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1929 World Series at WorldSeries.com via MLB.com; 1929 World Series at Baseball Almanac; 1929 World Series at Baseball-Reference.com; The 1929 Post-Season Games (box scores and play-by-play) at Retrosheet; History of the World Series - 1929 at The Sporting News. Archived from the original in May 2006. Amateur film footage from the series
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]
Topps's 1957 set contained Yankee great Mickey Mantle as card number 95. The card is known among collectors as the "ghost Mantle". Topps editors had long been expert at altering pictures to meet their needs. For example, the same photo of future major league manager Bob Kennedy appears in the 1954, '55 and '56 Topps sets. But the photo is ...
The hometown fans got to witness the A's clinch world titles at Shibe Park in 1911, 1929 and 1930. [103] The Phillies participated in one World Series during their tenure at the stadium, in 1950. They were swept by the New York Yankees. [104] The 1943 All-Star Game was the first of two that would be held at Shibe Park. The 1943 game was hosted ...
James Joseph Dykes (November 10, 1896 – June 15, 1976) was an American professional baseball player, coach and manager.He played in Major League Baseball as a third and second baseman from 1918 through 1939, most notably as a member of the Philadelphia Athletics dynasty that won three consecutive American League pennants from 1929 to 1931 and, won the World Series in 1929 and 1930.
In the World Series against Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics, Wilson's .471 hitting performance was eclipsed by two fielding errors at Shibe Park. Though trailing the Series two games to one, the Cubs were leading by a score of 8–0 in the fourth game when the Athletics mounted a 10-run rally in the seventh inning.
After the boycott of 1904, the World Series was played every year until 1994 despite World War I, the global influenza pandemic of 1918–1919, the Great Depression of the 1930s, America's involvement in World War II, and even an earthquake in the host cities of the 1989 World Series. A breakdown in collective bargaining led to a strike in ...
Hartnett struck out in all three of his at bats in the 1929 World Series against the Philadelphia Athletics. [ 9 ] [ 22 ] He rebounded with his best season in 1930 , hitting for a .339 batting average with career highs of 122 runs batted in, a .630 slugging percentage and 37 home runs, breaking his own single-season home run record for catchers.