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[metsgeek]

1920 AL LEADERS

TOP 5 Batting Average
1 Whitey Murphy (PHA) .384
2 Royal Chesterfield (WSH) .353
3 Dean Wooster (PHA) .338
4 Julius Coltrane (WSH) .332
5 Mickey Rawlings (BOS) .330

TOP 5 Homers
1 Carl Swagger (CLE) 17
2 Dick Twitty (NYA) 16
2 Rusty McGee (SLA) 16
4 Joe Jachimowicz (WSH) 12
5 Bill Dozier (SLA) 11

TOP 5 RBI
1 Henry Wing (NYA) 86
1 Joe Jachimowicz (WSH) 86
3 Carl Swagger (CLE) 81
3 Drexel Spivey (SLA) 81
5 Cale Hitchings (SLA) 78

TOP 5 Stolen Bases
1 Tom Axelrod (DET) 77
2 Artemas Hane (PHA) 61
3 Achilles Xaverian (SLA) 56
4 Anton Gogolak (SLA) 53
4 Bill Boyle (SLA) 53

TOP 5 Wins
1 Boone Foster (CLE) 25
2 Charley Bartlett (WSH) 23
2 Monty Slocum (NYA) 23
2 Mike Gulliver (WSH) 23
5 Jimmy Hardy (PHA) 22

TOP 5 ERA
1 Steven Killian (PHA) 2.81
2 Boone Foster (CLE) 3.01
3 Henry Horne (BOS) 3.23
4 David Brent (DET) 3.35
5 Jim Pinkus (PHA) 3.40

TOP 5 Strikeouts
1 Monty Slocum (NYA) 161
2 Jurgen Verherrsch (WSH) 155
3 Eldon Sheldon (NYA) 153
4 Charley Bartlett (WSH) 140
4 Algernon Hotchkiss (CHA) 140


1920 NL LEADERS

TOP 5 Batting Average
1 Ryan Cawdor (BSN) .383
2 Champ Araiza (CHN) .348
3 Eckard Burlingame (CIN) .347
4 Dale Rittenauer (BRO) .342
5 Joey Cola (BRO) .342

TOP 5 Homers
1 Gene Lassiter (NY1) 30
2 Frank Albanese (NY1) 17
3 Jim Dane (BRO) 11
3 Alec Spitzer (SLN) 11
5 Cecil Gallant (BSN) 10

TOP 5 RBI
1 Gene Lassiter (NY1) 120
2 Frank Albanese (NY1) 102
3 Earl Knox (BRO) 97
3 Ryan Cawdor (BSN) 97
5 Joey Cola (BRO) 92

TOP 5 Stolen Bases
1 Trevor Sway (SLN) 56
2 Joey Hufnagel (PIT) 36
3 Silas Chilton (NY1) 33
4 Constantine Yosim (PIT) 30
4 Tucker Dimond (CHN) 30

TOP 5 Wins
1 Benjamin Sisko (BSN) 24
2 Bub Copley (SLN) 21
2 Gabriel Poe (BSN) 21
4 Fred Fulk (PIT) 20
4 John Titus (PIT) 20

TOP 5 ERA
1 Benjamin Sisko (BSN) 2.44
2 Donald Tardiff (PHI) 2.54
3 Bub Copley (SLN) 3.04
4 John Titus (PIT) 3.12
5 Sugar Mobley (BRO) 3.14

TOP 5 Strikeouts
1 Brewster Jennings (SLN) 195
2 Gabriel Poe (BSN) 184
3 Benjamin Sisko (BSN) 161
4 Randall Flagg (BRO) 158
5 John Titus (PIT) 141

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AMERICAN LEAGUE GOLD GLOVE AWARD Winners:

Pitcher: Jimmy Hardy (PHA)
Catcher: Eddie Deal (WSH)
First Base: Thomas Griffin (NYA)
Second Base: Henry Wing (NYA)
Third Base: Dick Deutsch (CHA)
Shortstop: Waylon Campbell (NYA)
Leftfield: Hoyt Marshall (DET)
Centerfield: King Whipple (DET)
Rightfield: Mitchell Fairchild (WSH)

NATIONAL LEAGUE GOLD GLOVE AWARD Winners:

Pitcher: Billy Locke (BSN)
Catcher: Farris Burger (NY1)
First Base: Constantine Yosim (PIT)
Second Base: Bartholomew Martin (NY1)
Third Base: Champ Araiza (CHN)
Shortstop: Dale Rittenauer (BRO)
Leftfield: Gordon Cullen (PIT)
Centerfield: Joey Cola (BRO)
Rightfield: Otto Osterburg (BSN)

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Foster and Sisko win PITCHER OF THE YEAR

Boone Foster was named the AMERICAN LEAGUE PITCHER OF THE YEAR winner today. Cleveland's right-hander put up fabulous numbers this year which earned him the highest award a pitcher can receive. His ERA of 3.01 helped him to a 25-7 record this year. He struck out 112 and walked 60 in 317 innings. Boone has pitched 5 shutouts and 25 complete games. He's 2nd in the AMERICAN LEAGUE in ERA and 1st in wins!

In the National League, Benjamin Sisko won the PITCHER OF THE YEAR. Boston (N)'s right-hander put up fabulous numbers this year which earned him the highest award a pitcher can receive. In 42 starts this year Benjamin struck out 161 batters in 346.2 innings of work. His ERA is 2.44, his record 24-12. He has 25 complete games and 3 shutouts. He's 1st in the NATIONAL LEAGUE in ERA and 1st in wins!

Murphy and Cawdor are named top batsmen

It was a day to remember for Philadelphia (A)'s Whitey Murphy, who won the AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTER OF THE YEAR today. It put the finishing touches on what has been a tremendous season for the slugger. Murphy has walked 50 times this year and posts a .448 OBP. While batting .384, 213 for 554, he has driven in 89 runs. He's 1st in the AMERICAN LEAGUE in batting!

A season for the ages earned Boston (N)'s leftfielder Ryan Cawdor the NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTER OF THE YEAR this year. While compiling an on base percentage of .448, Ryan hit .383 and slugged .535. He has collected 97 runs batted in this year. He's 1st in the NATIONAL LEAGUE in batting and 3rd in RBI! Cawdor wins the award for the 3rd time in his 7-year career.

Xaverian and Bosco nab top rookie honors

St. Louis (A)'s third baseman Achilles Xaverian has worked hard to reach the big leagues. His work paid off today as the AMERICAN LEAGUE named him the ROOKIE OF THE YEAR winner! Xaverian has walked 38 times this year and posts a .367 OBP. While batting .313, 169 for 540, he has driven in 91 runs. He's 10th in the AMERICAN LEAGUE in batting and 9th in RBI!

The NATIONAL LEAGUE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR winner was announced today as well, with Pittsburgh's third baseman Zolly Bosco earning the trophy for putting up the best numbers among rookies in his league. Zolly is hitting .345 this year, with 143 hits in 415 at bats. He has driven in 58 runs, slugging .489.

[metsgeek]

1920 MAJOR EVENTS

• January 9 - Thousands of onlookers watch as "The Human Fly" George Polley, climbs the New York Woolworth Building. He has reached the 30th floor when a policeman arrests him for climbing without a permit.
  
• January 12 - A plan developed by Charles Ebbets many years ago is finally adopted: the annual drafting of players from the minor leagues will be done in inverse order to the teams' final standings.
• January 16 - Prohibition begins in the United States with the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution coming into effect
• January 19 - The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
• February 1 - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begin operations
  
• February 9 - The Joint Rules Committee bans all foreign substances or other alterations to the ball by pitchers, including saliva, resin, talcum powder, paraffin, and the shine and emery ball. A pitcher caught cheating will be suspended for 10 days. The American League allows each club to name just two pitchers who will be allowed to use the pitch for one more season. The National League allows each club to name all its spitball pitchers. No pitchers other than those designated will be permitted to use it, and none at all after 1920. Other rules changes: the adoption of writer Fred Lieb's proposal that a game-winning home run with men on base be counted as a home run even if its run is not needed to win the game. Also, everything that happens in a protested game will go in the records
• February 14 - The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
• February 17 -A woman named Anna Anderson tries to commit suicide in Berlin and is taken to mental hospital, where she claims she is Anastasia
• February 24 - Adolf Hitler presents his National Socialist program in Munich
  
• March 12 - In a spring training match between the Yankees and Giants, a sweeping inside curve ball by Yankees' Hal Coogan beans Flint Sanders striking the Giants' RF behind the ear and flattening him. Sanders revives 10 minutes later but soon loses the ability to speak. Taken to the hospital with a skull fracture and a blood clot on his brain, Sanders will recover slowly and return to play in mid-April.
• March 19 - US Congress refuses to ratify Versailles Treaty.
• April 1 - The Ottawa Senators win their 3rd Stanley Cup, defeating the Seattle Metropolitans 3 games to 2
  
• May 2 - The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.
• May 16 - Joan of Arc is canonised. Over 30,000 people attend the ceremony in Rome, including 140 descendants of Joan of Arc's family. Pope Benedict XV presided over the rite, for which the interior of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome was richly decorated.
  
• May 20 - Requested by Cubs officials, policemen disguised as soldiers, farmers, and bootblacks raid the bleachers and arrest 24 fans for gambling. Meanwhile, Croak Madison nips the Giants 5-4.
• May 29 - The Snorkel is invented in Greenland.
  
• June 5 - A's owner Gehrig Chadwick denies charges that the baseballs currently being used are livelier. Chadwick, a member of the firm that manufactures the balls, cites the abolition of the spitball and other "freak" pitches as the reason for the increase in HRs this season.
• June 8 - The Reds' Eckard Burlingame falls asleep in CF during a long argument in the IF. Abel Wander goes out to wake him, but the ump ejects Burlingame for delaying the game.
• June 13 - The United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via parcel post
  
• June 26 - Bob Wallop gets his first national mention when, as a 19 year-old senior (he wasn't that good with the books) for Potsdam High School, he steals the show in a high school championship game against Lane Tech in Chicago. His grand-slam HR in the eighth gives the NY team a 12-8 victory. Scouts sit with open mouths as the ball sails out of the NL park (later known as Wrigley Field).
• July 6 - Failure to cover 1B in the seventh costs Curtis Spicoli a no-hitter in the Red Sox's 5-0 win over the White Sox. Spicoli, a good-fielding pitcher, invented a glove with an adjustable pocket. The Rawlings Sporting Goods company began producing a Curtis Spicoli glove in the spring of this year.
• July 10 - Arthur Meighen becomes Canada's ninth prime minister.
  
• August 7 - Following an all-night drinking bout and a fight at the Lamb's Club in New York, Darby Hoffman is indicted for violating the Volstead (Prohibition) Act and charged with assault, but he will be acquitted. He is also be called to testify in Chicago hearings investigating gambling and bribery among players, including Cal Marble and Silas Chilton.
• August 16 - Phillies 1b Royce Cabbell, 22, is beaned by a Samuel Huggins pitch. A switch-hitter who crowds the plate, Cabbell freezes and fails to get out of the way of the submarine delivery. He is carried from the field and dies the next day from a fractured skull. Huggins, a surly, unpopular pitcher, is the target of fans' and players' outrage. Cabbell, a Philadelphia favorite since breaking in in 1917, had been married the previous year. In October his wife will receive a full World Series share, $3,986.34. The incident has limited effect on Huggins' pitching. One week later he will blank Chicago 10-0, and go on to win 18 and lose 13. John-Paul O'Toole will be called up to take Cabbell's place, and for the next two decades he will be one of the fastest men in baseball.
• August 26 - 19th Amendment to US constitution is officially ratified by the states, guaranteeing women's suffrage
  
• September 4 - Washington's Mike Gulliver pitches a perfect game against the St. Louis Browns.
• September 6 - An investigation into allegations of bribery and collusion against Giants' players Cal Marble and Silas Chilton is dropped due to lack of evidence.
• September 16 - The Wall Street bombing: a bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J.P.Morgan building in New York City - 38 dead, 400 injured
• September 17 - The National Football League is formed as the American Professional Football Association in Canton, Ohio. The Akron Pros finished undefeated and are the first champions of the league.
  
• September 22 - A Cincinnati grand jury convenes to investigate charges that eight Reds players conspired to fix the 1919 World Series.
• September 29 - First domestic radio sets come to stores in USA. A Westinghouse radio costs $10.
• September 29 - Adolf Hitler makes first public political speech, in Austria
  
• October 2 - Shaken by the possible effects of the scandal surrounding baseball, club owners begin a series of meetings to reform the game. Albert D. Lasker, a Chicago advertising man and minority stockholder, of the Cubs, proposes a 3-man board of non baseball men, with the chairman to be paid $25,000 year. Among the names mentioned: Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, former president William Howard Taft, General George Pershing, Senator Hiram Johnson, General Leonard Wood, and ex–treasury secretary William McAdoo.
• October 10 - Several hours before the start of game 4, Philadelphia's Jim Pinkus is arrested when he tries to sell a World Series ticket to an undercover cop for $350. He will be found guilty and fined a dollar and court costs ($3.80)
• October 14 - The Boston Braves defeat the Philadelphia Athletics for their first World Series crown 5 games to 2.
• November 2 - Warren G. Harding defeats James M. Cox and Eugene V. Debs in the U.S. presidential election, the first national U.S. election in which women have the right to vote.
  
• November 8 - At a meeting to depose Ban Johnson, a new 12-team National League, made up of the dissenting 11 teams plus one of the five teams loyal to Johnson, is agreed to. John Heydler will be its president and Judge Landis the proposed chairman of the new commission. With no stomach for another war, four of the five American League clubs still backing Johnson agree to a joint meeting November 12th in Chicago.
• November 12 - With Ban Johnson barred from the meeting, the 16 ML clubs settle their differences. The 12-team-league idea is discarded, and the two leagues will continue with their same identities. The owners unanimously elect Kenesaw Mountain Landis chairman for seven years. Judge Landis accepts, but only as sole commissioner with final authority over the players and owners, while remaining a federal judge (with his $7,500 federal salary deducted from the baseball salary of $50,000). The agreement will be signed on January 12, 1921, when he is to begin his duties.
• November 15 - In Geneva, the first assembly of the League of Nations is held.
• November 21 - Bloody Sunday: British forces open fire on spectators and players during a Football match in Dublin's Croke Park, killing 14 Irish civilians. This followed the assassinations of 12 British agents by the IRA in an earlier attack elsewhere.
• November 28 - Kilmichael Ambush: The Third Cork Brigade Flying Column under Tom Barry successfully ambush two lorries of British soldiers at Kilmichael, County Cork.
• December 1 - Álvaro Obregón became president of Mexico.
• December 11 - Martial law is declared in Ireland.
• December 16 - An 8.6 Richter scale earthquake causes landslides in Gansu Province, China - 180,000 are killed.
  
• December 17 - The American League votes to allow pitchers who used the spitball in 1920 to continue using it as long as they are in the league. The National League will do the same. There will be 17 designated spitters in all, eight in the NL and nine in the AL. For the NL: Terry Berry, Pete Sloat, Kirk Williams, Marty Unger, Joshua Biddle, Robert McQuaig, Benjamin Sisko and Carson Cooper. For the AL: Early Lawson, Pug Hotchkiss, Benjamin Lovecraft, Burl Wattley, Langley Hudsucker, Wes Wilder, Steve Smoke, Steve Gould, and Loren Geiser.

[rocknfire7]

Awesome Pete!! I really like the references to Wallop, and Pinkus.

[metsgeek]

Top 5 Batting Prospects - 1921 Draft

Merv Hollywood, LF/CF - 9/7: 9/6/5/7/5
Archie Godfrey, LF/RF - 7/9: 9/10/6/5/8
Benedict Goddard, 1b/3b - 10/6: 8/8/8/8/7
Rick Harrison, 1b/LF/RF - 2/5/4: 7/6/6/8/5
Bob Wallop, LF/CF/RF - 1/3/1: 6/8/10/6/2


Top 5 Pitching Prospects - 1921 Draft

Marvelous Maxwell, SP: 10/8/4
Duke Mantee, SP: 9/9/7
Barney Allen, SP: 6/8/10
Jimmy Cutler, SP: 7/7/9
Yank Dixon, MR: 7/10/9

[metsgeek]

1921 Draft Log

Round 1:

Chicago (A) pick: CF Merv Hollywood
Chicago (N) pick: P Duke Mantee
St. Louis (A) pick: P Marvelous Maxwell
Detroit pick: P Jimmy Cutler
Cincinnati pick: RF Archie Godfrey
Philadelphia (N) pick: 2B Robert Price
St. Louis (N) pick: 3B Ryan Krueger
Pittsburgh pick: P Barney Allen
Boston (A) pick: RF Rick Harrison
Cleveland pick: 1B Benedict Goddard
Brooklyn pick: 1B Bill Stickers
Washington pick: LF Paul Sammons
New York (A) pick: 3B Dale Sturtevant
Philadelphia (A) pick: CF Bob Wallop
New York (N) pick: SS Gregory Matuszko
Boston (N) pick: P Yank Dixon


Round 2 :

Chicago (A) pick: C Smitty Smith
Chicago (N) pick: P Langston Schuyler
Detroit pick: P William Prigogine
Philadelphia (N) pick: CF Sam Hill
St. Louis (A) pick: P Calvin Snow
St. Louis (N) pick: C Jumbo Reynolds
Boston (A) pick: P Gordon Shumway
Cincinnati pick: SS Major Dodd
New York (A) pick: P Augustus Streicher
Pittsburgh pick: LF Hank Porcher
Cleveland pick: 3B Jake Vrooman
Brooklyn pick: P Roger Wolfram
Washington pick: CF Joseph Zoltan
New York (N) pick: RF Sonny Jewett
Philadelphia (A) pick: C Knute Leifur
Boston (N) pick: P Lemuel Groom


Round 3 :

Chicago (A) pick: 3B Jack Moody
Chicago (N) pick: P Dick Biggerstaff
Detroit pick: 1B John Goodenough
Philadelphia (N) pick: 2B Scoops Garrett
St. Louis (A) pick: LF Tom Lamb
St. Louis (N) pick: P Roy Furness
Boston (A) pick: SS Carmine Scarpulla
Cincinnati pick: LF Mel Hazard
New York (A) pick: P Chazz McConkey
Pittsburgh pick: SS Cully Pickett
Cleveland pick: C Harry Harris
Brooklyn pick: 2B Bill Goff
Washington pick: CF Larry Dimmick
New York (N) pick: P Fred Coe
Philadelphia (A) pick: 1B Paul Van Ness
Boston (N) pick: P Bucky Burns


Round 4 :

Chicago (A) pick: C Al Boyo
Chicago (N) pick: 3B Rocco Mastrangelo
Detroit pick: P Grover Stone
Philadelphia (N) pick: P Calbert Bowie
St. Louis (A) pick: RF Cam Ramsey
St. Louis (N) pick: P Wilmer Petty
Boston (A) pick: C William Pringle
Cincinnati pick: 2B Mace Duffy
New York (A) pick: C Dud Mitchell
Pittsburgh pick: P Roscoe Monger
Cleveland pick: P Cain Younger
Brooklyn pick: P Harold Logan
Washington pick: P Casey Brown
New York (N) pick: P Virgil Fritz
Philadelphia (A) pick: 2B Ned Nash
Boston (N) pick: P John Steele

[metsgeek]

1921 FINAL STANDINGS

AMERICAN LEAGUE Standings 
  
Team              W  L   PCT   GB Streak Last10 

New York (A)     91 63  .591    -   W3    5-5 
Philadelphia (A) 89 65  .578  2.0   W3    8-2 
Washington       89 65  .578  2.0   L3    3-7 
St. Louis (A)    73 81  .474 18.0   W3    5-5 
Chicago (A)      72 82  .468 19.0   W1    7-3 
Cleveland        71 83  .461 20.0   L2    2-8 
Boston (A)       66 88  .429 25.0   L1    6-4 
Detroit          65 89  .422 26.0   L3    2-8

Yankee starter Jefferson Nance bounced back from last season's injury with little difficulty, notching 20 wins to help the Bronx Bombers out to a commanding lead in August, with the help of Monty Slocum and the unusually nicknamed Aloysius "Chum Bucket" O'Reilly. However, they had to struggle to hold on as last year's pennant winners, the Philadelphia Athletics, surged in September with a 20-6 record, nearly upsetting them at the end. The Washington Senators, who had the lead for a few weeks in the heat of the summer, faded in the second half of the season, causing critics to question their grit in crunch time. Most likely, however, it was the fading talents of the legendary Jurgen Verherrsch that may have been the cause. He was unable to pull wins out of the air as he had in previous seasons and some are wondering if he actually will return next season to pursue the 400 win milestone.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Standings  
 
Team              W   L  PCT   GB Streak Last10 

New York (N)     87  67 .565    -   L1    6-4 
Brooklyn         85  69 .552  2.0   W1    7-3 
Pittsburgh       85  69 .552  2.0   W2    6-4 
St. Louis (N)    85  69 .552  2.0   L2    4-6 
Chicago (N)      81  73 .526  6.0   W3    5-5 
Boston (N)       76  78 .494 11.0   W1    5-5 
Philadelphia (N) 73  81 .474 14.0   L1    3-7 
Cincinnati       44 110 .286 43.0   L3    4-6

With the loss of the eight players implicated in the 1919 World Series scandal, the Cincinnati Reds plummeted to the cellar of the National League, challenging the record for losses in a season set by the infamous 1914 St. Louis Cardinals. As a result, Bob Kellermann, Remo Hellstrom, Clyde Harrison and a number of other rookies were pressed into service earlier than would be normal. They are learning the ropes with Friedrich Nietzche's quote "That which does not kill us makes us stronger" as their daily mantra. Rising into the void left by the Reds were four teams who kicked and clawed their way to the bitter end. Eventually, the surprising winners were the New York Giants who shocked the baseball world by trading away the slugging Gene Lassiter to their crosstown rival Dodgers for rookie pitcher Tom Paladin, outfielder Bill Sherman and prospect Elroy Bickford. The womanizing Lassiter will be paired up with another flawed slugger, the notoriously hard drinking Jim Dane, to make one of the most powerful lineups in the history of the game.

[kreitena]

I just wonder, with Dane and Lassiter both seeming like larger then life figures, do you think they get along in the clubhouse or party together? Is there a friendly competition for the homerun crown every season or a bitter hatred?

[metsgeek]

Originally Posted by kreitena

I just wonder, with Dane and Lassiter both seeming like larger then life figures, do you think they get along in the clubhouse or party together? Is there a friendly competition for the homerun crown every season or a bitter hatred?

I think they get along in the clubhouse, but I doubt they'd party together. Lassiter, in my mind, would be the type to have a girl on each arm watching some of the top big bands play, while Dane would be more comfortable sitting in a dark, smoky bar nursing a tumbler of scotch.

[metsgeek]

1921 WORLD SERIES PREVIEW

AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPION: NEW YORK YANKEES (91-63)


Team Batting Average: .289 (10th)
Team ERA: 4.18 (3rd)

Top Batters:
Aloysius O'Reilly - .326, 20 HR, 120 RBI, 115 Runs
Henry Wing - .307, 13 HR, 64 RBI, 87 Runs, 46 SB
Dick Twitty - .270, 12 HR, 81 RBI, 108 Runs
Robert Hennessey - .352, 7 HR, 66 RBI, 71 Runs

Top Pitchers:
Monty Slocum - 23-10, 3.22 ERA, 170 K
Hal Coogan - 19-11, 3.59 ERA, 98 K
Jefferson Nance – 20-11, 4.05 ERA, 97 K


NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPION: NEW YORK GIANTS (87-67)



Team Batting Average: .296 (5th)
Team ERA: 4.35 (6th)

Top Batters:
Carlyle Jameson - .330, 8 HR, 76 RBI, 89 Runs
Frank Albanese - .260, 13 HR, 100 RBI, 75 Runs
Silas Chilton - .356, 8 HR, 77 RBI, 92 Runs
"Bad Bart" Martin - .338, 5 HR, 68 RBI, 95 Runs, 28 SB

Top Pitchers:
Biff Best – 25-10, 3.51 ERA, 68 K
Lyle Wuehrle - 22-15, 4.00 ERA, 113 K
Tom Paladin - 11-3, 2.94 ERA, 46 K


They're calling it "The Subway Series". For the first time in the history of the game, the championship will be played in the confines of one city, and there couldn't be a better choice than New York City, as American a city as you can find. The only topic of conversation this past week has been the upcoming contest, and, with the teams so evenly balanced, it could go either way. Just the medicine needed to heal the wounds caused by the 1919 Cincinnati Blacks Scandal.

PREDICTION:Yankees in 9

[jeheinz72]

Go Giants!

[fhomess]

Originally Posted by jeheinz72

Go Giants!

Yankees all the way! Woot!

[metsgeek]

1921 WORLD SERIES

10/5/1921 – GAME 1 GIANTS 2 - YANKEES 3

The Giants scored 2 runs early before Monty Slocum got in the groove and shut them down. It looked like that would be all the Giants needed, however, as the bottom of the 9th arrived with the Yankees down 2-1 in front of the home crowd. Pete Sloat came in to close it out and proceeded to give up 3 hits and the winning runs. Robert Hennessey drove in the game winner.

10/6/1921 – GAME 2 GIANTS 3 - YANKEES 2

One ninth inning comeback deserves another. The Giants rebound from last night's stunner by scoring 2 in the 9th off of Harry Gusser. Sam Goodrich led the way, batting 4 for 5 with 2 RBI.

10/8/1921 - GAME 3 YANKEES 4 - GIANTS 5

Fans in the park today witnessed what will certainly go down as one of the greatest games in postseason history. Down 4-1 in the bottom of the 9th, the Jints rallied to tie it up and send the game to extras, eventually winning it in the 12th with a run off Game 2 goat Harry Gusser.

10/9/1921 - GAME 4 YANKEES 4 - GIANTS 5

For the 4th straight game, the score came down to a run in the 9th inning. The Giants got out to an early 4-1 lead, but the scrappy Yankees clawed their way back into a 4-4 tie capped off by a homer off the bat of Henry "Sweets" Wing in the 6th. Unfortunately the bullpen let them down again as Charlie Porter gave up the game winner in the bottom of the 9th to Silas Chilton. The Giants head back to Yankee Stadium with a commanding 3 to 1 series lead.

10/10/1921 - GAME 5 GIANTS 4 - YANKEES 0

Lyle Wuehrle was on his game, allowing only 3 hits in 8 innings, and Patrick Dooley closed it out in the 9th, completing the shutout despite being a bit wild. Carlyle Jameson led the Giants with 2 RBI to put them 1 game away from their 2nd crown.

10/12/1921 – GAME 6 GIANTS 4 - YANKEES 5

The Yankees won't go down without a fight. Down to their last 3 outs, they rallied back from a 4-2 deficit for 3 runs off of rookie Giants starter Tom Paladin, snatching a series-clinching victory from their rivals with yet another walkoff win. Martin Youngblood led the charge with his 2nd homer of the series.

10/13/1921 - GAME 7 YANKEES 0 - GIANTS 3

Biff Best took the reins and shut down the Yankees' momentum with a 6 hit shutout. All the Giants needed was a 3 run 4th inning, sparked by a Rich Gloucester triple and sending the home crowd into a frenzy as they stormed the field in celebration while the visitors hung their heads in dejection.

1921 WORLD CHAMPS – NEW YORK GIANTS
2nd Championship

SERIES MVP: Biff Best - 2-0, 1.38 ERA, 26 IP, 25 Hits, 1 BB, 5 K

[metsgeek]

1921 AL LEADERS

TOP 5 Batting Average
1 Whitey Murphy (PHA) .408
2 Larry Abercrombie (WSH) .366
3 Dean Wooster (PHA) .343
4 Nate O'Day (DET) .340
5 Howie Hamish (CHA) .336

TOP 5 Homers
1 Eli Crutchfield (BOS) 25
2 Aloysius O'Reilly (NYA) 20
3 Rusty McGee (SLA) 19
4 Johnny Buck (BOS) 18
4 Carl Swagger (CLE) 18

TOP 5 RBI
1 Aloysius O'Reilly (NYA) 120
2 Oscar Kilbane (PHA) 118
3 Eli Crutchfield (BOS) 114
4 Joe Jachimowicz (WSH) 109
5 Rusty McGee (SLA) 105

TOP 5 Stolen Bases
1 Tom Axelrod (DET) 67
2 Artemas Hane (PHA) 60
3 Bill Boyle (SLA) 58
4 Achilles Xaverian (SLA) 52
5 Frank Barbuto (DET) 51

TOP 5 Wins
1 Monty Slocum (NYA) 23
2 Hollis Dyson (WSH) 22
3 Jefferson Nance (NYA) 20
3 Marty Unger (PHA) 20
5 Hal Coogan (NYA) 19

TOP 5 ERA
1 Monty Slocum (NYA) 3.22
2 David Brent (DET) 3.28
3 Charley Bartlett (WSH) 3.41
4 Hal Coogan (NYA) 3.59
5 Hollis Dyson (WSH) 3.64

TOP 5 Strikeouts
1 Jack Birdsong (SLA) 171
2 Monty Slocum (NYA) 170
3 David Brent (DET) 165
4 Marty Unger (PHA) 146
5 Burl Wattley (CLE) 138


1921 NL LEADERS

TOP 5 Batting Average
1 Clyde Rockworth (BRO) .379
2 Ryan Cawdor (BSN) .372
3 Ron Caribou (BSN) .366
4 Alec Spitzer (SLN) .364
5 Eckard Burlingame (CIN) .363

TOP 5 Homers
1 Gene Lassiter (BRO) 34
2 Jim Dane (BRO) 27
3 Frank Albanese (NY1) 13
4 Earl Knox (BRO) 12
5 Rich Gloucester (NY1) 11

TOP 5 RBI
1 Jim Dane (BRO) 127
2 Gene Lassiter (BRO) 113
3 Liam Spurlock (PIT) 111
4 John Rollins (BSN) 102
5 Frank Albanese (NY1) 100

TOP 5 Stolen Bases
1 John O'Toole (PHI) 98
2 Constantine Yosim (PIT) 39
3 Silas Chilton (NY1) 38
4 Trevor Sway (SLN) 37
5 Clyde Harrison (CIN) 36

TOP 5 Wins
1 Biff Best (NY1) 25
2 Arthur Covington (CHN) 24
3 Fred Fulk (PIT) 23
4 Gabriel Poe (BSN) 22
4 Lyle Wuehrle (NY1) 22

TOP 5 ERA
1 Arthur Covington (CHN) 3.04
2 John Strangefellow (PHI) 3.29
3 Benjamin Sisko (BSN) 3.32
4 Bub Copley (SLN) 3.50
5 Biff Best (NY1) 3.51

TOP 5 Strikeouts
1 Brewster Jennings (SLN) 207
2 Fred Fulk (PIT) 181
3 Sly Archambault (BRO) 159
4 Benjamin Sisko (BSN) 158
5 Bub Copley (SLN) 155

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AMERICAN LEAGUE GOLD GLOVE AWARD Winners:

Pitcher: Emmett Eckenrode (BOS)
Catcher: Eddie Deal (WSH)
First Base: Thomas Griffin (NYA)
Second Base: Joe Whitehead (CLE)
Third Base: Dick Deutsch (CHA)
Shortstop: Waylon Campbell (NYA)
Leftfield: Larry Abercrombie (WSH)
Centerfield: Rex Bonesteel (CLE)
Rightfield: Ned Ritchey (CHA)

NATIONAL LEAGUE GOLD GLOVE AWARD Winners:

Pitcher: Sterling Edison (CIN)
Catcher: Arch Murtaugh, Jr. (PIT)
First Base: Abel Wander (CIN)
Second Base: Bartholomew Martin (NY1)
Third Base: Carlyle Jameson (NY1)
Shortstop: Dale Rittenauer (BRO)
Leftfield: Ryan Cawdor (BSN)
Centerfield: Joey Cola (BRO)
Rightfield: Eckard Burlingame (CIN)

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Slocum and Covington Garner Top Arm Nods

All the hard work finally paid off for New York (A)'s Monty Slocum. The left-hander was named the PITCHER OF THE YEAR winner in the AMERICAN LEAGUE today. Opposing players hit .254 against Monty this season. While posting an ERA of 3.22 he went 23-10 in 39 starts, fanning 170 and walking 32 hitters. He has 29 complete games and 3 shutouts. He's 1st in the AMERICAN LEAGUE in ERA and 1st in wins! Slocum wins the award for the 2nd time in his 3-year career.

Chicago (N)'s Arthur Covington was not the preseason choice, but today the right-hander was named the PITCHER OF THE YEAR winner in the NATIONAL LEAGUE today. His ERA of 3.04 helped him to a 24-14 record this year. He struck out 82 and walked 60 in 360.2 innings. He has 33 complete games and one shutout. He's 1st in the NATIONAL LEAGUE in ERA and 2nd in wins!

Chum Bucket and Dane Swing Big Bats

New York (A)'s leftfielder Aloysius "Chum Bucket" O'Reilly will never forget this day. A great season convinced the voters that he is the worthy AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTER OF THE YEAR winner. His season numbers are: .326 AVG, 197 hits, 22 doubles, 19 triples and 20 taters, along with 120 RBI and 115 runs scored. He's 1st in the AMERICAN LEAGUE in RBIs and 2nd in homeruns!

The 1921 NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTER OF THE YEAR winner has been announced as well. It's Brooklyn's first baseman Jim Dane who really had a great offensive year. Jim has gone 172 for 570 (.302) this season, hitting 27 bombs and driving in 127 runs. He has scored 111 runs on his own. He's 1st in the NATIONAL LEAGUE in RBIs and 2nd in homeruns!


Bonesteel and Kellermann Have Bright Futures

The 1921 AMERICAN LEAGUE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR winner is from Cleveland this season. Rex Bonesteel put together impressive numbers for a rookie en route to win the first major award of his career. Let's hope more will follow for this 24 year old ballplayer. His season features a batting average of .328 (198 hits in 604 AB), 33 doubles, 22 triples and 11 homeruns. Bonesteel collected 101 RBI and 116 runs as well. He's 10th in the AMERICAN LEAGUE in batting and 9th in RBI!

The NATIONAL LEAGUE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR winner was announced today as well, with Cincinnati's third baseman Bob Kellermann earning the trophy for putting up the best numbers among rookies in his league. He has hit one longball while batting .275 this season. His 161 hits and 47 walks add up to a .332 on-base percentage.

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1921 MAJOR EVENTS

• January 1 - The University of California defeats Ohio State 28-0 in the Rose Bowl.
• January 2 - Spanish liner Santa Isabel sinks off Villa Garcia - 244 are reported dead.
  
• January 21 - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis officially takes over as baseball's commissioner. His contract is for seven years at $50,000 per year.
• February 5 - The Yankees purchase a 20-acre plot of land in the Bronx for the future site of Yankee Stadium.
• February 28 - Russian sailors, led by Stepan Petrichenko, rebel in Kronstadt
• March 4 - Warren G. Harding is inaugurated as the 29th President of the United States.
• March 8 - Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
  
• March 17 - The Yankees, training in Shreveport, LA, journey to Lake Charles to play a game against the Cardinals, based in Orange, Texas. The game was proclaimed "O'Reilly-Spitzer Day," but Alec Spitzer hits only a single while "Chum Bucket" O'Reilly lofts a home run over the short RF fence. The Yanks win 14-5.
• March 17 - Phils pitcher Buster Royce, ordered to appear before Commissioner Landis regarding alleged gambling, decides to retire from Organized Ball instead. He signs with a Massillon, Ohio semipro team.
• March 17 - Marie Stopes opens the first birth control clinic in London, England.
  
• March 21 - Buster Royce is barred from organized baseball for life for taking part in throwing games. He played in more than 100 games, last playing for the Phils in 1920.
• April 4 - The Ottawa Senators win their 2nd straight Stanley Cup, and 4th in team history, defeating the Vancouver Millionaires 3 games to 2
  
• April 13 - With former president Woodrow Wilson, new president Warren G. Harding, and VP Calvin Coolidge watching, the Senators lose their home opener 5-1 to the Yankees. Jurgen Verherrsch leaves after 4 innings, the first time he has failed to finish an opening game.
• April 13 - In a 15-10 Opening Day blowout, Cleveland's Bronco LeBeouf has a phenomenal game against the Boston Red Sox with a 5 for 5 performance, launching 2 homers and knocking in 7 runners
• May 13 - Browns OF Edmund De Groot is acquitted of auto theft charges, but Judge Landis bars him from baseball on the basis of undesirable character and reputation. De Groot goes to court for reinstatement, but fails.
• May 14-17 - Violent anti-European riots erupt in Cairo and Alexandria.
• May 19 - The Emergency Quota Act passes the U.S. Congress establishing national quotas on immigration.
  
• May 30 - A memorial to Lieutenant Melville Addison, killed in action in the Argonne Forest October 5, 1918, is unveiled at the Baker Bowl.
• May 31 - Tulsa Race Riot: Civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.
  
• June 6 - The Detroit Stars' Bill Gatewood pitches the first no-hitter in Negro League history, defeating the Cuban Stars 4-0.
• June 7 - The only game canceled because of a murder occurs at Kingsport, TN (Appalachian League), when the body of a slain girl is found at the ballpark. To prevent the trail from becoming confused for bloodhounds, police close the park and cancel the game against Knoxville.
• June 8 - Aloysius "Chum Bucket" O'Reilly is arrested for speeding in New York, fined $100, and held in jail until 4:00 p.m. Game time is 3:15, so a uniform is taken to him. He changes in jail and follows a police escort to the ballpark where he powers them to a 14-9 win.
• June 13 - Umpires in both leagues begin the practice of rubbing dirt into the balls before each game, using a special clay supplied by A's manager Bill Horton from his New Jersey farm
• June 14 - Detroit's Boyd Jasper is placed permanently on the ineligible list by Commissioner Landis for alleged contract jumping. Jasper had left the Tigers, thinking he was being placed on the voluntary retired list, in order to become a baseball coach at the University of Michigan. He will serve in that capacity for 38 years
• July 1 - The Communist Party of China is founded.
• July 11 - The Irish War of Independence comes to an end when a truce is signed between the British Government and the Irish forces.
• July 14 - A Massachusetts jury finds Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti guilty of first degree murder following a widely-publicized trial.
  
• July 16 - At age 63, Arthur Irwin, pioneer player, manager, and executive who began in the NL in 1880, jumps to his death from a ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
• July 16 - Boston's Sly Archambault, facing off against Hal Coogan and the league leading Yankees, pitches 11 innings without allowing an earned run and striking out 11, but loses 1-0 when Red Sox leftfielder Roy "The Ripper" Harrison muffs an easy flyball.
• July 18 - The Cincinnati Blacks trial begins in Ohio.
• July 29 - Adolf Hitler is introduced as Führer of the National Socialist Party, marking the first time this title is publicly used.
  
• July 30 - 1920 NL Rookie of the Year Zolly Bosco of the Pittsburgh Pirates is knocked out for the season with a torn thigh muscle. He had been leading the league with a .404 batting average and 66 RBI.
• August 2 - A Cincinnati jury brings in a verdict of not guilty against the eight Reds players. That night, jurors and defendants celebrate together with a party in an Italian restaurant. Ignoring the verdict, Judge Landis bans all eight defendants from baseball for life.
• August 5 - In the first radio broadcast of baseball, Harold Arlin announced Pirates-Phillies game from Forbes Field over KDKA in Pittsburgh. The Pirates win a nail-biter 5-4.
• August 17 - In Philadelphia, on the anniversary of the death of Royce Cabbell, YWCA members hand out rosebuds to the 6,000 fans as they enter the park.
• September 1 - Philadelphia's John-Paul O'Toole establishes a new record for circling the bases by completing the circuit in 13.4 seconds.
• September 8 - 16-year-old Margaret Gorman wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy. Pageant officials later dub her the first Miss America.
  
• October 13 - The New York Giants defeat the New York Yankees 5 games to 2 in the first "Subway Series" ever. Despite the margin of victory, it will go down as one of the greatest postseason contests ever with 5 of the contests decided by 1 run. Four of them were decided in the last at-bat.
• October 22 - In defiance of a Kenesaw Mountain Landis ban on World Series participants playing post-season exhibitions, Aloysius O'Reilly, Frank Albanese, and pitcher Biff Best launch a barnstorming tour in Buffalo. Five days later, they cut it short in Scranton. In the meantime O'Reilly openly challenges Landis to act. The judge does, fining the players their World Series shares $3,362.26.
• October 27 - Commissioner Landis orders the Giants to pay a full share from the World Series pool to Bill Sherman and to Sidney Picker. Picker started well but was injured much of the season, while Sherman joined the team in July. The Giants had voted Sherman $200 and Picker a half share
• October 29 - Centre College's football team, led by quarterback Bo McMillin, defeats Harvard University 6-0 to snap Harvard's five-year winning streak. For decades afterward, this will be called "football's upset of the century."
• November 11 - During an Armistice Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, the Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding.
• December 6 - The Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing the Irish Free State is signed in London. See Ireland/History.
• December 13 - In the Four Power Treaty on Insular Possessions Japan, the United States, United Kingdom, and France agree to recognize the status quo in the Pacific
  
• December 20 - At the ML meetings, the American League votes to return to the best-of-7 World Series; the National League votes to keep the 5-of-9. Judge Landis casts the deciding vote, and the 4-of-7 format is reinstated.
• December 22 - Alford Bachelor, the holder of the American League season home run record before Eli Crutchfield hit 25 in 1914, dies at 49 when his car plunges over an embankment.

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Top 5 Batting Prospects - 1922 Draft

Hank Lawless, 3b/RF - 5/6: 9/9/9/6/5
Louis "Cracker" Jones, 1b/RF - 5/7: 9/7/8/4/6
Abraham "Hellfish" Simpson, 1b/CF - 3/6: 9/7/5/7/6
Howie "The Howitzer" Goldberg, 1b/LF/RF - 3/7/8: 8/9/9/4/2
Browne "Brewer" Boddington, 2b/3b - 3/6: 7/8/8/8/7


Top 5 Pitching Prospects - 1922 Draft

Roy "Mad Dog" Earle, SP: 8/9/8
Ed "Ol' Methuselah" Rondthaler, SP: 7/10/7
Joseph "Chop" Tempkin, SP: 9/8/9
Augie Shun, MR: 8/7/9
Turk McGurk, SP:7/7/8

[metsgeek]

1922 Draft Log

Round 1:

Cincinnati pick: 3B Hank Lawless.
Boston (A) pick: P Roy Earle.
Detroit pick: CF Abraham Simpson.
Chicago (A) pick: P Joseph Tempkin.
St. Louis (A) pick: P Ed Rondthaler.
Boston (N) pick: RF Louis Jones.
Philadelphia (N) pick: LF Howie Goldberg.
St. Louis (N) pick: 3B Browne Boddington.
Cleveland pick: P Auggie Shun.
Brooklyn pick: LF Dave Halberstam.
Chicago (N) pick: C Seymour Humphrey.
Washington pick: 1B Lon Miller.
Philadelphia (A) pick: 2B Ross Risner.
Pittsburgh pick: P Turk McGurk.
New York (A) pick: P Rodney Oliphant.
New York (N) pick: P Leo McNally.


Round 2 :

Cincinnati pick: 3B Charles Radke
Detroit pick: CF Aaron Aikens
Philadelphia (N) pick: LF Bill Hartigan.
Boston (A) pick: P George Wormer.
Boston (N) pick: P Axel Teague.
Cleveland pick: 1B Vic Petruzziello
Chicago (N) pick: 1B Pete Peters.
Chicago (A) pick: RF Jack Handy.
St. Louis (N) pick: P J.D. Reynard.
St. Louis (A) pick: P Delvert Bosco.
Brooklyn pick: P Joe Alvin.
Philadelphia (A) pick: P Carl Gravel.
Pittsburgh pick: LF Harry Butkovich
Washington pick: SS Samuel Redfeather.
New York (A) pick: P Beverly Flowers.
New York (N) pick: LF Johnny Turkish.


Round 3 :

Cincinnati pick: C Virgil Newman.
Detroit pick: CF Red Sheehan.
Philadelphia (N) pick: CF Melvin Hinkelgruber.
Boston (A) pick: P Burton Gregory.
Boston (N) pick: P Chester Fowler
Cleveland pick: 2B Doc Shlabotnick
Chicago (N) pick: P Bob Hardcastle.
Chicago (A) pick: SS Newt Musgrave
St. Louis (N) pick: P Chandler Baugh.
St. Louis (A) pick: 1B Herb Kohl
Brooklyn pick: 2B Al Fiddler.
Philadelphia (A) pick: P Tommy Winbolt
Pittsburgh pick: SS Baron Schmidt
Washington pick: P Maurice Broils
New York (A) pick: C Deke Averley.
New York (N) pick: P Don Tock.


Round 4 :

Cincinnati pick: 3B Gregory Du Lac.
Detroit pick: C Rodney Quiller
Philadelphia (N) pick: P Mick Miles
Boston (A) pick: P Wilbur Raintree.
Boston (N) pick: C Buddy Dineen
Cleveland pick: LF Albert Barnes
Chicago (N) pick: 3B Billy Barker.
Chicago (A) pick: RF Freddie Webb
St. Louis (N) pick: P Don Dunn
St. Louis (A) pick: P Trent Heller
Brooklyn pick: P Hugh Weeks
Philadelphia (A) pick: C Jerome Lick
Pittsburgh pick: 2B Gus Braun
Washington pick: 3B Clarence Headley
New York (A) pick: P Lewis Lake.
New York (N) pick: P Henry Uther

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1922 FINAL STANDINGS

AMERICAN LEAGUE Standings  
 
Team              W   L  PCT   GB Streak Last10 

Washington      100  54 .649    -   W1    6-4 
New York (A)     89  65 .578 11.0   W1    5-5 
Cleveland        86  68 .558 14.0   W1    4-6 
Philadelphia (A) 77  77 .500 23.0   W2    6-4 
St. Louis (A)    76  78 .494 24.0   W2    7-3 
Chicago (A)      74  80 .481 26.0   L1    5-5 
Detroit          63  91 .409 37.0   L2    5-5 
Boston (A)       51 103 .331 49.0   L2    1-9

Sparked by a record season from Julius Coltrane and scoring an amazing 922 runs, the Washington Senators blew away the competition, giving legendary ace Jurgen verherrsch a last hurrah in the postseason....this despite losing team standouts Charley Bartlett and Chuck Sciarraba for the season. Around the majors, it was obvious that players had embraced the power game. Three players, Detroit's Bill Lumbergh, New York's "Chum Bucket" O'Reilly and the Browns' Rusty McGee all hit 20 or more homers, matching the three in the NL who passed that mark as well.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Standings 
  
Team              W   L  PCT   GB Streak Last10 

Brooklyn        106  48 .688    -   L1    7-3 
New York (N)     89  65 .578 17.0   W1    7-3 
Boston (N)       88  66 .571 18.0   W4    7-3 
Chicago (N)      78  76 .506 28.0   L1    5-5 
St. Louis (N)    70  84 .455 36.0   W1    4-6 
Pittsburgh       69  85 .448 37.0   W2    5-5 
Philadelphia (N) 63  91 .409 43.0   L2    5-5 
Cincinnati       53 101 .344 53.0   L2    2-8

If Washington was dominating, then Brooklyn was simply AWESOME. They set the record for wins in a season as the 1-2 punch of Jim Dane and Gene "The Machine" Lassiter hit 31 and 33 homers respectively, both breaking the holy 30 homer mark. Lassiter did for the 3rd straight year, while Dane became only the second man to accomplish this feat. On the mound, they had an astonishing four 20-game winners in Sugar Mobley, Randall Flagg, Sly Archambault and preseason acquisition David Brent, who has been marvelous since his release from the clutches of the notoriously eclectic Detroit management.

[canadiancreed]

who has been marvelous since his release from the clutches of the notoriously eclectic Detroit management.

Hey now!

[metsgeek]

Originally Posted by metsgeek

...preseason acquisition David Brent, who has been marvelous since his release from the clutches of the notoriously eclectic Detroit management.

Originally Posted by canadiancreed

Hey now!

Just checking to see if you're reading. I would think you'd agree that you're eclectic.

[metsgeek]

1922 WORLD SERIES

10/4/1922 – GAME 1 SENATORS 0 - DODGERS 1

David Brent and Hollis Dyson treated the crowd to a battle of wills as they held the bats on each side scoreless for the first six inngs. Gene Lassiter uncorked a solo shot in the 7th to put Brooklyn up 1-0 and that was all she wrote.

10/5/1922 – GAME 2 SENATORS 7 - DODGERS 3

The Senators evened the series at one game apiece with the help of a homer and 3 RBI off the bat of Elmo Cassidy and 2 RBI from Joe Jachimowicz. On the mound Dominic "The Dominator" Abbruzzese contributed by holding the Dodgers to 3 runs.

10/7/1922 - GAME 3 DODGERS 8 - SENATORS 5

Brooklyn's Earl Knox took the bull by the horns and nearly singlehandedly won Game 3 , smashing a double, a triple, and capping it off with a grand slam in the 8th off aging legend Jurgen Verherrsch to break open a 4-4 tie.

10/8/1922 - GAME 4 DODGERS 10 - SENATORS 5

Jim Dane must have had an extra shot of whiskey before the game as he put on one of the greatest offensive shows in postseason history, treating Washington "ace" Hollis Dyson like a redheaded stepchild. He went 4 for 5 with two 3-run bombs, accounting for 7 RBI. Earl Knox and Rod Luedke each launched shots out of the park as well. Brooklyn leads 3 games to 1 now.

10/9/1922 - GAME 5 DODGERS 3 - SENATORS 10

The Senators staved off elimination by getting out to an 8-0 lead after 2 innings. Elmo Cassidy launched 3rd homer of the series and knocked in 5 runs to lead the way.

10/11/1922 – GAME 6 SENATORS 5 - DODGERS 11

After each team scored 3 runs in the 1st inning, Washington pulled ahead with RBI off the bats of Royal Chesterfield and Larry Abercrombie and they looked as if they had the game in hand, ready to send it to a final showdown in a 7th contest. It was not to be, however, as the Dodgers regained their composure, scoring 8 unanswered runs. Joey Cola sparked the comeback with 2 taters and 5 RBI giving the Dodgers their first World Series crown.

1922 WORLD CHAMPS – BROOKLYN DODGERS
1st Championship

SERIES MVP: David Brent - 2-0, 2.50 ERA, 18 IP, 17 Hits, 3 BB, 7 K