The 1918 baseball season was played against the backdrop of the final year of the Great War, with many major-leaguers absent from the game due to military service (former infielder Eddie Grant would become the first big-leaguer to perish in action in October) and the season was scheduled for an early close due to the expiration of the game's "work or fight" waiver. During the shortened regular season, Tris Speaker turned two unassisted double plays in the span of eleven days, the Pirates and Braves battled for twenty scoreless innings, and Walter Johnson completed fifteen extra inning games. In the Fall Classic, the American League Boston Red Sox (75-51) face off (again) against the National League Champion Chicago Cubs (84-45) . . .
1981-82 NHL Co-Op Replay: NYI at PHI (11-15-81)
15 November 1981: The Islanders overcame a misfiring power play (0-for-7 on the evening), and physical play from the Flyers, to score the final four goals of the game and rally to win at The Spectrum. An exceptionally tight-checking opening period (nine TOTAL shots on goal, versus six hits) looked sure to end scoreless before Bob Bourne was sprung free by Gord Lane off a turnover and slid the puck under Pete Peeters with only eight seconds to go in the period. While disappointed, Philadelphia was not dispatched, as Brad Marsh scored only a minute after the restart, and Bill Barber then finished off a sweet LCB combination on the power play less than six minutes later to put the Flyers in front.
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