* * * Professional Baseball Replay League * * *

[metsgeek]

1922 AL LEADERS

TOP 5 Batting Average
1 Joe Whitehead (CLE) .376
2 Julius Coltrane (WSH) .366
3 Larry Abercrombie (WSH) .365
4 Drexel Spivey (SLA) .363
5 Frank Barbuto (DET) .344

TOP 5 Homers
1 Bill Lumbergh (DET) 25
2 Rusty McGee (SLA) 21
3 Aloysius O'Reilly (NYA) 20
4 Anton Gogolak (SLA) 17
4 Joe Jachimowicz (WSH) 17
4 Carl Swagger (CLE) 17
4 John Blutarsky (SLA) 17

TOP 5 RBI
1 Julius Coltrane (WSH) 141
2 Joe Whitehead (CLE) 120
3 Bronco LeBeouf (CLE) 117
4 Rusty McGee (SLA) 115
5 Thomas Griffin (NYA) 112

TOP 5 Stolen Bases
1 Tom Axelrod (DET) 81
2 Artemas Hane (PHA) 64
3 Frank Barbuto (DET) 63
4 Bill Boyle (SLA) 55
5 Henry Wing (NYA) 54

TOP 5 Wins
1 Dominic Abbruzzese (WSH) 27
2 Hollis Dyson (WSH) 26
3 Monty Slocum (NYA) 22
3 Jefferson Nance (NYA) 22
3 Ron Holystone (CLE) 22

TOP 5 ERA
1 Monty Slocum (NYA) 3.27
2 Gregory Leleux (CHA) 3.48
3 J.P. Herring (PHA) 3.54
4 Steve Gould (DET) 3.56
5 Hal Coogan (NYA) 3.57

TOP 5 Strikeouts
1 Monty Slocum (NYA) 159
2 Hollis Dyson (WSH) 150
3 Dominic Abbruzzese (WSH) 138
4 Deacon Wagner (DET) 137
5 Steve Gould (DET) 133


1921 NL LEADERS

TOP 5 Batting Average
1 Bartholomew Martin (NY1) .374
2 Ron Caribou (BSN) .370
3 Champ Araiza (CHN) .366
4 Whitey Murphy (CHN) .359
5 Ryan Cawdor (BSN) .354

TOP 5 Homers
1 Gene Lassiter (BRO) 33
2 Jim Dane (BRO) 31
3 Eddie Deal (PIT) 20
4 Eli Crutchfield (CHN) 17
5 Frank Albanese (NY1) 14

TOP 5 RBI
1 Jim Dane (BRO) 124
2 Frank Albanese (NY1) 122
3 Eddie Deal (PIT) 112
4 Eli Crutchfield (CHN) 106
4 Ron Caribou (BSN) 106

TOP 5 Stolen Bases
1 John-Paul O'Toole (PHI) 87
2 Trevor Sway (SLN) 62
3 Marcus Cato (PHI) 50
4 Joey Hufnagel (PIT) 45
5 Cutter Nolan (PHI) 39

TOP 5 Wins
1 David Brent (BRO) 27
1 Gabriel Poe (BSN) 27
3 Arthur Covington (CHN) 23
3 Lyle Wuehrle (NY1) 23
3 Sly Archambault (BRO) 23

TOP 5 ERA
1 Gabriel Poe (BSN) 2.26
2 David Brent (BRO) 2.69
3 Benjamin Sisko (BSN) 3.17
4 Samuel Huggins (CIN) 3.23
5 Randall Flagg (BRO) 3.31

TOP 5 Strikeouts
1 Brewster Jennings (SLN) 194
2 Gabriel Poe (BSN) 183
3 Sugar Mobley (BRO) 163
4 David Brent (BRO) 158
5 Benjamin Sisko (BSN) 144

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AMERICAN LEAGUE GOLD GLOVE AWARD Winners:

Pitcher: Jake Pettybone (CHA)
Catcher: James Magawley (SLA)
First Base: Constantine Yosim (WSH)
Second Base: Henry Wing (NYA)
Third Base: Martin Youngblood (NYA)
Shortstop: Bill Boyle (SLA)
Leftfield: Charley Cherry (CLE)
Centerfield: Rex Bonesteel (CLE)
Rightfield: Carl Swagger (CLE)

NATIONAL LEAGUE GOLD GLOVE AWARD Winners:

Pitcher: Sayer Calhoun (SLN)
Catcher: Eddie Deal (PIT)
First Base: Abel Wander (CIN)
Second Base: Bartholomew Martin (NY1)
Third Base: Zolly Bosco (PIT)
Shortstop: Hilton Van Der Heyden (PIT)
Leftfield: Gordon Cullen (PIT)
Centerfield: Trevor Sway (SLN)
Rightfield: Silas Chilton (NY1)

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Top Arm Nods Go To Dyson and Poe

Awards may not be the most important thing for Hollis Dyson, but Washington's left-hander smiled as he was named the AMERICAN LEAGUE PITCHER OF THE YEAR winner. This season Dyson compiled an ERA of 3.63, going 26-10 in 41 starts. He fanned 150 while giving up 337 hits in 322.1 innings. He's 8th in the AMERICAN LEAGUE in ERA and 2nd in wins!

The 1922 NATIONAL LEAGUE PITCHER OF THE YEAR winner is from Boston (N) this year. Gabriel Poe put together impressive numbers on the mound this season as is his habit, but this year he was finally rewarded. His ERA of 2.26 helped him to a 27-4 record this year. He struck out 183 and walked 69 in 330.2 innings. He has 9 complete games and 4 shutouts. He's 1st in the NATIONAL LEAGUE in ERA and 1st in wins!


Coltrane Wins His 2nd BATTER OF THE YEAR Award; Dane Repeats in the NL.

The AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTER OF THE YEAR goes to Julius Coltrane this year. He had an extraordinary season! His season numbers are: .366 AVG, 200 hits, 48 doubles, 10 triples and 12 bombs, along with 141 RBI and 117 runs scored. He's 2nd in the AMERICAN LEAGUE in batting and 1st in RBI! Coltrane wins the award for the 2nd time in his 11-year career.

The 1922 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. While compiling an on base percentage of .371, Jim hit .295 and slugged .559. He has collected 124 runs batted in this year. He's 1st in the NATIONAL LEAGUE in RBIs and 2nd in homeruns! Dane wins the award for the 2nd time in his 8-year career.

Young Backstops Win ROOKIE OF THE YEAR in Both Leagues

Getting an award is a nice way to start a career. Washington's Del McLeary smiled as he was named the AMERICAN LEAGUE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR winner. Del is hitting .339 this year, with 131 hits in 387 at bats. He has driven in 78 runs, slugging .465.

Seymour Humphrey was named the NATIONAL LEAGUE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR winner today. Chicago (N)'s catcher put up pretty good numbers for a rookie this year. This 22 year old kid will probably have a long and successful career! Humphrey has walked 30 times this year and posts a .330 OBP. While batting .272, 96 for 353, he has driven in 45 runs.

[metsgeek]

Brooklyn is called the Dodgers in our reality during this era because there is obviously no Wilbert Robinson to honor with the name Robins.

[metsgeek]

1922 MAJOR EVENTS

• January 11 - First successful insulin treatment of diabetes.
  
• January 13 - Harold "Zippy" Zapp, one of the eight Cincinnati Blacks, applies unsuccessfully for reinstatement
• January 14 - Alfred Reed is officially named the manager of the Detroit Tigers. Reed took over for Chris Creed in the final week of the 1921 season after Creed was hit in the face with a ball during batting practice. Creed began suffering vertigo and fainting spells and relinquished the manager's job, choosing to concentrate solely on GM duties.
• January 22 - Pope Benedict XV dies.
• January 24 - Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie.
• February 5 - DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of Reader's Digest.
• February 6 - Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) succeeds Pope Benedict XV as the 259th pope.
• February 6 - The Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty is signed between United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy
• February 8 - President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
  
• February 18 - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his federal judgeship, claiming the two jobs (judge and commissioner) take up too much time.
• February 22 - Boston (N)'s Sherman Boldt dies from typhoid fever following an operation.
• February 27 - A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
  
• March 6 - Jim Dane re-signs with Brooklyn for three years at $52,000 a year. The-next-highest paid Dodger is Gene "The Machine" Lassiter at $26,000. Rumors fly that the deal is the cause of much tension within the Brooklyn clubhouse.
• March 9 - Larry Abercrombie signs a four-year contract with the Senators calling for $28,500 per season. This makes the D.C. legend the highest paid player in American League history
• March 18 - In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for sedition
• March 28 - The Toronto St. Patricks win their 1st Stanley Cup, defeating the Vancouver Millionaires 3 games to 2
• April 7 - Teapot Dome Scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior Albert B Fall leases the Naval oil reserves in Wyoming to Harry F. Sinclair of Mammoth Oil and the Naval oil reserves at Elk Hills, California, to Edward L. Doheny of Pan American Petroleum, without competitive bidding. In return for leasing these oil fields to the respective oil magnates, Fall receives gifts from the oilmen totaling about $404,000.
  
• April 8 - At Sportsman's Park, the Cardinals wear their new uniforms (two red birds on a bat with the words "Cardinals" across the front) for the first time in an exhibition contest with the Browns.
• April 17 - Charleston and Charlotte (Sally League) play a 17–16 game. In the top of the 7th Charleston scores 11 runs on three hits, five walks, and four errors. Undaunted, Charlotte comes back with 10 runs in the bottom of the frame.
• May 5 - The Giants evict their American League tenants as of the end of the year, so the Yankees sign a contract to build their own $750,000 stadium on a site they had held an option on since 1920.
• May 12 - A 20-ton meteorite lands near Blackstone, Virginia.
  
• May 24 - Aloysius O'Reilly is suspended one day and fined $200 for throwing dirt on ump George Hildebrand after being called out at 2B while trying to stretch a single in the 3rd. Chum Bucket then goes into the stands after a heckler and is restrained by manager Al Bennett. On his way to the CF clubhouse O'Reilly gestures to another heckler in RF. Chum Bucket gets stripped of his title as team captain as a result.
• May 25 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in a resounding 9–0 decision, rule that baseball is not an interstate business. The suit had been brought by the Federal League's Baltimore franchise.
• May 30 - In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
  
• June 1 - Jurgen Verherrsch of the Washington Senators became the first ever player to 400 wins with a complete game against the St. Louis Browns. On his way to this amazing accomplishment, he set a career high with 27 wins in 1907 and won 20 or more games a season 14 times. It is unlikely that this mark will be reached again for quite some time.
• June 14 - Warren Harding becomes the first U.S. President to address the nation on the radio.
  
• June 15 - Pirate backstop Eddie Deal launches 3 homeruns against the New York Giants. The normally unflappable Lyle Wuehrle gave up all 3 shots.
• June 24 - The American Professional Football Association officially adopts the name of the National Football League
  
• June 27 - Avery Luck, in a Rockford sanitarium for treatment of tuberculosis, throws out the first pitch for a game at Rockford, IL.
• June 28 - The Irish Civil War begins.
  
• July 5 - The first baseball game ever played in Hungary takes place in Budapest.
• July 7 - Commissioner Landis bars ML teams from playing in Montreal. (a man ahead of his time )
• July 9 - Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking a world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'
  
• July 13 - The smallest crowd in Fenway Park history—just 68 fans—see the Senators trounce the last place Red Sox, 10-5.
• July 30 - In several pregame fights between Yankees teammates, Robert Hennessey and Dan Curtin duke it out in the dugout. Then Jimmy Noonan and Aloysius O'Reilly take a turn. The players then turn on the Athletics, pummeling them 14-2.
• August 12 - 35 year-old Royal Chesterfield smacks six hits against the Cincinnati Reds
• August 16 - Ron Caribou of the Boston Braves hits for the cycle against Brewster Jennings and Bertram Beals of the St. Louis Cardinals. he is the first to accomplish this feat since Henry Wing of the New York Yankees did it in 1920.
• August 28 - Japan agrees to withdraw its troops from Siberia
  
• September 4 - Senators legend Royal Chesterfield becomes the first player in the modern era to notch 3000 hits in his career with a double in a 4-3 win against the St. Louis Browns.
• September 4 - Whitey Murphy of the Cubs puts on a show in Cincinnati, going 6 for 6 in a 19-1 pasting of the Reds.
• September 16 - While chasing a fly ball in the 9th, Browns outfielder Anton "Go-Go" Gogolak is hit in the head and knocked cold by a soda bottle thrown from the Chicago bleachers. Ban Johnson will initially offer a $1,000 reward for the name of the bottle-thrower. Then, to calm the crowds, the American League offers the theory that Gogolak stepped on the bottle and it flew up and hit him. The incident leads to a ban on the sale of bottled drinks in ballparks.
• September 18 - Hungary joins the League of Nations
• September 22 - Mandate of Palestine approved by the Council of the League of Nations.
  
• September 30 - The Yankees play their farewell home game in the Polo Grounds against the Detroit Tigers. An estimated 40,000 overflow the stadium with another 25,000 turned away. Plans are in the works to expand the park to 56,000 capacity, but this is the last regular season American League game at the Polo Grounds. The Yanks will open in Yankee Stadium next spring. They go out the door with a win, 6-5.
• October 4 - For the first time, the entire World Series will be broadcast over the radio. Writer Grantland Rice does the announcing for station WJZ, Newark; it is relayed to WGY in Schenectady.
• October 11 - The Brooklyn Dodgers, winners of a record 106 games in the regular season, defeat the Washington Senators 4 games to 2 for their first World Series crown.
• October 16 - The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy.
• October 31 - Benito Mussolini becomes the youngest Premier in the history of Italy.
• November 1 - The Ottoman Empire is abolished and its last sultan, Mehmed VI, abdicates
• November 21 - Rebecca Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first woman United States Senator.
• November 26 - Howard Carter and Lord Carnavon become the first people to enter the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamen in over 3000 years.
  
• November 27 - Former Washington ace, Charlie Searing, 36, dies from a brain tumor. He remains the only player to ever notch 30 wins in a single season in the modern era in 1913. Over the next few seasons, Searing began experiencing vertigo and double vision and it visibly affected his game. He toughed it out for the next 7 years but was never the same pitcher, retiring after a stint in the minors during spring training this year. Soon after, he was hospitalized.
• December 5 - British parliament enacts the Irish Free State Constitution Act, by which it legally sanctions the new Constitution of the Irish Free State.
  
• December 13 - Alarmed at the increase in home run hitting (1,040 in the major leagues, up from 931), some American League owners back a zoning system setting a minimum of 300 feet for a ball to be called a home run. The motion dies. In another action, the league requires each club to furnish two home uniforms per player, plus extra caps and stockings on the road, to improve the players' appearance. In National League meetings, Charles Ebbets proposes putting numbers on players' sleeves or caps. It's left to each club to do as it wishes.
• December 14 - In a joint meeting, the ban on nonwaiver trades after June 15th is approved. The National League favors a 50-player limit until June 15th, the American League votes for 40. Judge Landis breaks the deadlock in favor of 40. Compensation of World Series umpires is changed from a percentage of the players' pool to a flat $2,000
• December 16 - The Eastern Colored League (chartered as the Mutual Association of Eastern Colored Baseball Clubs) is formally organized. The league will complete five seasons before folding in midsummer of 1928.
• December 30 - Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Transcaucasia come together to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

[DamnYankees]

Ouch, didn't know we killed of Charlie Searing. His 1913 season may be the greatest fluke season ever. Also, Jim Joy won 30 games in 1901 - doesn't the modern era go from 1901 onwards?

[DamnYankees]

Originally Posted by metsgeek

[*]November 26 - Howard Carter and Lord Carnavon become the first people to enter the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamen in over 3000 years.

I think what Carter said when he peered in is one of the most beautiful lines uttered in the history of real life (as opposed to in literature). Seriously makes me the room all dusty for me when I think about it.

"I see wonderful things."

[canadiancreed]

[QUOTE=metsgeek;2266562][*]January 14 - Alfred Reed is officially named the manager of the Detroit Tigers. Reed took over for Chris Creed in the final week of the 1921 season after Creed was hit in the face with a ball during batting practice. Creed began suffering vertigo and fainting spells and relinquished the manager's job, choosing to concentrate solely on GM duties.[/COLOR]

WOnder if this could become the Wally Pipp of managerial circles.
[*]July 7 - Commissioner Landis bars ML teams from playing in Montreal.[/COLOR] (a man ahead of his time )

Yes taking out the largest city in North America not in the US from being a potential market is a smooth business move.

[metsgeek]

Originally Posted by canadiancreed

Yes taking out the largest city in North America not in the US from being a potential market is a smooth business move.

***cough**** Mexico City ***cough****

[fhomess]

Bronx Zoo in full swing. Bennett's not helping.

[canadiancreed]

Originally Posted by metsgeek

***cough**** Mexico City ***cough****

**cough**no money even then**cough**

[DamnYankees]

Originally Posted by canadiancreed

**cough**no money even then**cough**

LOL

[metsgeek]

Top 5 Batting Prospects - 1923 Draft

Jim Smiley, 2b/SS - 7/7: 9/7/5/4/5
Bowler Channing, CF/RF - 8/9: 8/8/7/9/6
Brian "Irish" Boru, 2b/SS - 4/6: 9/10/7/5/8
Andy Roepe, LF/CF/RF - 7/4/5: 8/9/2/10/7
Reinhold "Boots" Bergquist, 1b/3b - 5/8: 9/7/4/4/3


Top 5 Pitching Prospects - 1923 Draft

Jim "Lifting Speed" Creighton, SP: 9/9/7
Dick Braggins, SP: 8/7/9
Jess "Cool Drink" Denger, SP: 7/9/6
Cy Crozier, SP: 7/7/8
Yitz "Dreidel" Politz, MR: 10/10/10

[metsgeek]

1923 Draft Log

Round 1:

Boston (A) pick: SS Jim Smiley.
Cincinnati pick: LF Andy Roepe.
Philadelphia (N) pick: P Jim Creighton
Detroit pick: SS Brian Boru.
Cleveland pick: CF Bowler Channing
Chicago (A) pick: 2B Baron Davidson
Philadelphia (A) pick: P Yitz Politz.
St. Louis (A) pick: 3B Reinhold Bergquist.
Pittsburgh pick: P Dick Braggins
St. Louis (N) pick: RF Elmer Gerry
Boston (N) pick: P Jess Denger
Washington pick: LF Dirk Van Diemen.
New York (A) pick: LF Maxwell Fenris.
Chicago (N) pick: 1B Claude Dudek.
New York (N) pick: P Cy Crozier
Brooklyn pick: P Cedric Diggory.


Round 2 :

Boston (A) pick: CF Dummy Foster.
Cincinnati pick: P Lefty Thorp.
Detroit pick: CF Ty West.
Philadelphia (N) pick: 3B Babe Nugent
Chicago (A) pick: 1B Sid Gage
Pittsburgh pick: C Harley Scales
St. Louis (A) pick: 3B Tony Calabrese.
St. Louis (N) pick: 2B Larry Ronco
Philadelphia (A) pick: C Wayne Kozack.
Chicago (N) pick: P Jake Renfro.
Cleveland pick: 3B Conley McDonald.
Boston (N) pick: P Will Sykes.
New York (A) pick: P Jimmy Dalziel.
New York (N) pick: P Wade Jagger.
Washington pick: 2B Dewey Hunter.
Brooklyn pick: C Thaddeus Graham.


Round 3 :

Boston (A) pick: P Hal Stroud.
Cincinnati pick: P Udell Carey.
Detroit pick: 1B Freddie Ritchey.
Philadelphia (N) pick: SS Will Olivieri.
Chicago (A) pick: 1B Holt Anders.
Pittsburgh pick: RF Willard Williams.
St. Louis (A) pick: P Rudolf Horstmann.
St. Louis (N) pick: P Martin Boniface.
Philadelphia (A) pick: P Johnny Durant.
Chicago (N) pick: SS Patrick Dunphee.
Cleveland pick: 3B Bob Mead.
Boston (N) pick: P Ralph Kaynard.
New York (A) pick: P Grady Dunleavy.
New York (N) pick: P Benny Bennedetto.
Washington pick: P Herman Bucklin.
Brooklyn pick: P Hugh Jasper.


Round 4 :

Boston (A) pick: P Erasmus James.
Cincinnati pick: SS Archie Mudd
Detroit pick: P Robert Fahey
Philadelphia (N) pick: SS Nate Brundage
Chicago (A) pick: P Lou Girdwood
Pittsburgh pick: 2B John Cave
St. Louis (A) pick: CF Ray Turner
St. Louis (N) pick: P Murray Bullifant
Philadelphia (A) pick: P Puck Morrell
Chicago (N) pick: C Dan Biggs.
Cleveland pick: P John Austin
Boston (N) pick: P Arlo Sargent
New York (A) pick: P Preston Robinson.
New York (N) pick: P Stanley Carter
Washington pick: P David Nilsen
Brooklyn pick: P Jarvis Ross

[jeheinz72]

and here I figured you stopped writing in this because you feared getting repetitive about the winner...

[metsgeek]

Originally Posted by jeheinz72

and here I figured you stopped writing in this because you feared getting repetitive about the winner...

cocky bastard, aren'tcha?

[canadiancreed]

Originally Posted by metsgeek

cocky bastard, aren'tcha?

GUess that's what happens when you win one or two.

[jeheinz72]

Originally Posted by canadiancreed

GUess that's what happens when you win one or two.

Try 4.

[jeheinz72]

Originally Posted by metsgeek

cocky bastard, aren'tcha?

Might as well milk it for all I can right now!

[canadiancreed]

so is this dead too?

[rocknfire7]

Originally Posted by canadiancreed

so is this dead too?

????PHLU????????