Game Six
“One of the fellas called me “Cyclone,” but finally shorted it to “Cy” and it’s been that way ever since.
CY YOUNG SUGGESTIONS THAT THE FIRST GAME OF THE FIRST “World Series” in 1903 might have been fixed weren’t helped when one of Boston’s regulars was approached by an infamous gambler in the lobby of their hotel before the fourth game in Pittsburgh and offered $12,000 if he’d lie down and let the Pirates win. That same player, catcher Lou Criger, had been the most obvious suspect in the Americ...ans’ shameful performance during Game One—he committed two errors in the first inning alone—but this time, either stricken with remorse or insulted by the size of the offer, Criger immediately reported the incident to American League president Ban Johnson. Aware that public opinion already harbored suspicions of monkey business on the part of his league’s best and most representative team, Johnson suppressed information about the offer—it wouldn’t reach print for twenty years—and the Americans still went on to lose Game Four, although not before mounting a spirited and genuine ninth-inning comeback, by a final score of 5–4.MoreLess
CY YOUNG SUGGESTIONS THAT THE FIRST GAME OF THE FIRST “World Series” in 1903 might have been fixed weren’t helped when one of Boston’s regulars was approached by an infamous gambler in the lobby of their hotel before the fourth game in Pittsburgh and offered $12,000 if he’d lie down and let the Pirates win. That same player, catcher Lou Criger, had been the most obvious suspect in the Americ...ans’ shameful performance during Game One—he committed two errors in the first inning alone—but this time, either stricken with remorse or insulted by the size of the offer, Criger immediately reported the incident to American League president Ban Johnson. Aware that public opinion already harbored suspicions of monkey business on the part of his league’s best and most representative team, Johnson suppressed information about the offer—it wouldn’t reach print for twenty years—and the Americans still went on to lose Game Four, although not before mounting a spirited and genuine ninth-inning comeback, by a final score of 5–4.MoreLess
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