The only other time the Red Sox and Dodgers franchises faced off in the World Series, things were a little different. The Red Sox opted to play their home games at Braves Field rather than the smaller Fenway to make some extra admission money. The Dodgers were known as the Robins, or sometimes the Superbas. And they played in Brooklyn. The event was lowercase and had an apostrophe: “world’s series.”

The New York Times was a little different too, as you can tell from the colorful (at times purple) prose it once used. Here’s how The Times reported the four-games-to-one Red Sox victory.

Game 1: “Red Sox Defeat Brooklyn, 6 to 5, in Erratic Game”

The lead: “The withered stalk of the baseball season burst with a crash into radiant bloom at Braves Field today. The Superbas, pride of Brooklyn and of the National League, and the carmine-hosed Boston warriors scrambled for the petals of the first blossom.”

Keen analysis: “The workaday laws of mathematics would make 6 to 5 pretty close, whether the enumerated objects were peanuts, subway tickets or runs. As a matter of cold fact, however, the initial contest of the champion teams of the major leagues for world’s honors and worldly wealth was one-sided.”