1908 Nashville vs. New Orleans baseball game

1908 Southern Association championship game January 2025 1908 Nashville–New Orleans Southern Association championship game Nashville Vols vs New Orleans Pelicans 9-19-1908.jpg 300 A panorama of the field that day New Orleans Pelicans 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 Nashville Vols 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 X 1 8 0 1908 09 19 Sulphur Dell Nashville, Tennessee Charlie Frank Bill Bernhard Carpenter Fitzsimmons 10,700 The 1908 Nashville vs. New Orleans baseball game dubbed by Grantland Rice "The Greatest Game Ever Played in Dixie" was a 1–0 pitching duel to decide the Southern Association championship in the dead-ball era, on the last day of the season.https://archive.org/stream/reachofficialame19081phil#page/214/mode/2up The Reach Official American League Base Ball Guide For 1908 A.J. Reach Company 1908 215 The Nashville Vols won the game and thus the pennant by .002 percentage points, after finishing the prior season in last place. Both teams had the same number of losses (56), but the New Orleans Pelicans were in first place with 76 wins to the Vols' second-place 74.Simpson 2007 164 Carl Sitton used his spitball to out-pitch Ted Breitenstein for a complete-game, nine-strikeout, four-hit, shutout.Simpson 2007 172 According to one account, "By one run, by one point, Nashville has won the Southern League pennant, nosing New Orleans out literally by an eyelash. Saturday's game, which was the deciding one, between Nashville and New Orleans was the greatest exhibition of the national game ever seen in the south and the finish in the league race probably sets a record in baseball history".South Sayings Sporting Life 16 October 10, 1908 Hamilton Love Hamilton Love http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1908/VOL_52_NO_05/SL5205016.pdf October 2, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20150213123734/http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1908/VOL_52_NO_05/SL5205016.pdf February 13, 2015 dead Nashville scored in the seventh inning with the bases loaded. With two outs, catcher Ed Hurlburt hit a single. Then Sitton did too. Harry "Deerfoot" Bay bunted perfectly down the third base line, Bay's fondest memory in his long baseball career.Simpson 2013 62 Julius Augustus "Doc" Wiseman then drove in the winning run. Sitton was thrown out at home after Hurlburt scored. The time of the game was one hour and forty-two minutes. Box score auto PelicansABRHPOAERoy Montgomery, RF400100George Rohe, 3B400040Bris Lord, CF400010Bob Tarleton, 1B4021220Charles Dexter, SS301331Joe Rickert, LF301100Gus Dundon, 2B300220Harry Matthews, C300400Ted Breitenstein, P100130 PelicansIPHRBBSOHRTed Breitenstein, L8.081130 VolsABRHPOAEHarry Bay, LF401000Doc Wiseman, RF302100Walter East, 2B401130Pryor McElveen, 3B301310Johnny Siegle, CF400100Jake Daubert, 1B4011010Kid Butler, SS300130Ed Hurlburt, C311900Carl Sitton, P301110 VolsIPHRBBSOHRCarl Sitton, W9.040290 References Bibliography The Greatest Game Ever Played In Dixie John A. Simpson 2007 McFarland 9780786430505 2013 Hub Perdue: Clown Prince of the Mound John A. Simpson McFarland 978-0786472253 Category:Baseball games Nashville vs. New Orleans game Category:Nashville Vols Category:New Orleans Pelicans (baseball) Nashville vs. New Orleans baseball game Nashville vs. New Orleans baseball game Category:Nicknamed sporting events Category:20th century in Nashville, Tennessee Category:Sports competitions in Nashville, Tennessee