Subway Series (continued)

[Greg Pulliam]

The Cubs actually met the White Sox in the World Series in 1906, with
the Sox winning in six games.  I believe it was referred to as the
"Crosstown Series" at the time.

Greg


>Do we need to marvel at these terms? It was called the 'Bay
>Bridge Series" until the Loma Prieta event intervened, and
>ever since as the 'Earthquake Series'. What would we call it
>if the Cubs met Sox in the World Series? Impossible?
>Miraculous?
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <Bapopik at AOL.COM>
>
>>     I checked on the Dow Jones database.  If Roger Kahn
>(today's NEW YORK
>>  TIMES opinion--boy, does this newspaper ever check its facts
>or what)is using
>>  this, he's way off.
>>     From NEWSDAY, 10-14-1999, pg. A36:
>>
>>     According to baseball historians, the term "subway
>series" was used for
>>  the first time in 1941...
>>     Stan Fischler--hockey broadcaster, Brooklyn native and
>author of several
>>  books on the subway system--first saw the term in a 1941
>World Telegram
>>  cartoon by renowned sports cartoonist Willard Mullin, who
>also created the
>>  Brooklyn Bum.
>>