With a population of around 25,000, Altoona, New Jersey, is one of the smallest towns with a pro baseball team. (In fact, it's so small --
ha! -- you actually thought it was in
New Jersey and not
Pennsylvania, didn't you...?!)
Anyway, after keeping Henry Lucas' St. Louis Maroons out of the Cup Final, the Mountain City club went into Chicago and split two games with the Colts; they were shut out, 2-0 in the opener but took a wild, 8-7 win in the second game as Dave Driscoll hit a bases-clearing triple in the eighth. In Game 3, with seemingly the entire town jammed into Altoona's ballpark, Mountain City won, 6-5, thanks to Charles Alcott's go-ahead 2 RBI single in the 8th. But the Colts raced to two wins in Pennsylvania, evening the series with a 5-2 win in Game 4 and a 4-1 victory in the fifth game, behind Chicago hurler Tom Lee's seven-hitter.
Altoona had a difficult mission: they had to win the Windy City...twice. In Game 6, Mountain City trailed, 3-2, after seven, but tied the game on a bobbled ground ball in the eighth then went ahead in the ninth on Nick Scott's RBI single. All even!
In the finale, Altoona's Mike Mansell socked a two-run homer in the opening inning, but Colts pitcher Sam Kimber settled down while his teammates scratched out two runs of their own. In the eighth, Altoona greeted KImber with three straight hits, including a 2 RBI single by Paul Hines to make it, 4-2, Mountain City. That was how it ended, so little Altoona took the Union Cup!
