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Magnificent game with a great finish. What a tournament.
Side note: Not everyone is Ohtani ... but he proves that SOME PITCHERS CAN HIT. Him going to the outfield, then returning to the mound for the final inning, was pure #1947League!
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Got a nasty bug. While I am on the IL, here is a cool video from MLB Productions: Baseball in the 70s!
Variable image quality, but definitely worth a watch if you are Into That Kind of Thing. I am.
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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%
#MLB #BLM #Baseball #nowplaying
#GuesstheSong based on lyric below. Click the link to check your guess.
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10-second documentary.
#WorldSeries umpire tells Tommy Lasorda but the National League will inevitably have to adopt the #designatedhitter rule. Lasorda isn't buying it. I'm with Tommy.
#baseball #banthedh #1947League
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxI-qFg0JcXTFZLXV5xToACsfWZJtOyDDM
17 seconds · Clipped by Yusuf Toropov · Original video "Baseball in the 1970s" by Classic MLB1
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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%
#MLB #BLM #Baseball #nowplaying
#GuesstheSong based on lyric below. Click the link to check your guess.
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#1947League gets back in gear as...
BUMS TROUNCE BRAVES
Brooklyn erupted for 9 runs in 3 innings and never looked back, closing once again to within half-a-game of first-place Philly. WP: Bill Byrd, via his "mystery pitch."
BOSB 261
BKN 9 12 0
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Today's #1947League game brought to you by @tabletopmania and #RockNRollSoldiers. Ten-HUT!
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Today's #1947league game also brought to you by THOSE GUYS UP ON THE ROOF BUSY PISSING OFF THE NEIGHBORS
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I am supposed to write a #SABR article about one of the great forgotten #baseball stars, #BillByrd. Using the next few trivia questions to develop material for that piece.
Byrd was never penalized for throwing the #spitball. Why not?
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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%
#MLB #BLM #Baseball #nowplaying
#GuesstheSong based on lyric below. Click the link to check your guess.
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#1947league standings: American Division (Volume 386)
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#1947league standings: National Division (Volume 386)
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ACES HIGH IN ST. LOUIS
Dutch Leonard (7-5, 3.81) gets the call for first-place Philly.
Harry "The Cat" Brecheen (7-3, 2.47) tries to put St. Louis (31-31) over the .500 mark for the first time of the year.
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PHILS RESTORE ONE-GAME LEAD OVER BUMS
Philly's Piper Davis robbed Kimbro of a HR in the third; in the eighth, he threw Kimbro out at the plate. Johnny Davis homered (GWRBI) in the top of the ninth.
PHI (44-22) 241
STLC (31-32) 160
#1947League
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Today's #1947League game brought to you by @swampudlian and Rev. Horton Heat.
Yes, this song really exists. Thank goodness.
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#1947League question:
Which of these pitches was Bill Byrd, according to #NLBM, not famous for throwing?
Spitball
Change-up
Slow knuckler
Fast knuckler
Slider
Roundhouse curve
Fastball
Sinker
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Nope on fastball, nope on Mays. Keep guessing if you want. Up to three on each.
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Grateful Dead sponsor next -- always a good time.
Correct answers to #1947League questions:
* Bill Byrd threw all those pitches I listed with intimidating mastery.... EXCEPT the change-up.
* He mentored Roy Campanella, who called him "Daddy "
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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%
#MLB #BLM #Baseball #nowplaying
#GuesstheSong based on lyric below. Click the link to check your guess.
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INDIANS POST BIGGEST #1947League WIN MARGIN
Pennant race, shmennant race. Tribe batted around TWICE en route to the record-breaking win. Feller: CG, 9K, 1 ER. Vargas: 3-4. 3 RBI (.380)
WAS (16-49) 010000000 1 3 1
CLE (26-39) 00029206X 19 20 0
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Today's #1947league game brought to you by #GratefulDead, c. 1967, whom I saw during this period.
See this light show?
I remember my dad taking me to a bunch of shows where this was the (cutting-edge) performance tech.
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#1947League question:
Only two men made more pitching appearances in the East-West All Star Game than Bill Byrd. Both are in the Hall of Fame. Name them.
One guess!
(Hint: Neither is named Paige.)
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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%
#MLB #BLM #Baseball #nowplaying
#GuesstheSong based on lyric below. Click the link to check your guess.
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GIBSON, RICKS TOP YANKS IN SECOND GAME, EVEN SERIES
Browns regained first place on back-to-back-to-back HRs, a #1947League first. (Lehner, Gibson, Heath.) Gibson homered again in 3rd!
Ricks: CG, 4H, 4K, W.
NYY (37-28) 341
STLB(38-27)580
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Gibson's two long flies not only put his team in sole possession of first place, but also put him ahead of Brooklyn's Johnny Mize in the #1947League home-run race, 25 to 24. The Beautiful Shufflers took note of that...
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Today's #1947League game brought to you by @tabletopmania and #AMRadio...
"You're taking me for a ride..."
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#1947League question:
When he played in Venezuela and Puerto Rico, who was star pitcher Bill Byrd's catcher?
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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%
#MLB #BLM #Baseball #nowplaying
#GuesstheSong based on lyric below. Click the link to check your guess.
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BUMS TOP BRAVES, INCH CLOSER TO FIRST
Chet Brewer held the Braves to three hits. Renfroe tripled twice and went 4-4...but was injured sliding in the 7th. Out 8 games.
Brooklyn half a game out.
BOSB (31-33) 230
BKN (44-23) 693
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Today's #1947League game brought to you by #Cranberries and @tabletopmania. "The stars are bright tonight..."
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And I think Nolan knew which song I was going to pair this with... #1947League
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Bill Byrd was among 39 players nominated for the #Baseball Hall of Fame via the 2006 Special Committee on Negro Leagues final ballot.
What was the Committee's decision on his induction status?
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Bill Byrd failed in his 2006 bid to enter the Hall of Fame. He has another shot in 2025.
Thanks to #Seamheads, we now have a much clearer picture of the statistical footprint of his career. I expect he'll enter the Hall this time. #1947league
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How about raising awareness with a hashtag?
Yusuf Toropov
Half-Lawyer Half-Godfather
Nolan
Ruth O’Day
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