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games in a season, asserting your dominance of the league, and then being required to play a team, now a number of teams, for the league championship that you already beat? It just didn’t wash at all with the players or fans of 1894. The long, regular season was devalued.
The Giants swept the league's best team and took home the Temple Cup, and the chance to take home 65% of the money made on the series, though they agreed to split it 50/50 with the Orioles regardless. Because in its four year history, the Temple Cup was won by the second place team three times, it seemed to totally undermine the regular season.
Following are some photographs taken during the 1894 tilt.
1894