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Another thing to tarnish the Temple Cup was just how little even the teams participating in it respected whoever won. Consider the cover of the Game Four scorecard from the 1895 series between the again first place Orioles and the second place Cleveland Spiders. The Orioles won the regular season title for the second straight year and made it abundantly clear on the scorecard, which declared, "Champions: 1894-95," despite the fact that they would lose both Temple Cup series in those years, winning just a single game.
The Baltimore Orioles appeared in every Temple Cup series, winning the last two and thus coming the closest to gaining permanent possession of the trophy. Having moved over to the