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That year baseball took a remarkable spurt. Thirteen clubs entered the ohamplonshlp arena. Of these the Quaker city came to the front with three, and St Louis, Just opening her eyes to the beauties of the game, put two Into the field. The series that year consisted of ten games, six to be played as the legal requirement. At the end of the season only seven of of the original 18 would-be champions had fulfilled the conditions. Three of them had fallen by the wayside before the season was half over. For the fourth successive season the Bostons carried off the honors, with a record that beat anything that had ever been done in baseball—out of 79 games they won 71 and lost but eight.

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