1906-2006 City Series CENTENNIAL	10 Differences between 1906 and 2006	1906 Chicago's greatest baseball year!
Difference #9	The spitball was legal! Foreign substances could be applied to the ball! Any pitcher with determination and ambition... ... could add to his repertoire of skills by ... learning and mastering the spitball! That's what Ed Walsh did! And look what he did to the Cubs! Two victories in the 1906 World Series!	MORE DIFFERENCES 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10
DID YOU KNOW . . .	As the 1906 season got underway, Walsh had not yet achieved mastery of the spitter. During the first half of the season, he only started about one game a week. In August, the White Sox stormed into first place with a 19-game winning streak! Walsh won 7 of those games, 5 of them shutouts! The spitball twirler had emerged as the ace of the staff!
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