went 18-8 ... and led the team with four home runs. The Tigers finished their season Oct. 3, but the Red Sox still had five games to play. Even then, the race wasn't quite that close -- the Red Sox would end up playing just 151 games and the Tigers all 154. Anyway, the Sox lost a doubleheader to the Yankees on Oct. 4, and then Dutch Leonard and Ruth clinched the pennant with a doubleheader sweep Oct. 6.

1909 National League

Pirates: 110

Cubs: 104

We didn't exactly have parity in 1909. The Boston Doves (Braves) lost 108 games, and the Cardinals and Dodgers each lost 98. The Cubs actually had a better Pythagorean record than the Pirates -- a projected 109 wins to 105 -- but the Pirates were inLaBahn, Executive Director, George W. Kennedy, District Attorney of Santa Clara County Chair, Appellate Committee and William W. Larsen, Special Assistant District Attorney, Amicus Curiae for Respondents.
Jones & Mayer; Martin J. Mayer, Fullerton, and Michael R. Capizzi, Santa Ana, Amicus Curia, for Respondents.
Thomas W. Hiltachk; Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk, Sacramento, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, Amicus Curiae for Respondents.
YEGAN, J.
Here we conclude that the electorate cannot, by initiative, in a general law county, enact an ordinance prescribing minimum future annual budgets for county public safety agencies. Such an ordinance exceeds the electorate's initiative power and is constitutionally invalid.
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Ventura appeals from a stipulated judgment entered in favor of respondent officials of Ventura County public safety agencies: Gregory Totten, District Attorney of the