The 1914 season was the fourth in a row in which a team with Josh Devore in the outfield, went to the World Series.

Josh played as much baseball as possible when not doing chores around the family farm and grocery store in Ohio. Like many boys, he dreamed of a career in pro baseball even though his father actively discouraged it.

When he reached 17 he moved to Seelyville, Indiana with his brother and played on the local semipro leagues. After two weeks of tryouts he played for the Meridian, Mississippi team. His speed on the bases and in the field earned him the nickname the "Seelyville Speed Demon" in 1906. He hit .242 and stole 33 bases.

His 1907 season similar and he grabbed the attention of the New York Giants, who purchased his contract and sent him to the Newark Indians of the Eastern League for most of the 1908 season. There he hit .290, leading the league with 48 stolen bases.

Josh's manager at Newark was George Stallings, who would eventually manage the Boston Braves. The Giants called him up at the end of the season and he got into five games for them in 1908.

While training with the Giants in the spring of 1909, Josh developed appendicitis and was rushed to the hospital. He played in only 22 games that year. Healthy and speedy he returned to the Giants for the 1910 season and played regularly in the outfield, hitting a career-high .304, with 43 stolen bases.

He was the lead-off hitter and was one of several speedsters on the team. becoming influential on the other Giants runners, Fred Snodgrass, Red Murray, Fred Merkle, and Larry Doyle. The Giants stole their way to the 1911 pennant with this quintet of base runners.

Christy Mathewson gave Josh great credit for his own success. But Josh hit only .167 as the Giants lost the World Series in six games to Connie Mack’s Philadelphia A’s. He also went 0-for-3 in stolen-base attempts and struck out eight times.

The Giants repeated as NL champions in 1912 and Josh played both left field and right field, batted .275 with 27 stolen bases.

In a June game, he stole four bases in one inning against the Braves as the Giants defeated them 21-12. Josh singled twice and stole second and third each time. He remained a key member of this Giants club that won its second consecutive pennant.

But this time played a strong Red Sox team. Josh led off and scored the first run of the series in the third inning of Game #1. He singled, went to third on a single by Doyle, and both of them scored on a single by Red Murray. That put the Giants up 2-0 against Smoky Joe Wood, but the New Yorkers couldn’t hold on and lost the game, 4-3.

Josh saved Game #3 at Fenway Park for the Giants with what is considered one of the greatest catches in World Series history. The Giants were leading 2-0, and the Red Sox had runners on second and third with two outs in the bottom of the ninth. Hick Cady came to the plate and hit a hard liner to deep right. The baserunners, Heinie Wagner and Olaf Henriksen took off at the crack of the bat with the tying and winning runs.

Josh started running away from the ball with his back to the plate and he appeared to many observers to have no chance. The Red Sox were already celebrating their win when he caught up to the ball, just barely got his glove on it, tipped the ball in the air, and caught it with his bare hand for the final out. That spectacular play saved the victory and tied the Series.

During the Eighth Game, which the Giants lost due to errors of commission and omission, Josh went 1-for-3, with two walks, scored the first run, and caught several balls in the outfield. He didn’t make any of the key mistakes that lost the game and the World Series to the Red Sox in the bottom of the tenth inning.

Josh started slowly in 1913 but the Giants had another young outfielder named George Burns. In May they sent Josh to the Reds who sold him to the Phillies. He had a productive season despite his travels, and started well for the Phils in part-time duty in 1914.

Braves manager George Stallings, looking for a speedy left-handed-hitting outfielder to platoon in his current lineup, traded infielder Jack Martin to the Phillies for his former Newark Eagles star in July. The Braves were in last place at the time and would move from the basement and win the NL pennant by the end of the season.

Picking him up, would allow Stallings to platoon at all his outfield positions. Josh would hit only .227 during the stretch run, but walked enough for a .327 on-base average in his 51 games.

Josh would get only one at-bat during the Braves’ upset victory over the A’s in the World Series and struck out, in what was to be his last major-league appearance. The Braves would release him after the season.