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20-win seasons are (were) flashy, and I love 'em, but we know now that they're not all that relevant as an indicator of excellence. More telling, I think, is the fact that Hunter and Blue had virtually identical career ERAs: 3.26 vs. 3.27.

Get him in there.

#HallofFame

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Today's #1947League game brought to you by @Eilistraee and the #GratefulDead. What a band.

https://youtu.be/fVq-PAiMVIs

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One more for #VidaBlue. Excellent quality video from the 1971 All-Star Game.

https://youtu.be/UMbxu_QMKhQ

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#1947League answer:

Jackie broke his contract w/the Monarchs.

Max Manning was offered a deal w/the Giants and urged to break his contract w/the Eagles. Although he had a bad relationship with owner Effa Manley, he opted to honor his agreement. Never got another shot.

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Off day for #1947League because....

(🥁 roll)

... we have tickets to see this guy in Dublin.

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Your Commissioner is still in recovery mode after standing in stormy weather for 4 hrs. to see the Boss, but it was worth every raindrop. And the clouds parted just before he came on. Make of that what you will.

Anyway. Hope to post a #1947League game tomorrow. Standings:

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#1947League standings for people who don't like JPGs:

American W L GB

New York A 40 29 -
St Louis A 39 30 1
Detroit 33 36 7
Boston A 31 38 9
Cleveland 28 42 12.5
Washington 19 51 21.5

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#1947League standings for people who don't like JPGs:

National W L GB

Philadelphia 47 23 -
Brooklyn 45 2 2.5
Pittsburgh 35 34 11.5
BOSTONN 34 34 12
St Louis N 32 35 13.5
New York N 32 37 14.5

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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 link to check your guess. Anyone can play.

https://youtu.be/o5IZuuzUa04

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Diaz clubs three home runs, Rooker is hitting .317, Ruiz has 17 stolen bases, and we still lost ground on the '62 Mets.

1962 Mets: 12-26
2023 A's 8-30

#QuestFor41
#Oakland
#Athletics
#Baseball

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#Athletics ERA. = 7.76

#Oakland is a fascinating test of #stoic virtue. It's not so much that our pitching is bad by #MLB standards. It doesn't belong in the majors. If we had a *bad* big-league staff, by any acceptable measure, we would not be competing with the '62 Mets.

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I had a dream last night that the A’s were playing the Cardinals in the World Series. I kept trying to find the game on TV but couldn’t find the right channel.

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See, this is the beauty of APBA -- That COULD be the matchup!

(Also the beauty of Nolan's game)

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You may be sorry you asked that question.... I tend to talk about it too much and make people''s eyes glaze over. Can never tell if I am doing that online. So I'll let a1975-era image and a PDF link do the talking for me.

It's how I produce #1947League results.

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and the 1975-era pdf:

http://apbagames.com/wp-content/uploads/baseball/1975_baseballbrochure.pdf

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GIBSON, BANKHEAD MANHANDLE YANKEES

Josh Gibson (4 RBI) launched his league-leading 27th HR; Dan Bankhead (8-5) held the Yankees to four hits and struck out 7. The Browns regained a first-place tie with New York.

STLB(40-30) 681
NYY (40-30) 241

#1947League
#Baseball

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Today's #1947League game brought to you by @BigEarl, not because he answered a trivia question, but because he gave me a great #Springsteen live performance to listen to...and frankly, not sharing it would be unethical after what I saw on Tuesday.

https://youtu.be/LqI8frytMj4

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#1947League

In Game 6, Newark kept the series alive, even though KC knocked starter Leon Day out of the box in the first inning. Usually, when that happens, the pitcher heads to the showers. Not this time, though. What did Leon do for the remainder of his team's 9-7 win?

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CARDS MAKE A STATEMENT

St. Louis broke through early with a 3-run 2nd inning that chased knuckleballer Barney Brown. Rufus Lewis K'd 7 and picked up his 8th win; Kimbro homered. Pirates on the skids.

STLC (33-35) 7 3 1
PIT (35-35) 2 7 2

#1947League
#baseball

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We come to Game 7 of the epic 1946 World Series between the Eagles and the Monarchs.

The final score of that game was 3-2.

Who was the winning pitcher and what team did he pitch for?

#1947League

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#ATHLETICS GAIN GROUND ON '62 METS

Rooker's 3-run bomb walked off Texas, which means the A's picked up a game on the Mets. A's aiming for 41 wins to avoid worst record in modern #MLB.

W L GB
'62 Mets 12-28 -
'23 A's. 9-31 3

#Baseball
#QuestFor41

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I thought that I saw a post that said Oakland was fifth in runs scored, and it had images to prove it. So I clicked on the image, and yes Oakland was fifth on the list of runs scored then when I went to click back on the post, it disappeared.

1/2

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I deleted it because I realized I had the teams in ascending order rather than descending order! So my whole post was wrong.

I hereby acknowledge that.

Yes, Virginia, I was totally off base.

:-)

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Yes. That was it. It contained nuclear codes.

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#1947League taking a couple of days to catch up on statistics, but in the meantime, have a listen to Bob Kendrick....

https://youtu.be/h-s-VqywERI

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#Oakland #Athletics #Baseball

So when your favorite team is having the kind of year my favorite team is having, it's a moral and psychological imperative to celebrate moments like this:

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxOiQMj0aVMP_JcOY8DI11Sso_82ZBxtXW

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I watched the last two innings and thought of you , Yusuf: trying to put a positive light on it, at least A’s fans get a full nine innings of baseball for home games!

PS you could switch your NL allegiance to the D-Backs ; )

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My son Dylan and I have already plotted our transition--he's currently a White Sox fan but moving to Texas. We are each seeing our respective last-place teams through to the end of this season. Then, spring training 2024, we start following the Red Sox :-).

NL=LAD for me.

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Clearly an underexamined statistic. :-)

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Don't forget biorhythms!