The 1910 season was another exciting one in baseball. Though the National League's race was decided early, the American League put together another interesting pennant race.

St. Louis had a dominating season in the National League, returning to the top after ceding their championship to the Boston Doves in 1909. Not only did the Cards boast the top hitter in all of baseball in outfielder Milt Cumberledge who hit .363, but they also had their top pitcher, Tommy Powell, win pitching's Triple Crown. Powell led the loop in wins with a 28-11 record, in earned run average with a 1.74 mark, and completed the trifecta with a league-best 276 strikeouts. For his career, the 34-year-old Powell finished 1909 with a 196-87 record and a sterling 1.68 ERA. Other standout performances in the Senior Circuit included a .351 average for Cincinnati's Dave Payne, who was on his way to challenging Cumberledge before a devastating knee injury ended his season on August 27, Cumby's Cardinal team mate Ezekial Curl, who hit .337 and Brooklyn's Ed Mays, might have earned the nickname "Home Run" after recording 17 circuit clouts and also tallying 116 RBIs with the former topping both leagues and the latter just one behind Aeolus Giddings of the Boston Red Sox who led the American League.

Speaking of the Boston Red Sox, the defending champions had their hands full down the stretch in a neck-and-neck race for the American League pennant with the Chicago White Sox. In the end, the Chicagoans couldn't quite get there, finishing with 98 victories - one less than the 99 posted by Boston, which gave the Beantowners three straight AL pennants and set up a rematch of the 1908 World Series they lost to the St. Louis Cardinals in a chance for revenge. The Red Sox boasted a deep and talented roster, led by the AL hitting champion, Sean McGonigle (.338) and the aforementioned Aeolus Giddings, the hard-hitting right fielder whose 117 RBIs were the best in either major league and whose .315 average was tied for third on the club with Frank Dorsey (.321) ahead of him and Sam Brodsky tied. The Red Sox pitching was a three-headed attack led by 25-game winner Gus "The Big Horse" Merritt, followed by twin 24-game winners Nate Allen and Dolph Manley. All three right-handers posted ERAs near two runs per game.

Well, there hadn't been this much excitement in Boston since a bunch of feisty fellows got together to dump tea into the harbor: both of the city's baseball club's won their respective league's pennants and met in the first one-city World's Series.

No sleeper cars were necessary for the travel in this series - the Boston Doves won the National League flag on the strength of an outstanding 106-48 record while their American League counterparts, the Red Sox, took home the AL flag with a tidy 93-61 mark. The Doves' incredible season spoiled an otherwise strong showing for the defending World's Series champion St. Louis Cardinals whose 99-55 record might have won a pennant in any year other than this one.

The Hub was buzzing as the two clubs met for the championship of the baseball world. The Doves won the first game 8-3 behind a strong performance from short stop Henry "Tex" Mathews who contributed a four-for-five day at the bat, scoring a pair of runs and driving in three to make a winner of Quinton Holman. In game two, also on the home grounds of the Doves, the visiting Red Sox got a dominating pitching performance from young Jimmy Kilrooney. The 22-year-old allowed just three hits and one run in a 4-1 victory for the visitors. The scene shifted to the Huntington Avenue Grounds for game three and the Red Sox won a 4-3 decision as Frank Dorsey's eighth-inning single chased Sam Nurse (who had stolen second) home with the game's decisive run. In game four, it was the Doves' turn to win a close one as three runs in the seventh made a winner out of Quinton Holman for the second time in a 6-5 victory. The pivotal fifth game at Huntington Avenue Grounds went to the Doves by the lopsided margin of 13-4, putting the National League champs within a victory of the Series title. Game six was a classic pitching duel and was knotted at 1-1 into the 12th inning. The Red Sox plated four runs to go up 5-1, and though the Doves fought back in the bottom half of the inning, they could only muster one run and the Red Sox took the game 5-2 to tie the Series at three games apiece.