Samuel James Tilden Sheckard was an American left fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Brooklyn Bridegrooms/Superbas, Baltimore Orioles (NL) (1899), Baltimore Orioles (AL) (1902), Chicago Cubs (1906–12), St. Louis Cardinals (1913) and Cincinnati Reds (1913).
Jimmy Sheckard
Sheckard photographed by Charles M. Conlon in 1913
The 1908 World Series was the championship series in Major League Baseball for the 1908 season. The fifth edition of the World Series, it matched the defending National League champion Chicago Cubs against the American League champion Detroit Tigers in a rematch of the 1907 Series. In this first-ever rematch of this young event, the Cubs won in five games for their second straight World Series title.
Game 1 winning pitcher Mordecai Brown
Game 2 winning pitcher Orval Overall
Cubs third baseman Harry Steinfeldt
Cubs second baseman Johnny Evers