Photo Credit: Irwin Cohen
Fred Merkle

Sure enough, both teams had a 98-55 record at the end of the season, forcing a one-game playoff. And all because of Merkle’s Boner.

More than 35,000 poured into the Polo Grounds on October 8, 1908, to see the winner-take-all game and root for the Giants to face the Tigers in the World Series.

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The Cubs bested the Giants and Christy Mathewson 4-2 and went on to beat Detroit in the World Series, four games to one.

Cubs fans feel they’ve waited long enough to celebrate another World Series victory.

Fred Merkle? He had a 16-year career as a big league infielder and his teammates never blamed him. He lived until 1956, passing away in Daytona Beach, Florida, at age 67.

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Irwin Cohen
Author, columnist, Irwin Cohen headed a national baseball publication for five years and interviewed many legends of the game before accepting a front office position with the Detroit Tigers where he became the first orthodox Jew to earn a World Series ring (1984).

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