1907 WORLD SERIES

Chicago Cubs (4) vs Detroit Tigers (0) | Baseball Almanac

The 1907 World Series once again, featured the National's Chicago Cubs going up against the American's Detroit Tigers, who had just edged out the previous year's champion Philadelphia Athletics in a fierce pennant race.

The opening contest rewarded fans on both sides of the field with neither team backing down. After twelve innings, the game was called because of darkness. Tigers 3, Cubs 3. Although Detroit had clearly started Game 1 with more momentum, Chicago showed it's resolve and snatched the victory from the Tiger's grasp. The Cubs seemed inspired by their stunning loss to the underdog White Sox in the last years Series and had obviously learned from their mistakes. It was only the beginning as Manager Hugh Jennings' Tigers would fail to recapture the initial fire and fail to score more than one run in any of the remaining Series games. Chicago's Jack Pfiester dominated Detroit, 3-1, in Game 2 and Ed Reulbach continued the streak beating American League champs, 5-1, the next day.

The Tigers showed some signs of life in Game 4 when they seized a 1-0 lead in the fourth inning as an up-and-coming twenty year-old named Ty Cobb, having just won his first batting championship, slammed a triple and scored on a Claude Rossman single. Unfortunately that was all they could muster and went down to a 6-1 defeat against Orval Overall. Game 5 was Detroit's last chance at turning the series, but Mordecai Brown threw a seven-hitter clinching the 2-0 triumph and a Cubs sweep of the Series. Chicago's boys from the West Side had dominated the entire contest and made amends for the Series loss to their cross town rivals the previous year.

Most fans were not surprised by Chicago's supremacy. The Cubs were quickly becoming baseball's first "dynasty" making their second (soon to be third) post-season championship appearance, getting there by winning one-hundred seven games and finishing seventeen games ahead of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Detroit never had a chance as the Cubs aggressive play on both sides of the plate stole the show. They had outstanding offense from Steinfeldt and Evers, who batted .471 and .350, respectively (with Steinfeldt getting seven hits in the last three games of the Series and Evers getting seven in the first three games). They ran with reckless abandon against the Tigers, stealing seven bases in Game 1 and finishing the Series with eighteen. Most importantly, Chicago's pitching staff held a potentially threatening Tigers line-up to forty-three scoreless innings out of forty-eight and shut down the American League's top hitters of 1907, Cobb and Sam Crawford. Cobb managed only a .200 average in the Series after batting .350 in the regular season; Crawford hit .238 after a .323 season.

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"You can do things my way or you meet me after the game." - Hall of Famer (and manager of the world champion 1907 Chicago Cubs) Frank Chance

1907 World Series

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1906 | Chicago Cubs (4) vs Detroit Tigers (0) | 1908

Game 1 Date | Box 10-08-1907
Location West Side Grounds
Attendance 24,377
Game 2 Date | Box 10-09-1907
Location West Side Grounds
Attendance 21,901
Game 3 Date | Box 10-10-1907
Location West Side Grounds
Attendance 13,114
Game 4 Date | Box 10-11-1907
Location Bennett Park
Attendance 11,306
Game 5 Date | Box 10-12-1907
Location Bennett Park
Attendance 7,370
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Game 1 of the 1907 World Series

Line Score | Game 1

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 R H E
Detroit 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 9 3
Chicago 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 10 5
Bill Donovan
  -
Orval Overall
   Ed Reulbach (10th)
None None

Game 2 of the 1907 World Series

Line Score | Game 2

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Detroit 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 1
Chicago 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 x 3 9 1
George Mullin (L) Jack Pfiester (W)
None None

Game 3 of the 1907 World Series

Line Score | Game 3

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Detroit 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 6 1
Chicago 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 0 x 5 10 1
Ed Siever (L)
  Ed Killian (5th)
Ed Reulbach (W)
  -
None None

Game 4 of the 1907 World Series

1907 WORLD SERIES GAME 4 TICKET

* 1907 World Series Game 4 Ticket

Line Score | Game 4

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Chicago 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 1 6 7 2
Detroit 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 2
Orval Overall (W) Bill Donovan (L)
None None

Game 5 of the 1907 World Series

Line Score | Game 5

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Chicago 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 1
Detroit 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 2
Mordecai Brown (W) George Mullin (L)
None None

1907 World Series

Chicago Cubs

Chicago Cubs 1907 World Series Composite Hitting Statistics

Mordecai Brown
Frank Chance
Johnny Evers
Del Howard
Johnny Kling
Pat Moran
Orval Overall
Jack Pfiester
Ed Reulbach
Frank Schulte
Jimmy Sheckard
Jimmy Slagle
Harry Steinfeldt
Joe Tinker
Heinie Zimmerman
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1b
2b,ss-1
1b-1
c
ph
p
p
p
of
of
of
3b
ss
2b
1
4
5
2
5
1
2
1
2
5
5
5
5
5
1
3
14
20
5
19
0
5
2
5
20
21
22
17
13
1
0
3
7
1
4
0
1
0
1
5
5
6
8
2
0
0
1
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
2
0
2
0
0
0
0
3
0
3
2
4
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
2
0
1
2
2
4
2
1
0
.000
.214
.350
.200
.211
.000
.200
.000
.200
.250
.238
.273
.471
.154
.000
1
3
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
2
1
3
0
0
2
1
2
4
0
1
1
0
2
4
3
2
3
1
0
3
3
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
6
1
1
0

1907 World Series

Detroit Tigers

Detroit Tigers 1907 World Series Composite Hitting Statistics

Jimmy Archer
Ty Cobb
Bill Coughlin
Sam Crawford
Bill Donovan
Davy Jones
Ed Killian
George Mullin
Charley O'Leary
Fred Payne
Claude Rossman
Germany Schaefer
Boss Schmidt
Ed Siever
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of
3b
of
p
of
p
p
ss
c-1
1b
2b
c-3
p
1
5
5
5
2
5
1
2
5
2
5
5
4
1
3
20
20
21
8
17
2
6
17
4
20
21
12
1
0
4
5
5
0
6
1
0
1
1
8
3
2
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
1
1
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
0
0
1
2
0
0
0
.000
.200
.250
.238
.000
.353
.500
.000
.059
.250
.400
.143
.167
.000
0
0
1
0
0
4
0
0
1
0
1
0
2
0
1
3
4
3
3
0
0
1
3
0
0
3
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
3
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
1907 World Series Composite Batting Statistics

1907 World Series

Chicago Cubs

Chicago Cubs 1907 World Series Composite Pitching Statistics

Mordecai Brown
Orval Overall
Jack Pfiester
Ed Reulbach
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
2
1
2
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
9.0
18.0
9.0
12.0
0.00
1.00
1.00
0.75
7
14
9
6
4
11
3
4
0
2
1
1
1
4
1
3

1907 World Series

Detroit Tigers

Detroit Tigers 1907 World Series Composite Pitching Statistics

Bill Donovan
Ed Killian
George Mullin
Ed Siever
0
0
0
0
1
0
2
1
2
1
2
1
2
0
2
1
2
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
21.0
4.0
17.0
4.0
1.71
2.25
2.12
4.50
17
3
16
7
16
1
8
1
4
1
4
2
5
1
6
0
1907 World Series Composite Pitching Statistics
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baseball almanac fast facts

The tie that occurred during Game 1, was the first tie game in World Series history. For a complete list of additional World Series tie games, simply visit the World Series menu.

* The World Series ticket pictured in the Game 4 linescore clearly says Game 1, but it is actually the first game played at the American League venue (Bennett Park).

Ty Cobb was merely twenty years old during this series, but entered this Fall Classic leading the American League in hits, runs batted in, batting average, slugging average and stolen bases.

Frank Chance played first base, stole three bases, batted .214, scored three runs — and simultaneously managed the world champion Chicago Cubs!