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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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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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ROMBY, GIANTS BOUNCE BACK
The Mize-less, Cooper-less Giants regrouped for a big third inning against the Tigers; starter Bob Romby K'd 7 and picked up his 9th win. Hartung: HR.
DET (32-34) 000100000 170
NYG (25-35)01600000x 780
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Today's #1947League game brought to you by I Bet I Don't Have to Tell You the Name of this Band ...
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#1947League question:
Today's hero, Bob Romby, held opponents to a .172 batting average in 1947. Romby was the ace of the Baltimore Elite Giants staff that season.
His team didn't with the NNL pennant, or the World Series, that year.
Who did?
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Correct! What would you like to hear, @tabletopmania ?
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Today's #OpeningDay game brought to you by @tabletopmania and #FranzFerdinand
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#1947League question:
Name a team for which Homer Curry served as both player and manager.
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He does it again! CORRECT! What would you like to hear, @tabletopmania ?
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I knew he played for them at the end. I have a 2nd Texas team prepped in the event I run a WLB year 2 and he’s on it.
Let’s go with Beautiful Day- U2.
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DONE!
And indeed it was a beautiful day! Your #MnTwins and my #Athletics each comfortably settled into first place! May they remain there!
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Yusuf, I never knew that you were an #Athletics supporter!
I have an odd relationship with them. In the 1970s (the handlebar moustache era) I liked them. In the late 1980s and early 1990s I hated them.
After Moneyball I liked them again.
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If anyone hasn't seen "The Catcher Was a Spy" check it out. It's a good flick on former Red Sox catcher Moe Berg.
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I can't think of any better way to honor the current surrealistically untethered news cycle than this intricate, hilarious #FiresignTheatre parody of the #1972 Republican Convention.
Not Insane!
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Wait! There's a BREAKING BAD cameo? Now I really have to see this.
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Walter White's alias= Heisenberg...
So funny I had to explain it. Story of my comic life. :-)
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My mom was addicted to the show, from time to time I saw snippets but never really paid attention.
I actually don’t own a television. After “What Not to Wear” got cancelled there was nothing worth watching (and I get baseball on the MLB app).
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Good call, forsaking TV for the MLB app!
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Actually Heisenberg was more of an alter ego than an alias.... #BreakingBad
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I never watched the show.
When I described the chess game I had thought that -that- Heisenberg was the only one.
Now I am uncertain.
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Ladies and gentlemen ... YOUR first-place #Oakland #Athletics!
(Doing this now because who knows if the standings are going to line up this way again this year...)
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I support the Athletics and the Twins.
Mainz Athletics of the Bundesliga Sud (especially their slugger, Kevin Kotowski) and LG Twins of the Korean League (where the amazing catcher Cho In-Sung broke in: 20 year career, 11 SB, and I saw one!)
Yusuf Toropov
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