We all hear a lot about the infamous Merkle game in 1908, but not quite as much about another incident, the Fred Snodgrass “$30,000 Muff” which occurred during the 1912 World Series between John McGraw's Giants and the Boston Red Sox. Like Merkle in 1908, Snodgrass was considered the “goat” and the newspapers of the time blamed him for the Giants' World Series loss. This unfortunate occurrence also had a “Merkle connection,” as you'll see when you read the story.
The World Series was played in Boston that year. The incident happened in the tenth inning of the eighth and last game of the Series. The score was tied 1-1 after nine innings, but the Giants scored a run in the top of the tenth to take the lead and were three outs away from a World Series Championship. Having lost the World Series in 1911 to the Philadelphia Athletics, they were just about ready to celebrate.
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