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toxicavenger74 · 12-02-2008, 10:24 AM

League Premise
The United States Baseball League starts in 1995. Currently the league is in 2005. The league is started by Charlie Lowe who starts the league to bring baseball back from the scandles that caused is to fold under a cloud of corruption at the end of the 1994 season. None of the players from MLB are allowed to play in the league.

In 1995 12 teams started with the USBL. Initially, Lowe did not know whether to name the league the USBL or the IBL for International Baseball League. He didn't yet have the infrastructure in place for a team in Mexico or Canada but he was sure that someday he would. Regardless, he goes with the name USBL and will change it if the league is successful and he desires for it to expand outside of the US.

The Characters
Charlie Lowe--Commissioner of the USBL. He is a successful businessman and family man. He made is forturne from the trucking and long haul transportation industry. He owns a company headquartered in Lebanon, MO called Lowe Trucking. He is well known for getting things down throughout Southern Missouri and he is a man you don't want on your bad side. He is a man who would be at his ideal weight if he were 6'5" but alas he is only 5'8". He was a major follower of highschool sports...particularly basketball. He loved the team and fan camraderie and especially the intense holiday tournaments. He started the Midwest Womems Softball League (MWSL) in the early 80's which folded after 2 years and in the early 90's the Missouri Governors League (MGL) which was a professional mens baseball league based soley in Missouri. The MGL would fold after 3 years but it layed inroads and created infrastrucure for the USBL to take over when a baseball void was left by corruption and folding of MLB.

Brice Harrison--Charlie Lowe's grandson who is the GM of the Memphis Legends. Often times is chided because many believe he is given special treatment.

Hub Capps--Writer for the The Baseball Network which is headquarted in Memphis. In addition he is assigned to cover the Memphis Legends.

The Baseball Network--A Multimedia network that produces both a 24 hr. baseball network and daily columns focusing on each team in the USBL. TBN has assigned writers to cover each team and their columns are published in the local newspapers for each of the teams.

The Memphis Legends--Often times called "The First Team of Baseball" by Lowe and later picked up by Capps in his columns due to the fact that this was the first team established in the USBL. The Legends get their roots from the Lebanon Yellow Jackets of the MGL.

The Jose Delgado incident--Lowe was a big believer in baseball being America's game. He did not deny that one day that there should be professional teams in other countries however until that time he felt baseball should be played by Americans. At the start of the inagural 1995 season Lowe grandfathers in all foreigners but states that teams should no longer sign players who are not United States citizens. However, he does not officially ban them and states that he wants to work with owners on how best to proceed. Regardless, Brice Harrison and the Memphis Legends scout foreign players and on July 19th 1995 signs 22 y.o. Dominican catcher Jose Delgado. Lowe comes out with a foreign player ban the following day on July 20th. There was an outcry from the media and fans as many believed that Harrison had inside information that the ban was coming and also went against the unwritten rule of not signing foreign players. He was the only GM to break this rule during this period. It was particularly troubling to many other GM's and owners as Delgado was scouted as a very athletic and remarkable 5 tool catcher.

Due to the scrutiny Lowe lifted the ban during the off season of 1996 only and publically chided his grandson for skirting the rules. With the ban back in place at the start of the 1996 season Delgado was promoted from AAA to the ML roster. He proceeded to be the first Legend to hit for the cycle in April and found himself playing the outfield as Jim "Ranger" Walker was the everyday catcher and viewed by many to be a mainstay at that position. Harrison and the Legends were still continuously and heavily criticized and on July 18 1996, Delgado was traded along with LF Will Martin and P Dewey Parker to the Tacoma Burners for P Keith Raines, P Allan Dodson and two minor leaguers. The foreign player ban would stay in place until 2004 until it was completely lifted with the only stipulation that American players only are eligible for the draft and foregin players are allowed to be signed as FA's.

When Harrison traded Delgado he stated "He is the most athletic catcher I have ever seen, he may be one of the greatest catchers in league history by the time his career his over".

Many years later, Lowe stated that he proceeded with the ban in reaction to his grandsons signing of Delgado and that the ban was suppose to go in place as it did at the start of the 1996 season. That while his grandson errored in breaking a gentlemans agreement between the teams and the league that the issue was made worse by the ban as the public and media saw it differently than how it actually played out.

Up Next
We will pick up the league in the middle of the 2005 season. A lot has happened between 1995 and 2005, along the way I may revisit those seasons.

toxicavenger74 · 12-02-2008, 11:43 AM

Northern League
Team	W	L	WPct	GB	R	RA
Chicago Comets	95	67	0.586	-	926	804
Cleveland Blues	90	72	0.556	5	940	816
Baltimore Commanders	82	80	0.506	13	746	744
Boston Gents	78	84	0.481	17	873	910
New York Knights	75	87	0.463	20	710	807
Detroit Silverbacks	66	96	0.407	29	818	932

Southern League
Team	W	L	WPct	GB	R	RA
Dallas Marshalls	96	66	0.593	-	1092	935
Memphis Legends	85	77	0.525	11	1029	905
New Orleans Spiders	83	79	0.512	13	910	940
St. Louis Aviators	81	81	0.5	15	888	896
Carolina Browns	73	89	0.451	23	877	991
Los Angeles Dragons	68	94	0.42	28	806	935

Chicago Comets over Dallas in the 1995 US Championship Series 4-0.

North Awards
Diamond MVP Hitter Award	Paul Craft	CHI	.388/.468/.605, 26 HR, 111 RBI, 92.2 VORP
Golden Arm Pitcher Award	Luis Miguel Coldivar	CHI	20-3, 2.74 ERA, 233.0 IP, 222 K, 88.6 VORP
Emerald Rookie of the Year Award	Iván González	CHI	.264/.341/.360, 9 HR, 68 RBI, -0.2 VORP
Platinum Glove Award	Pitcher Jorge Ayala	NY	1.000 PCT., 11 PO, 47 A, 2.78 RANGE
	Catcher Howard Coleman	BAL	.993 PCT., 982 PO, 66 A, 34.9 CS %
	First Base Brian Scott	DET	.995 PCT., 1420 PO, 85 A, 9.81 RANGE
	Second Base Peter Ross	CHI	.988 PCT., 257 PO, 399 A, 5.13 RANGE
	Third Base Vincent Piper	BAL	.958 PCT., 80 PO, 264 A, 2.76 RANGE
	Shortstop Iván González	CHI	.975 PCT., 224 PO, 430 A, 4.68 RANGE
	Left Field Ramón Alomar	NY	.997 PCT., 308 PO, 12 A, 2.20 RANGE
	Center Field Clayton Ferguson	BOS	.994 PCT., 335 PO, 5 A, 3.09 RANGE
	Right Field Marty Robinson	BAL	.984 PCT., 244 PO, 5 A, 2.29 RANGE

South Awards
Diamond MVP Hitter Award	Juan Marín	SL	.302/.381/.670, 48 HR, 126 RBI, 49.8 VORP
Golden Arm Pitcher Award	Tim Stephens	LA	15-8, 3.46 ERA, 200.0 IP, 162 K, 52.2 VORP
Emerald Rookie of the Year Award	Chris Cowan	DAL	.292/.375/.504, 25 HR, 107 RBI, 44.1 VORP
Platinum Glove Award	Pitcher Dewey Parker	MEM	1.000 PCT., 12 PO, 32 A, 2.60 RANGE
	Catcher Sean Mueller	SL	.992 PCT., 803 PO, 62 A, 44.6 CS %
	First Base Al Jones	NO	.993 PCT., 1459 PO, 111 A, 10.45 RANGE
	Second Base Bill Hall	NO	.978 PCT., 224 PO, 349 A, 5.51 RANGE
	Third Base Kyle Roy	MEM	.974 PCT., 93 PO, 356 A, 3.21 RANGE
	Shortstop Ed Rose	NO	.980 PCT., 213 PO, 425 A, 5.18 RANGE
	Left Field Kevin Frazier	LA	.996 PCT., 235 PO, 6 A, 2.20 RANGE
	Center Field George Forbes	LA	.995 PCT., 372 PO, 6 A, 2.80 RANGE
	Right Field Juan Marín	SL	.978 PCT., 311 PO, 7 A, 2.72 RANGE

toxicavenger74 · 12-02-2008, 12:37 PM

November 1995
Hub Capps--TBN
Summary
The Legends placed their hopes for the future in a 23 y.o. CF Harold "Hal" McCoy who they made their #1 draft pick. He was an immediate hit with both Legends management and the fans as his work ethic and play on the field. He would contend along with Legends 1B Bartolo Depetris for the Southern League Diamond Award but both would lose out to St. Louis Aviators Juan Marin.

The Legends fueded with the Dallas Marshalls the entire year yet never was able to capture 1st place even for a day. The Legends pitching could never find any consistency as #2 starter Al Jenkins would miss a month with injury and Dewey Parker could never find the strike zone. The Legends found a gem in Mark Madison who went 8-0 in his first 8 starts. They received Madison from the NY Knights in exchange for the brooding Chet Goodman. Goodman was replaced as the starting SS with fan favorite Fraser Brewer in early May. GM Harrison fueded with Manager Sergio Lopez on Dewey Parker's play as Salas wanted him in the rotation and to be left alone to work out his kinks while Harrison was wanting him to work out the bullpen. Behind the scenes Harrison secretly blamed Parker for the fading of the team in late August.

In summary, Harrison knew he had a pitching staff that was going to cost him. He knew that for this team to win the South that he would have to have some outstanding pitching performances from average players and while it looked like he found it in Mark Madison and Robert Moore, they along with the rest of the team faded by late August. Harrison chose not to make any bold moves as he saw potential in the club even in players like Dewey Parker. He did get rid of clubhouse cancer Chet Goodman. The lineup looked like it potentially could be an All-Star lineup and Harrison went into the off-season knowing that the pitching staff and bullpen would need serious work if they were to be contender in 1996. The criticism over the Jose Delgado signing in late July seemed to start taking a toll on the team which was much beloved by the nation prior to his signing.

1995 Starting Lineup

C	1B	2B	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF
Walker	Depetris	Stone	Roy	Brewer	Martin	McCoy	Dawson

1995 Starting Rotation and Bullpen leaders

Craighead	Moore	Jenkins	Parker	Madison	Rowe	McClery	Jones	Sharp
15-9, 4.59	12-6, 4.54	10-4, 4.64	7-11, 5.38	8-8, 4.73	23 SV, 5.91	63 G, 5.69	61 G, 3.63	59 G, 4.50

1995 Batting Stats

Pos	Player	Age	G	GS	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	VORP
SS	Fraser Brewer	30	142	140	538	64	134	32	4	8	98	0	1	63	115	0.249	0.336	0.368	0.704	2.2
RF	Artie Cannon	28	8	1	11	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	0.091	0.091	0.091	0.182	-3.1
SS	*Ángel Cardenas	24	43	7	62	8	15	4	0	0	10	1	0	5	9	0.242	0.304	0.306	0.611	-1.9
RF	*Beau Dawson	33	144	144	541	120	181	42	2	33	148	1	1	84	74	0.335	0.438	0.603	1.041	72.4
-	José Delgado	23	14	0	13	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0.231	0.231	0.308	0.538	-0.7
1B	#Bartolo Depetris	32	162	161	623	129	204	34	4	38	163	0	0	100	112	0.327	0.427	0.578	1.005	79.9
LF	*Kip Dorsey	22	30	10	58	7	7	2	0	1	13	0	0	4	16	0.121	0.215	0.207	0.422	-12.5
SS	*Chet Goodman	27	37	18	82	9	15	0	0	2	7	0	0	10	12	0.183	0.266	0.256	0.522	-6
RF	Pedro Gutiérrez	29	125	67	332	41	80	19	3	5	41	15	2	19	63	0.241	0.286	0.361	0.647	-24.6
LF	Will Martin	30	75	75	275	57	85	25	5	12	52	9	5	43	41	0.309	0.401	0.567	0.969	21
P	Jared McClery	38	63	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-0.2
CF	*Harold McCoy	24	149	149	553	160	189	52	13	23	113	29	10	135	93	0.342	0.482	0.608	1.09	93
RF	*Bill McLeod	26	35	9	55	7	8	2	0	1	7	0	0	8	11	0.145	0.273	0.236	0.509	-9.7
-	*Cooper Robertson	25	3	0	3	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.667	0.667	1	1.667	1.6
3B	Kyle Roy	22	150	146	613	134	190	33	2	24	84	5	6	89	111	0.31	0.399	0.488	0.887	59.8
C	Luis Salas	26	42	26	119	18	19	2	0	3	12	0	2	9	14	0.16	0.217	0.252	0.469	-12
2B	*Zach Stevenson	23	16	5	27	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	1	3	9	0.074	0.167	0.185	0.352	-4.9
2B	#Clarence Stone	35	137	136	521	128	148	25	2	24	69	0	0	149	48	0.284	0.445	0.478	0.923	46.6
3B	#Curtis Thomas	30	110	45	226	25	59	14	1	2	31	0	0	37	31	0.261	0.36	0.358	0.718	7.3
2B	George van Zandt	36	47	21	98	11	20	6	1	2	8	6	2	13	20	0.204	0.31	0.347	0.657	-5.2
C	Jim Walker	24	138	136	515	79	149	23	2	13	90	0	6	86	39	0.289	0.389	0.417	0.807	27.5
	Team Totals	28	2157	1458	5639	1029	1560	329	39	192	978	66	36	871	918	0.277	0.379	0.451	0.83	332

1995 Pitching Stats

Player	Age	W	L	Pct	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	VORP
Fraser Brewer	30	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Quinn Craighead	26	15	9	0.625	30	30	0	198	226	101	20	50	149	4.59	26.1
Kurt Davis	27	1	6	0.143	14	9	0	55.2	95	60	12	31	29	9.7	-26
Dave Gallagher	38	0	0	0	24	0	1	37	56	31	7	22	25	7.54	-7.8
Pedro Gutiérrez	29	0	0	0	4	0	0	2	0	0	0	4	0	0	1.3
Al Jenkins	24	10	4	0.714	27	27	0	159	194	82	11	53	98	4.64	20.2
David Jones	31	2	5	0.286	61	0	0	69.1	67	28	9	28	65	3.63	16.9
Joe Lowry	24	0	0	0	10	0	0	14	14	11	3	10	11	7.07	-2.2
Jason MacNamara	23	2	2	0.5	10	6	1	35.2	41	24	3	33	8	6.06	-1.4
Mark Madison	30	8	8	0.5	20	20	0	125	125	66	12	52	76	4.73	14.6
Jared McClery	38	10	5	0.667	63	0	1	74.1	73	47	7	45	46	5.69	0.3
Robert Moore	34	12	6	0.667	29	29	0	172	182	87	12	94	85	4.54	24
Lonnie Morris	32	0	3	0	52	0	1	81.2	91	41	9	51	42	4.52	11.5
Dewey Parker	26	7	11	0.389	32	26	0	152	172	91	6	97	91	5.38	6.2
Miguel Ramírez	20	0	1	0	5	0	0	6.2	5	2	0	6	1	2.7	2.4
Jacob Rowe	35	4	8	0.333	45	0	23	42.2	48	28	2	33	36	5.91	-0.9
Justin Sharp	22	3	2	0.6	59	0	2	64	69	32	4	26	46	4.5	9.2
John Thomas	22	0	0	0	33	0	4	35.2	38	19	1	18	19	4.79	3.9
Jeff Walker	27	0	1	0	7	0	0	7.1	10	4	0	4	2	4.91	0.7
Dean Washington	32	10	6	0.625	27	15	0	96.2	128	77	17	62	60	7.17	-16
Team Totals	28.5	85	77	0.525	##	162	33	1430	1634	831	135	719	889	5.23	83.3

toxicavenger74 · 12-02-2008, 01:44 PM

Going into the 1996 season the USBL added 4 teams. Later this would be seen as a haphazard and dangerous move for the young league as it was still building the infrastructure and capital needed to give a league strength. Additionally, MLB threatened lawsuits against the USBL if they used any likeness whatsoever of any MLB team. So, the league moved cautiously with the cities that it chose for its expansion. The new teams were the Orlando Neptunes, Las Vegas Kings, Madision Green Sox and the Tacoma Burners.

The Burners drew a lot of criticism as many felt that it referred to some type of drug jaron. However, the Tacoma owner was attempting to use the term in reference to a Volcano.

To save on travel costs the league split up into the Northern League and Southern league each with two divisions.

The Southern League Emerald Award drew criticism as it was given to Kip Dorsey of the Memphis Legends. Many consider him the worst ROY ever.

Also, there was controversy with Errol Blankenship being given the Diamond Award as many felt it should have gone to Baltimore catcher Harold Coleman. Blankenship hit 50 HR but plays in hitter friendly park Costner-Ford Stadium in Detroit.

Juan Marin of the St.Louis Aviators took his 2nd Southern League Diamond Award establishing himself as the premiere player of the league.

Both Tim Stephens of the LA Dragons and Luis Miguel Coldivar of the Chicago Comets won their 2nd Golden Arm Award in their respective leagues.

North

East							West
Team	W	L	WPct	GB	R	RA	Team	W	L	WPct	GB	R	RA
Baltimore Commanders	90	72	0.556	-	774	774	Chicago Comets	104	58	0.642	-	880	606
Cleveland Blues	85	77	0.525	5	837	722	Detroit Silverbacks	74	88	0.457	30	813	880
Boston Gents	84	78	0.519	6	792	757	Madison Green Sox	70	92	0.432	34	664	800
New York Knights	83	79	0.512	7	699	729	Tacoma Burners	58	104	0.358	46	679	870

South

East							West
Team	W	L	WPct	GB	R	RA	Team	W	L	WPct	GB	R	RA
Memphis Legends	102	60	0.63	-	1069	823	St. Louis Aviators	98	64	0.605	-	931	729
New Orleans Spiders	92	70	0.568	10	895	810	Los Angeles Dragons	95	67	0.586	3	825	723
Carolina Browns	78	84	0.481	24	829	950	Dallas Marshalls	79	83	0.488	19	952	893
Orlando Neptunes	47	115	0.29	55	613	976	Las Vegas Kings	57	105	0.352	41	771	981

Post-Season Results
Round 1	Chicago over Baltimore, 4-2
Round 1	Memphis over St. Louis, 4-2
Round 2	Memphis over Chicago, 4-1

Northern League Awards

Diamond Bat Award	Errol Blankenship	DET	.317/.387/.622, 50 HR, 150 RBI, 59.7 VORP
Golden Arm Award	Luis Miguel Coldivar	CHI	23-5, 1.95 ERA, 262.2 IP, 236 K, 108.6 VORP
Emerald Rookie of the Year Award	Santiago Vargas	CHI	13-6, 3.67 ERA, 142.1 IP, 109 K, 33.2 VORP
Platinum Glove Award	Pitcher Andy Harding	CHI	.959 PCT., 26 PO, 44 A, 3.14 RANGE
	Catcher José López	CHI	.996 PCT., 833 PO, 76 A, 45.9 CS %
	First Base Jason Murphy	TAC	.996 PCT., 938 PO, 67 A, 9.57 RANGE
	Second Base Jorge Hernández	CLE	.986 PCT., 312 PO, 374 A, 5.53 RANGE
	Third Base Vincent Piper	BAL	.967 PCT., 114 PO, 322 A, 2.87 RANGE
	Shortstop Augusto Hernández	NY	.991 PCT., 215 PO, 361 A, 5.04 RANGE
	Left Field David Seals	DET	.992 PCT., 247 PO, 6 A, 2.25 RANGE
	Center Field Clayton Ferguson	BOS	.994 PCT., 322 PO, 3 A, 3.39 RANGE
	Right Field Juan García	TAC	.979 PCT., 326 PO, 7 A, 2.33 RANGE

Southern League Awards

Diamond MVP Hitter Award	Juan Marín	SL	.330/.450/.674, 48 HR, 140 RBI, 83.4 VORP
Golden Arm Pitcher Award	Tim Stephens	LA	24-6, 2.37 ERA, 254.1 IP, 185 K, 86.6 VORP
Emerald Rookie of the Year Award	Kip Dorsey	MEM	.274/.345/.345, 4 HR, 64 RBI, -12.0 VORP
Platinum Glove Award	Pitcher Ángel Yánez	SL	.971 PCT., 19 PO, 49 A, 2.37 RANGE
	Catcher Tom Myers	NO	.994 PCT., 912 PO, 75 A, 44.2 CS %
	First Base Dave Boyer	ORL	.996 PCT., 904 PO, 76 A, 10.19 RANGE
	Second Base Bill Hall	NO	.984 PCT., 344 PO, 469 A, 5.37 RANGE
	Third Base Randall Reed	DAL	.992 PCT., 75 PO, 283 A, 3.28 RANGE
	Shortstop Ed Rose	NO	.986 PCT., 255 PO, 457 A, 4.65 RANGE
	Left Field Russ Mullins	SL	.987 PCT., 302 PO, 8 A, 2.30 RANGE
	Center Field Jesús Batista	SL	.991 PCT., 452 PO, 13 A, 3.07 RANGE
	Right Field Brian Bishop	LA	.985 PCT., 331 PO, 3 A, 2.29 RANGE

toxicavenger74 · 12-02-2008, 05:06 PM

November 1996
Hub Capps--TBN

Memphis Legends---Champions

Pitching
Going into the off-season GM Harrison knew that he had to get Jorge De La Rosa who was not re-signed by the St. Louis Aviators. As the Thanksgiving Holiday approached Harrison flew to De La Rosa's home in Arlington, VA and came away with a signed contract. He inked De La Rosa to a 3 yr. 8.4 mil contract in total. He brought back Robert Moore who was not dominant and barely crafty but somehow found a way to win. He also signed Bud Guyer at 1.5 mill/yr for 2 years to take over the closer role from Jacob Rowe. Guyer had never been a closer prior to this season but was a quality reliever for the Detroit Silverbacks in 1995. Additionally, Miguel Ramirez, a rare grandfathered in foreign player, was brought up from AAA Bristol and provided some energy.

As the season progressed Quinn Craighead (17-9; 3.84 ERA) may have been the ace of the staff but it was Jorge De La Rosa (20-7; 3.82 ERA)who made the difference between 1995 and 1996. De La Rosa became the Legends 1st 20 game winner and was a contender for the Golden Arm Award. Bud Guyer (1 Sv; 6.18 ERA) was a dissapointment as closer and he was pulled from the role by the last week of April and replace with unknown prospect Joe Thomas. Thomas filled the void and went on to get 30 saves. In mid-July with continual criticism from the media and fans over the Jose Delgado incident, Delgado was dealt to the expansion Tacoma Burners along with much bewildered Dewey Parker and Will Martin for the 2006 #1 draft pick LHP Keith Raines, RHP Allan Dodson and two minor leaguers. The trade was suppose to help stabilize the rotation with the addition of Dodson who replaced Dewey Parker. Dodson, like Parker, would struggle with the Legends going 3-5 with a 6.12 ERA.

In the playoffs, Dodson was almost left off the roster and was only used in 3 games with only 1 start. However, that start came in game 5 of the Championship series vs. heavily favored Chicago Comets and the cold-hearted pitching of Luis Miguel Coldivar. In that game he dominated Comet hitters and finished off a remarkable David v. Goliath story.

Going into the off-season, Harrison needs to only shore up the #4 and 5 spots in the rotation and stabilize the bullpen roles. Joe Thomas has caught lightening in a bottle with his new found closer role so don't expect Jacob Rowe to be back for the 1997 season. Also, Bud Guyer was heavily booed and almost a clubhouse distraction for his overwhelmingly poor pitching performances. Does Harrison take a 1.5 million loss and cut Guyer or try to stick with him in the last year of his contract?

Hitting

Harrison did not make any major additions to the position players for the 1996 season. The lineup for the Legends is Legendary. The only disappointment was 3B Kyle Roy who struggled with his .264 avg and lost power only hitting 12 Hr. However, he maintained a .401 OBP and brought home another Platinum Glove for his stellar defense.

Going into 1997, Harrison needs to only maintain what he has. His team is getting older, Clarence Stone (36), Fraser Brewer (32), Beau Dawson (34), Bartolo Depetris (33) may only be able to put up one more monster year collectively.

Starters

Year	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF
1995 85-77	Walker	Depetris	Stone	Roy	Brewer	Martin	McCoy	Dawson
1996 102-60	Walker	Depetris	Stone	Roy	Brewer	Dorsey	McCoy	Dawson

Pitching rotation and bullpen leaders

1996 102-60	Craighead	De La Rosa	Jenkins	Parker	Moore	Thomas	Guyer	Jones	Rowe
1996 102-60	17-9, 3.84	20-7, 3.82	13-7, 4.20	5-4, 5.16	8-4, 5.72	30 SV, 5.04	60 G, 6.18	57 G, 3.60	55 G, 6.41

Hitting Stats

Team Batting Stats
Pos	Player	Age	G	GS	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	VORP
SS	Fraser Brewer	31	152	152	613	108	174	39	1	11	75	1	1	109	124	0.284	0.398	0.405	0.803	33.9
SS	José Canseco	27	9	4	20	3	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.6	-0.4
SS	*Ángel Cardenas	25	17	9	51	7	8	1	1	0	7	2	1	3	11	0.157	0.204	0.216	0.419	-6
LF	Dave Dansby	27	8	2	5	2	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	3	0	0.2	0.455	0.2	0.655	-0.8
RF	*Beau Dawson	34	153	151	586	116	178	28	3	27	147	0	1	97	111	0.304	0.413	0.5	0.913	42.4
C	José Delgado	24	63	29	151	26	43	8	2	2	25	9	4	26	25	0.285	0.389	0.404	0.793	9.5
1B	#Bartolo Depetris	33	145	145	548	127	191	26	4	36	170	0	0	113	94	0.349	0.463	0.608	1.07	92.7
LF	*Kip Dorsey	23	150	137	592	96	162	26	2	4	64	3	5	44	109	0.274	0.345	0.345	0.69	-12
2B	Edward Hardin	29	69	14	106	17	29	5	2	2	20	0	0	10	22	0.274	0.333	0.415	0.748	0.2
C	Tim Martin	24	18	10	48	2	11	3	0	0	5	0	0	4	13	0.229	0.288	0.292	0.58	-1.8
LF	Will Martin	31	79	45	211	40	57	12	2	5	37	3	5	37	23	0.27	0.377	0.417	0.794	4.1
CF	*Harold McCoy	25	134	128	462	140	134	28	6	18	98	68	19	153	72	0.29	0.475	0.494	0.969	65
1B	*Mike Parker	25	83	21	143	13	30	9	1	2	22	0	0	10	32	0.21	0.27	0.329	0.599	-10.5
3B	Kyle Roy	23	147	147	542	91	143	20	1	12	87	8	6	123	88	0.264	0.401	0.371	0.771	25
CF	*Andrés Ruíz	26	31	13	64	10	17	0	1	2	11	3	5	3	14	0.266	0.294	0.391	0.685	-3.7
2B	#Clarence Stone	36	155	154	558	155	159	31	5	24	95	0	0	200	40	0.285	0.471	0.487	0.959	74.5
3B	Wilson Téllez	18	7	1	11	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0.182	0.182	0.182	0.364	-1.4
3B	*Brandon Tomlinson	26	16	8	34	1	4	1	1	0	4	1	0	4	6	0.118	0.211	0.206	0.416	-3.4
C	Jim Walker	25	140	126	483	80	149	17	1	20	96	1	0	99	49	0.308	0.427	0.472	0.899	51.2
	Team Totals	27	2120	1458	5641	1069	1568	272	34	167	1015	99	48	##	932	0.278	0.397	0.427	0.824	363

Pitching Stats

Team Pitching Stats
Player	Age	W	L	Pct	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	VORP
Quinn Craighead	27	17	9	0.654	33	33	0	229	242	98	23	63	173	3.84	39.1
Kurt Davis	28	0	0	0	3	0	0	3.1	4	2	1	1	1	5.4	0
Jorge De La Rosa	26	20	7	0.741	34	33	0	238	228	101	19	54	150	3.82	41.3
Allan Dodson	27	3	5	0.375	12	12	0	67.2	75	46	7	46	54	6.12	-6.4
Wade Gaines	25	0	1	0	11	1	0	20.1	26	16	2	13	13	7.08	-4.2
Bud Guyer	36	6	2	0.75	60	0	1	71.1	89	49	7	26	46	6.18	-7.3
Al Jenkins	25	13	7	0.65	31	31	0	199	234	93	12	58	107	4.2	25.7
David Jones	32	4	0	1	57	0	2	55	60	22	6	30	39	3.6	10.9
Bob King	29	0	0	0	10	1	1	17	20	13	5	10	12	6.88	-2.9
Corbin Lee	22	0	0	0	5	0	0	6	7	2	0	4	1	3	1.6
Mark Madison	31	7	6	0.538	45	11	1	123	127	63	6	73	77	4.6	10.2
Ray Middleton	24	5	2	0.714	27	0	0	31.1	31	13	1	21	21	3.73	5.7
Robert Moore	35	8	4	0.667	35	13	1	107	119	68	4	82	67	5.72	-5.2
Dewey Parker	27	5	4	0.556	19	17	0	96	108	55	5	66	59	5.16	1.6
Miguel Ramírez	21	4	2	0.667	19	9	0	62.1	62	32	5	48	29	4.62	5
Jacob Rowe	36	3	3	0.5	55	1	3	53.1	66	38	3	42	38	6.41	-6.9
Andrés Ruíz	26	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Justin Sharp	23	4	4	0.5	28	0	1	27.2	41	17	2	15	15	5.53	-0.7
Brian Smith	18	0	0	0	8	0	2	4.2	7	7	1	5	6	13.5	-4.5
John Thomas	23	3	4	0.429	51	0	30	44.2	44	25	3	32	45	5.04	1.4
Team Totals	27.1	102	60	0.63	##	162	42	1458	1590	760	112	689	953	4.69

12-02-2008, 10:24 AM	#1 (permalink)
toxicavenger74 Major Leagues Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 376	USBL and the Memphis Legends League Premise The United States Baseball League starts in 1995. Currently the league is in 2005. The league is started by Charlie Lowe who starts the league to bring baseball back from the scandles that caused is to fold under a cloud of corruption at the end of the 1994 season. None of the players from MLB are allowed to play in the league. In 1995 12 teams started with the USBL. Initially, Lowe did not know whether to name the league the USBL or the IBL for International Baseball League. He didn't yet have the infrastructure in place for a team in Mexico or Canada but he was sure that someday he would. Regardless, he goes with the name USBL and will change it if the league is successful and he desires for it to expand outside of the US. The Characters Charlie Lowe--Commissioner of the USBL. He is a successful businessman and family man. He made is forturne from the trucking and long haul transportation industry. He owns a company headquartered in Lebanon, MO called Lowe Trucking. He is well known for getting things down throughout Southern Missouri and he is a man you don't want on your bad side. He is a man who would be at his ideal weight if he were 6'5" but alas he is only 5'8". He was a major follower of highschool sports...particularly basketball. He loved the team and fan camraderie and especially the intense holiday tournaments. He started the Midwest Womems Softball League (MWSL) in the early 80's which folded after 2 years and in the early 90's the Missouri Governors League (MGL) which was a professional mens baseball league based soley in Missouri. The MGL would fold after 3 years but it layed inroads and created infrastrucure for the USBL to take over when a baseball void was left by corruption and folding of MLB. Brice Harrison--Charlie Lowe's grandson who is the GM of the Memphis Legends. Often times is chided because many believe he is given special treatment. Hub Capps--Writer for the The Baseball Network which is headquarted in Memphis. In addition he is assigned to cover the Memphis Legends. The Baseball Network--A Multimedia network that produces both a 24 hr. baseball network and daily columns focusing on each team in the USBL. TBN has assigned writers to cover each team and their columns are published in the local newspapers for each of the teams. The Memphis Legends--Often times called "The First Team of Baseball" by Lowe and later picked up by Capps in his columns due to the fact that this was the first team established in the USBL. The Legends get their roots from the Lebanon Yellow Jackets of the MGL. The Jose Delgado incident--Lowe was a big believer in baseball being America's game. He did not deny that one day that there should be professional teams in other countries however until that time he felt baseball should be played by Americans. At the start of the inagural 1995 season Lowe grandfathers in all foreigners but states that teams should no longer sign players who are not United States citizens. However, he does not officially ban them and states that he wants to work with owners on how best to proceed. Regardless, Brice Harrison and the Memphis Legends scout foreign players and on July 19th 1995 signs 22 y.o. Dominican catcher Jose Delgado. Lowe comes out with a foreign player ban the following day on July 20th. There was an outcry from the media and fans as many believed that Harrison had inside information that the ban was coming and also went against the unwritten rule of not signing foreign players. He was the only GM to break this rule during this period. It was particularly troubling to many other GM's and owners as Delgado was scouted as a very athletic and remarkable 5 tool catcher. Due to the scrutiny Lowe lifted the ban during the off season of 1996 only and publically chided his grandson for skirting the rules. With the ban back in place at the start of the 1996 season Delgado was promoted from AAA to the ML roster. He proceeded to be the first Legend to hit for the cycle in April and found himself playing the outfield as Jim "Ranger" Walker was the everyday catcher and viewed by many to be a mainstay at that position. Harrison and the Legends were still continuously and heavily criticized and on July 18 1996, Delgado was traded along with LF Will Martin and P Dewey Parker to the Tacoma Burners for P Keith Raines, P Allan Dodson and two minor leaguers. The foreign player ban would stay in place until 2004 until it was completely lifted with the only stipulation that American players only are eligible for the draft and foregin players are allowed to be signed as FA's. When Harrison traded Delgado he stated "He is the most athletic catcher I have ever seen, he may be one of the greatest catchers in league history by the time his career his over". Many years later, Lowe stated that he proceeded with the ban in reaction to his grandsons signing of Delgado and that the ban was suppose to go in place as it did at the start of the 1996 season. That while his grandson errored in breaking a gentlemans agreement between the teams and the league that the issue was made worse by the ban as the public and media saw it differently than how it actually played out. Up Next We will pick up the league in the middle of the 2005 season. A lot has happened between 1995 and 2005, along the way I may revisit those seasons.

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