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#1947League Home Ballparks -- first in a series of twelve color trading cards. Collect 'em all!
🙂
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@tabletopmania song pick? Not trying to rush you, just don't want it to fall through the cracks and I'm going to bed soon 😊
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You're tuned to #1947League, a dice/cards replay of '47 #baseball season w/13% #Black players from the era, not 0.01%
Anyone can join in. #MLB #BLM #apba #MastodonBaseball #nowplaying
#GuesstheSong based on the lyric below. Click the link; check your guess
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#1947League American Division standings, volume 344
American
TEAM W L GB
New York 32 23 -
St. Louis 33 25 0.5
Detroit 29 29 4.5
Boston 24 34 9.5
Cleveland 21 37 12.5
Washington 11 45 21.5
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#1947League National Division Standings, volume 344
TEAM W L GB
Philadelphia 39 20 -
Brooklyn 38 21 1
Pittsburgh 33 26 6
St. Louis 29 26 8
Boston 29 26 8
New York 26 32 12.5
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Next #1947League game:
Josh Gibson (19 HR*, .618 SLG**) and the 33-25 St. Louis Browns ...
vs.
Cool Papa Bell (.377, 24 SB) and the Detroit Tigers.
Be there!
(* = tied for league lead)
(**=leads league)
#baseball #mastodonbaseball #mastodonsports #blackmastodon #blm #mlb #apba
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Why follow a tabletop #baseball replay?
'47 #MLB (in "real life") had >1% Black players; this has 13%
#BLM #BlackHistory matters
We geek out about #BlackLeagues, music we love
#Trivia Q
Music = #Dion #GratefulDead #SpotTheConnection
APBA>real thing
This is #1947League!
@AndrewBC Who knows. :-) Could be synchronicity at work once again...
https://www.reddit.com/r/iching/comments/xfmzwk/grateful_dead_song_fire_on_the_mountain_inspired/
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BOOM!
GIBSON GOES LONG; BROWNS TOP TIGERS, TIE YANKS FOR 1ST PLACE
Roy Welmaker goes the distance for the Browns and gets the complete-game win; Josh Gibson assumes sole possession of first place in the #1947League HR race with his 20th 4-bagger.
STLB 8 11 1
DET 1 6 0
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... and by the #GratefulDead. At Winterland, 1979. Everyone says it's '78, but they started playing on January 1, so...
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#1947League trivia question.
Name a team #JoshGibson played for that wasn't the Homestead Grays.
#baseball #mastodonbaseball #jg20mvp #blackhistory #blackmastodon
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The song connection yesterday was: #Dion's THE WANDERER is about a wanderer, and the #GratefulDead's FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN is also about a wanderer. #1947league #music
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You're tuned to #1947League, a dice/cards replay of '47 #baseball season w/13% #Black players from the era, not 0.01%
#Joinin #MLB #BLM #MastodonBaseball #nowplaying
#GuesstheSong based on lyric below. Click the link to check your guess.
@scottdaniel @tabletopmania @YakyuNightOwl @malinkey @BigEarl @MiLBAnalysis @cardboardkarl @adamlordosurety @FaultyJon @stlcolorbaseball @ted_duffield @uncle6 @AlexanderRaine7 @OhhJim @sullybaseball @samsilverstein @MarioERoc
Why follow a tabletop #baseball replay?
'47 #MLB (in "real life") had >1% Black players; this has 13%
#BLM #BlackHistory matters
We geek out about #BlackLeagues, music we love
#Trivia Question
Music = #GratefulDead #BobDylan
APBA>real thing
This is #1947League!
@scottdaniel @tabletopmania @YakyuNightOwl @malinkey @BigEarl @MiLBAnalysis @cardboardkarl @adamlordosurety @FaultyJon @stlcolorbaseball @ted_duffield @uncle6 @AlexanderRaine7 @OhhJim @sullybaseball @samsilverstein @MarioERoc
#1947League American Division Standings, volume 345
TEAM W L GB
New York 32 23 -
St. Louis 34 25 -
Detroit 29 30 5
Boston 24 34 9.5
Cleveland 21 37 12.5
Washington 11 45 21.5
@scottdaniel @tabletopmania @YakyuNightOwl @malinkey @BigEarl @MiLBAnalysis @cardboardkarl @adamlordosurety @FaultyJon @stlcolorbaseball @ted_duffield @uncle6 @AlexanderRaine7 @OhhJim @sullybaseball @samsilverstein @MarioERoc
#1947League National Division standings, volume 345
National
TEAM W L GB
Philadelphia 39 20 -
Brooklyn 38 21 1
Pittsburgh 33 26 6
St. Louis 29 26 8
Boston 29 26 8
New York 26 32 12.5
@scottdaniel @tabletopmania @YakyuNightOwl @malinkey @BigEarl @MiLBAnalysis @cardboardkarl @adamlordosurety @FaultyJon @stlcolorbaseball @ted_duffield @uncle6 @AlexanderRaine7 @OhhJim @sullybaseball @samsilverstein @MarioERoc
Next #1947League game:
Rookie Yogi Berra (.287, 13 HR, 47 RBI) and the first-place New York Yankees ...
vs.
Silvio Garicia (.370, 36 SB) and the fourth-place Boston Braves.
Be there!
#baseball #MastodonBaseball #nlbm #blm #mlb #blackhistory #MastodonSports
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"What the hell is this guy obsessing about every day...?"
Glad you asked, #baseball fans:
Attached: 1 image 1/x This #thread is for #blackmastodon, #MLB, and #baseball at large: You may have heard that a while back, in a long-overdue move, big-league baseball ruled that all official Black Leagues stats were now recognized as MLB statistics. As a (white) fan of the great players of the Black Leagues, I was excited by this move ... but I felt it was just the beginning. #1947League #apba
Yusuf Toropov
Nolan
AndrewBC
Scott Daniel