The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

by Lawrence S. Ritter

Most people think it was Merkle lost the 1908 pennant for the Giants. Well, they’re wrong. It was Harry Coveleski. He was just a rookie, but he beat the Giants three times in the last week of the season. Pitched every other day for a week, and beat them three in a row. That was after the Merkle business and that’s what lost the pennant for McGraw that year.