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Mordecai Brown
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second iteration of this World Series matchup, the Athletics defeated the Giants, four games to two, capturing their second championship in franchise history, and became the second team to win back to back World Series.
This was the first of four seasons that the Chalmers Award, a precursor to the Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award (introduced in 1931), was given to a player in each league. Ty Cobb who batted .419 won the American League award in a landslide; and Frank (Wildfire) Schulte, another generally overlooked Cub, who batted .300 with 21 home runs and 107 RBI’s