1911 World Series - Philadelphia Athletics vs New York Giants

Philadelphia Athletics 4
New York Giants 2

October 14 - October 26, 1911

The 1911 World Series was a rematch of the 1905 Series. Both teams featured strong pitching and hitting.

Game 1 opened at the newly rebuilt Polo Grounds, which had burned down earlier in the year. Chief Bender and Christy Mathewson dueled. Mathewson won 2-1, pitching a six hitter. Bender threw a five hitter with eleven strikeouts.

New York's Rube Marquard and Philadelphia's Eddie Plank dueled in Game 2. With the score tied at 1-1 and two outs in the sixth inning, Frank Baker, the A's third year clean-up batter, hit a two-run homer to win the game 3-1 and tie the Series.

In Game 3, Mathewson held a 1-0 ninth inning lead when Baker hit another home run to tie the game. The A's won 3-2 in the eleven innings.

A weeklong rain delayed Game 4. Mathewson faced Chief Bender and lost 4-2. Philadelphia took a 3-1 game lead.

Philadelphia led 3-1 in the ninth inning of Game 5. But New York tied the game and won 4-3 in the tenth.

The A's dominated Game 6, coasting to a 13-2 victory and a second straight championship.

Frank "Home Run" Baker earned his nickname during this Series. He hit 9 for 24, .375, with two home runs to lead all batters in the 1911 World Series.

The six days of rain between Games 3 and 4 caused the longest delay in Series history until the earthquake-interrupted 1989 Series, which pitted the same teams on the West Coast.

Around the World:

• October 14:
  1. Lê Ðức Thọ, Vietnamese generand politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1990) was born.
  2. John Marshall Harlan, anti-segregation U.S. Supreme Court Justice died at 78
• October 16 - Mexican Revolution: Felix Diaz revolted against Francisco Madero, occupying Veracruz.
• October 18 - Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew China's Qing Dynasty.
• October 20 - Roald Amundsen set out on the race to South Pole.
• October 21 - The "Garden of Allah" play premiered in New York City.
• October 23 - First use of aircraft in war: An Italian pilot took off from Libya to observe Turkish lines during the Turco-Italian War.
• October 24:
  1. Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
  2. Robert Scott's expedition left Cape Evans for South Pole

1911 in Baseball:

• April 14 - A fire of unknown origin burned down the Giants' Polo Grounds stadium.
• July 29 - Red Sox Smoky Joe Wood pitched a 5-0 no-hitter against the Browns.
• August 27 - White Sox hurler Ed Walsh tossed a 5-0 no-hitter against the Red Sox.
• September 12 - Boston Rustlers' Cy Young and Giants' Christy Mathewson faced each other for the only time in a 9-0 Giants victory.
• December 1 - Hall of Fame Dodger manager Walter Alston (d. 1984) was born.