The 1908 Nashville vs. New Orleans baseball game dubbed by Grantland Rice "The Greatest Game Ever Played in Dixie" was a 1–0 pitching duel to decide the Southern Association championship in the dead-b
A panorama of the field that day
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Charles Vedder Sitton, also known as Carl, C. V. and Vet Sitton, was an American baseball player and coach.
1908 Nashville vs. New Orleans baseball game
…last place. Both teams had the same number of losses (56), but the New Orleans Pelicans were in first place with 76 wins to the Vols' second-place 74. Carl Sitton used his spitball to out-pitch Ted Breitenstein for a complete-game, nine-strikeout, four-hit, shutout. According to one account, "By one run, by one…
Sitton at Clemson around 1903
The 1908 Nashville Vols. Sitton is back row, fifth from left.