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Today's #1947League game brought to you by my buddy Cliff (again) and #OzarkMountainDaredevils .... singing what now emerges as a tribute to #42...
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"Miksis, you say" -- my buddy Cliff, as he texts me an image of his autographed Eddie Miksis postcard
(Spoiler alert -- he has all the autographs that ever existed or ever will exist. He did explain all this to me once. Something to do with a wormhole.)
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Today's #1947League hero, Gene Bremer, broke in with a Cincinnati Tigers squad that included the legendary Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe.
Radcliffe got his nickname in 1932 from Damon Runyon, who saw him do something extraordinary during a doubleheader. What was it?
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CORRECT! Two winners today. (Nolan got it on text.) What would you like to hear tomorrow, @ted_duffield ?
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POWER PLAYS LIFT PHILLY OVER RED SOX
Phils = 11th of 12 in HRs; usually a doubles-and-triples kind of offense. Not last night, though. Davis, Neil, and Bassett all went long. Groundhog Thompson (10-5) got the win.
PHI (52-32) 5 7 1
BOS(36-48) 1 4 1
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Today's #1947league game brought to you by @tabletopmania and the #BeastieBoys....
("Do you like parties?")
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... and by @ted_duffield and #TerryCashman and the great INTERNATIONAL pastime itself!
#1947League #baseball https://youtu.be/fWKA9Zi5-_Y?si=LylD0gC-rLNZA4Kw
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The Homestead Grays squad for which Frank "Groundhog" Thompson pitched in 1947 finished fourth in the standings that year.
Name the team that finished second in the NNL in '47 ... but won 4 more games than the pennant-winners, the New York Cubans.
One guess.
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I pulled this today. #Age40PR
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THEY DON'T CALL HIM "NOLAN" FOR NOTHING! :-) BRAVO!
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Re: yesterday's #1947League question: Cliff knew the Newark Eagles posted more wins than the Cubans, but came in second in '47 NNL.
Check out the huge disparities in total games played that year: 53 for Black Yankees, 88 for Eagles!
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PHILLIES COME UP BIG IN 8TH, REGAIN FIRST-PLACE TIE
Red Sox' sloppy fielding gifted t3 unearned runs to Philly, and that was the difference. Piper Davis: 2 RBI. Buck Leonard: 2 RBI.
PHI (53-32) 002000040 663
BOSR(36-49)000010200 362
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Today's #1947League game brought to you by my buddy Cliff ... and an incandescent live performance of a #SteveMiller Band classic.
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#1947League question:
With a .346 lifetime average, you'd think today's hero, Buck Leonard, would have a spot on the all-time BA leader board. Buck doesn't have the required plate appearances. Name the highest-ranking Black star who does...and tell me where he ranks.
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When we were growing up, most of us had a flawed sense of the career major-league leaders in #battingaverage because we weren't counting all the major leagues in #baseball.
Now we are.
Time to acknowledge: #OscarCharleston beats everyone on this list, bar Ty Cobb. #1947League #blm
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When I started this dice-and-cards APBA replay three years ago, I asked God for two good pennant races.
Let's hear it for answered prayers! Gotta celebrate those.
Now I want another World Championship for #Oakland before the franchise decamps to (sigh) Sacramento. Please.
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PHILS TOP RED SOX IN EXTRAS
Two hard-luck pitchers (Watson 4-10, 3.47 for PHI; Barnhill 3-5 3.39 for BOSR) settled in for an old-fashioned extra-inning pitcher's duel--the best kind. Watson came away with the win.
PHI(53-32) 0000000101 261
BOSR(36-49)0000001000 142
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Today's #1947League game brought to you by @tabletopmania and the one, the only, #GunsNRoses ....
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The East-West All-Star Game was the contest of the year, usually held in Chicago. Debuted in 1933.
Somewhat less structured, and less profitable, was the North-South All-Star Game, which debuted in 1939.
What city was THAT held in?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E2%80%93West_All-Star_Game
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1st, Anyone else here buying the Timberwolves? I’m pretty pumped after we thrashed the Suns in 4. I expect some believers if we can knock off the Nuggets.
2nd, Twins are on a 8 game win streak.
3rd, Ruth, you’re Blue Jays are mlb.com’s free game of the day.
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Idk if you guys have heard the rumors. Michael Jordan might just be Anthony Edwards dad.
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The annual North-South game, inaugurated in 1933, was held in New Orleans. (I would have guessed Kansas City or Washington, DC, too.)
Cliff got it right. Of course. :-)
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SOX AVOID SWEEP, TOP PHILS
Boston took the fourth and final game of their Fenway series against Philly.
Ted Williams's 11th HR, a two-run shot, provided the winning margin ... and ended his 0-14 batting slump.
PHI 000002030 561
BOSR00040020x 683
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By the time Ted Williams faced Satchel Paige in a regular-season MLB game, Paige was 41 years old.
Ted's lifetime batting average: .344.
Song pick tomorrow goes to the first person to tell me, within 10 points, Teddy Ballgame's lifetime batting average against Satch.
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... and the (perhaps predictable) outcome of our #1947League trivia contest today....
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So this exists, and I think that's actually going to be a problem for me...
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Predictably hilarious breakdown of the Rays/Brewers brawl from #Jomboy
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SCANTLEBURY, GIANTS TOP BROWNS IN 10TH
P Pat Scantlebury helped his own cause with a 10th-inning RBI single, then shut down the Browns for the CG win. Browns lead over NYY now just 1 game.
NYG (43-40) 0020010001 471
STLB(50-36)0100010100 393
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Today's #1947League game brought to you by my buddy Cliff and #BobSeger.
The version of this song that became a hit for Seger was a remake of this original track... I think I prefer his first effort.
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#1947League question:
In what year did Pat Scantlebury make the East All Star Team?
One guess.
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Got hit with a nasty bug. On the mend. #1947League back atcha tomorrow
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A's/Marlins = free game on MLB app today :-)
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The Marlins just traded my favorite ex-Twin Arraez to San Diego.
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