1894 by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

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New York being then credited with .667, and Baltimore was way up with .692. It was now Baltimore's race, they in the process of winning 24 of their last 25 games from August 24th to September 23rd, and New York was regarded as the winning candidate for second place.

In fact, a week before the finish, on September 30th, the positions of the three leaders were fixtures, the only interest left remaining being the struggle between Philadelphia, Brooklyn and Cleveland for fourth place. The chief interest in the September campaign was the hope on the part of the majority of the patrons of the game that the Beaneaters would rally towards the finish and that the Orioles would fall off during the last

1894