On this day in 1908, the Chicago Cubs beat the Detroit Tigers 2-0 in Detroit to win the World Series. It was the second year in a row that the Cubs took the title, the Society for American Baseball Research reports.

Baseball-Reference shows that the Cubs won the series four games to one, and SABR says the deciding game at Bennett Park, the Tigers' home field, drew only 6,210 spectators.

Cubs pitcher Orval Overall was the star. SABR says he threw a complete game and allowed three hits, and in the first inning he struck out four batters because a third strike got away from his catcher, which made him only the second pitcher since 1900 to strike out four in one inning, and the first to do it in the postseason.

The Cubs scored early. SABR says Johnny Evers, Frank Schulte and Frank Chance hit consecutive singles with one out in the top of the first inning, and Evers scored on the hit by Chance, which turned out to be the only run the Cubs needed.

The two clubs were familiar opponents, since SABR notes the Cubs had also defeated the Tigers in the previous year's World Series, while Detroit captured the American League pennant again the following season before losing the series to Pittsburgh.

SABR adds that the Tigers finally beat the Cubs in a World Series in 1935, winning in six games for their first title.

What we know: The Cubs won the 1908 World Series on October 14 with a 2-0 shutout in Detroit.
What we don't: The cited pages do not give the full crowd totals for every game in the series.