1908 Baseball Season Recap The 1908 baseball season was the biggest year for pitching in a decade of pitchers' years.Both leagues batted.239, both record lows.Only one of the 16 major league pitching staffs, the yankees', had an era over 3.00.Seven pitchers threw no hitters and seven of the all time 50 lowest season eras came in 1908. Baseball seasons image gallery Individual milestones included ed walsh's 40 wins(The second greatest total in history)And 464 innings pitched(The most ever);Christy mathewson's 37 wins;Addie joss's 1.16 ERA(Seventh lowest in history);And cy young's 1.26 ERA(The tenth best). This wealth of pitching produced two of the closest, most exciting, and most controversial pennant races of all time.A three team national league race among chicago, pittsburgh, and new york hinged on the still talked about fred merkle blunder, which occurred in a september 23 game between the giants and the cubs. The score was tied 1 1 and the sun was settin ... Read more »