1924 World Series

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The 1924 World Series was the championship series of the 1924 Major League Baseball season. The 21st edition of the World Series was a best-of-seven playoff matching the American League (AL) champion Washington Senators against the National League (NL) champion New York Giants, with the Senators defeating the Giants in seven games to win their first championship in club history. This was the first major professional sports championship ever won by a Washington, D.C.-based team. The Giants became the first team to play in four consecutive World Series, winning in 1921–1922 and losing in 1923–1924, and their veteran manager, John McGraw, made his ninth and final World Series appearance. The deciding game of the Series was decided in extra innings, the second such occurrence in MLB history (the first had occurred in 1912). Walter Johnson, nearing the end of his playing career at age 36, made his first ever World Series appearance, having completed his first 20-win season since 1919 (with...

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