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#1947League home run leaders, as of game 354:
1 Gibson STB 21
2 Mize NYG 20
2 Cooper NYG 20
4 Heath STB 15
5 Cullenbine DET 14
6 Berra NYY 14
7 Kiner PIT 11
8 Irvin BOSB 11
9 Rigney NYG 11
10 Garcia BOSB 9
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#1947League question:
Today's winning pitcher, Pat Scantlebury (born in Panama), was an integral part of the 1947 NNL pennant-winning team that eventually triumphed in the World Series.
What was that team's home field?
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Answer to #1947League question:
Pat Scantlebury's World-Series-winning team in 1947 was the New York Cubans. (They signed a lot of Central American and Caribbean players, not just Cubans. Pat was born in Panama.)
Home field: Polo Grounds.
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Then by God you get to pick today's song! What will it be?
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Today's #1947League game brought to you by @tabletopmania and #ColinHay ...
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... and by the #RollingStones.
For a No-Prize, can you spot the LYRICAL connection?
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#1947League question:
With what real-life National League team did hit machine Artie Wilson log 19 games and 24 at-bats? I need both the team name and the year.
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1951 Giants. I only know because the 51 Giants are the centerpiece of the annual Edward John Coyle Jr. Memorial Tournament.
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CORRECT! What would you like to hear tomorrow, @tabletopmania ?
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This is #1947League, a dice/cards replay of '47 #baseball season with 13% #Black players from the era, not 0.01%
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#GuesstheSong based on lyric below. Click the link to check your guess.
https://youtu.be/PJwt2dxx9yg
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#1947League American Division standings, volume 355
TEAM W L GB
New York 34 23 -
St. Louis 34 26 1.5
Detroit 30 30 5.5
Boston 25 35 10.5
Cleveland 22 38 13.5
Washington 11 47 23.5
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#1947League National Division Standings, Volume 355
TEAM W L GB
Philadelphia 41 20 -
Brooklyn 39 21 1.5
Pittsburgh 33 27 7.5
St. Louis 30 27 9
Boston 29 28 10
New York 27 33 13.5
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And now, for no discernable reason, here's the #Bangles as though the band = all closeups of #SusannaHoffs. #nowplaying #1947League
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BROWNS TOP TIGERS
Tight game...till Gibson and Heath teed off on Hutchinson in the 8th w/back to back HRs. Josh's 22nd.
STLB keeps pace w/1st-place NYY. Booker McDaniel gets the spot start, and the CG win, filling in for Bill Ricks.
DET 280
STLB 570
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Yesterday's song connection: both tunes mentioned DICE in the lyrics. #1947League
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Today's #1947League game brought to you by @tabletopmania and the inimitable #Toto... not the Wizard of Oz dog, the razor-sharp '70s and '80s band behind the Song That Never Relinquishes Its Hold on My Consciousness...
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... and today's #1947League song also brought to you by #BobDylan.
For a No-Prize... #SpotTheConnection
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CORRECT!
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Yesterday, #1947League asked you to name the team that, according to legend, a teenaged Josh Gibson was recruited to join WHILE SITTING IN THE STANDS.
Answer: The Homestead Grays.
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This is #1947League, a dice/cards replay of '47 #baseball season with 13% #Black players from the era, not 0.01%
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#GuesstheSong based on lyric below. Click the link to check your guess.
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SAIN, IRVIN LEAD BRAVES OVER YANKS
Boston Braves ace Johnny Sain held the potent New York lineup to 6 hits and drove in the go-ahead run; Monte Irvin homered. Satch took the loss.
BOSB (30-28) 6 10 2
NYY (34-24) 3 6 0
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Today's #1947League game brought to you by the band now officially known as Commissioner's Choice.
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#1947League question:
Today's hero, Monte Irvin, ended up with the Giants when NYG paid Newark Eagles owner Etta Manley $5,000 for his contract.
How much did Branch Rickey pay the Kansas City Monarchs for Jackie Robinson's contract a few years earlier?
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Correct, @tabletopmania ! Rickey STOLE Jackie Robinson's contract... and got away with it. What would you like to hear tomorrow, sir?
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#GuesstheSong based on lyric below. Click the link to check your guess.
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A ridiculously big, ridiculously good #TomPetty album: LIVE AT THE FILLMORE, 1997
Hard not to place it at the same level as, say, JOHNNY CASH/FOLSOM PRISON and GET YER YA-YAS OUT. Grateful to Petty family for putting this out. WOW. #music
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FELLER, RUSZKOWSKI BOMB RED SOX, 7-0
Feller started pitching like Feller, striking out 10 Red Sox and holding Boston to four hits.
Doby: 1-4, run scored.
And oh yeah: Hank Ruszkowski slammed 3 HRS!
Indians turn a page.
BOS (25-36) 040
CLE (23-28) 790
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That was a shutout, which traditionally in #1947League we celebrate with a visit from the Beautiful Shuffle Girls. But stay tuned for more about this game when they're done...
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We've never had someone hit three home runs in a single game before. So what does this tell us?
a) Ruszkowski is now the starting catcher for Cleveland
b) The top TWO vote-getters below go up on the #1947League pinup Wall of Fame!
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Ralph Branca, Hilton Smith head #1947League list of #pitching #wins leaders: game 358
1 Branca BKN: 11
2 Smith STB: 9
T3 Fields PIT/Hutchinson DET/ Thompson PHI/Tiant PIT: 8
T7 Black NYG /Blair PHI/Day STL/Lewis STL 7/Paige NYY/ Romby NYG/Sain BOSB: 7
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Today's #1947League game brought to you by @tabletopmania and #Weezer, who join the long parade known as Artists I Didn't Love Until Nolan Picked Them after Winning the Trivia Question ...
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... and by #RogerDaltrey, who comes to us with another absurdly easy opportunity to win a No-Prize... #spottheconnection
You can win another No-Prize by sharing the (tangential) #baseball connection presented by this song. #1947League
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#1947League question.
CATEGORY: HOME RUNS
Larry Doby did (at least) two things in this category that Willie Mays, Monte Irvin, and Henry Aaron did not do. What were they?
I need both of them. Multiple guesses okay.
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Love these magnificently stilted "interviews" with contemporary ballplayers in late-40s radio #baseball broadcasts.
https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxv9pUdDb1kSj0BeZzW5hhJkQntuxBQI2a
24 seconds · Clipped by Yusuf Toropov · Original video "1949 10 09 World Series Game 5 Dodgers vs Yankees OTR Radio Broadcast (Mel Allen + Red Barber)" by Cl...
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So #GraceKelly is honored with a spot on the #1947League #walloffame. She will join #DianaRigg.
But we have a tie for the second spot to resolve, thanks to Ruszkowski's three home runs in a single game.
Take a stand for democracy! Make your preference known!
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Today's #1947League game brought to you by the Commissioner's Choice, the #GratefulDead. LATE phase Dead tonight.
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#1947League answer:
Robinson, Mays, Aaron, Irvin
I expected one of those guys to be first Black player to HR in AL/NL #WorldSeries.
Nope. Larry Doby.
Also expected one of those guys to be the first Black player to lead AL or NL in HRs.
Nope. Doby.
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The #SpotTheConnection answer from yesterday's songs: the titles.
#Baseball connection: Daltrey's SAY IT AIN'T SO, JOE inspired conjecture, upon release, that it was about Shoeless Joe Jackson and the 1919 White Sox. More about #Nixon...
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Off day for #1947League. Catch you tomorrow!
"Hey, what's this all about?"
Glad you asked:
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
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#GuesstheSong based on lyric below. Click the link to check your guess.
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MIZE, ROMBY LEAD GIANTS OVER CARDS
Bob Romby got his 8th win; Johnny Mize launched a grand slam in the 10th--his 20th round-tripper. Giants top Mississippi Lewis in a thriller that had a benches-clearing brawl in the 10th.
NYG 580
STLC170
Yusuf Toropov
Nolan