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Originally Posted by rocknfire7
Whoa! Did Bruno Barbella shave his mustache?
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The custom facial hair mod was wreaking havoc with the league file (making it crash), so unfortunately a lot of players got an unwanted trip to the barber's shop.
1894 Season End Update
The 1894 campaign saw two players garner most of the headlines during the regular season as the pennant race was never much in doubt during the summer with the powerful Baltimore Orioles rolling towards a pennant they'd win by an easy eight-game margin.
The first of those two players was a key player of that Orioles club - pitcher Rick Kushner. Kushner, given the opportunity to start nearly every-other-day, racked up a number of starts unseen in recent seasons, making a total of 58 starts for the Orioles. For most of the season, the workload, and Kushner's ability to not only carry it, but be successful with it, had him marching towards a 40-win season. A slump in August doomed the chances of hitting that plateau, but he did manage to finish with 38 victories, twelve more than the next best mark in the league.
The other player story was centered around Philadelphia's Ed Burrell. Nicknamed the "Egyptian" because he hails from Cairo (the one in Illinois, not the one on the Nile), Burrell put on a hitting display all season long and became the first hitter to notch a .400 average since a slew of hitters had taken advantage of rules changes and watered-down pitching to crack .400 back in 1887. There were times when it appeared that Burrell might break the all-time mark of Carpetbagger Jenkins (set in '87 of course), but he ended up with the third-best mark of all-time, finishing with a .419 average.
The pennant race was a runaway for Baltimore. With Kushner's pitching and a lineup deep enough to succeed even after losing several players to devastating injury, the Orioles won the race by a full eight games over the second-place Louisville club with an 86-46 record. In the Temple Cup, the Orioles dispatched the Colonels in five games to put a stamp on one of the most impressive seasons in baseball history.
1894 Season HTML Reports