The 1918 baseball season was played against the backdrop of the final year of the Great War, with many major-leaguers absent from the game due to military service (former infielder Eddie Grant would become the first big-leaguer to perish in action in October) and the season was scheduled for an early close due to the expiration of the game’s “work or fight” waiver. During the shortened regular season, Tris Speaker turned two unassisted double plays in the span of eleven days, the Pirates and Braves battled for twenty scoreless innings, and Walter Johnson completed fifteen extra inning games. In the Fall Classic, the American League Boston Red Sox (75-51) face off (again) against the National League Champion Chicago Cubs (84-45) . . .
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