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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 World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
The 1911 major league baseball season began on April 12, 1911. The regular season ended on October 12, with the New York Giants and Philadelphia Athletics as the regular season champions of the National League and American League , respectively.
Philadelphia wins the series, four games to two. The six consecutive days of rain between Games 3 and 4 caused the longest delay between World Series games until the Loma Prieta earthquake interrupted the 1989 Series, which incidentally featured the same two franchises, albeit on the west coast.
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.
In the 1910 season, Baker led the American League with 11 home runs in 1911, and batted .344. [2] Baker helped the Athletics win the 1910 World Series over the Chicago Cubs, four games to one, as he batted .409 in the five-game series. [12] In the 1911 World Series, the Athletics faced off against the Giants. Based on Baker's past run-in with ...
4× World Series champion (1911, 1913, 1918, 1925) John Phalen "Stuffy" McInnis (September 19, 1890 – February 16, 1960) was an American first baseman and manager in Major League Baseball . McInnis gained his nickname as a youngster in the Boston suburban leagues, where his spectacular playing brought shouts of "that's the stuff, kid".
Overall, he played in four World Series – the 1911, 1912, and 1913 Series with the Giants, as well as the 1916 Series with the Robins. Meyers was a Native American from the Cahuilla culture of California, and he was educated at Dartmouth College .