Off the Wall won its singer a Billboard Music Award.
The 1909 World Series featured the Pittsburg Pirates and the Detroit Tigers .. Pittsburg Pirates. Pittsburg Pirates. Detroit Tigers. Detroit Tigers. The Pirates won the Series in seven games to capture their first championship of the modern Major League Baseball era and the second championship in the club 's history .. They had won the pennant in 1909 behind the brilliant play of Honus Wagner , who led the league with a .339 batting average and 100 RBI .. Honus Wagner. Honus Wagner. Detroit returned for their third consecutive Fall Classic determined to erase the memories of their previous efforts .. The Tigers were also backed up by the heavy bat of Ty Cobb -LRB- who had just won his third consecutive American League batting title -RRB- and a formidable pitching staff .. Ty Cobb. Ty Cobb. American League. American League. They might have finally won the Series in their third try had it not been for Pirates rookie Babe Adams .. Babe Adams. Babe Adams. Manager Fred Clarke started him , on a hunch , in Game 1 .. Fred Clarke. Fred Clarke. Adams won that game and two more , setting a World Series record for rookies .. The Tigers thus became the first AL team to win three consecutive pennants and the first team to lose three straight World Series -LRB- the New York Giants would lose three straight Series during 1911 -- 1913 -RRB- .. New York Giants. New York Giants ( NL ). The Pirates ran at will against the weak Detroit catching corps , stealing 18 bases in seven games .