With Johnny Evers already sidelined with a broken leg, Mordecai Brown (the scheduled starting pitcher of Game 2 and the team's best pitcher) got into an auto accident just before the game. He pitched anyway, and lost uncharacteristically 9-3.
The day before Game 3, manager/first baseman Frank Chance got into a fist fight on the streets of Chicago. A heckler was giving him a hard time as he drove by, so Chance stopped the car, jumped out, and attacked the guy. Then in Game 3, Chance became the first person ever ejected from a World Series game when he went crazy arguing a disputed ground rule double.
The A's won the Series in 5 games.
This officially ended the Cubs dynasty. In a five year stretch 1906-1910, they had won four pennants and two World Series.
In the next hundred years they would win only five more pennants, and we're still waiting for another World Series title.
