Category: This Week in Southern Baseball

Ed. note: to see the previous installment in the 1914 Braves saga, click here Three days after the regular season’s end, the 1914 World Series started on October 9 in Philadelphia. The surprising upstart Braves faced off...

Ed. note: to see the previous installment in the 1914 Braves saga, click here The National League’s regular season after the games on October 6, with the Boston Braves as the unlikely league champions. Starting with games on...

Ed. note: to see the previous installment in the 1914 Braves saga, click here By the morning of Sept.11, Boston had resumed its surge into first place, holding a tenuous 2 ½ game lead over the New York Giants. The standings...

Ed. note: to see the previous installment in the 1914 Braves saga, click here From September 4-10, Boston finally captured sole occupancy of first place in the National League. Here were the standings on the morning of September...

Ed. note: to see the previous installment in the 1914 Braves saga, click here From August 26 through September 3, 1914, Boston essentially matched the New York Giants, as both teams travelled the entire period. The Standings...

Ed. note: to see the previous installment in the 1914 Braves saga, click here On August 5, Boston had moved into the first division of the National League, but still remained 6 1/2 games behind mighty New York. Twenty days...

Ed. note: to see the previous installment in the 1914 Braves saga, click here From July 5 to August 4, the 1914 Boston Braves posted a 21-5 mark, a remarkable .808 winning percentage. But thanks to their poor start, this...

Ed. note: this continues the chronicle of the 1914 season begun in this post and continued in this post. At the end of the day on July 15, the Braves had completed a four-game series in St. Louis, coming away with two wins....

Ed. note: this continues the chronicle of the 1914 season begun in this post. Sunday morning, July 5 found the Braves having lost both ends of a double-header to Brooklyn, extending the losing streak to 5 games. The National...

April 7-12, 1905 Senior A.B. Bradsher of Trinity College (Duke Univ.) struck out 53 batters in 3 games covering 33 innings without recording a victory. Bradsher’s hurling feat started on April 8, 1905 in Macon by striking out 22...