Eddie Cicotte

Two balls and one strike.

For the White Sox that year, Urban Faber had 23 wins, Claude Williams had 22 wins, Dickie Kerr had 21 wins, and Ed Cicotte had 20 wins.

Make it 21 wins.

Three balls, one strike, as Seaver misses again.

I talked with, with most of these guys.

Not, obviously not, uh, Eddie Cicotte-

Yeah, yeah

... or Doug Leonard.

Uh, we open up by taking a look at Eight Men Out.

You will see the key pitcher, Ed Cicotte-

Strike

... throwing the ball, and he never really releases the ball.

Okay, great.

Yeah

... on the take.

Rickey Henderson, who hit .400 with eight stolen bases, was named Series MVP.

October 8, 1919, Ed Cicotte pitched Game 7 of the World Series, and the Chicago White Sox played like they meant it.

Joe Jackson and Happy Felsch drove in two runs each for a 4-1 win to cut the Cincinnati Reds' lead of four games to three in the best-of-nine series.

That was October 8th, this day in baseball.

He's pitched only once in the last three weeks.

Vin and Joe will tell you more about the pitchers and some lineup juggling by Oakland in just a few moments.

There is one item we wanna note however, Kirk Gibson is not available to DH tonight.

He simply cannot run.

And I know the Dodger scouts told their players, "Hey, on an overthrow, you keep running because you can get that extra base.

There's a lot of room."

It would seem a little strange that in a ballpark known for the power of the Oakland A's, the pitchers would have the advantage of considerable foul room area.

But there is another area that we should keep an eye on during the course of the regular season from foul pole to the Oakland A's logo, both in right field and in left field.

[laughs]

Think he liked Eddie Cicotte throwing the World Series back in 19-

Probably not

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