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The 1911 World Series was the championship series in Major League Baseball for the 1911 season. The eighth edition of the World Series, it matched the American League (AL) champion Philadelphia Athletics against the National League (NL) champion New York Giants .
The postseason began with Game 1 of the eighth modern World Series on October 14 and ended with Game 6 on October 26. In the second iteration of this World Series matchup, the Athletics defeated the Giants, four games to two, capturing their second championship in franchise history, and the second team to win back-to-back World Series.
The 1911 Philadelphia Athletics season was a season in American baseball. The A's finished first in the American League with a record of 101 wins and 50 losses, then went on to defeat the New York Giants in the 1911 World Series , four games to two, for their second straight World Championship.
Prior to 2020, the only World Series game with less than 10 million viewers had been Game 3 in 2008, [11] which was impacted by a rain delay and had 9.836 million viewers. [ 12 ] The most recent World Series game to record a rating of 30 or higher was Game 7 in 1991 , as the Minnesota Twins defeated the Atlanta Braves ; the game had a ...
The Athletics returned to the World Series in 1910, but Plank was forced to sit out with a sore arm, although newspapers were speculating that he would pitch during the series. [9] [10] By 1911, Plank was the last member of the Athletics remaining from the 1901 team. [11] The 1911 team made the World Series and faced the Giants again.
The 1924 World Series played three games in this park. Washington Park (Los Angeles) – the home of the Los Angeles Angels playing in the Pacific Coast League from 1911 through 1925. It had a seating capacity of 12,000. Oaks Park (Oakland Baseball Park) – is the home field of the Oakland Oaks, members of the Pacific Coast League. It opened ...
The $100,000 infield helped the Athletics win four American League championships in five years—1910, 1911, 1913 and 1914—and win the World Series in 1910, 1911 and 1913. The group was broken up after losing the 1914 World Series as a result of the financial pressures resulting from the emergence of the Federal League . [ 5 ]
1911 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1911th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 911th year of the 2nd millennium, the 11th year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1911, the ...