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This is #1947League, a dice/cards replay of '47 #baseball season w/13% #Black players from the era, not 0.01%.
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#GuesstheSong based on lyric below. Click link to check your
guess. Anyone can play.
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I do love this song, but it's only on listening to it now that I realize, after 45 years, that its rhythm track has pretty much been lifted bodily from Marvin Gaye's WHAT'S GOING ON...
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BELL, TIGERS, TAKE FIRST GAME OF SERIES FROM RED SOX
Cool Papa Bell (2-3, 2 RBI, SB) lifted his average to .367 as Detroit dispatched Boston in the opener of a four-game series at Briggs Stadium. Hal Newhouser (6-8) got the win.
BOSR (31-39) 1 6 1
DET (34-36) 7 14 0
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Today's #1947League game brought to you by your Commissioner ... and by the #GratefulDead, who asked their family doctor just what they had.
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One guess only. Identify the Negro Leagues ballplayers inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame *before* Cool Papa Bell was inducted in 1974.
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You are CORRECT, @ted_duffield!
🎉
What song would you like to hear?
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DONE!
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YANKS UNLOAD AGAINST BUMS
Al Smith, Yogi Berra, and Phil Rizzuto all homered in the Bronx Bombers' victory over the visiting Dodgers. Barney Morris picked up his sixth win. Yanks back in a first-place tie with the Browns in the American.
BKN (46-29) 391
NYY (42-21) 681
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Today's #1947League game brought to you by @ted_duffield and by Willie, Mickey, and the Duke!
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So I asked Google to find a rock and roll song about #baseball to pair up with "Willie, Mickey, and the Duke" and it came up with this one, another '80s classic...
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Though frankly, I would say Nolan's delivery is a bit more glorious than the one the Boss shows off in this video. :-)
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Today's hero, Al Smith, helped to win matching pennants for the very same city -- securing the flag as a regular in both the NAL and the American League.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Name both of those teams.
One guess only.
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This is #1947League, a dice/cards replay of '47 #baseball season w/13% #Black players from the era, not 0.01%.
#MLB #BLM #nlbm #BlackMastodon #nowplaying #music #joinin #apba
#GuesstheSong based on lyric below. Click link to check your
guess. Anyone can play.
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BROWNS FACE PHILLIES IN BATTLE OF FIRST-PLACE TEAMS
World Series preview? Could be. Ford Smith (8-4, 2.90) takes the mound for the 41-30 Browns; Amos Watson (3-9, 3.30) gets the start for the 47-24 Phillies. Buckle up!
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PHILLIES TOP BROWNS
Pat Patterson's eighth-inning double scored Buck Leonard for the GWRBI in a tense, close game. Watson logged his first win as a Phillie; LaMarque earned the save, fanning Gibson with a man on second and two out in the 9th.
STLB (41-31)470
PHI (48-24) 581
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Today's #1947League game brought to you by @RuthODay and the Treniers. That Giants kid is great!
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Today's #1947League game also brought to you by the one and only Charley Pride.
Spot the connection between these two songs and win a No-Prize!
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#1947League question:
Today's hero, Pat Patterson, played for a team that won a World Series championship. Can you name it?
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This is #1947League, a dice/cards replay of '47 #baseball season w/13% #Black players from the era, not 0.01%.
#MLB #BLM #nlbm #BlackMastodon #nowplaying #music #joinin #apba
#GuesstheSong based on lyric below. Click link to check your
guess. Anyone can play.
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CARDS BEAT PIRATES, MOVE INTO THIRD PLACE
St. Louis's Gentry Jessup (3-1) kept the Pirates off-balance, holding them to 3 hits in the CG victory. Musial: 3-4, 2 RBI, HR.
Pittsburgh's slide continues.
STLC (35-35) 4 11 0
PIT (35-37) 1 3 0
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Today's #1947League game brought to you by @tabletopmania and Zager & Evans....
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... and today's #1947League game also brought to you by #FionaApple -- for a No-Prize, can you spot the connection between these two songs? (You'll need to watch the videos. I promise it will be worth it.)
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For what team did Gentry Jessup, today's hero, have his best season?
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CORRECT! What would you like to hear, @tabletopmania ?
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Off day for #1947League. In the meantime... THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER NOLAN RYAN.
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I’ll give you durable.
But dominant? Maybe on individual pitches. But over a season, I’d take Gibson.
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During the steroid era a sports talk show episode included Bob Gibson. Someone asked him if he would have taken steroids. Joe Morgan, also at the table, burst out laughing.
The conversation stopped dead.
Morgan said, “could you imagine Bob Gibson on steroids?!!”
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Ok, let's just say they are both in the rotation:-) Pausing only to point out that nobody, but nobody, is going to get 384 strikeouts in a season while I am drawing breath.
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Okay, agreed, both in the rotation!
True, no one else will ever K 384 in a season. But let’s not forget that he led the league six times in base-on-balls. Which gives me an excuse to link to:
Yusuf Toropov
tcduff
Nolan
Ruth O’Day