In the fall of 1908 no one could have guessed that the Chicago Cubs a team that had dominated the National league three straight years would for a century be shut out in its efforts to reclaim the world championship. Stars like Frank Chance Ed Reulbach and Three Finger Brown were still in their prime and the Cubs had just emerged the winner in the most remarkable pennant race in history. In the decades since the achievement of the 1908 Cubs has been overshadowed first by the events of the season which included the Merkle Game and a playoff that pitted two all-time great pitchers against each other and more recently by the calendar as the centennial anniversary of the last Cubs championship closed in. This book rescues the 1908 team from its status as footnote to baseball history following one of the all-time great clubs on a thrilling season-long march toward the World Series.