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YES!
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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?")
Beastie Boys - (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) (Official Music Video)
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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
Willie, Mickey, and the Duke (Talkin' Baseball)
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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.
Fly Like an Eagle - Steve Miller Band | The Midnight Special
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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 ....
Guns N' Roses - Paradise City (Official Music Video)
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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
Benches clear in Brewers-Rays game after manager loses his mind, a breakdown
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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.
Bob Seger Turn the page original 1973
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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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Twins have ran their win streak to 11 games!
Twins have ran their win streak to 11 games!
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A's/Marlins = free game on MLB app today :-)
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BANKHEAD SHUTS DOWN NY; GIBSON LAUNCHES 33RD HR
Giants have the 2nd-most-productive offense in #1947league, behind only Brooklyn. You wouldn't have guessed that today, though: Dan Bankhead K'd 11 and held them to 2 hits. Josh Gibson went long.
NYG (43-41) 120
STLB(51-36) 350
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The other day, I asked you to name the year Pat Scantlebury made the East All-Star Team.
It was 1946; Cliff got it right, which means today's #1947League game is brought to you by Cliff and by #CreedenceClearwaterRevival #CCR.
"Lookin' for a pot of gold"
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lodi (lyrics)
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Based on the latest Seamheads statistics, in what year did Josh Gibson post his highest regular-season batting average?
One guess.
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I chose Seamheads (the one that updates records more regularly, via research of old sources) bcs the top Josh Gibson batting average seemed unreal. I thought surely I'd have heard about this, that it must have been a recent discovery.
Nope. Multiple sources. He hit .466 in 1943!
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Consider the terror and despair opposing pitchers must have felt in attempting to develop some strategy for dealing with Josh Gibson in 1943.
Whatever it was, it didn't work.
BA: .466
OBP: .560
SLG: .867
OPS: 1.427
-> OPS+: 283<-
Yes, this was all against NNL teams.
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5 innings in relief today. 0R 0ER 7K 2H 3WK. Earned the W.
Hitting needs work. Went 1-5. R 2K stole home on a double steal. Had some very healthy hacks that I just missed.
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DAYUM SON!
WELL DONE!
Congratulations🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉!
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#1947League made a trip to IKEA today. Back on duty tomorrow...
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Okay. You have seen a lot of plays at the plate. But I bet you have never seen a play at the plate quite like this:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxSlAWBT2Lxq5fg4Z0rwG2vftj2izUu9dR?si=dKeAytxfRK6b2f9y
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GIANTS TEE OFF ON BROWNS
New York chased St. Louis starter Roy Welmaker early; Joe Hatten got the CG victory. Bob Harvey went 3-5 and scored 3 runs.
NYG (44-41) 891
STLB(51-37)241
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Josh Gibson's .466 season average in 1943 is mind-blowing...but he doesn't hold the record for highest #MLB season batting average.
WHO DOES?
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Gaw, I’ve been trying to think of him all day
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Yesterday's #1947League game brought to you by #Waxahatchee because oh my God is this album amazing.
Waxahatchee - "Ice Cold" (Lyric Video)
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Hey how bout those Timberwolves! Suffocating defense last night. Up 2-0 on the defending champs!
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ESPN.com apparently didn't get the memo about Black Leagues stats being MLB stats (not sure what's up with that) -- but if you zoom over to baseball-reference.com you'll see that the single-season batting average record belongs to #1947League's very own Tetelo Vargas.
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GIANTS TAKE THREE OF FOUR FROM BROWNS
Bob Romby got the win; Bill Rigney's solo homer proved the GWRBI. Ford Smith took the loss.
NYG (45-41) 200100010 491
STLB(51-38)000020000 262
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Rough day for Ford Smith taking the L in WLB as well.
Rough day for Ford Smith taking the L in WLB as well.
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Ouch. Bad day at work in two dimensions.
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To what team did Bob Romby's Elite Giants lose the NNL Championship Series in 1948?
One guess.
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Cliff got the answer to this, which is entertaining and which I will share as soon as possible. #1947League will return when the deadline fever passes... Say a prayer if you're so inclined! 🙂
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Yakyu -- big showdown tonight. You ready? 🙂
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Not baseball, but...
Francis Ford Coppola and Ali McGraw prepare to give out an Oscar in 1979. One of these people wolfed down rock promoter Bill Graham's magic cookie, unaware that its most notable ingredient was #cannabis. Can you guess which one?
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJL8l5oTu2Rte64Sel-DJNLrNCsZH6LRZ?si=UUGlnNh9rEuvQtim
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I nominate Bill “Spaceman” Lee as the plot twist
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Yeah, so this happened. 😊
#MLB catches up with #1947League and, um, reality -- acknowledges that #JoshGibson is the all-time batting average and OPS leader.
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I stumbled upon the 1991 World Series replay my dad and I played about 32 years ago. I’m going to share here over the next couple days starting with Games 1 & 2 tonight.
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Game 1
Oct. 19, 1991
Twins erupt early with 3 Home Runs. They hang on to take Game 1, 10-9!
ATL(0-1) 9 10 1
MIN(1-0) 10 16 2
W: Morris 1-0
L: Liebrandt 0-1
S: Aguilera 1
HR: MIN- Puckett 1, Mack 1 HrBek 1
SB: MIN- Gagne 1
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Game 2
October 20, 1991
Tapani outduels Glavine as the Twins win Game 2, 3-1!
ATL(0-2) 1 8 0
MIN(2-0) 3 10 0
W: Tapani 1-0
L: Glavine 0-1
S: Aguilera 2
SB: MIN- Gagne(2) Mack(1)
CS: MIN- Gladden 1
ATL: Justice 2-3 2B WK RBI
MIN: Harper 2-4 2R, Mack 2-2 2B 2WK SB
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OK, if you're just tuning in, this thread is part of a 3-years-and-counting #baseball simulation project replaying the 1947 season fully integrated with #NegroLeagues stars of the era. (As opposed to a handful of Black players.)
Details here:
Yusuf Toropov (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image 1/x This #thread is for #blackmastodon, #MLB, and #baseball at large: You may have heard that a while back, in a long-overdue move, big-league baseball ruled that all official Black Leagues stats were now recognized as MLB statistics. As a (white) fan of the great players of the Black Leagues, I was excited by this move ... but I felt it was just the beginning. #1947League #apba
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To create game results in #1947League, I use good old dice and cards and handwritten scoresheets, via the #APBA #boardgame.
If you're not familiar with #APBA, just think "D&D for #baseball nerds -- but equally viable in solo AND head-to-head play."
@RuthODay @tabletopmania @Bertrecords @ted_duffield @Runyan50 @blklivesmatter @YakyuNightOwl @stlcolorbaseball @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices
To date, I've played, scored, & logged 511 #1947League games using '47 season stats of AL, NL, NNL, & NAL players. Created cards via this site, which I recommend if you are an #APBA nerd. Stats come from baseball-reference and Seamheads.
@YusufToropov @tabletopmania @Bertrecords @ted_duffield @Runyan50 @YakyuNightOwl @stlcolorbaseball @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices
Definitely interesting to see the names that pop up that I had forgotten plus so many that I have learned about from watching the #1947League
Would recommend it.