The Baseball Chronicle - A Fictional Player Romp Thru History - Page 12

legendsport · 07-24-2010, 09:40 AM

MLB STANDINGS:

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National League Standings
 			W	L	PCT	GB
New York Giants		63	25	.716	-
Cincinnati Reds		51	39	.567	13.0
St. Louis Cardinals	48	44	.522	17.0
Chicago Cubs		45	42	.517	17.5
Pittsburgh Pirates	46	43	.517	17.5
Philadelphia Phillies	39	47	.453	23.0
Boston Braves		33	54	.379	29.5
Brooklyn Dodgers	29	60	.326	34.5
	
American League Standings
 			W	L	PCT	GB
Philadelphia Athletics	55	34	.618	-
Detroit Tigers		54	34	.614	.5
Chicago White Sox	46	43	.517	9.0
New York Yankees	45	46	.495	11.0
St. Louis Browns	44	45	.494	11.0
Cleveland Indians	38	49	.437	16.0
Washington Senators	37	52	.416	18.0
Boston Red Sox		36	52	.409	18.5

With the Giants running away from their National League competition again - as the injury bug continues to decimate their nearest competitors in Cincinnati - the real stories this season are the close race in the American League, the chase for the first .400 season this century and the pursuit of the single-season home run record.

In the AL pennant race the Philadelphia Athletics' lead is a razor-thin half-game over the Detroit Tigers. The Athletics appear to be doing it with mirrors - the Tigers' batting average and earned run average are both considerably better than those of the Athletics, but the Philadelphians have the better record. Still, Detroit has been the hotter team of late - though that's not saying much: Detroit is 8-7 in July while the A's are 7-9.

If you asked 100 baseball fans who the player most likely to bat .400 in a season would be, the answer you'd get most would almost certainly be Topsy Huggins. The Cincinnati shortstop has been near .400 in each of the past two seasons (.391 and .387) and is hitting .405 this year - the only batter still above the magic mark. Huggins' home run production is down a bit (he has 16 after tying the single-season record last season), but his hit production is just as potent as ever. Huggins now has a .359 career batting average, very close to the record of .363 established by Carpetbagger Jenkins, who played his entire career in the 19th century.

But the biggest story - at least in July - is that the single-season home run record has been broken. New York Yankees first baseman Tom Coffin belted his 30th circuit clout of the season on July 10th at the Polo Grounds against the Cleveland Indians, part of a 3-hit, 3-rbi day for the Undertaker. Coffin's played in 82 of the 91 games his team has played, and a 50-HR season is not out of the question. Nor is Coffin the only slugger likely to put up historic numbers: home runs are up all around the league, and four other players have already eclipsed the 20-HR plateau, including Coffin's team mate John Casey Jr (22), Athletics' stars Paul Simms (23) and Dave Reese (20) and the NL-leader, Chicago Cubs catcher Chester Davis (24).

NEGRO LEAGUE STANDINGS:

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Negro National League Standings
		 	W	L	PCT	GB
Chicago American Giants	26	13	.667	-
St. Louis Stars		25	14	.641	1.0
Detroit Stars		24	15	.615	2.0
Cincinnati Cubans	21	18	.538	5.0
Kansas City Monarchs	21	18	.538	5.0
Indianapolis ABCs	20	19	.513	6.0
Columbus Buckeyes	11	28	.282	15.0
Chicago Giants		8	31	.205	18.0
	
NeL Independents Standings
		 	W	L	PCT	GB
Bacharach Giants	17	7	.708	-
Homestead Grays		14	9	.609	2.5
Cuban Stars (East)	13	9	.591	3.0
Nashville Elite Giants	15	12	.556	3.5
Lincoln Giants		14	13	.519	4.5
Brooklyn Royal Giants	10	14	.417	7.0
Hilldale Daisies	10	14	.417	7.0
Dayton Marcos		4	10	.286	8.0
Birmingham Black Barons	7	16	.304	9.5

In the Negro Leagues, the defending Negro National League champion Chicago American Giants have passed their competition in St. Louis to stake a claim on first place. A lion's share of the credit for this has to go to left fielder Marcus Cairns who is on a 20-game hitting streak and has a .342 average for the season. Kansas City's Chick Foster is the batting leader with a .398 average while Steel Arm Pete Chappel of the American Giants has racked up 10 wins to lead the league in that category. In the East, the Bacharach Giants have the best record of the independent clubs in head-to-head play with a 17-7 mark, but Homestead's Jimmy Walker continues to be the big story with a .444 average for the Grays.

legendsport · 07-27-2010, 08:40 AM

MLB STANDINGS:

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National League Standings
 			W	L	PCT	GB
New York Giants		77	37	.675	-
Cincinnati Reds		69	48	.590	9.5
St. Louis Cardinals	64	53	.547	14.5
Chicago Cubs		57	57	.500	20.0
Philadelphia Phillies	55	57	.491	21.0
Pittsburgh Pirates	54	61	.470	23.5
Boston Braves		40	70	.364	35.0
Brooklyn Dodgers	41	74	.357	36.5

American League Standings
		 	W	L	PCT	GB
Detroit Tigers		67	48	.583	-
Philadelphia Athletics	67	51	.568	1.5
New York Yankees	65	55	.542	4.5
St. Louis Browns	60	56	.517	7.5
Chicago White Sox	59	57	.509	8.5
Cleveland Indians	51	64	.443	16.0
Boston Red Sox		49	66	.426	18.0
Washington Senators	47	68	.409	20.0

So what do you get when you lead the National League in batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage and runs scored? Second place and a 9.5-game deficit if you're the Cincinnati Reds. While their record-setting offense continues to pummel opposing pitchers, the Reds' league-average pitching keeps them from dogging the heels of the first-place Giants. Those Giants feature the league's best pitching, but only league-average hitting, which begs the question: is pitching the key to winning baseball games? The debate will rage on, because the Giants' pitching is so much better than their opponents' that it gives them a huge advantage.

There is something to cheer about in Cincinnati though: Dave Simmons has been on an absolute tear of late, and has driven his batting average to .423, far and away the best in baseball. Even while team mate Topsy Huggins has struggled (his average is down to .387), Simmons' red-hot bat has kept the Reds offense chugging. Huggins is still driving in runs - he has 128 runs batted in and looks like he's going to challenge the all-time mark of 150. Another team with a potent offense - the Chicago Cubs - has a news-maker of its own as catcher Chester Davis, whose nickname is "The Buckeye Basher" (he's from Ohio) has 32 home runs, setting a new National League standard (the Major League mark belongs to Tom Coffin of the Yankees, who has 38 and counting).

The Detroit Tigers may not have any record-breakers, but they have some very good players (right fielder John Kenwood and pitcher Hugh Blacklock come to mind), and they also have a 1.5-game lead in the AL pennant race. The Tigers passed the Philadelphia Athletics who entered August with a 2.5-game lead, by virtue of posting a 9-5 mark thus far this month, while the A's struggled to a 6-10 mark.

NEGRO LEAGUE STANDINGS:

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Negro National League Standings
		 	W	L	PCT	GB
Chicago American Giants	37	21	.638	-
Detroit Stars		35	23	.603	2.0
St. Louis Stars		33	25	.569	4.0
Kansas City Monarchs	32	25	.561	4.5
Cincinnati Cubans	32	26	.552	5.0
Indianapolis ABCs	31	28	.525	6.5
Chicago Giants		18	40	.310	19.0
Columbus Buckeyes	14	44	.241	23.0
	
NeL Independents Standings
		 	W	L	PCT	GB
Bacharach Giants	22	11	.667	-
Cuban Stars (East)	18	10	.643	1.5
Homestead Grays		20	12	.625	1.5
Nashville Elite Giants	18	17	.514	5.0
Lincoln Giants		16	17	.485	6.0
Hilldale Daisies	14	17	.452	7.0
Brooklyn Royal Giants	12	19	.387	9.0
Dayton Marcos		6	14	.300	9.5
Birmingham Black Barons	11	20	.355	10.0

In the Negro National League, the Chicago American Giants continue to set the pace, with a potent offensive attack that features the league's top hitter in right fielder Henry Mortensen (.398) as well as backstop Terrible Ted Jardine (.378), shortstop John 'Pepper' Watson (.354), first sacker Mike Thomas (.344) and second baseman Mack Harper (.340). In fact, the Am. Giants' team batting average is .333 to lead a very hitter-centric league. So it also helps that Chicago feature the league's best pitcher, 'Steel Arm' Pete Chappel (14-6, 2.99).

Catcher Jimmy Walker, who played in the Negro National League in 1920 with the St. Louis Stars, must have brought some of that hitting magic with him to the Homestead Grays. Walker has been tearing it up for the independent club, hitting .429 this year, best of all players in the loosely-confederated grouping of top Eastern independent clubs. The Atlantic City Bacharach Giants not only have the best record among the indy clubs, but also have a young star of their own in 22-year-old second baseman 'Kid' Sutton. Sutton is hitting .410 this year, a vast improvement over the .229 mark he posted last summer.

legendsport · 07-30-2010, 02:05 PM

1921 may end up being remembered as the year a slew of batting records fell by the wayside - with nearly all of them were set by Cincinnati Reds. The one exception was the single-season home run mark, which Tom Coffin of the Yankees has set, and every time he circles the bases, a new record is established. Currently his total is 45 - blasting the old record of 29. The National League record (which was also 29) is now held by the Cubs' Chester Davis who has reached the 40 mark. Four others have eclipsed that old record of 29, so there has been some room at the home-run party.

The Reds' records are led by Joel Faulk, who took over the career home-run lead early in the season when he smashed the 137th circuit clout of his career on June 7th in St. Louis (he actually had another in the same game). The 28-year-old Faulk has pushed his career total to 149. The guy whose mark he eclipsed - Harry Ransom - is the father of current Giants' star Harry Ransom Jr. who is showing signs of following in his father's footsteps - Ransom Jr. is one of the six players to have eclipsed the 30-HR mark this season.

Other great offensive performances include the .423 average of Cincinnati's Dave Simmons. The Reds' first sacker had been best known for winning the Triple Crown in 1919, and now he has his sights set on the single-season record for batting average: the .428 mark of Carpetbagger Jenkins, set back in the free-wheeling offensive year of 1887 when the .400 mark was eclipsed by no less than seven hitters.

That brings us to Topsy Huggins. The best all-around player of Cincinnati's trio of stars, the shortstop has tied the Major League record for runs batted in with 150 this season, equaling the mark established by Norm Woods in 1887 and equaled by Will Wessels in 1894. With 11 games to play, Huggins has plenty of time to push the record even further. Huggins is also batting .394, so he has a shot at the .400 mark himself - and his career average now stands at .361 - approaching the .363 career-record mark of Carpetbagger Jenkins.

The challenging of his records brings questions about Carpetbagger Jenkins. The man was a prolific hitter, but played in the 19th century, with a career spanning just 12 seasons (1884-1895). John Jenkins was born in Brooklyn in 1856 and played amateur ball until 1884 when he was signed by the St. Paul club of the ill-fated Union Association. Though he hit just .240 that year, the Philadelphia Phillies of the National League gave him a spring tryout in 1885. Not only did he make the team, but he hit .336 that first year. Over the next four seasons, Jenkins established himself as the game's premier hitter for average - setting the single-season mark in 1887 (.428) and posting averages of .334, .352, and .407 in his other seasons with the Phils. Jenkins liked to travel (hence his nickname, much more memorable than his given name of John) and jumped to the Players League in 1890 - playing for his home-town Brooklyn club where he posted a .386 average. In 1891 with the Players League gone, Jenkins took his bags to Boston, where he finished out his career with five seasons in which his average never dipped below .338 and was as high as .375 (in 1891). When he hung up his bat in 1895 at the age of 39, Jenkins had only 1925 hits, but his .363 lifetime average was a mark never challenged - until now.

legendsport · 07-30-2010, 02:10 PM

Posted by the NY Giants' GM on the TBC Forum:

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Originally Posted by Colonel

Duane "Eagle Eye" Reed

Acquired by the New York Giants prior to 1911, he was expected to be the Giant's catcher of the future when Arthur Buckley retired. But it didn't happen. First George Turgeon, then Jim Dean pushed him to permanent back-up status. Not willing to play second fiddle to anyone, he jumped to the Federal League in 1914 where he played two seasons for Buffalo. After that he found full time work as the New York Yankees' backstop. During his 8 year major league career he batted a respectable .255. So why to I bring him up?

[spoiler]He is the first player to win a World Series ring with 2 different clubs NY Giants in 1911, 1912 and the NY Yankees 1916, but not only that, he was with the pennant winning Buffalo team of 1914. This makes him the only player to play on a championship team in 3 different major leagues.[/spoiler]

legendsport · 07-30-2010, 02:22 PM

The 1921 season will be remembered for the slew of batting records set and the general offensive explosion as more runs - and especially more home runs - were posted than ever before. What might get overlooked among all the hoopla about Tom Coffin, Chester Davis, Topsy Huggins and Dave Simmons (among others) is the surprising pennant by the New York Yankees.

Decimated - almost literally - by the fallout of the gambling scandal surrounding the 1919 World Series in which the Yankees lost eight of their best players, the club was expected to sink into the second division. Well, someone forgot to tell the Yankees that. Not only did the team exceed expectations, it rode a growing wave of support as fans followed the hitting exploits of breakout star Tom Coffin who sent nearly as many balls into the right field seats at the Polo Grounds as he caught playing there on defense. In a ballpark built for the Giants - who dominated again en route to yet another National League pennant - the city was abuzz about the Giants' tenants, the improbable Yankees as they passed both the Tigers and Athletics to set up another Polo Grounds-only World Series with the Giants.

Aside from Tom Coffin and his Triple Crown performance of .388 average, 45 home runs and 122 runs batted in, the Yankees also had center fielder John Casey, Jr. (the "stuck up privileged son" who was "too good" for the conspirators in the 1919 gambling scheme). Casey was an outstanding second-fiddle to Coffin: .363 average, 35 home runs and 93 runs batted in. And there was also Joe Standley - another star who stayed out of the gambler's den - who tied Coffin for the league lead in batting at .388, scoring 102 runs and played a sparkling second base, living up to his moniker as the "Wizard of Washington Heights." Pitching too played a role, with Fast Freddie Ray racking up 31 victories and emerging star Nicholas Never pitching great down the September stretch run. The Yanks will be big underdogs to their cross-park rivals, but they've proven one thing this season: they'll be game.

legendsport · 08-01-2010, 03:01 PM

FINAL MLB STANDINGS:

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National League Standings
 			W	L	PCT	GB
New York Giants		101	53	.656	-
Cincinnati Reds		90	64	.584	11.0
St. Louis Cardinals	87	67	.565	14.0
Chicago Cubs		82	72	.532	19.0
Pittsburgh Pirates	71	83	.461	30.0
Philadelphia Phillies	70	84	.455	31.0
Brooklyn Dodgers	58	96	.377	43.0
Boston Braves		57	97	.370	44.0
	
American League Standings
		 	W	L	PCT	GB
New York Yankees	90	64	.584	-
Philadelphia Athletics	87	67	.565	3.0
Detroit Tigers		85	69	.552	5.0
St. Louis Browns	81	73	.526	9.0
Chicago White Sox	77	77	.500	13.0
Cleveland Indians	69	85	.448	21.0
Boston Red Sox		68	86	.442	22.0
Washington Senators	59	95	.383	31.0

1921 is likely to go down in history as the year the record books were remade as never before. A slew of records were broken in 1921 as the game's top players took their games to a never-before-seen level of excellence, inscribing their names in baseball history. Both the single-season and career home run records were broken, as was the single-season runs batted in record. Other non-record breaking but notably outstanding performances included a Triple Crown in batting (and near Triple Crown in pitching), a 31-game winning pitcher, and the game's first .400 hitter since the 1890s.

TOM COFFIN, NEW YORK (AL)

Topping the list, in terms of excitement, was the season put together by the heretofore little-known first baseman/outfielder of the New York Yankees - a fellow by the name of Tom Coffin. Earning the nickname "The Undertaker" by New York's baseball-writing wags, Coffin put together the single-most devastating campaign with the bat ever seen in the annals of baseball. The biggest part of this was his assault on the single-season home run mark of 29, which had been accomplished twice - first by Alexander Faulk back in 1889 and then last season by Cincinnati's great shortstop Topsy Huggins (more on him later). Coffin not only broke the record, but he smashed it, finishing with a total of 45 home runs as he sent ball after ball soaring into the right-field porch of the Polo Grounds: 34 of his 45 circuit blasts came in the homer-friendly park the Yanks share with the Giants. But Coffin's season was more than just a bunch of long flies - he also put up a league-best .388 average and drove in a league-best 122 runs, while scoring 141 (1 behind Tom Bogard's 20th-century record) and drawing 138 walks. All in all, Coffin walked away with a Triple Crown and a slew of records that included the single-season marks in home runs, on-base percentage, and slugging percentage. Not bad for a fellow who entered the season with a .249 career batting average in 220 games and was only a regular because of the fallout of the 1919 gambling scandal.

Coffin's performance, coupled with that of his more well-known team mates John Casey Jr. and Joe Standley, led the Yankees to the American League pennant just a year after losing eight of their team mates in the wake of the 1919 World Series-fixing scandal. Standley pitched in with a .388 average while Casey hit .363 with 35 home runs. And pitcher Fred Ray won 31 games and struck out 215 batters - both numbers leading the major leagues - and finished a scant .01 behind Ben Kushner of the Tigers in earned run average. Had Ray been able to keep just one more run from scoring, he'd have won a pitching Triple Crown to go along with Coffin's batting Triple Crown.

TOPSY HUGGINS, CINCINNATI

Several other pieces of history were taking place further west along the shores of the Ohio River, where the Cincinnati Reds continued to punish baseballs with the National League's best lineup. Leading the way, as usual was Topsy Huggins, who had tied the single-season home run record in 1920 and had long-since established himself as baseball's best hitter - and one of its most unlikely (a slew of injuries had often derailed outstanding seasons for Huggins and the Reds). In 1921, Huggins "only" hit 32 home runs (including four in one game on July 26), but he did set a new record for runs batted in, as he drove him 156 runners. Many of those runs were scored by the second piece of the Reds' trinity of stellar hitters: first baseman Dave Simmons. Simmons slugged 23 home runs himself, but he also hit .417 - the first .400 season since the 19th century and the fourth-best mark in history. And completing the Reds' trio of superb sluggers was Joel Faulk who clubbed 25 home runs to push his career mark (at the age of 28) to 154. Faulk slugged homers in seven straight games in June - ten in all in that one week. Like Huggins, Faulk has often been injured, and injuries kept him out of almost 40 games in 1921. Reds fans are left wondering just how good the Reds of the past five seasons might have been if Faulk & Huggins could have stayed healthy.

The Chicago Cubs had a potent offensive performance of their own in catcher Chester Davis. "The Buckeye Basher" led the National League with 42 home runs - an outstanding record-setting feat, overshadowed by the 45 of Coffin (and the fact that Coffin reached all the significant milestones: 29, 30, 35, and 40) before Davis. But what Davis did - and Coffin did not equal - was also steal 40 bases (in 57 attempts), to become the first player to hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases in the same season. The fact that a catcher should steal 40 bases is impressive enough, but to also slug 42 home runs is truly remarkable.

Unfortunately for both the Cubs and Reds were that despite their outstanding individual performances, they were not the top dogs in the league. This was because the National League's dominant force - the New York Giants - were no less dominant in 1921 than they had been in any of the previous five seasons (in which they'd won the pennant). Their 101 wins was enough for an easy sixth-consecutive league pennant. And the Giants did this despite losing their two best pitchers (Rodney Couch and George Cleaves) to season-ending shoulder injuries within a three-day span in mid-July.

FRED RAY, NEW YORK (AL)

The World Series of 1921 was a rematch of the 1919 Series that shook the baseball world to its foundations. This time there'd be no allegations - proven or otherwise - of tampering, just good old fashioned baseball between the New York Giants and New York Yankees. For the Giants, their goal was a fifth-straight World Championship and a victory would also mean that three of those would have come at the expense of their Polo Ground tenants. For the Yankees, victory would mean redemption for the smear left on the reputation of baseball following the 1919 series. So it seemed to many that in this World Series, more was on the line than merely a title.

In game one, with the Giants wearing the home whites, the Yankees drew first blood. Behind their 31-game-winning ace Fred Ray, the visitors picked up a tight 3-2 victory by touching up Giants starter Paul Sapp for three runs in the fourth on a bases-clearing double by first baseman Barry Watkins. Ray took care of everything else for a one-zip Series lead.

The story was surprisingly similar in game two - another 3-2 win by the Yankees, who again scored all three runs in the fourth inning off Giants starter Tom Bondurant while their own starter, Frank McKinney, held the Giants to just a pair of runs on six hits. And despite star Tom Coffin going hitless in the first two contests, the Yankees crossed to the home dugout at the Polo Grounds up two games to none.

The Yankees wore home whites and the Giants road gray for the third game, but otherwise things ended up much the same as for the third straight contest, the Yankees won by a score of 3-2. And though the Yankees again did all their scoring in one inning, this time it took them until the ninth to do it. Trailing 2-0 entering their last at-bat, the Yanks loaded the bases against the Giants' Roy Caldwell with Casey at the bat. And this time Casey came through with a bases-clearing, game-winning double into the gap in right-center with John Boucher sliding in safely on a close play at the plate.

With the Yankees up three-nothing in the best-of-nine Series, things looked bleak for the Giants as game four began. And maybe the Giants knew it - they looked sluggish out of the box and fell behind right away as the Yankees punished Sapp for three in the first and added a fourth run in the second, en route to an 8-0 whitewashing of the Giants and commanding four-nothing lead. The victory left the Yankees just one win shy of redeeming themselves for 1919.

FINAL NEGRO LEAGUE STANDINGS:

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Negro National League Standings
		 	W	L	PCT	GB
Detroit Stars		53	29	.646	-
Chicago American Giants	48	34	.585	5.0
Kansas City Monarchs	47	34	.580	5.5
Cincinnati Cubans	44	38	.537	9.0
St. Louis Stars		44	38	.537	9.0
Indianapolis ABCs	41	42	.494	12.5
Columbus Buckeyes	26	56	.317	27.0
Chicago Giants		25	57	.305	28.0

NeL Independents Standings
		 	W	L	PCT	GB
Bacharach Giants	29	14	.674	-
Cuban Stars (East)	27	13	.675	.5
Homestead Grays		28	15	.651	1.0
Nashville Elite Giants	19	19	.500	7.5
Brooklyn Royal Giants	21	22	.488	8.0
Hilldale Daisies	19	23	.452	9.5
Lincoln Giants		18	26	.409	11.5
Dayton Marcos		10	22	.313	13.5
Birmingham Black Barons	14	31	.311	16.0

The Negro National League concluded its second season with an exciting pennant race, won ultimately by the Detroit Stars, who spent the summer exchanging the league lead with the Chicago American Giants and St. Louis Stars. In the heat of the summer the St. Louis club dropped out of the race, but the American Giants and Detroit Stars battled into September before Detroit pulled away to win the pennant by five-games over the defending champs from Chicago. The NNL had its share of outstanding performances: Tomas Palomino of the Cincinnati Cubans hit .404 to lead the league while Kansas City Monarchs' center fielder Wilbur 'Mountain' Hardaway clubbed 19 home runs in 336 at-bats to lead the league by a full ten homers. Chicago's Pete Chappel was again the loop's winningest hurler with 15 victories, while Cubans' pitcher Bobby Trujillo posted a league-low 2.30 ERA (and posted a tidy 13-1 won-loss record).

Amongst the independent Eastern clubs, the Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City posted a 29-14 record among common competition to best the 27-13 mark of the Cuban Stars and 28-15 mark of the Homestead Grays to claim the unofficial "Eastern Championship." Homestead catcher Jimmy Walker hit .407, best in the east while his team mate Willie Goode won 12 games, more than any eastern pitcher. Rumors continue to swirl about a proposed Eastern league to match the Negro National League in the west, setting up a Negro World Series, but so far the talk remains just that: talk.

udbacker58 · 12-04-2010, 01:08 AM

glad to see you're still going strong! I noticed when going through the history that the names seemed to have changed from when I was back with those horrible Reds teams in the early 20th century. Did something happen?

ashantewarrier · 12-07-2010, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by udbacker58

glad to see you're still going strong! I noticed when going through the history that the names seemed to have changed from when I was back with those horrible Reds teams in the early 20th century. Did something happen?

I think the league started over. This is one of my favorite threads to follow. It has been kind of slow as of late but I hope for more updates soon!

legendsport · 01-07-2011, 09:54 AM

Yep, had some history and league file issues and had to re-boot. I am starting a new thread for the rebooted TBC. So if you'd like to continue following TBC, please check that one out.

07-24-2010, 09:40 AM	#221 (permalink)
legendsport Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Behind The Lens Posts: 2,158 Thanks: 3 Thanked 8x in 8 posts	July 16, 1921 Update MLB STANDINGS: Code: National League Standings W L PCT GB New York Giants 63 25 .716 - Cincinnati Reds 51 39 .567 13.0 St. Louis Cardinals 48 44 .522 17.0 Chicago Cubs 45 42 .517 17.5 Pittsburgh Pirates 46 43 .517 17.5 Philadelphia Phillies 39 47 .453 23.0 Boston Braves 33 54 .379 29.5 Brooklyn Dodgers 29 60 .326 34.5 American League Standings W L PCT GB Philadelphia Athletics 55 34 .618 - Detroit Tigers 54 34 .614 .5 Chicago White Sox 46 43 .517 9.0 New York Yankees 45 46 .495 11.0 St. Louis Browns 44 45 .494 11.0 Cleveland Indians 38 49 .437 16.0 Washington Senators 37 52 .416 18.0 Boston Red Sox 36 52 .409 18.5 With the Giants running away from their National League competition again - as the injury bug continues to decimate their nearest competitors in Cincinnati - the real stories this season are the close race in the American League, the chase for the first .400 season this century and the pursuit of the single-season home run record. In the AL pennant race the Philadelphia Athletics' lead is a razor-thin half-game over the Detroit Tigers. The Athletics appear to be doing it with mirrors - the Tigers' batting average and earned run average are both considerably better than those of the Athletics, but the Philadelphians have the better record. Still, Detroit has been the hotter team of late - though that's not saying much: Detroit is 8-7 in July while the A's are 7-9. If you asked 100 baseball fans who the player most likely to bat .400 in a season would be, the answer you'd get most would almost certainly be Topsy Huggins. The Cincinnati shortstop has been near .400 in each of the past two seasons (.391 and .387) and is hitting .405 this year - the only batter still above the magic mark. Huggins' home run production is down a bit (he has 16 after tying the single-season record last season), but his hit production is just as potent as ever. Huggins now has a .359 career batting average, very close to the record of .363 established by Carpetbagger Jenkins, who played his entire career in the 19th century. But the biggest story - at least in July - is that the single-season home run record has been broken. New York Yankees first baseman Tom Coffin belted his 30th circuit clout of the season on July 10th at the Polo Grounds against the Cleveland Indians, part of a 3-hit, 3-rbi day for the Undertaker. Coffin's played in 82 of the 91 games his team has played, and a 50-HR season is not out of the question. Nor is Coffin the only slugger likely to put up historic numbers: home runs are up all around the league, and four other players have already eclipsed the 20-HR plateau, including Coffin's team mate John Casey Jr (22), Athletics' stars Paul Simms (23) and Dave Reese (20) and the NL-leader, Chicago Cubs catcher Chester Davis (24). NEGRO LEAGUE STANDINGS: Code: Negro National League Standings W L PCT GB Chicago American Giants 26 13 .667 - St. Louis Stars 25 14 .641 1.0 Detroit Stars 24 15 .615 2.0 Cincinnati Cubans 21 18 .538 5.0 Kansas City Monarchs 21 18 .538 5.0 Indianapolis ABCs 20 19 .513 6.0 Columbus Buckeyes 11 28 .282 15.0 Chicago Giants 8 31 .205 18.0 NeL Independents Standings W L PCT GB Bacharach Giants 17 7 .708 - Homestead Grays 14 9 .609 2.5 Cuban Stars (East) 13 9 .591 3.0 Nashville Elite Giants 15 12 .556 3.5 Lincoln Giants 14 13 .519 4.5 Brooklyn Royal Giants 10 14 .417 7.0 Hilldale Daisies 10 14 .417 7.0 Dayton Marcos 4 10 .286 8.0 Birmingham Black Barons 7 16 .304 9.5 In the Negro Leagues, the defending Negro National League champion Chicago American Giants have passed their competition in St. Louis to stake a claim on first place. A lion's share of the credit for this has to go to left fielder Marcus Cairns who is on a 20-game hitting streak and has a .342 average for the season. Kansas City's Chick Foster is the batting leader with a .398 average while Steel Arm Pete Chappel of the American Giants has racked up 10 wins to lead the league in that category. In the East, the Bacharach Giants have the best record of the independent clubs in head-to-head play with a 17-7 mark, but Homestead's Jimmy Walker continues to be the big story with a .444 average for the Grays. __________________ The Baseball Chronicle - Swinging thru History! The Football Chronicle - Hitting Hard Historically (PFS - 1962) Alternate Universe Football (FOF - 1994)

07-27-2010, 08:40 AM	#222 (permalink)
legendsport Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Behind The Lens Posts: 2,158 Thanks: 3 Thanked 8x in 8 posts	August 16, 1921 Update MLB STANDINGS: Code: National League Standings W L PCT GB New York Giants 77 37 .675 - Cincinnati Reds 69 48 .590 9.5 St. Louis Cardinals 64 53 .547 14.5 Chicago Cubs 57 57 .500 20.0 Philadelphia Phillies 55 57 .491 21.0 Pittsburgh Pirates 54 61 .470 23.5 Boston Braves 40 70 .364 35.0 Brooklyn Dodgers 41 74 .357 36.5 American League Standings W L PCT GB Detroit Tigers 67 48 .583 - Philadelphia Athletics 67 51 .568 1.5 New York Yankees 65 55 .542 4.5 St. Louis Browns 60 56 .517 7.5 Chicago White Sox 59 57 .509 8.5 Cleveland Indians 51 64 .443 16.0 Boston Red Sox 49 66 .426 18.0 Washington Senators 47 68 .409 20.0 So what do you get when you lead the National League in batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage and runs scored? Second place and a 9.5-game deficit if you're the Cincinnati Reds. While their record-setting offense continues to pummel opposing pitchers, the Reds' league-average pitching keeps them from dogging the heels of the first-place Giants. Those Giants feature the league's best pitching, but only league-average hitting, which begs the question: is pitching the key to winning baseball games? The debate will rage on, because the Giants' pitching is so much better than their opponents' that it gives them a huge advantage. There is something to cheer about in Cincinnati though: Dave Simmons has been on an absolute tear of late, and has driven his batting average to .423, far and away the best in baseball. Even while team mate Topsy Huggins has struggled (his average is down to .387), Simmons' red-hot bat has kept the Reds offense chugging. Huggins is still driving in runs - he has 128 runs batted in and looks like he's going to challenge the all-time mark of 150. Another team with a potent offense - the Chicago Cubs - has a news-maker of its own as catcher Chester Davis, whose nickname is "The Buckeye Basher" (he's from Ohio) has 32 home runs, setting a new National League standard (the Major League mark belongs to Tom Coffin of the Yankees, who has 38 and counting). The Detroit Tigers may not have any record-breakers, but they have some very good players (right fielder John Kenwood and pitcher Hugh Blacklock come to mind), and they also have a 1.5-game lead in the AL pennant race. The Tigers passed the Philadelphia Athletics who entered August with a 2.5-game lead, by virtue of posting a 9-5 mark thus far this month, while the A's struggled to a 6-10 mark. NEGRO LEAGUE STANDINGS: Code: Negro National League Standings W L PCT GB Chicago American Giants 37 21 .638 - Detroit Stars 35 23 .603 2.0 St. Louis Stars 33 25 .569 4.0 Kansas City Monarchs 32 25 .561 4.5 Cincinnati Cubans 32 26 .552 5.0 Indianapolis ABCs 31 28 .525 6.5 Chicago Giants 18 40 .310 19.0 Columbus Buckeyes 14 44 .241 23.0 NeL Independents Standings W L PCT GB Bacharach Giants 22 11 .667 - Cuban Stars (East) 18 10 .643 1.5 Homestead Grays 20 12 .625 1.5 Nashville Elite Giants 18 17 .514 5.0 Lincoln Giants 16 17 .485 6.0 Hilldale Daisies 14 17 .452 7.0 Brooklyn Royal Giants 12 19 .387 9.0 Dayton Marcos 6 14 .300 9.5 Birmingham Black Barons 11 20 .355 10.0 In the Negro National League, the Chicago American Giants continue to set the pace, with a potent offensive attack that features the league's top hitter in right fielder Henry Mortensen (.398) as well as backstop Terrible Ted Jardine (.378), shortstop John 'Pepper' Watson (.354), first sacker Mike Thomas (.344) and second baseman Mack Harper (.340). In fact, the Am. Giants' team batting average is .333 to lead a very hitter-centric league. So it also helps that Chicago feature the league's best pitcher, 'Steel Arm' Pete Chappel (14-6, 2.99). Catcher Jimmy Walker, who played in the Negro National League in 1920 with the St. Louis Stars, must have brought some of that hitting magic with him to the Homestead Grays. Walker has been tearing it up for the independent club, hitting .429 this year, best of all players in the loosely-confederated grouping of top Eastern independent clubs. The Atlantic City Bacharach Giants not only have the best record among the indy clubs, but also have a young star of their own in 22-year-old second baseman 'Kid' Sutton. Sutton is hitting .410 this year, a vast improvement over the .229 mark he posted last summer. __________________ The Baseball Chronicle - Swinging thru History! The Football Chronicle - Hitting Hard Historically (PFS - 1962) Alternate Universe Football (FOF - 1994)

07-30-2010, 02:05 PM	#223 (permalink)
legendsport Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Behind The Lens Posts: 2,158 Thanks: 3 Thanked 8x in 8 posts	September 16, 1921 Update 1921 may end up being remembered as the year a slew of batting records fell by the wayside - with nearly all of them were set by Cincinnati Reds. The one exception was the single-season home run mark, which Tom Coffin of the Yankees has set, and every time he circles the bases, a new record is established. Currently his total is 45 - blasting the old record of 29. The National League record (which was also 29) is now held by the Cubs' Chester Davis who has reached the 40 mark. Four others have eclipsed that old record of 29, so there has been some room at the home-run party. The Reds' records are led by Joel Faulk, who took over the career home-run lead early in the season when he smashed the 137th circuit clout of his career on June 7th in St. Louis (he actually had another in the same game). The 28-year-old Faulk has pushed his career total to 149. The guy whose mark he eclipsed - Harry Ransom - is the father of current Giants' star Harry Ransom Jr. who is showing signs of following in his father's footsteps - Ransom Jr. is one of the six players to have eclipsed the 30-HR mark this season. Other great offensive performances include the .423 average of Cincinnati's Dave Simmons. The Reds' first sacker had been best known for winning the Triple Crown in 1919, and now he has his sights set on the single-season record for batting average: the .428 mark of Carpetbagger Jenkins, set back in the free-wheeling offensive year of 1887 when the .400 mark was eclipsed by no less than seven hitters. That brings us to Topsy Huggins. The best all-around player of Cincinnati's trio of stars, the shortstop has tied the Major League record for runs batted in with 150 this season, equaling the mark established by Norm Woods in 1887 and equaled by Will Wessels in 1894. With 11 games to play, Huggins has plenty of time to push the record even further. Huggins is also batting .394, so he has a shot at the .400 mark himself - and his career average now stands at .361 - approaching the .363 career-record mark of Carpetbagger Jenkins. The challenging of his records brings questions about Carpetbagger Jenkins. The man was a prolific hitter, but played in the 19th century, with a career spanning just 12 seasons (1884-1895). John Jenkins was born in Brooklyn in 1856 and played amateur ball until 1884 when he was signed by the St. Paul club of the ill-fated Union Association. Though he hit just .240 that year, the Philadelphia Phillies of the National League gave him a spring tryout in 1885. Not only did he make the team, but he hit .336 that first year. Over the next four seasons, Jenkins established himself as the game's premier hitter for average - setting the single-season mark in 1887 (.428) and posting averages of .334, .352, and .407 in his other seasons with the Phils. Jenkins liked to travel (hence his nickname, much more memorable than his given name of John) and jumped to the Players League in 1890 - playing for his home-town Brooklyn club where he posted a .386 average. In 1891 with the Players League gone, Jenkins took his bags to Boston, where he finished out his career with five seasons in which his average never dipped below .338 and was as high as .375 (in 1891). When he hung up his bat in 1895 at the age of 39, Jenkins had only 1925 hits, but his .363 lifetime average was a mark never challenged - until now. __________________ The Baseball Chronicle - Swinging thru History! The Football Chronicle - Hitting Hard Historically (PFS - 1962) Alternate Universe Football (FOF - 1994)

07-30-2010, 02:22 PM	#225 (permalink)
legendsport Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Behind The Lens Posts: 2,158 Thanks: 3 Thanked 8x in 8 posts	October 4, 1921 Update The 1921 season will be remembered for the slew of batting records set and the general offensive explosion as more runs - and especially more home runs - were posted than ever before. What might get overlooked among all the hoopla about Tom Coffin, Chester Davis, Topsy Huggins and Dave Simmons (among others) is the surprising pennant by the New York Yankees. Decimated - almost literally - by the fallout of the gambling scandal surrounding the 1919 World Series in which the Yankees lost eight of their best players, the club was expected to sink into the second division. Well, someone forgot to tell the Yankees that. Not only did the team exceed expectations, it rode a growing wave of support as fans followed the hitting exploits of breakout star Tom Coffin who sent nearly as many balls into the right field seats at the Polo Grounds as he caught playing there on defense. In a ballpark built for the Giants - who dominated again en route to yet another National League pennant - the city was abuzz about the Giants' tenants, the improbable Yankees as they passed both the Tigers and Athletics to set up another Polo Grounds-only World Series with the Giants. Aside from Tom Coffin and his Triple Crown performance of .388 average, 45 home runs and 122 runs batted in, the Yankees also had center fielder John Casey, Jr. (the "stuck up privileged son" who was "too good" for the conspirators in the 1919 gambling scheme). Casey was an outstanding second-fiddle to Coffin: .363 average, 35 home runs and 93 runs batted in. And there was also Joe Standley - another star who stayed out of the gambler's den - who tied Coffin for the league lead in batting at .388, scoring 102 runs and played a sparkling second base, living up to his moniker as the "Wizard of Washington Heights." Pitching too played a role, with Fast Freddie Ray racking up 31 victories and emerging star Nicholas Never pitching great down the September stretch run. The Yanks will be big underdogs to their cross-park rivals, but they've proven one thing this season: they'll be game. __________________ The Baseball Chronicle - Swinging thru History! The Football Chronicle - Hitting Hard Historically (PFS - 1962) Alternate Universe Football (FOF - 1994)

08-01-2010, 03:01 PM	#226 (permalink)
legendsport Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Behind The Lens Posts: 2,158 Thanks: 3 Thanked 8x in 8 posts	1921 Season Recap FINAL MLB STANDINGS: Code: National League Standings W L PCT GB New York Giants 101 53 .656 - Cincinnati Reds 90 64 .584 11.0 St. Louis Cardinals 87 67 .565 14.0 Chicago Cubs 82 72 .532 19.0 Pittsburgh Pirates 71 83 .461 30.0 Philadelphia Phillies 70 84 .455 31.0 Brooklyn Dodgers 58 96 .377 43.0 Boston Braves 57 97 .370 44.0 American League Standings W L PCT GB New York Yankees 90 64 .584 - Philadelphia Athletics 87 67 .565 3.0 Detroit Tigers 85 69 .552 5.0 St. Louis Browns 81 73 .526 9.0 Chicago White Sox 77 77 .500 13.0 Cleveland Indians 69 85 .448 21.0 Boston Red Sox 68 86 .442 22.0 Washington Senators 59 95 .383 31.0 1921 is likely to go down in history as the year the record books were remade as never before. A slew of records were broken in 1921 as the game's top players took their games to a never-before-seen level of excellence, inscribing their names in baseball history. Both the single-season and career home run records were broken, as was the single-season runs batted in record. Other non-record breaking but notably outstanding performances included a Triple Crown in batting (and near Triple Crown in pitching), a 31-game winning pitcher, and the game's first .400 hitter since the 1890s. TOM COFFIN, NEW YORK (AL) Topping the list, in terms of excitement, was the season put together by the heretofore little-known first baseman/outfielder of the New York Yankees - a fellow by the name of Tom Coffin. Earning the nickname "The Undertaker" by New York's baseball-writing wags, Coffin put together the single-most devastating campaign with the bat ever seen in the annals of baseball. The biggest part of this was his assault on the single-season home run mark of 29, which had been accomplished twice - first by Alexander Faulk back in 1889 and then last season by Cincinnati's great shortstop Topsy Huggins (more on him later). Coffin not only broke the record, but he smashed it, finishing with a total of 45 home runs as he sent ball after ball soaring into the right-field porch of the Polo Grounds: 34 of his 45 circuit blasts came in the homer-friendly park the Yanks share with the Giants. But Coffin's season was more than just a bunch of long flies - he also put up a league-best .388 average and drove in a league-best 122 runs, while scoring 141 (1 behind Tom Bogard's 20th-century record) and drawing 138 walks. All in all, Coffin walked away with a Triple Crown and a slew of records that included the single-season marks in home runs, on-base percentage, and slugging percentage. Not bad for a fellow who entered the season with a .249 career batting average in 220 games and was only a regular because of the fallout of the 1919 gambling scandal. Coffin's performance, coupled with that of his more well-known team mates John Casey Jr. and Joe Standley, led the Yankees to the American League pennant just a year after losing eight of their team mates in the wake of the 1919 World Series-fixing scandal. Standley pitched in with a .388 average while Casey hit .363 with 35 home runs. And pitcher Fred Ray won 31 games and struck out 215 batters - both numbers leading the major leagues - and finished a scant .01 behind Ben Kushner of the Tigers in earned run average. Had Ray been able to keep just one more run from scoring, he'd have won a pitching Triple Crown to go along with Coffin's batting Triple Crown. TOPSY HUGGINS, CINCINNATI Several other pieces of history were taking place further west along the shores of the Ohio River, where the Cincinnati Reds continued to punish baseballs with the National League's best lineup. Leading the way, as usual was Topsy Huggins, who had tied the single-season home run record in 1920 and had long-since established himself as baseball's best hitter - and one of its most unlikely (a slew of injuries had often derailed outstanding seasons for Huggins and the Reds). In 1921, Huggins "only" hit 32 home runs (including four in one game on July 26), but he did set a new record for runs batted in, as he drove him 156 runners. Many of those runs were scored by the second piece of the Reds' trinity of stellar hitters: first baseman Dave Simmons. Simmons slugged 23 home runs himself, but he also hit .417 - the first .400 season since the 19th century and the fourth-best mark in history. And completing the Reds' trio of superb sluggers was Joel Faulk who clubbed 25 home runs to push his career mark (at the age of 28) to 154. Faulk slugged homers in seven straight games in June - ten in all in that one week. Like Huggins, Faulk has often been injured, and injuries kept him out of almost 40 games in 1921. Reds fans are left wondering just how good the Reds of the past five seasons might have been if Faulk & Huggins could have stayed healthy. The Chicago Cubs had a potent offensive performance of their own in catcher Chester Davis. "The Buckeye Basher" led the National League with 42 home runs - an outstanding record-setting feat, overshadowed by the 45 of Coffin (and the fact that Coffin reached all the significant milestones: 29, 30, 35, and 40) before Davis. But what Davis did - and Coffin did not equal - was also steal 40 bases (in 57 attempts), to become the first player to hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases in the same season. The fact that a catcher should steal 40 bases is impressive enough, but to also slug 42 home runs is truly remarkable. Unfortunately for both the Cubs and Reds were that despite their outstanding individual performances, they were not the top dogs in the league. This was because the National League's dominant force - the New York Giants - were no less dominant in 1921 than they had been in any of the previous five seasons (in which they'd won the pennant). Their 101 wins was enough for an easy sixth-consecutive league pennant. And the Giants did this despite losing their two best pitchers (Rodney Couch and George Cleaves) to season-ending shoulder injuries within a three-day span in mid-July. FRED RAY, NEW YORK (AL) The World Series of 1921 was a rematch of the 1919 Series that shook the baseball world to its foundations. This time there'd be no allegations - proven or otherwise - of tampering, just good old fashioned baseball between the New York Giants and New York Yankees. For the Giants, their goal was a fifth-straight World Championship and a victory would also mean that three of those would have come at the expense of their Polo Ground tenants. For the Yankees, victory would mean redemption for the smear left on the reputation of baseball following the 1919 series. So it seemed to many that in this World Series, more was on the line than merely a title. In game one, with the Giants wearing the home whites, the Yankees drew first blood. Behind their 31-game-winning ace Fred Ray, the visitors picked up a tight 3-2 victory by touching up Giants starter Paul Sapp for three runs in the fourth on a bases-clearing double by first baseman Barry Watkins. Ray took care of everything else for a one-zip Series lead. The story was surprisingly similar in game two - another 3-2 win by the Yankees, who again scored all three runs in the fourth inning off Giants starter Tom Bondurant while their own starter, Frank McKinney, held the Giants to just a pair of runs on six hits. And despite star Tom Coffin going hitless in the first two contests, the Yankees crossed to the home dugout at the Polo Grounds up two games to none. The Yankees wore home whites and the Giants road gray for the third game, but otherwise things ended up much the same as for the third straight contest, the Yankees won by a score of 3-2. And though the Yankees again did all their scoring in one inning, this time it took them until the ninth to do it. Trailing 2-0 entering their last at-bat, the Yanks loaded the bases against the Giants' Roy Caldwell with Casey at the bat. And this time Casey came through with a bases-clearing, game-winning double into the gap in right-center with John Boucher sliding in safely on a close play at the plate. With the Yankees up three-nothing in the best-of-nine Series, things looked bleak for the Giants as game four began. And maybe the Giants knew it - they looked sluggish out of the box and fell behind right away as the Yankees punished Sapp for three in the first and added a fourth run in the second, en route to an 8-0 whitewashing of the Giants and commanding four-nothing lead. The victory left the Yankees just one win shy of redeeming themselves for 1919. FINAL NEGRO LEAGUE STANDINGS: Code: Negro National League Standings W L PCT GB Detroit Stars 53 29 .646 - Chicago American Giants 48 34 .585 5.0 Kansas City Monarchs 47 34 .580 5.5 Cincinnati Cubans 44 38 .537 9.0 St. Louis Stars 44 38 .537 9.0 Indianapolis ABCs 41 42 .494 12.5 Columbus Buckeyes 26 56 .317 27.0 Chicago Giants 25 57 .305 28.0 NeL Independents Standings W L PCT GB Bacharach Giants 29 14 .674 - Cuban Stars (East) 27 13 .675 .5 Homestead Grays 28 15 .651 1.0 Nashville Elite Giants 19 19 .500 7.5 Brooklyn Royal Giants 21 22 .488 8.0 Hilldale Daisies 19 23 .452 9.5 Lincoln Giants 18 26 .409 11.5 Dayton Marcos 10 22 .313 13.5 Birmingham Black Barons 14 31 .311 16.0 The Negro National League concluded its second season with an exciting pennant race, won ultimately by the Detroit Stars, who spent the summer exchanging the league lead with the Chicago American Giants and St. Louis Stars. In the heat of the summer the St. Louis club dropped out of the race, but the American Giants and Detroit Stars battled into September before Detroit pulled away to win the pennant by five-games over the defending champs from Chicago. The NNL had its share of outstanding performances: Tomas Palomino of the Cincinnati Cubans hit .404 to lead the league while Kansas City Monarchs' center fielder Wilbur 'Mountain' Hardaway clubbed 19 home runs in 336 at-bats to lead the league by a full ten homers. Chicago's Pete Chappel was again the loop's winningest hurler with 15 victories, while Cubans' pitcher Bobby Trujillo posted a league-low 2.30 ERA (and posted a tidy 13-1 won-loss record). Amongst the independent Eastern clubs, the Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City posted a 29-14 record among common competition to best the 27-13 mark of the Cuban Stars and 28-15 mark of the Homestead Grays to claim the unofficial "Eastern Championship." Homestead catcher Jimmy Walker hit .407, best in the east while his team mate Willie Goode won 12 games, more than any eastern pitcher. Rumors continue to swirl about a proposed Eastern league to match the Negro National League in the west, setting up a Negro World Series, but so far the talk remains just that: talk. __________________ The Baseball Chronicle - Swinging thru History! The Football Chronicle - Hitting Hard Historically (PFS - 1962) Alternate Universe Football (FOF - 1994)

12-04-2010, 01:08 AM	#227 (permalink)
udbacker58 All Star Starter Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,039 Thanks: 68 Thanked 65x in 46 posts	glad to see you're still going strong! I noticed when going through the history that the names seemed to have changed from when I was back with those horrible Reds teams in the early 20th century. Did something happen? __________________ USBA (Commish): New Orleans Ragin' Cajuns BLSN: Atlanta Braves: BLB (Commish) - BLHB Interested in a MLB league? Apply to join the BLB!.... Fictional more your taste? Send me a PM and Apply to join the USBA!

01-07-2011, 09:54 AM	#229 (permalink)
legendsport Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Behind The Lens Posts: 2,158 Thanks: 3 Thanked 8x in 8 posts	Yep, had some history and league file issues and had to re-boot. I am starting a new thread for the rebooted TBC. So if you'd like to continue following TBC, please check that one out. __________________ The Baseball Chronicle - Swinging thru History! The Football Chronicle - Hitting Hard Historically (PFS - 1962) Alternate Universe Football (FOF - 1994)

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