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May 1, 1935
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THE THRIFTLON TIMES May 1, 1936 BRUNO HAUPTMAN EXECUTED German Carpenter Claims He Is Innocent of Kidnapping and Killing Lindbergh Baby Until The End -- Lindbergh Loot Found On His Person --------------------------------------------------------------------- A2 WORLD NEWS King George V of England Dies, Edward VII Crowned We Expect Another 40 Years of Kingship -- Ho Hum -- English Kings Are Never Any Fun --------------------------------------------------------------------- B1 ENTERTAINMENT Masked Crimefighter... "Literature" Takes Control The Green Hornet Debuts on Radio, The Phantom in Print --------------------------------------------------------------------- C1 LESSER SPORTS PLAYED BY CANADIANS Longest NHL Game Ever Ends At 2:55AM [i]Montreal Maroons, Detroit Red Wings Fight It Out --- Look, Canadians --- If You're Going To Want Us To Take Your Sport Seriously --- Stop Saying Things Like "The Winning Goal Was Scored by Mud Bruneatau" --------------------------------------------------------------------- D1 SPORTS And They're Off! Senators, Reds, and Dodgers Jump Off To Early Leads WASHINGTON - The Senators made some moves this offseason which at first blush seemed to give up as much as they got, but so far at least they seem to be working on the philosophy of addition by subtraction. The Senators closed out the month of April with sweeps over the Philadelphia Athletics and Detroit Tigers to emerge as the top team in the American League. Washington is 12-5 to date. In the outfield, the loss of Rick Whitehead has been scarcely felt, as former Yankees prospect William S. Burroughs has proven to have a swing much more acclimated to spacious Griffith Stadium. Burroughs is far from the one-dimensional homerun hitter Whitehead was accused of being; although he has smacked 1 ball out of the park this year (a 2 run shot against the Tigers on the 28th), he's also hit .302 thus far with 5 doubles, 2 triples, and 9 RBIs in 53 at-bats so far. Overfilled outfield or not, it's hard to see how the Yankees let this guy get away. And the player the Red Sox got in exchange for Whitehead has really put this one over the top. Last year, Bill McDermott was considered the best centerfielder in the game not named Nathan Behnke. He's still that good but so far this year he's also hitting .403, with 18 runs in 16 games played. His stellar play in the leadoff slot is reason #1 why the Senators lead the AL in runs scored. On the pitching end, it's "no Elliott Hadlock? No problem". Led by Tom Young's 4-0, 1.75 ERA in the month of April, Senators starters have started 8 of 17 games so far this year. They almost don't need super-reliever Bob McKamey, who nonetheless is making himself useful anyway, pitching 5 games and 7 2/3rds scoreless innings so far. Reds Fight Adversity, Cling To Top Spot 1935 NL runners-up Cincinnati seem to be picking up right where they left off last year, which is both good and bad. On the good side, they're 9 -5 so far and #1 in the senior circuit. If the hitting has been a little iffy, it hasn't mattered because the pitching has been superb, leading the NL with a 2.77 ERA, including a 1.14 mark once the game is handed over to the bullpen. On the down side, the Reds have once more been snakebit by injuries. Here are the worst of the worst: P Earl Crockett (29-7, 1935 Buddha Turner Award winner): out indefinitely with a broken elbow CF Gustavo Castro (.298, 15, 51 in '35): out until mid-summer with a badly broken finger IF Britt Grim (.230, 0, 24 as a part-timer in '35): out until mid-May The loss of Crockett alone, who suffered his injury only on the 26th, is an especially big blow that it will be tough for the Reds to rebound from. Castro, we guess, should have been foreseen, given that his career high in games played is 119. As for Britt Grim, that's a bigger loss than one might first imagine, as he is an excellent fielder who, previous to being traded to the Reds at the end of the 1934 season, managed to stay in a a crowded New York Giants lineup on the strength of plus defense. The Reds have been forced to use former St. Louis Browns starter David Sherrill at the position; he is hitting just .235 with no extra base hits and is, to be kind to the man, not a major league quality starter. Is This The Dodgers' Year? Of all the three teams in New York City, the Dodgers were the ones least expected to contend for a title. Nothing against the Bums, but the other two clubs matched up against each other in the World Series last year and didn't get any weaker in the offseason, at least not on paper. So it's been a bit of a nice surprise for Brooklynites to see their boys outplaying both the Bronx Bombers and the (nominally) Manhattinite Giants. They're doing it with a neat combination of power (16 HRs, 1st in baseball), contact hitting (.320 BA, also #1 in baseball), and pitching which has been just plain good enough. Chief among Bums in this hot start has been catcher Jose Moreno. The former Mexican semi-pro star struggled a bit in his first full season in the major leagues, hitting only .268 but showing a high level of power which has carried over to this season as well. He leads all of baseball with 4 round-trippers, which goes well with his .404 average and 12 RBI, which ranks 2nd on the team. Right behind him in the average stat is reigning MVP Ken Lefebvre, who is "only" managing to hit .403 so far this year. Allen Vice leads the club with 13 ribbies. The pitching has maybe not been quite as impressive, but the Dodgers pride themselves as an offense-first club and, truth be told, are weathering the loss of former staff ace Cristobal Rodriguez pretty well. Newcomer Keith Hartung, sprung from "jail" in the form of the Boston Braves this offseason, leads the team with a 2-0 record. Young fireballer Curt Davenport and closer Dave Fortenberry also have earned 2 wins for this team so far. Award Winners Announced ST LOUIS - What the heck, right? April was a bit longer this month, so the Thriftlon Reports are excited to announce some Players of the Month for April. First, the rookies. Washington, as mentioned before, opened up a gaping hole in their outfield when they traded Rick Whitehead off to the Boston Red Sox in exchange for their speedy center fielder Bill McDermott. Well, Norman Dello Joio has filled that hole. Dello Joio, who composes airy classical music in his off-hours, is airing it out on the field and really making up for our tortured metaphor. April saw him knock everyone's socks off to the tune of a .456 batting average with 11 runs scored and 11 RBIs. His National League counterpart, at least in our eyes, was Philadelphia Phillies' outfielder Mark Matthews. Although the team around him seems to have learned no lessons from 1935, Matthews at least provides fans with a somewhat adequate reasons to buy tickets. Matthews hit .375 for the month with 7 RBI for the Phillies, hitting primarily at the bottom of the order. He won't be hitting down there for long. The Pitchers of the Month were Tom Young of the Senators - we've mentioned him already - and the Bees' Cristobal Rodriguez. As little as the Dodgers seem to be missing him, he has so far indicate that he has completely put a problematic 1935 behind him. This month he was 3-0 in 3 starts and 28 innings with a 2.25 ERA. If he keeps that up... well, the Bees could win 70 games, we guess. The Hitters of the Month, meanwhile, included Reds RF Brad Box, who carried the Reds to the tune of a .418 average, 2 home runs, and 18 RBIs. This is made doubly impressive by the lack of "oomph" in the offense around him - as a whole, Cincinnati is just 5th in the NL in runs scored. The American League Hitter of the Month was none other than the Swamp Fox, John Knight of the Boston Red Sox. Can one imagine how incredible this man's major league career would be if he'd only been signed ten years ago? Overlooking this man was a clear oversight by this league, it is clear. Knight hit .391 with 4 HRs and 10 RBIs while playing solid defense at shortstop.
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May 7, 1936
Games of the Day
 (9-9) vs  (13-7)Yankees 4, Tigers 3 NEW YORK - Arlen Bopp (.300, 0, 6) capped a 4-run rally in the 8th inning with the game-winning single. Previous to this inning, Tigers starter George Eccleston (3-2, 4.62) had pitched 7 scoreless innings and really looked like he had the Bombers' number. Jaime Rodriguez (1-0, 0.00) got the victory in relief of starter Eeyore Meyers (2-2, 1.44).  (8-12) vs  (9-10)Athletics 5, Indians 4, 14 innings PHILADELPHIA - Bob Coffee (.426, 4, 16) spent almost all of last year in the Red Sox' minor league system last year because of an overcrowded infield and a slow start. This year he's proving the Red Sox were in the wrong to keep him down, and today that case continued as he hit the game-winning homerun in the bottom of the 14th to put the A's back at .500. Michael McQuaid (2-0, 5.63) pitched two scoreless innings in a successful effort.  (6-11) vs  (17-6)Senators 4, White Sox 1 WASHINGTON - John Burdett (5-1, 2.16) became the major leagues' first 5-game winner of 1936 and spoiled Matt Ivey's (3-2, 2.80) White Sox debut in the process. Burdett scattered 7 hits in his 4th complete game of this short season, taking a shut-out into the 9th before a triple by 2B Jefferson Davis (.342, 0, 12) followed by a sac fly by LF Dan Masterson (.216, 1, 9) kept Chicago from being "Chicagoed". Senators 2B Joe Fussel (.190, 0, 8) collected 2 hits in this game including his first double of the year. The 25 year old rookie has been struggling to hit so far but hopefully this game will turn things around.  (6-14) vs  (11-10)Red Sox 7, Browns 4 BOSTON - Brian East's (2-2, 2.92) debut for his new team ended no better than his trade-mate Matt Ivey, as the career 116-game winner pitched 7 okay innings (4 runs but only 1 earned), only to let new closer Takehide Saito (0-1, 0.00) give up the ghost with 3 more unearned runs thanks to a bizarre error by 1B Bob Leonhardt and then a trio of 2-out base hits. Leonhardt (.386, 0, 11) got an easy pop fly behind the bag which should have gotten the Sox out of the inning. Instead, he muffed the ball and Saito subsequently imploded. RF Rick Whitehead (.235, 3, 13) and C Paul Washington (.301, 1, 12) each had 2 hits in the game and a hit in that fateful inning.  (11-9) vs  (11-8)Dodgers 5, Reds 4 CINCINNATI - SS Jay Calvin (.370, 1, 12) has made a name for himself in the past with his bat. However, so far this season Calvin, who is the youngest man to achieve 3,000 hits in a career, is making a name for himself with the glove. This time it's not a good name. Calvin committed his 9th error of the year in the 7th inning and that runner came around to score, which tie the game. From there, the Brooklyn Dodgers scored on the grossly overused Irwin Corey (3-1, 0.93, 12 G) in the 9th to leapfrog Cincinnati in the standings and potentially sweep them at home. Roman Loomis (3-2, 3.40) gave up 15 hits against the Dodgers, including 3 apiece to 1B Allen Vice (.402, 2, 15) and C Jorge Moreno (.386, 4, 15, and riding a 26 game hitting streak).  (9-9) vs  (6-11)Pirates 5, Giants 2 PITTSBURGH - The Pirates got all the runs they needed off of Lee "The Dragon" Bellamy (2-3, 4.91) in the first inning as Phil Cutshall (2-4, 4.87) cruised to a complete game victory over the struggling New York Giants. 2B Pat Tweedy (.276, 0, 13) collected 3 hits from the leadoff slot, including a game-opening double in the bottom of the first inning that led to a 3-run frame for the Pirates. Cutshall scattered 5 hits throughout the game despite walking twice as many men as he struck out (4 to 2).  (7-14) vs (8-9)Phillies 8, Cardinals 4 ST LOUIS - Adrian Cutright's (0-3, 7.71) struggles continue. Today, the Cardinals hurler gave up 8 runs before being knocked out of the box in the 6th inning, and the Phillies hung on behind Steve Eisenberg (3-0, 4.62) to earn just their 8th victory of the season. SS Otis Moyer (.286, 1, 7) went 4 for 5 including his first HR of the year in the winning effort.  (10-8) vs (11-7)Cubs 10, Bees 4 CHICAGO - Your current National League leaders... the Chicago Cubs? The Cubs walloped the Bees today to gain sole control of the 1st place slot in the senior circuit. Key doubles by CF Don Williams (.273, 1, 6) and LF Patrick Cleary (.299, 1, 11) led to Bees starter Herbert Hermann (1-1, 5.40) unravelling. Meanwhile, Cubs starter Nick Hillis (3-0, 2.85) had to leave after 7 with a strained elbow; fortunately, the injury is not believed to be serious.
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May 14, 1935
Thursday Games - A Weekly Update
(10-13) vs (9-15)Athletics 14, Indians 3 CLEVELAND - The Athletics destroyed their former #1 starter Phil Bell (2-3, 6.32), knocking him out of the game in the 3rd inning after he gave up 10 runs on 11 hits. Five A's starters had multiple-hit games in this 19-hit onslaught, led by CF Steve Hoover (.353, 0, 2), who went 4-4 with 4 runs scored. RF John Garibay (.265, 1, 1) had 3 hits including a solo homerun in the losing effort. (16-11) vs (11-13)Red Sox 8, Tigers 5 DETROIT - 1B Bob Wolf's (.355, 8, 16) heroics were not enough to overcome another bad start by last year's ace Stephen Mudge (3-3, 6.24) as the Tigers find themselves yet another game below .500. Tim Maisonet (5-2, 3.90) wasn't a world-beater either, although he did manage to complete the game. Mudge gave up 7 runs in 8 innings before finally giving way to closer Curt Blue (1-1, 7.30) who gave up one of 4 homeruns hit by both teams in this game in his single inning of work. (19-7) vs (7-18)Yankees 6, Browns 4 ST LOUIS - C Richard Nixon's (.333, 1, 22) rare display of power proved to be the difference-maker in this matchup. Nixon belted his first homerun of the season off of St. Louis starter Paul Moore (1-2, 5.33) in the top of the 1st inning to put the Yankees ahead 4-0, a lead which they never surrendered. Lowell May (1-0, 1.74) earned his 5th save in relief of starter Ramon Lopez (6-1, 1.35), who was solid through 5 but visibly tired in the 6th and 7th. (19-8) vs (7-13)Senators 8, White Sox 7 CHICAGO - Is it panic time for the Pale Hose? Tonight, Bob "Hitman" Hinman (1-3, 3.95), a 26 game winner last year and a yearly favorite for the Buddha Turner Award, gave up 6 runs in 8 innings, and then his replacement Vlad Treedom (0-1, 6.75) yielded a 2-run homerun to RF Norman Dello Joio (.457, 2, 18) to lose a game in which the Sox enjoyed leads of 5-3 and 7-4 in. 2B Jeff Davis (.348, 0, 16) continued his torrid hitting, adding 2 hits and 2 RBIs, while his double play partner Mark Melton (.235, 1, 7) has now gone the entire month of May - 32 at-bats - without a single base hit. (9-13) vs (11-12)Pirates 9, Bees 7 BOSTON - Pittsburgh erupted for 5 runs in the final two frames to send the hometown fans home unhappy. Doubles by C Attila Emu (.258, 1, 13) and 2B Pat Tweedy (.296, 0, 14) led to 2 runs in the 8th, and a variety of miscues, blunders, and bloopers caused 3 more runs to score off of Bees closer and loser Bill Salyer (0-3, 6.35). (12-11) vs (13-10)Cubs 3, Giants 2 NEW YORK - Solid, understated pitching by Brian Barnes (3-2, 3.16) took down the Giants in the Polo Grounds. Barnes gave the Cubs 8 good innings of 2-run baseball before being lifted for pinch-hitter Dave Danna (.091, 0, 1) who reached on an error by CF Dale Becker (.234, 1, 3) and started the eventual game-winning rally. Aged LF Charles Payne (.290, 2, 11) went 4 for 5 in this game including a 1st inning double off of Giants starter Justin Manson (2-2, 3.53). (12-10) vs (15-9)BROOKLYN - Dodgers left fielder Foster LeBeau (.422, 1, 14) capped a 9th inning rally with a 2-run single off of Cardinals closer Bob "Silk" Wilk (1-3, 3.60) to keep Brooklyn atop the standings and cool down the charging Cardinals just a little bit. Bucky Porter (3-2, 2.98) had pitched 8 good innings for the Cards and started the 9th out, but a walk and a single indicated that he was done. Wilk came in and simply did not prove himself up to the task of setting the mighty Dodgers down. 3B Bob Schumacher (.364, 0, 13) collected 3 hits in 4 tries for the losers.
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TRANSACTION ORACLE P Lamont Hall (0-1, 6.43) sold to Mission (PCL) for $5,000. The Bees finally cut ties with P Lamont Hall, who showed a lot of promise in his rookie season of 1933, when he finished 15-9 with an ERA in the mid-3s, but never really came through on all of that. Recently he'd been plagued by arm injuries. The Reds have yet to use him a week into the trade. Nonetheless, we don't understand how this did anything for the Bees except make them a little bit worse in the rotation; granted, Hall had been out for the past couple weeks and the team had done fine without him, but it's always better to have too many starting pitchers available than too few. The Giants purchased C (.336, 1, 11) Thomas Ethridge from Baltimore (IL). The National League made 2 deals in 3 days with Baltimore of the International League, and of the two, this was the one which made a bit more sense. Ethridge had nothing left to prove in the International League. He ought to provide some adequate backup catching ability and unlike his predecessor Carl Davis he has the hitting ability to pinch. Davis had amassed just 5 at-bats over 3 games in 1936 and was something of a wasted roster spot. The Phillies traded SS Otis Moyer (.302, 1, 10) and P Rory Brown (1-0, 2.42) to the Cubs for 3B Benedict Henderson (.324, 0, 15) and P Jim Hogan (2-1, 1.15). Here's the real blockbuster you've all been waiting for. The Phillies get fan favorite Benedict Henderson back and acquire Cubs ace closer Jim Hogan, but give up a great deal to get him in the person of Otis Moyer. Hogan, who saved 12 games for Chicago last year, will probably be asked to start, whereas the acquisition of Henderson puts Bob Rose back into the shortstop position he quite frankly played himself out of when he first came up with the Boston Bees. Let's hope the second time is a charm. Meanwhile, the Cubs, who have been hanging around the periphery of contention this season, get younger and better afield. Rory Brown may even contribute positively, which is saying something after the unbelievably awful season he had last year. (26-8) vs (10-20)Senators 7, Indians 1 CLEVELAND - Donovan LeMoine (4-4, 3.67) went all the way for Washington, giving up just 6 hits including a solo homerun by 1B Bill Eldridge (.306, 6, 30), and the Senators lineup made this game moot in the first inning with a barrage of singles. Indians starter Christian Stanton (0-2, 5.40) gave up 6 singles, a bases-loaded walk, and an error by CF Jason Garibay (.245, 1, 3) before he recorded his first out of the game, giving Washington a 6-0 lead before Cleveland even got a chance to hit. 1B Norm Burnett (.355, 6, 28) was a perfect 3-for-3 with 2 walks and 2 RBIs in the winning effort. (23-9) vs (13-18)Yankees 3, Tigers 1 DETROIT - New York ace Eeyore Meyers (4-2, 1.53) ruined a good debut performance by Harry Pierce (0-1, 3.00) to keep the Yankees on pace with the Senators in the early AL pennant race. Meyers struck out 6 batters, gave up just 4 hits, and only had his shutout spoiled by a 5th inning error by LF Bill Gwaltney (.347, 2, 11) off of a single by #8 hitter and SS Clarence Hines (.255, 0, 11), which in turn scored C Scott Bridges (.264, 3, 20). (23-11) vs (8-23)Browns 7, Red Sox 4 ST LOUIS - Brian East (3-4, 3.16) earned his first victory in a Browns uniform. The former Red Sox and White Sox starter got within an out of finishing this one, too, but just to be on the safe side the Browns brought in closer Takehide Saito (0-2, 2.16) who also garnered a first: his first Browns save. Charlie Haynes (3-3, 3.90) took the loss for Boston. It has to be said that the Browns look way, way better than their record indicates. (13-16) vs (8-19)Athletics 16, White Sox 7 CHICAGO - The Chisox, on the other hand... last year they were contending for the pennant. Two years ago, they won it. This year, they're doing their best to avoid the cellar. Much of the magic this team was able to conjure in the past seems to be just plain gone away. Witness Bob Gordon (0-1, 6.59), who won 15 games last season despite striking out just 22 batters in 211 innings. The Athletics him for 12 runs on 14 hits in 3 2/3rds innings today to cruise to an easy victory. This being the Athletics, they performed their feat entirely without the longball. Instead, 6 Athletics got 3 hits in this game, including starting pitcher Walt Eberly (3-5, 5.10), who is hitting .381 on the season. (18-13) vs (13-16)Bees 2, Reds 1 BOSTON - SS Bill Sadowski (.333, 0, 3) hit a 2-out triple to ruin an excellent outing by Reds P Lyndon Key (1-2, 2.55). Key had, prior to the 9th, shut the Bees out on 5 hits, but he gave up 3 more including triples to Sadowski as well as 2B Jerry Butler (.357, 0, 9). Cincinnati 2B Britt Grim (.385, 0, 1) drove in the Reds' lone run in the 2nd inning on a single to right. (14-14) vs (16-13)Giants 4, Cardinals 3 NEW YORK - The homerun reigned in this nailbiter. First the Cardinals took a 3-0 lead thanks to blasts by LF Juan Carlos Munoz (.269, 3, 18) and 1B Matt Oliver (.314, 4, 19), then the Giants came back thanks in part to homers by 2B Lester Archie (.331, 4, 13) and RF John Montague (.165, 4, 17). Fred Fleming (4-2, 2.49) had a bit of an off-game, giving up 5 walks in his 8 innings of work, but still pitched just well enough to win it. Former Giant Li Alport (2-5, 3.63) took the complete game loss for St. Louis, who dropped back below .500. (12-16) vs (9-23)Phillies 6, Pirates 3 PHILADELPHIA - In this matchup of the resistible force vs the moveable object, the force came out on top. Bob Hazard (2-4, 4.16) was surprisingly decent, striking out 5 in a complete game victory and managing to lower his home ERA to below 5.00 on the season. The Phillies got all the runs they needed in a 4-run 5th inning thanks primarily to a double by 2B Al Woodhouse (.297, 0, 14) followed by a triple by RF Mark Matthews (.345, 0, 14). If he keeps at this rate, Matthews won't just be the most promising rookie in the National League, he'll be the Phillies' lone All-Star. (16-13) vs (20-10)Dodgers 20, Cubs 6 BROOKLYN - The surging Dodgers frankly blew apart the Cubs in what was supposed to be a tight game between National League front-runners. It started out decently enough for Chicago, with starter John Herman (1-1, 3.97) shutting out Brooklyn over 3 innings before being forced to leave with an injury in the bottom of the 4th. Then the floodgates flew open. Harry Anderson (0-2, 14.34) gave up 10 runs in the inning all by himself (as well as allow the baserunner Herman had put on to score) and then was pulled with 2 outs. Rory Brown then came in and "only" gave up another 2 tallies before he finally got the 3rd out. 2B Pete Kittle (.213, 1, 18) batted 3 times in the inning, leading off the inning with a double, walking in the middle, and then ending the rally with a routine grounder to short. C Jose Moreno (.339, 5, 24) and RF Foster LeBeau (.400, 1, 20) both contributed 3 hits and 4 RBIs for the winners.
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May 28, 1936
Thursday Games - A Weekly Update
TRANSACTION ORACLE Not a lot going on this week... The Cardinals purchased IF Dale Sloat (.233, 0, 4) from the Phillies for $5,000. Sloat had been clamoring for his release from the Phillies for weeks, so this was no surprise. The Cardinals acquire a good glove in the middle infield and a means to replace the struggling Bob Nowlin (.208, 2, 12), who was let go shortly after this deal was completed. The Cardinals, they are not sentimental. The Reds sent LF Doug Levin (.330, 0, 15) to the Yankees for $10,000. New York has actually gotten pretty decent production from fill-in LF Bill Gwaltney (.319, 2, 15) in the absence of regular starter Gibran Waldron (limited to 7 at-bats this season) but the organizational soldier is not considered a long-term solution and the chances are just too great that Waldron will get hurt again. Levin has been a regular in the league since 1930 and even after Waldron returns will do a great deal of filling in and pinch-hitting for this club. (15-20) vs (28-11)Senators 8, Athletics 0 WASHINGTON - Mark Watson (0-1, 9.00) was downright impressive down in single-A Williamsburg, striking out 79 batters, completing 8 of 12 starts, and yielding a 2.76 ERA. His major league debut was less than stellar, though. The Senators scorched him for 7 runs (5 earned) on 10 hits through 5 innings. That was more than enough for Washington starter Todd Davis (7-2, 2.50), who scattered 8 hits and achieved his 2nd shut-out of the season. Senators 2, Athletics 1 (10) WASHINGTON - C Bill Wardlow (.293, 2, 22) singled home the winning run in the bottom of the 10th to deliver the Senators the doubleheader sweep and their 30th victory of the season. Wardlow's hit became possible after pinch-hitter Ron Sydnor (.349, 0, 4) doubled home 1B Rusty McEachern (.419, 0, 5) with 2 outs in the 9th. This ruined an excellent game by A's pitcher Kyung-Chor Kim (3-5, 4.16), who was game enough to stay in and take the L in this one. Ace closer Bob McKamey (2-1, 0.00) pitched the final 3 innings in relief of Donald LeMoine (4-4, 3.25) to pick up the victory. (11-24) vs (18-21)Tigers 5, White Sox 1 DETROIT - Chicago continues to fall apart, and this time it's the Tigers who are benefitting. Rookie Harry Pierce (2-1, 2.00) threw a 6-hitter, striking out seven, and SS Clarence Hines (.262, 1, 15) hit his first homerun of the season in the 6th to break the game open. Matt Ivey (3-6, 3.61) took the loss for the Sox. "I was hoping to get away from the losing, you know?" said a clearly disgruntled Ivey after the game. "I guess it likes to follow me around the league." (12-26)vs (12-25)Browns 5, Indians 3 CLEVELAND - We've been beating the "Browns are improved" drum all season, and finally they are officially not the worst team in the league. A solid effort by starting pitcher Dan Simmons (3-5, 4.15) and clutch base hits by SS Zero Mostel (.263, 0, 6) and CF Tim Walker (.327, 0, 10) gave the Browns the win they needed to leapfrog over the Indians and White Sox and get all the way into 6th place in the American League. Vince McMahon Sr. (5-5, 3.12) took the loss for the Indians. (29-10) vs (26-14)Red Sox 7, Yankees 4 BOSTON - It took a team effort, but the Red Sox managed to cool down the red-hot Yankees in Fenway Park today. Britt Hulsey (5-3, 2.44) pitched just well enough to win, giving up 3 runs (1 earned) over 6 innings of work before giving the game away to the relief corps. Then, as they've done so many times already this season Bill Collins (2-0, 0.91) and Bob Cooke (3-2, 3.58) took the team the rest of the way. Sun Ra (2-2, 2.51) had a less than stellar performance in the loss, giving up 5 runs in 7 innings of work. The former Indians ace has been in and out of the rotation all year, largely due to performances such as this. (15-22) vs (21-15)Giants 2, Bees 0 NEW YORK - John Burns (4-4, 3.18) outdueled Cristobal Rodriguez (4-5, 3.95) in a rare pitching matchup at the Polo Grounds. Burns struck out 6 batters his his 4-hit shutout, allowing just one man to get past first base all day. Burns and SS Benton Wheeler (.263, 5, 17) hit back-to-back doubles in the 3rd to give the Giants the lead and then the next inning 2B Les Archie (.325, 6, 18) gave the team an insurance run they turned out not to need with his 6th home run of the year. Bees 7, Giants 5 NEW YORK - Game 2 went a bit more like we expect a Polo Grounds game to go. The Giants and Bees combined for 12 runs and 3 homers but in the end it was the Bees' place hitting, spearheaded by 1B Bill Norman (.261, 4, 26). A double by 2B Duane Ferrari (.303, 0, 10) capped a 3-run rally in the top of the 1st which gave the Bees a lead they never quite relinquished. RF Mason Taylor (.282, 2, 21) hit his 2nd homerun in May after going homerless all of April; this is a guy who has hit 24 or more each of the last 3 seasons. He's not even the worst of the Giants' outfielders in terms of slumps, as LF John Montague (.169, 4, 20) is barely hitting .200 for the month after putting together a pitcher-esque .122 BA in April. (15-21) vs (17-19)Pirates 3, Cardinals 2 ST LOUIS - The Cards looked positively punchless without 1B Matt Oliver (.324, 6, 26), out for the next 3 weeks with a strained back muscle. They managed just 1 run against the very hittable Paul Slocum (3-5, 3.45), who yielded 14 base knocks in his time on the mound, and when they finally did look like they were about to break through Pirates closer Burt Lancaster (1-0, 1.56) quelled the rally and earned his 5th save. Hard-luck Li Alport (2-7, 4.04) took the loss, his 7th. Only Pirates starter Phil Cutshall (2-8. 6.45) has more in the major leagues. (27-11) vs (11-27) Phillies 4, Brooklyn 2 PHILADELPHIA - Minor league journeyman Sandy Wrenn (2-5, 6.16) managed to do what nobody else has been able to do this month - cool the red-hot bats of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Wrenn held the Bums to 7 hits in 8 innings, striking out 4 and walking 2. C Jose Moreno (.308, 6, 25) looked particularly helpless against Wrenn; he finished the game 0-for-4 with 3 men left on base and a strikeout. Jose "Moo" Castillo (5-4, 5.33) was tagged with the loss. (19-18) vs (21-14)Cubs 11, Reds 3 CHICAGO - Glenn Addicott (3-5, 6.05) and the slumping Reds laid a serious egg in this one, going down 5 runs by the end of the first inning and never able to mount anything resembling a threat to the 2nd place Cubbies. RF Pat Cleary (.317, 2, 20) led all batters with 3 hits including a bases-clearing double in the 4th inning.
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--------------- The White Sox purchased 1B Justin Summerville (.333, 5, 25 at St. Paul) for $2,500. The Pirates selected P Walt Kropp (5-3, 4.36 for PCL San Diego) off of waivers from the Boston Red Sox. The Chicago White Sox purchased Larry Rosenthal (OF prospect) from the Boston Bees. (the Sox needed a 1B way more than they needed an OF) The Pittsburgh Pirates selected Johnny Welch (1935 4th/5th starter) off waivers from the Boston Red Sox. June 13, 1936 -------------------- The Red Sox traded P Bill Collins (2-1, 1.01) to the Senators for P Bob McKamey (3-3, 2.43). The Washington Senators traded Jack Russell (top reliever) to the Boston Red Sox for Joe Cascarella (solid reliever). June 14, 1936 -------------------- The Senators traded CF Bill McDermott (.371, 1, 24) to the Yankees for CF Nathan Behnke (.263, 2, 23). The Washington Senators traded Jake Powell (starting CF) to the New York Yankees for Ben Chapman (starting CF). June 19, 1936 --------------------- The Red sold P Mike Harris (2-0, 1.16) to the Reds for $10,000. The St. Louis Cardinals purchased Flint Rhem (back of the rotation starter/reliever) from the Cincinnati Reds.
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THE THRIFTLON TIMES May 1, 1936 ITALY ANNEXES ETHIOPIA First The Krauts Get All Annexation Crazy And Now This!? --------------------------------------------------------------------- A2 US NEWS Super Chief Debuts Santa Fe Railroad Inaugurates All-Pullman Line From Chicago to LA -- Kind of Like Route 66, Only Faster --------------------------------------------------------------------- B1 ENTERTAINMENT Peter and the Wolf Has First Showing That Cool Cartoon We All Remember As Kids Hasn't Come Out Yet Though So I Shouldn't Comment On That So Much -- Um --------------------------------------------------------------------- C1 BOOKS AND LITERATURE Gone With The Wind On Sale Tale of Old South Written By Margaret Mitchell Published --------------------------------------------------------------------- D1 SPORTS A Changing of the Guard? As The Yankees and Dodgers Cruise, 1934's Pennant Winners Are Slipping NEW YORK - Could it be another Subway Series this year? All signs are pointing to "yes" in the National League, where the Brooklyn Dodgers lead the defending NL champ New York Giants by 3 1/2 games as we head into June. The "Bums" enjoyed a 20-9 record for the month of May, including a 16-2 run in the middle of the month. In fact, the Giants had to sweep a double-header with them at the end of the month just to get back into business. NL Batter of the Month Allen Vice (.399, 5, 38) has been the real superman for Brooklyn over the last 30 days; the first baseman is still flirting with .400 (he hit .403 in May) and with the season barely a quarter of the way through has 20 doubles. It seems like the only way he's going to lose the MVP is if teammates Ken Lefebvre (.361, 7, 28), 2B Vicente Nunez (.369, 4, 32), or C Jose Moreno (.304, 6, 26). The Dodgers team batting average of .314 would be the best mark in baseball history if the season ended today. Of course, it won't end today, and that's the best news the New York Giants and the Chicago Cubs have. Talk about two teams headed in opposite directions. The Giants were astounding last year but a lack of situational hitting has spelled their doom so far this season. They may be 2nd in the NL in HRs with 36 but they're also dead last in hitting with a .252 average. As you might expect from these numbers, the 'Jints are filled with guys who are hitting with some pop but not much else, chiefly RF John Montague (.178, 4, 21) and new pickup at 3B John Pfeiffer (.173, 5, 11). Surprisingly, LF Mason Taylor's (.283, 2, 22) malaise is entirely due to not hitting HRs the way he has the past 3 years. With everyone else on the team swinging for the fences, it seems Taylor has tried to poke more balls through the infield with mixed results. This fumbling has brought the Chicago Cubs of all teams into play. Chicago, who hasn't even finished .500 since their 1931 World Series victory, are a close 2nd to the Dodgers with a .310 average and have ridden emerging star Nick Hillis (7-0, 2.46), who was named NL Pitcher of the Month for May, to a tie with the Giants for 2nd. They have a formidable middle of the order including 1B Carson Groth (.335, 6, 31), who has finally emerged into the star everyone thought he could be, C Earl Schell (.365, 4, 34), and, surprisingly, 39 year old LF Charles Payne (.365, 5, 32), who resurrected his career last year after hitting just .216 for the Cubs in '34. Now he's looking like an All-Star starter. Go figure. Yankees Edge Senators In Tight AL Battle In the Junior Circuit, the Senators remained tough to stop but the Yankees were flat-out unstoppable, going 22-6, including winning streaks of 10 and 6 games, to just barely get out in front of the race. Unlike the leaders in the Senior Circuit, the Yankees' run has been built on the backs of their pitching staff, most notably Pitcher of the Month for May Carl Parham (8-3, 1.51). Ramon Lopez (9-2, 1.30) and Eeyore Meyers (5-3, 1.58) are doing pretty well, too. It's a good thing, as the middle of the famed "Murderers' Row" batting order has been less than murderous due to injury (RF Gibran Waldron (.250, 0, 0) just came back from an injury that kept him out the first 2 months of the season) and strange ineffectiveness (1B Carter Keeton (.250, 5, 18) had just 1 homerun all of May). Washington, likewise, has some very good pitching, though not quite up to the Yankees' level. John Burdett (8-2, 2.36) successfully made the mid-career transition from the PCL to the MLB and has to be considered the team ace, especially now that Todd Davis (7-1, 2.28), who won 17 games for these Senators last year, is now laid up for the season with a torn muscle in his shoulder. They haven't even had to make huge use of closer Bob McKamey (2-1, 0.00, 8 saves), although we expect that will change. Look Out Below! Meanwhile, the only late season exhibition the 1934 World Series contestants look like they're going to be seeing is the booby prize series. The Cincinnati Reds limped along to a 13-15 May record and are barely treading water in a competitive National League. With 1935 29-game winner Earl Crockett (2-0, 2.60) out for the season, nobody else on the Reds' staff has really emerged as the ace. That led the team to make a move a lot of pundits saw as questionable at best, when they moved prospect and #4 starter Homer Beeman (3-2, 3.16) to the St. Louis Cardinals for former Giants ace Li Alport (3-7, 3.91). Alport, who won 21 games for the pennant-winners last season, did win his first start as a Red and so perhaps those men are wrong. As bad as the Reds' drop has been, though, it's nothing compared to what's happened to the White Sox so far. With just 8 wins in 28 May games, the White Sox actually dropped all the way into the AL cellar on the evening of the 28th when they finished getting swept by the Detroit Tigers. They can't even point to the loss of their staff ace as an excuse, although Bob Hinman (4-5, 4.04) has been anything but ace-like this year. More to the point, the salary-shedding move that sent 1B Bob Wolf (more on him in a second) to those Tigers in conjunction with the loss of RF Hunter Sunday (.239, 3, 16) has rendered the Sox punchless; they are 2nd from the bottom in the AL with a .274 average. June Awards DETROIT - Bob Wolf always said that if he didn't have to play so much in Comiskey, people would know he was the greatest power hitter of all time. Wolf was never known for his humility, but on this he might be right. Wolf hit .366 and had more HRs in May (8) than any NLer has had all season. "I've been seeing the ball, and more importantly I've been seeing the ball reach the stands", said Wolf. The Rookies of the Month were the same guys from April. Norman Dello Joio turned a good April into a great May, hitting .402. The youngster is carrying a .424 mark so far on the year - could this be the season we see a .400 hitter? Meanwhile, Mark Matthews continues to be the sole bright spot for the last-place Phillies; he got into 23 games for the Phightin's and hit .345 with 3 homeruns.
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June 4, 1936
Thursday Games - A Weekly Update
TRANSACTION ORACLE The transaction news this week seems to mostly surround the Chicago White Sox, whose front office is showing serious signs of desperation. The Cardinals traded P Li Alport (2-7, 4.04) to the Reds for P Homer Beeman (3-2, 3.16). We covered this one briefly in the monthly league report but perhaps it requires a little more explaining to do. On paper, Li Alport ought to be worth a great deal more than Homer Beeman. He's a career 149 game winner, after all, coming off of the best season of his career. On the other hand, Alport is getting a bit older (33 isn't so bad for you or me but for a baseball player it's downright ancient). Additionally, he seems to have picked up a bad habit of giving up gopher balls in the Polo Grounds and so far he did not seem to kick it at Sportsman's Park (6 HRs allowed in 78.1 innings for St. Louis). Homer Beeman is an interesting young prospect, the kind who is, frankly, much more at home on an up-and-coming team like the Cardinals than a veteran team looking to plug a few holes and make one last run at the pennant. Beeman throws one of the fastest balls in the game but isn't able to keep that velocity up late into games. If he can stretch out his arm a little, he could be the ace the Cards are looking for. The White Sox purchased 1B Justin Summerville (.333, 5, 25 at St. Paul) for $2,500. A potentially nice signing for the White Sox, so long as their fans accept that he is not and never will be Bob Wolf. Summerville has played in the American Association for St. Paul each of the last 3 years, being blocked first in the Pirates' organization and now the Braves'. He'll provide immediate bat help for Chicago, who to this point had been using converted center fielder Trevor Hass (.303, 1, 13) there with predictable, powerless results. The Pirates selected P Walt Kropp (5-3, 4.36 for PCL San Diego) off of waivers from the Boston Red Sox. Well, when you don't have a farm system to speak of, you have to find talent when talent becomes available. Walt Kropp sure didn't look like he was major league ready last year: in 3 September starts for the Red Sox he finished with an 8.47 ERA. He's also already 25 years old, so it's not too surprising that Boston decided to cut bait on the kid. In Pittsburgh, he'll probably be used in whatever role it looks like he can hold. (14-28) vs (32-13)Yankees 4, White Sox 3 NEW YORK - This time a year ago, this would have been the matchup of the week. Now it's just depressing. The Yankees came back from a 2-1 deficit thanks to 1B Carter Keeton's (.251, 6, 22) team-high 6th homerun to kick the White Sox a game closer to last place. Carl Parham (9-3, 1.65) struggled to finish the game in the 9th inning but the bottom line is, he did do it. Aaron LeBrown (4-5, 4.25) has only himself to blame for the loss: he gave up 7 walks over the course of the game. White Sox C Bob Weaver (.224, 0, 5), already having lost his starting job to Ashley Wetherell (.250, 0, 4), came up lame running the bases in the 3rd and left immediately. (23-23) vs (18-24)Tigers 11, Athletics 4 PHILADELPHIA - It was another battle of the old guard vs. the new at Shibe Park, as the Detroit Tigers hammered the old dynasty with 11 runs on 13 hits. 2B Charlie Parson (.308, 8, 23) and 3B Kinnojo Maeda (.264, 4, 17) both delivered homeruns off of the beleaguered A's pitching staff and helped give Harry Pierce (4-1, 2.45) the easy victory. Jim Russel (2-7, 5.30) couldn't get out of the 6th inning for the A's; he left the game down 8-4. (14-30) vs (32-14)Browns 2, Senators 1 WASHINGTON - Jim Backus (4-4, 3.62) showed that when he can keep the ball around the strike zone, he can be a very effective pitcher. Today he scattered 3 hits in a complete game duel against Senators ace Todd Davis (7-4, 2.94). Backus, who did give up 5 walks in the game, said "lovey, I just throw the ball in, you know" when asked about his secret. Timothy Walker (.338, 0, 12) singled home the winning runner in the 9th inning. (14-29) vs (30-16)Indians 3, Red Sox 2 BOSTON - LF David Durst's (.366, 2, 13) solo homerun broke the deadlock in the 10th and led the Indians on to victory. That homerun represented one of the few mistakes made by Red Sox reliever John Wallin (1-1, 1.66) all season long, but it couldn't have come at a worse time, as the Red Sox were in prime position to gain a game on the Nats. Willard Doe (5-6, 4.14) pitched into the 10th to pick up the win for the Indians and then handed the ball over to Woody Herman (0-1, 1.80) who notched his 6th save. (14-31) vs (23-20)Reds 5, Phillies 2 CINCINNATI - Could the Reds be turning it around, or is this just what happens when you play the Phillies? Lyndon Key (2-5, 3.03) gave up 9 hits but just one earned run, picking up the complete game win for his team. Sean Eisenberg (4-5, 4.77) got the tough-luck loss; he also yielded just the one earned run but had four more unearned tallies come around on him. C Ed Townsley (.302, 4, 30) had a double and a homerun in the proceedings. (19-26) vs (18-25)Braves 11, Pirates 7 PITTSBURGH - Not the greatest outing for Pirates pitching. Starter Dewey Goodrich (2-4, 4.34) escaped after 7 with no decision despite giving up 7 runs but then Todd Rigsby (0-1, 5.09) and Burt Lancaster (0-1, 3.05) combined to give up the ghost. 2B Duane Ferrari (.337, 0, 14) was a one-man wrecking crew for Boston, getting 4 hits in 6 at-bats, scoring 4 times, and driving in 2 more men. 3B Jerry Butler (.347, 0, 17) also supplied 3 hits and 4 RBIs and even 1B Bill Norman (.268, 4, 32) showed some signs of getting back to his 1935 levels of hitting with a 2-hit day, including his 6th triple. (32-14) vs (19-24)Dodgers 7, Cardinals 1 ST LOUIS - Curt Davenport (8-2, 1.75) continued to dazzle the National League, as the Cardinals could string just five hits against the man today. In hitting news, 2B Vicente Nunez' (.369, 5, 35) 7th inning double meant he has now hit in 20 straight games, and Allen Vice (.399, 5, 38) went 2-for-5, staying just a hair under .400. 6 of 9 Dodgers starters finished the game over .300, and a 7th (C Jose Moreno) (.295, 7, 30) is well within striking distance. (26-17) vs (24-17)Cubs 6, Giants 0 CHICAGO - The Cubs moved back into a tie with the Giants for 2nd in the NL thanks to great pitching by Nick Hillis (8-0, 2.23) and a 5-run 7th inning. Hillis shut out the struggling Gothamites on 5 hits. Meanwhile, his teammates 3B Zi-Jing Shen (.331, 0, 19), LF Charles Payne (.362, 5, 35), and RF Patrick Cleary (.321, 2, 26) all had doubles in the fateful 7th. Justin Manson (3-5, 3.64) expired in that inning and contributed to the loss. 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May 11, 1936
Thursday Games - A Weekly Update
TRANSACTION ORACLE No trades this week. Seriously, WTF? (28-26) vs (37-14)Tigers 5, Yankees 3 NEW YORK - The Yankees suffered a rare home loss today as 4th starter Elliott Hadlock (5-1, 2.92) lost a duel with Detroit's Harry Pierce (5-2, 2.95). CF Gene Smyth (.297, 5, 19) went 2 for 3 with a run scored before leaving with yet another injury, this one incurred after he threw the ball back into the infield following a nice running catch. The Tigers hope it won't be major, but are prepared for the worst: Smyth has already missed a combined 3 weeks with assorted injuries this year, and the budding young star was limited to just 24 appearances last year thanks to a torn labrum. (16-34) vs (20-28)Athletics 10, Indians 4 PHILADELPHIA - 1B John Shin's (.423, 2, 17) 7th inning triple broke open a close game, getting Philadelphia to within a game of .500 for the month (they are currently 4-5). Kyung-Chor Kim (5-6, 4.72) pitched just well enough to take his relief pitching into the 8th inning, where Todd Kirk (2-1, 2.23) and Charlie Nickles (1-0, 0.68) shut the door. LF Ji-Man Paeng (.388, 2, 9) and CF Rusty McCarty (.306, 1, 6) both homered for the normally punchless A's. (16-32) vs (35-17)White Sox 3, Senators 1 WASHINGTON - Just a year ago, a defense-first dominant performance by the White Sox was the norm. Today, it's a pretty rare thing, even when Bob Hinman (7-5, 3.60) is on the mound. Today, Hinman went all the way, befuddling Senators hitters despite not recording a single strikeout in outduelling former Browns pitcher Nick Nugent (1-2, 2.53). LF Monte LaPointe (.338, 4, 17) led the Pale Hose with 3 hits and scored the game-tying run in the 3rd inning. (18-32) vs (33-21)Red Sox 4, Browns 2 BOSTON - Speaking of turnarounds, it wasn't that long ago that Tim Maisonet (9-4, 3.69) was toiling in obscurity for an awful Cleveland Indians ballclub (come to think of it, they haven't gotten any better). Now he's the Red Sox ace. Maisonet curbed a little negative swing by the Bosox this past week by scattering 8 hits and 2 runs over a full game of work. Both 1B Mark "Homer" Hanke (.292, 9, 44) and CF Hollis "Mister Red Sox" Ramsdell (.330, 6, 39) hit doubles and later came around to score. The win puts Boston 4 1/2 games out of first place and 2 games in back of the Senators. (16-36) vs (21-28)Cardinals 4, Phillies 3 ST LOUIS - The Cards are really struggling and at this point will take a victory any way they can get it. Even if it means getting one-hit by Bob Hazard (2-8, 4.30) through eight innings and needing a 9th inning walk-off single by LF Juan Carlos Munoz (.245, 3, 20) to win it. Bob Wilk (2-4, 2.63) pitched the 9th to get the victory; he came in after starter Adrian Cutright (5-5, 3.67) was lifted for a pinch-hitter in the bottom of the 8th. 3B Fernando Chavez (.368, 0, 3) is looking like a completely different player compared to his cup of coffee last season, when he hit .109 in 13 games before being sent back down to Columbus to work on his swing. He had a hit in 2 at-bats and a couple of walks as well. (22-29) vs (30-18)Cubs 7, Bees 4 CHICAGO - If you'd had told us at the beginning of the season that the NL pennant race as of mid-June would be the Dodgers vs the Cubs, we'd have questioned your sanity. Well, sometimes life is stranger than fiction. The Cubs got a decent pitching performance out of PCL star Gary Koons (2-1, 2.66) and profited from a bases-clearing double by 3B Fred Harris (.258, 0, 5) to open the game up and make it relatively easy pickings. Dave Crosby (4-3, 4.42) took the loss for the Bees, although his quest for the first winning campaign of his career is still achievable. (35-18) vs (28-22)Reds 8, Dodgers 4 CINCINNATI - It was not a good day for Brooklyn baseball fans. Not only did they lose the game in Cincinnati and help the surging Reds start to move back into the race, their ace starter Curt Davenport (9-3, 1.71) left the game complaining of pain in his arm in the 5th inning. It was all downhill from there: the Bums' normally solid bullpen yielded 6 runs over 5 innings thanks to 4 doubles by various Reds players. Cincinnati's player of the game was C Ed Townsley (.304, 5, 38) who belted the first of those post-Davenport doubles in the 5th inning and finished with 2 hits and 3 RBIs. Eddy Dobson (3-0, 1.34) gave up a 1936-high 4 runs in this game but that was still good enough to win this one. (21-30) vs (29-21)DID NOT PLAY
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June 15, 1936
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Boston (A) (baseball people) --------- SP Eddie Joost - Baseball player. 1B Phil Cavaretta - Baseball player. Boston (N) (business) --------- 2B Ferruccio Lamborghini - Italian automobile manufacturer. 3B Alfred S. Bloomingdale - Department store heir. Brooklyn (TV actors) --------- SP Walter Cronkite - American television news presenter. CF Hal Smith - Longtime voice actor best known for being the town drunk on The Andy Griffith Show but also lots and lots of voices for Hanna-Barbera cartoons. Chicago (A) (comedians) --------- CL Fred Lasswell - Comic strip writer, best known for his years of work on Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. P Dick Wilson - English-born American actor best known for being Mr. Whipple, the Charmin man. Chicago (N) (shiftless layabouts) --------- RF Chick Hearn - Longtime play by play announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers. P Irving Wallace - Writer of "The Book of Lists", favorite toy of shiftless layabouts for the past 30 years. Cincinnati (communists and otherwise lefties) --------- CF Eugene McCarthy - US Senator from Minnesota and Presidential candidate. C Alexander Prokhorov - Nobel Prize winning Russian physicist, noted for his work on lasers and masers. Cleveland (musicians) --------- P Perez Prado - Cuban bandleader. Often referred to as "The King of the Mambo". P Harry James - Musician and band leader. Detroit (writers) --------- RF Roald Dahl - Welsh author of James and the Giant Peach, The Fantastic Mister Fox, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. CF Harold Robbins - American popular novelist of the 50s through the 80s, oft decried by Basil Fawlty on the Fawlty Towers television program. New York Giants (heroes) -------- SS James Herriot - Scottish veterinarian who got thousands of children into reading with his book All Creatures Great and Small. RF Peter Twinn - English mathematician and code-breaker during World War II. New York Yankees (evil, evil people) --------- CF Robert McNamara - American businessman and Secretary of Defense for the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Responsible for the firebombing of several cities in Japan which caused much more civilian life to be lost than the two nuclear bombs, and was later hugely responsible for the United States' escalation of intervention in Vietnam. C P.W. Botha - Leader of South Africa in the 70s and 80s, maintained apartheid and later opposed its removal. Philadelphia (A) (athletes) -------- CF John Kundla - Coached the original Minneapolis Lakers during their early dominance of the NBA. C Marcel Cerdan - French boxer. Philadelphia (N) (men of science) -------- SP Francis Crick - English molecular biologist, helped to discover the DNA molecule. P Benjamin Libet - American pioneering scientist in the field of consciousness. Pittsburgh (people beloved by nerds such as matskralc) -------- P Markus Heinsohn - German-born creator of micromanagement-intensive baseball sims. I hear that if you put him into the game he'll automatically turn into the best player your league ever had. P Phil Lefebvre - Would later produce a series of dynasties involving the actual Philadelphia Phillies. Having to start his career out with the Pirates must be a real blow. Oh well. If it helps, PhillieFever, the 'Rats don't even have a minor league team this year so you'll either get bonus-babied or cut outright. St. Louis Browns (actors) --------- Gregory Peck - American actor, perhaps best known for his role as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. CF Kirk Douglas - American actor with impressive chin dimple. P Glenn Ford - American actor, starred in the original 3:10 To Yuma. St Louis Cardinals (religious figures and philosophers) -------- SP Fiorenzo Angelini - Italian cardinal. P C. Everett Koop - US Surgeon General for President Reagan, founder of the world-famous drkoop.com website. Washington (politicians) -------- LF Edward Heath - British politician and Prime Minister in the 1970s. 1B Francois Mitterand - Former French President.
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Thursday Games - A Weekly Update
TRANSACTION ORACLE The Red Sox traded P Bill Collins (2-1, 1.01) to the Senators for P Bob McKamey (3-3, 2.43). The Senators are competing this year but it's clear that they're having money issues as well. This was actually the better of the moves; although Bob McKamey has a long pedigree of success, including 96 career saves (4th best among active players), Bill Collins' stuff looks just as good if not better than the cagey vet's. The Senators traded CF Bill McDermott (.371, 1, 24) to the Yankees for CF Nathan Behnke (.263, 2, 23). This move, on the other hand, leaves us scratching our heads. The only justification we can see for this straight-up is that McDermott's high batting average, which he's maintained now over the past season and a half, is going to lead to a pretty sizeable raise this offseason and owner Calvin Griffith wanted no part of that. In exchange, Nathan Behnke has been otherworldly in center field, but he's not had the greatest season with the stick and the Yankees, who currently are on pace to finish with the lowest team ERA since the deadball era, have much defensive room to spare. The Reds sold P Mike Harris (2-0, 1.16) to the Cardinals for $10,000. Cincinnati is also been hugely victimized by the Great Depression. It's sad to see the former contenders strip their team bare, especially as they continue to get good production from the heart of their lineup, but it is what it is, we guess. And that is an awful lot of money to pay for a middle reliever. For St. Louis' part, they have been scuffling this year; new blood was necessary. (40-24) vs (16-45)Red Sox 8, Indians 3 CLEVELAND - Karl Whitmer (0-1, 4.94) blew a 3-1 lead and then closer Woody Herman (0-3, 2.34) really gave up the ghost, dropping the Indians to 5-19 for the month. With 2 of the regular starters in the outfield for the Indians out, they were left with youngsters Nick Deason (.250, 1, 12) and Joe Blizzard (.203, 0, 7) manning the corners; they finished the game 1-10. Bob McKamey (4-3, 2.14) earned his first victory as a Red Sox. (28-34) vs (34-31)Tigers 7, Athletics 4 DETROIT - Alan Marable (8-5, 4.19) has found a way to win ugly this season. Tonight he went all the way despite allowing 10 hits against the Philadelphia Athletics and that was enough to win. He did manage to keep the A's from going yard, which was not bad for a guy who is second on his team in HRs allowed with 9. 1B Bob Wolf (.336, 15, 46) and 2B Charlie Parson (.291, 10, 32) did have homeruns for the Tigers. For Parsons, it looks like it's going to be a sure thing that he breaks his career record of 12 4-baggers. (41-23) vs (23-36)Browns 2, Senators 1 ST LOUIS - Brian East (6-8, 3.38) doesn't get a lot of credit for what he does do and was kind of set up as the scapegoat for the White Sox' poor start this year. Well, they moved him on to the Browns for Nick Nugent, Chicago has continued to lose, and East has been just fine. Today he outdueled Senators star John Burdett (10-5, 2.80) to deliver the win for the sparse hometown crowd. Dylan Thomas (.360, 4, 41) hit the game-winning single tonight; he is really coming into his own at age 25. (45-18) vs (21-40)Yankees 9, White Sox 1 CHICAGO - C Richard Nixon (.346, 1, 38) had a banner day, collecting 4 hits in 5 trips to the plate and recording the final out of the game on a bang-bang play at the plate. Elliott Hadlock (6-1, 3.88) had done pretty well through eight innings but faltered in the 9th, walking 4 men and only staying completely out of the fire because his men managed to turn a double play on one of the two balls hit in fair territory that inning. The other one was a long single in the gap in left-center field. Replacement SS Clifford Fortner (.375, 0, 0) scored on the play. Right behind him was 2B Dwight McLemore (.264, 0, 12) who sprinted around third and, seeing that LF Carter Keeton (.260, 10, 32) had delivered the ball home to Nixon already, tried unsuccessfully to dislodge the ball. "The people need to know whether their catcher is a crook," said Nixon after the game. "Well, I am not a crook." (29-33) vs (18-45)Cardinals 2, Phillies 0 PHILADELPHIA - Homer Beeman (5-5, 2.68) had that rarest of things - a shutout at the Baker Bowl. The fireballer struck out 4 and managed to keep Philadelphia off the board despite walking 3 and hitting another. Ed Robinson (0-1, 3.38) took the loss for the Phightin' Phillies in his first game back from injury this season. "Cardinal" William Conway (.314, 1, 5), recently promoted from Columbus to take over for the rapidly aging Juan Carlos Munoz (.254, 3, 23) and George Halter (.170, 0, 4) blasted his first homerun of the season in the 3rd, which also turned out to be the game-winner. Phillies 6, Cardinals 3 The Phillies salvage the double-header split thanks to 24 year old Bob Hazard (3-10, 4.05), who might just be the hardest-luck pitcher in the league. Thanks to playing for the Phils, he is second in the league in losses; thanks to playing in Baker Bowl, his ERA looks less than appetizing. Well, what people don't see is his 3.25 road ERA, his team-high 8 complete games (he missed out tonight), and the fact that his teammates are generating just 3.5 runs per game when he pitches. (34-25) vs (29-35)Cubs 7, Bees 3 BOSTON - SS Otis Moyer's (.310, 1, 16) 1-out triple in the 9th triggered the 4-run rally that won the game for the Cubbies. Boston pitcher Dorian Wright (2-4, 3.30) gave up a few singles in the 9th inning and blew the tie before Bill McCormick (2-7, 5.40) came in and walked everyone he saw, so at least they didn't put the game in the hands of the man who has lost so many for them already this year. Gary Koons (3-1, 2.39), who was recently pushed out of the starting rotation in favor of Ron Bruce (whom we might get to see pitch later today). Bees 7, Cubs 5 The Cubs very nearly made up for a bad first start by Ron Bruce (0-1, 3.86), rallying for 4 runs in the 7th, but they just couldn't get the rest of it back. Struggling LF Bill Lowry (.231, 0, 6), elevated into the starting role today because of an injury to starter Rusty Wines (.248, 0, 9) led all Bees with 2 hits and 2 RBIs. Herbert Herrmann (7-5, 5.10) pitched just well enough to get the ball into the hands of closer Mark Boney (3-1, 2.61, 7 saves), who did what Mark Boney does in the 9th. (32-29) vs (42-22)Dodgers 11, Reds 3 BROOKLYN - The Dodgers teed off on Reds starter Li Alport (3-11, 4.42) for 6 runs in the 5th and another 3 in the 6th, turning a close game into a blowout. Reigning MVP RF Ken Lefebvre (.345, 12, 44) ramped up his case for a second trophy with a 3-4, 3 run, 4 RBI day. He and 3B Harry DeRosier (.236, 2, 20) homered off of Alport, who had hoped to have his gopher issued cured when he moved out of the Polo Grounds (no pitcher in either league has surrendered more than Alport's 66 since 1934). Dan Barnes (6-5, 3.92) lost his shutout in the 9th but still hung in to pick up the complete game. Reds 6, Dodgers 4 Substitute 2B Rick Gartman's (.239, 0, 11) 2 out single in the 9th inning off of closer Damon Boulanger (3-3, 2.31) in the top of the 9th proved to be the difference in this game, which was thought to be something of a pitching duel between tricky sidearmer Eddy Hobson (now 5-1, 2.01) and flamethrower Irwin Weigand (0-1, 5.64, but 17 Ks in 22.1 major league innings this season). C Jorge Moreno (.329, 9, 44) had a beast of a game, finishing a triple away from the cycle, scoring twice, and hitting a solo homerun in the 8th that tied the game up at 4 apiece. Irwin Corey (5-2, 1.69) shut down the Bums in the 9th for his 7th save. (28-35) vs (37-25)Giants 7, Pirates 0 NEW YORK - With the league-leading Dodgers stealing much of today's gate, the 2nd place Giants won this one behind the excellent pitching of former Dodger Justin Manson (5-6, 3.65). Manson was acquired by the Giants this offseason after compiling a 41-40 record for Brooklyn over the past 4 seasons. This year has been uneven but perhaps this is a sign of things to come? SS Benton Wheeler's (.271, 8, 26) solo homerun chased Pirates starter Dewey Goodrich (4-7, 4.68) in the 7th and then reliever Ernie Hawks (0-0, 18.00) continued to be bedeviled by the wildness that has plagued his pro career, as he gave up 4 runs on 2 walks and 2 hits in just 1 inning of work.
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THE THRIFTLON TIMES July 1, 1936 HEAT WAVE STRIKES USA Thousands Die As Mercury Reaches New Heights Across Country --------------------------------------------------------------------- A2 WORLD NEWS SIXTY DIE IN ESTONIAN FACTORY EXPLOSION Blame Wikipedia for My Not Having More Information On This Incident -- Wait That's Anachronistic --------------------------------------------------------------------- B1 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Turing Publishes "On Computable Numbers" Introduces Concept of "Turing Machine", Other Things We Do Not Understand -- Reputed To Live In Mom's Basement --------------------------------------------------------------------- C1 OTHER, LESSER SPORTS SCHMELING KO'S LOUIS German Stuns 'Brown Bomber' -- Louis Reputed To Be Knackered From All That Baseball He's Playing With the Giants --------------------------------------------------------------------- D1 SPORTS As Summer Dawns, Some Pretends Are Out Of The Running Reds, Cardinals, Find Themselves On The Outside Looking In CINCINNATI - With the season nearly halfway done and the All-Star Game approaching, many people figured that the Cincinnati Reds would be right in line to contend for their 2nd pennant in 3 years. An injury to Earl Crockett scotched much of that, it appears, although trades involving 1B Bob Leonhardt (now .347, 2, 29 with the St. Louis Browns) and OF Doug Levin (.333, 0, 20 with the Yankees) have sapped the team of much of their offensive strength as well. As a result, the Reds, who won 99 games last year and lost the NL race but just a game to the New York Giants, are now 35-31, 8 games out of the race. Leonhardt's loss has been especially hard for this team. The Reds surely miss his leadership and his clutch hitting. They brought in the hero of the Yankees' 1932 pennant run, Michael Taylor, to replace him, but Taylor has been as disappointing with the Reds as he was with the Yankees over the past 4 years (.228, 3, 18). The Reds have gone so far in the past month to replace him with longtime minor leaguer Bill Bradley (.308, 2, 16), who was a minor sensation himself in 1933 when he hit .408 for the Kansas City Blues. He's been passable so far, but he's no Bob Leonhardt. Exacerbating the issue this year was the fact that Jay Calvin (.370, 3, 29), used for the Reds since his trade from Brooklyn in 1932 as a shortstop, struggled at the position badly enough to get a move over to third base. "We wanted Jay to concentrate on his hitting," said manager Bob Reed, who surely must be looking over his shoulder in spite of an unquestionably fantastic career in Cincinnati. Britt Grim (.295, 0, 8), who has replaced Calvin at short, was a former Giants star. Speaking of which, the Reds' bad run led them to pull off what we already think was a less than stellar trade. On the one hand, they picked up crafty veteran Li Alport, the 149-game winner, mostly with the Giants, whom the Reds managed to pry from the St. Louis Cardinals (more on them in a second). Problem is, Alport's craft wasn't nearly as noticeable as his fat fastball in St. Louis (2-7, 4.04) and things have only gotten worse for him in Cincy (1-5, 4.89 so far). We think the Reds gave up a pretty penny for Alport too in the form of 21-year-old flamethrower Homer Beeman (now 5-5, 2.68 between the two teams). We're just not buying Cincinnati's line that they had enough young pitching already; everyone can use a kid with a triple-digit fastball. Cardinals Struggle, Too The situation is even more dire in St. Louis, where Branch Rickey's boys were expected to contend for a pennant this year after challenging the Reds and Giants into August in 1935. Such is not the case so far. The Cards can blame key injuries for a bit of it - particularly to 1B Matt Oliver (.313, 6, 31), who has yet to find his power stroke after missing 3 weeks with a sore back. Oliver has hit 21 or more homeruns in each of the last 4 years but for Cards fans to remember his last circuit clout in 1936, they have to go all the way back to May 22nd. The team has also missed P Barney Pierce, who somehow managed to win 18 games for the Phillies in 1934, 2B Gary Lewis (.326, 0, 26), the incumbent at that position, and P Pat Alton, a 20-game winner in each of the past two seasons. On top of that, they've had to deal with the sudden declines of LF Juan Carlos Munoz (.255, 3, 24), who has complained nearly every day he's out of the lineup, and RF George Halter (.176, 0, 4). That's 2/3rds of last year's outfield struggling to hit its own weight. This has required 25 year old Bob Schumacher (.319, 0, 27) to fill in out there, a move which in fairness was made largely possible by the promotion of Fernando Chavez (.367, 2, 16 in 22 games) to play third base. Scouts raved about Chavez last year, then scratched their heads when he looked hopeless and overmatched against major league pitching. Now they're happy about him again. Scouts. Go figure. Unlike the Reds, though, the Cardinals have plenty of youthful talent to fill in for the injured and aging vets. In addition to Chavez, William "Cardinal" Conway (.283, 1, 5) has also forced his way onto the roster after belting 13 homeruns and 58 RBI in 47 games for the Columbus Red Birds. Also, Homer Beeman, the guy the Cards brought back in that aforementioned Li Alport trade, is striking out nearly one man every inning. If he can keep it up, his 8.14 Ks/9 will be the best mark since 1909. The farm system, by far the largest in baseball, features 7 top-100 players and a staggering 15 - practically a whole 'nother team - in the top 200. Midseason Award Watch Who Is In The Mix For MVPs, Buddha Turners, and ROYs? [/FONT]ST LOUIS - Now that we're far enough into the regular season that the "scrubeenies" have mostly washed themselves out, a quick look at the guys who won trophies for the month of June could be prophetic. First, the Senators' OF Norman Dello Joio has been lighting it up all season long and really carrying Washington into the pennant race at times. He's no longer flirting with .400 but is still hitting a nice, solid .348 for the year. He only hit .243 for June but the writers decided that was still good enough to call him the best youngster in the AL. His NL counterpart, Fernando Chavez, proved that his 1935 trial, when he hit just .109 in 46 at-bats, was a fluke, as he creamed the ball at a .367 rate with a couple HRs and 16 RBIs. The Buddha Turner race is also heating up, especially in the National League, where the exit of Earl Crockett from consideraton this year means that things are wide open. This month the Dodgers' Keith Hartung (11-3, 3.56) was the man, winning 5 of 6 decisions and posting a neat 2.16 ERA which was all the neater given that the Dodgers have come to rely on him with the loss of Curt Davenport to arm woes. In the AL, Brent Meyer, who won 15 games as a 26-year-old rookie for the Red Sox last season, was the best pitcher of all in July. While we don't think he's a serious Buddha Turner contender, it's hard to argue with his trophy; he also went 5-1 with an even smaller 2.03 ERA. Then there is the matter of the MVP race. The New York Yankees have long considered that if LF Gibran Waldron (.362, 6, 23) could just stay healthy, he would be the best hitter on a hitter-heavy team. Well, in July, Gibran did just that, belting all six of his seasonal HRs in the month and hitting .373 besides. Chicago's Carson Groth won NL honors for breaking the .400 barrier for the month (.407) with 2 HRs and 22 RBIs.
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-------------------- The Senators claimed P Mark "Scruffy" Watson (0-5, 6.15) off of waivers from the Athletics. The Washington Senators selected Bill Dietrich off waivers from the Philadelphia Athletics. July 5, 1936 ------------------------ The Bees traded C Eric Miller (.277, 0, 28 for AA St. Paul) and a player to be named to the Toledo Mud Hens for P Jon Ostrander (8-8, 3.05 in Toledo). The Boston Bees traded Joe Mowry (minor league vet OFer) and a player to be named to St Paul (American Association) for Lou Fette (ace pitcher). July 6, 1936 ------------------------- The Bees selected Athletics infielder Steve Dunton (.266, 0, 14) off of waivers from the Philadelphia Athletics. The Boston Bees selected Rabbit Warstler (starting MI) off waivers from the Philadelphia Athletics. July 11, 1936 ----------------- Indianapolis of the American Association purchased CF Stephen Bartels (.307, 5, 39) from the Dodgers for $30,000. Indianapolis (American Association) purchased Danny Taylor (former starting OF, relegated to the bench) from the Brooklyn Dodgers. July 15, 1936 ----------------- The Dodgers traded P Dan Barnes (8-7, 3.65) to the Cardinals for minor league OF Dan Simmons (.330, 3, 21 for Rochester - AA) and minor league P Avery Edwards (14-4, 3.60 for Columbus - AA). The Brooklyn Dodgers traded George Earnshaw (cagey vet, back of the rotation starter) to the St. Louis Cardinals for a player to be named later. The St. Louis Cardinals sent Eddie Morgan (semi-prospecty OF) (October 1, 1936) to the Brooklyn Dodgers to complete the trade. (I had to make this a bit of a blockbuster deal, as the Dodgers' pitching staff is just too danged young.) July 20, 1936 ------------------------ The White Sox claimed Mark "Scruffy" Watson (1-5, 5.52) off of waivers from the Senators. The Chicago White Sox selected Bill Dietrich (crappy young pitcher) off waivers from the Washington Senators. July 27, 1936 ----------------- The Phillies claimed P Dorian Wright (3-9, 4.18) off of waivers from the Boston Bees. The Giants purchased P Tom Harvey (3-4, 3.74) from Baltimore of the IL. The Philadelphia Phillies selected Ray Benge (crappy veteran pitcher) off waivers from the Boston Bees. The New York Giants purchased Cliff Melton (good pitching prospect) from Baltimore (International). July 29, 1936 Standings The Philadelphia Athletics signed Hod Lisenbee as a free agent.
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July 15, 1936
Thursday Games - A Weekly Update[/SIZE]
TRANSACTION ORACLE The main story in this issue of Transaction Oracle seems to be the ongoing money woes of the Philadelphia A's and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Read on, dear... readers! The Senators claimed P Mark "Scruffy" Watson (0-5, 6.15) off of waivers from the Athletics. You'd think that "Scruffy" Watson would be exactly what a non-contending team like the A's would want. Watson is still quite young - only 22 - and although he struggled terribly this year with the A's, it was only a year ago that he was looking like a top-rated prospect as a SP for the A's affiliate in Williamsburg. He must have gotten onto Connie Mack's bad side or something. The Bees traded C Eric Miller (.277, 0, 28 for AA St. Paul) and a player to be named to the Toledo Mud Hens for P Jon Ostrander (8-8, 3.05 in Toledo). This move for the Bees was due more to shore up the pitching staff for the future than anything else. Boston isn't exactly loaded for the future at catcher, although former Dodgers backup Thomas Hardy has proven to be worth the flier the team took on him (.277, 1, 33). However, Miller is just a year younger than Hardy and had the whiff of minor leaguer about him, so the Bees shipped him off to the independent Mud Hens for the promising Jon Ostrander, who is expected to replace someone in the major league rotation by the end of the year. The Bees selected Athletics infielder Steve Dunton (.266, 0, 14) off of waivers from the Philadelphia Athletics. Another day, another waiver claim off the A's roster. This time it was the Boston Bees who benefitted from Connie Mack's penny-pinching ways, as they picked up a solid utility infielder who was a bit overmatched as a starter the past 3 years with Philadelphia but who is perfectly capable of filling in at all infield positions when needed. To date, he's played in 5 games at shortstop, mostly at the expense of the disappointing Leslie Taylor (.236, 0, 19). Indianapolis of the American Association purchased CF Stephen Bartels (.307, 5, 39) from the Dodgers for $30,000. This is quite a strange-looking move for a team at the top of the standings, but we don't have access to the Dodgers' balance sheet. In a sense, their winningness doesn't come at the greatest time for them; with the Yankees fighting a battle in the American League and the Giants contending themselves, the Bums, in spite of their big lead, still find themselves the 3rd most popular team in the city. So moves had to be made to turn a profit, and we suppose that if you're going to offload an outfielder, you may as well make it Bartels. The loss of Bartels has pushed the Dodgers into a platoon of former pinch-hitting specialist Ed Hildebrandt (.321, 2, 6) and organizational soldier Barry Davis (.167, 0, 0; but .346, 14, 73 at Sacramento). Time will tell if this pairing equals or exceeds the speed, defense, and batsmanship Bartels brought. Bartels, by the by, has been incredible since joining his new club - 11 hits in his first 21 at-bats. The Dodgers traded P Dan Barnes (8-7, 3.65) to the Cardinals for minor league OF Dan Simmons (.330, 3, 21 for Rochester - AA) and minor league P Avery Edwards (14-4, 3.60 for Columbus - AA). The other cost-cutting move by the Dodgers involved moving Dan Barnes to the Cardinals for some minor league depth. Barnes won 19 games for Brooklyn last season but was just average this year, so the team decided to pull off the trade. Honestly, we're not sure about this one, as Brooklyn's starting pitching depth is now very, very thin - currently Beau Mazzone, who started the year with the A-level Davenport Blue Sox, is penciled in as the team's 4th starter. Still, Dan Simmons was a decent enough "get" and, at 32 years of age, Barnes was by a long shot the oldest man in that staff. (33-45) vs (55-29)Red Sox 13, Browns 8 BOSTON - The Browns have basically just treaded water since the last time we looked at them, which in this world of haves and have nots is enough to propel them ahead of the Athletics and into 5th place in the American League. Tonight they weren't quite able to overcome a shaky start by Dan Simmons (5-7, 5.19) but still managed to put 8 runs across off of Red Sox ace Tim Maisonet (13-8, 4.02), so... small victories. Everyone in the Red Sox lineup except the pitcher and LF Randy Collis (.309, 1, 10) had more than 1 hit. Leading the attack was 2B John Knight (.384, 9, 35), who would probably be #1 in the MVP race if he hadn't missed that month of the season. Browns 4, Red Sox 2 The Browns emerge, somehow, with a doubleheader split from the mighty Red Sox. Larry Marron (1-3, 4.04) outdueled Charlie Haynes (7-8, 3.83) in a battle of relievers as neither starter was able to get out of the 5th inning. Dylan Thomas (.349, 7, 55) blasted his 2nd homerun in the month of July in the winning effort. More ominous than the loss itself was that Red Sox starter Brett Meyer (10-1, 2.53) took himself out of the game with a sore hand in the top of the first inning. Fortunately, it appears that the injury is not serious and he only figures to miss a turn, maybe two, in the rotation. (42-40) vs (57-25)Tigers 6, Yankees 0 NEW YORK - The day after being manhandled by Yankees pitching, the Tigers get a great pitching performance of their own. Stephen Mudge (10-9, 4.44) silenced the doubters in the Detroit press, who have been saying that maybe the 26 year old is not ace starter material, by tossing a 5-hitter with just one walk. LF Bruce Struck (.330, 2, 35) and RF Carl Penley (.350, 0, 9) scored the only runs the Tigers needed in the 2nd inning off of Carl Parham (12-7, 2.97). (23-57) vs (32-47)Athletics 13, Indians 6 What was a tightly contested game was blown open by an 8-run 8th inning for the A's, who won only their 5th game of their last 18. John Shin (.413, 2, 33) continues to chase the .400 mark; he had 3 hits today in 6 tries to lead the team. Bill James (1-0, 2.48) was less than stellar for Philadelphia but he was the listed pitcher during the 8-run inning so he nevertheless gets the decision. (30-50) vs (51-31)Senators 1, White Sox 0 WASHINGTON - There was a time not too long ago when, if you saw Bob Hinman's(12-7, 3.33) name on the other side of the lineup, you could forget about any chances you had of winning that day. Sadly, while Hinman is still as tough as ever, his team has lost its ability to hit the baseball, and as a result he was outdueled by journeyman Alvin Caviness (5-1, 3.07). Bob Tobias' (.315, 0, 8) pinch double scored Mitchell Page (.270, 0, 4) from 2nd to give the Senators the only run they needed. (48-34) vs (38-43)Pirates 7, Giants 5 PITTSBURGH - The Pirates shouldn't be doing this well, but they're too young to know any better. Today Pittsburgh came a game closer to evening the season series vs. the Giants up (they've won 7 of 15) in dramatic fashion, coming back from a 5-2 deficit with clutch hitting and solid relief performances by winner Gene Hayden (6-3, 2.41) and Burt Lancaster (2-0, 3.05, 8 saves). Lester Archie (.340, 10, 44) seemed to put the Giants in the lead for good with his 10th homerun of the year in the 7th but young'uns Jerry Barber (.344, 0, 4) and Floyd Adams (.286, 3, 44) first chased Justin Manson (7-7, 3.84) and then victimized Miguel Marquez (2-2, 2.25). (23-57) vs (39-42)Phillies 8, Cardinals 5 ST. LOUIS - The Cardinals drop into a tie for 5th with the Pirates as they're unable to hold off the Phillies this time. Victor Ward (.351, 2, 20) led the charge with 4 hits in 5 RBIs in this one, and while it can't be said that the Phillies pitched particularly well, they got the job done when it counted. Kevin Clark (1-0, 5.50) pitched 2 1/3 scoreless innings to pick up the victory, while Ken Stinson (7-4, 2.68) looked less than stellar in the loss. (37-45) vs (43-36)Cubs 9, Bees 5 CHICAGO - The Cubs proved very mean hosts to the Bees and Cristobal Rodriguez (7-10, 4.12), chasing him after 2 innings and 8 runs, including a grand slam by Patrick Cleary (.322, 3, 38). Nick Hillis (11-5, 2.97) bolstered his case for an All-Star nod with 8 decent innings.
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August 1, 1936
------------------- The Cardinals traded CF William "Cardinal" Conway (.348, 7, 24) to the Dodgers for 2B Vicente Nunez (.313, 7, 56), John Capel (2-0, 3.16), and 3B Ed Lantz (.287, 5, 27). The St. Louis Cardinals traded Tom Winsett to the Brooklyn Dodgers for players to be named later. The Brooklyn Dodgers sent Frenchy Bordagaray (December 3, 1936), Dutch Leonard (December 3, 1936) and Jimmy Jordan (December 3, 1936) to the St. Louis Cardinals to complete the trade. August 2, 1936 -------------------- The Reds purchased minor league OF Gerard Dostie (.271, 3, 14 in the AA) and minor league 2B Tom Banks (.263, 15, 59 in the AA) from the Cardinals for $25,000. The Cincinnati Reds purchased Jack Rothrock from the St. Louis Cardinals. The Cincinnati Reds purchased Phil Weintraub from the St. Louis Cardinals. August 6, 1936 ------------------------- The Reds sent MR Don Dyson (2-0, 2.38) to the Cardinals for $500. The Cardinals traded SP Barney Pierce (1-3, 6.20) to the Reds for SP Lyndon Key (7-12, 3.66). Emmett Nelson sent from the Cincinnati Reds to the St. Louis Cardinals in an unknown transaction. The St. Louis Cardinals traded Bill Walker to the Cincinnati Reds for Si Johnson. August 16, 1936 --------------------- The Boston Bees purchased CF Ron Griggs (.315, 1, 40) from Buffalo (International). The Boston Bees purchased Beauty McGowan from Buffalo (International). August 19, 1936 -------------------- The Browns purchased P Martin Spitler (20-8, 1.62) from Galveston (Texas). The St. Louis Browns purchased Sig Jakucki from Galveston (Texas). August 22, 1936 -------------------- The Montreal Royals (IL) traded 2B Alphonse Conway (.305, 11, 78) to the Yankees for players to be named later. The Yankees sent P Bob Bennett (10-19, 4.67) and C Jeffrey Richardson (.314, 4, 51) to complete the trade. Montreal (International) traded Bob Seeds to the New York Yankees for players to be named later. The New York Yankees sent Marv Duke (minors) (November 30, 1936) and Norm Kies (minors) (November 30, 1936) to Montreal (International) to complete the trade. August 25, 1936 ---------------------- The Phillies purchased OF Scott Lagasse (.286, 0, 4) from the White Sox for $1,000. The Philadelphia Phillies purchased Fred Tauby from the Chicago White Sox. August 31, 1936 Standings ----------------------------- The Giants purchased 2B Herbert Fritz (.294, 6, 66 in AAA Newark) from the Yankees for $40,000. The New York Giants purchased Johnny McCarthy from the New York Yankees for $40,000.
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September 3, 1936
--------------------- The Indians purchased P Ted O'Toole (6-8, 3.97) from the Tigers. The Cleveland Indians purchased Joe Heving from the Detroit Tigers. September 6, 1936 --------------------- The Bees selected Russell Charles (0-1, 5.60) off of waivers from the Phillies. The Boston Bees selected Fabian Kowalik off waivers from the Philadelphia Phillies. September 7, 1936 -------------------- The Bees purchased Mark Bulter (8-11, 4.69 with Kansas City-AA) from the White Sox. The Yankees purchased LF Andres Rodriguez (.365, 7, 64) from Baltimore (IL). The Boston Bees purchased Vic Frazier from the Chicago White Sox. The New York Yankees purchased Les Powers from Baltimore (International). September 8, 1936 Standings The Boston Bees traded player to be named to Indianapolis (American Association) for Jim Turner. The Boston Red Sox purchased Archie McKain from the Cleveland Indians. September 9, 1936 Standings The Cleveland Indians purchased Carl Fischer from Buffalo (International). September 10, 1936 Standings The Detroit Tigers traded players to be named later and cash and 3 players to be named to Indianapolis (American Association) for Bob Logan and Dizzy Trout. The Detroit Tigers sent Red Phillips (December 2, 1936) and Salty Parker (December 2, 1936) to Indianapolis (American Association) to complete the trade. The St. Louis Browns traded a player to be named later and cash to Toledo (American Association) for Harry Davis. The St. Louis Browns sent Ed Coleman (March 30, 1937) to Toledo (American Association) to complete the trade. September 24, 1936 Standings The Boston Bees signed Stan Andrews as an amateur free agent. September 27, 1936 Standings The Boston Red Sox released Heinie Manush. The Boston Red Sox released Bing Miller. September 28, 1936 Standings The Boston Bees signed Ira Hutchinson as a free agent. September 29, 1936 Standings The Cincinnati Reds drafted Dick Barrett from Seattle (PCL) in the 1936 rule 5 draft. The Philadelphia Athletics drafted Earle Brucker from Portland (PCL) in the 1936 rule 5 draft. The Philadelphia Athletics drafted Bill Cissell from Baltimore (International) in the 1936 rule 5 draft. The Boston Bees drafted Debs Garms from the St. Louis Browns in the 1936 rule 5 draft. The Brooklyn Dodgers drafted Luke Hamlin from the Cleveland Indians in the 1936 rule 5 draft. The Philadelphia Phillies drafted Wayne LaMaster from the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1936 rule 5 draft. The St. Louis Browns drafted Nig Lipscomb from Atlanta (Southern Association) in the 1936 rule 5 draft. The Chicago Cubs drafted Dick Siebert from Indianapolis (American Association) in the 1936 rule 5 draft. The Cleveland Indians drafted Whit Wyatt from the Chicago White Sox in the 1936 rule 5 draft.
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