NEW YORK - 1904. The National League Champion New York Giants line up for a team portrait for stylish Burr-McIntosh magazine. Hall of Fame members Roger Bresnahan, Christy Mathewson, John McGraw, and Joe McGinnity appear in the panoramic. (Photo by Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images)
The Boston Red Sox missed out on a possible World Series championship in 1904 when the New York Giants refused to play them.
The history of the modern World Series has two benchmarks that are both cemented in egos. The cancellation of the 1994 World Series became the victim of a management-labor dispute – a casualty to a lack of common sense and mutual remediation.