O_O Down To THE Wire in 1908: ‘Tur OTHER PENNANT RACE ‘The Half-Game Pennants Four Teame Chase Victory in the American League, Charles. Alesande, Jetson, NC: McFaslang 208 ills, 174 pp From Christy Mathewsous Pching i a Pinch and Lawrence Riter® ‘The Glory of Their Tins to Eric Rolfe Greenberg’ novel The Celerant, GH, Flemings The Unforgtable Scasow and Cat Murphy’ Crazy ‘8,2 ‘emake amount of clasc Barba licrture has centered around the 1908 National League pennant race between the Cubs, Giants, and Petes, Bl James observed in his Historical Baseball Abstract that sportswriters in the named aftrmath of 1908 mentioned the American League pennant race in the same breath asthe NTS. Alas that race quickly receded fom semen ‘Cres Alexanders heped 0 remedy thisstustion. The expert biog sapher of Deal Ex cons Ty Cob Joba MeGrae nd Tes Spee hs ‘Simpeted the fst book focused on he AL Bate in 908 between the De cat Tiger, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Nap and St Lon Srv wh the Tigers ning aut Cleveland on he regular season al weekend the rnarin motioned ia the boo te The io cat pean ace ght have licked he fl plato te red Merle incident however, feature one of the quintessential Deed rs games-Cleveands 1-0 rictory over Chicago on Octbet Ed Wala struck outs btrin defo whe lowe Hal of Fame Adie Jos pitched the second psf gue ofthe decade "The oor omiag out s 5 perhaps te odes ound people on Cleveland nt League Park dna everheard? Alesaner writes. local basal coverage of tarn-oshe- century newspapers The ‘nas turned any modera baseball fans onto the Deadball Ea. Alene 20 ae Ball tt Anpaew Miner Saki pots many ford asso om he pan Percheron-drawn wagons to tranape Ewe Perheor apr group of Whi Se unas Chiogo vodhaia Arc, fe far hes re stocky daring which the 15-pound Sulivantoaks Llpeee ween inline ae Sgr pareve ere Ct Beta “he hit dure nt coment ee es © engurilo the sanyo the reve 2000" ie atondone = inf sion habe Wal aes mje ohn a ‘space tothe Brovens starting pitcher, then in the twilight ofhis major ean, {Srea g 3, Waldl som dng the son “henge ore SEs to ie he era Boer Paks eae dh Troms gmetad mang Se exe rings min one oat paee ee icam it « proposed third major league, and somehow finding the tint ‘stike out 16 4s in a midseason game, nesetineto ‘he lf Ga Pont gic a i taioet geass How ean cramp min mebeg up 28t Adie Jo pth ante Raga but elise 28 A osc ti npn bat ope tae ‘Stearn oe ae 0 Thy aes hl ea teen yr Gea ard Fran lil ofthis gme-by game vcounting wh Rost and Bal Retans cm e a ne Alcan: also eeu poss the lng nonin eau gk orn instead of charts, which makes for awkward reading. The text tak marred by « handful of typos, Beso ibe ase, The Ha Gome Pont goes ag towards restr [ng the 1908 American Lego season to igi lc nea Sak ‘ury basal istry the book canon Syitahaliog ft book oan ks the clan 0 Cy Uo Metande conn gets the facts right. Hisnewex book ufetecarooe be nergy of lit eson pennant rece nat young maj lagen Adee Maer assert Andre Stns nara serra ok The Wr Sra ne Ds EA ABR member sine BB eles nbs Maa ‘Base Rall te ee