And speaking of Civil War, a little later today, I will be going out to Wauconda Illinois for the Civil War Days camp and re-enactment. Looks like a great day for it. I will be at the Sons of Confederate Veterans tent, but will make the rounds of camps and sutlers.
In the first series, the Cubs and Sox each won seven games. The rubber game went unplayed when the player contracts ran out. Figures! They should have played the game anyway. A tie is as bad as an exhibition game.
However, Sox owner Charles Comiskey, though noted for his penny-pinching was so elated that he gave each Sox player a $2,5000 bonus, a huge sum back in those days. His Sox were at least equal to those Cubs.
Embarrassed by the tie, the Cubbies refused to play in 1904. But after that, the two teams usually met in the postseason if one wasn't in the World Series (which actually happened back then).
Sportswriters began calling the games between the two a "Civil War." Tickets were hard to get.
The Chicago Flashback page had a Tribune political cartoon from Oct. 14, 1911 (almost 100 years ago) titles "WAR EXTRA! CUB FORCES ROUTED; RETREAT IN CONFUSION." Then you see the Cubs and their fans running full flight from seven cannons being fired by Little Alexander with the names "Big Ed," "Zeider," "Kreitz," "Callahan" and "Bodie" on the barrels.
More to Come. --DaCoot
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