Baseball time capsule

The Huffington Post ran a story on a recently discovered footage of the Washington Senators and New York Giants in the 1924 World Series. The clip shows little the game has changed, in terms of its broad strokes — including the unexpected image of a player sliding head first into first base. The Senators won the game and series 4-3.

http://media.loc.gov/player/flowplayer.commercial.swf?0.9451623780187219

What is interesting is that the series was played on seven-straight days, starting on Oct. 4 (today’s playoffs have just started) and ending Oct. 10 (the league championships are unlikely to have even started by Oct. 10 this year).

Maybe a Giants-Washington NLCS is in the cards (apologies to St. Louis for the pun). CORRECTION — This is impossible, given that they are playing each other in the LDS.

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet