Dynasty League Baseball

[Breeze]

FOFC - Manager Update

I roll over and look at the clock...it's only 3:04 A.M. That's the 3rd time in the last 20 minutes that I've turned to see what time it is. Figuring this is futile and I'm not going back to sleep, I quietly get up, slip on some clothes, kiss my wife gently, then my kids extremely gently (because if I wake them at 3:10 my wife will shoot me and there won't be any opening day for me). I hop in my car and head towards the stadium. The drive takes me about 45 minutes, but at least there is no traffic.

I pull up to the gate and the security guard gives me a strange look. He looks me up and down with a stern look on his face. I :rolleyes: then pull out my id. He takes probably 2 minutes looking at the card, looking at me, looking at the card - I want to scream at the idiot, but it wouldn't do me any good. He gets on his walkie talkie and calls someone, who is hopefully at least slightly smarter. He tells they guy my name and is told to let me pass. I give him my best sarcastic smile, tell him 'Thank you' and of course I have to add 'Keep up the good work'.

I park the car, head into the club house, start a pot of coffee and grab the The National Herald to read up on information I already know. I was expecting to find a season preview, but it isn't in the paper. One of the maintenance staff must have snagged it. I sit down and my desk and read through the synopsis of the Spring. I have to admit I'm pretty pleased with my teams peformance. We tied for the league record, and though the wins we were able to accumulate don't count now that the real season is about to start, they do show we can compete. When I finished reading the paper, I turn on ESPN - not to learn anything, but simply to have some background noise. I pull out my stat book from the Spring and begin studying the results.

I'm not sure how long I was working, but I vaguely remember hearing the Sportscenter theme 3 or 4 times, when I'm startled by a magazine being dropped right in front of me. Gasping from the shock, I look up to see Howser standing next to me.

"Thought you might want to read that," he says pointing to the magazine he dropped.

I look down and see The Sporting News - Baseball Season Preview. "Thanks," I said. "This is grreat. I wanted to read the Herald's preview, but someone apparently took it out of the paper this morning."

"I got it a couple days ago, and finished it last night. I figured you might be here early and might want to read it, so I brought it in." Dick turns and start out of the office saying something about getting coffee.

I open the magazine to the middle and find a picture of a basketball player about to dunk. I flip around until I see baseball pictures then I start turning pages slowing until I get to the beginning of the article. Then I start reading...

[Breeze]

Dynasty Baseball League

The Dynasty Baseball League features 14 teams consisting of the greatest players that have every played the game. Ruth, Cobb, Hornsby, Gibson, Paige, Oh, Aaron, May, and many many more. This league is a true baseball fans fantasy. There are 2 leagues of 7 teams:

American League
AL Pre-Americans
AL Post Americans
Old Timers
Negro League 1 Elites
Dead Ball Eras
Japanese HOFers
Late 20th Century Stars


National League
Turn of Century Players
Left Outers
NL Pre-Americans
NL Post-Americans
Negro League 2 Stars
Caribbean All Stars
FOFC All Stars

Each team will play 154 games, 14 against league opponents and 10 against the other league.

...I turn the page...

[Breeze]

Team Breakdowns:

AL Pre Americans

Offense
An offensive team that can hit home runs in any park - including Yellowstone. Power, Power, and more Power with a heart of the order that will feature Ruth, Gehrig, and DiMaggio. This team is so good offensively that powerhouse hitters like Greenberg and Averill won't break the normal starting lineup.

Pitching
Grove is good at the top of the rotation, he'll win his share of games, but the other 7 pitchers are very beatable - it will just be a matter of outscoring the offense.

Starting Lineup
2B - Gehringer
LF - Simmons
RF - Ruth
1B - Gehrig
CF - DiMaggio
C - Dickey
SS - Cronin
3b - Lazzeri

Rotation
Grove
Lyons
Gomez
Mays
Hoyt

Closer
Coveleski

Summary
This team can beat anyone on any day, and if they make it to the World Series will be extremely dangerous in a short series. However, the lack of front line pitching will cost them in the end. They will unable to string together long winning streaks and will come up just short of winning the division.

Prediction: 85 - 69


...I turn the page...

[Breeze]

AL Post- Americans

Offense
The team has Mantle and Williams so the offense will be just fine. A few pretty good table setters in Carew and Brett, but the team has several weaknesses in the line up. Reggie Jackson can hit for power, but he isn't consistent with contact and his defense is sub-par. Robin Yount can help offensively at SS, but his defense is sub-par as well. Killebrew and Carew are liabilities defensively as well. 3 defensive specialists on the bench, Nellie Fox, Brooks Robinson and Phil Rizzuto aren't going to help much with the bat if they are forced to play. For this team to be good the big guns will have to produce a bunch and do it consistently.

Pitching
No front line starter on this team. Feller, Hunter, Newhouser, Ford, Palmer, Ryan - all great pitchers, but it this league they are lacking. Ryan and Feller probably have the best pedigree of the group, but both issue too many free passes and in this league that will kill you. To be successful this staff will have to pitch above their heads.

Starting Lineup
2b - Carew
3b - Brett
CF - Mantle
LF - Williams
1B - Killebrew
RF - Jackson
SS - Yount
C - Fisk/Berra platoon


Rotation
Feller
Ryan
Newhouser
Hunter
Palmer

Closer
Fingers

Summary
This teams defense is terrible, probably the worst in the league, and their defensive replacements are poor hitters for the league. The pitchers issue too many free passes and combined with the poor defense this team will give up runs in bunches. To be successful they will need to get early leads and put in the defensive specialist and then hope to hold on.

Prediction: 66 - 88

... I turn the page...

[Breeze]

Old Timers

Offense
Consistent contact and some aggressive baserunning. This team will put the ball in play with players like King Kelly, Ed Delehante and Cap Anson. A similar type of team and style of play to the Dead Ballers, but their depth isn't as good.

Pitching
Pitching for this team is good, but not outstanding. All of the pitchers in this rotation have a chance to win every time out, but none are completely unhittable for any extended period of time.


Starting Lineup
CF - Hamilton
3b - Kelly
LF - Delehante
RF - Thompson
1b - Anson
2b - McPhee
C - Ewing

Rotation
Clarkson
Keefe
Welch
Radbourn
Galvin

Closer
Spalding

Summary
This team will drive others nuts. They will get hits left and right, frustrate opposing pitchers because they won't be able to get the outs they need to end an inning. They'll take an extra base, and completely wear out their opponents. However, because they lack power, they will have to piece together mutli-hit innings to score, and they'll be able to do it, but not enough to win consistently.

Prediction: 74 - 80


...I turn the page...

[Breeze]

Negro League 1

Offense
Power, Speed, Average and good defense. This team is capable of doing it all, the only draw back is they are a predominately lefthanded hitting ball club that can be succeptable to lefty starters.

Pitching
Great at the top, solid throughout. A great chance to win each and every game. If there is a weakness on this team, it's closing the door.

Starting Lineup
CF - Bell
SS - Lloyd
LF - Charleston
C - Gibson
1B - Leonard
RF - Torriente
3B - Wells
2B - DiHigo

Rotation
Paige
Williams
Rogan
Smith
Foster

Closer
Barnhill

Summary
This team is capable of winning it all. If they can find a way to consistently beat left handed starters, they will be dangerous. Even when they are in slups offensively they can win with speed and defense. However, I think the pitching will come up just short.

Prediction 88 - 66

...I turn the page...

[Breeze]

Dead Ballers

Offense
Like the Old Timers team they will hit teams to death and they will be aggressive on the bases. But unlike the Oldies team, they can hit for power more consistently. Teams will not be able to get out of innings often without having Cobb, Jackson, Speaker, or someone reach base.

Pitching
Walter Johnson is on this team. That's enough to win a fair number of games. Then add in Walsh, Brown, Plank and Chesbro and you've got a great staff.

Lineup
2b - Colliins
1b - Sisler
RF - Cobb
CF - Speaker
LF - Jackson
3b - Baker
C - Chance
SS - Wallace

Rotation
Johnson
Walsh
Chesbro
Plank
McGinnity

Closer
Brown

Summary
Like the Negro League 1 team they are a heavy left handed hitting team, and will need to find a way to overcome tough lefties.If they can - they can win it all.

Prediction 88 - 66


...I turn the page...

[Breeze]

Japanese HOFers

Offense
Pretty good contact, decent power - except for Oh who can hit them out with the best of them. Good defense

Pitching
A little below average across the board

Starting Lineup
Other than Oh hitting 3rd or 4th and Nomura hitting 4th or 5th, there is almost no guessing.

Starting Rotation
Bessho
Sugishita
Inao
Kenada
Nomo

Closer
Sawamura

Summary
They are too average across the board to compete consistently, in fact they could lose 100 games.

Prediction: 58 - 96

[Breeze]

Late 20th Century Stars

Offense
A nice mix. Mostly power, even from typical non-power positions like 2b and SS with Sandberg, Biggio and Ripken available in those spots. Plus there are a few real good contact hitters in Boggs and Gwynn. Henderson also provides a serious speed threat at the top of the order, and Piazza might be the best offensive catcher in the league - his defense might cost him at bats however.

Pitching
Argueable the best in the league. The top of the rotation is 4 deep and all 4 are as good as anyone out there. Plus the relievers are solid.

Starting Lineup
LF - Henderson
RF - Gwinn
3B - Boggs
C - Piazza
1B - McGwire
CF - Puckett
SS - Ripken
2b - Sandberg/Biggio


Rotation
Clemens
Johnson
Maddux
Martinez
Glavine

Closer
Gossage

Summary
Very dangerous team, that can score runs but the pitching would probably allow the team to win even if they couldn't score runs consistently. I expect this pitching will give this team a chance to win it all, in fact, I wouldn't be surprised if this team placed 4 pitchers in the top 15 of league ERA.

Prediction 94 - 60


...I turn the page...

[Breeze]

American League Award Predictions

Batting Title: Cobb .370
HR: Ruth - 56
RBI: Ruth - 136
Wins: Johnson - 19
ERA: Clemens 3.08
Svs: Gossage 25

MVP: Ruth
Cy: Johnson


...I turn the page...

[Breeze]

Left Outs

Offense
Power with Foxx, Stargell, McCovey and Kiner, Average with Heilmann, and Speed with Jackie Robinson. This teams offense is not bad. Defense is well below average though

Pitching
This roation is populated with tough gamers who found ways to in their regular careers. In this league, they give up too many baserunners. The rotation is below average.

Starting Lineup
2b - Robinson
C - Cochrane
RF - Heilmann
3B - Foxx
1B - McCovey
CF - Goslin
LF - Robinson
SS - Boudreau

Rotation
Carlton
Sutton
Jenkins
Roberts
Wynn

Closer
Drysdale

Summary
This pitching staff will be good enough to keep the team close, but not good enough to win most games. The hitting will be good enough to keep the team close, but not good enough to win most games. The team is better than their name would lead you to believe, but the name should let you know they aren't a real threat to win it all.

Prediction 71 - 83


...I turn the page...

[Breeze]

FOFC All Stars

I don't want to read about my team yet. I'll hold off till the end...so...

...I turn the page...

[Breeze]

Turn of Century

I start to read this page when I hear Howser say, "Let's go get some breakfast. I'll buy."

"Sure, but you're not buying."

"Good, cause I know how much you eat," Howser teases. "But I will drive."

"Fair enough," I reply.

[StanGunner]

TEASER!!

[Breeze]

TEASER!!


:D

Actually, I can't remember what I wanted to write about the rest of the teams or can't remember enough names to even fake a rotation and/or starting lineup (read, the information list may not be completely accurate, but it's supposed to be a baseball preview magainze - they are never 100% accurate).

I'm going to try and knock this out tonight and post game 1 results.

[Breeze]

FOFC - Manager Update

While eating my Corn Beef Hash Omlet, Howser and I are talking.

"So what do you think of the magazine so far?" Dick queries

"I've only finished reading through the American League, but it's not bad. They have the Late 20th Century team taking the League, and while I think they could, my money would be on the Dead Ballers."

"Really?"

"Yeah, I like the way the put the ball in play, take the extra base, and they can really pitch. The Negro League 1 team will be all the Late 20s can handle too."

"I've noticed some mistakes," I add.

"I'm sure there are quite a few."

"For instance, I don't think Boudreau starts at SS for the Left Outers. I think it will be Arky Vaughn."

"Probably right. Vaughn is a very dangerous shortstop. Glove's not so great, but all in all I'd take him."

After about 20 minutes of discussing the magazine. Howser asks, "You know what you're going to do with the lineup today?"

"I have a pretty good idea."

"You know we'll be going up against a pretty tough southpaw in Lefty Grove."

"That's who I'm expecting to see." I respond.

"Who we countering with?" Howser probes.

"Babson gets the ball tonight."

We finish breakfast and head back to the office, where I pick up the magazine and resume my reading.

[kingfc22]

Southpaw on the mound = Gonzalez on the bench.

[Sublime 2]

So much for Hunter being the #1 guy. Damn!

4 More spots to hope for.

[Breeze]

Turn of Century

Offense
The Turners are similar in make up to the Old Timers and Dead Ballers, only they probably fall in the middle with regards to offensive ability. More good players than the Oldies and not as many dynamically good players as the Dead Ballers. However, they'll hit the ball, run around the bases and play defense. Again there isn't much power.

Pitching
This pitching staff, like the other two mentioned in the Offensive section above is very good. Like the Dead Ballers who have Johnson, this team has Matthewson. They also have Young and as long as Fire Trucks don't go by Rube Waddle.

Lineup
CF - Keeler
RF - Burkett
LF - Kelly
2B - Lajoie
SS - Wagner
1B - Beckley
3B - Collins
C - Bresnahan

Rotation
Matthewson
Waddle
Young
Joss
Willis

Closer
Nichols


Summary
This team is dangerous and may have a big impact on who wins the league, but they won't win it themselves. Not enough production from the bottom part of the lineup and the great bats on the bench like Duffy won't see enough action to make a significant impact.

Prediction 75 - 79

...I turn the page...

[Breeze]

NL Pre- Americans

Offense
With Rogers Hornsby in the lineup, the offense is going to be at the worst good. Hornsby is arguably the best right handed bat on any team, and he's surrounded by some good players, including table setters Frankie Frisch, who's moved over to SS to accomodate the Rajah, and Traynor. Problem is the lower part of the lineup is inconsistent with it's production.

Pitching
This teams ace, Pete Alexander, like the big train and Matty is as good as it gets. The rest of the staff is suspect. Capable of good things, but also capable of bad.

Lineup
SS - Frisch
3B - Traynor
2B - Hornsby
RF - Ott
CF - Cuyler
LF - Medwick
C - Lombardi
1B - Terry

Rotation
Alexander (as often as possible)
Hubbell
Marquard
Rixey
Grimes

Closer
Dean

Summary
Not enough pitching and the lower part of the line up lacks the punch needed to support Horsby and Ott in the middle. However, they are potent enough to cause numerous problems and will be a force to be reckoned with in the league.

Prediction 80 - 74


...I turn the page...

[Breeze]

NL Post-Americans

Offense
WATCH OUT HERE! These names will strike fear in the heart of any pitcher and they keep on coming. Try on: Morgan, Clemente, Aaron, Mays, Musial, Snider, Schmidt, Matthews, Banks, Campanella, Bench...you getting the idea yet? We could go on...

Pitching
Not up to the hitting standards, but not far off.

Lineup
2b - Morgan
RF - Clemente
1B - Musial
CF - Mays
LF - Aaron
3B - Matthews/Schmidt (platoon)
SS - Banks
C - Campanella/Bench (not a platoon, but probably about equal time)

Rotation
Seaver
Koufax
Gibson
Marichial
Spahn

Closer
Bunning

Summary
This team is good top to bottom. They can hit, play defense, run, pitch, and much more. This team is so good the likes of Billy Williams, Tony Perez, Pete Rose, and Orlando Cepeda won't see much playing time.

Prediction 93 - 61


...I turn the page...

[JAG]

Babson smiled. "Coach, I'm ready to go. I won't let the boys down. I'm gonna really turn it loose now that we're outta spring training."

Damn those NL Post-Americans look brutal.

[Breeze]

Negro League 2 Stars

Offense
This team has quite a lot of speed, and good but not great hitters. They have some power in the middle with Wilson and Beckwith, and even some power at shortstop, which most teams don't, but all in all they are below average offensively.

Pitching
Good pitchers, not great pitchers. Cannonball Dick Redding is probably the best on the team, but he issues too many free passes, a problem that the entire team struggles with.

Lineup
RF - Poles
LF - Allen
SS - Brown
1B - Wilson
3B - Beckwith
CF - Wright
C - Santop
2B - Bankhead

Rotation
Redding
Wickware
Mathis
Brewer
Holland

Closer
Dismukes

Summary
Not good enough to compete on a regular basis. Defense is substandard in the entire infield, and with pitchers that give free passes - this team is in trouble.

Prediction 50 - 104


...I turn the page...

[Breeze]

Caribbean All Stars

Offense
Good balance, but not a great hitting team. Cepeda, Linares and Coimbre will carry this team offensively.

Pitching
Great one two punch at the top with Tiant Sr and Mendez, after that its good at best.

Lineup
CF - Mesa
2b - Pacheco
LF - Coimbre
1b - Cepeda
3b - Linares
RF - Oliva
C - Gonzalez
SS - Concepcion

Rotation
Tiant Sr
Mendez
Cuellar
Tiant Jr
Valenzuela

Closer
Salazar

Summary
Will go as far as the top two pitchers and the middle of the lineup can carry them.

Prediction 71 - 83

...I turn the page....

[Breeze]

It's an Ad for Molson Ice. I look at the hot blonde pictured for a minute then flip back through the section looking for the breakdown on my team.

[Breeze]

FOFC All Stars

Offense
Plenty of power and decent table setters in Blade, Tucker, Nights, and Terp. Not a great contact team however, and that will lead to numerous strike out with runners in scoring position. Look for quite a few runners to be stranded with this team.

Pitching
Arguably as good as any team top to bottom. 3 good pitchers on the back end, may allow Benton Breeze to shorten games. The starting rotation will be difficult to determine, because there are 7 guys who can get the job done. The interesting thing will be how do the 3 that fail to make the rotation perform out of the pen.

Lineup
2b - Blade
CF - Tucker
SS - Nights
LF - Ton
1B - Potpie/Gonzalez (platoon)
3B - Fouts/Palmer (platoon)
C - Bullock/Hays (not a platoon, but will split time)
RF - Gunner/Pflaggstetter/Gazelle - not sure who will fill this spot

Rotation
Babson
Mighty
Nielsen
Hunter
Williams

Closer
Kronside

Summary
This team's offense is powerful and probably consistent enough to generate enough runs to get wins for the pitchers, who are good enough to win every time out.

Prediction 85 - 69

[Breeze]

I scratch my head after reading the preview. "Not bad," I mumble, "but not right either."

I think to myself, as I get up to put my uniform on, they must have written this up halfway through the Spring. With Nights slump at the end of Spring and Gonzalez and Gazelle performing well below the others at their position, they won't be starting. And Mighty pitched great this Spring, but right now Nielsen will get the ball second. As for the 5th starter, I don't think I'm going to name one at this point. I'll use whomevers arm is ready to go when a game rolls around where a 5th starter is needed.

I glance quickly at the projected award winners and see:

BA: Jesse Burkett .354
HR - Aaron 44
RBI - Lajoie 120
Wins - Seaver 19
ERA - Tiant Sr. 3.47
Saves - Kronside 29

MVP - Rogers Hornsby
Cy - Tom Seaver

I walk out and head to the field to watch batting practice.

[Coffee Warlord]

You may as well chisel in Rob Nielsen's name on the Cy Young Award.

[JeeberD]

and Gonzalez...performing well below the others at their position, they won't be starting.

Yeah, baby!

[Breeze]

Game 1 - Monday April 2nd - Pre-Game

Our first game is against the power hitting AL Pre-Americans. As I head to home plate to exchange my lineup card I think about who Miller Huggins has penciled in: Ruth, Gehrig, Simmons, and I start wondering if Ton, Potpie, and Tucker hold the same aura. We swap cards and I head back to the dugout looking at the lineup I throwing out in game 1.

2b - Blade
SS - Terp
CF -Tucker
1b - Potpie
3b - Fouts
LF - Ton
C - Hays
RF - Pflaggstettler
P - Babson

When I get back to the dugout I find Del Crandle the bullpen coach getting some ice in a bag, I get a puzzled look on my face and Sal Maglie the pitching coach laughs. I turn to look at hm and he says, "Babson's throwing bee bees."
He finishes his comment with a wink and walks off.

I smile and take my seat at the end of the bench closest to the plate, so the umpire will be able to hear me when I complain about his calls of balls and strikes.

[Breeze]

GAME 1 - Monday, April 2nd

Top of the 1st Inning
The first inning is noneventful for us. Babon gets Gehringer to line out, Simmons to Ground out and Ruth hits a good shot in the Right Center alley, but it holds up long enough for Tucker to run under.

Bottom of the First
Blade - PO to SS
Terp - weak fly to left
Tucker - weak fly to left

Top of the 2nd
Gehrig - K
DiMaggio - Routine fly to CF
Dickey - hits a smash up the middle but Blade corrales it and is able to throw the slow moving catcher out by a couple of steps.

Bottom of the 2nd
Potpie is robbed by a diving Cronin
Fouts - weak fly to left
Ton - strikes out looking

Top of the 3rd
Cronin - K
Sewell - ground out to Blade who ranged deep to his left to get the ball
Grove - pops out to the catcher

Bottom of the 3rd
Hays gets the first hit of the game a sharp single up the middle
Pflaggsettler walks
Babson sacs them to second and 3rd
Blade walks to load the bases with 1 out
Terp - strikesout
Tucker - pops out weakly to the SS leaving 3 men on base

At the end of 3


Pre-Americans... 0 0 0
All Stars....... 0 0 0

[JeeberD]

Bah, stupid Cronin...

[Coffee Warlord]

Terp and Tuck! For SHAME!

[Breeze]

GAME 1 - Monday, April 2nd

Top 4
Potpie make a great play to his right and flips to Babson covering to get Gehringer
Simmons - K
Ruth - routine fly to RF

Bottom 4
Potpie - Single over the shortstops head
Fouts - Singles to left, but Potpie had to wait and see if Simmons was going to be able to track it down, so he had to stop at 2nd base.
Ton Walks (and the bases are loaded with no outs)
Hays smacks one down the thirdbase line, Sewell dives and hits the ball knocking it into foul territory, he rushes over to pick it up and rushes the throw to first, overshooting Gehrig and giving a young man in the 3rd row a souvenier. The official scorer rules it a hit with a 1 base error. Potpie and Fouts score.
Pflaggstettler - Sac fly to Left that Simmons misplays. The ball falls in and Ton and Hays both score while Persimmon ends up at 2nd.
Babson sacs him to 3rd
Blade walks
Terp gounds out to 3rd base
Tucker is intentionally walked to load the bases for Potpie (who started this inning) - Jeebs flys out to left field.

The inning ends with the FOFCers putting a 4 spot on the board.

Top 5
Gehrig - K
DiMaggio breaks up the no hitter with a solid single through the box
Dickey grouns into the 4-6-3 double play to end the inning

Bottom 5
Fouts flys out to the warning track in RF
Ton walks on 6 pitches
Hays Triples in the right field corner driving in Ton
Pflaggstettler hit another sac fly - this one is caught
Babson draws a walk

And that's all Miller Huggins can stand. He goes to his pin and brings in Red Ruffing.

Blade flys out to left to end the inning.

FOFCers get 2 more runs

Top 6
Fouts takes a hot shot from Cronin and easily throws him out at first
Fouts makes another nice play this time on Sewell
Miller Huggins decides to let Ruffing hit and he delivers with a bloop single over the second baseman.
Gehringer works Babson for a walk
Simmons flys out to shallow left to end the threat

Bottom 6
Terp singles to lead off the inning
Tucker steps up to hit and on the 2nd pitch Terp takes off, Tucker swings and misses at the pitch and Dickey nails Terp by 3 steps. The hit and run fails this time. Tucker then grounds out to Gehringer.
Potpie walks
Fouts flys out to DiMaggio in center

Top 7
Breeze puts Gunner in leftfield

Ruth fouls out to Hays
Gehrig singles
DiMaggio walks
Dickey rips one up the middle, Terp gets a good jump on it, dives, knocks it down and flips it while laying face down in the dirt to Blade in time to erase DiMaggio
Cronin Ks to end the inning.

Bottom 7
Gunner leads off with a weak fly to left
Hays flys to center
Pflaggstettler singles
Babson lines out to Cronin at short

At the end of 7 it's FOFC 6 AL Pres 0

Top 8
Sewell grounds out to Potpie to lead off the 8th
Huggins brings in Appling to pinch hit
Appling Ks
Gehringer flys out to right

Bottom 8
Huggins sends Faber out to pitch
Blade grouns out to Gehrig who makes a nice reach to his right on a hot shot
Terp rips one down the thirdbase line, but Sewell snags and makes the throw just in time
Tucker singles - and steals second, takes 3rd on a wild pitch
Potpie flys out to left

Top 9
Simmons grounds out to Babson
Ruth rips one to right - it's deep and there is no question about it - HOMERUN
ending Babson's bid for a shutout
Gehrig hits a long drive to dead center...
Its' way back there...
A. J. Tucker is at the wall...
He's jumping for it...
He's got it!!!
Babson after getting pumped up at the sight of Tuckers play, blows DiMaggio away on 3 pitches to record a complete game.

[Breeze]

GAME 1 - Monday, April 2 - Boxscore


[1]BOXSCORE: 2001 AL Pre WWII Pre-Americans At 1000 FOFC All Stars 4/2/1900

[1] Pre-Americans AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG
C.Gehringer 2B 3 0 0 0 .000 B.Blade 2B 3 0 0 0 .000
A.Simmons LF 4 0 0 0 .000 K.Terp SS 5 0 1 0 .200
B.Ruth RF 4 1 1 1 .250 A.Tucker CF 4 0 1 0 .250
L.Gehrig 1B 4 0 1 0 .250 J.Potpie 1B 4 1 1 0 .250
J.Dimaggio CF 3 0 1 0 .333 D.Fouts 3B 4 1 1 0 .250
B.Dickey C 3 0 0 0 .000 K.Ton LF 1 2 0 0 .000
J.Cronin SS 3 0 0 0 .000 A-S.Gunner LF 1 0 0 0 .000
J.Sewell 3B 3 0 0 0 .000 H.Hays C 4 2 3 2 .750
L.Grove P 1 0 0 0 .000 P.Pflaggstettler RF 1 0 1 21.000
R.Ruffing P 1 0 1 01.000 B.Babson P 1 0 0 0 .000
B-L.Appling PH 1 0 0 0 .000
R.Faber P 0 0 0 0 ----
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
[1] Totals 30 1 4 1 Totals 28 6 8 4

A-Subbed Defensively (LF) For Ton In 7th Inning
B-Pinch Hit For Ruffing In 8th Inning

Pre-Americans... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 1 4 2
All Stars....... 0 0 0 4 2 0 0 0 - 6 8 0

[1]Pre-Americans IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
L.Grove LOSS(0-1) 4 2/3 5 6 4 7 2 0 90 7.71
R.Ruffing 2 1/3 2 0 0 1 0 0 28 0.00
R.Faber 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 14 0.00
[1]Totals 8 8 6 4 8 2 0

[1]All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
B.Babson WIN(1-0) 9 4 1 1 2 7 1 122 1.00
[1]Totals 9 4 1 1 2 7 1

ATTENDANCE- 42,188 DATE- Monday, April 2nd 1900 TIME- Night
T- 1:34
LEFT ON BASE- Pre-Americans: 4 All Stars:10
DOUBLE PLAYS- Pre-Americans: 0 All Stars: 1
ERRORS- A.Simmons, J.Sewell
TRIPLES- H.Hays(1st)
HOME RUNS- B.Ruth(1st)
STOLEN BASES- A.Tucker(1st)
CAUGHT STEALING- K.Terp
SACRIFICE HITS- B.Babson-2
SACRIFICE FLIES- P.Pflaggstettler-2
WALKS- C.Gehringer, J.Dimaggio, B.Blade-2, A.Tucker, J.Potpie, K.Ton-2,
P.Pflaggstettler, B.Babson
STRIKE OUTS- A.Simmons, L.Gehrig-2, J.Dimaggio, J.Cronin-2, L.Appling, K.Terp,
K.Ton
GIDP- B.Dickey
WILD PITCHES- R.Faber
WEB GEMS- Top 9th: A. J. Tucker robbed Lou Gehrig of a Homerun!

[Sublime 2]

Wow....nice outing for Babson

[Breeze]

OUT OF TOWN SCOREBOARD - Monday, April 2nd

Negro League Toos - 2
Pre-Nationals - 8


Post-Americans - 0
Dead Ballers - 7


Old Timers - 2
Negro League Ones - 6


20th Century - 3
Japanese - 2


TOC - 4
Post-Nationals - 10


Left Outs - 3
Caribbean - 4

[Blade]

Great win! Bad night for Blade, though, despite the two walks...

[Travis]

Helluva job boys! Babson, nicely done, very damn nicely done.

[JeeberD]

Great job, guys! :D

[kingfc22]

WTG Potpie. They walked the bases loaded to face you and all you can do is pop up?

[JeeberD]

I scored the game winning run...can't ask for much more than that.

[JAG]

AP writer Hack Jobb interviews Babson after the game:

Jobb: Bruce, impressive performance tonight. Tell us about the game.

Babson: I think we had a great team effort for our first game. I had a decent game throwing the ball, we had great run support, and our defense probably saved us a couple of runs.

Babson's inner monologue: I am the man.

Jobb: You were Coach Breeze's first choice to pitch. How do you feel you compare with the rest of the staff?

Babson: Well, I happen to think pitching is one of the strongest parts of our team. The way the other guys pitched in spring training, I felt I was fortunate to get picked to lead the staff off, but I don't think Coach could've gone wrong picking any of us.

Babson's inner monologue: ...unless he picked someone other than me to pitch. You think Nielsen could've dominated Ruth, Gehrig, and Dimaggio like I did? I even had two sacs and a walk for Pete's sake! Thank God he let me finish the game.

Jobb: Finally, how do you think the season will go after seeing the team in a real game for the first time?

Babson: I think we have a great chance to be competitive in our division. We have a lot of talent in that clubhouse. But this is only the first game and there's a long season ahead of us. I think we all realize this is only a small step and nothing to get excited about.

Babson's inner monologue: I am getting soooo wasted tonight.

[Chas in Cinti]

Persimmon did everything you can ask of an 8th hitter.... whoo-hoo! Now if only he could've done better in the pole vault... DAMN! Wrong thread again....

:)

[Johnny93g]

Babson is the man!!!

[Breeze]

The National Herald - April 3rd

SPORTS



[1]NEGRO LEAGUE II AT NL PRE WWII
Alltime Players. 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 2 9 2
Pre-Nationals... 0 3 4 1 0 0 0 0 - 8 11 1
Win:Alexander(1-0) Loss:Wickware(0-1)
Homeruns- W.Wright(1st), G.Hartnett(1st), P.Traynor(1st)

Gabby Hartnett blasted a homerun and had 3 RBI and Pete Alexander tossed a
complete game at Booze Field where the NL Pre WWII club beat the Negro League
II Alltime Players by the score of 8 to 2.

Alexander(1-0) pitched a solid game. He went 9 innings allowing 9 hits and 2
walks. Neither team managed to score after the 4th inning.

Frank Wickware(0-1) was the losing pitcher. He was knocked around,
surrendering 7 runs in 2 and 2/3 innings.

[1]AL POST WWII AT DEAD BALL ERA
Post-Americans.. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 3 2
Deads........... 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 - 7 9 0
Win:Johnson(1-0) Loss:Feller(0-1)

Walter Johnson shut down the AL Post WWII batters on just 3 hits as the Dead
Ball Era Deads beat the AL Post WWII ballclub by a score of 7 to
0.

Johnson(1-0) put on a good performance. He surrendered only 3 hits and 6
walks in 9 innings. Dead Ball Era had a total of 9 hits for the game.

Bob Feller(0-1) was hit with the loss. He surrendered 6 hits and 4 walks in 6
innings.

[1]OLD TIMERS AT NEGRO LEAGUE I
Oldies.......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 - 2 8 0
Alltime Players. 0 0 0 4 0 0 2 0 - 6 11 1
Win:Paige(1-0) Loss:Clarkson(0-1)
Homeruns- J.Gibson(1st)

Satchel Paige went the distance as the Negro League I Alltime Players defeated
the Old Timers Oldies by the score of 6 to 2 at Black Diamond Pk.

Negro League I came up with 4 runs in the bottom of the 4th inning with the
help of 5 hits. They would hold up as the winning runs. Negro League I
banged out 11 on the night.

Paige(1-0) finished the game allowing 2 runs in the victory. John
Clarkson(0-1) suffered the loss. He gave up 7 hits and 4 walks in 6 innings.

[1]LATE 20TH AT JAPANESE LEAGUE
Century Stars... 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 - 3 11 1
HOF Players..... 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 - 2 5 0
Win:Smoltz(1-0) Loss:Kaneda(0-1) Save:Gossage(1st)
Homeruns- D.Winfield(1st), C.Ripken(1st), S.Nagashima(1st)

The Late 20th Century Stars edged the Japanese League HOF Players at Nintendo
Field by the score of 3 to 2.

The deciding run was scored by Late 20th in the top of the 8th. Rickey
Henderson delivered a single. Henderson was safe at second on a stolen base.
Wade Boggs then delivered a one-base hit. Mike Piazza stepped in and he
banged out a single. Mark McGwire stepped into the box and delivered a
base-hit scoring the run. Japanese League was out-hit by Late 20th, 11 hits
to 5.

John Smoltz(1-0) was the winner allowing 1 run in 3 and 2/3 innings. Smoltz
got help from Goose Gossage who earned his 1st save. Masaichi Kaneda(0-1)
was tagged with the loss.


[1]TURN OF CENTURY AT NL POST WWII
Centuries....... 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 - 4 9 0
Post-Nationals.. 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 6 - 10 14 0
Win:Marichal(1-0) Loss:Nichols(0-1)
Homeruns- R.Bresnahan(1st), S.Musial(1st)

Roberto Clemente had 4 hits and 3 RBI as the NL Post WWII team topped the Turn
of Century Centuries by a score of 10 to 4 at Big League Field.

Juan Marichal(1-0) earned his pay with a solid performance for Marichal. He
went 8 innings surrendering 9 hits and 4 walks. This was a game of many
highs and lows for the home town fans, as the lead kept changing - 5 times in
all.

Kid Nichols(0-1) absorbed the loss in relief. NL Post WWII scored big getting
6 runs off him in 2 innings.

[1]LEFT OUTS AT CARIBBEAN
Left Outers..... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 - 3 8 2
Alltime Players. 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 - 4 9 1
Win:Luque(1-0) Loss:Wynn(0-1)

Dave Concepcion had 3 base hits and 3 RBI as the Caribbean Alltime Players won
at Paradise Park in dramatic fashion over the Left Outs Left Outers, the
final score, 4 to 3.

Caribbean scored the deciding run in the 9th inning. Omar Linares drew a walk.
Felipe Alou then called for a steal which was successful. After an out was
recorded, Caribbean continued their aggressive style with another stolen
base. Caribbean got their 2nd stolen base of the inning. Concepcion came to
the plate and laced a base-knock making Caribbean victorious to the delight
of the the home town crowd. Caribbean had 9 hits for the afternoon.

The victory went to Adolfo Luque(1-0) who went 1 and 2/3 innings, allowing 1
run. Early Wynn(0-1) was charged with the loss in relief.


[1]AL PRE WWII AT FOFC
Pre-Americans... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 1 4 2
All Stars....... 0 0 0 4 2 0 0 0 - 6 8 0
Win:Babson(1-0) Loss:Grove(0-1)
Homeruns- B.Ruth(1st)

Brian Babson pitched 9 strong innings as the FOFC All Stars defeated the AL
Pre WWII ballclub 6 to 1 at FOFC Stadium.

Babson(1-0) was very good in the win. He didn't give up much, just 4 hits and
2 walks in 9 innings. FOFC totaled 8 on the night.

Lefty Grove(0-1) was the loser. He couldn't find the strike zone and allowed
7 walks in 4 and 2/3 innings. When questioned about his counterpart after
the game, Grove was lavish in his praise, 'It was obvious very early on that
we were going to be in for a long night. Babson brought his 'A' game with
him - he had good stuff and was able to spot it perfectly. He probably only
made one or two bad pitches the entire game!

[Coffee Warlord]

Damn. Hellaciously detailed writeups. Rock!

[kingfc22]

Awesome job Breeze.

[terpkristin]

I would like to apologize for my night of binge video gaming the night before the game. I'd had a long day and decided to stay up all night playing video games instead of getting a decent night's sleep. Obviously, this RL thing isn't like a video game. In the video game, I can steal and hit with the best of 'em.

Truly sorry, won't happen again!
/tk

[Breeze]

GAME 2 - Tuesday, April 3rd - Pre-Game

I walk out of my office, go to the dug out and post the lineup for game two:


2b - Blade
SS - Terp
CF - Tucker
1b - Potpie
3b - Palmer
C - Bullock
RF - Gunner
LF - Pflaggstettler
P - Nielsen

[Breeze]

GAME 2 - Tuesday, April 3rd - Radio Broadcast

Top 1

Gehringer - Swung on and popped up
Blade is waiting...
And that's an easy out

One out
Due up next is Joe Cronin

Cronin - At the knees, looks like a sinker...
Swung on and topped toward third...
Palmer charging...
Has to backhand it...
He zips a throw to Potpie...
NOT IN TIME!!
Score it an infield single for Cronin


Ruth - Fastball... down and away...
NO! It's called a strike
And Ruth is outta there
That's the second out of the inning


Simmons - Base hit to left for Simmons
Cronin is being held at second
by Harlond Clift
Cronin will stay at second


Gehrig - Change up...
Gehrig was way out in front...
Strike Three
And that retires the side


Bottom 1

Blade hits a deep fly to right-center
Ruth is at the warning track
He stumbles a little...
Rights himself
And makes the catch
One out
Kris Terp is due up next

Curveball...
Terp swings at it...
Hits a high fly to deep center
Dimaggio bolting after it...
It is carrying all the way to the fence
Dimaggio jumps for it...
IT CAROMS OFF THE fence!!
Terp heading for second...
Here's the strong throw
It's on the money...
Gehringer blocks it in front of him...
Terp is safe!
That will be scored a double

Slider...
Tucker Swings and pounded to right-center...
It'll be over Dimaggio's head!...
He's chasing after it...
Tucker rounds second...
Here's the peg in to Lazzeri at third...
Tucker slides hard...
A bad bounce, but Lazzeri
knocks it down...
The ball rolls just a few feet...
Tucker jumps to his feet, but
isn't going anywhere
He'll get a triple from the
scorer on that hit!
Terp scored easily from second

Jeeberoni Potpie hits a
medium deep fly ball
Babe Ruth lines up his throw to the plate
He makes the catch
Appears to lose his balance
and his throw goes wide
Potpie gets an RBI on the sac fly
That's two away

Palmer's up - Curve, a beauty...
Strike three looking!
Mays punches him out!
The All Stars go down in
the bottom of the 1st
After 1 inning at FOFC Stadium
here in FOFC,
FOFC leads 2 to 0


Top 2

DiMaggio - Grounded towards first
Potpie grabs it
IT'S A RACE TO THE BAG
OUT!
One down for AL Pre WWII
Bill Dickey is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to the
plate for AL Pre WWII

Dickey hits a fly ball to left
Persimmon Pflaggstettler camps under it
He's got it
Two down
Rob Nielsen retires
the first two batters in order

Lazzeri hits a screamer at Rob Nielsen, who knocks it down.
Nielsen picks it up and fires to first
The throw pulls Potpie off the bag
Potpie swipes with the glove

Lazzeri is out!
Nice play by Potpie
Nielsen sets the Pre-Americans
down in order

Bottom 2

Fastball, busted in on the hands
Bullock manages to get a piece of it
Bouncing it over the mound
Cronin cuts it off in front of the bag
Rifles a throw to Gehrig...
And Bullock is called out on a close play
One up, one down for FOFC

Gunner - Swung on...
Smashed on the ground...
It's over the bag!
Ruth is chasing it into the
corner in right field
It'll be extra bases!
Stan Gunner motoring into second base
But Babe Ruth plays it perfectly
Spins and throws
It's wide of the bag
Gunner slides in with a double
That was a nasty curve he chased

There's a ground ball between
first and second
Gehrig snags it on the outfield grass
He throws it to the pitcher covering first
The throw is wild!
They'll give Pflaggstettler a hit,
and Lou Gehrig an error
That's error number 1 of the
game for AL Pre WWII

Nielsen - It's a fly ball to center
Dimaggio is on his horse
Running with the crack of the bat
And he tracks it down nicely!
Pflaggstettler holds second
Two gone for FOFC

Change up, on the inside corner...
Blade was looking for it...
He hammers the pitch...
It's a deep fly to left-center
It's into the alley...
That will score a run
Blade is in at second standing
with a double
All Dimaggio could do was keep him
from getting a triple

Terp hits a dying quail headed
towards the outfield
OHHHH, snagged by a retreating
Gehringer for the out
Outstanding range shown on that play!
That'll do it in the bottom of the 2nd
2 runs, 3 hits, one error and
one man left on base
FOFC leads 4 to 0
And now we'll pause for station
identification
This is your Strat-O-Matic
Broadcast System...

Top 3

Pitcher leads off the inning for the Pre-Americans

Curveball in the dirt
Swung on and missed...Strike three
Bullock fumbles it,
but quickly recovers to tag Mays
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

Late 20th and Japanese
League are scoreless
Left Outs is edging Caribbean 1 to 0
Carlton and Tiant Sr. currently dueling
Old Timers clipping Negro League I 4 to 0
Radbourn comfortably ahead for Old Timers
Dead Ball Era is beating
AL Post WWII 4 to 0
Walsh comfortably ahead for Dead Ball Era
NL Post WWII with the lead over
Turn of Century 3 to 0
NL Pre WWII slipping by Negro
League II 2 to 0
Hubbell and Redding currently dueling

Gehringer takes the pitch
STRIKE THREE, is the call
Gehringer can't believe it and
says something to the ump
Chalk up a whiff for Nielsen
Two down

Cronin hits it sharply on the ground...
into the hole at short
Terp dives for it...
He's up with it...
a strong throw to first...
GOT HIM!!!
A sparkling play by the short
stop, Kris Terp!
1-2-3, nothing across...

Bottom 3

It's a Texas Leaguer to right
Here comes Ruth...
He is really motoring...
He reaches down...
But catches it on one hop!
Tucker is on with a bloop single to right

Stretching to his lead is Tucker
He has this down to a science
He is an outstanding base stealer
He gives opposing teams fits
High and tight slider...
And there goes Tucker on the steal!
Dickey pegs it down
It's High...
The headfirst slide...and
Tucker is in at second with a stolen base
Let's see...
That's steal number 2 for him

Flyball to left
it's caught
Tucker has a chance to move up...
Tucker will hold at second base

Base hit to right for Palmer
Dick Howser will send the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Tucker is out!

Grounded towards the hole
Nice play by Gehringer
Over to Gehrig
Got him!
Score It: 4-3
That's all for the All Stars
No runs, 2 hits, no errors and
one man left on base...
We've played three, here...
FOFC ahead 4 to 0

Top 4

Ruth - Swung on and hit sharply to second
Blade plays it on one hop
Over to Potpie...
Out of there!

Good slider, inside part of the plate
Simmons gets the bat on it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Blade grabs it...
Throws to first...
OUT!
That's two away
Terp comes over from his shortstop
position to say a few words to Nielsen
Lou Gehrig will be next up...

Curve ball...
Gehrig swings and misses by a mile
The bottom dropped out of that one!
A wicked pitch!
That ends the top of the
4th for AL Pre WWII
Three batters up, three batters down

Bottom 4

Gunner rips a grounder to second
Taken by Gehringer
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 4-3
That's the first out of the inning
Two more to go

Pflaggstettler hits a routine fly into left
Simmons ranges over and reaches up
He grabs it for the out
Two up, two down

Sinking fastball...
Nielsen swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Cronin...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
Easy inning for Mays
So after four complete...
FOFC leads 4 to 0

Top 5


Dimaggio tries to hold up
Bullock points down at the
first base umpire
The ump says he went around
STRIKE THREE!

Bill Dickey is sawed off with a hard fastball in on the thumbs. The ball if foul but the bat is broken.

While we wait for Bill Dickey
to get a new bat
Let's check the scoreboard

Japanese League is edging Late 20th 1 to 0
Left Outs and Caribbean
are all knotted at 2
Vaughan has hit his 1st
homerun for Left Outs
Old Timers is on top of
Negro League I 4 to 2
Radbourn and Rogan currently dueling
Dead Ball Era is beating
AL Post WWII 4 to 0
NL Post WWII with the lead over
Turn of Century 3 to 0
Perry comfortably ahead for NL Post WWII
NL Pre WWII besting Negro League II 6 to 1
Hubbell enjoying the big NL Pre WWII lead
OK, let's see if AL Pre WWII can
get back in this ballgame
Currently down by 4

Dickey swings, and lines
it back up the middle
It glances off Nielsen's
glove and rolls away
Bill Dickey has himself an infield hit

Back door breaking ball...
And it's in there...
Lazzeri looks at strike three

The Whiff!
Nielsen punches Mays out!
AL Pre WWII comes up empty here
in the top of the 5th
No runs, one hit, no errors
and one man left on base
After 4 and a half innings,
FOFC still out in front, 4-0

Bottom 5

Hard slider, paints the inside corner
Blade gets a piece of it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Gehrig grabs it...
Races to first...
Beats Blade for the out
So one up and one gone

There's a shot off the bat of Kris Terp
But it's right at Gehringer
who makes the catch of the line drive
Terp throws his bat into
the dirt in disgust
AL Pre WWII gets the second
out of the inning

Slow ground ball
Gehringer is charging it
He fires it to first
He's OUT
That's three outs, side retired

Top 6

In the dirt
And Gehringer holds up
He draws the walk
Nice way to start out the inning

Cronin strikes out swinging!
And a quick peg to first by Bullock
Gehringer dives back in...
SAFE!
The first base ump says Gehringer
made it back
And there's one away

Ruth golfs one off the end of his bat
It slices down the third base line
Palmer was playing him off the line
top of the 6tht bounces
past Pflaggstettler
Ruth is digging for three
The throw...
SAFE!
Triple number 1 of the year for Ruth

Swung on by and chopped to the left of third
Palmer comes up with it
Looks Ruth back
Sidearms it to Potpie
And retires Simmons by three steps

Gehrig swings and lifts one toward center
Tucker drifts over slowly...
He is under it now...
And makes the easy catch...
And that retires the side
But not before AL Pre WWII gets 1 run
to put an end to Rob Nielsen's
hopes of a shutout
After 5 and a half innings,
FOFC is still on top, 4-1

Bottom 6

Potpie - Fastball, a beauty...
Steee Rike THREE!
One out
The All Stars have a 3 run lead


Breaking ball...
It darts down and out
as Palmer swings way over it
He was fooled completely
Dickey loses it momentarily,
but now finds the handle and tags
Deacon as he was heading for the dugout
AL Pre WWII gets the second
out of the inning

There's a ground ball into the hole
Lazzeri and Cronin converge on it
It's picked by Lazzeri who fires to first
OUT is the call
Close play!!
That's all for the All Stars
After 6 full innings,
they lead by 3

Top 7

A hot shot on the ground to Palmer
He's got it cleanly on one hop...
Over to first and Dimaggio is out
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's take a ten second station break
This is your Strat-O-Matic
Broadcast System
Your four sports network!

Dickey smashes a hot shot to the mound
Nielsen comes up with it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 1-3
Two out, nobody on
FOFC leads 4 to 1

It's a duck snort headed
towards the outfield
Blade is after it...
Running hard...
He snares it for the out
Excellent range shown on that play!
Nielsen sets them down in order
in the top of the 7th
After 6 and a half innings,
it's 4-1 FOFC

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

Bottom 7

Stan raps a high bouncer toward third
Lazzeri snatches it on the third hop
Overhands one to first
Easy out
One gone for FOFC

There's a ground ball into the hole by Pflaggstettler
Lazzeri and Cronin converge on it
It's fielded by Lazzeri who fires to first
SAFE is the call by the ump
Close play!!

The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
Nielsen held up, and draws a walk
Mays isn't happy at all with that call
FOFC already up by 3 runs

Slow ground ball to third
Lazzeri grabs it
Throws to second
He's out
Over to first
Not in time!
Score It: 5-4
Pflaggstettler takes third
The runner on first, Nielsen, is out
Two away now for FOFC
They're ahead by 3
The All Stars have 8 hits on the evening

Kris Terp offers at the pitch,
but checks his swing
Oh, Terp couldn't get the
bat out of the way
It's a soft line drive to
Gehringer for the out
Terp never even left the batter's box
That is the third out for FOFC here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 45148

Top 8

Miller Huggins will send up a
pinch hitter for Carl Mays
Yes, Luke Appling steps out of the dugout
He will be up there against Nielsen

Appling really smacks this one
He was waiting on the change
It's a gapper...
But hit high...
Tucker was positioned well
and has a shot at it
He is still running...
On the warning track...
He jumps...
It's off the wall
Getting past him!
Up in a hurry...
A. J. fires it in to Blade on a line
but Appling has himself a stand-up double
arriving ahead of the throw

Great change up...
Gehringer out in front...
Gets a piece of it...
It's a shallow fly towards Tucker
Tucker charges, dives for it...
He has it...
Fine catch by the center fielder
One out
Due up next is Joe Cronin

A hard drive down the line
Pflaggstettler is on his horse
It's in there for extra bases!
Cronin running hard out of the box
Pflaggstettler has the ball
Cronin digging for 2nd
He's slides in, Safe!
Appling scores from second!

Pitching Coach Sal Maglie visits the mound. Apparently they feel Nielsen is ok, because they leave him in to face the left handed Ruth.

Ruth rips one right on the nose
This one is going to be trouble,
no doubt about it
Gunner is chasing it down...
Ruth is around second...
Stan finds the handle...
He fires it to Palmer...
Ruth slides as the ball arrives...
SAFE!
Man alive... 2 triples on
the evening for Babe Ruth!

Benton comes out of the dug out and he's signalling for the right hander. And here comes Jace Kronside out of the pin. He'll start by facing Simmons.

Simmons lays off ball four
That last pitch just missed
Kronside is glaring at the
home plate umpire

Curve in the dirt... and Gehrig holds up
Looked like he went around from here
But the plate umpire says no
Bullock asks the third base ump's opinion
He motions it's a walk...
Gehrig will take first
Bases are tenanted

Dimaggio flies out to center
Harlond Clift is waving the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Aggressive baserunning by AL Pre WWII...
It's cut-off
The run scores
Here's the play on the trail runner...
Simmons is out trying for third!
Simmons is out trying for third!

But the Pre-Americans have tied the score.

Bottom 8

Miller Huggins will be bringing
in a relief pitcher
Waite Hoyt has been called
from the bullpen
A few warm up tosses and
we'll be set to go

Tucker Swung on and popped up
Cronin is waiting...
And that's an easy out
One away in the bottom of the 8th for FOFC

A low bouncer to Gehringer
It bounces off his chest...
But he keeps it in front of him
Over to first...
Potpie is out!
Shows the importance of good positioning
Here's the ump coming out
To brush the plate clean
There's two away

It's a routine fly into center
Dimaggio ranges over and reaches up
This should do it...
And Dimaggio grabs it for the out
That's all for the All Stars
No runs, no hits and no errors...
At the end of eight full innings...
We're all tied up at 4

Top 9

FOFCers bring in Bo Knowles to pitch

Another hook for strike three!
Dickey just stood there looking
One down for AL Pre WWII
Tony Lazzeri is still in
the on-deck circle
and Waite Hoyt is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Lazzeri is walked on 4 straight pitches

Time is called by AL Pre WWII
Here comes Sam Rice out of the dugout
He is heading toward first base
Tony Lazzeri starts toward the dugout
Miller Huggins wants more
speed on the bases, but he's going to let Hoyt hit. Watch for the sacrafice

Hoyt showing bunt...
He lays it down
Dan Fouts looks at second
But goes to first...
Out... Rice advances to 2nd
A sacrifice for Waite Hoyt
And there's two away

Gehringer - The ball is low and outside
Did he go around?...
Yes!
That's it in the top of the 9th
After 8 and a half innings in FOFC,
The score is tied at 4
AL Pre WWII's defensive changes are...
Sewell will bat 8th and play 3B

Bottom 9

Swung on and hit sharply to short
Cronin plays it on one bounce
Over to Gehrig...and Bullock is out easily
Out of there!
That's one away

Gunner digs in...
Long fly ball to left
This one is deep!
GET UPSTAIRS AUNT MINNIE
AND RAISE THE WINDOW!!!
The fans are going wild here in FOFC!!!
Stan Gunner has just won the game
And his teammates gather at home plate
They greet him as he crosses the plate!!!
That is Stan Gunner's 1st
home run of the year.
FOFC wins 5 to 4
Knowles gets credit for the win
Hoyt takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Stan Gunner
He was 2 for 4 with a homerun
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.

[Breeze]

GAME 2 - Tuesday, April 3 - Boxscore


BOXSCORE: 2001 AL Pre WWII Pre-Americans At 1000 FOFC All Stars 4/3/1900

[1] Pre-Americans AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG
C.Gehringer 2B 4 1 0 0 .000 B.Blade 2B 4 0 1 1 .143
J.Cronin SS 4 1 2 1 .286 K.Terp SS 4 1 1 0 .222
B.Ruth RF 4 1 2 2 .375 A.Tucker CF 4 1 2 1 .375
A.Simmons LF 3 0 1 0 .143 J.Potpie 1B 3 0 0 1 .143
L.Gehrig 1B 3 0 0 0 .143 D.Palmer 3B 4 0 1 0 .250
J.Dimaggio CF 3 0 0 1 .167 B.Knowles P 0 0 0 0 ----
B.Dickey C 4 0 1 0 .143 B.Bullock C 4 0 0 0 .000
T.Lazzeri 3B 3 0 0 0 .000 S.Gunner RF 4 2 2 1 .400
C-S.Rice PR 0 0 0 0 ---- P.Pflaggstettler LF 3 1 2 0 .750
D-J.Sewell 3B 0 0 0 0 .000 R.Nielsen P 2 0 0 0 .000
C.Mays P 2 0 0 0 .000 J.Kronside P 0 0 0 0 ----
A-L.Appling PH 1 1 1 0 .500 B-D.Fouts 3B 0 0 0 0 .250
W.Hoyt P 0 0 0 0 ----
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
[1] Totals 31 4 7 4 Totals 32 5 9 4

A-Pinch Hit For Mays In 8th Inning
B-Subbed Defensively (3B) For Kronside In 9th Inning
C-Pinch Ran For Lazzeri In 9th Inning
D-Subbed Defensively (3B) For Rice In 9th Inning

Pre-Americans... 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 - 4 7 1
All Stars....... 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 5 9 0

[1]Pre-Americans IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
C.Mays 7 8 4 3 1 3 0 121 3.86
W.Hoyt LOSS(0-1) 1 1/3 1 1 1 0 0 1 15 6.75
[1]Totals 8 1/3 9 5 4 1 3 1

[1]All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
R.Nielsen 7 1/3 7 4 4 1 9 0 105 4.91
J.Kronside BS(1st) 0 2/3 0 0 0 2 0 0 14 0.00
B.Knowles WIN(1-0) 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 15 0.00
[1]Totals 9 7 4 4 4 11 0

ATTENDANCE- 45,148 DATE- Tuesday, April 3rd 1900 TIME- Night
T- 2:08
LEFT ON BASE- Pre-Americans: 6 All Stars: 4
DOUBLE PLAYS- Pre-Americans: 0 All Stars: 1
ERRORS- L.Gehrig
DOUBLES- J.Cronin(1st), L.Appling(1st), B.Blade(1st), K.Terp(1st),
S.Gunner(1st)
TRIPLES- B.Ruth-2(2nd), A.Tucker(1st)
HOME RUNS- S.Gunner(1st)
STOLEN BASES- A.Tucker(2nd)
SACRIFICE HITS- W.Hoyt
SACRIFICE FLIES- J.Dimaggio, J.Potpie
WALKS- C.Gehringer, A.Simmons, L.Gehrig, T.Lazzeri, R.Nielsen
STRIKE OUTS- C.Gehringer-2, J.Cronin, B.Ruth, L.Gehrig-2, J.Dimaggio, B.Dickey,
T.Lazzeri, C.Mays-2, J.Potpie, D.Palmer-2
WEB GEMS- Bot 6th: Tony Lazzeri robbed Billy Bullock of a base hit.

[Breeze]

OUT OF TOWN SCOREBOARD - April 3rd

Negro League Too - 3
Pre Nationals - 11

Post Americans - 7
Dead Ballers - 5

Old Timers - 10
Negro League Ones - 4

Late 20th Century - 5
Japanese HOFers - 2

Turn of Century - 5
Post Nationals - 3

Left Outers - 5
Caribbean - 4

[SirFozzie]

WHEW.

As we got to the end I was half wondering if I was going to get in.. I'm probably Long/Middle Relief after seeing that..

[tucker342]

Nice start guys! I hit a whole hell of a lot better in the 2nd game. How in the hell did Babe Ruth get two triples? Isn't he like, I don't know, gigantic?

[Coffee Warlord]

As Rob ices down his shoulder after the game, he can be heard repeating only one thing....

"Fucking Ruth."

[JAG]

What a way to win. Way to go Gunner!

[JeeberD]

Good hitting, Gunner!

Not my best hitting game, but I'll tell ya, I'm a defensive WIZARD!

[Blade]

Another good game, guys! Awesome job, Gunner!

Blade is heading back for BP...

[Travis]

::drip::

The gear is stowed, the lights mostly out, the room empty aside from one man still sitting at his stall. The only sound is that of a tap dripping.

::drip::

Kronside still sits there, eyes closed, his jersey still on and a ball gripped in his right hand.

::drip::

His fingers move back and forth on it, from two seam fastball to circle change. Back to the fastball then into a curve.

::drip::

Finally it's gripped in the white knuckled fashion of what can only be described as a choke hold.

::drip::

The whiteness spreads from the knuckles down the fingers until his hand starts shaking either in fury or just from the tension.

::drip::

His eyes snap open, staring directly at the tap maybe 30 feet away. Another drop forms, slowly building, and as Jace's entire arm begins to tremble from the force of his grip, it falls.

::drip::

Like an explosion he launches himself from his seat, his arm reared back in an arc of expelled rage. The ball whistles through the air as his body contorts, nearly sending him to the ground. There is a shattering crescendo as Kronside stands, his back to the offending sink.

The sound of his cleats retreating down the tunnel and that of broken glass coming to rest is only disturbed by one thing.

::drip::

Two inches outside again.

[Breeze]

The National Herald - April 4th



SPORTS

[1]NEGRO LEAGUE II AT NL PRE WWII
Alltime Players. 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 - 3 12 1
Pre-Nationals... 0 0 2 4 0 3 2 0 - 11 16 0
Win:Hubbell(1-0) Loss:Redding(0-1)
Homeruns- P.Hill(1st), F.Frisch(1st), M.Ott(1st), P.Traynor(2nd)

Carl Hubbell went the distance and right fielder Mel Ott homered and had 4 RBI
as the NL Pre WWII team outscored the Negro League II Alltime Players 11 to
3.

Ott had a big day at the plate. He slapped a one-base hit in the 3rd inning,
lost the ball over the fence for three runs (his 1st of the season) in the
4th inning and doubled in the 8th inning. NL Pre WWII banged out 16 on the
afternoon.

Hubbell(1-0) picked up the complete game victory, allowing 3 runs. Cannonball
Redding(0-1) took the loss. He was pinned with the loss despite not allowing
an earned run in his 3 innings of work.


[1]AL POST WWII AT DEAD BALL ERA
Post-Americans.. 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 0 - 7 6 0
Deads........... 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 - 5 10 2
Win:Palmer(1-0) Loss:Walsh(0-1) Save:Wilhelm(1st)
Homeruns- M.Mantle(1st), Y.Berra-2(2nd), T.Cobb(1st)

Catcher Yogi Berra smashed 2 homeruns and had 4 RBI as the AL Post WWII club
defeated the Dead Ball Era Deads by the score of 7 to 5 at Deadball
Park.

Berra provided the offensive punch. He smashed a two-run homer in the 7th
inning and lifted one out of the park for a two run home run (his 2nd of the
season) in the 8th inning. AL Post WWII won despite being out-hit by Dead
Ball Era 10 hits to 6.

Jim Palmer(1-0) got the win allowing no runs in 1 inning. Hoyt Wilhelm
recorded his 1st save. Ed Walsh(0-1) was given the loss. He allowed 3
homeruns in 7 and 2/3 innings of work.


[1]OLD TIMERS AT NEGRO LEAGUE I
Oldies.......... 3 1 0 0 0 4 2 0 0 - 10 15 1
Alltime Players. 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 - 4 12 0
Win:Radbourn(1-0) Loss:Rogan(0-1)
Homeruns- D.Brouthers(1st), P.Lloyd(1st), O.Charleston(1st)

In a lop-sided win the Old Timers Oldies put 4 runs on the scoreboard in the
6th inning and ripped the Negro League I Alltime Players by a 10 to 4
count.

Dan Brouthers led the offense for Old Timers. He slapped a base-hit resulting
in a run in the 1st inning, launched a rocket-shot out of the park for a
Grand Slam homerun (his 1st of the season) in the 6th inning and stroked a
single in the 8th inning. Old Timers ended up with 15 hits for the game
while Negro League I had 12.

Old Hoss Radbourn(1-0) got credit for the victory, pitching 8 and 1/3 innings
and allowing 4 runs. Bullet Joe Rogan(0-1) was the loser. He was hit hard
and gave up 9 hits and 5 walks in 5 and 2/3 innings.


[1]LATE 20TH AT JAPANESE LEAGUE
Century Stars... 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 - 5 10 0
HOF Players..... 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 - 2 5 1
Win:Johnson(1-0) Loss:Fujimoto(0-1) Save:Gossage(2nd)
Homeruns- G.Carter(1st), K.Yamamoto(1st), S.Nagashima(2nd)

Randy Johnson struck out 10 batters and catcher Gary Carter connected with a
'big fly' and had 2 RBI as the Late 20th Century Stars topped the Japanese
League HOF Players by a score of 5 to 2 at Nintendo Field.

Johnson(1-0) pitched a fine game. He was reached for 4 hits and 4 walks in 7
innings and surrendered 2 'round-trippers'. Japanese League was out-hit by
Late 20th, 10 hits to 5.

Goose Gossage gained credit for his 2nd save. Hideo Fujimoto(0-1) was the
losing pitcher in relief. Late 20th scored big getting 4 runs off him in 2
and 1/3 innings.

Johnson didn't realize how many strikeouts he was racking up. When told he
had 10 he was obviously surprised, 'No kidding? Man, I knew that I had a
decent total, but I didn't think I had K'd that many. Say, that's pretty
good, isn't it?'

[1]TURN OF CENTURY AT NL POST WWII
Centuries....... 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 - 5 13 1
Post-Nationals.. 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 3 7 2
Win:Young(1-0) Loss:Bunning(0-1)
Homeruns- J.Morgan(1st)

Cy Young completed the game without help from the bullpen at Big League Field
as the Turn of Century Centuries beat the NL Post WWII ballclub 5 to 3.

Turn of Century came up with the deciding runs in the 9th inning with 2 runs
utilizing 3 base hits. Wee Willie Keeler kicked off the action when he
delivered a base-hit. After an out was recorded, Nap Lajoie came to the
plate and laced a single bringing in a run. Lajoie took second on the throw.
After another out, Jake Beckley stepped up to the plate and he was walked
intentionally. Hugh Duffy followed and he stroked a one-base hit scoring the
final run of the inning. Turn of Century totaled 13 on the night.

Young(1-0) got the victory, allowing 3 runs for the game. Jim Bunning(0-1)
absorbed the loss in relief. He surrendered 2 runs and 3 hits in 1 inning.


[1]LEFT OUTS AT CARIBBEAN
Left Outers..... 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 - 5 7 0
Alltime Players. 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 - 4 9 0
Win:Carlton(1-0) Loss:Tiant Sr.(0-1) Save: Drysdale(1st)
Homeruns- A.Vaughan(1st), W.Stargell(1st)

49,053 fans watched an exciting game at Paradise Park. The Left Outs Left
Outers topped the Caribbean Alltime Players by the slimmest of margins, 5 to
4.

Left Outs tallied 2 runs in the 7th inning. Left Outs managed 7 in their
victory. The win went to Steve Carlton(1-0) who allowed 3 runs in 8 innings.
Carlton got help from Don Drysdale who was credited with his 1st save. Luis
Tiant Sr.(0-1) ended up with the loss.


[1]AL PRE WWII AT FOFC
Pre-Americans... 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 - 4 7 1
All Stars....... 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 5 9 0
Win:Knowles(1-0) Loss:Hoyt(0-1)
Homeruns- S.Gunner(1st)

FOFC All Stars broke the deadlock in their last at bats, pulling out a 5 to 4
win over the AL Pre WWII team and sending their hometown fans home
smiling.

The game was won by FOFC with a run in the 9th inning. After an out was
recorded, Stan Gunner smashed a solo-shot out of the park (his 1st of the
season) giving FOFC the victory and sending the 45,148 home-town fans home
happy. FOFC rapped out 9 hits for the night.

The winning pitcher was Bo Knowles(1-0) who allowed no runs in 1 inning. The
losing pitcher was Waite Hoyt(0-1) in relief. He gave up 1 hit and no walks
in 1 and 1/3 innings.

[Breeze]

FOFC - Dynasty Update

Guys, I'm going to try and update the team nicknames to make it clearer who each team is in the writeups (assuming the game will allow me to make the change now that the season has started). Too many teams right now are listed as All Stars, HOFers, etc.

I'm open for suggestions of team names:

Here are some of the existing ones, that may be OK:

Pre-Americans
Pre-Nationals
Post Americans
Post Nationals
Dead Ball Era - Deads
Old Timers - Oldies (could change to Ancients)
Left Out - Left Outers (thinking about changing to the Leftovers)
Turn of Century - Centuries (thinking about Centurions)

The others are definately open, here are some thoughts:

Caribbean - Estrellas
Late 20th Century - Modern Stars
Negro League 1 - Ones
Negro League 2 - Twos (Toos)
Japanese - JHOF
FOFC - ???


Feel free to chime in with suggestions.

[ntndeacon]

The Trouts!!

Well Someone had to say it.

[Blade]

The Colossal Squids?

Again, someone had to say it...

[Breeze]

FOFC - Manager Update

It's Wednesday morning and I've slept in. A 2 - 0 start allows managers to breath a little bit. I have a leisurely breakfast and head to the park. The entire drive I'm trying to determine my best course of action...do I work some players into the lineup or keep going with what is working? I know Tucker is staying in the lineup, he's one of the few hitting, and I know Hays is going to get back in as well, but other than that I'm not positive. My gut feeling is to stick with the status quo, at least for the most part. I think we'll be going up against Ted Lyons tonight. He's a pretty good righty and ironically can be tough on lefties. I'll have to think some more about the lineup.

I do however, feel good about the pitching. Mighty will be starting and hopefully, he'll be able to keep the big lefty bats in their lineup, Ruth and Gehrig quite - not sure why I should think that Nielsen is a tough leftie and Ruth tripled off of him. You know...Cobb's comment about Ruth 'running well for a fat guy' is absolutely right. That big mother can motor. All the pitchers in the pin are ready to go so we should be fine there.

My cell phone rings...

"Hello"

"Mr. Breeze?" the caller asks as if someone else should be answering this phone."

"Yes, who's this?"

"This is Joe Cain the facilities administrator."

I think to myself, 'facilities administrator, facilities admini...oh yes the janitor.' "Oh yeah Joe, what's up?"

"There's been some damage to the bathroom in the locker room."

"Damage?"

"Yes sir, I just though you should be aware."

"Any idea who did it?"

"No but security is looking into it." Joe answers matter of factly.

"Thanks Joe. I'll be in shortly. You come get me if I can be of any help."

I hang up and start talking to myself, "We're 2 and 0. Who could have gotten pissed enough at this point to wreck the bathroom..."

[kingfc22]

Colossal Squids is a great name. :)

[Breeze]

FOFC - Player Update

As I'm studying scounting reports I get a knock on my door.

"Come in."

The door opens and little guy who looks like a body builder walks in. It's Joe Cain the janitor. With a sheepish look on his face he says, "Ah, coach. The security guys have told me they think Jace Kronside broke the mirror in the bathroom."

"OK?" I say in a tone indicating I want to know what you want me to do about it.

"They would like you to talk to him about it, they want to know why he did it and what he plans to do about it."

"Fine" I say and dismiss Joe, thinking to myself, 'why the hell do you think he did it? He was pissed about giving up a run last night. IDIOTS'

Joe Cain the janitor exits my office and I wait a few minutes before walking out. I move around the locker room searching for Jace Kronside. His bag is in the locker so I know he's arrived at the park. I ask around and am told by Bo Knowles that he thought he was headed to the bull pen with some midevil torture device.

I roll my eyes and head that way. When I get to the bull pen sure enough he's setting up a tri-level, squarish, wooden device. I know I need to talk to him about the broken bathrooom mirror but I have to make sure I know what's going on:

"Ah Jace, what'cha doing? You sure that thing is safe?"

Kronside steps back from the wooden frame, looking down.

"Sorry skip, just figured I needed to get some extra tosses in and didn't want to bother any of the catchers."

Turning again, Jace pulls pop cans out of a bag laying by his feet and starts fitting them into the clamps on the frame. Once he's done there are 9 cans fitted, 3 on each level, inside, outside and middle.

"Well it seems safe enough, I guess I'm ok with it as long as Sal is."

"By the way, I need to talk to you about an incident with a mirror." I say, trying real hard to keep a straight face. "Joe Cain the janitor told me about it this morning and the security guards apparentely determined you had something to do with it - I don't know how they figured that out, God I hope they don't have cameras in the bathroom - but anyway they said to talk with you about it - so I'm talking."

Kronside pauses as he bends down to pick up a bag full of baseballs. A moment later he grasps the bag and rises, looking back at his manager, a tinge of red to his face and looking more than a bit embarrassed.

"Yeah. I wanted to talk to you about that this morning, but when you weren't here I figured I'd get some throws in first. You see, I was sitting there, and the tap was dripping, and...well...it just kept dripping and...well, I missed. Again."

The big man is silent for a moment, clearly knowing how assinine this all sounds.

"Would it be easier to pay for it now or to just take it out of my pay?"

"Ah...I see. Water dripping is pretty annoying. I'll tell Joe to get that fixed. As for the mirror" I pause trying to think of the best way to phrase this "I'll figure something out. I'll tell them it tried to attack you and you were only defending yourself. Hell, if it's the security guard that checked my id the other day he might actually believe that."

I start walking off, but I turn back and say, "You know son, I put you in a pretty tough spot last night. Man on 3rd, only 1 out and some pretty good hitters coming up. I wasn't real happy with the walks, but I would have been surprised it they hadn't been able to at least generate a sac fly." I begin walking off again, then turn back and add "And you struck out Gehrig. He went around on that pitch, it was a horrible call by the umpires."

[terpkristin]

Was the bathroom defaced by someone making a mess with the whizzinator?

;) :D :p

/tk

[Breeze]

GAME 3 - Wednesday, April 4th - PreGame

After much debate I decide to go with much of the same lineup. I sub Nights in for Terp put Hays back in at Catcher and give Ton the start for the second time.

[Breeze]

GAME 3 - Wednesday, April 4th - Radio Broadcast

Here we are at beautiful FOFC Stadium, where the red-hot FOFC All Stars, coming off the dramatic 9th inning walk off homerun by Stan Gunner, will go for the sweep in the 3 game series to open the season.

top 1

Gehringer will once again lead off the game for the Pre-Americans

Gehringer pops one straight up, the infield converges, but
it will be Blade making the play
One away in the top of the
1st for AL Pre WWII

The pitch is just inside
and Cronin holds up
Hays points down at the first base umpire
He gives the "safe" sign
Joe trots down to first... ball four

A high fastball...
and Ruth, who was looking for the breaking ball swings late...
He hits a routine pop just left of Blade
Barrett is under it...
And takes it in for the easy out

That's the second out of the inning

Swung on and missed...
Simmons is down on strikes
That's three outs here in
the top of the first
At the end of one half inning,
for AL Pre WWII
No runs, no hits, no errors
and one man left on base
FOFC is coming to bat

bottom 1

Fastball, swung on...
Driven to left-center, into the gap...
Dimaggio goes back, back...
He's not going to get it...
It goes over his head!...
He's got to chase it down...
Has it, wings a strong throw to Lazzeri
But Blade slides in safely at third
Just barely...
A beautiful peg by Dimaggio

Broken bat ground ball to short
Blade breaks for home
Cronin comes up with it
Over to Gehrig
Got him!
Score It: 6-3
FOFC with one away
Gomez steps off the mound as
he waits for A. J. Tucker to
come to the plate

Tucker grounds ball into the hole
Lazzeri and Cronin converge on it
It's fielded by Lazzeri who fires to first
SAFE is the call by the ump
Close play - but replays indicate Tucker's speed pays off as he just does beat the throw.!!

Tucker studies Gomez intently...
Now he's walking away from the base
Gomez holds the runner, with several tosses over that way

Gomez loses Potpie after being up 1 and 2

Fouts drives the ball to
left for extra bases
Tucker scores
Dick Howser puts up the stop sign...and Potpie holds
Double for Fouts

Curveball, Ton lets it go by
The umpire signals STRIKE THREE!
Ton looks imploringly at him
No words, but a very long look
Now he walks slowly back to the dugout
That's two away

Hays swings and lifts one toward left
Simmons drifts over slowly...
He is under it now...
And makes the easy catch...
And that will do it for FOFC

top 2

Gehrig cuts on a curve that
misses in the dirt
That ball is trapped nicely by Hays
Gehrig was badly fooled by Mighty's
big breaking curve
STRIKE THREE!
Lou was a little overanxious
FOFC gets the first out of the inning

Dimaggio swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Mighty strikes out Joe Dimaggio
Two down
Mighty retires the first two
AL Pre WWII batters

Good slider, inside part of the plate
Dickey gets the bat on it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Blade grabs it...
Throws to first...
OUT!
The Pre-Americans go quickly
in the top of the 2nd
No runs, no hits and no errors
After 1 and a half innings,
it's 2-0 FOFC

bottom 2

Pflaggstettler his a Fly ball to center
Dimaggio is under it
He makes the grab
That's one away

Mighty goes down swinging
Two up, two down

Fastball, STRIKE THREE!
Blade was frozen on that fastball by Gomez
High and on the outside corner
He was looking for an off-speed pitch
That's all for the All Stars
in the 2nd inning
No runs, no hits and no errors...
We head to the 3rd...
FOFC ahead 2 to 0

top 3

Lazzeri Swung on and chopped down
the third base line
Fouts stabs at it
He's got it!
Over to first...
GOT HIM!
What a nice play by Dan Fouts
One down for AL Pre WWII

Lefty Gomez is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to the
plate for AL Pre WWII

It's a high fly into right
Pflaggstettler ranges to his right
Reaches up, and takes it for the easy out
And there's two away

Sinking fastball...
Gehringer swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Nights...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
The Pre-Americans go quietly
in the top of the 3rd
No runs, no hits and no errors
After 2 and a half innings,
it's 2-0 FOFC

bottom 3

Nights hits a screamer at Joe Cronin
Cronin picks it up and fires to first
The throw pulls Gehrig off the bag
Gehrig swipes with the glove

Nights is out!
Nice play by Gehrig
One down for FOFC
A. J. Tucker is still in
the on-deck circle
and Jeeberoni Potpie is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Fastball...
Tucker jumps all over it...
It's juiced to deep center
There goes Dimaggio after it
Racing hard...
He dives...
And he's got it!!!
Beautiful play by Joe Dimaggio!
That's the second out of the inning
Time to check the scoreboard

Late 20th leads Japanese League 1 to 0
Left Outs is on top of Caribbean 2 to 0
Negro League I besting Old Timers 7 to 2
Leonard has hit his 1st homerun
for Negro League I
Dead Ball Era is beating
AL Post WWII 4 to 0
Collins has hit his 1st homerun
for Dead Ball Era
NL Post WWII winning over
Turn of Century 7 to 1
NL Pre WWII slipping by Negro
League II 2 to 0
And in our contest FOFC on top 2 to 0

A slider by Gomez and
Potpie gets good wood on it...
Dimaggio back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
That's three outs, side retired

top 4

Cronin hits a hard bouncer to Fouts' left
He's over...
Makes the pick-up...
Over to Potpie...
Cronin is out!
A sparkling glove hand pick-up
by Dan Fouts!
So one up and one gone

Hanging curveball...
Ruth times it, swings...
There's a high drive...
Crunched deep towards right center...
Pflaggstettler doesn't have a chance
Home Run for Ruth
That was way over the fence

A hot shot on the ground to Blade
He's got it cleanly on one hop...
Over to first and Simmons is out
Two gone for AL Pre WWII

Pop-up
Hays throws away the mask
He makes the catch
That does it for AL Pre WWII
here in the top of the 4th
But they pick up 1 run
So After 3 and a half innings,
FOFC ahead 2 to 1

bottom 4

Fouts tries to hold up
Dickey points down at the
first base umpire
The ump says he went around
STRIKE THREE!
One out
Due up next is K. A. Ton

Change-up, Ton is looking for it...
He smacks a deep fly to left-center...
Dimaggio is at the warning track...
and Joe can't come up with it...
The ball rolls to the fence...
Ton coasts into second...

Curve ball, down and in...
Swung on by Hays...
Grounded to the left side...
Lazzeri can't get his glove on it...
It's through for a single...
Here comes Ton to score without a throw!

Base hit to center for Pflaggstettler
Dick Howser puts up the stop sign...
Hays will stay at second

Mighty squares to bunt
He bunts the ball . . .
Fielded by T.Lazzeri
the throw to first...
close play...
Out
Mighty gets the job done.
Two down
Due up next is Barrett Blade
Let's see what happens now

Wait, Dickey calls time
He is looking to the dugout
Now he's signaling for an intentional pass
This will load them up
But AL Pre WWII now has
a force at any base

Nights, with the bases juiced hits A high hopper to second
Gehringer grabs it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 4-3
That's it for FOFC
Here at FOFC Stadium, After 4 innings,
FOFC has 3 runs, 6 hits and no errors
While AL Pre WWII has one run,
one hit and no errors
FOFC has left 5 on base
AL Pre WWII has stranded 1

top 5

Off speed pitch on the way...
And Dimaggio watches it go
by for the third strike
Dimaggio stood there like a bump on a log
2 strike outs for Dimaggio today
One away in the top of the
5th for AL Pre WWII

Sinker, down at the knees...
Swung on...
Dickey hits a Baltimore chop...
Past the infield into right for a single!
That was a difficult ball to handle

It is a high hard one...
Lazzeri goes on a fishin' trip
Strike three swinging!
That one sailed up out of the strike zone
but Lazzeri couldn't hold back
FOFC on top 3 to 1 with
two away this inning

Gomez hits a blooper just
beyond the infield
It looks like that one will drop
Barrett Blade dives toward
the outfield grass
AND SNAGS THE BALL BEFORE
IT HITS THE GROUND - AMAZING CATCH.
That ends the inning
After 4 and a half innings,
FOFC leads by 2

bottom 5

Tucker slaps a routine fly into right
Ruth ranges over and reaches up
He grabs it for the out
One gone for FOFC

The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
Potpie held up, and draws a walk
Gomez isn't happy at all with that call

Fastball down low...
Fouts swings and hits one out to center
Joe Dimaggio is drifting over...
Now he's under it...
Easy out for Gomez
Potpie trots back to first
Two down

Fastball, a dandy...
Steee Rike THREE!
And Ton is punched out
No runs for FOFC in the bottom of the 5th
FOFC ahead 3 to 1
We'll be right back

top 6

Gehringer raps a hard shot...
CAUGHT!
That ball was lined right at third
Fouts just got his glove up in time
Great reflexes
So one up and one gone

WATCH OUT!
Mighty has hit Cronin!

Ruth drives one into center
A. J. Tucker sprints over to make the play
Two down in the 6th
Time for a station break
This is the Strat-O-Matic Broadcast System
your 4 Sports Network...
OK, we're back and ready to go...

Simmons swings and misses
Strike three
Simmons didn't have a good
cut at that pitch
That wraps up the inning for AL Pre WWII
So After 5 and a half innings
FOFC has 3 runs, 6 hits and no errors
While AL Pre WWII has one run,
2 hits and no errors
AL Pre WWII has left 3 stranded
FOFC has failed to bring home 6

bottom 6

Curve ball...
Hays swings and misses by a mile
The bottom dropped out of that one!
A wicked pitch!
Gomez gets the first out in the inning

Pflaggstettler hits a hard ground ball to short
Cronin comes up with it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 6-3
One more chance for FOFC in
the bottom of the 6th

Mighty, with a 2 hitter is going to take his hacks
Swing and a miss
Struck him out
As we head into the 7th
the Pre-Americans will try
to get something going
They trail by 2, 3-1

top 7

Gehrig gets jammed
He still gets a good piece of it
It's sliced down the left field line
Drifting...
Foul
. . . Gehrig back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Pop-up
Hays drifts behind the plate
He makes the catch
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

Late 20th leads Japanese League 2 to 1
Maddux battling Inao
Left Outs slipping by Caribbean 2 to 0
Negro League I toppling Old Timers 10 to 3
Leonard has hit his 1st homerun
for Negro League I
Dead Ball Era is giving it
to AL Post WWII 7 to 2
Chesbro enjoying the big
Dead Ball Era lead
NL Post WWII is pounding Turn
of Century 10 to 3
Mays has hit his 1st homerun
for NL Post WWII
Negro League II slipping
by NL Pre WWII 6 to 4
Mathis battling Dean
And right here in FOFC FOFC leads 3 to 1

Dimaggio hits a screamer at Jeff Nights
Nights takes it with the backhand...
The throw is short...
Potpie scoops it on one hop

Dimaggio is out!
Nice play by Potpie
Two down
Mighty retires two in a row

Right down the middle... strike three
Dickey must have been looking
for something else
He just froze on that pitch

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

bottom 7

Blade hits a three hopper
towards Joe Cronin
Cronin scoops it and fires
it to first for the out
One out
The All Stars have a 2 run lead


Nights pounds a grounder
toward Cronin at short
Joe moves in front of it...
Whoops... a bad bounce
But Cronin stayed with it
Over to first and Nights is retired
Nice play by the AL Pre WWII short stop

Hard ground ball to second
Taken by Gehringer
Over to Gehrig
Got him!
Score It: 4-3
Three away here in the bottom of the 7th
After 7 innings FOFC on top 3 to 1
The official attendance has
just been announced
48195 fans here at FOFC
Stadium this evening

top 8

Lazzeri digs in...
Fastball, a beauty...
Steee Rike THREE!
With one down

Potpie yells something out to Mighty
Al nods his head

Now batting for AL Pre WWII...
Luke Appling...
He'll pinch hit for Lefty Gomez

There's a cue shot off the end
of the bat by Appling
Blade makes the routine catch
of the soft liner
Two gone in the inning
The Pre-Americans are in danger
of losing this game
Down by 2

Pounded on the ground to third
Taken by Fouts
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 5-3
Three down for AL Pre WWII
Now the All Stars will be coming up
for what they hope will be their
last at bat of the evening
They lead by 2, 3-1
Miller Huggins will be bringing
in a relief pitcher
Waite Hoyt has been called
from the bullpen
A few warm up tosses and
we'll be set to go

bottom 8

Changeup down low...
Potpie makes contact and
hits one out to center
Joe Dimaggio is drifting over...
Now he's under it...
Easy out for Hoyt
Hoyt retires the first batter to
face him in the bottom of the 8th

Curveball, inside corner, low...
Fouts Swings...
And lined to right for a base hit
No chance to get that one

Ton sends a scorcher to short
Cronin takes it on one hop
Fires to Gehringer for one
Back to Gehrig for the double play!
That's all for the All Stars
After 8 full innings,
they lead by 2

top 9

Benton Breeze brings in Sammy Knowles to close and Gazelle will go into leftfield as a defensive replacement.

There's a fly ball to Gerald Gazelle
Gazelle circles under it...
He makes the play - I think even Ton could have caught that can of corn.
One up, one down for AL Pre WWII

There's a towering fly ball hit by Ruth
Tucker sprints over, and makes the catch
Two gone for AL Pre WWII
Time is running out for them

Hit right back to Knowles
On to first and Simmons is gone
And that will do it for AL Pre WWII
FOFC wins 3 to 1
Mighty gets credit for the win
Knowles notches the save
Gomez takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Dan Fouts
He was 2 for 4
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.

[kingfc22]

Way to go guys. 154-0 is the goal.

[Breeze]

GAME 3 - Wednesday, April 4th - Boxscore


[1] Pre-Americans AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG
C.Gehringer 2B 4 0 0 0 .000 B.Blade 2B 3 1 1 0 .200
J.Cronin SS 2 0 0 0 .222 J.Nights SS 4 0 0 1 .000
B.Ruth RF 4 1 1 1 .333 A.Tucker CF 4 1 1 0 .333
A.Simmons LF 4 0 0 0 .091 J.Potpie 1B 2 0 0 0 .111
L.Gehrig 1B 3 0 0 0 .100 D.Fouts 3B 4 0 2 1 .375
J.Dimaggio CF 3 0 0 0 .111 K.Ton LF 4 1 1 0 .200
B.Dickey C 3 0 1 0 .200 S.Knowles P 0 0 0 0 ----
T.Lazzeri 3B 3 0 0 0 .000 H.Hays C 3 0 1 1 .571
L.Gomez P 2 0 0 0 .000 P.Pflaggstettler RF 3 0 1 0 .571
A-L.Appling PH 1 0 0 0 .333 A.Mighty P 2 0 0 0 .000
W.Hoyt P 0 0 0 0 ---- B-G.Gazelle LF 0 0 0 0 ----
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
[1] Totals 29 1 2 1 Totals 29 3 7 3

A-Pinch Hit For Gomez In 8th Inning
B-Subbed Defensively (LF) For Mighty In 9th Inning

Pre-Americans... 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 - 1 2 0
All Stars....... 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 - 3 7 0

[1]Pre-Americans IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
L.Gomez LOSS(0-1) 7 6 3 3 3 7 0 113 3.86
W.Hoyt 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 3.86
[1]Totals 8 7 3 3 3 7 0

[1]All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
A.Mighty WIN(1-0) 8 2 1 1 1 8 1 113 1.13
S.Knowles SAVE(1st) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0.00
[1]Totals 9 2 1 1 1 8 1

ATTENDANCE- 48,195 DATE- Wednesday, April 4th 1900 TIME- Night
T- 1:30
LEFT ON BASE- Pre-Americans: 3 All Stars: 6
DOUBLE PLAYS- Pre-Americans: 1 All Stars: 0
DOUBLES- D.Fouts(1st), K.Ton(1st)
TRIPLES- B.Blade(1st)
HOME RUNS- B.Ruth(2nd)
SACRIFICE HITS- A.Mighty
WALKS- J.Cronin, B.Blade, J.Potpie-2
HIT BY PITCH- J.Cronin
STRIKE OUTS- A.Simmons-2, L.Gehrig, J.Dimaggio-2, B.Dickey, T.Lazzeri-2,
B.Blade, D.Fouts, K.Ton-2, H.Hays, A.Mighty-2
GIDP- K.Ton

[Breeze]

OUT OF TOWN SCOREBOARD

Negro League Twos - 8
Pre-Nationals - 9

Post Americans - 2
Dead Ball Ghosts - 7

Old Timer Ancients - 8
Negro League Ones - 10

Late 20th Mondern Stars - 4
Japanese HOF Players - 2

TOC Centurions - 4
Post Nationals - 10

Left Out Leftovers - 4
Caribbean Estrellas - 0

[Breeze]

GAME 3 - Wednesday, April 4th - Post Game

As we file into the locker room following the onfield post game congratulations, I strategically position myself in a corner so I can get everyone's attention.

A few minutes later, I yell, "Nice work gentlemen. I can't begin to tell you how pleased I am to sweep that team, and not only did we sweep them, but we really held one of the most prolific offenses in check for 3 straight games. Again congrats."

***Cheers****

"Now, we have an off day tomorrow, so let's plan on getting to the ball park around 2, we'll do some infield/outfield drills, take some batting practice on the field and let the pitchers take their normal side sessions. We'll take the field again on Friday against the Old Timers and Hunter will get the ball." I pause for a few seconds to let my words sink in. "Nice job guys - have fun tonight and I'll see you tomorrow afternoon."

[Blade]

Good job again, guys! Blade had a better game, but needs more BP!!!

[JAG]

A 4-hitter and 2-hitter facing Ruth, Gehrig, and Dimaggio...not bad. :D

[Breeze]

The National Herald - Thurdsay, April 5th

SPORTS


NEGRO LEAGUE II AT NL PRE WWII
Alltime Players. 0 0 0 4 1 0 1 1 1 - 8 12 0
Pre-Nationals... 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 5 - 9 11 1
Win:Dean(1-0) Loss:Brown(0-1) Save:Haines(1st)
Homeruns- L.Santop(1st)

Third baseman Pie Traynor had 2 base hits and 3 RBI as the NL Pre WWII
ballclub beat the Negro League II Alltime Players by a score of 9 to 8.

NL Pre WWII came through with the game-winning runs in the 8th inning as they
scored 5 runs on 6 base hits. The crucial at-bat was provided by Traynor who
made the home-town crowd a happy bunch when he doubled plating two runs.
Negro League II made it exciting in the 9th, but they were unable to push the
needed runs across.

Dizzy Dean(1-0) went 1 and 1/3 innings allowing 1 run for the victory. Dean
got help from Jesse Haines who was credited with his 1st save. Ray
Brown(0-1) absorbed the loss in relief. He pitched 1 inning giving up 6 hits
and 1 walk.

'It's a disheartening loss, no question about it' said Cito Gaston 'But we
have to get over it and get ready for the next game.'

AL POST WWII AT DEAD BALL ERA
Post-Americans.. 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 - 2 6 1
Deads........... 0 4 0 0 2 0 1 0 - 7 7 0
Win:Chesbro(1-0) Loss:Ryan(0-1)
Homeruns- E.Collins(1st)

Jack Chesbro went 9 strong innings and second baseman Eddie Collins went yard
and had 3 RBI as the Dead Ball Era Deads defeated the AL Post WWII team 7 to
2 at Deadball Park.

Dead Ball Era brought 4 runs across the plate in the 2nd inning with the help
of 3 hits. That scoring would be all that was needed. Dead Ball Era managed
7 in their victory.

Chesbro(1-0) got the victory, allowing 2 runs for the game. Nolan Ryan(0-1)
was the losing pitcher. 'I've been working on a few things in my delivery,
and I think I'm hitting a good groove.' Chesbro said after the game. 'I'm
ready to start another game tomorrow!'

OLD TIMERS AT NEGRO LEAGUE I
Oldies.......... 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 0 - 8 13 1
Alltime Players. 0 5 2 0 1 2 0 0 - 10 16 0
Win:Williams(1-0) Loss:Keefe(0-1) Save:McDonald(1st)
Homeruns- G.Kelly(1st), B.Leonard(1st), W.Wells(1st)

Third baseman Willie Wells connected with a 'big fly' and had 3 RBI at Black
Diamond Pk as the Negro League I Alltime Players beat the Old Timers Oldies
10 to 8.

Negro League I came up with 5 runs in the 2nd inning when they had 5 base
hits. The critical plate appearance was by Wells who electrified Black
Diamond Pk when he bombed a two-run dinger (his 1st of the season). Negro
League I had 16 hits for the game and Old Timers had 13.

Smokey Joe Williams(1-0) picked up the victory, allowing 8 runs in 7 and 1/3
innings. Williams got relief help from Webster McDonald who gained credit for
his 1st save. Tim Keefe(0-1) took the loss.


LATE 20TH AT JAPANESE LEAGUE
Century Stars... 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 - 4 8 0
HOF Players..... 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 - 2 8 2
Win:Maddux(1-0) Loss:Inao(0-1) Save:Sutter(1st)
Homeruns- E.Murray(1st)

In a two run game the Late 20th Century Stars got by the Japanese League HOF
Players by the score of 4 to 2.

Late 20th took the lead for good in the 3rd inning plating an isolated run on
2 hits. After an out was recorded, Rickey Henderson drew a walk. Tony Gwynn
stepped into the batter's box and he laced a base-knock. Gwynn was running
on the next pitch and he stole second. Wade Boggs stepped in and he lined a
base-hit scoring the run. Japanese League went down quietly in the bottom of
the 9th.

The winning pitcher was Greg Maddux(1-0) who allowed 2 runs in 7 and 1/3
innings. Maddux was helped out by Bruce Sutter who recorded his 1st save.
Kazuhisa Inao(0-1) ended up with the loss.


TURN OF CENTURY AT NL POST WWII
Centuries....... 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 - 4 7 1
Post-Nationals.. 2 2 3 0 2 0 1 0 - 10 12 0
Win:Koufax(1-0) Loss:Waddell(0-1)
Homeruns- J.Beckley(1st), R.Clemente(1st), W.Mays(1st), R.Campanella(1st)

Sandy Koufax whiffed 10 batters as the NL Post WWII club defeated the Turn of
Century Centuries by the score of 10 to 4 at Big League Field.

Koufax(1-0) contributed a very nicely pitched game. He surrendered only 7
hits and 1 walk in 9 innings. NL Post WWII banged out 12 on the night.

The losing pitcher was Rube Waddell(0-1). He allowed NL Post WWII 7 runs in 2
and 2/3 innings of work. Connie Mack was upset after the game. 'I don't
like to complain but did you see that umpires strike zone?', he said. 'Maybe
they ought to start calling the strike zone the way it's printed in the rule
book.'

LEFT OUTS AT CARIBBEAN
Left Outers..... 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 - 4 7 0
Alltime Players. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 8 1
Win:Jenkins(1-0) Loss:Cuellar(0-1)
Homeruns- J.Foxx-2(2nd), H.Wilson(1st)

Third baseman Jimmie Foxx slammed 2 homeruns and had 3 RBI and Ferguson
Jenkins whitewashed Caribbean at Paradise Park where the Left Outs Left
Outers beat the Caribbean Alltime Players 4 to 0.

Foxx had a big day with his bat. He smashed a two-run homer in the 1st inning
and blasted a solo shot (his 2nd of the season) in the 9th inning. Left Outs
totaled 7 on the night.

Jenkins(1-0) was credited with the shutout. Mike Cuellar(0-1) was given the
loss. He gave up 4 hits and 2 walks in 7 and 2/3 innings.

AL PRE WWII AT FOFC
Pre-Americans... 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 - 1 2 0
All Stars....... 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 - 3 7 0
Win:Mighty(1-0) Loss:Gomez(0-1) Save:Knowles(1st)
Homeruns- B.Ruth(2nd)

Al Mighty delivered 8 solid innings at FOFC Stadium as the FOFC All Stars beat
the AL Pre WWII ballclub by the count of 3 to 1.

Mighty(1-0) came through with a virtuoso performance against the AL Pre WWII
hitters. He allowed just 2 hits and 1 walk in 8 innings. Neither team
managed to score after the 4th inning.

Sammy Knowles earned the save, his 1st. Lefty Gomez(0-1) was the loser. He
gave up 3 runs and 6 hits in 7 innings.

[JeeberD]

Great pitching, Al! Gotta love games like that...

[thealmighty]

Yep, I'll take that every time out.

[tucker342]

Nice job guys! 3 games down, 151 left to go:)

[Breeze]

FOFC - Manager Update

With a day off I decide to take the opportunity to spend some quality time with my wife. We go to Ruth's Chris Steakhouse for dinner and enjoy it tremedously. On the drive home we are talking with the radio in the background. My ear picks up the sounder indicating a sports update. I tune out my wife's dialog about painting the dinning room an olive green color and a subtly listen to the barely audible voice...

...and in baseball today the Pre-Nats once again top the Negro Twos, the Dead Ballers come up short against the Post Americans, the Negro Ones beat the Old Timers - they should be ashamed of themselves for beating old people, the Late 20ths get another win, the Centurions best the Post Nationals and the Left Outs - win out over the Estrellas....

"What do you think?" my wife asks.

"I agree totally," I say without hesitation.

"You didn't hear a word I said did you?"

"Yes I did, you want to paint the dining room olive green." I argue.

"That was 2 topics ago." she replys

"Um..."

"Ah ha, now what do you have to say for yourself?"

"Um...Dinner sure was good?" and yes that was phrased as a question.

"Yes it was, and I'm glad you think the dining room will look good in olive green, with tan trim." she replys with a sly smile on her lips.

I glance over and say, "You mean my answer about the paint color was right?"

"Sure, but I knew you weren't listening, I figured I'd make you sweat a little."

I snicker, and make a mental note not to think about baseball the rest of the night. Tomorrow we have to play the Old Timers, I'll have enough to think about at that point.

[Fouts]

Good stuff, Breeze. Fouts is looking good. Everytime I see Palmer playing I think of Dean Palmer. Go Team!

[Breeze]

FOFC - Manager Update

Because I knew who had won all the games last night, I was in no hurry to read the paper. I wait until just before game time to actually look at the write ups.

[Breeze]

The National Herald - Friday, April 6th


[1]NEGRO LEAGUE II AT NL PRE WWII
Twos............ 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 - 2 5 1
Pre-Nationals... 1 1 0 0 0 4 1 2 - 9 13 1
Win:Rixey(1-0) Loss:Brewer(0-1)
Homeruns- F.Frisch(2nd), R.Hornsby(1st), M.Ott(2nd)

Shortstop Frankie Frisch lofted one into the 'cheap seats' and had 3 RBI and
Eppa Rixey pitched a complete game as the NL Pre WWII club defeated the Negro
League II Twos 9 to 2 at Booze Field.

NL Pre WWII brought 4 runs across the plate in the 6th inning when they had 3
base hits. The highlight belonged to Frisch who brought the crowd to their
feet when he lost the ball over the fence for three runs (his 2nd of the
season). NL Pre WWII had a total of 13 hits for the game.

The victory went to Rixey(1-0) who went the distance allowing 2 runs. Chet
Brewer(0-1) was given the loss. He served up 3 gopher balls in 6 innings.


[1]AL POST WWII AT DEAD BALL ERA
Post-Americans.. 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 - 6 10 2
Ghosts.......... 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 - 5 12 0
Win:Hunter(1-0) Loss:Plank(0-1) Save:Fingers(1st)
Homeruns- E.Collins(2nd), Z.Wheat(1st)

The AL Post WWII team nipped the Dead Ball Era Ghosts 6 to 5 at Deadball Park
in a hard fought contest.

AL Post WWII tallied 3 runs in the top of the 2nd inning with the help of 3
hits. They would be enough to earn the win. Dead Ball Era made it exciting
in the 9th, but they were unable to push the needed runs across.

Catfish Hunter(1-0) picked up the victory, allowing 2 runs in 7 innings.
Rollie Fingers earned his 1st save. Eddie Plank(0-1) was the losing pitcher.
He gave up 5 runs and 7 hits in 5 innings.

John McGraw was subdued when questioned after the game, 'Sure, this kind of
loss takes a while to get over, but heck, we're all professionals. We've
been through this many times - it's the nature of the game. We'll be fine -
as for me - I'll be ready to go again tomorrow!'

[1]OLD TIMERS AT NEGRO LEAGUE I
Ancients........ 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 1 6 1
Ones............ 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4 - 6 9 1
Win:Foster(1-0) Loss:Welch(0-1)
Homeruns- K.Kelly(1st), B.Leonard(2nd), T.Stearnes(1st)

The Negro League I Ones tallied 4 runs in the 8th inning and cruised to a 6 to
1 victory over the Old Timers Ancients at Black Diamond Pk.

Bill Foster(1-0) was the winning pitcher with a solid relief performance. He
didn't allow much, just 1 hit and 1 walk in 2 and 2/3 innings. Negro League
I ended up with 9 hits for the game while Old Timers had 6.

Mickey Welch(0-1) ended up with the loss. He pitched 7 and 2/3 innings giving
up 9 hits and 5 walks.

[1]LATE 20TH AT JAPANESE LEAGUE
Modern Stars.... 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 - 5 12 0
HOF Players..... 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 - 2 5 0
Win:Franco(1-0) Loss:Fujimoto(0-2) Save:Gossage(3rd)
Homeruns- C.Ripken(2nd), M.McGwire(1st)

Pedro Martinez pitched 6 strong innings and shortstop Cal Ripken slammed a
homerun as the Late 20th Modern Stars topped the Japanese League HOF Players
by a score of 5 to 2 at Nintendo Field.

Late 20th erupted with the game winning runs in the top of the 9th inning
scoring 3 runs using 3 hits. After an out was recorded, Gary Carter began
the Late 20th spurt when he drew a walk. Ripken followed and he laced a
single. Kirby Puckett got his turn next, but he was a strikeout victim.
Mark McGwire came up and he rifled a three-run blast (his 1st of the season).
Late 20th had 12 hits overall, while Japanese League had 5.

John Franco(1-0) went 2 innings allowing 2 runs for the win. Goose Gossage was
credited with his 3rd save. Hideo Fujimoto(0-2) took the loss in relief. He
was not very effective, surrendering 3 runs in 2 innings.


[1]TURN OF CENTURY AT NL POST WWII
Centurions...... 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 - 8 12 1
Post-Nationals.. 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 - 7 9 0
Win:Willis(1-0) Loss:Niekro(0-1)
Homeruns- N.Lajoie-2(2nd), R.Bresnahan(2nd), H.Aaron-2(2nd), E.Banks-2(2nd)

Nap Lajoie slammed 2 homeruns and had 3 RBI at Big League Field where the Turn
of Century Centurions beat the NL Post WWII ballclub in 10 innings by the
score of 8 to 7.

The score was knotted at 7 after nine innings. Turn of Century won it in the
10th inning. Roger Bresnahan lofted a solo-blast 'downtown' (his 2nd of the
season). Turn of Century out-hit NL Post WWII for the game, 12 hits to 9.

The win was credited to Vic Willis(1-0) who went 2 innings allowing no runs.
Phil Niekro(0-1) was hit with the loss in relief.


[1]LEFT OUTS AT CARIBBEAN
Leftovers....... 0 5 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 - 10 14 0
Estrellas....... 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 - 7 15 2
Win:Drysdale(1-0) Loss:Luque(1-1)
Homeruns- J.Foxx(3rd), O.Linares(1st)

Jimmie Foxx cracked a homer and had 2 RBI as the Left Outs Leftovers outscored
the Caribbean Estrellas in 11 innings 10 to 7.

The game was deadlocked at 6 after nine full innings. Left Outs was
victorious in the 11th inning. Goose Goslin led off and started the rally
when he ripped a base-knock. Willie McCovey next to the plate and he
doubled. Arky Vaughan then tripled driving home two runs. Don Drysdale was
up next and he hit a sacrifice fly scoring the final run of the inning. It
was roller coaster of a game as the lead change hands 5 times.

The victory was credited to Drysdale(1-0) who went 2 innings, allowing 1 run.
Adolfo Luque(1-1) was tagged with the loss in relief. He was knocked around
by Left Outs, allowing 5 hits and 2 walks in 2 innings.

[SirFozzie]

Hmm That be blank.

[Breeze]

GAME 4 - Friday, April 6th - Radio Broadcast


Top 1

Sinker, down at the knees...
Swung on...
Hamilton hits a Baltimore chop...
Past the infield into left for a single!
That was a difficult ball to handle

Kelly will try the hit and run!
Kelly takes a cut at the sinker...
Hits a hard grounder down to first...
Gonzalez can't get his glove on it...
It's into right for a single...
Hamilton hustles around to third
The hit and run works to perfection!

Kelly takes a three step lead
Fastball in on the fists...
And there goes Kelly on the steal!
Bullock takes the pitch...
The throw...
Here's the catch, the tag...
SAFE, Kelly slides around the tag by Terp
Give him a stolen base

Thompson Bounced towards the hole
Hamilton breaks for home
Fielded nicely by Terp
THE LONG THROW . . .
HE GOT HIM!!!
Score It: 6-3
One gone for Old Timers

Delahanty rolls one toward Kris Terp
He scoops it and fires to
first...close play
OUT, says the first base umpire
Charley Jones throws his hands up
in disbelief
Two men gone, nobody on
Old Timers leads by 2

Brouthers hits a pop-up in back of second
Blade is under it
Still waiting...
Now he clutches it for the out
That will do it for Old Timers
But they do get 2 runs
right out of the barrel
So Old Timers leads 2 to zip
as FOFC comes to bat


bottom 1

Blade pulls one into left field
Hooking away from Delahanty
Ed is there
He's got it for the out

Terp hits a fly ball to center
Billy Hamilton camps under it
He's got it
That's the second out of the inning
FOFC trails by 2
They need a win
They are 2nd in the standings
1.5 games out

Breaking ball...
It darts down and out
as Tucker swings way over it
He was fooled completely
Ewing loses it momentarily,
but now finds the handle and tags
A. J. as he was heading for the dugout
That's out number three
A perfect inning for Galvin here
in the bottom of the 1st


top 2

Hard slider, paints the inside corner
Davis gets a piece of it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Gonzalez grabs it...
Races to first...
Beats Davis for the out
One out
Due up next is George Kelly

he rips a grounder to the mound
Hunter comes up with it
Over to Gonzalez
Got him!
Score It: 1-3
Two down
Owen Hunter retires
the first two batters in a row

Smashed on the ground...
It's through the infield for a hit!
Pflaggstettler is chasing it into
the corner in right field
It's in there for extra bases!
Ewing is tearing around second...
He's digging for third!
He slides...
SAFE AT THIRD!
Ewing stretched it into a triple
with some dazzling speed on the bases

Galvin hits A high hopper to third
Palmer grabs it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 5-3
That wraps up the inning for Old Timers
Time to check out the rest of the scores

AL Pre WWII is edging Japanese
League 2 to 1
Left Outs and Negro League
I have yet to score
Pennock and Day currently dueling
Negro League II slipping by
Turn of Century 2 to 0
Late 20th leads AL Post WWII 1 to 0
Caribbean with the lead over
Dead Ball Era 3 to 0
NL Post WWII slipping by
NL Pre WWII 2 to 0
Spahn battling Grimes
And here in FOFC Old Timers ahead 2 to 0

Bottom 2

There's a drive down the line
IT'S WAY BACK THERE . . .
WILL IT STAY FAIR???
NO, IT'S A FOUL BALL!!!
. . . Ton back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
A high hopper to second
Kelly grabs it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 4-3

Change up...
Palmer hits a fly ball to right
Thompson is under it...
He's got it
Two down

Gonzalez strokes a solid line
drive into right-center
Hamilton races over
Here comes Thompson
Hamilton cuts in front...
Makes the grab
That's it for FOFC in the
bottom of the 2nd
Old Timers still leads by 2
It's Old Timers with 2, FOFC zip

Top 3

Hamilton - Did he check his swing?
YES!
He walks

Hamilton watches Hunter carefully
As he stretches out his lead
Slow curve...
The speedy Hamilton heads for second
Quickly out of his stance Bullock fires...
Hamilton slides to the outside...
And avoids the tag... He's safe
WAIT, he's off the bag...
And he's tagged out at second!!

A jug-handled curve
Kelly goes out and gets it
It's a liner to right
Pflaggstettler will have to hurry...
Here he comes...
No sir... he has to play
it on the short hop
Single for King Kelly

Kelly sneaks away from the base
Thompson swings and misses at the slider
Kelly is off for second on the pitch
The peg down...
And the throw sails into the outfield!
Bullock overdid it on those
Wheaties this morning!

High heat from Hunter...
Thompson pounces on it...
Pounds a hard, long drive towards left
Ton giving chase...
It's outta here!!!
Home run number 1 for Thompson

Delahanty hits it sharply on the ground...
into the hole at third
Palmer dives...
It's through for a base hit!
He almost got his glove on it...
Delahanty reaches on a sizzling
single to left
A nice try by the third baseman,
Deacon Palmer

Delahanty moves away from first
Slider, taken by Brouthers
Delahanty is on his way!
He couldn't resist
After getting a very nice lead
The peg down...
Delahanty with a pop-up
slide into second...
And he's SAFE!
But looks like his shoulder hit
Terp on the shortstop's chin...
He is a little dazed it appears
Time out on the field
......
Now it looks like everyone is OK

Fastball... just outside
And Brouthers will take first on the walk

Slow ground ball to first
Gonzalez grabs it
Over to second for one
Over to first
Not in time!
Score It: 3-6
Delahanty takes third
The runner on first, Brouthers, is out

Davis stretches his lead
Davis is running on the pitch
A slider away...
Bullock has the pitch
And here's the overhand throw...
SAFE, as Davis slides around the tag
Give him a stolen base

It gets past Bullock!
It's scored a wild pitch.
The pitch didn't look that bad
Hunter must have crossed him up!
Delahanty scores from third!
Davis takes third

A slider by Hunter
Kelly gets good wood on it...
Tucker back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
That's it here in the top of the 3rd
It's 5-0 in favor of
the visitors from Old Timers
We'll be back in just a moment

Bottom 3

Bullock starts us off –
Swung on and hit to shallow right
Tough chance for Thompson
He's got it
Fine running catch!
Score It: 9

Slider, inside...
Swung on...
Pflaggstettler rocks this one...
He got all of it...
It's going... Going...
GONE!
Man, he really crunched it!
Galvin looks dejected on the mound

Breeze brings in Treacy to pinch hit...

Treacy hits a screamer at Pud Galvin
Galvin picks it up and fires to first
The throw pulls Brouthers off the bag
Brouthers swipes with the glove

Treacy is out!
Nice play by Brouthers
Two gone for FOFC

High hard fastball, swung on...
It's a grounder hammered at second...
Kelly is there...
IT'S INTO RIGHT!!...
It took a HIGH hop right over him!
That's a single for Blade

Terp’s up
It's a rainbow shot toward right
Thompson reaches up
Makes the catch!
Didn't have to move an inch
That ends the inning
After 3 innings, Old Timers leads by 4

Top 4

Rodney comes in to pitch for the FOFCers

Ewing - Routine grounder to second
Blade scoops it up
Over to first for the out
Old Timers with one away
Rodney steps off the mound as
he waits for Pud Galvin to
come to the plate

A bullet
Off the pitcher's foot!
And it bounces right to Blade
He goes to first
In time!
Rodney waves off the trainer
He appears to be o.k.
Score It: 4-3
That's the second out of the inning

Hamilton - Swung on and hit sharply to short
Terp plays it on one bounce
Over to Gonzalez...
Out of there!
That's all for Old Timers
After 3 and a half innings
in FOFC this evening,
Old Timers leads 5 to 1

Bottom 4

Tucker rips a grounder to the mound
Galvin grabs it
Over to Brouthers
Got him!
Score It: 1-3
One down for FOFC
K. A. Ton is still in the on-deck circle
and Deacon Palmer is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Swung on...
High fly ball into left
Not hit well
Delahanty is under it...
He's got it
Easy chance for Ed
Two down
Galvin retires the first two FOFC batters

There's a hard bouncer to Kelly's left
He's over...
Makes the pick-up...
Over to Brouthers...
Palmer is out!
A sparkling glove hand pick-up
by King Kelly!
FOFC comes up empty here in
the bottom of the 4th
No runs, no hits and no errors
After 4 innings,
Old Timers still out in front, 5-1

Top 5

Kelly lays down a bunt!
Palmer has it and throws to first
Just in time!

Thompson drives one into right
Persimmon Pflaggstettler sprints
over to make the play
Two down
Bullock asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Bullock and Rodney

Curve in the dirt... and
Delahanty holds up
Looked like he went around from here
But the plate umpire says no
Bullock asks the first base ump's opinion
He says Delahanty went around
Strike three, swinging
We head to the bottom of the 5th
here in FOFC
Still 5-1, Old Timers

Bottom 5

Slider, over the inside corner...
Gonzalez lashed hard out into right
It's in for a base hit...
Thompson quickly racing over...
Fields it smoothly, fires it
in behind the runner...
Gonzalez dives back into the bag...
SAFE!!
Credit Gonzalez with a single

Fastball off the catcher's mitt
Rolls all the way to the backstop
Ewing is after it... as Gonzalez
moves on to second
No throw...
Looked like Ewing was crossed-up
on the pitch
Score it a passed ball on Ewing

Base hit to center for Bullock
Dick Howser puts up the stop sign...
Runner holds.

Pflaggstettler swings awkwardly...
strike three
Galvin took something off
of that breaking ball
He had Pflaggstettler way out in front
One down...
Galvin has to continue to bear down

Breeze puts Gunner in to pinch hit for the pitcher

Lined hard to second
Kelly jumps
He makes a nice play on it
He throws to Kelly
OUT!
Double Play!
Score It: 4-5
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
So After 5 innings
Old Timers has 5 runs,
6 hits and no errors
While FOFC has one run,
4 hits and one error
FOFC has left 2 stranded
Old Timers has failed to bring home 2

Top 6

And Brouthers will sit down...
strike three called
And there's one away

Davis hits a high fly into right
Pflaggstettler ranges to his right
Reaches up, and takes it for the easy out
That's two away

Low and inside
It hit him on the foot!
Kelly tried to dance out of the way
But it got him

Hot line drive to third
Palmer reaches
He snares it for the out!
Score It: 5
That's it for Old Timers here
in the top of the 6th
After 5 and a half innings,
Old Timers ahead 5 to 1
Time to check some other scores


AL Pre WWII is edging Japanese
League 4 to 3
Gehrig has hit his 1st homerun
for AL Pre WWII
Negro League I slipping
by Left Outs 3 to 1
Negro League II is in front
of Turn of Century 5 to 2
Late 20th is destroying
AL Post WWII 11 to 2
I'd hate to be Wilhelm right now!
Caribbean with the lead over
Dead Ball Era 4 to 1
NL Post WWII is in front
of NL Pre WWII 3 to 0
Old Timers is hanging tough
Currently in 6th place
they are within 4.0 games
of the American leaders

bottom 6

Blade - Fly ball to right
Thompson is under it
He makes the grab

A hot shot on the ground to Kelly
He's got it cleanly on one hop...
Over to first and Terp is out
Two down
Pud Galvin retires
the first two batters in order

Tucker swings...
Hits the fastball on the ground...
Down the line at first...
Brouthers trying to backhand it...
Can't get a glove on it
It's into right field for a hit

Bounced past the mound
Davis can't get to it
BASE HIT!
Tucker takes second

Hit in the air to left
Camped under it is Delahanty
And he has it
That retires the side...
Palmer fails to come through in the clutch
For FOFC, No runs, 2 hits, no errors
and 2 men left on base

top 7

Breeze sends Fozborg into pitch

Galvin pounds a grounder
toward Terp at short
Kris moves in front of it...
Whoops... a bad bounce
But Terp stayed with it
Over to first and Galvin is retired
Nice play by the FOFC short stop
One away in the top of the
7th for Old Timers

Hamilton - Line drive pulled over Gonzalez's
head for a base hit

Hamilton takes a walking lead
Fozborg looks Hamilton back
He is unable to get his normal lead

Base hit to left for Kelly
Third base coach Charley Gould
thinks he can make it...
Here comes Hamilton...
The throw from Ton is going to third...
Hamilton is out at third base!
Kelly advances to 2nd on the throw

Base hit to right for Thompson
Charley Gould will send the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Aggressive baserunning by Old Timers...
It's cut-off
The run scores
Here's the play on the trail runner...
Thompson is out going to 2nd!

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

Gonzo - hits a tough grounder to first
Brouthers takes it to the bag himself
Score It: 3
One down for FOFC
Billy Bullock is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to
the plate for FOFC

Change-up, Bullock is looking for it...
He smacks a deep fly to left-center...
Hamilton is at the warning track...
But -
The ball rolls to the fence...
Bullock coasts into second...
Bullock will get a double
from the offical scorer

Pflaggstettler rips one on the ground
It's a 'daisy cutter' to Davis
George fields it cleanly
Looks Bullock back to second
Now fires it over to first...
Easy out
Old Timers ahead 6 to 1 with
two away this inning


Breeze sends Hays in to pinch hit.

Great change up...
Hays out in front...
Gets a piece of it...
It's a shallow fly towards Thompson
Thompson charges, dives for it...
He has it...
Fine catch by the right fielder
That is the third out for FOFC here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 48693


top 8

Breeze send Kronside in to pitch.

It's a wicked breaking ball
Out of the strike zone
Delahanty checks his swing
Bullock appeals to the first base umpire
Take a seat, Ed
FOFC gets the first out
here late in this contest

Brouthers sends a routine
ground ball to first
Gonzalez takes it on one hop
Flips it to Kronside
Easy out
With two gone, Old Timers on top
6 to 1 in the top of the 8th

Davis - Fly ball to right
Pflaggstettler is under it
He grabs it for the out
That's it for Old Timers
Here at FOFC Stadium, After
7 and a half innings,
Old Timers has 6 runs,
9 hits and no errors
While FOFC has one run,
7 hits and one error
Old Timers has left 3 on base
FOFC has stranded 5

Bottom 8

Change-up, Blade is looking for it...
He smacks a deep fly to left-center...
Hamilton is at the warning track...
Waits...
Hauls it in
Old Timers gets the first
out of the inning

Curveball, breaking in on him
DOWN HE GOES!...
It missed him for ball four
Terp's slow getting up...
Here comes Tay Pemup the trainer...
He looks OK, just shaken up a bit...
Terp heads down to first

Tucker sits on the change up
He lofts a fly ball towards Thompson
Thompson gliding under it...
Appears to lose sight of it
Has it again...
And makes the catch in medium right
One more chance for FOFC this inning

Ton swings and lifts one toward left
Delahanty drifts over slowly...
He is under it now...
And makes the easy catch...
The All Stars are retired
It's 6-1 as we come to the 9th

Top 9

Kelly gets wood on the hard slider
It's a bouncer hit past the mound...
And PAST Terp into the outfield...
Base hit for Kelly

Kelly slowly moves away from the base
Kelly holding close to the bag
Kronside watching him closely

Fastball, a dandy...
Steee Rike THREE!
And Ewing is punched out
With one down

Gonzalez yells something out to Kronside
Jace nods his head

Fastball down low...
Galvin swings and hits one out to center
A. J. Tucker is drifting over...
Now he's under it...
Easy out for Kronside
Kelly trots back to first
Two down for Old Timers
in the top of the 9th
Old Timers leads 6 to 1

Hamilton laces a clean base
hit into the outfield
He rounds first, but will hold there
Kelly moves up 90 feet

King Kelly - Routine grounder to short
Terp grabs it
Over to Gonzalez
Got him!
Score It: 6-3
That's it for Old Timers
Old Timers has 6 runs, 11
hits and no errors
While FOFC has one run,
7 hits and one error
Old Timers has now left 5 runners stranded

Bottom 9

Palmer tries to hold up
Ewing points down at the first base umpire
The ump says he went around
STRIKE THREE!
One up, one down

David Gonzalez swings
He really stings this one
It rifles past Kelly into right...
Base hit for Gonzalez...
Thompson is over to cut it off...
Now he tosses it in to the infield
Gonzalez is on with a sharp single

Bullock raps a hard grass
cutter toward short
Davis takes two steps to his left
Scoops it up
Over to second for one
Back to first for the deuce!
And that will do it for FOFC
Old Timers wins 6 to 1
Galvin gets credit for the win
Hunter takes the loss
The hitting star for Old Timers
was Sam Thompson
He was 2 for 4 with a homerun
He also knocked in 4 runs
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.

[Breeze]

GAME 4 - Friday, April 6th - Boxscore


BOXSCORE: 2001 Old Timers Ancients At 1000 FOFC All Stars 4/6/1900

[1] Ancients AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG
B.Hamilton CF 4 1 3 0 .435 B.Blade 2B 4 0 1 0 .214
K.Kelly 3B 5 3 3 0 .364 K.Terp SS 3 0 0 0 .167
S.Thompson RF 4 1 2 4 .286 A.Tucker CF 4 0 1 0 .313
E.Delahanty LF 4 1 1 1 .353 K.Ton LF 4 0 1 0 .222
D.Brouthers 1B 3 0 0 0 .471 D.Palmer 3B 4 0 0 0 .125
G.Davis SS 4 0 0 0 .100 D.Gonzalez 1B 4 0 2 0 .500
G.Kelly 2B 3 0 1 0 .211 B.Bullock C 4 0 2 0 .250
B.Ewing C 4 0 1 0 .263 P.Pflaggstettler RF 3 1 1 1 .500
P.Galvin P 4 0 0 0 .000 O.Hunter P 0 0 0 0 ----
A-S.Treacy PH 1 0 0 0 .000
J.Rodney P 0 0 0 0 ----
B-S.Gunner PH 1 0 0 0 .333
S.Fozborg P 0 0 0 0 ----
C-H.Hays PH 1 0 0 0 .500
J.Kronside P 0 0 0 0 ----
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
[1] Totals 35 6 11 5 Totals 33 1 8 1

A-Pinch Hit For Hunter In 3rd Inning
B-Pinch Hit For Rodney In 5th Inning
C-Pinch Hit For Fozborg In 7th Inning

Ancients........ 2 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 - 6 11 0
All Stars....... 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 1 8 1

[1]Ancients IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
P.Galvin WIN(1-0) 9 8 1 1 1 3 1 124 2.13
[1]Totals 9 8 1 1 1 3 1

[1]All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
O.Hunter LOSS(0-1) 3 6 5 5 2 0 1 64 15.00
J.Rodney 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 17 0.00
S.Fozborg 2 3 1 1 0 1 0 30 4.50
J.Kronside 2 2 0 0 0 2 0 27 0.00
[1]Totals 9 11 6 6 2 4 1

ATTENDANCE- 48,693 DATE- Friday, April 6th 1900 TIME- Night
T- 2:17
LEFT ON BASE- Ancients: 5 All Stars: 6
DOUBLE PLAYS- Ancients: 2 All Stars: 0
ERRORS- B.Bullock
DOUBLES- B.Bullock(1st)
TRIPLES- B.Ewing(1st)
HOME RUNS- S.Thompson(1st), P.Pflaggstettler(1st)
STOLEN BASES- K.Kelly-2(2nd), E.Delahanty(1st), G.Davis(1st)
CAUGHT STEALING- B.Hamilton
WALKS- B.Hamilton, D.Brouthers, K.Terp
HIT BY PITCH- G.Kelly
STRIKE OUTS- E.Delahanty-2, D.Brouthers, B.Ewing, A.Tucker, D.Palmer,
P.Pflaggstettler
GIDP- B.Bullock
WILD PITCHES- O.Hunter
PASSED BALLS- B.Ewing
WEB GEMS- Bot 8th: Billy Hamilton robbed Barrett Blade of an extra base hit.

[kingfc22]

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[Sublime 2]

Well.....That was not the outing i was hoping for...sorry boys.

[JAG]

153-1 then. :)

[Breeze]

The National Herald - Saturday, April 7th

SPORTS



[1]LEFT OUTS AT NEGRO LEAGUE I
Leftovers....... 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 - 1 1 0
Ones............ 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 - 4 12 2
Win:Day(1-0) Loss:Pennock(0-1) Save:Foster(1st)
Homeruns- D.Snider(1st), O.Charleston(2nd), J.Gibson(2nd)

Leon Day went 7 and two third strong innings and Oscar Charleston cracked a
homer and scored 3 times as the Negro League I Ones topped the Left Outs
Leftovers by a score of 4 to 1 at Black Diamond Pk.

Negro League I came up with 2 runs in the 4th inning when they had 3 base
hits. The crucial at-bat was provided by Josh Gibson who brought the crowd
to their feet when he popped a two-run clout over the fence (his 2nd of the
season). Negro League I had a total of 12 hits for the game.

The win was credited to Day(1-0) who went 7 and 2/3 innings allowing 1 run.
Day was helped out by Bill Foster who recorded his 1st save. Herb
Pennock(0-1) was the loser.


[1]AL PRE WWII AT JAPANESE LEAGUE
Pre-Americans... 1 1 1 1 0 0 3 0 0 - 7 14 0
HOF Players..... 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 - 5 10 0
Win:Lyons(1-0) Loss:Nomo(0-1) Save:Coveleski(1st)
Homeruns- L.Gehrig(1st), B.Dickey(1st), S.Oh(1st)

In a close game the AL Pre WWII ballclub got by the Japanese League HOF
Players by the score of 7 to 5.

AL Pre WWII went ahead for good in the top of the 2nd inning scoring one
runner utilizing 3 base hits. Japanese League threatened in the 9th but AL
Pre WWII was able to put down the rally.

Ted Lyons(1-0) was the winner allowing 5 runs in 8 and 2/3 innings. Stan
Coveleski earned his 1st save. Hideo Nomo(0-1) was tagged with the loss. He
was unable to control the AL Pre WWII offense and allowed 11 hits and 3 walks
in 6 innings.

'Anytime you lose it hurts,' said Bobby Valentine 'but it's losing the close
ones that really hurt.'

[1]LATE 20TH AT AL POST WWII
Modern Stars.... 0 1 0 0 6 4 1 1 1 - 14 19 0
Post-Americans.. 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 - 3 8 0
Win:Glavine(1-0) Loss:Palmer(1-1) Save:Smoltz(1st)
Homeruns- R.Sandberg-2(2nd), G.Carter(2nd), K.Puckett(1st)

Ryne Sandberg blasted 2 homeruns and had 4 RBI as the Late 20th Modern Stars
smashed the overmatched AL Post WWII club, 14 to 3.

Sandberg led the offense for Late 20th. He smacked a three-run homer in the
6th inning and lofted a solo-blast 'downtown' (his 2nd of the season) in the
8th inning. Late 20th simply wore out the AL Post WWII pitching staff,
scoring in 6 different innings.

Tom Glavine(1-0) picked up the victory, allowing 2 runs in 6 innings. John
Smoltz gained credit for his 1st save. Jim Palmer(1-1) absorbed the loss.
He got hit pretty hard, allowing 10 hits and 3 walks in 4 and 1/3 innings.


[1]CARIBBEAN AT DEAD BALL ERA
Estrellas....... 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 - 5 9 0
Ghosts.......... 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 - 3 10 1
Win:Garcia(1-0) Loss:Johnson(1-1) Save:Luque(1st)
Homeruns- P.Cepeda(1st), T.Oliva(1st)

In a tight game it was the Caribbean Estrellas 5, the Dead Ball Era Ghosts 3
at Deadball Park.

Caribbean scored 3 runs in the 2nd inning. The critical plate appearance was
by Dave Concepcion who deflated the spirits of the home town crowd when he
tripled scoring two baserunners. Dead Ball Era had a chance in the 9th but
they came up short.

The victory was credited to Mike Garcia(1-0) who went 8 innings, allowing 2
runs. Garcia got help from Adolfo Luque who earned his 1st save. Walter
Johnson(1-1) was charged with the loss.


[1]NL PRE WWII AT NL POST WWII
Pre-Nationals... 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 - 5 8 0
Post-Nationals.. 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 - 3 8 0
Win:Grimes(1-0) Loss:Spahn(0-1)
Homeruns- M.Ott(3rd), E.Lombardi(1st), W.Mays(2nd)

Burleigh Grimes tossed a complete game as the NL Pre WWII team won in dramatic
fashion over the NL Post WWII team by a score of 5 to 3 at Big League
Field.

NL Pre WWII scored the decisive runs in a big 9th inning scoring 3 runs using
3 hits. Mel Ott initiated the scoring when he blasted a solo shot (his 3rd
of the season). Kiki Cuyler came to the plate and smacked a single. Joe
Medwick then tripled bringing in another run. One out later, Bill Terry
stepped up to the plate and he hit a sacrifice fly scoring the final run of
the inning. Both teams finished the game with 8 hits.

Grimes(1-0) was the winner allowing 3 runs for the game. The losing pitcher
was Warren Spahn(0-1). Tommy Lasorda was not very talkative after his team's
tough loss. 'I'm not in the mood for questions, but I'm sure Leo Durochure
will be glad to talk about the game as long as you have questions to ask.'

[1]TURN OF CENTURY AT NEGRO LEAGUE II
Centurions...... 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 0 0 - 6 13 0
Twos............ 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 - 5 10 2
Win:Nichols(1-1) Loss:Manning(0-1) Save:Willis(1st)
Homeruns- L.Santop(2nd)

Jesse Burkett had 3 base hits at Shadowball Stadium as the Turn of Century
Centurions beat the Negro League II Twos 6 to 5.

Kid Nichols(1-1) contributed a very nice performance in relief. He went 1
inning surrendering no hits and 1 walk. Negro League II made it exciting in
the 9th, but they were unable to push the needed runs across.

Vic Willis recorded his 1st save. Max Manning(0-1) was the losing pitcher in
relief. 'It was a tough one to lose' said Cito Gaston 'We'll get them next
time out.'

[1]OLD TIMERS AT FOFC
Ancients........ 2 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 - 6 11 0
All Stars....... 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 1 8 1
Win:Galvin(1-0) Loss:Hunter(0-1)
Homeruns- S.Thompson(1st), P.Pflaggstettler(1st)

Sam Thompson went yard and had 4 RBI and Pud Galvin allowed Frank Selee to
rest his bullpen, tossing a complete game at FOFC Stadium as the Old Timers
Ancients beat the FOFC All Stars by the count of 6 to 1.

Galvin(1-0) earned his pay with a solid performance for Galvin. He went 9
innings allowing 8 hits and 1 walk improving his ERA from 4.91 to 2.13. Old
Timers totaled 11 on the night.

Owen Hunter(0-1) suffered the loss. He got hit hard, allowing 6 hits and 2
walks in 3 innings.

[terpkristin]

Breeze,
Is it possible for you to include standings after each week of play?

/tk

[Breeze]

GAME 5 - Saturday, April 7th - Pregame

I had numerous decisions to make following our first lost, not the least of which was who should start. Babson told me he was ready to go, the day off helped that, so I elected to go back to him in this game. I also decided Terp's production had dropped from the Spring and it was time to give Nights another shot. Gonzo's 2 for 4 night earned him another start.

[Breeze]

GAME 5 -- Saturday, April 7th - Radio Broadcast

Note: I'm not going into the writeup to make sure it's completely clear - sorry too tired tonight.

Hamilton hits a fly ball to left
Stan Gunner camps under it
He's got it
One down for Old Timers
King Kelly is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to the
plate for Old Timers

Curveball in the dirt
Swung on and missed...Strike three
Hays fumbles it,
but quickly recovers to tag Kelly

Good slider, inside part of the plate
Thompson gets the bat on it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Blade grabs it...
Throws to first...
OUT!
Three up, three down
Babson sails through the top of the 1st

Barrett Blade swings
He really stings this one
It rifles past Kelly into right...
Base hit for Blade...
Thompson is over to cut it off...
Now he tosses it in to the infield
Blade is on with a sharp single

Hit and run...
Tucker just gets a piece of it
He 'nubs' it to second
Kelly races in quickly...
Barehands it...
Over to first
Just in time!
The runner moves up easily...
With one down, up next is Jeff Nights
To be followed by Persimmon Pflaggstettler

Flyball to right
it's caught
Blade might have a chance to move up...
Thompson makes the catch...
Blade is tagging up at second...
Blade won't chance it
Smart move - Thompson has got a rifle!

Line drive to short
CAUGHT by a diving Davis!
A cross-over step, then he lunged for it
Impressive play by the Old
Timers short stop!
John Clarkson holds the All Stars
scoreless in the first

It hits Delahanty on the elbow
Delahanty throws the bat away
and sprints to first base

Belt high fastball...
Lined to right...Base hit...
Bobbled momentarily by Pflaggstettler...
allows Delahanty to race to third...

Curve in the dirt... and Davis holds up
Looked like he went around from here
But the plate umpire says no
Hays asks the third base ump's opinion
He motions it's a walk...
Davis will take first
Bases are tenanted

High heater...
Swung on...
Kelly swings under it...
Hits a pop up
Nights under it
Infield Fly rule is called
Kelly is automatically out
The ball is easily snared
The runners have to hold
One down, two to go...
Brian Babson has to bear down now

It is a high hard one...
Ewing goes on a fishin' trip
Strike three swinging!
That one sailed up and
out of the strike zone...
Ewing couldn't hold back
Two down
Hays asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Hays and Babson

Grounded towards the middle
Fielded nicely by Blade
Over to Gonzalez
Got him!
Score It: 4-3
That retires the side
Babson escapes without any damage
Here in the top of the 2nd
Old Timers with No runs, one hit, no
errors and 3 men left on base

Long fly to center
Hamilton has a long run...
He's there and hauls it in
Fouts is retired on a fairly deep fly
One down for FOFC
David Gonzalez is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to
the plate for FOFC

Struck him out on a fastball
Gonzalez goes down swinging
Two down
Clarkson retires two in a row

Extra base hit to center for Hays
Billy Hamilton is trying to get to it
This might be stretched into a triple!
No... he decides to hold up

Long fly ball to right field
This one is deep!
IT'S GOING, GOING,
GONE!!!
That is Stan Gunner's 2nd
home run of the year.

Curve ball...
Babson swings and misses by a mile
The bottom dropped out of that one!
A wicked pitch!
That retires the side...
2 runs cross the plate for FOFC
After 2 innings, FOFC on top 2 to 0

Shallow fly ball
Tucker charging
HE DIVES...
HE'S GOT IT!
One up, one down here in
the top of the 3rd

Routine grounder to second
Blade scoops it up
Over to first for the out
That's the second out of the inning
Time to check the scoreboard

Japanese League slipping
by AL Pre WWII 2 to 0
Kaneda and Faber currently dueling
Negro League I leads Left Outs 1 to 0
Turn of Century is on top of
Negro League II 2 to 0
Late 20th is on top of AL Post WWII 2 to 0
Caribbean and Dead Ball Era are scoreless
NL Pre WWII and NL Post WWII are scoreless
Alexander and Marichal currently dueling

Thompson cuts on a curve that
misses in the dirt
That ball is trapped nicely by Hays
Thompson was badly fooled by Babson's
big breaking curve
STRIKE THREE!
Sam was a little overanxious
That ends the inning
After 2 and a half innings,
FOFC leads by 2

Sinker, down at the knees...
Swung on...
Blade hits a Baltimore chop...
Past the infield into left for a single!
That was a difficult ball to handle

It's a scorching liner to
the second baseman
OUT!
Kelly didn't have to move!
Blade stays put
And there's one away

Slider, high and tight...
Swung at...
Nights hits a ground ball into the hole
Kelly and Davis converge on it
Gloved by Davis...Fires to first...
Called safe by the ump...
Close play...
But it looked like he beat the throw!!

Pflaggstettler laces it
down into the corner
Blade rounds third
Here comes Nights
Pflaggstettler is heading for third
Under a full head of steam
Here comes the relay
Just safe under the tag!
Triple number 1 of the year for
Persimmon Pflaggstettler

Grounded down the line
Brouthers flips to Clarkson covering
Score It: 3-1
One more chance for FOFC in
the bottom of the 3rd

Gonzalez swings and lifts
one toward center
Hamilton drifts over slowly...
He is under it now...
And makes the easy catch...
That retires the side... but not before
2 runs cross the plate for FOFC
After 3 innings, FOFC leads 4 to 0

There's a ground ball into the hole
Fouts and Nights converge on it
It's fielded by Fouts who fires to first
SAFE is the call by the ump
Close play!!

Brouthers drives the ball to
center for extra bases
Charley Gould is waving the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Delahanty scores!
Double for Brouthers

Swung on...
There's a line drive in the gap by Davis
That looks like an easy two-bagger
A. J. Tucker races to the ball...
Gloves it, plants, and fires it in
The throw is not in time
And Davis has himself a double

Kelly rips one on the ground
It's a 'daisy cutter' to Nights
Jeff fields it cleanly
Looks Davis back to second
Now fires it over to first...
Easy out
One out
Due up next is Buck Ewing

Off speed pitch on the way...
And Ewing watches it go by
for the third strike
FOFC ahead 4 to 2 with
two away this inning

Clarkson rips a line drive to left-center
Gunner is off at the crack of the bat
So too is Tucker...
It is right in between them
The ball is sinking fast...
HOLY SMOKES!!!
Both Tucker and Gunner dive!
Man-oh-man!!!
There is a collision!
Both players are sprawled
out on the ground!
Nights is out there seeing if
they are all right...
Tucker goes to one knee...
What's this???
He flipped the ball to Nights!
A. J. caught the ball!
No, the umpire says he trapped it
Davis continues around to score
Nights gets the ball back in,
but Clarkson slides safely into second
with a two-bagger

But man!! What a play
A real LALLAPALOOZA!!!
Fortunately, it looks like both Tucker
and Gunner are going to be ok
That was one impressive sight!
They sure gave it their best shot!

Popped up into shallow right
Persimmon Pflaggstettler
trying to get to it
It drops in!
It's a single for Hamilton
Clarkson takes third

Hamilton stretches his lead
Hamilton unable to take a big lead
Babson glances over his shoulder
He's keeping him close

He is way out in front
STRIKE THREE swinging
Babson had him fishing
as he pulled the string on that pitch
That's it for Old Timers
FOFC has 4 runs, 6 hits and no errors
While Old Timers has 3 runs,
6 hits and no errors
Old Timers has now left 5 runners stranded

Swung on and chopped down
the third base line
Kelly stabs at it
He's got it!
Over to first...
GOT HIM!
What a nice play by King Kelly
One away in the bottom of the 4th for FOFC

Driven down the line
IT'S WAY BACK THERE . . .
WILL IT STAY FAIR???
NO, IT'S A FOUL BALL!!!
. . . Gunner back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
HIT HIM!!
Gunner jogs down to first
Stan took one for the team to get on

Babson squares to bunt
Babson lays down a great bunt!
There is no chance to get the lead runner
Babson might beat it out...
Fielded by K.Kelly
the throw to first...
close play...
SAFE, Babson beat it out!
Gunner takes second

Blade takes inside, for a ball...
Blade will trot down to first...
He walks to load the bases
Gunner and Babson move up
A. J. Tucker is up next for FOFC

The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
Tucker swung, that's strike three
Tucker isn't happy at all with that call
Two gone for FOFC

Smashed to short
Davis comes up with it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 6-3
That's all for the All Stars...
After 4 innings here at
FOFC Stadium in FOFC,
FOFC on top 4 to 3

Thompson swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Babson strikes out Sam Thompson
One away...
Gonzalez is coming over to the mound...
He wants to chat with the pitcher...
Here comes Fouts also...
Now they return to their positions

Fly ball to right
Pflaggstettler is under it
He makes the grab
One more chance for Old Timers this inning

Brouthers hits a fly ball to center
A. J. Tucker camps under it
This should wrap up the inning...
That's it
Babson makes quick work of the Ancients
in the top of the 5th
No runs, no hits and no errors
After 4 and a half innings,
it's 4-3 FOFC

Pflaggstettler pops one straight up
And it will be Davis making the play
That's one away

Fouts hits a three hopper
towards John Clarkson
Clarkson scoops it and fires
it to first for the out
Two up, two down

Big bender...
Swung on...
Gonzalez pops it straight up
Three players converging on it
And it will be Davis making the play
1-2-3, nothing across...

Pounded on the ground to first
Gonzalez to Babson covering first
Score It: 3-1
One up, one down

High and away
Ball four

Fastball, up at the letters...
Cut at...
It's a deep drive to center...
Tucker turns his back to
home, races after it
It's going to the fence!
Kelly will score on the hit
Ewing is gunning for third...
The throw...
Ewing is into third standing up
The throw is late

The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
Clarkson swung, that's strike three
Clarkson isn't happy at all with that call
And there's two away

High chopper to second
Blade picks it up on the short hop
Over to first...
In time
Blade charged it nicely
and made it look easy
Score It: 4-3
That's it for Old Timers
Here at FOFC Stadium, After
5 and a half innings,
FOFC has 4 runs, 7 hits and no errors
While Old Timers has 4 runs,
7 hits and no errors
Old Timers has left 6 on base
FOFC has stranded 5

It rides in on Hays and
hits him on the hands
Hays is in a lot of pain...
We'll see if he can continue...
He heads to first

That's hit down the line
Delahanty trying to track it down
OUTSTANDING RUNNING CATCH!
Great job by Delahanty!
Score It: 7
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

AL Pre WWII slipping by Japanese
League 4 to 2
Averill has hit his 1st homerun
for AL Pre WWII
Negro League I slipping
by Left Outs 2 to 0
Paige and Wynn currently dueling
Turn of Century is edging
Negro League II 3 to 2
Late 20th is comfortably ahead
of AL Post WWII 7 to 1
Clemens enjoying the big Late 20th lead
Dead Ball Era is on top
of Caribbean 2 to 0
NL Post WWII is edging NL Pre WWII 1 to 0
Banks has hit his 3rd homerun
for NL Post WWII
And in our matchup The score is tied at 4

It is a high hard one...
Terp goes on a fishin' trip
Strike three swinging!
That one sailed up out of the strike zone
but Terp couldn't hold back
Two down in the 6th
Time for a station break
This is the Strat-O-Matic Broadcast System
your 4 Sports Network...
OK, we're back and ready to go...

Fastball inside...
Swung on by Blade...
There's a ground ball between
first and second
Kelly gloves it going away in short right
He spins, firing to the pitcher covering

SAFE!..By a step
Kelly gave it a great effort

The slider from Clarkson
Painting the outside corner...
Ripped at by Tucker...
Lined to left...
Dropping quickly...
Falling in for the base hit...
Blade around second...
Hays is being waved around third...
The throw comes in from Delahanty...
The slide by Blade...
Safe at third

Hit towards the middle
Smooth pickup by Davis
Over to Brouthers
Got him!
Score It: 6-3
And that will do it for FOFC

Kelly sends one straight back...
It will be out of play...
Hey! That one almost hit us in the booth!
What did you say about Kelly
that got his ire, partner?
. . . Kelly back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Over the outside corner
Kelly hits the curve right to second...
Blade takes it on the second hop
Fires to 1st...
Kelly is out by a couple of steps
One down for Old Timers
Sam Thompson is still in
the on-deck circle
and Ed Delahanty is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Thompson swings, and lines
it back up the middle
It glances off Rodney's
glove and rolls away
Sam Thompson has himself an infield hit

Fastball down low...
Delahanty swings and hits one out to right
Persimmon Pflaggstettler
is drifting over...
Now he's under it...
Easy out for Rodney
Thompson trots back to first
That's two away

Brouthers laces a clean base
hit into the outfield
He rounds first, but will hold there
Thompson moves up 90 feet

Fastball, letterhigh...
Davis takes a solid cut at it...
Smashes one right at Pflaggstettler...
It takes a hop and goes through his legs!!
Thompson scores
Thompson already in, Brouthers
being waved home...
Davis gunning for third
Pflaggstettler runs down the ball
Here's the throw to the infield...
It's going through to Fouts...
Davis slides in under the tag
Score it a three bagger!

Swung on and missed by Kelly,
he's down on strikes
That wraps up the inning for Old Timers
So After 6 and a half innings
Old Timers has 6 runs, 10
hits and no errors
While FOFC has 5 runs,
9 hits and no errors
Old Timers has left 7 stranded
FOFC has failed to bring home 7

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

Grounded to the right side
Brouthers comes up with it
Waves off Clarkson...
Runs to the bag
Out!
One gone for FOFC

Breaking ball...
It darts down and out
as Fouts swings way over it
He was fooled completely
Ewing loses it momentarily,
but now finds the handle and tags
Dan as he was heading for the dugout
That's two away
Davis comes over from his shortstop
position to say a few words to Clarkson
David Gonzalez will be next up...

Gonzalez swings and smacks
a line drive into right
Thompson comes over and
plays it on one hop
A single for the FOFC first baseman
Two out base knock
It is surprising how often they
lead to trouble...
We'll see...

Grounded down the line
Brouthers trots to the bag
Score It: 3
That is the third out for FOFC here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 45466

Ewing fights one off his fists
It's a slow roller to third
Fouts is in quickly
Nice throw to first
Buck beats it out
He really gets down that line!

Ewing takes a three step lead
Clarkson takes the low fastball
Ewing breaks for second!
Hays takes the pitch... fires...
Ewing slides...

SAFE!
Ewing slid around the tag to get in there
Credit him with a stolen base
There was nothing wrong with the throw

Grounded towards the sack
Fouts comes up with it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 5-3
FOFC gets the first out of the inning

Taking his lead is Ewing
Ewing holding close to the bag
Kronside watching him closely

And Hamilton will sit down...
strike three called
Two gone in the top of the 8th
FOFC is still in quite a jam
Clutch situation for King Kelly
He'll come up against the
righthanded Kronside

Right down the middle... strike three
Kelly must have been looking
for something else
He just froze on that pitch
That's all for Old Timers
After 7 and a half innings
in FOFC this evening,
Old Timers on top 6 to 5

Base hit to center for Gunner
Billy Hamilton is trying to get to it
This might be stretched into a double!
No... he decides to hold up

It's a rainbow shot toward center
Hamilton reaches up
Makes the catch!
Didn't have to move an inch
With one down

Brouthers yells something out to Clarkson
John nods his head

Drilled deep to center field
Billy Hamilton giving chase
He can't get to it
Blade running hard out of the box
Hamilton has the ball
Blade motors into second
Two-bagger!
Gunner takes third

Stroked to first
Clean single for Tucker
FOFC will take the lead!
Blade and Gunner will score
and Gunner will stop at first
FOFC leads 7 to 6

Change up...
Nights was not fooled...
He connects!
Delahanty is off to the races...
That ball is hit hard...
Ed is at the warning track...
But that ball has the necessary distance!
Home Run for Jeff Nights!

It's a routine fly into left
Delahanty ranges over and reaches up
He grabs it for the out
Two down, now...
Dan Fouts is due up next
Big inning for FOFC...
They've put 4 runs on the board

Slider, outside...
Fouts reaches for it...
Gets some wood on it
It's rolling towards Davis...
He scoops it up smoothly
Firing to Brouthers in one motion...
Close play...
SAFE!... by a whisker
Brouthers is arguing the call
But to no avail
That's a single for Fouts

Frank Selee is visiting the mound...
He decides to stick with John Clarkson
Grounded towards the bag
Brouthers trots to the bag
Score It: 3
That's all for the All Stars...
But the lead changes hands
after a big, 4-run inning
by FOFC...
4 runs, 5 hits, no errors and
one man left on base...
The All Stars now lead Old Timers by 3
After 8 innings
it's now 9-6, FOFC

A jug-handled curve
Thompson goes out and gets it
It's a liner to right
Pflaggstettler will have to hurry...
Here he comes...
No sir... he has to play
it on the short hop
Single for Sam Thompson

Base hit to left for Delahanty
Thompson is being held at
second by Charley Gould
Thompson will stay at second

Brouthers swings late...
It is heading toward the left-center gap
He got good wood on it
Delahanty is already around second...
Gunner will have to hurry
to cut this one off
He makes a stab at it...
He just does get to it!
Stan gets his balance
Now he throws... and a good
one to the plate
Charley Gould wisely held
Delahanty at third
However, Thompson scores from second
So now FOFC ahead 9 to 7

It's a quail shot headed
towards the outfield
OHHHH, snagged by a retreating
Blade for the out
Outstanding range shown on that play!
FOFC gets the first out of the inning...
Knowles needs two more outs
to stop Old Timers

Slider...Ripped at...
Kelly rocks one deep, but too high
Delahanty is tagging up
Pflaggstettler makes the catch
There will be no throw
The runner scores easily
Two gone for Old Timers
Time is running out for them

Great change up...
Ewing out in front...
Gets a piece of it...
It's a shallow fly towards Tucker
Tucker charges, dives for it...
He has it...
Fine catch by the center fielder
And that will do it for Old Timers
FOFC wins 9 to 8
Kronside gets credit for the win
Knowles notches the save
Clarkson takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Jeff Nights
He was 2 for 5 with a homerun
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.

[Breeze]

GAME 5 - Saturday, April 7th - Boxscore



[1] Ancients AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG
B.Hamilton CF 5 0 1 0 .393 B.Blade 2B 4 2 4 0 .389
K.Kelly 3B 5 0 0 0 .296 A.Tucker CF 5 1 2 3 .333
S.Thompson RF 5 2 2 0 .308 J.Nights SS 5 2 2 2 .222
E.Delahanty LF 4 2 2 0 .381 P.Pflaggstettler RF 5 0 1 2 .400
D.Brouthers 1B 5 2 4 2 .545 D.Fouts 3B 5 0 1 0 .308
G.Davis SS 4 1 2 3 .167 D.Gonzalez 1B 4 0 1 0 .375
G.Kelly 2B 3 1 0 1 .182 J.Kronside P 0 0 0 0 ----
B.Ewing C 5 0 2 1 .292 C-S.Treacy PH 1 0 0 0 .000
J.Clarkson P 4 0 1 1 .167 B.Knowles P 0 0 0 0 ----
S.Knowles P 0 0 0 0 ----
H.Hays C 3 2 1 0 .455
S.Gunner LF 3 2 2 2 .444
B.Babson P 2 0 1 0 .333
A-K.Terp PH 1 0 0 0 .154
J.Rodney P 0 0 0 0 ----
B-J.Potpie 1B 1 0 0 0 .100
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
[1] Totals 40 8 14 8 Totals 39 9 15 9

A-Pinch Hit For Babson In 6th Inning
B-Subbed Defensively (1B) For Rodney In 8th Inning
C-Pinch Hit For Kronside In 8th Inning

Ancients........ 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 0 2 - 8 14 0
All Stars....... 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 4 - 9 15 0

[1]Ancients IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
J.Clarkson LOSS(0-2) 8 15 9 9 1 5 2 146 8.36
[1]Totals 8 15 9 9 1 5 2

[1]All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
B.Babson 6 7 4 4 2 7 0 104 3.00
J.Rodney BS(1st) 1 3 2 2 0 1 0 25 6.00
J.Kronside WIN(1-0) 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 19 0.00
B.Knowles 0 3 2 2 0 0 0 11 18.00
S.Knowles SAVE(2nd) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0.00
[1]

ATTENDANCE- 45,466 DATE- Saturday, April 7th 1900 TIME- Night
T- 2:18
LEFT ON BASE- Ancients: 9 All Stars: 9
DOUBLE PLAYS- Ancients: 0 All Stars: 0
DOUBLES- D.Brouthers-2(4th), G.Davis(1st), J.Clarkson, B.Blade(2nd),
H.Hays(1st)
TRIPLES- G.Davis(1st), B.Ewing(2nd), P.Pflaggstettler(1st)
HOME RUNS- J.Nights(1st), S.Gunner(2nd)
STOLEN BASES- B.Ewing(1st)
SACRIFICE FLIES- G.Kelly
WALKS- G.Davis, G.Kelly, B.Blade
HIT BY PITCH- E.Delahanty, H.Hays, S.Gunner
STRIKE OUTS- B.Hamilton, K.Kelly-3, S.Thompson-2, G.Kelly, B.Ewing-2,
J.Clarkson, A.Tucker, D.Fouts, D.Gonzalez, B.Babson, K.Terp
WEB GEMS- Bot 6th: Ed Delahanty robbed Stan Gunner of an extra base hit.

[kingfc22]

Geez. That was a shootout. Nice day for the top 3 in the lineup!

[Blade]

Sweet! Another win, good job all!

And finally, some extra BP is paying off for Blade...now I hope he stays on that roll!

[tucker342]

Wow good game! Nice to end the game with a good defensive play:)

[Breeze]

The National Herald - Sunday, April 8th



[1]LEFT OUTS AT NEGRO LEAGUE I
Leftovers....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 - 3 9 1
Ones............ 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 - 2 5 0
Win:Drysdale(2-0) Loss:Barnhill(0-1)
Homeruns- H.Heilmann(1st), G.Goslin(1st), M.Dihigo(1st)

One run was the difference at Black Diamond Pk as the Left Outs Leftovers
defeated the Negro League I Ones 3 to 2.

Left Outs scored the deciding run in the top of the 9th inning. Harry
Heilmann doubled. Duke Snider next to the plate and he drew a walk. Jimmie
Foxx then stroked a one-base hit to load the bases. Goose Goslin struck out,
unable to help the rally. One out later, Arky Vaughan stepped in and he drew
a walk scoring the run. For the game Left Outs out-hit Negro League I 9 to
5.

Don Drysdale(2-0) got credit for the victory, pitching 1 and 1/3 innings and
allowing no runs. Dave Barnhill(0-1) was charged with the loss in relief.


[1]AL PRE WWII AT JAPANESE LEAGUE
Pre-Americans... 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 - 8 11 1
HOF Players..... 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 3 - 9 13 1
Win:Yoneda(1-0) Loss:Coveleski(0-1)
Homeruns- B.Doerr(1st), E.Averill(1st), S.Nagashima(3rd)

In a dramatic ending, the Japanese League HOF Players staged a comeback win
over the AL Pre WWII team in 11 innings by the count of 9 to 8.

The score was tied at 6 after nine. Japanese League won it in the 11th
inning. Tsutomu Wakamatsu led off and he doubled. After an out was
recorded, Sachio Kinugasa stepped up to the plate and he stroked a single
resulting in a run. Shigeo Nagashima then doubled plating one more runner.
Isao Harimoto followed and he laced a base-knock making Japanese League the
winners and sending the 48,232 fans home happy. This was a game of many
highs and lows for the home town fans, as the lead kept changing - 6 times in
all.

Tetsuya Yoneda(1-0) went 1 inning allowing 2 runs for the win. Stan
Coveleski(0-1) was tagged with the loss in relief. He was unable to retire a
batter and surrendered 3 hits and no walks.

[1]LATE 20TH AT AL POST WWII
Modern Stars.... 2 0 0 3 0 2 1 2 0 - 10 11 0
Post-Americans.. 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 3 - 7 10 0
Win:Clemens(1-0) Loss:Feller(0-2)
Homeruns- E.Murray(2nd), T.Williams-2(2nd)

Eddie Murray hit a homerun and had 3 RBI and Roger Clemens dominated striking
out 13 AL Post WWII batters at Yawnef Park where the Late 20th Modern Stars
beat the AL Post WWII club by the score of 10 to 7.

Clemens(1-0) pitched a solid game. He went 7 and 1/3 innings surrendering 6
hits and 3 walks. Late 20th totaled 11 on the night. Bob Feller(0-2) was
hit with the loss. He surrendered 5 runs and 5 hits in 5 innings.

'Everything felt great' Clemens said. 'I had a good fastball, I felt I could
throw it by everybody tonight.'

[1]CARIBBEAN AT DEAD BALL ERA
Estrellas....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 - 2 8 1
Ghosts.......... 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 0 - 6 10 0
Win:Walsh(1-1) Loss:Mendez(0-1)
Homeruns- M.Gonzalez(1st)

Joe Jackson had 2 base hits and 3 RBI and Ed Walsh completed the game without
help from the bullpen at Deadball Park as the Dead Ball Era Ghosts beat the
Caribbean Estrellas by the count of 6 to 2.

Walsh(1-1) earned his pay with a solid performance for Walsh. He went 9
innings allowing 8 hits and 2 walks reducing his ERA from 3.52 to 2.70. Dead
Ball Era rapped out 10 hits for the night.

The loss was charged to Jose Mendez(0-1). He pitched 6 innings giving up 5
hits and 1 walk.

[1]NL PRE WWII AT NL POST WWII
Pre-Nationals... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 7 1
Post-Nationals.. 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 - 4 8 0
Win:Marichal(2-0) Loss:Alexander(1-1)
Homeruns- W.Mays(3rd), E.Banks(3rd)

Juan Marichal shutout NL Pre WWII while allowing the NL Post WWII bullpen a
day-off at Big League Field where the NL Post WWII ballclub beat the NL Pre
WWII ballclub 4 to 0.

Marichal(2-0) looked very much in control throughout the day. He allowed just
7 hits and 2 walks in 9 innings lowering his ERA to 2.12. NL Post WWII
finished with 8 hits in the victory.

Pete Alexander(1-1) was the losing pitcher. He pitched 8 innings allowing 8
hits and 2 walks.

[1]TURN OF CENTURY AT NEGRO LEAGUE II
Centurions...... 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 - 3 9 0
Twos............ 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 - 4 7 2
Win:Wickware(1-1) Loss:Mathewson(0-1) Save:Dismukes(1st)
Homeruns- H.Jennings(1st)

Sam Bankhead had 2 base hits as the Negro League II Twos defeated the Turn of
Century Centurions by a score of 4 to 3 at Shadowball Stadium.

Negro League II brought 2 runs across the plate in the bottom of the 7th
inning. Turn of Century had a chance in the 9th but they came up short.

The winning pitcher was Frank Wickware(1-1) who allowed 3 runs in 7 innings.
Dizzy Dismukes recorded his 1st save. Christy Mathewson(0-1) was the loser.

Connie Mack was in a sour mood after the game. 'Even you guys up in the press
box know why we lost this game. We made too many mistakes.'

[1]OLD TIMERS AT FOFC
Ancients........ 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 0 2 - 8 14 0
All Stars....... 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 4 - 9 15 0
Win:Kronside(1-0) Loss:Clarkson(0-2) Save:Knowles(2nd)
Homeruns- J.Nights(1st), S.Gunner(2nd)

Jeff Nights touched them all and had 2 RBI as the FOFC All Stars outscored the
Old Timers Ancients 9 to 8.

FOFC had the game winning rally in the bottom of the 8th inning as they scored
4 runs on 5 base hits. The critical plate appearance was by Nights who
electrified FOFC Stadium when he cracked a two-run shot (his 1st of the
season). Old Timers threatened in the 9th but their rally came up short.

The win went to Jace Kronside(1-0) who allowed no runs in 1 inning. Sammy
Knowles gained credit for his 2nd save. John Clarkson(0-2) ended up with the
loss. He gave up 9 runs in 8 innings of work.

[Breeze]

GAME 6 - Sunday, April 8th - Radio Broadcast

A hanging curve...
Hamilton laces it hard just
to the right of Nights
He makes a stab at it...
Just misses it!
It's on into the outfield for a single
A wide turn by Billy...
but he'll stay at first
as the ball comes in

Hamilton takes a three step lead
Another throw...
Nielsen's five throws over
have been effective
Hamilton has a small lead now
He must be getting tired
from diving back in!

The ball is low and outside
Did he go around?
The umpire says no
Ball four
For Kelly, that's 1 walk today

Curve, up high...
Delahanty rips it to right...
Nielsen hung that breaking ball
However, Ed got under it just a bit
Pflaggstettler started back on it
Now he's coming in...
He's under it and makes the easy catch
"Can of Corn"
And there's one away

A sinking fastball...
Swung right through it... STRIKE THREE
Two down

Hit in the air to left
Camped under it is Gunner
And he has it
And that will do it for Old Timers

Sinking fastball...
Blade swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Davis...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
One gone for FOFC in the bottom of the 1st

Tucker tries to hold up, but can't
He pops one into short right
Thompson is coming in hard...
Kelly is racing with his
back to the infield
And neither is going to get it!
Tucker is on with the "excuse me" single!

Tucker sneaks away from the base
Radbourn fires trying to
pick the runner...
Tucker scurries back quickly...
He just avoided the tag!
He should have dove back...
He almost got caught
I'm sure Joe Adcock will chat with him
It's something a good first
base coach does

That's ball four
Nights will trot down to first
Tucker is now down on second

Base hit to left for Pflaggstettler
Dick Howser is giving the green light...
The throw is coming home...
Aggressive baserunning by FOFC...
Not cut-off...
Tucker scores!
Trailing runners advance.

Just outside with a fastball
Radbourn is visibly upset...
Ewing is quickly out to calm him down
Kelly comes over as well
Nights on third, Pflaggstettler
on second and Fouts on first
They'll be loaded up for David Gonzalez

The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
Gonzalez swung, that's strike three
Gonzalez isn't happy at all with that call
Radbourn needs one more out
to get out of this jam

Drilled on the ground to short
Taken by Davis
Tosses to second
He's out
Score It: 6-4
The runner on first, Fouts, is out
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
So After 1 inning
FOFC has one run, 2 hits and no errors
While Old Timers has no runs,
one hit and no errors
FOFC has left 3 stranded
Old Timers has failed to bring home 2

Kelly takes the pitch...
That one is low for a ball... WAIT
The umpire says that one caught the knees
Kelly is out on strikes
One up, one down

It's a quail shot headed
towards the outfield
Blade takes off after it...
Leaps...
And Davis is OUT!
Very impressive range shown on that play!
Barrett is very fine fielder!
Two down
Nielsen retires the first
two Old Timers batters

There's a roller down at Fouts
He's in front of it...
It rolls right between the wickets!
Error on Dan Fouts as he didn't
get his glove down
Maybe a bit too easy for him

Changeup...
Ties Radbourn up in knots
An awkward swinging strike three!
Nielsen shuts down Old Timers
here in the top of the 2nd
So FOFC still with the lead
as we go to a commercial break

There's a high pop in front of the plate
Looks like the ball is drifting foul
Ewing calls for it
and makes the play
As the ump signals a foul ball
One gone for FOFC

Ground ball through the middle
Davis ranges behind second
Nice pick up...
Twists and fires it
OUT!
Two down
Old Hoss Radbourn retires
the first two batters in a row

Lifted in the air, back this way
The catcher, Ewing, will
take it for the out
That's the third out of the inning
Three up, three down
It's 1-0, FOFC

The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
Hamilton swung, that's strike three
Hamilton isn't happy at all with that call
That's one away

Sharp breaking curveball...
Kelly reaches for it...
Hits a two bouncer right to Nights...
Grabs it easily...
Fires a bullet to Gonzalez at first!
Kelly is out easily
Two down
Rob Nielsen retires
the first two batters in order

He rips a grounder to first
Nielsen takes the flip from Gonzalez
Score It: 3-1
That does it for Old Timers
in the top of the 3rd

It's a dying quail headed
towards the outfield
OHHHHH, snagged by a retreating
Anson for the out
Outstanding range shown on that play!
One up, one down for FOFC

Swung on and hit sharply to short
Davis plays it on one hop
Over to Anson...
Out of there!
Two gone for FOFC

Change-up, Pflaggstettler
is looking for it...
He smacks a deep fly to left-center...
Hamilton racing back...
At the warning track...
Waits...
Leaps...
Off the fence!
Hamilton chases it down
Firing a strong throw back in
They'll never get Pflaggstettler
The slide...
In there!
It's a double for Persimmon Pflaggstettler

A slider by Radbourn
Fouts gets good wood on it...
Hamilton back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
That's all for the All Stars
No runs, one hit, no errors and
one man left on base...
We've played three, here...
FOFC on top 1 to 0

Hard slider, paints the inside corner
Thompson gets a piece of it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Gonzalez grabs it...
Races to first...
Beats Thompson for the out
One out
Due up next is Cap Anson

Slow ground ball
Blade is charging it
He fires it to first
He's OUT
One more chance for Old Timers
in the top of the 4th

In the air to right
Man it is really hit...
The only question is whether
it will stay fair
It's...
Gone! Kelly has just tied
the game at 1 a piece!
Kelly gets number 2 in 1900

There's a cue shot off the
end of the bat by Davis
Blade makes the routine catch
of the soft liner
That retires the side
The Ancients score 1 run in the inning
After 3 and a half innings,
The score is tied at 1

Hit right back to Radbourn
On to first and Gonzalez is gone
One down for FOFC
Harry Hays is still in the on-deck circle
and Stan Gunner is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Hays hits a screamer at George Davis
Davis picks it up and fires to first
The throw pulls Anson off the bag
Anson swipes with the glove

Hays is out!
Nice play by Anson
One more chance for FOFC this inning

A hot shot on the ground to Kelly
He's got it cleanly on one hop...
Over to first and Gunner is out
1-2-3, nothing across...

Ewing fights one off his fists
It's lined weakly to the left of short
Nights is over quickly
Easy out
One away...
Gonzalez is coming over to the mound...
He wants to chat with the pitcher...
Here comes Fouts also...
Now they return to their positions

Curveball in the dirt
Swung on and missed...Strike three
Hays fumbles it,
but quickly recovers to tag Radbourn
Two up, two down

It's a routine fly into right
Pflaggstettler ranges over and reaches up
This should do it...
And Pflaggstettler grabs it for the out
That does it for Old Timers
in the top of the 5th
The ground crew, headed up by John Deere,
is coming out to smooth the infield dirt
The fans get a kick out of them
as they sometimes put down their rakes
and do a little "dance" to the music

Nielsen cuts on a curve that
misses in the dirt
That ball is trapped nicely by Ewing
Nielsen was badly fooled by Radbourn's
big breaking curve
STRIKE THREE!
Rob was a little overanxious
One down for FOFC
Barrett Blade is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to
the plate for FOFC

Hard ground ball to third
Taken by Kelly
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 5-3
We're all tied up at 1 with
two away this inning

Good slider, inside part of the plate
Tucker gets the bat on it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Kelly grabs it...
Throws to first...
OUT!
That does it for the All Stars
So at the end of five complete
it is all knotted up at 1

There's a fly ball to Stan Gunner
Gunner circles under it...
He makes the play
One down, nobody on
Game tied

Strike three swinging...
Now that is something you
don't see very often
Delahanty rarely ever strikes out
But Nielsen got him that time!
Two up, two down for Old Timers

High heater from Nielsen...
Thompson cuts at it...
Hits a bouncer right side...
It goes by the diving Blade and Gonzalez
It's into right for a single
Thompson takes his turn and holds at first

He rips a grounder to short
Nights comes up with it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 6-3
No runs for Old Timers in
the top of the 6th
We're all tied up at 1
We'll be right back

Fly ball to right
Thompson is under it
He makes the grab
So one up and one gone

Shallow fly ball
Thompson charging
HE DIVES...
HE CAN'T GET IT!
Pflaggstettler stops at first
That's a single

It bounces in front of the
plate and gets by Ewing
Pflaggstettler moves up 90
feet on the wild pitch

Curveball, in and low
Fouts hits it to Anson at first
Takes it cleanly...
Races to the bag...
It's going to be close...
And...
Out is the call
That could have gone either way
Pflaggstettler is now perched
over at third
We're all tied up at 1 with two away
Let's check some other scores as well

AL Pre WWII is edging Japanese
League 3 to 2
Grove and Inao currently dueling
Negro League I clipping Left Outs 4 to 0
Negro League II is pounding
Turn of Century 9 to 2
Late 20th is in front of
AL Post WWII 6 to 3
Dead Ball Era leads Caribbean 4 to 3
McGinnity and Valenzuela currently dueling
NL Pre WWII is edging NL Post WWII 3 to 2

Gonzalez gets a good cut at it...
He lifts it high and deep toward right
Thompson is heading back...
At the fence
And he makes the catch for the out!
Radbourn breathes a sigh of relief
That'll do it for FOFC
So we're still tied
After 6 innings
FOFC has one run, 4 hits and one error
While Old Timers has one run,
3 hits and no errors

Kelly pounds a grounder toward
Nights at short
Jeff moves in front of it...
Whoops... a bad bounce
But Nights stayed with it
Over to first and Kelly is retired
Nice play by the FOFC short stop
One away in the top of the
7th for Old Timers

He rips a grounder to the mound
Nielsen comes up with it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 1-3
That's two away

Swung on and hit sharply to short
Nights plays it on one bounce
Over to Gonzalez...
Out of there!
And that will do it for Old Timers

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

Smashed to short
Davis grabs it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 6-3
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's take a ten second station break
This is your Strat-O-Matic
Broadcast System
Your four sports network!

Stan Gunner offers at the curveball,
but checks his swing
Oh, Gunner couldn't get the
bat out of the way
It's a soft line drive to George
Kelly for the out
Gunner never even left the batter's box
Two away

Nielsen hits a three hopper
towards George Kelly
Kelly scoops it and fires
it to first for the out
That is the third out for FOFC here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 47454

Grounded towards third
Fouts scoops it
LONG THROW...
HE'S OUT!
With one down, up next is Billy Hamilton
To be followed by King Kelly

It's bunted down the third base line
Fouts streaks in
Scoops it over to first
in one swift motion
OUT!
Great play!

Kelly takes the pitch
STRIKE THREE, is the call
Kelly can't believe it and says
something to the ump
Chalk up a whiff for Nielsen
Nielsen sets the Ancients down in order

Sinker, down at the knees...
Swung on...
Blade hits a Baltimore chop...
Past the infield into center for a single!
That was a difficult ball to handle

Tucker squares to bunt
It's dribbled down the third base line
Kelly bare hands it...
Sidearm toss to first
Just in time!
Nice play
Credit A. J. Tucker with a sacrifice
Radbourn has the first out
in the bottom of the 8th
Ewing trots out to the mound
Says a few words to Old Hoss...
With the runner on second...
Probably making sure of the signs

Routine fly to center
Hamilton starts in
Now he starts backpedaling...
Faster...
Just does catch up to it!
Blade scampers back to second
That's two away for the All Stars
We have a real "nail-biter" here today

Base hit to center for Pflaggstettler
Dick Howser will send the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Aggressive baserunning by FOFC...
Not cut-off...
Billy Hamilton throws the
ball away for an error!

Fouts swings and lifts one toward right
Thompson drifts over slowly...
He is under it now...
And makes the easy catch...
That retires the side
The All Stars score 1 run in the inning
After 8 innings, FOFC leads 2 to 1

Off speed pitch on the way...
And Delahanty watches it go
by for the third strike
FOFC gets the first out of the inning

Over the outside corner
Thompson hits the curve right to second...
Blade takes it on the second hop
Fires to 1st...
Thompson is out by a couple of steps
Two gone for Old Timers
Time is running out for them

Knowles misses low on that one
Anson draws the walk
Number 1 today by Knowles

Anson takes a walking lead
Knowles looks the runner back

Frank Selee will send in a pinch
runner for Cap Anson
John Ward is trotting out to first base

Ward yells something to Knowles
It sounded like a challenge from here
I wouldn't be surprised...
Ward is great on the bases
He wants to unnerve Sammy
No doubt he does!
The runner unable to take a big lead
Knowles keeps looking him back

Kelly gets good wood on it!
Right at Jeff Nights...
He leaps up high...
It's past him!
Ward had to wait on that
to see if it would be caught
He'll have to stop at second
on that wicked line single by Kelly

Davis hits a sharp grounder
to Jeeberoni Potpie
It rolls up his arm
Potpie can't find the handle
Davis is safe on the error by Potpie

Grounded towards the hole
Fielded nicely by Fouts
THE LONG THROW . . .
HE GOT HIM!!!
Score It: 5-3
And that will do it for Old Timers
FOFC wins 2 to 1
Nielsen gets credit for the win
Knowles notches the save
Radbourn takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Persimmon Pflaggstettler
He was 4 for 4
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.

[Breeze]

GAME 6 - Sunday, April 8th - Boxscore



[1] Ancients AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG
B.Hamilton CF 4 0 1 0 .375 B.Blade 2B 4 1 1 0 .364
K.Kelly 3B 3 0 0 0 .267 A.Tucker CF 3 1 1 0 .333
E.Delahanty LF 4 0 0 0 .320 J.Nights SS 3 0 0 0 .167
S.Thompson RF 4 0 1 0 .300 P.Pflaggstettler RF 4 0 4 2 .526
C.Anson 1B 3 0 0 0 .000 D.Fouts 3B 3 0 0 0 .250
B-J.Ward PR 0 0 0 01.000 D.Gonzalez 1B 3 0 0 0 .273
G.Kelly 2B 4 1 2 1 .231 A-J.Potpie 1B 0 0 0 0 .100
G.Davis SS 4 0 0 0 .143 H.Hays C 3 0 0 0 .357
B.Ewing C 4 0 0 0 .250 S.Gunner LF 3 0 0 0 .333
O.Radbourn P 3 0 0 0 .143 R.Nielsen P 3 0 0 0 .000
S.Knowles P 0 0 0 0 ----
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
[1] Totals 33 1 4 1 Totals 29 2 6 2

A-Subbed Defensively (1B) For Gonzalez In 9th Inning
B-Pinch Ran For Anson In 9th Inning

Ancients........ 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 - 1 4 1
All Stars....... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 2 6 2

[1]Ancients IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
O.Radbourn LOSS(1-1) 8 6 2 2 2 2 0 131 3.31
[1]Totals 8 6 2 2 2 2 0

[1]All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
R.Nielsen WIN(1-0) 8 3 1 1 1 7 1 105 2.93
S.Knowles SAVE(3rd) 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 19 0.00
[1]Totals 9 4 1 1 2 8 1

ATTENDANCE- 47,454 DATE- Sunday, April 8th 1900 TIME- Day
T- 1:27
LEFT ON BASE- Ancients: 7 All Stars: 6
DOUBLE PLAYS- Ancients: 0 All Stars: 0
ERRORS- B.Hamilton, D.Fouts, J.Potpie
DOUBLES- P.Pflaggstettler(1st)
HOME RUNS- G.Kelly(2nd)
SACRIFICE HITS- A.Tucker
WALKS- K.Kelly, C.Anson, J.Nights, D.Fouts
STRIKE OUTS- B.Hamilton, K.Kelly, E.Delahanty-2, S.Thompson, G.Kelly,
O.Radbourn-2, D.Gonzalez, R.Nielsen
WILD PITCHES- O.Radbourn
WEB GEMS- Bot 2nd: George Davis robbed Rob Nielsen of a base hit.

[Coffee Warlord]

That's more like it!

Rob Nielsen demands a raise.

[Breeze]

The National Herald - Monday, April 9th

SPORTS


LEFT OUTS AT NEGRO LEAGUE I
Leftovers....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 4 0
Ones............ 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 - 4 7 0
Win:Rogan(1-1) Loss:Carlton(1-1)

Martin Dihigo had 2 base hits and Bullet Joe Rogan tossed a shutout at Black
Diamond Pk where the Negro League I Ones beat the Left Outs Leftovers by the
score of 4 to 0.

Rogan(1-1) contributed a very nicely pitched game. He was stingy on the
mound, allowing just 4 hits and 4 walks in 9 innings improving his ERA from
11.12 to 4.30. Neither team managed to score after the 4th inning.

Steve Carlton(1-1) suffered the loss. He pitched 6 innings and surrendered 6
hits and 1 walk.

AL PRE WWII AT JAPANESE LEAGUE
Pre-Americans... 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 3 10 0
HOF Players..... 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 - 2 4 0
Win:Grove(1-1) Loss:Inao(0-2)
Homeruns- B.Ruth(3rd), E.Averill(2nd)

Lefty Grove was able to finish what he started and was credited with a
complete game as the AL Pre WWII ballclub defeated the Japanese League HOF
Players by a score of 3 to 2 at Nintendo Field.

Grove(1-1) put on a good performance. He allowed only 4 hits and 4 walks in 9
innings reducing his ERA from 7.71 to 3.95. AL Pre WWII managed 10 in their
victory.

Kazuhisa Inao(0-2) took the loss. He was knocked around by AL Pre WWII,
allowing 10 hits and 3 walks in 7 innings.

LATE 20TH AT AL POST WWII
Modern Stars.... 0 4 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 - 8 12 1
Post-Americans.. 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 - 3 9 1
Win:Johnson(2-0) Loss:Ryan(0-2)
Homeruns- E.Murray(3rd)

The red-hot Late 20th Modern Stars tallied 4 runs in the 2nd inning and had
very little trouble at Yawnef Park downing the AL Post WWII team. The score
was 8 to 3.

Randy Johnson(2-0) gave Late 20th a solid outing. He allowed 9 hits and no
walks in 7 innings. Johnson racked up 8 strikeouts. Late 20th finished with
12 hits while AL Post WWII ended up with 9.

Nolan Ryan(0-2) was the losing pitcher. He allowed 6 runs and 7 hits in 7
innings. Late 20th extended their winning streak to 7 games. Joe Torre was
very irritated after the contest. 'Just our luck to run into a team that's
playing like a juggernaut right now. I have to congratulate Bobby Cox on his
team's recent performance. A very impressive run.'

CARIBBEAN AT DEAD BALL ERA
Estrellas....... 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 3 4 0
Ghosts.......... 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 - 4 6 0
Win:McGinnity(1-0) Loss:Tiant Sr.(0-2)
Homeruns- P.Coimbre(1st), T.Speaker(1st)

Joe McGinnity went the distance at Deadball Park where the Dead Ball Era
Ghosts beat the Caribbean Estrellas 4 to 3.

McGinnity(1-0) earned his pay with a solid performance for McGinnity. He went
9 innings surrendering 4 hits and 6 walks. After the 4th inning, neither
team was able to score.

Luis Tiant Sr.(0-2) was given the loss. He gave up 4 runs and 5 hits in 4
innings.

NL PRE WWII AT NL POST WWII
Pre-Nationals... 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 4 0 - 7 14 1
Post-Nationals.. 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 - 5 11 1
Win:Hubbell(2-0) Loss:Perry(0-1) Save:Dean(1st)
Homeruns- C.Klein-2(2nd), J.Mize(1st), M.Ott(4th), P.Traynor(3rd),
R.Clemente-2(3rd)

Chuck Klein smashed 2 homeruns as the NL Pre WWII club beat the NL Post WWII
ballclub by a score of 7 to 5.

Klein provided much of the offense. He smashed a bases-empty 'big-fly' in the
6th inning, smashed a solo-shot out of the park (his 2nd of the season) in
the 8th inning and hit a single in the 9th inning. NL Post WWII threatened
in the 9th but NL Pre WWII was able to put down the rally.

Carl Hubbell(2-0) went 8 and 1/3 innings allowing 5 runs for the win. Hubbell
got relief help from Dizzy Dean who gained credit for his 1st save. The
losing pitcher was Gaylord Perry(0-1). He served up 3 gopher balls in 6
innings.

'We didn't get the key hits when we needed them' Tommy Lasorda said. 'We did
what we could, we just didn't pull out the win. What can you say?'

TURN OF CENTURY AT NEGRO LEAGUE II
Centurions...... 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 2 8 1
Twos............ 0 0 0 5 1 3 0 0 - 9 14 0
Win:Redding(1-1) Loss:Young(1-1)

Sam Bankhead had 2 base hits and 3 RBI and Cannonball Redding completed the
game without help from the bullpen as the Negro League II Twos defeated the
Turn of Century Centurions 9 to 2 at Shadowball Stadium.

Redding(1-1) pitched well for Negro League II in their victory. He
surrendered 8 hits and 3 walks in 9 innings. Negro League II banged out 14
on the afternoon.

Cy Young(1-1) was the loser. He allowed Negro League II 5 runs in 3 and 1/3
innings of work.

OLD TIMERS AT FOFC
Ancients........ 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 - 1 4 1
All Stars....... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 2 6 2
Win:Nielsen(1-0) Loss:Radbourn(1-1) Save:Knowles(3rd)
Homeruns- G.Kelly(2nd)

Rob Nielsen pitched 8 strong innings and Persimmon Pflaggstettler had 4 hits
and 2 RBI at FOFC Stadium as the FOFC All Stars beat the Old Timers Ancients
by the count of 2 to 1.

FOFC scored the deciding run in the 8th inning. Barrett Blade slapped a
base-hit. A. J. Tucker came next and he laid down a sacrifice bunt. After
another out, Pflaggstettler stepped in and he lashed a single, and an error
was also committed, scoring the run. Old Timers made it exciting in the 9th,
but they were unable to push the needed runs across.

Nielsen(1-0) allowed 1 run in 8 innings, and picked up the victory. Sammy
Knowles recorded the save, his 3rd. Old Hoss Radbourn(1-1) was tagged with
the loss. He gave up 6 hits and 2 walks in 8 innings.

Despite losing Frank Selee was optimistic after the game. 'We'll get over
this one. Sometimes the breaks fall your way, sometimes they don't. Any one
of a dozen little things go different, and we come out on top.'

[Breeze]

FOFC - Manager Update

As I drive to the ballpark early this morning, I'm thinking about the fact we are off to an amazing 6 and 1 right now. I felt like we would be able to compete, but I certainly didn't expect to start the season this well. It's been an interesting first week, we've won pitching duals and shootouts, and even in our 1 loss, we had people on base, we just didn't come up with any clutch hits.

Now, I'm not naive enough to think it's going to be this easy all season. We've been home for our first two series, when we go on the road and play in the Yellowstone size parks the Centurions, Ghosts, and Ancients play in our power will be nulified to some extent, and when we go to some of the band boxes that the power teams play in our pitching will probably struggle.

We've had quite a few players step up for us so far this season. I'd like to see a little more consistency with the bats. Blade, Tucker, Hays and Pflaggstettler are hitting well so far. Heck Persimmon has been so good I had to move him to the heart of the order, and he hasn't disappointed. Gonzalez is playing well enough right now to set up a platoon with Potpie. Bullock, who's doing fine, will still get plenty of playing time, because of the position, even if he wasn't playing well he'd still see ample playing time. Fouts started off great, but he's slipped enough for me to give Palmer some more at bats. Gunners is playing well in limited action - right now I think I'll stick with a platoon between Ton and Gunner, but I need to make a mental note to get Gazelle in a game soon. Gazelle is better against lefties, maybe I'll give him a start if we play a tough leftie soon. I'd like to work Treacy in as well, but Blade is playing too good right now to pull him from the lineup, and even when he wasn't hitting great he was still setting the table.

As for pitching, I was real disappointed in Bo's recent outing. He was horrible, and he said as much to me, appologizing and promising to do better in his next outing. I have confidence in him, I know he can get the job done, it must have been just one of those nights. After his over-reaction to his first outing, and a crushed bathroom mirro, Kronside has been great, and Sammy has pitched lights out. The starters, except for Hunter, have been great and Rodney has shows real promise as a long reliever, though I won't right him off for the rotation. I haven't pitched Williams yet, I was saving him in case I needed to use a 5th starter, but it looks like the starters are ready to roll and I won't need a 5th this time around.

As for tonight. I'm not sure what we'll be doing with the lineup, because I'm not sure who we will be facing.

[Johnny93g]

John Williams is willing to play any role coach thinks is best for the team, but John Williams is itching to get some game action!!!

[Breeze]

John Williams is willing to play any role coach thinks is best for the team, but John Williams is itching to get some game action!!!


Don't worry son, you'll get plenty of work. Remember the season's a marathon not a sprint (cliche #1 :D)

[Johnny93g]

Question, i cant remember if this was in your original info you posted, and im being lazy right now, but whats the story with injuries, length, severity?

[Breeze]

Question, i cant remember if this was in your original info you posted, and im being lazy right now, but whats the story with injuries, length, severity?


Injuries will occur, they are built into each players card, the length/severity is random. Injuries can be day to day or as long as 15 games (I believe that's the max). We've had a few - "player is injured on the play - but he shakes it off and can contnue in the game" messages already. When an injury occurs I'll make sure it's discussed. I'm also trying to stay on top (at least in a limited bases to injuries on other teams).

[Chas in Cinti]

Persimmon:

"Wow, first time my name's been in the paper this year..." Browsing the game capsules.. "My hitting's about where I want it to be... but I HAVE to start fielding better. The power's coming though, I'm seeing the ball real well."

"Hey Gunner, you want to hit the cage a bit... Need to work on driving the ball in the gap."

[Breeze]

GAME 7 - Monday, April 9th - Radio Broadcast

Top 1

There's a checked swing...
But Suzuki gets a piece of it anyway
It's a pop fly into right
Pflaggstettler comes in on it...
Easy out
Suzuki couldn't get his bat out of the way
One out
Due up next is Isao Harimoto

Harimoto cuts on a curve that
misses in the dirt
That ball is trapped nicely by Bullock
Harimoto was badly fooled by Mighty's
big breaking curve
STRIKE THREE!
Isao was a little overanxious
Two gone for Japanese League

Nomura fights one off his fists
It's lined weakly to the left of third
Palmer is over quickly
Easy out
That does it for Japanese League
in the top of the 1st


Bottom 1

Blade starts... but lays
off the pitch upstairs
Ball four, Bessho walks him

The runner goes
Nights loves to hit and run...
Broken bat ground ball to first
Oh trots to the bag
Score It: 3
One down for FOFC
A. J. Tucker is still in
the on-deck circle
and Persimmon Pflaggstettler is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Tucker hits a high pop into
short left field
Nagashima and Matsubara sprint
towards the outfield
Here comes Yamamoto
Matsubara puts his glove out...
Makes a lucky catch in front of Yamamoto!!
That's two away

Off speed pitch on the way...
And Pflaggstettler watches it
go by for the third strike
Takehiko Bessho holds the All Stars
scoreless in the first

Top 2

Oh swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Mighty strikes out Saduharu Oh
One down for Japanese League
Koji Yamamoto is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to the
plate for Japanese League

Curveball in the dirt
Swung on and missed...Strike three
Bullock fumbles it,
but quickly recovers to tag Yamamoto
Two down
Mighty retires the first two
Japanese League batters

It's a quail shot headed
towards the outfield
Nights takes off after it...
Leaps...
And Nagashima is OUT!
Very impressive range shown on that play!
Jeff is very fine fielder!
Mighty sets them down in order
Here in the top of the 2nd

Bottom 2

Potpie swings...
Hard groundball, left of third
It's by Nagashima and skips
out to Yamamoto
Potpie rounds first
The left fielder is after it.. cuts it off
and fires it in quickly to second
Potpie returns to first
as Koji gets a nice throw in to Kawakami

Here's the change up...
Waiting on it...
Palmer drives one over Harimoto's head...
Harimoto backing up quickly...
He's got his legs twisted...
But he rights himself in time
Harimoto recovers and makes the grab
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

NL Pre WWII and AL Post WWII
have yet to score
Late 20th leads AL Pre WWII 3 to 2
Left Outs clipping Dead Ball Era 4 to 0
NL Post WWII is edging Caribbean 1 to 0
Koufax and Cuellar currently dueling
Negro League II leads Old Timers 1 to 0
Negro League I and Turn of Century
are all knotted at 1
Duffy has hit his 1st homerun
for Turn of Century
And right here in FOFC No score

Smashed to short
Matsubara comes up with it
Throws to second
He's out
Could be two . . .
Not in time!
Score It: 6-4
The runner on first, Potpie, is out
Two down
Nomura asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Nomura and Bessho

Stan Gunner hits a drive down the line
If it stays fair it may be gone
Koji Yamamoto is right at the foul pole
He won't get it, it's a
foul ball for Gunner
Just to the left of the pole
318 feet from home plate
. . . Gunner back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Bounding ball to second
Taken by Kawakami
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 4-3
That's three outs, side retired

Top 3

The pitch is just inside
and Matsubara holds up
Bullock points down at the
first base umpire
He went around
That is strike three!
One up, one down for Japanese League

Swung on and hit sharply to short
Nights plays it on one hop
Over to Potpie...
Out of there!
FOFC gets the second out of the inning

High hard fastball, swung on...
It's a grounder hammered at second...
Blade is there...
IT'S INTO RIGHT!!...
It took a HIGH hop right over him!
That's a single for Bessho

Suzuki drives the ball to
right for extra bases
Bob Horner is giving the green light...
The throw is coming home...
Aggressive baserunning by
Japanese League...
Not cut-off...
Bessho scores!
Trailing runner advances.
Double for Suzuki

Harimoto pops a curveball straight up
Barrett Blade has it in his sights
Blade makes the play
That's all for Japanese League
After 2 and a half innings
in FOFC this afternoon,
Japanese League ahead 1 to 0

Bottom 3

There's a shot off the bat of Al Mighty
But it's right at Kawakami
who makes the catch of the line drive
Mighty throws his bat into
the dirt in disgust
FOFC with one away
Bessho steps off the mound as
he waits for Barrett Blade to
come to the plate

Good slider, inside part of the plate
Blade gets the bat on it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Kawakami grabs it...
Throws to first...
OUT!
Two up, two down for the All Stars

It's a routine fly into left
Yamamoto ranges over and reaches up
This should do it...
And Yamamoto grabs it for the out
1-2-3, nothing across...

Top 4

In the dirt
That's ball four
That's not the best way
to start an inning.

Oh sends a hot smash to the mound
Mighty takes it on one hop
Fires to Blade for one
Back to first for the double play!
And there's two away

Sinking fastball...
Yamamoto swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Nights...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
That's it here in the top of the 4th
It's 1-0 in favor of
the visitors from Japanese League
We'll be back in just a moment

Bottom 4

Drilled on the ground to second
Taken by Kawakami
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 4-3
So one up and one gone

Pflaggstettler hits a three hopper
towards Makato Matsubara
Matsubara scoops it and fires
it to first for the out
That's the second out of the inning

Struck him out on a fastball
Potpie goes down swinging
That's all for the All Stars
in the 4th inning
No runs, no hits and no errors...
We go to the 5th...
Japanese League ahead 1 to 0

Top 5

Nagashima rips a fastball down the line
This one may have the distance...
But will it be fair?
It is heading right at the foul pole...
It is....


A foul ball!
. . . Nagashima back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Nagashima rips a whistling
liner down the line
Bingo! Palmer spears it!
A shot hit right on the screws
but right at the FOFC third baseman
One up, one down

Matsubara swings and misses
Strike three
Matsubara didn't have a good
cut at that pitch
That's two away
Nights comes over from his shortstop
position to say a few words to Mighty
Tetsuharu Kawakami will be next up...

Sinker, down at the knees...
Swung on...
Kawakami hits a Baltimore chop...
Past the infield into right for a single!
That was a difficult ball to handle

Bounding ball to the mound
Mighty grabs it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 1-3
That's it for Japanese League
Here at FOFC Stadium, After
4 and a half innings,
Japanese League has one run,
3 hits and no errors
While FOFC has no runs,
one hit and no errors
Japanese League has left 2 on base
FOFC has stranded 2

Bottom 5

It's a high fly into right
Suzuki ranges to his right
Reaches up, and takes it for the easy out
With one down, up next is Billy Bullock
To be followed by Stan Gunner

Drilled on the ground to second
Taken by Kawakami
Over to Oh
Got him!
Score It: 4-3
Two up, two down for FOFC

Swung on and hit sharply to second
Kawakami plays it on one bounce
Over to Oh...
Out of there!
That's all for the All Stars...
After 5 innings here at
FOFC Stadium in FOFC,
Japanese League leads 1 to 0


Top 6

Right down the middle... strike three
Suzuki must have been looking
for something else
He just froze on that pitch
One out
Due up next is Isao Harimoto

Off-speed pitch...
Harimoto swings at it...
Hits a high fly to deep center
Tucker bolting after it...
This one might carry all the way
Tucker jumps for it...
It bounds off the fence
It's a two-bagger for Isao Harimoto

Nomura swings and lifts one toward left
Gunner drifts over slowly...
He is under it now...
And makes the easy catch...
Two down in the 6th
Time for a station break
This is the Strat-O-Matic Broadcast System
your 4 Sports Network...
OK, we're back and ready to go...

Looks like Oh will be given
a free pass here
And he is... that's four wide ones
Koji Yamamoto is the batter due up next

It's a quail shot headed
towards the outfield
OHHHH, snagged by a retreating
Nights for the out
Outstanding range shown on that play!
That'll do it in the top of the 6th
No runs, one hit, no errors
and 2 men left on base
Japanese League on top 1 to 0
And now we'll pause for station
identification
This is your Strat-O-Matic
Broadcast System...

Bottom 6

Fastball, a beauty...
Steee Rike THREE!
That's one away

Changeup down low...
Blade makes contact and hits
one out to center
Isao Harimoto is drifting over...
Now he's under it...
Easy out for Bessho
Two down
Takehiko Bessho retires
the first two batters in order

Sinker, at the knees...
Swung on...
Nights hits it into the hole
on the right side
Kawakami ranging to his left...
Scoops it up...
Throws on the run...
And Nights is out by a step at first
That ends the inning
After 6 innings, Japanese
League leads by 1

Top 7

Topped in front of home
Bullock gets to it
He throws
He is SAFE!
That's an infield hit for Nagashima!

Matsubara fouls off the bunt attempt
The count goes to 1 and 2, we'll have
to see if they keep the bunt play on
Matsubara squares
Matsubara lays down a great bunt!
There is no chance to get the lead runner
Matsubara might beat it out...
Fielded by D.Palmer
the throw to first...
close play...
SAFE, Matsubara beat it out!
Nagashima takes second

Kawakami reaches out and pokes it
on the ground to right
Base hit for Kawakami
Japanese League adds to their lead
Japanese League on top 2 to 0

Bessho squares around
He bunts it . . .
Fielded by A.Mighty
the throw to first...
close play...
Out
Bessho gets the job done.
One down, two to go...
Al Mighty has to bear down now

Japanese League is trying the squeeze!
Here comes Matsubara
Suzuki bunted it to the mound
It's a good one
Mighty rights himself after the delivery
Races in
He sweeps the ball to Bullock
in one motion
OUT!
The squeeze play is unsuccessful
That's the second out of the inning
Time to check the scoreboard

NL Pre WWII and AL Post WWII are tied at 5
Late 20th leads AL Pre WWII 4 to 3
Maddux battling Hoyt
Left Outs is pounding Dead
Ball Era 11 to 4
Jenkins enjoying the big Left Outs lead
Caribbean is in front of
NL Post WWII 6 to 3
Linares has hit his 2nd
homerun for Caribbean
Negro League II with the lead
over Old Timers 3 to 0
Wilson has hit his 1st homerun
for Negro League II
Negro League I is in front of
Turn of Century 7 to 4
Williams comfortably ahead
for Negro League I

Suzuki takes a short lead against
the lefty Mighty
Mighty looks Suzuki back
He is unable to get his normal lead

A high fastball...
Harimoto swings late...
He hits a routine pop just left of Blade
Barrett is under it...
And takes it in for the easy out
Harimoto was looking for the breaking ball
That's it for Japanese League
here in the top of the 7th
They leave 2 runners stranded
Japanese League has 2 runs,
7 hits and no errors
While FOFC has no runs,
one hit and no errors

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!


Bottom 7

Bouncer in the hole
and past Saduharu Oh...
Base hit into right field!
That one had eyes on it
Good piece of hitting by Tucker

Pflaggstettler hits a deep
fly ball into the alley
Yamamoto chases it down
The ball hits the base of the wall
399 feet from home plate
Yamamoto smacks the wall and
falls to the ground
Koji is after it as Persimmon
heads for second
Pflaggstettler does not slow down...
He is digging for third...
Finally, Yamamoto has the ball...
Here's the throw...
SAFE, Pflaggstettler slides under
the tag by Matsubara
Textbook hook slide
Pflaggstettler has himself a triple
And there goes Bessho's shutout
But Japanese League still leads by 1

Potpie lines one over second for a single
He rounds the bag hard and
starts for second
Oh, look at that throw by Suzuki
Potpie scrambles back to first and holds
Through the drawn in infield!

The ball is low and outside
Did he go around?
The umpire says no
Ball four
For Palmer, that's 1 walk today

Bullock hits one off the end of his bat
It is twisting towards short
Matsubara fields it cleanly
Zips it to second
OUT!
Over to first
Double play!
Bullock needs to get the lead out
Two down

And Gunner will sit down...
strike three called
That is the third out for FOFC here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 32786

Top 8

Nomura hits a screamer at Barrett Blade
Blade takes it with the backhand...
The throw is short...
Potpie scoops it on one hop

Nomura is out!
Nice play by Potpie
Mighty retires the first batter to
face him in the top of the 8th

Fastball...
Oh jumps all over it...
It's juiced to deep left
There goes Gunner after it
Racing hard...
He dives...
And he's got it!!!
Beautiful play by Stan Gunner!
We're all tied up at 2 with
two away this inning

Comebacker, right to Mighty
Over to Potpie for the easy out
And that will do it for Japanese League

Bottom 8

Breeze brings Ton in to pinch hit for the pitcher

Ton hits a fly ball to right
Ichiro Suzuki camps under it
He's got it
One down, nobody on
Game tied

It's a high pop just behind the plate
Nomura, Oh, and Nagashima all
converge on the ball
THEY COLLIDE!!
And the ball drops untouched
No error charged
. . . Blade back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Blade hits a pop into short left field
Nagashima sprints out
Yamamoto and Harimoto sprint
towards the infield
Isao Harimoto sticks his glove out and
IT POPS OUT!
The official scorer rules a single

Nights will try the hit and run!
He rips a grounder
It's into left field
Jeff Nights has a base hit
The hit and run works to perfection!
Blade takes third

Fastball... just outside
Tucker will take first on the walk
That will load 'em up for Persimmon
Pflaggstettler

Smashed to short
Matsubara comes up with it
Throws home and nails him!
On to first
He's OUT, a home to first double play
Score It: 6-2-3
And that retires the side

Top 9

Breeze brings in Kronside to pitch

Big bender, low and inside...
Swung on...
Line single to Gunner in left...
Picking it up in a hurry is Gunner...
Nagashima takes a wide turn...
But stays at first base
as the throw comes in

Nagashima takes his lead
Curveball low... Matsubara
checks his swing
There goes Nagashima on a delayed steal!
Bullock displays his strong arm...
Right on the money...
Nagashima is out by a mile

Sinking line drive
Caught by Deacon Palmer
With two gone, We're all tied up
at 2 in the top of the 9th

There's a ground ball into the hole
Palmer and Nights converge on it
It's fielded by Palmer who fires to first
SAFE is the call by the ump
Close play!!

Ground ball to the mound
Taken by Kronside
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 1-3
That wraps up the inning
for Japanese League
So After 8 and a half innings
FOFC has 2 runs, 6 hits and no errors
While Japanese League has 2 runs,
9 hits and no errors
Japanese League has left 7 stranded
FOFC has failed to bring home 5

Bottom 9

Curve ball, falls off the table...
Potpie lunges for it...
Gets the bat on it...
Hits a ground ball down
the left field line
Nagashima diving to his right...
It's by him, heading into the corner
Potpie rounds first...
He will try for two
Yamamoto makes a smooth pick-up
Here's the throw...
Not in time!
Potpie has himself a double

Palmer fouls off the bunt attempt
The count goes to 1 and 2, we'll have
to see if they keep the bunt play on
Palmer squares around
He bunts the ball . . .
Fielded by K.Nomura
the throw to first...
Out
Palmer gets the job done.
With one down

Oh yells something out to Bessho
Takehiko nods his head

Lined hard to short
It's over Matsubara's head for a single!
Potpie scores from third!
FOFC wins 3 to 2
Kronside gets credit for the win
Bessho takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Jeeberoni Potpie
He was 3 for 4
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.

[Breeze]

GAME 7 - Monday, April 9th - Boxscore



HOF Players AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG
I.Suzuki RF 4 0 1 1 .147 B.Blade 2B 3 0 1 0 .360
I.Harimoto CF 4 0 1 0 .148 J.Nights SS 4 0 1 0 .188
K.Nomura C 3 0 0 0 .300 A.Tucker CF 3 1 1 0 .333
S.Oh 1B 3 0 0 0 .138 P.Pflaggstettler RF 4 1 1 1 .478
K.Yamamoto LF 4 0 0 0 .214 J.Potpie 1B 4 1 3 1 .286
S.Nagashima 3B 4 1 2 0 .242 D.Palmer 3B 2 0 0 0 .100
M.Matsubara SS 4 0 1 0 .200 B.Bullock C 4 0 1 1 .250
T.Kawakami 2B 4 0 3 1 .385 S.Gunner LF 3 0 0 0 .267
T.Bessho P 3 1 1 0 .200 A.Mighty P 2 0 0 0 .000
A-K.Ton PH 1 0 0 0 .200
J.Kronside P 0 0 0 0 ----
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
[1] Totals 33 2 9 2 Totals 30 3 8 3

A-Pinch Hit For Mighty In 8th Inning

HOF Players..... 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 - 2 9 0
All Stars....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 - 3 8 0

[1]HOF Players IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
T.Bessho LOSS(0-1) 8 1/3 8 3 3 3 4 0 127 2.93
[1]Totals 8 1/3 8 3 3 3 4 0

[1]All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
A.Mighty 8 7 2 2 2 6 0 123 1.69
J.Kronside WIN(2-0) 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 12 0.00
[1]Totals 9 9 2 2 2 6 0

ATTENDANCE- 32,786 DATE- Monday, April 9th 1900 TIME- Day
T- 2:13
LEFT ON BASE- HOF Players: 7 All Stars: 5
DOUBLE PLAYS- HOF Players: 2 All Stars: 1
DOUBLES- I.Suzuki(2nd), I.Harimoto(1st), J.Potpie(1st)
TRIPLES- P.Pflaggstettler(2nd)
CAUGHT STEALING- S.Nagashima
SACRIFICE HITS- T.Bessho, D.Palmer
WALKS- K.Nomura, S.Oh, B.Blade, A.Tucker, D.Palmer
STRIKE OUTS- I.Suzuki, I.Harimoto, S.Oh, K.Yamamoto, M.Matsubara-2,
P.Pflaggstettler, J.Potpie, S.Gunner, A.Mighty
GIDP- S.Oh, P.Pflaggstettler, B.Bullock

[Breeze]

FOFC - TEAM UPDATE

We have 2 more games against the Japanese HOFers then we get 3 against the Late 20th Century Modern Stars and 2 against the Dead Ballers before going on the road for the first time (terrible schedule creator in this game).

I'm not sure who the Japanese team will throw against us. I think Kaneda is next followed by Sugishita, but it appears Sugishita isn't getting used much. We'll have to see who they throw at us - nice work tonight guys. See you tomorrow.

[Breeze]

FOFC - LEAGUE UPDATE

After the game I go to the league website to view stats and records for other teams, I also take a moment to look at injury reports, and am surprised to not only see the numbers of injured people but who's injured. I expected the Newspaper would highlight this information better, maybe it did and I just missed it, but the list looks like this:

Whitey Ford is out for 13 more days - Tendinitis

DiMaggio is out for 13 as well - sprained ankle

Schaulk is out for 8 - bruised hand

Aaron is out for 14 - groin injury

Seaver is out for 9 - sore shoulder

Bancroft is listed as day to day (I think)

Wagner will miss 11 games - groin injury

Sugishita is out for 9 games - back spasms

Pop Lloyd will miss 12 - hamstring

Man that's some big names - thank God we've avoided the injury bug so far...where's some wood to knock on????

[Travis]

Wow, Bullock, I owe you one, helluva throw to make Nagashima look foolish!

[JeffNights]

What? No Web Gems out there at Shortstop?

[Blade]

Another great win all! Let's keep it going!

[Breeze]

The National Herald - Tuesday, April 10th

SPORTS



NEGRO LEAGUE I AT TURN OF CENTURY
Ones............ 1 0 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 - 7 10 0
Centurions...... 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 - 4 10 1
Win:Williams(2-0) Loss:Waddell(0-2) Save:Foster(2nd)
Homeruns- C.Bell(1st), J.Burkett(1st), H.Duffy(1st)

Center fielder Cool Papa Bell homered and scored 3 times at Yellowstone Park
where the Negro League I Ones beat the Turn of Century Centurions 7 to 4.

In the 6th inning Negro League I went on top for good when they scored 2 runs
on 2 hits. The big moment was provided by Martin Dihigo who silenced the
stadium when he doubled plating two runs. Negro League I and Turn of Century
each finished the night with 10 hits.

The winning pitcher was Smokey Joe Williams(2-0) who allowed 4 runs in 7
innings. Williams got help from Bill Foster who was credited with his 2nd
save. Rube Waddell(0-2) was the losing pitcher. He pitched 6 innings giving
up 8 hits and 2 walks.


LATE 20TH AT AL PRE WWII
Modern Stars.... 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 - 4 6 1
Pre-Americans... 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 - 5 10 2
Win:Hoyt(1-1) Loss:Maddux(1-1)
Homeruns- K.Puckett(2nd), C.Gehringer(1st), B.Dickey(2nd)

Waite Hoyt came through with a solid 3 innings as the AL Pre WWII team
outscored the Late 20th Modern Stars 5 to 4.

AL Pre WWII won the game with a rally in the bottom of the 8th inning scoring
2 runs utilizing 2 base hits. Bill Dickey opened up the scoring as he hit a
bases-empty home run (his 2nd of the season). Joe Cronin came to the plate
and drew a walk. Two outs later Charlie Gehringer stepped in and he stroked
a single. John Smoltz then threw a pitch that the catcher muffed scoring the
final run of the inning. AL Pre WWII out-hit Late 20th for the game, 10 hits
to 6.

The win was credited to Hoyt(1-1) who went 3 innings allowing no runs. Greg
Maddux(1-1) was tagged with the loss. He got hit pretty hard, allowing 10
hits and 3 walks in 7 and 2/3 innings.


CARIBBEAN AT NL POST WWII
Estrellas....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 2 - 8 14 2
Post-Nationals.. 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 1 - 7 7 1
Win:Salazar(1-0) Loss:Gibson(0-1)
Homeruns- P.Cepeda(2nd), O.Linares(2nd), W.Mays-2(5th)

Left fielder Perucho Cepeda jacked one out of the ballyard and had 3 RBI at
Big League Field where the Caribbean Estrellas beat the NL Post WWII ballclub
in 11 innings by the score of 8 to 7.

The game was deadlocked at 6 after nine full innings. Caribbean won it in the
11th inning. Pancho Coimbre got things going when he smacked a single.
Cepeda next to the plate and he drew a walk. Omar Linares then doubled
scoring a run. Miguel Gonzalez followed and he hit a sacrifice fly scoring
the final run of the inning. Caribbean had 14 hits for the game and NL Post
WWII had 7.

Lazaro Salazar(1-0) went 2 innings allowing 1 run for the win. Bob Gibson(0-1)
absorbed the loss in relief. He gave up 2 hits and 1 walk in 1 inning.

NL PRE WWII AT AL POST WWII
Pre-Nationals... 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 - 5 12 1
Post-Americans.. 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 1 - 6 13 0
Win:Palmer(2-1) Loss:Marquard(0-1)
Homeruns- E.Lombardi(2nd)

Robin Yount had 2 base hits at Yawnef Park as the AL Post WWII club won a
thriller over the NL Pre WWII ballclub in, 6 to 5.

The game was won by AL Post WWII with a run in the bottom of the 9th inning.
After an out was recorded, Yount drew a walk. After another out, Mickey
Mantle stepped up to the plate and he delivered a single resulting in a
mighty exciting win for AL Post WWII and the 24,808 home town fans in
attendance. AL Post WWII totaled 13 on the night.

Jim Palmer(2-1) picked up the victory, allowing no runs in 2 innings. Rube
Marquard(0-1) was the loser. He allowed a few too many baserunners giving up
13 hits and 3 walks in 8 and 2/3 innings.


DEAD BALL ERA AT LEFT OUTS
Ghosts.......... 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 1 - 6 12 1
Leftovers....... 4 0 1 0 0 3 3 0 - 11 11 1
Win:Jenkins(2-0) Loss:Chesbro(1-1)
Homeruns- J.Foxx-2(5th), F.Jenkins(1st)

Third baseman Jimmie Foxx smacked 2 homeruns and had 4 RBI as the Left Outs
Leftovers topped the Dead Ball Era Ghosts by a score of 11 to 6 at Overshadow
Pk.

Foxx had a big evening at the plate. He rifled a three-run blast in the 1st
inning, blasted a solo shot (his 5th of the season) in the 3rd inning and
banged out a single in the 7th inning. Left Outs had 11 hits for the night.

Ferguson Jenkins(2-0) got credit for the victory, pitching 8 innings and
allowing 6 runs. Jack Chesbro(1-1) was given the loss. He served up 3 gopher
balls in 6 and 2/3 innings.

Foxx said, 'It was just all timing. I had pretty good rhythm at the plate
tonight. You've got to take advantage of mistakes when you can. A couple
pitches were definitely up a little bit - right in my zone.'

NEGRO LEAGUE II AT OLD TIMERS
Twos............ 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 - 3 7 0
Ancients........ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 7 0
Win:Mathis(1-0) Loss:Keefe(0-2)
Homeruns- J.Wilson(1st)

Verdell Mathis pitched a complete game shutout as the Negro League II Twos
defeated the Old Timers Ancients 3 to 0 at Cow Pasture Field.

Mathis(1-0) was very good in the win. He allowed only 7 hits and 2 walks in 9
innings improving his ERA from 5.14 to 2.25. Both teams ended up with 7 on
the night.

The losing pitcher was Tim Keefe(0-2). He surrendered 7 hits and 3 walks in 9
innings.

JAPANESE LEAGUE AT FOFC
HOF Players..... 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 - 2 9 0
All Stars....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 - 3 8 0
Win:Kronside(2-0) Loss:Bessho(0-1)

Jeeberoni Potpie had 3 base hits at FOFC Stadium as the Japanese League HOF
Players lost a heartbreaker to FOFC All Stars by the score of 3 to 2.

FOFC won the game with a run in the 9th inning. Potpie doubled. Deacon
Palmer stepped into the batter's box and he laid down a sacrifice bunt.
Billy Bullock then ripped a base-knock resulting in an exciting win for FOFC
and a wild post-game celebration by the home town fans. FOFC rapped out 8
hits for the afternoon.

Jace Kronside(2-0) went 1 inning allowing no runs for the victory. Takehiko
Bessho(0-1) took the loss. He pitched 8 and 1/3 innings and surrendered 8
hits and 3 walks.

[Breeze]

FOFC - Manager Update

"There is a shot hit my Bullock and the winning run scores for the FOFC All Stars..."

"Still watching the highlights of the game?" Dick Howser asks as he stands in the open door to my office.

"Can't help it, I turn on the TV for background noise, and eveytime our game comes on, I have to watch it. I've been extremely impressed with our teams resourcefulness." I explain as I grab the remote and turn off the television.

"Yeah, we've been good and lucky so far."

"Agreed."

"So what are we doing tonight?" he querries.

"I'm not sure, you know who's pitching?"

"I think it's Keneda."

"Yeah, I'll have to look it over."

"Who we throwing?"

"It's Hunters turn again."

"Hope he pitches better than last time out." Howser says matter of factly.

"Me too."

"What if he doesn't?"

"You mean with regards to his spot in the rotation?"

"Yep, how long will you stick with him in the 4 spot?"

"If he pitches poorly tonight, I'll probably give him 1 more shot. I have too many other good pitchers who want to slip into the roation to not give them a try."

Howers nods in agreement. "What about tomorrow? You going to go back to Babson or will you work in a 5th starter this time?"

"I'm probably going to let Williams throw tomorrow." I answer. "That reminds me. Help me remember to tell Sal, so Williams doesn't throw to much today and he doesn't get him up for relief purposes tonight."

Howser answers, "I think I saw Sal's car when I came in. I'll go look for him."

He walks out of the office and shuts the door, while I start looking at scounting reports on Keneda, hoping I'm not wasting my time only to find out the Japanese HOFers are planning on using Starrfin or someone else. At least we won't have to face Sugishita this series...I think he's their best starter.

[JeeberD]

It's about time I started hitting the ball...

[ntndeacon]

It's about time I started hitting the ball...
You and me both. glad I know how to sacrifice.

[Breeze]

FOFC - Tuesday, April 10th - Radio Broadcast


Top 1

There's a high pop down
the right field line
It's going to go into foul territory
Potpie and Blade are chasing
it down the line
Potpie makes the catch
over his shoulder going away
One away in the top of the
1st for Japanese League

Breaking ball...
It darts down and out
as Wakamatsu swings way over it
He was fooled completely
Hays loses it momentarily,
but now finds the handle and tags
Tsutomu as he was heading for the dugout
Two gone for Japanese League

It's a Texas Leaguer to center
Here comes Tucker...
He is really motoring...
He reaches down...
But catches it on one hop!
Nomura is on with a bloop single to center

The Whiff!
Hunter punches Oh out!
Owen Hunter holds Japanese League
scoreless in the first inning

Bottom 1

Sinker, at the knees...
Swung on...
Blade hits it into the hole
on the right side
Kawakami ranging to his left...
Scoops it up...
Throws on the run...
And Blade is out by a step at first
So one up and one gone

Slow ground ball
Nagashima is charging it
He fires it to first
He's OUT
Two down

Long fly to center
Harimoto has a long run...
He's there and hauls it in
Tucker is retired on a fairly deep fly
1-2-3, nothing across...

Top 2

It's a high fly ball into shallow right
Pflaggstettler runs in...
He calls for it...
Blade yells "take it"
And Pflaggstettler puts it away
Nagashima is retired on
a lazy fly to right
FOFC gets the first out of the inning

Ball four is the call
Hunter can't believe the call
And barks at the home plate umpire
The ump points out at Hunter
Harimoto takes first base

Harimoto sneaks away from the base
Hunter steps off the rubber
Looks Harimoto back to the bag

Base hit to left for Kawakami
Third base coach Bob Horner is motioning
Harimoto to third...
The throw is cut off...
That holds Kawakami at first

Kawakami stretches his lead
Kawakami does not get a good lead

Matsubara laces the fastball into right...
Kawakami is running on the pitch
Kawakami makes the turn at second...
Harimoto scores easily...
Pflaggstettler uncorks a throw to third...
Too late, he is in standing

Nomo squares around
Nomo lays down a great bunt!
There is no chance to get the lead runner
Nomo might beat it out...
Fielded by O.Hunter
the throw to first...
close play...
SAFE, Nomo beat it out!
Kawakami holds at third
Matsubara takes second

STEEE... RIKE THREE!
Hunter catches him looking
Suzuki doesn't get it done
Two down
Tsutomu Wakamatsu is due up next

He misses, wide... Ball four
Hunter walks in a run!
Kawakami crosses the plate
Japanese League leads 2 to 0
And the bases remain jammed

Nomura swings and lifts one toward right
Pflaggstettler drifts over slowly...
He is under it now...
And makes the easy catch...
That's it here in the top of the 2nd
It's 2-0 in favor of
the visitors from Japanese League
We'll be back in just a moment

Bottom 2

Curveball in the dirt
Swung on and missed...Strike three
Nomura fumbles it,
but quickly recovers to tag Pflaggstettler
One up, one down for FOFC

A sharp breaking curve...
Potpie was waiting for it
He hits it squarely... and well
Wakamatsu turns to chase it down...
This one is going, going...
GONE!
Jeeberoni Potpie can touch them all

Hays hits a fly ball to center
Isao Harimoto camps under it
He's got it
Two out, nobody on
Japanese League ahead 2 to 1

Ton really smacks this one
He was waiting on the change
It's a gapper...
But hit high...
Suzuki has a shot at it
He leaps for it at the fence...
OUT!!!

Top 3

It's a high pop-up in back of second
Blade is under it
Waiting..Waiting...
My, this one's a "major league" pop-up
Blade snags it for the out
And there's one away

Strike three called
A curve that broke over
Number 4 for Owen Hunter today
4 on the year
And there's two away

Ground ball through the middle
Blade ranges behind second
Nice pick up...
Twists and fires it
OUT!
That ends the top of the 3rd
No runs, no hits and no errors
After 2 and a half innings, Japanese
League leads by 1

Bottom 3

It's a smash over short
Matsubara leaps
Just over his outstretched glove
Palmer makes a wide turn at first
He will hold at first
The ball comes in quickly

Hunter squares to bunt
It's dribbled down the third base line
Nagashima bare hands it...
Sidearm toss to first
Just in time!
Nice play
Credit Owen Hunter with a sacrifice
One down for FOFC
Barrett Blade is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to
the plate for FOFC

It goes wide of the plate
Nomura can't handle it
Charge a wild pitch to Nomo

Swing and a miss, strike three!
Barrett Blade appeared to be
looking for a fastball
But Nomo fooled him with a hook
Barrett looked a little
silly on that swing
That's the second out of the inning

In the dirt
That's ball four

Tucker swings
There's one into the alley
That one is going to be trouble
It's by Suzuki
Tucker doesn't slow down
He heads for third base...
He'll make it easily
Triple number 2 of the year
for A. J. Tucker

Swung on and hit to shallow center
Tough chance for Harimoto
He grabs it
Nice play!
Score It: 8
That does it for FOFC here
in the bottom of the 3rd
But they pick up 2 runs
So After 3 innings, FOFC on top 3 to 2

Top 4

It's a routine fly into center
Tucker ranges over and reaches up
He grabs it for the out
That's one away

There's a fly ball to A. J. Tucker
Tucker circles under it...
He makes the play

Nomo lifts a long fly ball...
Heading into left...
Hit pretty good, carrying very well...
Ton heading back...
IT'S OUTTA HERE, A HOME RUN!

It's a routine fly into center
Tucker ranges over and reaches up
This should do it...
And Tucker grabs it for the out
That retires the side
The HOF Players score 1 run in the inning
After 3 and a half innings,
The score is tied at 3

Bottom 4

Potpie pops one straight up
And it will be Nagashima making the play
With one down, up next is Harry Hays
To be followed by K. A. Ton

Curve ball...
Hays swings and misses by a mile
The bottom dropped out of that one!
A wicked pitch!
One more chance for FOFC this inning

It's popped behind home plate
Nomura throws down his mask
He's running back
At the screen...
The wind blows it right into the screen
. . . Ton back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Curve, at the belt...
Ton times his swing...
Hammers a long fly ball...
Tsutomu Wakamatsu retreats
toward the fence
He leaps...

It's gone, put that one on the board
A home run!!

Off-speed pitch...
Palmer swings at it...
Hits a high fly to deep center
Harimoto bolting after it...
This one might carry all the way
Harimoto jumps for it...
It bounds off the fence
It's a two-bagger for Deacon Palmer

Hunter takes the pitch...
That one is low for a ball... WAIT
The umpire says that one caught the knees
Hunter's outta there
After 4 innings
FOFC ahead 4 to 3

Top 5

Fastball... low and away, ball four
Hunter puts the tying run on base
Not a good idea

Base hit to left for Nomura
Bob Horner puts up the stop sign...
Wakamatsu will stay at second

Grounded into the hole
Tremendous diving grab by Nights!
Throw to second for one
They might turn it . . .
Double Play!
Score It: 6-4-3
That's two away

The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
Nagashima swung, that's strike three
Nagashima isn't happy at
all with that call
That wraps up the inning
for Japanese League
So After 4 and a half innings
FOFC has 4 runs, 5 hits and no errors
While Japanese League has 3 runs,
6 hits and no errors
Japanese League has left 5 stranded
FOFC has failed to bring home 2

Bottom 5

Letterhigh, hard slider...
Swung on...
It's a line drive belted toward Matsubara
It's by him...
Wakamatsu comes in...
Plays it off his chest
Recovers quickly, throwing into second
Good defensive recovery
Keeping Blade to a single

Blade inches slowly away from the bag
Nomo's throws over have been effective
Blade has a shorter lead now
He must be getting tired
diving back into the bag

Nights maneuvers to hit behind the runner
Grounded towards the middle
It bounces off Matsubara's chest!
No play on Nights, base hit
Nights gets an infield hit
Blade takes second

Tucker looks to lay one down
He bunts the ball . . .
A quick glance at the lead runner...
Fielded by S.Oh
the throw to first...
Out
Tucker gets the job done.
One out
The All Stars have a 1 run lead


Pflaggstettler is waiting
Persimmon need wait no more...
he's outta here
Just another victim of
Nomo's breaking ball
Two gone in the bottom of the 5th
Japanese League is still in quite a jam
Clutch situation for Jeeberoni Potpie
He'll come up against the righthanded Nomo

It's a high bouncer to second
Kawakami waits for it to come down
Snap throw to first...OUT!
Jeeberoni leaves the FOFC
faithful disappointed
That does it for FOFC in the 5th
They leave 2 on base
3 stranded so far today

Top 6

Curve, a beauty...
Strike three looking!
Hunter punches him out!

Slider, down and in...
Kawakami manages to hit a shallow fly
Pflaggstettler charging hard... dives...
Great diving catch by Pflaggstettler!
He slid several feet after
making that stab
Two down
Hays asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Hays and Hunter

Hard ground ball to the mound
Outstanding play by Hunter!
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 1-3
The HOF Players go down in order, 1-2-3
After 5 and a half innings,

FOFC ahead 4 to 3

Bottom 6

Hays chases the change up
Hits a slow grounder right past Nomo
Kawakami snares it behind the bag...
Plants...
Throws to first...
Beats him by a step for the out!
One down for FOFC
K. A. Ton is still in the on-deck circle
and Deacon Palmer is looking
for a bat in the dugout

There's a long drive...
Its' way back there...
Tsutomu Wakamatsu is at the wall...
He's jumping for it...
He's got it!!!
What a great play by Wakamatsu! Well he is known to have a good glove out there!

Palmer takes the pitch
STRIKE THREE, is the call
Palmer can't believe it and
says something to the ump
Chalk up a whiff for Nomo
That's the third out of the inning
Three up, three down
It's 4-3, FOFC

Top 7

Bobby Valentine will send up a
pinch hitter for Hideo Nomo
Yes, Kenichi Yazawa steps
out of the dugout
He will be up there against Hunter

Fastball over the plate
Yazawa swings and sends a shot
to deep right-center
Tucker and Pflaggstettler are
converging toward the fence
Tucker has a chance...
He goes up for it...
Man alive! He pulls it down!
Fantastic play by A. J.

Suzuki hits a deep fly ball into the alley
K. A. Ton chases it down
But the ball hits the base of the wall
Ton hits the wall and falls to the ground
Suzuki is into third with a triple
Now they check on Ton
He's okay
That ball hit right at the
base of the fence
399 feet from home plate

Swung on and missed by Wakamatsu,
he's down on strikes

Grounded towards the bag
Palmer comes up with it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 5-3
Hunter shuts down Japanese League
here in the top of the 7th
So FOFC still with the lead
as we go to a commercial break

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

Bottom 7

Bobby Valentine will be bringing
in a relief pitcher
Victor Starffin has been called
from the bullpen
A few warm up tosses and
we'll be set to go

Sinker, down at the knees...
Swung on...
Treacy hits a Baltimore chop...
Past the infield into right for a single!
That was a difficult ball to handle

The runner is off with the pitch
Hit and run!
Grounded down the line
Oh trots to the bag
Score It: 3
One out
Due up next is Jeff Nights

Groundball to short
Treacy is trying to advance
to third base...
A quick glance at the lead runner...
The play is to first...
And Nights is out

Tucker works the walk...
Passes the baton to Persimmon
Pflaggstettler
who will see if he can get
Treacy in from third

Swung on and hit to shallow left
Tough chance for Wakamatsu
HE DIVES
HE'S GOT IT!
TREMENDOUS DIVING CATCH!
Starffin owes Wakamatsu a dinner!
Score It: 7
That is the third out for FOFC here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 46242

Top 8

It's popped behind home plate
Hays throws down his mask
He's running back
At the screen...
The wind blows it...
Right back to him
Saduharu Oh is out
One gone for Japanese League

Shigeo Nagashima swings
It's a line drive...
Sizzles past Nights into left...
Base hit for Nagashima...
Ton is over to cut it off...
Now he tosses it in to the infield
Nagashima is on with a sharp single

Knowles' pitch is a sinking fastball
Harimoto tries to hold up
Ball four
Hays points down to third
He did not go around

Smashed to short
Taken by Nights
Throw to second for one
On to first
Double Play!
Score It: 6-4-3
That does it for Japanese League
here in the top of the 8th
No runs, one hit, no errors
and one man left on base
They are running out of time

Bottom 8

Grounded towards third
Nagashima scoops it
LONG THROW...
HE'S OUT!
One up, one down

Routine grounder to third
Nagashima scoops it up
Over to first for the out
Two down
Starffin retires two in a row

The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
Ton held up, and draws a walk
Starffin isn't happy at all with that call

Big slow curve...
And it's in there, strike three
That's all for the All Stars
After 8 full innings,
they lead by 1

Top 9

Curve in the dirt... and
Matsubara holds up
Looked like he went around from here
But the plate umpire says no
Hays asks the first base ump's opinion
He says Matsubara went around
Strike three, swinging
Japanese League with one away
Kronside steps off the mound as
he waits for Victor Starffin to
come to the plate

Hiromitsu Ochiai is swinging a bat
He'll come up to hit for Victor Starffin

Ground ball to the left side...
Nights scoops it up
Over to first for the putout
That's two away
Nights comes over from his shortstop
position to say a few words to Kronside
Ichiro Suzuki will be next up...

Suzuki swings very late
He pops it foul
Hays gives chase
Here comes Palmer
They are both at the rail...
Hays makes the play
And that will do it for Japanese League
FOFC wins 4 to 3
Hunter gets credit for the win
Kronside notches the save
Nomo takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was A. J. Tucker
He was 1 for 2
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.

[Breeze]

GAME 8 - Tuesday, April 10th - Boxscore


HOF Players AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG
I.Suzuki RF 5 0 1 0 .154 B.Blade 2B 4 0 1 0 .345
T.Wakamatsu LF 2 0 0 1 .286 J.Nights SS 3 1 1 0 .211
K.Nomura C 4 0 2 0 .324 A.Tucker CF 2 0 1 2 .345
S.Oh 1B 4 0 0 0 .121 P.Pflaggstettler RF 4 0 0 0 .407
S.Nagashima 3B 4 0 1 0 .243 J.Potpie 1B 4 1 1 1 .278
I.Harimoto CF 2 1 0 0 .138 H.Hays C 4 0 0 0 .278
T.Kawakami 2B 4 1 1 0 .367 K.Ton LF 3 1 1 1 .231
M.Matsubara SS 4 0 1 1 .206 J.Kronside P 0 0 0 0 ----
H.Nomo P 2 1 2 1 .500 D.Palmer 3B 4 1 2 0 .214
A-K.Yazawa PH 1 0 0 0 .000 O.Hunter P 1 0 0 0 .000
V.Starffin P 0 0 0 0 .000 B-S.Treacy PH 1 0 1 0 .333
D-H.Ochiai PH 1 0 0 0 .000 B.Knowles P 0 0 0 0 ----
C-G.Gazelle LF 0 0 0 0 ----
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
Totals 33 3 8 3 Totals 30 4 8 4

A-Pinch Hit For Nomo In 7th Inning
B-Pinch Hit For Hunter In 7th Inning
C-Subbed Defensively (LF) For Knowles In 9th Inning
D-Pinch Hit For Starffin In 9th Inning

HOF Players..... 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 - 3 8 0
All Stars....... 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 - 4 8 0

HOF Players IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
H.Nomo LOSS(0-2) 6 7 4 4 1 6 2 95 8.25
V.Starffin 2 1 0 0 2 1 0 35 0.90
Totals 8 8 4 4 3 7 2

All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
O.Hunter WIN(1-1) 7 7 3 3 3 7 1 116 7.20
B.Knowles HOLD(1st) 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 21 9.00
J.Kronside SAVE(1st) 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 10 0.00
Totals 9 8 3 3 4 8 1

ATTENDANCE- 46,242 DATE- Tuesday, April 10th 1900 TIME- Night
T- 1:34
LEFT ON BASE- HOF Players: 7 All Stars: 7
DOUBLE PLAYS- HOF Players: 0 All Stars: 2
DOUBLES- D.Palmer(1st)
TRIPLES- I.Suzuki(2nd), A.Tucker(2nd)
HOME RUNS- H.Nomo(1st), J.Potpie(1st), K.Ton(1st)
SACRIFICE HITS- A.Tucker, O.Hunter
WALKS- T.Wakamatsu-2, I.Harimoto-2, J.Nights, A.Tucker, K.Ton
STRIKE OUTS- I.Suzuki, T.Wakamatsu-2, S.Oh, S.Nagashima-2, I.Harimoto,
M.Matsubara, B.Blade, P.Pflaggstettler-2, H.Hays, D.Palmer-2,
O.Hunter
GIDP- S.Oh, T.Kawakami
WILD PITCHES- H.Nomo
WEB GEMS- Top 5th: Jeff Nights robbed Saduharu Oh of a base hit.
Bot 6th: Tsutomu Wakamatsu robbed K. A. Ton of a Homerun!

[JeeberD]

I love hitting home runs... :)

[tucker342]

Yay! My first time as hitting star! we're on a roll right now:)

[Sublime 2]

phew.....a much better outing than last time...still kind of scary though.

[Breeze]

FOFC - Manager Update

I was so drained following the game last night, I left the park without showering, got home, got cleaned up, put my head down and was asleep in a matter of minutes. In fact, my wife was talking to me but I don't remember what she was saying.

When I awoke on Wednesday, I rolled out of bed, found the morning paper, fliped to the sports section and began reading the outcomes of the other games...

[Breeze]

The National Herald - Wednesday, April 11th

SPORTS



NEGRO LEAGUE I AT TURN OF CENTURY
Ones............ 3 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 - 8 10 0
Centurions...... 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 3 7 0
Win:Smith(1-0) Loss:Joss(0-1)
Homeruns- O.Charleston-3(5th)

Oscar Charleston cracked 3 homeruns and Hilton Smith allowed Dusty Baker to
rest his bullpen, tossing a complete game at Yellowstone Park as the Negro
League I Ones beat the Turn of Century Centurions by the count of 8 to
3.

Charleston propelled Negro League I to victory. He delivered a solo blast in
the 3rd inning, smashed a bases-empty 'big-fly' in the 5th inning and ripping
a solo home run (his 5th of the season) in the 7th inning. Negro League I
managed 10 in their victory.

The victory was credited to Smith(1-0) who went the distance, allowing 3 runs.
Addie Joss(0-1) was the loser. He served up 3 homeruns in his 9 innings.

'I've spent a lot of time in the cage and made some adjustments and they've
paid off,' Charleston said. 'I just take the same approach up there. I don't
overanalyze it. I go up there, see the ball and try to put a good swing on
it.'

LATE 20TH AT AL PRE WWII
Modern Stars.... 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 - 4 6 0
Pre-Americans... 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 - 3 8 0
Win:Smoltz(2-0) Loss:Gomez(0-2) Save:Gossage(4th)
Homeruns- A.Simmons(1st), B.Dickey(3rd)

33,831 fans were treated to a fine game at Glory Stadium as only one run
separated the combatants at game's end. The Late 20th Modern Stars won by
the slimmest of margins, 4 to 3.

John Smoltz(2-0) slammed the door shut in an excellent relief performance. He
did not allow a baserunner in his 1/3 of an inning. Late 20th had only 6
hits for the game.

Goose Gossage was credited with his 4th save. Lefty Gomez(0-2) was hit with
the loss. He pitched 9 innings allowing 6 hits and 6 walks.

CARIBBEAN AT NL POST WWII
Estrellas....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 - 4 11 0
Post-Nationals.. 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 - 3 7 0
Win:Valenzuela(1-0) Loss:Bunning(0-2) Save:Salazar(1st)
Homeruns- M.Gonzalez(2nd)

Catcher Miguel Gonzalez connected with a 'big fly' and had 2 RBI at Big League
Field where the Caribbean Estrellas beat the NL Post WWII club 4 to
3.

Caribbean erupted with the game winning runs in the top of the 8th inning
scoring 2 runs utilizing 2 base hits. Antonio Pacheco opened up the inning
nicely when he laced a one-base hit. Omar Linares followed, but he was set
down on strikes. After another out, Gonzalez came to the plate and cleared
the fences for a two-run home run (his 2nd of the season). NL Post WWII
threatened in the 9th but Caribbean was able to put down the rally.

The win was credited to Fernando Valenzuela(1-0) who went 2 innings allowing 1
run. Valenzuela got relief help from Lazaro Salazar who gained credit for his
1st save. Jim Bunning(0-2) was the losing pitcher in relief. He pitched 2
innings and surrendered 4 hits and no walks.


NL PRE WWII AT AL POST WWII
Pre-Nationals... 0 1 0 6 7 1 0 0 1 - 16 19 0
Post-Americans.. 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 - 4 11 1
Win:Rixey(2-0) Loss:Hunter(1-1)
Homeruns- P.Waner(1st), R.Hornsby(2nd), J.Mize(2nd), G.Hartnett-2(3rd),
P.Traynor(4th)

Catcher Gabby Hartnett blasted 2 homeruns and had 3 RBI and Eppa Rixey went
the distance as the NL Pre WWII ballclub ballclub embarrassed the AL Post
WWII team by the count of 16 to 4.

Hartnett had a big day against AL Post WWII. He doubled in the 2nd inning,
smashed a two-run homer in the 5th inning and smashed a solo-shot out of the
park (his 3rd of the season) in the 6th inning. NL Pre WWII bats were very
productive in the 4th inning which saw them plate 6 runs on 4 hits and the
5th inning with 7 runs on 7 hits. NL Pre WWII had 19 hits for the night.

Rixey(2-0) was the winner allowing 4 runs for the game. The loss was charged
to Catfish Hunter(1-1). He was knocked around by NL Pre WWII, allowing 7
hits and 3 walks in 3 and 1/3 innings.


DEAD BALL ERA AT LEFT OUTS
Ghosts.......... 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 - 4 8 1
Leftovers....... 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 2 4 0
Win:Plank(1-1) Loss:Sutton(0-1)
Homeruns- H.Heilmann(2nd)

Eddie Plank delivered 9 solid innings as the Dead Ball Era Ghosts defeated the
Left Outs Leftovers by a score of 4 to 2 at Overshadow Pk.

Dead Ball Era went ahead for good in the 6th inning plating an isolated run on
2 hits. The Left Outs bats were silent in the bottom of the 9th.

The win was credited to Plank(1-1) who went the whole way allowing 2 runs. The
losing pitcher was Don Sutton(0-1). He surrendered 4 runs and 8 hits in 8
innings.

'I've been working on a few things in my delivery, and I think I'm hitting a
good groove.' Plank said after the game. 'I'm ready to start another game
tomorrow!'

NEGRO LEAGUE II AT OLD TIMERS
Twos............ 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 - 6 11 0
Ancients........ 1 6 0 2 0 9 0 0 - 18 18 1
Win:Welch(1-1) Loss:Brewer(0-2)
Homeruns- E.Delahanty(1st), C.Anson(1st)

Ed Delahanty cracked a homer and had 7 RBI at Cow Pasture Field as the Old
Timers Ancients embarrassed the Negro League II Twos by the lopsided score of
18 to 6.

Delahanty was in a groove all evening. He hit a bases-empty home run (his 1st
of the season) in the 1st inning, doubled plating two runs in the 4th inning
and doubled plating all three baserunners in the 6th inning. Old Timers bats
were hot in the 2nd inning when they had 6 runs on 3 hits and the 6th inning
with 9 runs on 10 hits. Old Timers ended up with 18 hits for the game while
Negro League II had 11.

Mickey Welch(1-1) went 8 and 2/3 innings allowing 6 runs for the victory. Chet
Brewer(0-2) was charged with the loss. 'Actually, I didn't feel that
comfortable at the plate today' Delahanty said after the game. 'Despite
that, I'm happy with the results!

JAPANESE LEAGUE AT FOFC
HOF Players..... 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 - 3 8 0
All Stars....... 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 - 4 8 0
Win:Hunter(1-1) Loss:Nomo(0-2) Save:Kronside(1st)
Homeruns- H.Nomo(1st), J.Potpie(1st), K.Ton(1st)

One run was the difference at FOFC Stadium as the FOFC All Stars defeated the
Japanese League HOF Players 4 to 3.

Owen Hunter(1-1) delivered a fine performance for Hunter. He went 7 innings
surrendering 7 hits and 3 walks. After the 4th inning, neither team was able
to score.

Jace Kronside got the save, his 1st. Hideo Nomo(0-2) absorbed the loss. He
gave up 4 runs and 7 hits in 6 innings.

[Breeze]

FOFC - Manager Update

"You do realize you aren't going to play .875 ball the rest of the season," my wife says as she walks in to the kitchen.

I start to respond but she's gone back into the den to get our oldest son dressed in time to catch the bus. I continue reading, until my 5 year old son, Brett, runs in to give me a kiss.

"Love you dad."

"You too son, have a good day at school."

"Mom told me you won again! Way to go...Do, do, do, do...(my son has a stuttering problem when he gets excited)..do you think you'll win again tonight?"

"I hope so."

"You, you, you ...think, you, you, you....think you can win every game?" he asks with eyes as big as saucers.

"Nope, sorry son, it's just not going to happen."

Slightly deflated he say, "I think you might, you, you, you...."

...mother interrupts, "I just saw the bus go by, it's going to turn around and be here is just a couple of minutes, you better hurry." I get another quick kiss, and a "I'll see you tomorrow."

I hear the bus pull up outside and stop, and a few minutes later I hear it rumble off. My wife returns to the kitchen, gives a peck on the cheek and says, "I'm really happy for your start, but you aren't going to play .875 ball all season."

"Brett thinks I might win the rest of my games...that would give me a win percentage of 99%." I say with a sly smirk.

She stares at me as if to say, it's too early for your stupid little jokes.

"Ok, ok....I know. If we can win 2/3rds of the games we have a shot to win the division. All this start has done is to give us a few games cushion early."

She nods, and says, "I'm going back to bed. When the twins get up give them mini-wheats for breakfast."

[Breeze]

FOFC - League Update

I had to sit though a Marketing meeting for some reason. I guess because they are planning on shooting some commercials and wanted to make sure I was aware that some of my players would be needed periodically for them. I honestly could care less, of course if they interfere with the teams batting or fielding practice - that will be another story.

As I head back to my office, I pass Chuck Tanner who's sitting on a computer looking at the league web site:

Dynasty Baseball League Website (http://officepimps.com/baseball/)

"So how do things look?" I ask startling Chuck.

"We look great! 2nd best team pitching, hitting well, we look really good."

"At 7 and 1 I'd hope we look good."

"Yeah, but man do the Pre-Nationals look impressive offensively. You know their Total Percentage is almost 1000...On base is .390 and slugging is like .637 unbelieveable....and the Modern Stars - wow they have a team ERA around 3.00 and I thought we struck out a bunch of people - they have almost 20 more Ks then we do."

"And we get them next..." I add.

Sal passing by digs, "We'll their K's are going to go up against us."

Tanner hops up quickly and says, "We aren't striking out that much, come back here and take a look, we're hitting pretty well as a team. Hang on...come here - I want to talk about this..."

I laugh out loud, knowing that Sal was only kidding but Tanner in his ultimate optimizum can't let a dig go.

NOTE: Thanks again to CW for providing a server.

[Breeze]

FOFC - Player Update

As soon as I sit down in my chair after the Marketing meeting and the conversation with Tanner, Dick Howser pokes his head into my office, ""Gazelle has arrived."

I get up and look around for him, finally locating him in the training room of all places. Must be a sore buttocks (sorry coudn't resist the thought). "Gazelle, I know your probably pretty frustrated having not played. But Pflaggstettler is playing out of his mind right now, Tuckers been great all season and Gunner and Ton are preforming. I haven't given up on you, but your poor Spring sort of put you behind the 8 ball. I am planning to get you in against the next lefty we face - so keep your head up and be prepared."

"I've been going stir-crazy shagging flies and taking BP. I just hope my timing hasn't gone all to hell. Y'now that timing that produced two hits in the spring...

I'm ready whenever you put me in, Skip..." He responds with a smirk on his face.

I walk off feeling good that Gazelle has adopted a positive attitude. It would be easy for him to be disgruntled already, and in fact he's quite the opposite. He even has a since of humor about the whole thing. I return to my office and being looking for Williams to arrive.

[Breeze]

FOFC - Player Update


Sitting in my office, I am working on the new lineup, watching the door closely for a couple of players. When Williams walks in, I jump up so I can catch him before he gets busy in other conversations or card games.

"Hey Williams, can I speak to you for a minute? I know you've been itching to play, and I'm really sorry it's taken so long to work you in. I'm sure Sal has already told you, but it's your ball tonight. Go out and pitch like you did in early Spring."

John Williams responds "Coach, you have no idea how badly im itching to get in their....Ive had an idea this start would be mine, and im ready.......im gonna turn some heads today.....thanks for the chance!!!"

Coach Breeze smiling, "Just remember - stay within yourself - you aren't going to strike out 27 batters and you probably won't throw a no-hitter, just keep the ball down, change speeds and hit corners."

"Coach, thats what i do best"

Benton walks off knowing Williams is totally right 'that is what he does best"

[Coffee Warlord]

Coach Breeze smiling, "Just remember - stay within yourself - you aren't going to strike out 27 batters and you probably won't throw a no-hitter,

That's MY job.

[Breeze]

GAME 9 - Wednesday, April 11th - Radio Broadcast

Top 1

Hot shot grounded to the mound
Williams grabs it
Over to Potpie
Got him!
Score It: 1-3
And there's one away

Fly ball to right
Pflaggstettler is under it
He grabs it for the out
That is the second out here
in the top of the 1st
Nights comes in to kibitz with Williams
While we have a moment,
let me set the outfield distances for you
It's 318 feet down the line in left
399 feet to left-center
408 feet to straight-away center field
Then over in right-center
it's 385 feet from home plate
and 314 feet to the right field foul pole

In the dirt
That's ball four

Drilled deep to right-center
Tucker trying to track it down
He's at the fence
IT MIGHT BE . . .
NO, IT'S CAUGHT!
Score It: 8
After one-half inning
It's Japanese League nothing,
the All Stars coming up

Bottom 1

Blade slices a grass cutter to Oh's right
He dives for it...
Can't get it...
Kawakami is over as well...
Just off his glove into right field
Blade sneaks one through
for a lead off single
Kawakami was shading Blade toward second

Drilled deep to center field
Harimoto takes off after it
He can't get to it
Nights running hard out of the box
Harimoto has the ball
Nights digging for 2nd
He's slides in, Safe!
Blade takes third

Base hit to left for Tucker
Blade scores
Dick Howser is giving the green light...
The throw is cut off...
And that allows the run to score

Apparently not afraid of Kaneda
Tucker stretches out to his lead
Curveball from Kaneda...
There he goes for second!
Nomura pegs it down
He slipped on the throw
But he got it off...
The speedy Tucker slides in safely!
3 steals in 3 attempts on the year
He is one of the best on the basepaths

Bouncer in the hole
and past Kawakami into right field
An opposite field hit!
FOFC adds to their lead
FOFC on top 3 to 0

WATCH OUT!
Kaneda has hit Potpie!

Bounced towards the hole
Smooth pickup by Matsubara
Over to second for one
Over to first
Not in time!
Score It: 6-4
Pflaggstettler takes third
The runner on first, Potpie, is out
One away for FOFC here in
the bottom of the 1st
Harry Hays will be up next...
he will be facing the lefty Kaneda...
Runners on the corners

Base hit to center for Hays
Pflaggstettler scores
Dick Howser puts up the stop sign...
Fouts will stay at second

Gazelle drives the ball to
center for extra bases
Fouts scores
Dick Howser is waving the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Hays scores!
Trailing runner advances.
Double for Gazelle

There is going to be a change in pitchers
Masaichi Kaneda will hit the showers
Tetsuya Yoneda will be coming on in relief
We are in the bottom of the
1st here at FOFC Stadium
FOFC ahead 6 to 0

Dribbler to short
Gazelle breaks for home
Matsubara grabs it
Over to Oh
Got him!
Score It: 6-3
That's two away

Fastball...
Blade jumps all over it...
It's juiced to deep center
There goes Harimoto after it
Racing hard...
He dives...
And he's got it!!!
Beautiful play by Isao Harimoto!
That's three outs, side retired

Top 2

Slow ground ball
Nights is charging it
He fires it to first
He's OUT
That's the first out of the inning
Japanese League is in 7th
place in the standings
6.5 games out of first

Swung on and popped up
Nights is waiting...
And that's an easy out
Two down
Hays asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Hays and Williams

Sinking fastball...
Matsubara swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Fouts...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
That's all for the HOF Players
No runs, no hits and no errors...
We go to the bottom of the 2nd...
FOFC ahead 7 to 0

Bottom 2

It's hit to the left of third
It's a base knock!
The ball glanced off of Matsubara's glove
Matsubara retrieved it, but
not in time to get Nights
Jeff is safe on first with a single
No throw on the play

Nights takes his lead from first...
He's challenging Yoneda's pickoff move
Slow curve...
The speedy Nights heads for second
The throw from Nomura...
The slide...
Nights is called out at second base
Wasn't even close

Hard line drive to second
Kawakami makes a great catch!
Score It: 4
Two gone for FOFC

Fastball, down the middle...
Pflaggstettler swings and
skies one to left
Yamamoto is at the fence...
Looks up...
Doesn't have a prayer...
It's a homer for Pflaggstettler!
Number 2 for him this season
He also has 10 RBI's

Let up pitch grounded through
the middle...
Kawakami ranges towards
the bag at second...
Makes a smooth pick up...
Has to make the throw across his body...
Can't get enough on it to beat Potpie
SAFE!...Score it an infield single

It's a rainbow shot toward center
Harimoto reaches up
Makes the catch!
Didn't have to move an inch
The All Stars go down in
the bottom of the 2nd
After 2 innings at FOFC Stadium
here in FOFC,
FOFC on top 8 to 0

Top 3

There's a ground ball into the hole
Fouts and Nights converge on it
It's fielded by Fouts who fires to first
SAFE is the call by the ump
Close play!!
Through the drawn in infield!

Bobby Valentine will send up a pinch
hitter for Tetsuya Yoneda
Yes, Tsutomu Wakamatsu steps
out of the dugout
He will be up there against Williams

It's in on the hands
Inside... ball four
Wakamatsu trots to first as
Kawakami takes second

There's a 58 footer!
Hays can't come up with it...
It's off his chest and the runners
will advance...
Wild pitch by Williams

The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
Suzuki swung, that's strike three
Suzuki isn't happy at all with that call
That's one away

Base hit to center for Harimoto
Kawakami scores
Bob Horner will send the runner home...
The throw is cut off...
And that allows the run to score

Nomura drives one into right
Persimmon Pflaggstettler sprints
over to make the play
Two down

Oh pulls it on the ground
It's in the hole at first...
And past Jeeberoni Potpie...
base hit into right field!
Here comes Harimoto rounding second...
Third base coach Bob Horner waves him on
Here he comes...
Safe... runners at first and third
A single for Saduharu Oh

Pounded on the ground to first
Potpie to Williams covering first
Score It: 3-1
That's it for Japanese League
FOFC has 8 runs, 9 hits and no errors
While Japanese League has 2 runs,
3 hits and no errors
Japanese League has now left
3 runners stranded
Bobby Valentine will be bringing
in a relief pitcher
Keishi Suzuki has been called
from the bullpen
A few warm up tosses and
we'll be set to go

Bottom 3

Sinking line drive
Caught by Shigeo Nagashima
One away for FOFC here in
the bottom of the 3rd

Gazelle swings and sends
a high fly to right
It is hugging the line...
Suzuki is over at the fence...
It's going to be close...
It's just foul!
Gazelle just missed on that one
. . . Gazelle back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Curve, a beauty...
Strike three looking!
Suzuki punches him out!
Two away now for FOFC
They're ahead by 6 runs
FOFC has 9 hits on the evening

Williams hits a three hopper
towards Makato Matsubara
Matsubara scoops it and fires
it to first for the out
And that will do it for FOFC

Top 4

Hot shot grounded to the mound
Taken by Williams
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 1-3
One up, one down

Slider, down and away...
Matsubara reaches for the pitch...
It's a grounder to the third base side...
Fouts is there
IT BOUNCES OVER HIS HEAD!...
Gazelle is hustling after it...
Matsubara with the big turn...
The throw from Gazelle goes into second
And Matsubara holds at first

There's a fly ball into
straight-away right
Pflaggstettler one hands it...
OUT!
That's the second out of the inning

Bobby Valentine brings on Hiromitsu
Ochiai to hit for Keishi Suzuki
Japanese League is way behind
They need baserunners...
Lots of them!

A slider by Williams
Ochiai gets good wood on it...
Gazelle back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
So ends the top of the 4th
For Japanese League
No runs, one hit, no errors
and one man left on base
After 3 and a half innings,
FOFC on top 8 to 2
Bobby Valentine will be bringing
in a relief pitcher
Victor Starffin has been called
from the bullpen
A few warm up tosses and
we'll be set to go

Bottom 4

There's a fly ball to Ichiro Suzuki
Suzuki circles under it...
He makes the play
One down for FOFC
Jeff Nights is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to
the plate for FOFC

Nights hits a deep fly
Yamamoto retreats toward the fence
He leaps...
He's got it!
Here's the ump coming out
To brush the plate clean
There's two away

Dribbler in front of home
Nomura gets to it
He throws
He is SAFE!
Tucker gets an infield hit

Pflaggstettler sits on the change up
He lofts a fly ball towards Harimoto
Harimoto gliding under it...
Appears to lose sight of it
Has it again...
And makes the catch in medium center
That's all for the All Stars
After 4 innings in FOFC this evening,
FOFC ahead 8 to 2

Top 5

Good slider, inside part of the plate
Suzuki gets the bat on it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Blade grabs it...
Throws to first...
OUT!
That's the first out of the inning
Two more to go

It's a Texas Leaguer to right
Here comes Pflaggstettler...
He is really motoring...
He reaches down...
But catches it on one hop!
Harimoto is on with a bloop
single to right

Changeup...
Ties Nomura up in knots
An awkward swinging strike three!
FOFC gets the second out of the inning

Williams' pitch is a sinking fastball
Oh tries to hold up
Ball four
Hays points down to third
He did not go around

Soft liner to second
Blade leaps
He makes a great catch!
Score It: 4
That does it for Japanese League
in the top of the 5th
The ground crew, headed up by John Deere,
is coming out to smooth the infield dirt
The fans get a kick out of them
as they sometimes put down their rakes
and do a little "dance" to the music

Bottom 5

Grounded down the line
Nagashima comes up with it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 5-3
One away...
Oh is coming over to the mound...
He wants to chat with the pitcher...
Here comes Nagashima also...
Now they return to their positions

He rips a grounder to second
Taken by Kawakami
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 4-3
That's two up, two down

Hard ground ball to short
Matsubara grabs it
Over to Oh
Got him!
Score It: 6-3
And that will do it for FOFC

Top 6

The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
Nagashima held up, and draws a walk
Williams isn't happy at all with that call

There's a hard grounder down at Nights
He's in front of it...
But he muffs it!
Error on Jeff Nights
as that ball just ate him up!
It crawled right up his arms
and clipped him in the chin

Kawakami rips a solid shot to right
Pflaggstettler ranges to his right...
He is juggling it!...
Finally finds the handle
Whew!
Runners can't advance
One down...
Williams has to continue to bear down

Kenichi Yazawa is swinging a bat
He'll come up to hit for Victor Starffin

Yazawa rolls one toward Barrett Blade
He scoops it and fires to first...
Close play
OUT, says the first base umpire
Kenichi Yazawa is turning red with rage
As he glares at the umpire
Better be careful

Suzuki swings and lifts one toward center
Tucker drifts over slowly...
He is under it now...
And makes the easy catch...
We head to the bottom of the 6th
here in FOFC...
Still 8-2, FOFC
Hideo Fujimoto will be coming on
to pitch for Japanese League
Hideo has appeared in 4 games this season
with a record of 0-2
In 7 innings, he has an 10.80 ERA
Victor Starffin has finished his work
here this evening

Bottom 6

Slider, inside...
Swung on...
Gazelle rocks this one...
He got all of it...
It's going... Going...
GONE!
Man, he really crunched it!
Fujimoto looks dejected on the mound

Swing and a miss
Struck him out
Number 5 on the season for Fujimoto
One out
Due up next is Barrett Blade

A hot shot on the ground to Kawakami
He's got it cleanly on one hop...
Over to first and Blade is out
That's two away
Matsubara comes over from his shortstop
position to say a few words to Fujimoto
Jeff Nights will be next up...

Nights rips a fastball down the line
This one may have the distance...
But will it be fair?
It is heading right at the foul pole...
It is....


A foul ball!
. . . Nights back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
It's a routine fly into center
Harimoto ranges over and reaches up
This should do it...
And Harimoto grabs it for the out
That's three outs here in
the bottom of the 6th
Now Japanese League will
try to close the gap
To at least try to make it respectable

Top 7

In the dirt
That's ball four

Swing and a miss
Strike three
Nomura goes down on strikes
And there's one away

Curveball, down in the dirt...
Good stop by Hays keeping
it in front of him
That's a walk for Oh
Benton Breeze is talking to Chuck
Tanner, the bench coach
and Sal Maglie, the pitching coach
That was a poor series of
pitches by Williams
They may be concerned he's
starting to lose it
It doesn't look like they
are too worried, however

Curve, up high...
Yamamoto rips it to center...
Williams hung that breaking ball
However, Koji got under it just a bit
Tucker started back on it
Now he's coming in...
He's under it and makes the easy catch
"Can of Corn"
That's out number two
All Stars' pitching coach, Sal Maglie,
is out to talk with Williams

Fastball jams him inside...
Nagashima turns on it...
Pulled down the line...
Gazelle gives chase...
He plays it nicely off the fence...
Nagashima is rounding second...
He'll try for three
Nagashima's slide...
In there with a triple!
Shigeo clears the bases
He now has 2 RBI's on the day

Fastball, on the hands...
Swung on and popped up
Fouts is waiting...
And that's an easy out
And that retires the side

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

Bottom 7

Hit right back to Fujimoto
On to first and Tucker is gone
One gone for FOFC

It's a wicked breaking ball
Out of the strike zone
Pflaggstettler checks his swing
Nomura appeals to the first base umpire
Take a seat, Persimmon
Two men gone, nobody on
FOFC leads by 5

Fastball, busted in on the hands
Potpie manages to get a piece of it
Bouncing it over the mound
Matsubara cuts it off in front of the bag
Rifles a throw to Oh...
And Potpie is called out on a close play
That is the third out for FOFC here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 46873

Top 8

Rodney comes in to pitch for the FOFC All Stars

Baltimore chop
Into right for a single!

Bobby Valentine will send
up a pinch hitter
Hideji Kato steps out of the dugout!
He will be up there against Rodney

Fastball down low...
Kato swings and hits one out to center
A. J. Tucker is drifting over...
Now he's under it...
Easy out for Rodney
Kawakami trots back to first
With one down

Potpie yells something out to Rodney
James nods his head

Base hit to center for Suzuki
Third base coach Bob Horner
doesn't want to gamble
Nothing ventured, nothing gained...
Kawakami will stay at second

Drilled on the ground to second
Taken by Blade
Throws to second
He's out
To first
Double Play!
Score It: 4-6-3
So that's it for Japanese League
They fail to score against Rodney
In the top of the 8th for Japanese League
No runs, 2 hits, no errors
and one man left on base
Hideo Nomo will be coming on to
pitch for Japanese League
Hideo has appeared in 2 games this season
with a record of 0-2
In 12 innings, he has an 8.25 ERA
Hideo Fujimoto has finished his work
here this evening
Japanese League's defensive changes are...
Kato will bat 9th and play CF

Bottom 8

Fouts hits a fly ball to center
Hideji Kato camps under it
He's got it
One down for FOFC
Harry Hays is still in the on-deck circle
and Gerald Gazelle is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Swung on and hit sharply to short
Matsubara plays it on one bounce
Over to Oh...
Out of there!
Two away

Nomo misses low on that one
Gazelle draws the walk
Number 1 today by Nomo

Taking his lead is Gazelle
Nomo is paying a lot of
attention to Gazelle
They want to hold Gazelle close
He's excellent on the basepaths
Now he throws over...
It's close...
SAFE

Treacy pinch hitting for Rodney hits a routine grounder to second
Kawakami comes up with it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 4-3
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
So After 8 innings
FOFC has 9 runs, 11 hits and one error
While Japanese League has 4 runs,
8 hits and no errors
FOFC has left 3 stranded
Japanese League has failed
to bring home 10

Top 9

Fozborg pitching for the FOFC All Stars

Nomura sends a wicked smash in the hole
Fouts can't cut it off
Nights makes a great backhand stab
Leaps and fires to Potpie
Katsuya is out on a bang-bang play!
Great play by Jeff Nights!
One away in the top of the
9th for Japanese League

Oh slaps a hard grounder past second
Pflaggstettler is over to pick it up
He tosses it back to second
Oh will hold with a clean single

Dribbler to first
Potpie will take it himself
Score It: 3
FOFC ahead 9 to 4 with
two away this inning

Big slow curve...
And it's in there, strike three
And that will do it for Japanese League
FOFC wins 9 to 4
Williams gets credit for the win
Kaneda takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Gerald Gazelle
He was 2 for 3 with a homerun
He also knocked in 3 runs
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.

[Breeze]

GAME 9 - Wednesday, April 11th - Boxscore


HOF Players AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG
I.Suzuki RF 5 0 1 0 .159 B.Blade 2B 4 1 1 0 .333
I.Harimoto CF 4 1 2 2 .182 J.Nights SS 4 1 2 0 .261
H.Nomo P 0 0 0 0 .500 A.Tucker CF 4 1 2 2 .364
K.Nomura C 4 0 0 0 .289 P.Pflaggstettler RF 4 2 2 2 .419
S.Oh 1B 3 1 2 0 .167 J.Potpie 1B 3 0 1 0 .286
K.Yamamoto LF 5 0 0 0 .158 D.Fouts 3B 4 1 0 0 .200
S.Nagashima 3B 4 0 1 2 .244 H.Hays C 4 1 1 1 .273
M.Matsubara SS 4 0 1 0 .211 G.Gazelle LF 3 2 2 3 .667
T.Kawakami 2B 4 1 2 0 .382 J.Williams P 3 0 0 1 .000
M.Kaneda P 0 0 0 0 .000 J.Rodney P 0 0 0 0 ----
T.Yoneda P 0 0 0 0 ---- E-S.Treacy PH 1 0 0 0 .250
A-T.Wakamatsu PH 0 1 0 0 .286 S.Fozborg P 0 0 0 0 ----
K.Suzuki P 0 0 0 0 ----
B-H.Ochiai PH 1 0 0 0 .000
V.Starffin P 0 0 0 0 .000
C-K.Yazawa PH 1 0 0 0 .000
H.Fujimoto P 0 0 0 0 .000
D-H.Kato PH,CF 1 0 0 0 .500
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
Totals 36 4 9 4 Totals 34 9 11 9

A-Pinch Hit For Yoneda In 3rd Inning
B-Pinch Hit For Suzuki In 4th Inning
C-Pinch Hit For Starffin In 6th Inning
D-Pinch Hit For Fujimoto In 8th Inning
E-Pinch Hit For Rodney In 8th Inning

HOF Players..... 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 - 4 9 0
All Stars....... 7 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 - 9 11 1

HOF Players IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
M.Kaneda LOSS(0-2) 0 1/3 6 7 7 0 0 0 35 8.79
T.Yoneda 1 2/3 3 1 1 0 0 1 34 10.12
K.Suzuki 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 10 0.00
V.Starffin 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 25 0.75
H.Fujimoto 2 1 1 1 0 2 1 26 9.35
H.Nomo 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 15 7.62
Totals 8 11 9 9 1 3 2

All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
J.Williams WIN(1-0) 7 6 4 4 6 3 0 125 5.14
J.Rodney 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 15 4.50
S.Fozborg 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 11 3.00
Totals 9 9 4 4 6 4 0

ATTENDANCE- 46,873 DATE- Wednesday, April 11th 1900 TIME- Night
T- 2:20
LEFT ON BASE- HOF Players:11 All Stars: 3
DOUBLE PLAYS- HOF Players: 0 All Stars: 1
ERRORS- J.Nights
DOUBLES- J.Nights(1st), G.Gazelle(1st)
TRIPLES- S.Nagashima(1st)
HOME RUNS- P.Pflaggstettler(2nd), G.Gazelle(1st)
STOLEN BASES- A.Tucker(3rd)
CAUGHT STEALING- J.Nights
WALKS- I.Harimoto, K.Nomura, S.Oh-2, S.Nagashima, T.Wakamatsu, G.Gazelle
HIT BY PITCH- J.Potpie
STRIKE OUTS- I.Suzuki, K.Nomura-2, S.Nagashima, P.Pflaggstettler, G.Gazelle,
J.Williams
GIDP- I.Harimoto
WILD PITCHES- J.Williams

[Breeze]

FOFC - Manager Update

You have got to love it when your 5th starter gets spotted an early lead, and Williams with an early lead can be tough, because he typically has pretty good control. I know he walked 6, which is way to many, but I think he felt giving into the strike zone in those instances were unnecessary, and he had kept them off the board pretty good until the last inning. I probably should have pulled him an inning earlier, but I felt he was going good enough to get 1 more inning, and he hadn't played all year, so I threw him a bone.

I slept in this morning, only getting up in time to kiss my oldest before he got on the bus. I arrive at work, and since I didn't hang around to watch Sportscenter with the guys and I didn't really watch the out of town scoreboard in the outfield, I pick up the paper to see what happened around the league last night...

[Breeze]

The National Herald - Thursday, April 12th



[1]NEGRO LEAGUE I AT TURN OF CENTURY
Ones............ 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 - 2 5 2
Centurions...... 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 3 - 7 8 1
Win:Mathewson(1-1) Loss:Day(1-1)
Homeruns- O.Charleston(6th)

Christy Mathewson pitched 9 strong innings and Joe Kelley had 2 base hits and
3 RBI as the Turn of Century Centurions defeated the Negro League I Ones 7 to
2 at Yellowstone Park.

Mathewson(1-1) was very good in the win. He allowed just 5 hits and 1 walk in
9 innings lowering his ERA from 4.50 to 3.13. Turn of Century rapped out 8
hits for the afternoon.

Leon Day(1-1) was given the loss. 'He had his 'A' game today,' Connie Mack
said of Mathewson. 'Very impressive performance.'

[1]LATE 20TH AT AL PRE WWII
Modern Stars.... 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 - 4 8 0
Pre-Americans... 4 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 - 7 12 0
Win:Lyons(2-0) Loss:Sutter(0-1)
Homeruns- E.Murray(4th), C.Gehringer(2nd), B.Ruth(4th)

Ted Lyons went the distance at Glory Stadium as the AL Pre WWII club beat the
Late 20th Modern Stars 7 to 4.

AL Pre WWII took the lead for keeps in the 7th inning when they scored 3 runs
on 4 hits. The key offensive moment was provided by Rick Ferrell who came
through for the home fans when he stroked a base-hit scoring two baserunners.
AL Pre WWII banged out 12 on the afternoon.

The win went to Lyons(2-0) who allowed 4 runs in the game. Bruce Sutter(0-1)
took the loss in relief. He was hit hard and gave up 5 hits and 2 walks in 2
innings.


[1]CARIBBEAN AT NL POST WWII
Estrellas....... 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 - 6 8 0
Post-Nationals.. 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 1 - 7 11 0
Win:Marichal(3-0) Loss:Garcia(1-1)
Homeruns- P.Cepeda(3rd), O.Linares(3rd), J.Morgan(2nd), S.Musial(2nd),
E.Mathews(1st), B.Gibson(1st)

Third baseman Eddie Mathews hit a homerun and had 3 RBI as the NL Post WWII
ballclub won a dandy at Big League Field over the Caribbean Estrellas, 7 to
6.

NL Post WWII won the game with a run in the bottom of the 9th inning. After an
out was recorded, Pete Rose doubled. After another out, Roberto Clemente
stepped in and he smacked a single resulting in a mighty exciting win for NL
Post WWII and the 34,802 home town fans in attendance. NL Post WWII had 11
hits for the night while Caribbean had 8.

Juan Marichal(3-0) got credit for the victory, pitching 1/3 of an inning and
allowing no runs. The losing pitcher was Mike Garcia(1-1) in relief.


[1]NL PRE WWII AT AL POST WWII
Pre-Nationals... 1 0 2 0 0 0 5 0 1 - 9 13 0
Post-Americans.. 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 - 6 8 2
Win:Grimes(2-0) Loss:Feller(0-3) Save:Vance(1st)
Homeruns- T.Williams(3rd), R.Jackson(1st), R.Yount(1st)

Burleigh Grimes had 3 base hits and 2 RBI as the NL Pre WWII team outscored
the AL Post WWII team 9 to 6.

Grimes(2-0) pitched well enough to earn the win. He surrendered 7 hits and 7
walks in 8 and 2/3 innings and surrendered 3 'round-trippers'. Due to a
poorly pitched ballgame, scoring in 5 different innings was still not enough
for AL Post WWII to come away with the victory.

Grimes was helped out by Dazzy Vance who recorded his 1st save. Bob
Feller(0-3) was the loser. He was touched for 11 hits and 3 walks in 6 and
2/3 innings.


DEAD BALL ERA AT LEFT OUTS
Ghosts.......... 1 1 2 2 3 1 0 0 0 - 10 17 0
Leftovers....... 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 - 5 10 2
Win:Johnson(2-1) Loss:Roberts(0-1)
Homeruns- E.Collins-2(4th), M.Cochrane(1st), D.Snider(2nd), J.Foxx-2(7th)

Eddie Collins smashed 2 homeruns and had 3 RBI and Walter Johnson tossed a
complete game as the Dead Ball Era Ghosts topped the Left Outs Leftovers by a
score of 10 to 5 at Overshadow Pk.

Collins had a big day against Left Outs. He cracked a solo homerun in the 1st
inning and popped a two-run clout over the fence (his 4th of the season) in
the 4th inning. Dead Ball Era simply wore out the Left Outs pitching staff,
scoring in 6 different innings.

Johnson(2-1) picked up the complete game victory, allowing 5 runs. Robin
Roberts(0-1) absorbed the loss. He was unable to control the Dead Ball Era
offense and allowed 12 hits and 2 walks in 4 and 1/3 innings.


[1]NEGRO LEAGUE II AT OLD TIMERS
Twos............ 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 - 2 11 0
Ancients........ 1 1 1 1 5 0 0 0 - 9 12 1
Win:Clarkson(1-2) Loss:Wickware(1-2)
Homeruns- W.Brown(1st), G.Kelly(3rd)

John Clarkson was able to finish what he started and was credited with a
complete game as the Old Timers Ancients beat the Negro League II Twos by a
score of 9 to 2.

Old Timers jumped out to the early lead in the first inning scoring a single
run using 3 hits. Old Timers totaled 12 on the afternoon.

The winning pitcher was Clarkson(1-2) who allowed 2 runs for the game. Frank
Wickware(1-2) suffered the loss. He struggled with his control issuing 7
walks in 4 and 1/3 innings.


[1]JAPANESE LEAGUE AT FOFC
HOF Players..... 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 - 4 9 0
All Stars....... 7 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 - 9 11 1
Win:Williams(1-0) Loss:Kaneda(0-2)
Homeruns- P.Pflaggstettler(2nd), G.Gazelle(1st)

Gerald Gazelle hit one over the fence and had 3 RBI as the FOFC All Stars
defeated the Japanese League HOF Players by a score of 9 to 4 at FOFC
Stadium.

John Williams(1-0) contributed a pedestrian performance to earn the win. He
went 7 innings allowing 6 hits and 6 walks. FOFC managed 11 in their
victory.

Masaichi Kaneda(0-2) was hit with the loss. He gave up 7 runs and 6 hits in
1/3 of an inning.

[Breeze]

FOFC - Manager Update

After reading the paper, I check the league website so see if it's updated

Dynasty League Baseball (http://officepimps.com/baseball/)


And I'm pleased to see the information includes last nights games.

[Chas in Cinti]

Any way to get player stats on the website?

-Chas

[Blade]

Any way to get player stats on the website?

-Chas

They are there...just click on the team name...

[Breeze]

Any way to get player stats on the website?

-Chas


Hey Chas,

Sure - the infos there. Each team name is a link to player stats, then every player name is a link to more specific information including lefty/righty breakdowns, obp, slugging %, and more.

I believe the links at the top for league leaders will also create lists of names that are clickable and the team stats should be clickable to the same player stats page you can access from league records page.


EDIT - looks like Blade beat me to it and boy was he more consise :D

[Breeze]

FOFC - Team Update

"Well things continue to roll right now, " Howser says.

"Yeap, the big lead early sure was helpful." I reply

"Gazelle played a hell of game."

"I know, I'm going to keep playing him against lefties for now. I need to find him and tell him. I also need to track down some players and talk with them as well. I know we are 8 and 1, and I know that everyone should be happy with that, but these guys are all great players and I'm sure none of them want to be sitting on the bench - so I'm going to reassure them that they'll be getting their shots and not so worry about it."

"Who you going to talk to?" Howser asks, "Treacy, I'm sure."

"Yeah, Treacy. Probably need to catch up with Terp, that ones playing time has really dropped. If we weren't facing a lefty last night Terp probably would have started. Who else?" I pause as I think, "Ton can't be too happy, especially seeing Gazelle have a good night. With Tucker and Pflaggstettler killing the ball, Gazelle playing well against the lefty and Gunner hitting well enough to justify playing against RH pitchers, he's got to feel he's slipped down the depth chart."

"Probably right," Howser chimes in.

"You suggest anyone else?" I ask.

"I think everyone else is rotating in enough for now."

[Breeze]

FOFC - Player Update

I left notes in the lockers of the players I wanted to speak too, and Treacy is the first to walk into my office. I'm studying the scouting reports - well actually I'm eating more than studying...

"Treacy, I wanted to appologize for not getting you more playing time. It's just real hard to pull Blade out of games right now, the guy has over a .400 OBP and SLG percentage. He's scoring runs, stealing bases and I'm not telling you anything you don't already know - he's better defensively that you. I am going to get you some playing time soon though. I actually have a thought on how I can work you into some games."

He responds, "You don't need to explain yourself to me. I'm here for the team ... whatever I can do to help. If you want me to pick up sunflower seed shells in the bullpen, I'm your man. Just know that I will be ready to play whenever you ask!"

"I appreciate that attitude, and that attitude has a lot to do with why we've been successful to far. Thanks Treacy, and by the way. Field some balls at 3b today. Fouts and Palmer are struggling so I might give you a few at bats at the hot corner."

He turns and walks out.

[Breeze]

FOFC - Player Update

Gazelle after seeing my note walks in. He has a huge :D on his face and seems to me moving a little quicker - I guess a 2 for 3 night with a homerun in your first action of the season will do that for you...

"Great game son. I'm really proud of you, your attitude, patience and performance. Apparently the time off didn't affect your timing too badly. You played so well for the time being I'm going to let you start against all left handers."

He answers, "Well, Skip, I wasn't mad at you for sittin'-- particularly the way I stank up the joint in spring. But I was determined to put a hurtin' on whichever pitcher I faced first.

"I've never played angry before. Everything's always been so easy. But I think it helped me focus. I'm looking forward to getting back in there."

I smile turn and walk off, without turning around I yell back, "I'm going to have to come up with a way to keep you pissed off...I can probably do that."

[Breeze]

FOFC - Player Update

I'm sitting at my desk studying scounting reports trying to determine the best way to attack the Late 20th Century's sluggers when Terp walks in.

"Terp, I wanted to talk to you. I want to make sure you realize that you'll be getting plenty of playing time through the year, and not to be too concerned about your lack of play recently."

"Hey coach! Im ok with it. I've been kinda in a funk lately, not sure why I haven't been able to swing the bat as well. Maybe it had something to do with that collision a couple games back."

"Hopefully one of these days I'll get back out there and prove that my slump is just temporary...until then, no worries. :)"

I nod, and say encouragingly, "Don't worry, you'll get back in again, and soon."

[Breeze]

FOFC - Player Update

I leave my office, looking for Ton, I got tired of waiting around for him to show. I find him in the underground batting cages, smashing balls into the back net.

"Ton, can you turn off the pitching machine for a second?"

He complies.

"Ton, I know you want to have a lot more than 13 at bats, but I really have a hard time right now working you in. Pflaggstettler is playing out of his mind, and I need to ride him while he's hot. Tucker is getting on base regularly and is a great table setter with speed. That leaves 1 spot for Gunner, Gazelle, and you. I'm sure before the season is over you'll be playing regularly, just be patient."[/QUOTE]

Ton shrugs. "I can't very well complain about your lineup selections when the team's winning all its games. I'll wait."

I nod and give him a few words of encouragement before I leave. As I'm heading back to my office I think to myself 'boy do we have a great group of guys'.

[Breeze]

GAME 10 - Thursday, April 12th - Radio Broadcast

Top 1

Biggio swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Babson strikes out Craig Biggio
One away in the top of the
1st for Late 20th

STRIKE THREE, CALLED!
That's two away

Murray starts... but lays
off the pitch upstairs
Ball four, Babson walks him

Hot shot grounded to the mound
Babson grabs it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 1-3
After one-half inning
It's Late 20th nothing, the
All Stars coming up

Bottom 1

Sinking fastball...
Blade swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Boggs...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
So one up and one gone

Sharp breaking curveball...
Nights reaches for it...
Hits a two bouncer right to Ripken...
Grabs it easily...
Fires a bullet to Murray at first!
Nights is out easily
Here's the ump coming out
To brush the plate clean
There's two away

High heater from Johnson...
Tucker cuts at it...
Hits a bouncer right side...
It goes by the diving Biggio and Murray
It's into right for a single
Tucker takes his turn and holds at first

Tucker is taking his lead from first
Tucker has to hold tight to the bag

The pitch gets away from Johnson
Piazza can't handle it
Charge a wild pitch to Johnson

Change up, on the inside corner...
Pflaggstettler was looking for it...
He hammers the pitch...
It's a deep fly to left-center
It's into the alley...
That will score a run
Pflaggstettler is in at second
standing with a double
All Rice could do was keep him
from getting a triple

There's a routine pop by Potpie
Ripken moves under it and
makes the routine catch
At the end of one inning,...
FOFC ahead 1 to 0

Top 2

Sinking line drive
Caught by Jeff Nights
One gone for Late 20th

Grounded down the line
Potpie flips to Babson covering
Score It: 3-1
That's two away
Nights comes over from his shortstop
position to say a few words to Babson
Gary Carter will be next up...

Hard ground ball to first
Potpie to Babson covering first
Score It: 3-1
Babson shuts down Late 20th here
in the top of the 2nd
So FOFC still with the lead
as we go to a commercial break

Bottom 2

Excellent sinker pitch, outside...
Bullock gets good wood on it anyway
There's no doubt, that one is outta here!!
Bullock circles the bases
As Johnson asks for a new
ball from the umpire
Now FOFC ahead 2 to 0

The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
Palmer held up, and draws a walk
Johnson isn't happy at all with that call

Swing and a miss
Strike three
Gazelle goes down on strikes
One down for FOFC
Brian Babson is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to
the plate for FOFC

Swung on and missed...
Babson is down on strikes
That's the second out of the inning
Time to check the scoreboard

NL Pre WWII and Japanese League
are deadlocked at 1
AL Pre WWII and Caribbean
are all knotted at 1
NL Post WWII is edging Negro
League II 1 to 0
Turn of Century is edging
Dead Ball Era 2 to 1
Negro League I leads Left Outs 1 to 0

Palmer watches Johnson move...
He's moving away from the bag
Curve, inside corner...
Palmer's on his way to second!
He couldn't resist
after getting a very nice lead
The throw by Piazza...
Hook slide...
Out!
Nice throw

Top 3

Good slider, inside part of the plate
Winfield gets the bat on it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Blade grabs it...
Throws to first...
OUT!
And there's one away

Johnson swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Babson strikes out Randy Johnson
With two gone, FOFC ahead 2 to
0 in the top of the 3rd

Fastball, STRIKE THREE!
Biggio was frozen on that
fastball by Babson
High and on the outside corner
He was looking for an off-speed pitch
That's all she wrote
A three up, three down inning
So After 2 and a half innings
FOFC on top, 2-0

Bottom 3

Blade hits a screamer at Craig Biggio
Biggio picks it up and fires to first
The throw pulls Murray off the bag
Murray swipes with the glove

Blade is out!
Nice play by Murray
FOFC with one away
Johnson steps off the mound as
he waits for Jeff Nights to
come to the plate

Sinker, at the knees...
Swung on...
Nights hits it into the hole
on the right side
Biggio ranging to his left...
Scoops it up...
Throws on the run...
And Nights is out by a step at first
One more chance for FOFC this inning

Tucker hits a deep fly ball into the alley
Dave Winfield chases it down
But the ball hits the base of the wall
Winfield hits the wall and
falls to the ground
Tucker is into third with a triple
Now they check on Winfield
He's okay
That ball hit right at the
base of the fence
399 feet from home plate

Lunging after the change-up
Pflaggstettler hits a grounder
through to right...
Scoring from third is Tucker
Credit Pflaggstettler with
a single and an RBI

Pflaggstettler takes his lead
Fastball at the knees...
The runner breaks for second!
Piazza pumps...
but no throw, he holds onto the ball
He is SAFE!

Johnson jams him with a fastball
Swung on and topped out toward short
Ripken is up with it...
Over to Murray at first
And Potpie beats it out!
Pflaggstettler advances on the play

Bullock hits a sharp grounder
to Randy Johnson
It rolls up his arm
Johnson can't find the handle
Bullock is safe on the error by Johnson

Palmer swings...
He hits it to deep left...
Rice is at the fence...
This one is going... going.....


CAUGHT!!!
Jim Rice makes a great catch
at the fence!

Unbelievable!!!
The crowd is giving him
quite the applause
That retires the side...
2 runs cross the plate for FOFC
After 3 innings, FOFC leads 4 to 0

Top 4

There's a towering fly ball hit by Boggs
Pflaggstettler sprints over,
and makes the catch
One down for Late 20th
Eddie Murray is still in
the on-deck circle
and Mike Piazza is looking
for a bat in the dugout

There's a liner over short...
Solidly stroked by Murray
No chance for either Nights or Gazelle
That one had base hit written all over it

It's a scorching liner to the short stop
OUT!
Nights didn't have to move!
Murray stays put
Two gone for Late 20th

Bouncer up the middle and
past Barrett Blade...
Base hit into center field!
Third base coach Jimmy Williams
holds the runner, Murray

Hot line drive to first
It's into the outfield for a base hit!
Murray scores from second!
Rice takes third

Carter swings awkwardly... strike three
Babson took something off
of that breaking ball
He had Carter way out in front
That's all for the Modern
Stars in the 4th inning
They get 1 run across
Midway through the 4th inning,
the All Stars still lead, 4-1

Bottom 4

Curve in the dirt... and Gazelle holds up
Looked like he went around from here
But the plate umpire says no
Piazza asks the first base ump's opinion
He says Gazelle went around
Strike three, swinging
One up, one down for FOFC

Grounded towards the sack
Taken by Boggs
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 5-3
Two down
Johnson retires two in a row

Blade tries to hold up
Piazza points down at the
first base umpire
The ump says he went around
STRIKE THREE!
That'll do it in the bottom of the 4th
No runs, no hits and no errors
FOFC ahead 4 to 1
And now we'll pause for station
identification
This is your Strat-O-Matic
Broadcast System...

Top 5

Curveball in the dirt
Swung on and missed...Strike three
Bullock fumbles it,
but quickly recovers to tag Winfield
One out
Due up next is Randy Johnson

It's a duck snort headed
towards the outfield
Nights is after it...
Running hard...
He snares it for the out
Excellent range shown on that play!
Two up, two down for Late 20th

Swung on and hit sharply to second
Blade plays it on one hop
Over to Potpie...
Out of there!
1-2-3, nothing across...

Bottom 5

Struck him out on a fastball
Nights goes down swinging
That's one away

Tucker cuts on a curve that
misses in the dirt
That ball is trapped nicely by Piazza
Tucker was badly fooled by Johnson's
big breaking curve
STRIKE THREE!
A. J. was a little overanxious
Two down

Breaking ball...
It darts down and out
as Pflaggstettler swings way over it
He was fooled completely
Piazza loses it momentarily,
but now finds the handle and tags
Persimmon as he was heading for the dugout
So it is nothing across for the All
Stars in the bottom of the 5th
After 5 innings
FOFC has 4 runs, 6 hits and no errors
While Late 20th has one run,
3 hits and one error

Top 6

Changeup down low...
Boggs makes contact and
hits one out to left
Gerald Gazelle is drifting over...
Now he's under it...
Easy out for Babson
One up, one down

Bouncer in the hole
and past Palmer into left field
Base hit to the opposite field!
That one had eyes on it
Eddie Murray can handle a bat
Hence his .343 average

Swung on and missed
Strike Three!
Piazza couldn't lay off the high fast ball
Number 7 on the day for Babson
FOFC leads 4 to 1 with
two away this inning

Soft liner to short
Nights makes a nice play on it
Score It: 6
We head to the bottom of the 6th
here in FOFC...
Still 4-1, FOFC

Bottom 6

Potpie takes the pitch
STRIKE THREE, is the call
Potpie can't believe it and
says something to the ump
Chalk up a whiff for Johnson
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

NL Pre WWII is on top of
Japanese League 3 to 1
AL Pre WWII is on top of Caribbean 3 to 1
NL Post WWII leads Negro League II 1 to 0
Turn of Century is comfortably ahead
of Dead Ball Era 11 to 5
Negro League I is in front
of Left Outs 3 to 0

Topped in front of home
Piazza grabs it
Over to Murray
Got him!
Score It: 2-3
And there's two away

Palmer hits one toward third
Boggs fronts it...
Oops, he bobbles it...
Now he has the handle...
Long throw to first
Got Palmer by three steps!
Man, that is one slow truck horse
on the base paths!
That ends the bottom of the 6th
After 6 innings, the All Stars lead by 3

Top 7

Swung on and hit sharply to short
Nights plays it on one bounce
Over to Potpie...
Out of there!

Carter rips one to right
He hit it right on the nose...
Pflaggstettler is off to the races...
He is coming fast...
He dives...

OUT!
Nice play by Persimmon Pflaggstettler

Winfield pulls one into left field
Hooking away from Gazelle
Gerald is there
This one would end the inning...
He's got it for the out
And that will do it for Late 20th

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

Bottom 7

Change up...
Gazelle hits a fly ball to right
Carter is under it...
He's got it
Late 20th gets the first out of the inning

Fastball, swung on and missed
Take a seat Mr. Babson!
Late 20th gets the second
out of the inning

Blade pounds a grounder
toward Boggs at third
Wade moves in front of it...
Whoops... a bad bounce
But Boggs stayed with it
Over to first and Blade is retired
Nice play by the Late 20th third baseman
Three away here in the bottom of the 7th
After 7 innings FOFC ahead 4 to 1
The official attendance has
just been announced
48982 fans here at FOFC
Stadium this evening

Top 8

Bobby Cox will send up a pinch
hitter for Randy Johnson
Yes, Rickey Henderson steps
out of the dugout
He will be up there against Babson

Henderson hits a fly ball to left
Gerald Gazelle camps under it
He's got it
FOFC gets the first out
here late in this contest

Grounded back to the mound
Babson comes up with it
Tosses it to first and gets him
FOFC gets the second out of the inning

There's a fly ball to A. J. Tucker
Tucker circles under it...
This one would end the inning...
He makes the play
That's all for Late 20th
After 7 and a half innings
in FOFC this evening,
FOFC ahead 4 to 1
Bobby Cox will be bringing
in a relief pitcher
John Franco has been called
from the bullpen
A few warm up tosses and
we'll be set to go

Bottom 8

There's a cue shot off the
end of the bat by Nights
Murray makes the routine catch
of the soft liner
So one up and one gone

Curveball, breaking in on him
DOWN HE GOES!...
It missed him for ball four
Tucker's slow getting up...
Here comes Tay Pemup the trainer...
He looks OK, just shaken up a bit...
Tucker heads down to first

Tucker sneaks away from the base
Franco tosses another quick
one to first...
Even the speedy Tucker looks
a bit tentative now...
He doesn't seem to be getting a great lead

Swung on and chopped to the left of third
Boggs comes up with it
Sidearms it to Murray
And Persimmon beats the throw!
It must be the shoes!

Flyball to center
it's caught
Tucker has a chance to move up...
Tucker is trying to advance
to third base...
Here's the play...
He's SAFE!

Pflaggstettler watches Franco carefully
As he stretches out his lead
Franco holds the runner

Bullock swings and lifts one toward right
Carter drifts over slowly...
He is under it now...
And makes the easy catch...
The All Stars fail to capitalize
So for FOFC in the bottom of the 8th, No
runs, one hit, no errors and 2 men left on base
nd 2 men left on base

Top 9

There's a ground ball
between first and second
OH, Potpie snags it in short right field
He throws it to the pitcher
covering the bag
OUT is the call
What a play by Potpie
While we wait for Mike Piazza
to get a new bat
Let's check the scoreboard
These scores are final...
NL Pre WWII nipped Japanese League 4 to 3
AL Pre WWII gets an easy win
over Caribbean 7 to 1
NL Post WWII downed Negro League II 2 to 0
Redding takes the loss, his
record drops to 1-2
Bunning the winner, he's now 1-2
Turn of Century ripped Dead
Ball Era 12 to 6
Negro League I toppled Left Outs 7 to 3
Stearnes has hit his 2nd homerun
for Negro League I
And in our contest FOFC ahead 4 to 1
OK, let's see if Late 20th can
get back in this ballgame
Currently down by 3

It's a smash over third
Palmer leaps
Just over his outstretched glove
Piazza makes a wide turn at first
He will hold at first
The ball comes in quickly

Rice raps a hard grass cutter toward short
Nights takes two steps to his left
Scoops it up
Over to second for one
Back to first for the deuce!
And that will do it for Late 20th
FOFC wins 4 to 1
Babson gets credit for the win
Johnson takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Persimmon Pflaggstettler
He was 3 for 4
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.

[Breeze]

GAME 10 - Thursday, April 12th - Boxscore


Modern Stars AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG
C.Biggio 2B 4 0 0 0 .000 B.Blade 2B 4 0 0 0 .297
W.Boggs 3B 4 0 0 0 .349 J.Nights SS 4 0 0 0 .222
E.Murray 1B 3 1 2 0 .333 A.Tucker CF 3 2 2 0 .389
M.Piazza C 4 0 1 0 .400 P.Pflaggstettler RF 4 1 3 2 .457
J.Rice LF 4 0 1 0 .300 J.Potpie 1B 4 0 1 0 .280
C.Ripken SS 3 0 1 1 .378 B.Bullock C 4 1 1 1 .250
G.Carter RF 3 0 0 0 .212 D.Palmer 3B 2 0 0 0 .188
D.Winfield CF 3 0 0 0 .083 G.Gazelle LF 3 0 0 0 .333
R.Johnson P 2 0 0 0 .143 B.Babson P 3 0 0 0 .167
A-R.Henderson PH 1 0 0 0 .214
J.Franco P 0 0 0 0 ----
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
Totals 31 1 5 1 Totals 31 4 7 3

A-Pinch Hit For Johnson In 8th Inning

Modern Stars.... 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 - 1 5 1
All Stars....... 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 - 4 7 0

Modern Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
R.Johnson LOSS(2-1) 7 6 4 3 1 9 1 99 3.00
J.Franco 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 15 6.00
Totals 8 7 4 3 2 9 1

All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
B.Babson WIN(2-0) 9 5 1 1 1 7 0 120 2.25
Totals 9 5 1 1 1 7 0

ATTENDANCE- 48,982 DATE- Thursday, April 12th 1900 TIME- Night
T- 1:31
LEFT ON BASE- Modern Stars: 4 All Stars: 5
DOUBLE PLAYS- Modern Stars: 0 All Stars: 1
ERRORS- R.Johnson
DOUBLES- P.Pflaggstettler(2nd)
TRIPLES- A.Tucker(3rd)
HOME RUNS- B.Bullock(1st)
STOLEN BASES- P.Pflaggstettler(1st)
CAUGHT STEALING- D.Palmer
WALKS- E.Murray, A.Tucker, D.Palmer
STRIKE OUTS- C.Biggio-2, W.Boggs, M.Piazza, G.Carter, D.Winfield, R.Johnson,
B.Blade, J.Nights, A.Tucker, P.Pflaggstettler, J.Potpie,
G.Gazelle-2, B.Babson-2
GIDP- J.Rice
WILD PITCHES- R.Johnson

[SirFozzie]

Pitchers are a scary lot. Especially middle relievers. When things are going bad, they're out there 3-4 times a week, in situations that no one cares about. But when things are going GOOD.. they have nothing to do. The team's going great, everyone's happy.. but bored pitchers are dangerous pitchers. Especially in the bullpen.

Prior to the next FOFC game, the bullpen pitchers (The All-Pines as they're called) grab the skipper's hat and cover the brim with a copious amount of Tiger Balm.. used to relax tight arm muscles, but can feel it's heat.

When the Skipper puts on his hat next, he's in for a rude surprise...


(Keep Up the Good Work :D)

[Blade]

Doh...Blade is going downhill!

Good win, though!

[Breeze]

FOFC - Manager Update


I wake up completely groggy. I stumble around, get a cup of coffee and start searching for the paper, there is something I really want to find out this morning, only I can't put my finger on what it is. I search for quite a while as I sip my coffee, then it dawns on me that the paper is still at the road. I literally smack myself on the side of the head and head outside. I get about 4 steps out the front door and realize it's quite cold. I look down and see that I'm in a torn up teeshirt and my boxers, so I duck back inside, put on some close and a windbreaker and retrieve the paper. By this time, I've realized what I wanted to find out was the Late 20th's projected starters for the next couple of games. I think it's going to be Maddux and Martinez, but I don't follow them that closely, so I wanted to double check that.

I open the paper and the first thing I read is the results from yesterday...

[Breeze]

The National Herald - Friday, April 13th

SPORTS


NEGRO LEAGUE I AT LEFT OUTS
Ones............ 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 1 - 7 9 0
Leftovers....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 - 3 10 1
Win:Rogan(2-1) Loss:Wynn(0-2)
Homeruns- T.Stearnes(2nd), A.Vaughan(2nd)

The Negro League I Ones toppled the Left Outs Leftovers by a 7 to 3 score at
Overshadow Pk.

Negro League I erupted with the game winning runs in the top of the 8th inning
scoring 3 runs on 2 hits. After an out was recorded, Ray Dandridge got
things rolling when he drew a walk. Josh Gibson came next and he drew a
walk. Buck Leonard then doubled bringing in two baserunners. Martin Dihigo
followed and he stroked a base-hit, and an error was also committed, scoring
the final run of the inning. Negro League I managed 9 in their victory.

Bullet Joe Rogan(2-1) went 8 innings allowing 3 runs for the victory. Early
Wynn(0-2) absorbed the loss in relief. He pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up
no hits and 2 walks.


NL PRE WWII AT JAPANESE LEAGUE
Pre-Nationals... 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 - 4 10 1
HOF Players..... 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 - 3 5 1
Win:Alexander(2-1) Loss:Suzuki(0-1)
Homeruns- J.Mize(3rd), M.Ott(5th)

Pete Alexander pitched a complete game at Nintendo Field where the NL Pre WWII
club beat the Japanese League HOF Players by the score of 4 to 3.

NL Pre WWII won the game with a run in the top of the 9th inning. After an
out was recorded, Kiki Cuyler singled. Pie Traynor stepped up next and he
doubled scoring the run. NL Pre WWII finished with 10 hits in the victory.

Alexander(2-1) finished the game allowing 3 runs in the victory. Keishi
Suzuki(0-1) was hit with the loss in relief. He allowed 3 hits and no walks
in 2 innings.

NL POST WWII AT NEGRO LEAGUE II
Post-Nationals.. 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 2 6 1
Twos............ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 3 0
Win:Bunning(1-2) Loss:Redding(1-2)

Jim Bunning pitched a 3 hit shutout at Shadowball Stadium where the NL Post
WWII ballclub beat the Negro League II Twos 2 to 0.

Bunning(1-2) put on a good performance. He allowed just 3 hits and 5 walks in
9 innings lowering his ERA from 6.00 to 2.40. NL Post WWII finished with
just 6 hits in the victory.

Cannonball Redding(1-2) took the loss. He allowed just 1 run and 4 hits in 8
innings.

TURN OF CENTURY AT DEAD BALL ERA
Centurions...... 2 0 2 1 0 6 1 0 0 - 12 19 1
Ghosts.......... 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 - 6 7 4
Win:Young(2-1) Loss:Walsh(1-2)

Cy Young was able to finish what he started and was credited with a complete
game as the Turn of Century Centurions topped the Dead Ball Era Ghosts by a
score of 12 to 6 at Deadball Park.

Turn of Century tallied 6 runs in the 6th inning with the help of 5 hits. The
critical plate appearance was by Jimmy Collins who disappointed the partisan
crowd when he laced a one-base hit scoring two baserunners. Turn of Century
banged out 19 on the afternoon.

The victory went to Young(2-1) who went the distance allowing 6 runs. The
losing pitcher was Ed Walsh(1-2). He got hit pretty hard, allowing 14 hits
and 3 walks in 5 and 2/3 innings.


AL PRE WWII AT CARIBBEAN
Pre-Americans... 1 0 0 2 0 0 3 1 0 - 7 12 1
Estrellas....... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 1 5 1
Win:Faber(1-0) Loss:Tiant Sr.(0-3)

Bill Dickey hit 2 doubles and had 3 RBI and Red Faber completed the game
without help from the bullpen as the AL Pre WWII team defeated the Caribbean
Estrellas 7 to 1 at Paradise Park.

Faber(1-0) looked very much in control throughout the day. He didn't allow
much, just 5 hits and 2 walks in 9 innings lowering his ERA to 2.66. AL Pre
WWII had 12 hits for the afternoon.

Luis Tiant Sr.(0-3) was the loser. He allowed a few too many baserunners
giving up 11 hits and 4 walks in 8 innings.

LATE 20TH AT FOFC
Modern Stars.... 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 - 1 5 1
All Stars....... 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 - 4 7 0
Win:Babson(2-0) Loss:Johnson(2-1)
Homeruns- B.Bullock(1st)

Brian Babson came through with a solid 9 innings and Persimmon Pflaggstettler
had 3 base hits and 2 RBI at FOFC Stadium as the FOFC All Stars beat the Late
20th Modern Stars by the count of 4 to 1.

Babson(2-0) escaped virtually unscathed against the Late 20th hitters. He was
stingy on the mound, allowing just 5 hits and 1 walk in 9 innings seeing his
ERA drop from 3.00 to 2.25. Neither team managed to score after the 4th
inning.

Randy Johnson(2-1) was given the loss. He pitched 7 innings allowing 6 hits
and 1 walk.


Note: the website has been updated

[Breeze]

FOFC - Manager Update

I continue to read and discover that my assumptions on starting pitchers was correct, Maddux tonight and Martinez tomorrow. Of course the Late 20s could change that, they have other arms they can go to like Smoltz, Eckersly, and Glavine, but I'm guessing they stick with their guns. What to do about tonight's game? I need to check with Howser to see how Treacy did at third during infield practice, I missed that yesterday. I was on a conference call with the team owner.

[Breeze]

FOFC - Manager Update

I arrrive at the ballpark, head into my office. On my way, I stick my head into Howser's office and say, "Dick, come by my office in a minute, I got something to ask you."

"I'll be by in 5 minues."

"That'd be great, it'll give me time to dress out."

I head to my office and start putting on my uniform. I'm almost completely dressed out when Howser walks in.

"What's up Benton?" he asks.

As I tie my shoes I say, "I asked Treacy to take balls at third last night, how'd he do?"

Howser rolls his eyes, "Well he survived."

"That good?" I ask as I begin looking around for my hat.

"It wasn't pretty. I don't think he fielded anything cleanly. He's probably pretty black and blue this morning."

"So playing him at third isn't a good idea?"

"I wouldnt' recommend it unless we have the plague or something and he's all you got left."

I look up from my search and give him a quizical look.

"OK he's better than that, but as long as Palmer and Fouts are healthy, even if they aren't hitting you have to play one of them. If you put Treacy over their he could kill us defensively."

I nod, "That's what I wanted to know. I'm sorry to hear that, that would have given me a spot where Treacy could have stolen some at bats."

Still looking around, "Have you seen my hat?"

"I saw one on the table outside your office, did you leave it there last night?"

"I thought I left it on my desk," I say as I head that way. I look at the hat and sure enough it's mine. I put it on and say, "So who should we play at 3rd tonight?"

"I don't know. It's pretty much a toss up."

I start scratching my head, "I was thinking of giving Palmer another start, but Fouts can bat left against the right handed pitcher...." I stop talking.

Howser looks at me funny. "You ok," he querries?

I take my hat off, and smell the inside of it, I rub my head and feel a slighty greasy substance. "I think I know why my hat was out here.," I say as I quickly duck back into my office and head for my private bathroom.

Howser walks behind me starting to laugh, guessing at what just transpired. As he walks through my office door, he looks back down into the lockerroom and sees several relief pitchers high-fiving and laughing. He walks into the bathroom and sees me attempting to wash my forehead off with soap.

"Got something in your hat?" he asks with a huge smirk. "Guess some of the guys are bored."

I laugh, "I guess so, now get out, My head is on fire and I'm going to have to get in a shower to get all this mess off."

[SirFozzie]

(tries to hide his laughter and fails completely)

[Breeze]

GAME 11 - Friday, April 13th - Radio Broadcast

note: to tired to clean up the texts tonight

Henderson to start things off...
Did he check his swing?
YES!
He walks
Nice way to start an inning!

Henderson takes his lead from first...
He's challenging Nielsen's pickoff move
Nielsen tosses another quick
one to first...
Even the speedy Henderson looks
a bit tentative now...
He doesn't seem to be getting a great lead

Wade Boggs squares to bunt
And lays it down right to Jeeberoni Potpie
Potpie looks at second
But passes up a possible force play
He fires to first to retire Boggs
But Henderson moves up
There's one out in the top of the 1st
Bullock walks half way to the mound
Says something to Nielsen...
Henderson on second
He's probably making sure that
Nielsen keeps him close

The ball is low and outside
Did he go around?...
Yes!
Two down
Bullock asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Bullock and Nielsen

It's in on the wrists
Mark tried to hold up
Now it appears he will be awarded first...
Yes, Nielsen walks him

Back door breaking ball...
And it's in there...
Puckett looks at strike three
Rob Nielsen holds Late 20th scoreless
in the first inning

A drive to left
Henderson ranges over
He gloves it
Score It: 7

Greg Maddux has signaled for the trainer. He's appears to be rubbing his right forearm. Not sure what this is about...
Whatever it is, Bobby Cox and the trainer are not comfortable with him continuing.

Bobby Cox will be bringing
in a relief pitcher
John Smoltz has been called
from the bullpen
A few warm up tosses and
we'll be set to go

Swung on and popped up
Biggio is waiting...
And that's an easy out
Two down

Tucker raps a hard shot...
CAUGHT!
That ball was lined right at first
McGwire just got his glove up in time
Great reflexes
John Smoltz holds the All Stars
scoreless in the first

Struck him out on a fastball
Ripken goes down swinging
With one down, up next is Craig Biggio
To be followed by Tony Gwynn

Biggio cuts on a curve that
misses in the dirt
That ball is trapped nicely by Bullock
Biggio was badly fooled by Nielsen's
big breaking curve
STRIKE THREE!
Craig was a little overanxious
Two out, nobody on
No score

There's a checked swing...
But Gwynn gets a piece of it anyway
It's a pop fly into center
Tucker comes in on it...
Easy out
Gwynn couldn't get his bat out of the way
Nielsen sets the Modern
Stars down in order

Letterhigh, hard slider...
Swung on...
It's a line drive belted toward Boggs
It's by him...
Henderson comes in...
Plays it off his chest
Recovers quickly, throwing into second
Good defensive recovery
Keeping Pflaggstettler to a single

Apparently not afraid of Smoltz
Pflaggstettler stretches out to his lead
Pflaggstettler gets a great jump...
The pitch...
There goes the runner!
Piazza pumps...
but no throw, he holds onto the ball
He is SAFE!

Smashed into center field
It's a single for Potpie
Pflaggstettler takes third

Pounded on the ground to short
Ripken comes up with it
Over to second for one
Could be two . . .
Double Play!
Score It: 6-4-3
That's the second out of the inning
Time to check the scoreboard

Japanese League slipping
by NL Pre WWII 2 to 0
Kaneda and Hubbell currently dueling
Caribbean is edging AL Pre WWII 1 to 0
Linares has hit his 4th
homerun for Caribbean
Negro League II slipping
by NL Post WWII 2 to 0
Mathis and Marichal currently dueling
Turn of Century and Dead Ball
Era are deadlocked at 1
Negro League I and Left Outs
are deadlocked at 1
Paige battling Jenkins
And in our matchup FOFC ahead 1 to 0

Curveball...
Up in the strike zone...
Swung on and drilled into center
Puckett racing back...
The ball is hit over his head
It hits off the 7 foot high fence
And there's Bullock around first base
Puckett with a strong throw...
But off the bag
Billy comes into second
sliding with a double
That's 2 doubles for Bullock on the year

Looks like they want nothing
to do with Palmer
Deacon is dangerous in situations
like this...
He's being put on to set up the force...

STRIKE THREE!
He swung on a ball that was in the dirt
Nielsen was overanxious up there
That was almost a wild pitch
That ends the bottom of the 2nd
After 2 innings, the All Stars lead by 1

Swing and a miss
Struck him out
Number 21 on the season for Nielsen
Late 20th with one away
Nielsen steps off the mound as
he waits for Rickey Henderson to
come to the plate

Right down the middle... strike three
Henderson must have been looking
for something else
He just froze on that pitch
Two up, two down

Hard slider...
And Boggs takes it right down the middle
Strike three called
That's it for Late 20th
Here at FOFC Stadium, After
2 and a half innings,
FOFC has one run, 3 hits and no errors
While Late 20th has no runs,
no hits and no errors
Late 20th has left 2 on base
FOFC has stranded 2

Blade swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Smoltz strikes out Barrett Blade
One down for FOFC
Jeff Nights is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to
the plate for FOFC

It's juiced to deep center
There goes Puckett
Racing hard...
He dives...
Just out of his reach!
Nights coasts into second


Struck him out on a terrible pitch
That was right over the
heart of the plate
with no movement on it...
and Tucker swung right over the top of it!
Lucky Mr. Smoltz!
One more chance for FOFC this inning

They are issuing a free pass
to Pflaggstettler
Pflaggstettler watches ball four
He takes his base

It's hit high and deep
Gwynn turns and runs
This one is deep!
HE JUMPS . . .
HE'S GOT IT!!!
Score It: 9
The All Stars go down in
the bottom of the 3rd
After 3 innings at FOFC Stadium
here in FOFC,
FOFC ahead 1 to 0

Piazza slaps a hard grounder past second
Pflaggstettler is over to pick it up
He tosses it back to second
Piazza will hold with a clean single

It's a rainbow shot toward center
Tucker reaches up
Makes the catch!
Didn't have to move an inch
One out
Due up next is Kirby Puckett

Puckett checks his swing
Bullock can't come up with it
He blocked it with his body
Piazza is on his way to second
The throw...
Too late
Bullock is charged with a passed ball

Puckett just gets a piece of it
He 'drizzles' it to second
Blade races in quickly...
Barehands it...
Over to first
Just in time!
The runner moves up easily...
And there's two away

This one is fogged right through!
Swung on late by Ripken
Strike Three swinging!
Nielsen gives him his Sunday Pitch
to register strikeout number
8 this evening
That retires the side...
Cal Ripken fails to come
Through in the clutch
That's something you won't see very often

Smoltz comes with his best heat...
And this time it's too much for Ton
As he swings right through
it for strike three
One up, one down here in
the bottom of the 4th

Bullock hits it sharply on the ground...
into the hole at third
Boggs dives...
It's through for a base hit!
He almost got his glove on it...
Bullock reaches on a sizzling
single to left
A nice try by the third
baseman, Wade Boggs

Palmer hits a screamer at Wade Boggs
Boggs picks it up and fires to second
Out there...
And the throw to first
A tailor made double play
That's all for the All Stars
After 4 innings in FOFC this evening,
FOFC ahead 1 to 0

Biggio swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Nielsen strikes out Craig Biggio
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

Japanese League leads NL Pre WWII 2 to 1
Nagashima has hit his 4th homerun
for Japanese League
AL Pre WWII with the lead
over Caribbean 5 to 2
Negro League II is beating
NL Post WWII 4 to 0
Turn of Century and Dead Ball
Era are all knotted at 1
Negro League I slipping
by Left Outs 3 to 1
Paige battling Jenkins

Sinking fastball...
Gwynn swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Palmer...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
Two down
Rob Nielsen retires
the first two batters in a row

It's a high fly into center
Tucker ranges to his right
Reaches up, and takes it for the easy out
And that retires the side

Curveball in the dirt
Swung on and missed...Strike three
Piazza fumbles it,
but quickly recovers to tag Nielsen
One out
The All Stars have a 1 run lead


Ball four is the call
Smoltz can't believe the call
And barks at the home plate umpire
The ump points out at Smoltz
Blade takes first base

Blade sneaks away from the base
Smoltz with his good move...
Blade's called out!!...
That was a close play
Could have gone either way

Jeff pops it up
And Biggio makes the play
That's it in the bottom of the 5th
No runs, no hits and no errors
After 5 innings in FOFC,
FOFC leads 1 to 0

Pounded on the ground to first
Potpie flips to Nielsen covering
Score It: 3-1
One gone for Late 20th

Boggs starts... but lays
off the pitch upstairs
Ball four, Nielsen walks him

Base hit to left for Piazza
Boggs is being held at second
by Jimmy Williams
Boggs will stay at second

Base hit to right for McGwire
Jimmy Williams plays it safe
and stops him at third...
Runners hold.

Hard line drive to short
Nights makes a nice play on it
Score It: 6
Two gone for Late 20th

Hard ground ball to short
Taken by Nights
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 6-3
And that's the final out of the inning
FOFC has one run, 5 hits and no errors
While Late 20th has no runs,
3 hits and no errors
Late 20th has left 6 men on base today

Smashed to first
Smoltz takes the flip from McGwire
Score It: 3-1
One down for FOFC in the bottom of the 6th
FOFC ahead 1 to 0

There is going to be a pitching change
John Smoltz will head to the dugout
as Bruce Sutter will come on here
in the bottom of the 6th
Sutter has appeared in 6 games
His record is 0-1 with a 5.79 ERA
over 9 innings

The pitch is just inside and
Pflaggstettler holds up
Piazza points down at the
first base umpire
He gives the "safe" sign
Persimmon trots down to first... ball four

Pflaggstettler inches slowly
away from the bag
The runner unable to take a big lead
Sutter keeps looking him back

Potpie rolls one toward Craig Biggio
He scoops it and fires to first...
Close play
OUT, says the first base umpire
The first base coach throws his hands up
in disbelief
FOFC ahead 1 to 0 with
two away this inning

And now they're going to put Ton on
Piazza is up and holding out his glove
There's ball 3...
and now ball 4
Billy Bullock is waiting on deck

Lined to short
Ripken makes a great catch!
Score It: 6
That's it for FOFC
FOFC has one run, 5 hits and no errors
While Late 20th has no runs,
3 hits and no errors
FOFC has now left 6 runners stranded

It's a quail shot headed
towards the outfield
Blade takes off after it...
Leaps...
And Biggio is OUT!
Very impressive range shown on that play!
Barrett is very fine fielder!
That's one away

Ball four, Gwynn walks
Nielsen has issued 4 bases
on balls this evening
And fans, it's about time for you
to walk to the kitchen and
grab a refreshment
That's what I'm gonna do
while we have a moment

Now batting for Late 20th...
Jim Rice...
He'll pinch hit for Bruce Sutter
Rice with a .300 average on the season

STRIKE THREE!
That is number 10 for Rob Nielsen
here this evening
That's the second out of the inning

Ground ball to the mound
Fielded nicely by Nielsen
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 1-3
That's all for Late 20th
After 6 and a half innings
in FOFC this evening,
FOFC on top 1 to 0

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!
Bobby Cox will be bringing
in a relief pitcher
Dennis Eckersley has been
called from the bullpen
A few warm up tosses and
we'll be set to go

Curveball, inside corner, low...
Swung on...
And lined to right for a base hit
No chance to get that one

Nielsen fouls off the bunt attempt
The count goes to 1 and 2, we'll have
to see if they keep the bunt play on
Nielsen squares to bunt
He bunts at it . . .
Fielded by W.Boggs
he's throwing for the lead runner...
OUT!
Force Play To 3rd Baseman
Score It: 5-6
The runner on first, Palmer, is out
One down for FOFC
Barrett Blade is still in
the on-deck circle
and Jeff Nights is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Base hit to center for Blade
Dick Howser puts up the stop sign...
Nielsen will stay at second

Base hit to right for Nights
Dick Howser is giving the green light...
The throw is coming home...
Nielsen is out at home!
Trailing runners advance.

It's a dying quail headed
towards the outfield
OHHHH, snagged by a retreating
Biggio for the out
Outstanding range shown on that play!
That is the third out for FOFC here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 46043

Fastball... down and away...
Nielsen just misses the
corner... ball four
That's 5 walks given up by Nielsen today

Time is called by Late 20th
Here comes Ozzie Smith out of the dugout
He is heading toward first base
Wade Boggs starts toward the dugout
Bobby Cox wants more speed on the bases

Smith a few feet off the bag at first
Nielsen looks Smith back
He is unable to get his normal lead

And Piazza will sit down...
strike three called
FOFC gets the first out
here late in this contest

And McGwire is down on strikes...
Nielsen keeps mowing them down
That one gives him 12 this evening
One more chance for Late 20th
in the top of the 8th

It is a high hard one...
Puckett goes on a fishin' trip
Strike three swinging!
That one sailed up out of the strike zone
but Puckett couldn't hold back
Three down for Late 20th
They are 1 run behind
Let me point out that
coming in to today's game
Late 20th is 2 and 1 in one run games
FOFC has a 5 and 0 record in these "duels"
Late 20th's defensive changes are...
Ripken will bat 6th and play 3B
Smith will bat 2nd and play SS

There's a long drive...
Its' way back there...
Rickey Henderson is at the wall...
(Possible HR or Out
Fielding ability: Great,)
He's jumping for it...
He's got it!!!
What a great play by Henderson!

A hot shot on the ground to Biggio
He's got it cleanly on one hop...
Over to first and Potpie is out
FOFC on top 1 to 0 with two away
Let's check some other scores as well

Japanese League is edging
NL Pre WWII 2 to 1
Nagashima has hit his 4th homerun
for Japanese League
AL Pre WWII is comfortably ahead
of Caribbean 10 to 4
Negro League II is pounding
NL Post WWII 7 to 0
Turn of Century is edging
Dead Ball Era 2 to 1
Negro League I with the lead
over Left Outs 5 to 2

Eckersley loses him
Ton heads down to first
2 walks today for Ton

Eckersley loses him
Bullock heads down to first

Change up...
Palmer was way out in front...
Strike Three
That retires the side
The All Stars threaten but fail to score
here in the bottom of the 8th
No runs, no hits, no errors
and 2 men left on base

Ripken pounds a grounder
toward Nights at short
Jeff moves in front of it...
Whoops... a bad bounce
But Nights stayed with it
Over to first and Ripken is retired
Nice play by the FOFC short stop
So one up and one gone

It's hit to the left of third
It's a base knock!
The ball glanced off of Nights' glove
Nights retrieved it, but not
in time to get Biggio
Craig is safe on first with a single
No throw on the play

The runner is off with the pitch
Hit and run!
Gwynn just gets a piece of it
He 'nubs' it to second
Blade races in quickly...
Barehands it...
Over to first
Just in time!
The runner moves up easily...
That's two away

Bobby Cox will send up a pinch hitter
Dave Winfield steps out of the dugout!
He will be up there against Nielsen

STRIKE THREE!
Another one for Nielsen
That is 14 for the WhiffMaster!
And that will do it for Late 20th
FOFC wins 1 to 0
Nielsen gets credit for the win
He threw a shut-out at them
Smoltz takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Jeff Nights
He was 2 for 4
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.

[Breeze]

GAME 11 - Friday, April 11th - Boxscore


Modern Stars AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG
R.Henderson LF 3 0 0 0 .200 B.Blade 2B 3 0 1 0 .300
W.Boggs 3B 1 0 0 0 .341 J.Nights SS 4 0 2 0 .258
B-O.Smith PR,SS 0 0 0 01.000 A.Tucker CF 4 0 0 0 .350
M.Piazza C 4 0 2 0 .429 P.Pflaggstettler RF 2 1 1 0 .459
M.McGwire 1B 3 0 1 0 .385 J.Potpie 1B 4 0 1 0 .276
K.Puckett CF 4 0 0 0 .326 K.Ton LF 2 0 0 0 .200
C.Ripken SS,3B 4 0 0 0 .341 B.Bullock C 3 0 2 0 .316
C.Biggio 2B 4 0 1 0 .048 D.Palmer 3B 3 0 1 0 .211
T.Gwynn RF 3 0 0 0 .410 R.Nielsen P 3 0 0 0 .000
G.Maddux P 0 0 0 0 .000
J.Smoltz P 2 0 0 0 .250
B.Sutter P 0 0 0 0 ----
A-J.Rice PH 1 0 0 0 .273
D.Eckersley P 0 0 0 0 ----
C-D.Winfield PH 1 0 0 0 .077
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
Totals 30 0 4 0 Totals 28 1 8 0

A-Pinch Hit For Sutter In 7th Inning
B-Pinch Ran For Boggs In 8th Inning
C-Pinch Hit For Eckersley In 9th Inning

INJURY: Greg Maddux INJURED in 1st inning

Modern Stars.... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 4 0
All Stars....... 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 1 8 0

Modern Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
G.Maddux 0 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3.52
J.Smoltz LOSS(2-1) 5 5 1 1 3 5 0 70 2.19
B.Sutter 0 2/3 0 0 0 2 0 0 12 5.40
D.Eckersley 2 3 0 0 2 1 0 40 0.00
Totals 8 8 1 1 7 6 0

All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
R.Nielsen WIN(2-0) 9 4 0 0 5 14 0 146 1.85
Totals 9 4 0 0 5 14 0

ATTENDANCE- 46,043 DATE- Friday, April 13th 1900 TIME- Night
T- 2:01
LEFT ON BASE- Modern Stars: 9 All Stars:10
DOUBLE PLAYS- Modern Stars: 2 All Stars: 0
DOUBLES- J.Nights(2nd), B.Bullock(2nd)
STOLEN BASES- P.Pflaggstettler(2nd)
SACRIFICE HITS- W.Boggs
WALKS- R.Henderson, W.Boggs-2, M.McGwire, T.Gwynn, B.Blade, P.Pflaggstettler-2,
K.Ton-2, B.Bullock, D.Palmer
STRIKE OUTS- R.Henderson, W.Boggs, M.Piazza-2, M.McGwire, K.Puckett-2,
C.Ripken-2, C.Biggio-2, J.Smoltz, J.Rice, D.Winfield, B.Blade,
A.Tucker, K.Ton, D.Palmer, R.Nielsen-2
GIDP- K.Ton, D.Palmer
PASSED BALLS- B.Bullock
WEB GEMS- Bot 8th: Rickey Henderson robbed Persimmon Pflaggstettler of a Homerun!

[SirFozzie]

Wow. 1-0, a rarety.. especially with 19 men LOB total

[tucker342]

It sucks that my hitting streak ended:( but another good win guys:)

[JeeberD]

I wish I could get more than one hit in a game...

[Breeze]

The National Herald - Saturday, April 14

SPORTS


[1]NEGRO LEAGUE I AT LEFT OUTS
Ones............ 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 - 5 13 0
Leftovers....... 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 - 3 12 0
Win:Paige(2-0) Loss:Jenkins(2-1) Save:McDonald(2nd)
Homeruns- J.Gibson(3rd), B.Leonard(3rd), G.Goslin(2nd)

In a close game it was the Negro League I Ones 5, the Left Outs Leftovers 3 at
Overshadow Pk.

Satchel Paige(2-0) pitched well enough to earn the win. He allowed 10 hits
and 5 walks in 7 innings. Left Outs made it exciting in the 9th, but they
were unable to push the needed runs across.

Webster McDonald got the save, his 2nd. Ferguson Jenkins(2-1) was the loser.
'It wasn't my best outing, but I'll take the win' Paige said.

[1]NL PRE WWII AT JAPANESE LEAGUE
Pre-Nationals... 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 1 6 0
HOF Players..... 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 2 7 0
Win:Kaneda(1-2) Loss:Hubbell(2-1) Save:Sawamura(1st)
Homeruns- I.Harimoto(1st), S.Nagashima(4th)

In a game for the baseball purist, Masaichi Kaneda(1-2) and Carl Hubbell(2-1)
squared off in a tense pitching duel, Japanese League HOF Players finally
emerged victorious over NL Pre WWII club, 2 to 1.

Kaneda looked very much in control throughout the night. He allowed just 5
hits and 1 walk in 8 innings. After the 3rd inning, neither team was able to
score.

Eiji Sawamura was credited with his 1st save.

[1]NL POST WWII AT NEGRO LEAGUE II
Post-Nationals.. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 1 4 0
Twos............ 0 2 1 1 0 0 3 0 - 7 11 0
Win:Mathis(2-0) Loss:Marichal(3-1)
Homeruns- J.Wilson(2nd), L.Santop(3rd), P.Hill(2nd)

Verdell Mathis took a no-hitter into the 6th inning at Shadowball Stadium as
the Negro League II Twos beat the NL Post WWII team 7 to 1.

Mathis(2-0) contributed a very nicely pitched game. He didn't give up much,
just 3 hits and 7 walks in 8 and 2/3 innings reducing his ERA from 2.25 to
1.82. The left-handed Mathis had his no-hit bid broken up by Roy Campanella
who singled with two outs in the 6th inning. Negro League II out-hit NL Post
WWII for the game, 11 hits to 4.

Juan Marichal(3-1) was the losing pitcher. He served up 3 gopher balls in 7
innings.

[1]TURN OF CENTURY AT DEAD BALL ERA
Centurions...... 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 - 3 10 0
Ghosts.......... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 2 9 1
Win:Waddell(1-2) Loss:Chesbro(1-2) Save:Willis(2nd)

The Turn of Century Centurions nipped the Dead Ball Era Ghosts 3 to 2 at
Deadball Park in a hard fought contest.

Dead Ball Era was unable to claim the lead after Turn of Century went ahead in
the top of the 6th inning scoring a single run on 2 hits. Turn of Century
totaled 10 on the night.

Rube Waddell(1-2) went 8 and 1/3 innings allowing 2 runs for the victory.
Waddell got help from Vic Willis who earned his 2nd save. Jack Chesbro(1-2)
was charged with the loss.


[1]AL PRE WWII AT CARIBBEAN
Pre-Americans... 0 0 2 0 3 4 0 1 1 - 11 18 0
Estrellas....... 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 - 4 8 1
Win:Grove(2-1) Loss:Cuellar(0-2)
Homeruns- E.Averill(3rd), T.Lazzeri(1st), P.Coimbre(2nd), O.Linares(4th),
H.Espino(1st)

Lefty Grove was able to finish what he started and was credited with a
complete game and Earl Averill hit a grand slam as the AL Pre WWII ballclub
defeated the Caribbean Estrellas by a score of 11 to 4 at Paradise
Park.

Averill enjoyed a fine evening at the plate. He delivered a single in the 5th
inning, emptied the bases with a Grand Slam homerun (his 3rd of the season)
in the 6th inning and laced a base-hit which scored a run in the 9th inning.
AL Pre WWII rapped out 18 hits for the night.

The victory went to Grove(2-1) who went the distance allowing 4 runs. The
losing pitcher was Mike Cuellar(0-2). He allowed 13 hits and 3 walks in 5
innings.


[1]LATE 20TH AT FOFC
Modern Stars.... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 4 0
All Stars....... 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 1 8 0
Win:Nielsen(2-0) Loss:Smoltz(2-1)

Rob Nielsen struck out 14 batters as the sizzling FOFC All Stars defeated the
Late 20th Modern Stars 1 to 0 at FOFC Stadium.

Nielsen(2-0) came through with a virtuoso performance against the Late 20th
hitters. He gave up just 4 hits and 5 walks in 9 innings lowering his ERA
from 2.93 to 1.85. Late 20th threatened in the 9th but FOFC was able to put
down the rally.

The loss was charged to John Smoltz(2-1) in relief. Benton Breeze was asked
about the performance of Nielsen, 'He had his good stuff out there tonight.
The fans really get into it when the strikeouts start mounting up - and that
seems to give him even more adrenalin.'

[Breeze]

GAME 12 - Saturday, April 14 - Radio Broadcast



Sinker, down at the knees...
Swung on...
Henderson hits a Baltimore chop...
Past the infield into left for a single!
That was a difficult ball to handle

Henderson studies Mighty intently...
Now he's walking away from the base
Another throw...
Mighty's five throws over
have been effective
Henderson has a small lead now
He must be getting tired
from diving back in!

Boggs shows bunt
It's a beauty!
Dan Fouts has no chance at second
So Boggs gets the sacrifice
And there's one away

Piazza just gets a piece of it
He 'drizzles' it to second
Blade races in quickly...
Barehands it...
Over to first
Just in time!
The runner moves up easily...

There's a long drive...
Its' way back there...
A. J. Tucker is at the wall...
(Possible HR or Out
Fielding ability: Great,)
He's jumping for it...
He's got it!!!
What a great play by Tucker!

Blade takes the pitch...
That one is low for a ball... WAIT
The umpire says that one caught the knees
Blade is out on strikes
One out
Due up next is Kris Terp

Dribbler in front of home
Piazza grabs it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 2-3
Two away

Tucker swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Glavine strikes out A. J. Tucker
Glavine retires the side in order
Here in the bottom of the 1st

Puckett pulls one to the left side
It's going to scoot on through the infield
Ton will retrieve it without difficulty
He tosses it back in to second
as Puckett retreats to first
after a wide turn

He rips a grounder to the mound
Mighty comes up with it
Throw to second for one
On to first
Not in time!
Score It: 1-4
The runner on first, Puckett, is out
One down for Late 20th
Craig Biggio is still in
the on-deck circle
and Tony Gwynn is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Biggio hits a screamer into the gap
Pflaggstettler is after it...
He'll get it...
Caught, near the warning track
Two down
Hays asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Hays and Mighty

It's in for a strike, and
it gets away from Hays
There goes Ripken from first
He's safe at second
Score it a passed ball on Hays

Grounded into the hole
Unbelievable play by Fouts!
THE LONG THROW . . .
HE GOT HIM!!!
Score It: 5-3
That retires the side...
Gwynn fails to come through in the clutch
For Late 20th, No runs, one hit, no
errors and one man left on base

Pflaggstettler slaps a hard
grounder past short
Henderson is over to pick it up
He tosses it back to second
Pflaggstettler will hold
with a clean single

Glavine loses him
Potpie heads down to first

Fouts looks to lay one down
He bunts at it . . .
Fielded by M.Piazza
the throw to first...
Out
Fouts gets the job done.
One down, two to go...
Tom Glavine has to bear down now

Glavine loses him
Ton heads down to first
No more room on the bases now
Glavine has to bear down now

Fastball down low...
Hays hits a grounder to short
Ripken takes it on the big hop
Flips it to Biggio
Relay to first...
A lightning double play!
And that ends the threat by FOFC
as Hays grounds in to an inning ending
twin-killing with the bases loaded
That'll do it in the bottom of the 2nd
No runs, one hit, no errors
and 2 men left on base
Scoreless game
And now we'll pause for station
identification
This is your Strat-O-Matic
Broadcast System...

High hard fastball, swung on...
It's a grounder hammered at second...
Blade is there...
IT'S INTO RIGHT!!...
It took a HIGH hop right over him!
That's a single for Glavine

Henderson slaps a slow bouncer
in front of second
Blade races in
He reaches down
Scoops it up and fires to first
Out!
Glavine advances on the play
With one down, up next is Wade Boggs
To be followed by Mike Piazza

And Boggs will sit down...
strike three called
Two gone for Late 20th

Grounded towards the bag
Fouts grabs it
Over to Potpie
Got him!
Score It: 5-3
That wraps up the inning for Late 20th
So After 2 and a half innings
FOFC has no runs, one hit and no errors
While Late 20th has no runs,
3 hits and no errors
Late 20th has left 3 stranded
FOFC has failed to bring home 2

It's a high fly into center
Puckett ranges to his right
Reaches up, and takes it for the easy out
So one up and one gone

Blade sends a routine ground ball to first
McGwire takes it on one hop
Flips it to Glavine
Easy out
Scoreless game with two away this inning

Hard slider, paints the inside corner
Terp gets a piece of it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
McGwire grabs it...
Races to first...
Beats Terp for the out
The All Stars go down in order
It's the bottom of the 3rd

Drilled deep to right field
This one is deep!
GET UPSTAIRS AUNT MINNIE
AND RAISE THE WINDOW!!!
McGwire can touch 'em all!
That is Mark McGwire's 2nd
home run of the year.

Struck him out on a fastball
Puckett goes down swinging
One gone for Late 20th

Ripken takes the pitch
STRIKE THREE, is the call
Ripken can't believe it and
says something to the ump
Chalk up a whiff for Mighty
Two men gone, nobody on
Late 20th leads by 1

Sinker, down at the knees...
Swung on...
Biggio hits a Baltimore chop...
Past the infield into left for a single!
That was a difficult ball to handle

Biggio inches away from first base
Mighty steps away from the mound
Now Biggio moves back to first

A slider by Mighty
Gwynn gets good wood on it...
Tucker back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
That's it for Late 20th
Here at FOFC Stadium, After
3 and a half innings,
Late 20th has one run,
5 hits and no errors
While FOFC has no runs,
one hit and no errors
Late 20th has left 4 on base
FOFC has stranded 2

Baltimore chop
Into center for a single!

Pflaggstettler swings and misses
Strike three
Pflaggstettler didn't have
a good cut at that pitch
One down for FOFC
Jeeberoni Potpie is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to
the plate for FOFC

There's a duck snort in front
of Rickey Henderson
He dives, but he traps it
Wait, the second base umpire
overrules the call
He calls the batter out
With two gone, Late 20th on top 1
to 0 in the bottom of the 4th

Tucker takes a short lead against
the lefty Glavine
Slow curve...
Piazza has it...
It's a delayed steal... There he goes
The peg...
Ripken applies the tag...
Tucker is safe!...
Ripken can't handle the throw cleanly

Fouts smacks a fly to center
Puckett is waiting on it
Pounds his mitt
Kirby takes it in
That retires the side...
Dan Fouts fails to come
Through in the clutch
That's something you won't see very often

Belt high...Swung on by Glavine...
Hit's a soft liner towards the gap
Shortstop's going back...
Leaps...
Can't get it
It's just over his outstretched glove
Nice try by Terp, but not good enough

Hit on the ground to Terp
Kris is up with it
Over to Blade for the force
No chance to get Henderson at first
Blade was knocked off balance by Glavine
And Henderson, who can run
beat the return throw easily
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

NL Pre WWII is giving it to
Japanese League 6 to 1
Negro League II slipping
by NL Post WWII 4 to 2
Wright has hit his 2nd homerun
for Negro League II
Turn of Century leads Dead Ball Era 3 to 2
Left Outs is pounding Negro
League I 8 to 1
And here in FOFC Late 20th on top 1 to 0

Taking his lead is Henderson
Mighty's throws over have been effective
Henderson has a shorter lead now
He must be getting tired
diving back into the bag

Fastball, high and tight
Ball Four
Chin music...
Boggs didn't like it

Piazza swings from his heels
He connects!
There it goes...
Tucker is up against the wall
He jumps
Outstanding catch
That sure looked like it
was going downtown
Two down
Due up next is Mark McGwire
Let's see what happens now

STRIKE THREE!
He swung on a ball that was in the dirt
McGwire was overanxious up there
That was almost a wild pitch
And that retires the side

Ton starts... but lays off
the pitch upstairs
Ball four, Glavine walks him

Curve, at the belt...
Hays times his swing...
Hammers a long fly ball...
Rickey Henderson retreats toward the fence
He leaps...

It's gone, put that one on the board
A home run!!

Sinking fastball...
Mighty swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Ripken...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
One away in the bottom of the 5th for FOFC

Fastball, swung on and missed
Take a seat Mr. Blade!
That's the second out of the inning

Fly ball to right
Gwynn is under it
He makes the grab
That's three outs, side retired

Good slider, inside part of the plate
Puckett gets the bat on it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Blade grabs it...
Throws to first...
OUT!
FOFC gets the first out of the inning

Fastball... down and away...
Mighty just misses the corner... ball four
That's 2 walks given up by Mighty today

Mighty just misses outside
Ball four to Biggio

He rips a grounder to second
Blade grabs it
Throws to second
He's out
Could be two . . .
Double Play!
Score It: 4-6-3
That ends the inning for Late 20th
FOFC has 2 runs, 3 hits and no errors
While Late 20th has one run,
6 hits and no errors
Late 20th has now stranded 7 baserunners

STRIKE THREE, CALLED!
One away in the bottom of the 6th

Pflaggstettler hits a screamer
at Wade Boggs
Boggs picks it up and fires to first
The throw pulls McGwire off the bag
McGwire swipes with the glove

Pflaggstettler is out!
Nice play by McGwire
And there's two away

Potpie hits a three hopper
towards Wade Boggs
Boggs scoops it and fires
it to first for the out
1-2-3, nothing across...

Bobby Cox will send up a pinch
hitter for Tom Glavine
Yes, Paul Molitor steps out of the dugout
He will be up there against Mighty

Fastball, STRIKE THREE!
Molitor was frozen on that
fastball by Mighty
High and on the outside corner
He was looking for an off-speed pitch
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's take a ten second station break
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Henderson swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Mighty strikes out Rickey Henderson
That's the second out of the inning

Slow ground ball
Terp is charging it
He fires it to first
He's OUT
That's all for Late 20th
After 6 and a half innings
in FOFC this evening,
FOFC on top 2 to 1

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!
John Smoltz will be coming on
to pitch for Late 20th
John has appeared in 5 games this season
He has a record of 2-1
in 12 innings
His ERA stands at 2.19

Curveball...
Up in the strike zone...
Swung on and drilled into center
Puckett racing back...
The ball is hit over his head
It hits off the 7 foot high fence
And there's Fouts around first base
Puckett with a strong throw...
But off the bag
Dan comes into second sliding
with a double
That's 2 doubles for Fouts on the year

Ton takes the pitch...
That one is low for a ball... WAIT
The umpire says that one caught the knees
Ton's outta there
That's one away

Big motion...
Hays is way out in front
STRIKE THREE!
Smoltz pulled the string on him
Two down

Gunner rips a line drive to left-center
Henderson is off at the crack of the bat
So too is Puckett...
It is right in between them
The ball is sinking fast...
HOLY SMOKES!!!
Both Puckett and Henderson dive!
Man-oh-man!!!
There is a collision!
Both players are sprawled
out on the ground!
Ripken is out there seeing if
they are all right...
Henderson goes to one knee...
What's this???
He flipped the ball to Ripken!
Rickey caught the ball!
Fouts dives back into second
He somehow made it back to second
in all the confusion
before Ripken got the ball back in
But man!!
What a play!!!
A real LALLAPALOOZA!!!
Fortunately, it looks like both Puckett
and Henderson are going to be rosy pink
That was one impressive play!
That is the third out for FOFC here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 46226

Fastball, a beauty...
Steee Rike THREE!
Kronside retires the first batter to
face him in the top of the 8th

Off speed pitch on the way...
And McGwire watches it go
by for the third strike
That's two away

Puckett pounds a grounder
toward Terp at short
Kris moves in front of it...
Whoops... a bad bounce
But Terp stayed with it
Over to first and Puckett is retired
Nice play by the FOFC short stop
Three down for Late 20th
Now the All Stars will be coming up
for what they hope will be their
last at bat of the evening
They lead by 1, 2-1

Blade fights one off his fists
It's lined weakly to the left of short
Ripken is over quickly
Easy out
One up, one down

It is a slow change...
Terp's not at all fooled
He hits it squarely...
It's heading out to right-center
almost on a line...
Very well hit ball by Kris
Puckett is running after it...
He hopes to play it off the fence
He picks it up on the second bounce
He turns and gets it back into the infield
Terp slides into second base
but it was not necessary
Two-bagger for the FOFC shortstop

It's a BULLET, hit towards first
McGwire makes a nice play on it
Score It: 3
Two away now for FOFC
They're ahead by 1
The All Stars have 5 hits on the evening

And Pflaggstettler will be
trotting down to first
They've put him on intentionally
Jeeberoni Potpie is the batter due up next

Change of pace
Potpie is way out in front
STRIKE THREE swinging
Number 3 so far today for Smoltz
So that will be all for FOFC
here in the last of the 8th
The All Stars will be adding to their
7 game win streak
if Kronside can close this game out
We now head into the 9th

The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
Ripken swung, that's strike three
Ripken isn't happy at all with that call
One up, one down for Late 20th

HIT HIM!!
Biggio jogs down to first
Craig took one for the team to get on

Biggio moves away from first base...
He has 3 stolen bases on the season
Kronside steps away from the mound...
Now Biggio moves back to first
He's not getting far from the bag

He's running with the pitch!
Hays up quickly and throwing...
Low throw...
Biggio slides...
OUT!...
Terp dug that ball out of the dirt
and applied the tag...
Close play

Curve ball...
Gwynn swings and misses by a mile
The bottom dropped out of that one!
A wicked pitch!
And that will do it for Late 20th
FOFC wins 2 to 1
Mighty gets credit for the win
Kronside notches the save
Glavine takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Harry Hays
He was 1 for 3 with a homerun
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.

[Breeze]

GAME 12 - Saturday, April 14 - Boxscore


Modern Stars AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG
R.Henderson LF 4 0 1 0 .204 B.Blade 2B 4 0 0 0 .273
W.Boggs 3B 2 0 0 0 .326 K.Terp SS 4 0 1 0 .176
M.Piazza C 4 0 0 0 .333 A.Tucker CF 4 0 1 0 .341
M.McGwire 1B 4 1 1 1 .353 P.Pflaggstettler RF 3 0 1 0 .450
K.Puckett CF 4 0 1 0 .319 J.Potpie 1B 3 0 0 0 .250
C.Ripken SS 3 0 0 0 .318 D.Fouts 3B 2 0 1 0 .227
C.Biggio 2B 2 0 1 0 .087 K.Ton LF 1 1 0 0 .188
T.Gwynn RF 4 0 0 0 .372 J.Kronside P 0 0 0 0 ----
T.Glavine P 2 0 2 0 .400 H.Hays C 3 1 1 2 .280
A-P.Molitor PH 1 0 0 0 .000 A.Mighty P 2 0 0 0 .000
J.Smoltz P 0 0 0 0 .250 B-S.Gunner PH,LF 1 0 0 0 .250
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
Totals 30 1 6 1 Totals 27 2 5 2

A-Pinch Hit For Glavine In 7th Inning
B-Pinch Hit For Mighty In 7th Inning

Modern Stars.... 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 - 1 6 0
All Stars....... 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 - 2 5 0

Modern Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
T.Glavine LOSS(1-1) 6 3 2 2 3 5 1 81 3.00
J.Smoltz 2 2 0 0 1 3 0 38 1.88
Totals 8 5 2 2 4 8 1

All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
A.Mighty WIN(2-0) 7 6 1 1 3 6 1 112 1.57
J.Kronside SAVE(2nd) 2 0 0 0 0 4 0 20 0.00
Totals 9 6 1 1 3 10 1

ATTENDANCE- 46,226 DATE- Saturday, April 14th 1900 TIME- Night
T- 1:20
LEFT ON BASE- Modern Stars: 7 All Stars: 6
DOUBLE PLAYS- Modern Stars: 1 All Stars: 1
DOUBLES- K.Terp(2nd), D.Fouts(2nd)
HOME RUNS- M.McGwire(2nd), H.Hays(1st)
STOLEN BASES- A.Tucker(4th)
CAUGHT STEALING- C.Biggio
SACRIFICE HITS- W.Boggs, D.Fouts
WALKS- W.Boggs, C.Ripken, C.Biggio, P.Pflaggstettler, J.Potpie, K.Ton-2
HIT BY PITCH- C.Biggio
STRIKE OUTS- R.Henderson, W.Boggs, M.Piazza, M.McGwire-2, K.Puckett, C.Ripken-2,
T.Gwynn, P.Molitor, B.Blade-2, A.Tucker-2, P.Pflaggstettler,
J.Potpie, K.Ton, H.Hays
GIDP- T.Gwynn, H.Hays
PASSED BALLS- H.Hays
WEB GEMS- Top 1st: A. J. Tucker robbed Mark McGwire of a Homerun!
Top 2nd: Dan Fouts robbed Tony Gwynn of a base hit.

[JeeberD]

And we keep on finding ways to win... :)

[Coffee Warlord]

That's right. I am the MAN!

[kingfc22]

I arrived at the park early today just to take some extra BP. I think my swing feels really good right now, but as I peak at the lineup card I notice I'm on the bench again. I really don't mind all that much since we are winning. I think I need to go buy some more seat cushions since the splinters on the bench can be a pain to remove from my ass.

[Blade]

Alright...Blade is not allowed to stop practicing until he corrects his swing!!!

[tucker342]

Damn we are on a roll:) Even though I only went 1 for 4, I did my part by getting the web gem in the first inning. We are just plain dominating right now:)

[thealmighty]

Wow, a ton of webgems to help me through the game. Thanks. :)

On the other hand, too many hits and too many walks for Mighty to be satisfied. May need to an off day stint on the side with the pitching coach to tune it up a bit, skip.

[Breeze]

The National Herald - Sunday, April 15th

SPORTS


[1]NEGRO LEAGUE I AT LEFT OUTS
Ones............ 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 1 8 1
Leftovers....... 2 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 - 8 12 0
Win:Roberts(1-1) Loss:Williams(2-1)
Homeruns- G.Goslin(3rd)

Robin Roberts was able to finish what he started and was credited with a
complete game and Goose Goslin hit a homerun and had 3 RBI as the Left Outs
Leftovers defeated the Negro League I Ones 8 to 1 at Overshadow Pk.

Left Outs jumped out to the early lead in the first inning as they scored 2
runs on 1 base hits. That was all the runs Roberts(1-1) needed. Neither
team managed to score after the 4th inning.

Smokey Joe Williams(2-1) was the losing pitcher. He was unable to control the
Left Outs offense and allowed 10 hits and 4 walks in 4 innings.


[1]NL PRE WWII AT JAPANESE LEAGUE
Pre-Nationals... 1 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 - 6 11 0
HOF Players..... 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 2 8 0
Win:Marquard(1-1) Loss:Bessho(0-2)
Homeruns- P.Waner(2nd), M.Ott(6th), S.Nagashima(5th)

Mel Ott went yard and had 3 RBI and Rube Marquard completed the game without
help from the bullpen as the NL Pre WWII team beat the Japanese League HOF
Players by a score of 6 to 2.

Marquard(1-1) had a solid outing for NL Pre WWII. He went 9 innings
surrendering 8 hits and 4 walks. NL Pre WWII had 11 hits for the afternoon.

Takehiko Bessho(0-2) ended up with the loss. He was touched for 10 hits and 3
walks in 7 innings.

[1]NL POST WWII AT NEGRO LEAGUE II
Post-Nationals.. 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 3 - 6 10 0
Twos............ 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 - 4 9 0
Win:Perry(1-1) Loss:Dismukes(0-1) Save:Spahn(1st)
Homeruns- J.Morgan(3rd), R.Clemente(4th), E.Banks(4th), W.Wright(2nd),
J.Beckwith(1st)

The NL Post WWII club came roaring back in the top of the ninth to spoil the
anticipated celebration of the hometown fans. The final score,, was 6 to
4.

NL Post WWII came up with the deciding runs in the top of the 9th inning with
3 runs on 3 hits. Orlando Cepeda led off the inning for NL Post WWII when he
lined a one-base hit. Mike Schmidt next to the plate and he slapped a
single. Joe Morgan then laid down a sacrifice bunt. Dizzy Dismukes then
unleashed a wild pitch scoring a run. Roberto Clemente came to the plate and
lifted one out of the park for a two run home run (his 4th of the season).
Gaylord Perry(1-1) got help from Warren Spahn who pitched great and earned
his 1st save.

Dismukes(0-1) absorbed the loss in relief. He gave up 2 runs and 2 hits in 1
inning. 'I pin this one on my own shoulders,' Dismukes said. 'The bottom
line is I didn't get the job done. Our fans deserve better than this.'

[1]TURN OF CENTURY AT DEAD BALL ERA
Centurions...... 0 1 1 1 0 0 6 1 1 - 11 21 0
Ghosts.......... 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 - 2 6 0
Win:Rusie(1-0) Loss:Plank(1-2)

Amos Rusie tossed a complete game and Hughie Jennings had 4 hits and 2 RBI as
the Turn of Century Centurions defeated the Dead Ball Era Ghosts by a score
of 11 to 2 at Deadball Park.

Turn of Century jumped on top of Dead Ball Era in the top of the 2nd inning
scoring one runner using 2 hits. Turn of Century kept the scorekeepers busy
in the 7th inning when they had 6 runs on 8 hits. Offensively, Turn of
Century was a juggernaut. They scored in 6 separate innings.

The win went to Rusie(1-0) who allowed 2 runs in the game. Eddie Plank(1-2)
suffered the loss. He was hit hard and gave up 17 hits and 2 walks in 6 and
2/3 innings.


[1]LATE 20TH AT FOFC
Modern Stars.... 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 - 1 6 0
All Stars....... 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 - 2 5 0
Win:Mighty(2-0) Loss:Glavine(1-1) Save:Kronside(2nd)
Homeruns- M.McGwire(2nd), H.Hays(1st)

At FOFC Stadium, the FOFC fans witnessed a great pitcher's duel. Al
Mighty(2-0) finally bested his Late 20th opposite, Tom Glavine(1-1), by the
score of 2 to 1.

Mighty pitched a fine game. He was reached for 6 hits and 3 walks in 7
innings. FOFC had just 5 hits for the night.

Jace Kronside earned his 2nd save. The losing pitcher was Glavine. He
surrendered 2 runs and 3 hits in 6 innings.

[Breeze]

GAME 13 - Sunday, April 15th - Radio Broadcast

Checked swing by Collins
Called ball four
Bullock motions down to
the third base umpire
He gives the "safe" sign
with no hesitation
Eddie walks to lead it off

Collins watches Hunter as he
inches away from the base
It's a pitchout!
Bullock steps out...
Collins takes off!
Bullock pegs it down
He slipped on the throw
But he got it off...
It's way over the head
of shortstop, Nights...
Treacy takes it, however,
backing up the play...
Collins has himself an easy stolen base

Chance smacks a fly to right
Pflaggstettler is waiting on it
Pounds his mitt
Persimmon takes it in
One away in the top of the
1st for Dead Ball Era

Jackson lines a wicked line drive
to the left of first
Gonzalez stabs his glove out
He's got it in the webbing!
David looks surprised to get that one
Collins hurries back to second
And there's two away

Cobb hits one high to center
Tucker is racing after it...
He has a long way to go...
Still running...
Now he reaches out...
GOT IT!
Man, A. J. is a zebra for sure
out there in center
The runner races back to second
Owen Hunter holds Dead Ball Era
scoreless in the first inning

Tucker starts... but lays
off the pitch upstairs
Ball four, McGinnity walks him

Tucker takes his lead from first...
He's challenging McGinnity's pickoff move
McGinnity looks the runner back
He's off to the races!
The peg down...
It's too high
Tucker is in under it easily
Chance needs to work on his
throwing technique
He almost fell throwing that

Nights chases the high fastball...
Hammers a LONG towering drive...
Hit to deep left center...
HOME RUN... WAY, WAY OUTTA HERE!
A big blast by Nights!

Swung on and popped up
Wallace is waiting...
And that's an easy out
One out
The All Stars have a 2 run lead


Ball four is the call
McGinnity can't believe the call
And barks at the home plate umpire
The ump points out at McGinnity
Gonzalez takes first base

It is a high hard one...
Fouts goes on a fishin' trip
Strike three swinging!
That one sailed up out of the strike zone
but Fouts couldn't hold back
Two gone for FOFC

It's popped up into foul territory
Frank Chance is under it
He grabs it for the out
Score It: 2
That's all for the All Stars
After 1 inning in FOFC this evening,
FOFC on top 2 to 0

Baker rips a hard grounder
to the left of third
And on by the diving Fouts
Baker takes a big turn at
first...but holds up
Nice hustle by Gunner to get
that ball in quickly

Here's a big breaking curve, inside...
Roush takes a cut at it...
Hits a grounder to the mound
Hunter comes up with the smooth pickup...
He tosses it to second...
That's one out
The relay to first...
Not in time
Roush beats the throw by a step
And there's one away

Wallace rips a curveball down
the third base line
Fouts dives to his right
Phenomenal play!
Wallace looks up to the
heavens in disbelief
Roush hustles back to first
One more chance for Dead Ball
Era in the top of the 2nd

Tinker swings a bit late on the heater...
He still pops it pretty good towards right
Unfortunately for Joe, Pflaggstettler
is standing right there
Easy out
That's it for Dead Ball Era
Here at FOFC Stadium, After
1 and a half innings,
FOFC has 2 runs, one hit and no errors
While Dead Ball Era has no runs,
one hit and no errors
Dead Ball Era has left 2 on base
FOFC has stranded 1

It's hit down the line
Cobb ranges over quickly
He's under it
Easy out
One down in the 2nd
Today was picture day for the All Stars
Fans had the opportunity to get pictures
of some of their favorite ballplayers
Benton Breeze tried to help out
But his tongue in cheek comment of...
line up in alphabetical order by height
didn't help things any...
But, picture day is a great idea
and the FOFC fans loved it

Treacy cuts on a curve that
misses in the dirt
That ball is trapped nicely by Chance
Treacy was badly fooled by McGinnity's
big breaking curve
STRIKE THREE!
Sean was a little overanxious
Two out, nobody on
FOFC on top 2 to 0

Hunter is gone on strikes
Left with the bat still in
the cocked position
That's all for the All Stars
After 2 full innings,
they lead by 2

Joe pops it up
And Treacy makes the play
One gone for Dead Ball Era

There's a checked swing...
But Collins gets a piece of it anyway
It's a pop fly into center
Tucker comes in on it...
Easy out
Collins couldn't get his
bat out of the way
Two up, two down

Chance pulls it hard over third...
And it's snared by Fouts!
Dan half fell and half dove
To grab that ball before it hit the ground
Dead Ball Era comes up empty
here in the top of the 3rd
No runs, no hits and no errors
After 2 and a half innings,
FOFC still out in front, 2-0

Grounded to the right side
Tinker comes up with it
Waves off McGinnity...
Runs to the bag
Out!
One down for FOFC
Jeff Nights is still in the on-deck circle
and Persimmon Pflaggstettler is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Outside fastball... lashed at by Nights...
Pop fly...Shallow center...
Dropping quickly...
Roush pulls up, doesn't
want it to get by him
Base hit for Nights...
As Roush fields it on one bounce

Apparently not afraid of McGinnity
Nights stretches out to his lead
McGinnity's move keeps Nights guessing
He doesn't have a very good lead

Base hit to left for Pflaggstettler
Nights is being held at
second by Dick Howser
Nights will stay at second

Half swing
Chopper to the mound
McGinnity grabs it
Over to Tinker
Got him!
Score It: 1-3
FOFC ahead 2 to 0 with two away
Let's check some other scores as well

Turn of Century leads Negro
League I 1 to 0
Joss battling Smith
AL Post WWII is beating Caribbean 6 to 2
Jackson has hit his 2nd homerun
for AL Post WWII
Left Outs clipping AL Pre WWII 7 to 3
NL Post WWII is giving it
to Old Timers 5 to 0
Mathews has hit his 2nd homerun
for NL Post WWII
Late 20th is beating Negro
League II 4 to 0
Molitor has hit his 1st
homerun for Late 20th

Hard ground ball to short
Taken by Wallace
Over to Tinker
Got him!
Score It: 6-3
That retires the side...
Dan Fouts fails to come
Through in the clutch
That's something you won't see very often

Hit right back to Hunter
On to first and Jackson is gone
Dead Ball Era with one away
Hunter steps off the mound as
he waits for Ty Cobb to
come to the plate

Cobb drives one into center
A. J. Tucker sprints over to make the play
Two up, two down here in
the top of the 4th

Slow ground ball
Gonzalez is charging it
He fires it to first
He's OUT
That ends the inning
After 3 and a half innings,
FOFC leads by 2

There's a deep fly ball to Ty Cobb
Cobb circles under it...
He hauls it in on the warning track
With one down, up next is Billy Bullock
To be followed by Sean Treacy

Curve...Swung on by Bullock...
Lined right back over the mound...
Through into center field for a single

Heres a fastball grounded
sharply to Collins...
This could be a doubleplay...
The toss to Wallace covering for one...
The relay is in the dirt...
Not in time...
Wallace was flipped on his back
by Bullock's hard slide
Nobody looks hurt
Score it a force play
That's two away

Swing and a miss
Strike three
Hunter goes down on strikes
And that retires the side

Sinker, at the knees...
Swung on...
Roush hits it into the hole
on the right side
Treacy ranging to his left...
Scoops it up...
Throws on the run...
And Roush is out by a step at first
One out
Due up next is Bobby Wallace

There's a cue shot off the end
of the bat by Wallace
Treacy makes the routine catch
of the soft liner
FOFC gets the second out of the inning

The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
Tinker held up, and draws a walk
Hunter isn't happy at all with that call

Hunter's pitch is a rising fastball
McGinnity tries to hold up
Ball four
Bullock points down to first
He did not go around

Base hit to left for Collins
Jim Thorpe is windmilling
the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Tinker is out!

Grounded towards first
Tinker grabs it
IT'S A RACE TO THE BAG
OUT!
One away here in the bottom of the 5th
FOFC leads 2 to 0
While we have time, let's
check the scoreboard

Negro League I leads Turn
of Century 2 to 1
AL Post WWII clipping Caribbean 6 to 2
Left Outs with the lead over
AL Pre WWII 9 to 6
Sutton comfortably ahead for Left Outs
NL Post WWII is embarrassing
Old Timers 10 to 2
Late 20th besting Negro League II 5 to 0
Molitor has hit his 1st
homerun for Late 20th

Grounded back to the mound
McGinnity comes up with it
Tosses it to first and gets him

A slider by McGinnity
Pflaggstettler gets good wood on it...
Roush back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
The side is retired
No runs, no hits and no errors
Time for a break, just in
time, by the way as
I've just been handed a ballpark hotdog
As Humphrey Bogart once said
A hotdog at the ballpark is better than
steak at the Ritz

Chance hits a screamer at Owen Hunter
Hunter picks it up and fires to first
The throw pulls Gonzalez off the bag
Gonzalez swipes with the glove

Chance is out!
Nice play by Gonzalez
Hunter gets the first out in the inning

Long fly to center
Tucker has a long run...
He's there and hauls it in
Jackson is retired on a fairly deep fly
Two down in the 6th
Time for a station break
This is the Strat-O-Matic Broadcast System
your 4 Sports Network...
OK, we're back and ready to go...

Cobb swings hard...
Nobody is going to get this one...
Yes sir! Cobb will have himself a single
And he extends his hitting streak
to 11 games!
1 for 3 on the evening

Cobb stretches his lead
Cobb dances off first base...
Hunter fires over to first...
He caught Cobb leaning!
He's out

Gonzalez really smacks this one
He was waiting on the change
It's a gapper...
But hit high...
Cobb has a shot at it
He leaps for it at the fence...
OUT!!!
One down for FOFC
Dan Fouts is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to
the plate for FOFC

Fouts swings, and lines
it back up the middle
It glances off McGinnity's
glove and rolls away
Dan Fouts has himself an infield hit

Base hit to left for Gunner
Fouts is rounding second...
But he pulls up quickly as he sees
the sign from Dick Howser
Fouts will stay at second

Hot shot grounded to short
Taken by Wallace
Throws to second
He's out
They might turn it . . .
Double Play!
Score It: 6-4-3
That ends the bottom of the 6th
After 6 innings, the All Stars lead by 2

It's a blast into deep right-center
Tucker is racing over
Pflaggstettler is at the wall
They both go up
They collide
The ball is free
Baker races into third
Home Run gets Dead Ball Era started
Triple number 1 of the year
for Home Run Baker

Lunging after the change-up
Roush hits a grounder through to right...
Scoring from third is Baker
Credit Roush with a single and an RBI

Wallace squares around
He bunts it . . .
It's popped up...
Caught by O.Hunter
a poor bunt by Wallace
That's one away

Bounced past the mound
Smooth pickup by Nights
Throw to second for one
Could be two . . .
Double Play!
Score It: 6-4-3
And that retires the side
But not before Dead Ball Era gets 1 run
to put an end to Owen Hunter's
hopes of a shutout
After 6 and a half innings,
FOFC is still on top, 2-1

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

Swing and a miss!
Bad looking cut by Treacy
And here's why - Catchers interference!
No argument by Chance
Treacy heads to first
The ump caught Chance red handed!
Score It: E2
Treacy to first

Taking his lead is Treacy
Big lead at first...
Fastball inside...
Terp swings and misses
Treacy is off for second on the pitch
Chance is up and firing down...
The slide at second...
Treacy is out!
Nice peg by Chance

It's a smash over short
Wallace leaps
Just over his outstretched glove
Terp makes a wide turn at first
He will hold at first
The ball comes in quickly

Terp inches away from first base
McGinnity looks Terp back...
He's taking a shorter lead now

Hard curve ball...
Tucker sends a hot smash to first
Tinker takes it on one hop
Fires to Collins for one...
Back to Tinker...
A. J. beats the relay
He can really fly down the line!
Two down
Chance asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Chance and McGinnity

Tucker edges away from first base
Tucker has been successful
in 5 of 5 attempts
so far this season
Tucker unable to take a big lead
McGinnity glances over his shoulder
He's keeping him close
He's off to the races!
The peg down by Chance...
Tucker out at second base
It wasn't even close
The throw beat Tucker by a mile

Tris Speaker is going to
bat for Joe McGinnity
Dead Ball Era needs baserunners
desperately
Speaker knows how to get on base
He has a .464 OBP
He hits left handers at a .500 clip
He steps out of the dugout
and makes his way to the plate

Swung on and a drive to right-center
Pflaggstettler is after it, but
he won't catch this one
It one hops off the wall
Pflaggstettler bobbles it a second
That's enough for Speaker
He's heading for third
The throw is right on line...
But Tris Speaker slides in safely!
BOOM!
A nice start here in the top of
the 8th for Dead Ball Era
It's scored a triple
Triple number 2 of the year
for Tris Speaker

Hit in the air to center...
Tucker waits for it to come down...
He has it... Speaker is tagging up!
Here he comes...
Here comes the throw home...
He's...
SAFE! The game is tied!
It's all even now at 2
Sacrifice fly and an RBI for Collins
FOFC gets the first out of the inning

There's a roller down at Fouts
He's in front of it...
It rolls right between the wickets!
Error on Dan Fouts as he didn't
get his glove down
Maybe a bit too easy for him

Swung on and missed...
Jackson is down on strikes
That's the second out of the inning
Time to check the scoreboard

Negro League I is pounding
Turn of Century 9 to 2
AL Post WWII clipping Caribbean 6 to 2
Left Outs with the lead over
AL Pre WWII 9 to 6
NL Post WWII is crushing
Old Timers 13 to 2
Banks has hit his 5th homerun
for NL Post WWII
Late 20th winning over Negro
League II 6 to 0
And in our matchup We're all tied up at 2

Chance takes a short lead against
the lefty Knowles
Slow curve...
Bullock has it...
It's a delayed steal... There he goes
Bullock comes up from his stance firing...
High throw...
Goes into centerfield...
Over everyone's heads...
Around second... Chance heads for third...
And he will make it easily!

There will be an error charged to Bullock

It's popped up into foul territory
Billy Bullock is under it
He makes a nice play on it
Score It: 2
That wraps up the inning for Dead Ball Era
So After 7 and a half innings
FOFC has 2 runs, 7 hits and 2 errors
While Dead Ball Era has 2 runs,
6 hits and one error
Dead Ball Era has left 5 stranded
FOFC has failed to bring home 5
John McGraw will be bringing
in a relief pitcher
Three Finger Brown has been
called from the bullpen
A few warm up tosses and
we'll be set to go

Ground ball to the left side...
Wallace scoops it up
Over to first for the putout
One down, nobody on
Game tied

Persimmon Pflaggstettler offers
at the curveball,
but checks his swing
Oh, Pflaggstettler couldn't get
the bat out of the way
It's a soft line drive to Bobby
Wallace for the out
Pflaggstettler never even
left the batter's box
Two away in today's tightly contested game
Score still tied here with two down
in the bottom of the 8th

There's a towering fly
ball hit by Gonzalez
Roush sprints over, and makes the catch
That does it for FOFC here
in their half of the eighth
As we head into the ninth
this game is all tied up at 2 runs apiece
Quite a pitcher's duel, indeed!

It is a slow change...
Baker's not at all fooled
He hits it squarely...
It is heading out to right-center
almost on a line...
Very well hit ball by Home Run
Tucker is running after it...
He hopes to play it off the fence
He picks it up on the second bounce
He turns and gets it back into the infield
Baker slides into second base
but it was not necessary
Two-bagger for the Dead Ball
Era third baseman

Roush rips one on the ground
It's a 'daisy cutter' to Fouts
Dan fields it cleanly
Looks Baker back to second
Now fires it over to first...
Easy out
With one down

Gonzalez yells something out to Knowles
Bo nods his head

Wallace tries to hold up,
but can't...
Strike three!
Kronside took something off
of that back door breaking ball
He had Wallace way out in front
Two down

That one is a grass cutter towards short
Nights fronts it...
OOPS! It takes a big hop!
Jeff manages to come up with it
on the heel of his glove
Rolls the ball into his free hand
On to first
It is off target...
Potpie one hops it into his glove
Out!
Potpie can't get out of the way
and Joe runs right into him
Nice play as that ball was thrown
on the rightfield side of the bag
Lucky the collision didn't hurt anyone
That retires the side
Dead Ball Era threatens but fails to score
Here in the top of the 9th

Curveball in the dirt
Swung on and missed...Strike three
Chance fumbles it,
but quickly recovers to tag Fouts

Big bender...
Swung on...
Gunner pops it straight up
Three players converging on it
And it will be Wallace making the play
That's two away
Wallace comes over from his shortstop
position to say a few words to Brown
Billy Bullock will be next up...

It's a dying quail headed
towards the outfield
OHHHHH, snagged by a retreating
Wallace for the out
Outstanding range shown on that play!
And we go to extra innings!

It's a little roller out front
Bullock is on it...throws to first...
Nice play
One up, one down for Dead Ball Era

STRIKE THREE, CALLED!
Two down
Jace Kronside retires
the first two batters in order

In the dirt
That's ball four

Base hit to left for Jackson
Chance is racing towards third...
The throw is cut off...
That holds Jackson at first

Routine grounder to short
Taken by Nights
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 6-3
That's it in the top of the 10th
After 9 and a half innings in FOFC,
The score is tied at 2

Swung on...
High fly ball into left
Not hit well
Jackson is under it...
He's got it
Easy chance for Joe
That's the first out of the inning
Two more to go

Slider, down and away...
Potpie reaches for the pitch...
It's a grounder to the third base side...
Baker is there
IT BOUNCES OVER HIS HEAD!...
Jackson is hustling after it...
Potpie with the big turn...
The throw from Jackson goes into second
And Potpie holds at first

Tucker rips a hard shot...
CAUGHT!
That ball was lined right at first
Tinker just got his glove up in time
That's two away for the All Stars
We have a real "nail-biter" here today

Nights hits a slider to the
third base side of short
Wallace going hard to his right...
Backhands the groundball...
He stops, plants, and throws to second...
And gets the forceout on
the sliding Potpie
Putting an end to FOFC's inning
Dead Ball Era gets another chance
We will go to the 11th in FOFC

Strike three swinging...
Now that is something you
don't see very often
Baker rarely ever strikes out
But Kronside got him that time!
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games
These scores are final...
Negro League I ripped Turn
of Century 9 to 3
AL Post WWII topped Caribbean 6 to 3
Left Outs edged out AL Pre WWII 9 to 8
Sutton the winner, he's now 1-1
Mays takes the loss, his
record drops to 0-1
NL Post WWII humbled Old Timers 13 to 2
Late 20th easily defeated
Negro League II 6 to 1
Molitor has hit his 1st
homerun for Late 20th
And in our contest The score is tied at 2

He hits a tough grounder to first
Potpie flips to Kronside covering
Score It: 3-1
Two down
Jace Kronside retires
the first two batters in a row

It's a routine fly into center
Tucker ranges over and reaches up
He grabs it for the out
Kronside retires the side in order
Here in the top of the 11th

High hard fastball, swung on...
It's a grounder hammered at second...
Collins is there...
IT'S INTO RIGHT!!...
It took a HIGH hop right over him!
That's a single for Pflaggstettler
(Guarding Lines Effect)

Pflaggstettler edges away from the bag
The runner can't seem to get a good lead

The runner goes
Blade loves to hit and run...
A low curveball to Blade
He swings a bit late
but hits it right up the middle
Pflaggstettler is going to try for third
Roush is over, picks it
up and fires to Baker
One bounce...
The slide by Pflaggstettler...
SAFE!
Quick throw to second to
hold Blade at first
Now Collins fires it to first...
Blade just dives back safely!
The hit and run works to perfection!

Fastball... just outside
Fouts will take first on the walk
That will load 'em up for Stan Gunner

John McGraw will be bringing
in a relief pitcher
Chief Bender has been called
from the bullpen
A few warm up tosses and
we'll be set to go

It's popped up into foul territory
Frank Chance is under it
He grabs it for the out
Score It: 2
Bender gets out number one...
The All Stars have something going

Grounded through the infield
into left field
Base hit for Bullock
Over the head of the outfielder!
Pflaggstettler scores from third!
Blade takes third
Fouts takes second
FOFC wins 3 to 2
Kronside gets credit for the win
Brown takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Jeff Nights
He was 2 for 5 with a homerun
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.

[Breeze]

GAME 13 - Sunday, April 15th - Boxscore


Ghosts AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG
E.Collins 2B 3 0 1 1 .365 A.Tucker CF 4 1 0 0 .313
F.Chance C 4 0 0 0 .152 J.Nights SS 5 1 2 2 .278
J.Jackson LF 5 0 1 0 .236 P.Pflaggstettler RF 5 1 2 0 .444
T.Cobb RF 5 0 1 0 .423 D.Gonzalez 1B 3 0 0 0 .214
H.Baker 3B 5 1 3 0 .306 J.Kronside P 0 0 0 0 ----
E.Roush CF 5 0 1 1 .200 D-B.Blade PH 1 0 1 0 .289
B.Wallace SS 5 0 0 0 .154 D.Fouts 3B 4 0 1 0 .231
J.Tinker 1B 3 0 0 0 .176 S.Gunner LF 5 0 1 0 .238
J.McGinnity P 1 0 0 0 .000 B.Bullock C 5 0 2 1 .333
B-T.Speaker PH 1 1 1 0 .383 S.Treacy 2B 3 0 0 0 .143
T.Brown P 1 0 0 0 .000 O.Hunter P 2 0 0 0 .000
C.Bender P 0 0 0 0 ---- A-K.Terp PH 1 0 1 0 .222
B.Knowles P 0 0 0 0 ----
C-J.Potpie 1B 1 0 1 0 .273
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
Totals 38 2 8 2 Totals 39 3 11 3

A-Pinch Hit For Hunter In 7th Inning
B-Pinch Hit For McGinnity In 8th Inning
C-Subbed Defensively (1B) For Knowles In 9th Inning
D-Pinch Hit For Kronside In 11th Inning

Ghosts.......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 - 2 8 1
All Stars....... 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 3 11 2

Ghosts IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
J.McGinnity 7 7 2 2 2 4 1 127 2.70
T.Brown LOSS(0-1) 3 3 1 1 1 1 0 37 5.40
C.Bender 0 1/3 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 0.00
Totals 10 1/3 11 3 3 3 5 1

All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
O.Hunter 7 5 1 1 3 0 0 95 4.76
B.Knowles BS(1st) 1 1/3 2 1 1 0 1 0 31 8.10
J.Kronside WIN(3-0) 2 2/3 1 0 0 1 3 0 36 0.00
Totals 11 8 2 2 4 4 0

ATTENDANCE- 48,809 DATE- Sunday, April 15th 1900 TIME- Night
T- 2:18
LEFT ON BASE- Ghosts: 8 All Stars: 8
DOUBLE PLAYS- Ghosts: 1 All Stars: 1
ERRORS- F.Chance, D.Fouts, B.Bullock
DOUBLES- H.Baker(2nd)
TRIPLES- H.Baker(1st), T.Speaker(2nd)
HOME RUNS- J.Nights(2nd)
STOLEN BASES- E.Collins(6th), F.Chance(1st), A.Tucker(5th)
CAUGHT STEALING- A.Tucker, S.Treacy
SACRIFICE FLIES- E.Collins
WALKS- E.Collins, F.Chance, J.Tinker, J.McGinnity, A.Tucker, D.Gonzalez,
D.Fouts
STRIKE OUTS- E.Collins, J.Jackson, H.Baker, B.Wallace, D.Fouts-2, S.Treacy,
O.Hunter-2
GIDP- J.Tinker, B.Bullock
CATCHERS INTERFERENCE- S.Treacy
WEB GEMS- Bot 2nd: Ty Cobb robbed Billy Bullock of an extra base hit.

[Travis]

Nice continued surge to start the season boys.

8-0 in one run ball games shows we're doing the little things right to come out on top.

Course, 8 one run games in the first 13 games of the season means we should start trying to win by more or our beloved skipper might not make it to the All-Star break :D

[Breeze]

The National Herald - Monday, April 16th

SPORTS


TURN OF CENTURY AT NEGRO LEAGUE I
Centurions...... 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 - 3 10 0
Ones............ 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 5 - 9 11 0
Win:Smith(2-0) Loss:Joss(0-2)
Homeruns- J.Gibson(4th)

Third baseman Ray Dandridge had 3 base hits and 3 RBI as the Negro League I
Ones beat the Turn of Century Centurions by a score of 9 to 3.

Hilton Smith(2-0) gave a fine effort for Negro League I. He went 8 innings
allowing 9 hits and 1 walk. Negro League I had a total of 11 hits for the
game.

The loss was charged to Addie Joss(0-2). He gave up 3 runs and 7 hits in 6
innings.

OLD TIMERS AT NL POST WWII
Ancients........ 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 - 2 6 5
Post-Nationals.. 1 2 2 2 3 3 0 0 - 13 11 0
Win:Gibson(1-1) Loss:Keefe(0-3)
Homeruns- E.Delahanty(2nd), E.Mathews(2nd), E.Banks(5th), B.Gibson(2nd)

Bob Gibson completed the game without help from the bullpen and Ernie Banks
slammed a homerun and had 3 RBI at Big League Field as the NL Post WWII club
belted the Old Timers Ancients by the count of 13 to 2.

The home town fans were very appreciative of the fine hitting performance
provided by Banks. He tripled in the 3rd inning and lofted a three-run
'big-fly' (his 5th of the season) in the 6th inning. NL Post WWII had many
opportunities throughout the game and scored in 6 separate innings.

Gibson(1-1) lasted until the end allowing 2 runs for the win. Tim Keefe(0-3)
took the loss. He allowed 8 hits and 2 walks in 4 and 2/3 innings.


CARIBBEAN AT AL POST WWII
Estrellas....... 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 3 8 0
Post-Americans.. 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 - 6 9 2
Win:Feller(1-3) Loss:Mendez(0-2) Save:Fingers(2nd)
Homeruns- O.Linares(5th), R.Jackson(2nd)

The AL Post WWII team defeated the Caribbean Estrellas by a score of 6 to 3 at
Yawnef Park.

The game started off with AL Post WWII taking the lead in the first when they
tallied 3 runs on 5 hits. The key offensive moment was provided by Harmon
Killebrew who electrified Yawnef Park when he doubled scoring two
baserunners. AL Post WWII finished with 9 hits in the victory.

Bob Feller(1-3) went 8 and 1/3 innings allowing 3 runs for the victory. Rollie
Fingers recorded the save, his 2nd. Jose Mendez(0-2) absorbed the loss. He
was knocked around pretty good, giving up 6 runs in 3 innings.


NEGRO LEAGUE II AT LATE 20TH
Twos............ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 1 6 1
Modern Stars.... 0 4 0 0 1 1 0 0 - 6 8 2
Win:Clemens(2-0) Loss:Brewer(0-3)
Homeruns- P.Molitor(1st)

Roger Clemens pitched a complete game and third baseman Paul Molitor touched
them all and had 3 RBI as the Late 20th Modern Stars defeated the Negro
League II Twos by the score of 6 to 1 at Free Agent Field.

Molitor enjoyed a fine day at the plate. He smacked a three-run homer (his
1st of the season) in the 2nd inning, tripled in the 4th inning and tripled
in the 6th inning. Late 20th rapped out 8 hits for the afternoon.

Clemens(2-0) allowed 1 run on the game. Chet Brewer(0-3) was tagged with the
loss. He surrendered 8 hits and 7 walks in 7 innings.

Late 20th now has a record of 9-5. With this loss, Negro League II has a 4-6
record of late, 4-10 overall.

AL PRE WWII AT LEFT OUTS
Pre-Americans... 2 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 2 - 8 17 0
Leftovers....... 1 3 3 0 2 0 0 0 - 9 9 0
Win:Sutton(1-1) Loss:Mays(0-1) Save:Drysdale(2nd)
Homeruns- B.Ruth-2(6th), L.Gehrig(2nd), E.Averill(4th), J.Foxx(8th),
D.Snider(3rd)

Center fielder Duke Snider hit a homerun and had 3 RBI at Overshadow Pk as the
Left Outs Leftovers beat the AL Pre WWII ballclub 9 to 8.

It was a good day for Left Outs thanks to Snider. He clubbed a three-run home
run (his 3rd of the season) in the 3rd inning and doubled in the 5th inning.
AL Pre WWII had a chance to come back in the 9th but they came up short.

Don Sutton(1-1) went 6 and 2/3 innings allowing 6 runs for the win. Sutton got
help from Don Drysdale who earned his 2nd save. Carl Mays(0-1) ended up with
the loss. He gave up 7 runs in 2 and 1/3 innings of work.

Babe Ruth rocketed 2 homeruns and had 3 RBI in a losing cause for AL Pre WWII.

DEAD BALL ERA AT FOFC
Ghosts.......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 - 2 8 1
All Stars....... 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 3 11 2
Win:Kronside(3-0) Loss:Brown(0-1)
Homeruns- J.Nights(2nd)

Shortstop Jeff Nights jacked one out of the ballyard and had 2 RBI at FOFC
Stadium as the blistering-hot FOFC All Stars beat the Dead Ball Era Ghosts in
11 innings by the count of 3 to 2.

The game was deadlocked at 2 after nine full innings. FOFC came out the
victor in the 11th inning. Persimmon Pflaggstettler laced a base-hit.
Barrett Blade followed and he ripped a base-knock. Dan Fouts then drew a
walk to load the bases. After an out was recorded, Billy Bullock stepped up
to the plate and he laced a base-knock giving FOFC the win much to the
delight of the home town crowd. FOFC finished with 11 hits while Dead Ball
Era ended up with 8.

The win went to Jace Kronside(3-0) who allowed no runs in 2 and 2/3 innings.
Three Finger Brown(0-1) was the losing pitcher in relief. FOFC continued on
their recent roll, their winning streak now reaching 9 games and counting.

[Breeze]

GAME 14 - Monday, April 16th - Radio Broadcast

Bouncer in the hole
and past David Gonzalez...
Base hit into right field!
That one had eyes on it
Good piece of hitting by Collins

Good slider, inside part of the plate
Sisler gets the bat on it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Blade grabs it...
To second for one
Over to first...
OUT!
Smooth "DP" by FOFC
One more chance for Dead
Ball Era this inning

Breaking ball, in on the hands
Speaker swings at...
Pounds the ball into the ground
It's a one bouncer into the hole
Nights ranging over stabs it
Strong throw to first...
GOT HIM!!!
Speaker is out by an eyelash
What a play!
John Williams holds Dead Ball Era
scoreless in the first inning

Curveball in the dirt
Swung on and missed...Strike three
Tinker fumbles it,
but quickly recovers to tag Blade
One down for FOFC
Jeff Nights is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to
the plate for FOFC

Change up...
Nights hits a fly ball to right
Cobb is under it...
He's got it
Two up, two down

Ed comes in there with a dipsy-do
And it freezes Tucker
He can't get the bat off his shoulder
as he watches it just catch
the outside corner...
STRIKE THREE!
So that's it for FOFC
They fail to score against Walsh
In the bottom of the 1st for FOFC
No runs, no hits and no errors

It's a Texas Leaguer to right
Here comes Pflaggstettler...
He is really motoring...
He reaches down...
But catches it on one hop!
Cobb is on with a bloop single to right

Hit and run...
Smashed to first
Gonzalez takes it to the bag himself
The hit and run moves the runner up.
Score It: 3
That's the first out of the inning
Dead Ball Era is in 4th place
in the standings
4.0 games out of first

Cobb slowly moves away from the base
The runner can't seem to get a good lead

Curveball, in and low
Baker hits it to Gonzalez at first
Takes it cleanly...
Races to the bag...
It's going to be close...
And...
Out is the call
That could have gone either way
Cobb is now perched over at third
That's two away

There's a high pop in front of the plate
Looks like the ball is drifting foul
Palmer calls for it
and makes the play
As the ump signals a foul ball
That's all for Dead Ball Era
After 1 and a half innings
in FOFC this afternoon,
Scoreless game

Pflaggstettler swings hard...
But he was fooled on the pitch
It hits him on the fists
It's dribbling toward short
Wallace charges in on it...
Bare hands it...
Sidearms it to first...
Pflaggstettler beats it out by a whisker
It was a bleeder...
Pflaggstettler's speed got
him a hit on that one
He'll take it

Pflaggstettler watches Walsh carefully
As he stretches out his lead
Fastball in the dirt
Blocked nicely by Tinker
And Pflaggstettler is off and running!
Tinker pumps...
but no throw, he holds onto the ball
He is SAFE!

Swung on and missed, strike three!
That breaking ball really had
a nasty bend on it
It ended up in the left-handed
batter's box!
One out
Due up next is K. A. Ton

Ton slaps a routine grounder to Baker
Home Run picks it up...
Looks Pflaggstettler back to second
Sidearms a throw to Sisler
Ton is out
No score with two away this inning

High and tight
He takes it for a walk

Base hit to right for Palmer
Dick Howser is giving the green light...
The throw is coming home...
Tinker is trying to block the plate
(Ability to block: Terrible,)...
Pflaggstettler scores!

Williams hits a pop into short right field
Out goes Sisler and Collins
In comes Cobb
Collins waves his hands in the air
He makes the catch over his shoulder
Pretty play by Collins
The All Stars get 1 in the
bottom of the 2nd
After 2 innings, FOFC leads by 1

Tinker pops one straight up
And it will be Bullock making the play
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

Turn of Century slipping by
Negro League I 4 to 2
Beckley has hit his 2nd homerun
for Turn of Century
Caribbean and AL Post WWII
are deadlocked at 2
AL Pre WWII is edging Left Outs 1 to 0
Gomez battling Carlton
NL Post WWII is edging Old Timers 1 to 0
Late 20th leads Negro League II 1 to 0
And here in FOFC FOFC ahead 1 to 0

Grounded towards the bag
Williams takes the flip from Gonzalez
Score It: 3-1
That's two away
Nights comes over from his shortstop
position to say a few words to Williams
Eddie Collins will be next up...

LINE DRIVE
Gonzalez grabs it for the out
Score It: 3
Williams sets the Ghosts down in order

A slider by Walsh
Blade gets good wood on it...
Jackson back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
And there's one away

Nights hits it sharply on the ground...
into the hole at third
Baker dives...
It's through for a base hit!
He almost got his glove on it...
Nights reaches on a sizzling
single to left
A nice try by the third baseman,
Home Run Baker

Strike three swinging!
And a quick peg to first by Tinker
Nights dives back in...
SAFE!
The first base ump says
Nights made it back
Two down

Apparently not afraid of Walsh
Nights stretches out to his lead
From the lead looks like Nights may go...
Throw to first, back in time...
Close play...
Now he's staying closer to the bag

It is a high hard one...
Pflaggstettler goes on a fishin' trip
Strike three swinging!
That one sailed up out of the strike zone
but Pflaggstettler couldn't hold back
And that will do it for FOFC

Sisler swings hard...
Nobody is going to get this one...
Yes sir! Sisler will have himself a single
And he extends his hitting streak
to 13 games!
1 for 2 on the afternoon

It's a rainbow shot toward right
Pflaggstettler reaches up
Makes the catch!
Didn't have to move an inch
One gone in the top of the 4th
Up next is Ty Cobb
He's having a fine year so far

There's a ground ball into the hole
Palmer and Nights converge on it
It's picked by Nights who fires to first
SAFE is the call by the ump
Close play!!

Curve, up high...
Jackson rips it to center...
Williams hung that breaking ball
However, Joe got under it just a bit
Tucker started back on it
Now he's coming in...
He's under it and makes the easy catch
"Can of Corn"
Here's the ump coming out
To brush the plate clean
There's two away

Hot shot grounded to second
Blade grabs it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 4-3
That retires the side...
Home Run Baker fails to come
Through in the clutch
That's something you won't see very often

Sinking fastball...
Bullock swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Wallace...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
One down for FOFC
K. A. Ton is still in the on-deck circle
and David Gonzalez is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Ton hits a screamer at Home Run Baker
Baker picks it up and fires to first
The throw pulls Sisler off the bag
Sisler swipes with the glove

Ton is out!
Nice play by Sisler
And there's two away

Walsh loses him
Gonzalez heads down to first
2 walks today for Gonzalez

Swing and a miss
Strike three
Palmer goes down on strikes
That's all for the All Stars
in the 4th inning
No runs, no hits, no errors and
one man left on base...
We go to the 5th...
FOFC leads 1 to 0

It's a quail shot headed
towards the outfield
Blade takes off after it...
Leaps...
And Wallace is OUT!
Very impressive range shown on that play!
Barrett is very fine fielder!
One away in the top of the 5th

Fastball...
Tinker jumps all over it...
It's juiced to deep left
There goes Ton after it
Racing hard...
He dives...
And he's got it!!!
Beautiful play by K. A. Ton!
Two down
John Williams retires
the first two batters in a row

Walsh slaps a hard grounder past short
Ton is over to pick it up
He tosses it back to second
Walsh will hold with a clean single

Ground ball to short
Nights comes up with it
He tosses it to second...
Gets the force
That wraps up the inning for Dead Ball Era
So After 4 and a half innings
FOFC has one run, 3 hits and no errors
While Dead Ball Era has no runs,
5 hits and no errors
Dead Ball Era has left 4 stranded
FOFC has failed to bring home 4

Williams swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Walsh strikes out John Williams
So one up and one gone

Blade rips a whistling liner down the line
Bingo! Baker spears it!
A shot hit right on the screws
but right at the Dead Ball
Era third baseman
Two away now for FOFC
They're ahead by 1
The All Stars have 3 hits on the afternoon

Smashed to third
Baker grabs it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 5-3
That's all for the All Stars
No runs, no hits and no errors...
After five complete...
FOFC leads 1 to 0

Over the outside corner
Sisler hits the curve right to second...
Blade takes it on the second hop
Fires to 1st...
Sisler is out by a couple of steps
With one down, up next is Tris Speaker
To be followed by Ty Cobb

Curve, a beauty...
Strike three looking!
Williams punches him out!
Two down
Bullock asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Bullock and Williams

Cobb slaps a hard grounder past second
Pflaggstettler is over to pick it up
He tosses it back to second
Cobb will hold with a clean single

It's a dying quail headed
towards the outfield
OHHHHH, snagged by a retreating
Blade for the out
Outstanding range shown on that play!
We're in the middle of the 6th
FOFC still leads 1-0

Swung on and missed by Tucker,
he's down on strikes
That is 3 on the day for Tucker
One away for FOFC here in
the bottom of the 6th

Pflaggstettler gets wood
on the hard slider
It's a bouncer hit past the mound...
And PAST Wallace into the outfield...
Base hit for Pflaggstettler

Bullock watches a roundhouse
curve all the way in
Strike Three called!
That one started out right at Billy,
In fact, he started to bend back
out of the way
Walsh just delivered a sweeping curve
that just caught
the inside corner of the plate
FOFC on top 1 to 0 with two away
Let's check some other scores as well

Turn of Century clipping
Negro League I 6 to 2
Caribbean is edging AL Post WWII 4 to 3
Left Outs is edging AL Pre WWII 7 to 6
Carlton and Faber currently dueling
NL Post WWII is edging Old Timers 1 to 0
Negro League II and Late 20th
are deadlocked at 1

Pflaggstettler sneaks away from the base
Big bender...
Pflaggstettler is off to the races
Tinker pumps...
but no throw, he holds onto the ball
He is SAFE!

And now they're going to put Ton on
Tinker is up and holding out his glove
There's ball 3...
and now ball 4
David Gonzalez is waiting on deck

Grounded towards the bag
Walsh takes the flip from Sisler
Score It: 3-1
As we head into the 7th
the Ghosts will try to get something going
They trail by 1, 1-0

Baker swings
He sends one to the deepest
part of right-center
That's going to get through to the fence
Baker rounds second...
The throw not nearly in time, a triple
Home Run Baker now has 2 three-baggers
this season

Groundball to back to the mound
Jim Thorpe won't risk sending
the runner home...
Wallace is retired on the groundout

Tinker squares around
He bunts it . . .
They throw trying to get
the lead runner...
Fielded by J.Williams
he's throwing for the lead runner...
SAFE!
Sac & Fielders Choice
Baker scores from third!
Tinker to first

The Whiff!
Williams punches Walsh out!

He goes after the low slider
At the knees...
There's a fly ball into
straight-away right
Pflaggstettler slides under
it... one hands it...
Almost drops it, but hangs on
That could have been a costly
error by Pflaggstettler

That retires the side... but not before
the Ghosts score 1 run to tie it up
After 6 and a half innings, FOFC has
one run, 4 hits and no errors
While Dead Ball Era has one
run, 7 hits and no errors

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

Palmer chases the change up
Hits a slow grounder right past Walsh
Wallace snares it behind the bag...
Plants...
Throws to first...
Beats him by a step for the out!
One up, one down for FOFC

Here's a curve...
Not a good one!
Gunner turns on it a BIG WAY...
Forget it, that one is long
gone... a home run!
Number 3 for Stan on the year
He also has 4 RBI's now

It rides in on Blade and
hits him on the hands
Blade is in a lot of pain...
We'll see if he can continue...
He heads to first

Blade inches away from the base
Walsh holds the runner close to the bag

Nights lines one into left
Jackson is up with it
Fires it to third
Blade holds at second

Nubber to second
Taken by Collins
Over to second for one
Over to first
Not in time!
Score It: 4-6
Blade takes third
The runner on first, Nights, is out
That's the second out of the inning

Ground ball to short
Wallace grabs it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 6-3
That is the third out for FOFC here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 30753

Good slider, inside part of the plate
Sisler gets the bat on it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Blade grabs it...
Throws to first...
OUT!
FOFC gets the first out of the inning

Speaker hits one on the ground
to the left side
Tris, who moves well,
is motoring to first
Nights wings it quickly to Gonzalez...
OUT by a step
FOFC gets the second out of the inning

It's a high fly into left
Ton ranges to his right
Reaches up, and takes it for the easy out
That does it for Dead Ball Era
in the top of the 8th

Shallow fly ball
Jackson charging
HE DIVES...
HE CAN'T GET IT!
Bullock stops at first
That's a single

Gazelle studies Walsh intently...
Now he's walking away from the base
Walsh looks Gazelle back
He is unable to get his normal lead

Ton hits a deep ball
Jackson retreats toward the wall
He leaps...
He's got it!
Nice grab by Joe Jackson
With one down

Sisler yells something out to Walsh
Ed nods his head

There's a grounder right at Ed Walsh
This should be two
The throw to second...in time
To first
Out of there, a double play!
That's all for the All Stars
After 8 innings in FOFC this afternoon,
FOFC on top 2 to 1

Hard slider, paints the inside corner
Jackson gets a piece of it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Gonzalez grabs it...
Races to first...
Beats Jackson for the out
One gone for Dead Ball Era
in the top of the 9th

Hard inside slider...
The swing...
Baker hits a grounder into the hole
Gonzalez makes an incredible stop...
But he's in no position to make a throw
Score that a single

Baker is taking his lead from first
Slider, down and in...
Breaking on the pitch
There goes Baker for second
Hays fires it down...
Right on the money...
Baker is out by a mile

Wallace swings and misses
Strike three
Wallace didn't have a good
cut at that pitch
And that will do it for Dead Ball Era
FOFC wins 2 to 1
Williams gets credit for the win
Knowles notches the save
Walsh takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Stan Gunner
He was 1 for 1 with a homerun
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.

[Breeze]

GAME 14 - Monday, April 16h - Boxscore


Ghosts AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG
E.Collins 2B 4 0 1 0 .357 B.Blade 2B 3 0 0 0 .271
G.Sisler 1B 4 0 1 0 .357 J.Nights SS 4 0 2 0 .300
T.Speaker CF 4 0 0 0 .353 A.Tucker CF 4 0 0 0 .288
T.Cobb RF 4 0 3 0 .446 P.Pflaggstettler RF 4 1 2 0 .449
J.Jackson LF 4 0 0 0 .220 B.Bullock C 4 0 1 0 .321
H.Baker 3B 4 1 2 0 .321 B-G.Gazelle PR,LF 0 0 0 0 .333
B.Wallace SS 4 0 0 0 .143 K.Ton LF 3 0 0 0 .158
J.Tinker C 2 0 0 1 .158 C-H.Hays C 0 0 0 0 .280
E.Walsh P 3 0 1 0 .182 D.Gonzalez 1B 2 0 0 0 .188
S.Knowles P 0 0 0 0 ----
D.Palmer 3B 3 0 1 1 .227
J.Williams P 2 0 0 0 .000
A-S.Gunner PH 1 1 1 1 .273
B.Knowles P 0 0 0 0 ----
D-J.Potpie 1B 0 0 0 0 .273
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
Totals 33 1 8 1 Totals 30 2 7 2

A-Pinch Hit For Williams In 7th Inning
B-Pinch Ran For Bullock In 8th Inning
C-Subbed Defensively (C ) For Ton In 9th Inning
D-Subbed Defensively (1B) For Knowles In 9th Inning

Ghosts.......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 - 1 8 0
All Stars....... 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 - 2 7 0

Ghosts IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
E.Walsh LOSS(1-3) 8 7 2 2 3 9 1 125 4.75 A1
Totals 8 7 2 2 3 9 1

All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
J.Williams WIN(2-0) 7 7 1 1 0 2 0 106 3.21
B.Knowles HOLD(2nd) 1 1/3 1 0 0 0 0 0 13 5.79
S.Knowles SAVE(4th) 0 2/3 0 0 0 0 1 0 5 0.00
Totals 9 8 1 1 0 3 0

ATTENDANCE- 30,753 DATE- Monday, April 16th 1900 TIME- Day
T- 1:22
LEFT ON BASE- Ghosts: 6 All Stars: 8
DOUBLE PLAYS- Ghosts: 1 All Stars: 1
TRIPLES- H.Baker(2nd)
HOME RUNS- S.Gunner(3rd)
STOLEN BASES- P.Pflaggstettler-2(4th)
CAUGHT STEALING- H.Baker
SACRIFICE HITS- J.Tinker
WALKS- K.Ton, D.Gonzalez-2
HIT BY PITCH- B.Blade
STRIKE OUTS- T.Speaker, B.Wallace, E.Walsh, B.Blade, A.Tucker-3,
P.Pflaggstettler, B.Bullock-2, D.Palmer, J.Williams
GIDP- G.Sisler, D.Gonzalez

[kingfc22]

Our pitching staff is lights out right now. Good job guys.

Coach - I expect to my butt to be full of splinters again soon.

[Breeze]

The National Herald - Tuesday, April 17th

SPORTS



TURN OF CENTURY AT NEGRO LEAGUE I
Centurions...... 1 0 3 2 0 0 2 0 1 - 9 12 0
Ones............ 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 - 5 13 2
Win:Young(3-1) Loss:Rogan(2-2)
Homeruns- J.Beckley(2nd)

Jake Beckley blasted a homerun and had 4 RBI at Black Diamond Pk where the
Turn of Century Centurions beat the Negro League I Ones by the score of 9 to
5.

Cy Young(3-1) pitched well for Turn of Century in their victory. He went 8
and 2/3 innings surrendering 12 hits and 3 walks. Turn of Century managed 12
in their victory.

Bullet Joe Rogan(2-2) took the loss. He gave up 7 hits and 3 walks in 6
innings.

OLD TIMERS AT NL POST WWII
Ancients........ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 1 6 1
Post-Nationals.. 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 2 5 0
Win:Spahn(1-1) Loss:Cummings(0-1)

Warren Spahn went the distance at Big League Field as the Old Timers Ancients
lost a heartbreaker to NL Post WWII club by the score of 2 to 1.

NL Post WWII won the game with a run in the 9th inning. Ernie Banks smacked a
single. Billy Williams stepped into the batter's box and he doubled. Johnny
Bench then would hit into a fielders choice giving NL Post WWII the win much
to the delight of the home town crowd. NL Post WWII managed only 5 on the
night.

Spahn(1-1) was the winner allowing 1 run for the game. Candy Cummings(0-1) was
the losing pitcher in relief. He allowed 2 hits and no walks without
retiring a batter.

CARIBBEAN AT AL POST WWII
Estrellas....... 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 - 5 9 0
Post-Americans.. 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 - 4 6 1
Win:Tiant Sr.(1-3) Loss:Newhouser(0-1) Save:Salazar(2nd)
Homeruns- L.Aparicio(1st), M.Mantle-2(3rd), C.Fisk(1st)

Roberto Avila hit 2 doubles as the Caribbean Estrellas defeated the AL Post
WWII ballclub by a score of 5 to 4 at Yawnef Park.

The game was decided in the top of the 9th inning. After an out was recorded,
Keith Hernandez laced a base-knock. Hal Newhouser then unleashed a wild
pitch. Dave Concepcion then singled scoring the run. AL Post WWII was
out-hit by Caribbean, 9 hits to 6.

Luis Tiant Sr.(1-3) picked up the victory, allowing 4 runs in 8 innings.
Lazaro Salazar earned the save, his 2nd. Newhouser(0-1) absorbed the loss.


NEGRO LEAGUE II AT LATE 20TH
Twos............ 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 1 - 6 7 1
Modern Stars.... 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 - 2 5 0
Win:Manning(1-1) Loss:Johnson(2-2)
Homeruns- J.Beckwith(2nd), L.Santop(4th)

The Negro League II Twos defeated the Late 20th Modern Stars by a score of 6
to 2 at Free Agent Field.

Max Manning(1-1) did the job in relief, and he got credit for the win. He was
reached for 3 hits and no walks in 2 innings. Negro League II finished with
7 hits in the victory.

Randy Johnson(2-2) was given the loss. He pitched 7 and 1/3 innings giving up
4 hits and 2 walks.

AL PRE WWII AT LEFT OUTS
Pre-Americans... 1 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 3 0 - 9 14 0
Leftovers....... 0 0 0 5 0 2 0 2 0 1 - 10 12 1
Win:Pennock(1-1) Loss:Hoyt(1-2)
Homeruns- B.Ruth(7th), L.Gehrig(3rd), H.Greenberg(1st), A.Vaughan(3rd)

Shortstop Arky Vaughan hit one over the fence and had 4 RBI as the Left Outs
Leftovers outscored the AL Pre WWII team in 10 innings 10 to 9.

The score was tied at 9 after nine. Left Outs came out the victor in the 10th
inning. Duke Snider drew a walk. Two outs later Harry Heilmann stepped in
and he was walked intentionally. Jimmie Foxx then lined a single giving Left
Outs the victory as 40,744 happy fans celebrated wildly. A wild and woolly
affair, this game saw the lead change 5 times.

The victory was credited to Herb Pennock(1-1) who went 2/3 of an inning,
allowing no runs. Waite Hoyt(1-2) ended up with the loss in relief. He
struggled with his control issuing 5 walks in 2 and 2/3 innings.


DEAD BALL ERA AT FOFC
Ghosts.......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 - 1 8 0
All Stars....... 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 - 2 7 0
Win:Williams(2-0) Loss:Walsh(1-3) Save:Knowles(4th)
Homeruns- S.Gunner(3rd)

Right fielder Persimmon Pflaggstettler had 2 base hits at FOFC Stadium as the
sizzling FOFC All Stars beat the Dead Ball Era Ghosts by the count of 2 to
1.

John Williams(2-0) gave FOFC a solid outing. He allowed 7 hits and no walks
in 7 innings lowering his ERA from 5.14 to 3.21. Dead Ball Era had a chance
to come back in the 9th but Home Run Baker was gunned down trying to steal second, to get himself into scoring position.

"I'm not sure why teams keep trying to run on us, especially in criticle situations. Don't they realize how good Bullock's and my arms are? I hope they keep on running, we'll take the easy outs," Hays said.

Williams got relief help from Sammy Knowles who gained credit for his 4th
save. Ed Walsh(1-3) was the loser. FOFC added another win to their now very
impressive winning streak.



NOTE: League Website has been updated.

[Breeze]

FOFC - MANAGER UPDATE


I wake up and pack my suitcase. We are heading on the road for our first road trip. It's only a short one, but it will be interesting to see how we perform away from our comfort zone. This schedule is ridiculous, starting out with a 14 game home stand. I think we pay for it in July, where we are away from home almost the entire month (will need to pack extra underwear for that trip).

I head to the stadium and I'm one of the first ones there. I load my bags in the team bus and get on board. I start reading a book that I brought along for the trip. Half way through the second chapter, Sal flops down next to me.


"Hey Skip," he starts off. "Lou Scribe pulled me aside last night after the game. He would like to do a piece on our teams fast start and great pitching."

"OK," I respond. "You supposed to handle it?"

"I already gave him some information, but he wants some comments from you."

"So when am I supposed to speak with him?"

"He says he'll grab you while we are on the road."

"Odds are we'll stink it up while we are out here and all the works he's done so far will become irrelavent." I smirk.

Sal laughs, then he gets up and heads to his seat.

"Hey Sal," I get his attention once more, "You and your guys are doing a fantastic job."

"Thanks, but it's easy to do when you have tallent to work with. What's the old saying, You're only as good as your tools." He smiles.

[Breeze]

GAME 15 - Tuesday, April 17th - Radio Broadcast

Swung on and chopped down
the third base line
Dandridge stabs at it
He's got it!
Over to first...
GOT HIM!
What a nice play by Ray Dandridge
One down for FOFC
Jeff Nights is still in the on-deck circle
and A. J. Tucker is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Swung on and Nights sends
a high fly to right
It is hugging the foul line...
Torriente is over at the fence...
It's going to be close...
Torriente can't make the catch!
Nights just missed on that one
Foul by inches!
. . . Nights back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Jeff raps a high bouncer toward third
Dandridge snatches it on the third hop
Overhands one to first
Easy out
Two up, two down for FOFC

Drilled on the ground to the mound
Taken by Paige
Over to Leonard
Got him!
Score It: 1-3
Paige sets them down in order
Here in the top of the 1st

Pounded on the ground to first
Babson takes the flip from Potpie
Score It: 3-1
One out
Due up next is Willie Wells

It's a high fly to deep center
Tucker is on his horse
It is carrying to the fence
A. J. jumps...
Leaping catch... No, it
pops out of his glove
Wells will get a two-base hit

There's a high foul pop behind the plate
Bullock goes back to the screen
Nice catch
Just before it goes into the seats
That's the second out of the inning

The pitch is low
It bounces away from Bullock!
He's got it
But there's no throw.
It's scored a passed ball.

Hot shot grounded to second
Taken by Blade
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 4-3
That wraps up the inning
for Negro League I
By the way, Negro League I is 6
and 4 in their last ten games

The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
Pflaggstettler held up, and draws a walk
Paige isn't happy at all with that call

Change up...
Potpie was not fooled...
He connects!
Charleston is off to the races...
That ball is hit hard...
Oscar is at the warning track...
But that ball has the necessary distance!
Home Run for Jeeberoni Potpie!

Fastball... down and away...
NO! It's called a strike
And Bullock is outta there
And there's one away

Grounded towards first
Leonard grabs it
IT'S A RACE TO THE BAG
OUT!
And there's two away

There's a fly ball to Cristobal Torriente
Torriente circles under it...
He makes the play
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
Time to check out the rest of the scores

Caribbean and Negro League
II have yet to score
Cuellar battling Holland
Old Timers and AL Pre WWII are scoreless
Galvin and Mays currently dueling
NL Pre WWII and Dead Ball
Era are scoreless
Rixey battling Johnson
NL Post WWII leads Left Outs 1 to 0
AL Post WWII and Turn of
Century are scoreless
Late 20th is on top of Japanese
League 2 to 0
Martinez and Kaneda currently dueling
And in our matchup FOFC leads 2 to 0

Fastball, swung on and missed
Take a seat Mr. Leonard!
Babson retires the first batter to
face him in the bottom of the 2nd

Smashed to short
Nights comes up with it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 6-3
Two down
Bullock asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Bullock and Babson

Curveball in the dirt
Swung on and missed...Strike three
Bullock fumbles it,
but quickly recovers to tag Dihigo
1-2-3, nothing across...

Sinking fastball...
Babson swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Dandridge...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
One down for FOFC
Barrett Blade is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to
the plate for FOFC

He hits a tough grounder to short
Wells grabs it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 6-3
Negro League I gets the second
out of the inning

Swung on and hit sharply to short
Wells plays it on one bounce
Over to Leonard...
Out of there!
That's the third out of the inning
Three up, three down
It's 2-0, FOFC

Fastball, STRIKE THREE!
Dandridge was frozen on that
fastball by Babson
High and on the outside corner
He was looking for an off-speed pitch
One gone for Negro League I
in the bottom of the 3rd

Smashed to the mound
Babson grabs it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 1-3
Two down
Babson retires two in a row

Bell sends a wicked smash in the hole
Fouts can't cut it off
Nights makes a great backhand stab
Leaps and fires to Potpie
Cool Papa is out on a bang-bang play!
Great play by Jeff Nights!
That's all for the Ones
After 3 innings in Negro League
I this afternoon,
FOFC on top 2 to 0

LINE DRIVE
Dihigo reaches
He grabs it for the out
Score It: 4
One up, one down

A jug-handled curve
Pflaggstettler goes out and gets it
It's a liner to center
Bell will have to hurry...
Here he comes...
No sir... he has to play
it on the short hop
Single for Persimmon Pflaggstettler

Swung on and lofted very high...
and very deep...
Torriente starts back, turns...
He's at the fence...
And hauls it in!
Two gone for FOFC

Bullock drives the ball to
right for extra bases
Dick Howser is waving the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Pflaggstettler scores!
Double for Bullock

Looks like Fouts will be
given a free pass here
And he is... that's four wide ones
Stan Gunner is the batter due up next

Change up...
Gunner was way out in front...
Strike Three
That does it for FOFC here
in the top of the 4th
But they pick up 1 run
So After 3 and a half innings,
FOFC on top 3 to 0

Curve in the dirt... and Wells holds up
Looked like he went around from here
But the plate umpire says no
Bullock asks the first base ump's opinion
He says Wells went around
Strike three, swinging
With one gone
Negro League I will have Oscar
Charleston coming up
A dangerous hitter, no doubt about it

Extra base hit to center for Charleston
A. J. Tucker is trying to get to it
This might be stretched into a triple!
No... he decides to hold up

Base hit to left for Gibson
Bill Madlock is waving the runner home...
The throw is cut off...
And that allows the run to score

Swing and a miss
Strike three
Leonard goes down on strikes
FOFC ahead 3 to 1 with
two away this inning

Grounded towards the middle
Nights comes up with it
He throws
IT GETS AWAY!
Score It: Single + E6
Gibson scores from first!
Torriente to third

Grounded down the line
Taken by Fouts
Over to first
NOT IN TIME!
Dihigo gets an infield hit
Torriente scores from third!

Dihigo moves away from first
Babson fires a throw...
Dihigo dives back...
He's safe!
The first base coach, Dave Parker,
is telling him to watch
Babson more carefully
He was awfully close to being picked off!

It's a rainbow shot toward left
Gunner reaches up
Makes the catch!
Didn't have to move an inch
So Negro League I is retired here
in the bottom of the 4th
They score 3 to even the score at 3

There's a ground ball into the hole
Dandridge and Wells converge on it
It's picked by Dandridge
who fires to first
OUT is the call
Close play!!
One gone for FOFC

He rips a grounder to short
Wells comes up with it
Over to Leonard
Got him!
Score It: 6-3
One more chance for FOFC this inning

Over the outside corner
Nights hits the curve right to third...
Dandridge takes it on the second hop
Fires to 1st...
Nights is out by a couple of steps
That's all for FOFC
After 4 and a half innings in Negro
League I this afternoon,
The score is tied at 3

Good slider, inside part of the plate
Paige gets the bat on it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Blade grabs it...
Throws to first...
OUT!
One down for Negro League I
Cool Papa Bell is still
in the on-deck circle
and Willie Wells is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Breaking ball...
It darts down and out
as Bell swings way over it
He was fooled completely
Bullock loses it momentarily,
but now finds the handle and tags
Cool Papa as he was heading for the dugout
Two down
Babson retires the first two
Negro League I batters

Wells takes the pitch
STRIKE THREE, is the call
Wells can't believe it and says
something to the ump
Chalk up a whiff for Babson
Babson retires three in a row
Here in the bottom of the 5th

Tucker pulls one to the right side
It's going to scoot on through the infield
Torriente will retrieve
it without difficulty
He tosses it back in to second
as Tucker retreats to first
after a wide turn

Pflaggstettler hits a three hopper
towards Willie Wells
Wells scoops it and fires it to second...
Out
The throw to first...
Out at first, it's a double play
The score is knotted at 3 with two away
Let's check some other scores as well

Caribbean and Negro League
II are tied at 1
AL Pre WWII leads Old Timers 1 to 0
NL Pre WWII leads Dead Ball Era 1 to 0
Left Outs leads NL Post WWII 3 to 2
Wynn battling Marichal
Turn of Century slipping
by AL Post WWII 4 to 2
Japanese League and Late
20th are tied at 3
Starffin and Martinez currently dueling

Curveball, inside corner, low...
Swung on...
And lined to left for a base hit
No chance to get that one

Bullock connects on the curve...
This one is really smoked...
Charleston starts back...
Now he just stops to look
Bullock got all of this one....
See ya, It's a home run!
Potpie scores in front of him

Ground ball to the left side...
Dandridge scoops it up
Over to first for the putout
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
So After 5 and a half innings
FOFC has 5 runs, 6 hits and one error
While Negro League I has 3 runs,
5 hits and no errors
FOFC has left 2 stranded
Negro League I has failed to bring home 2

It's a routine fly into right
Pflaggstettler ranges over and reaches up
He grabs it for the out
One up, one down here in
the bottom of the 6th

The pitch is just inside
and Gibson holds up
Bullock points down at the
first base umpire
He went around
That is strike three!
Two up, two down

Ball four is the call
Babson can't believe the call
And barks at the home plate umpire
The ump points out at Babson
Leonard takes first base

Torriente sits on the change up
He lofts a fly ball towards Tucker
Tucker gliding under it...
Appears to lose sight of it
Has it again...
And makes the catch in medium center
That ends the inning
After 6 innings, FOFC leads by 2

Swung on and hit sharply to second
Dihigo plays it on one hop
Over to Leonard...
Out of there!
FOFC with one away
Paige steps off the mound as
he waits for Brian Babson to
come to the plate

Slow ground ball
Dihigo is charging it
He fires it to first
He's OUT
That's two away
Wells comes over from his shortstop
position to say a few words to Paige
Barrett Blade will be next up...

There's a long drive...
Its' way back there...
Oscar Charleston is at the wall...
(Possible HR or Out
Fielding ability: Great,)
He's jumping for it...
He can't get it!
That's a homerun for Barrett Blade

Changeup down low...
Nights makes contact and
hits one out to left
Oscar Charleston is drifting over...
Now he's under it...
Easy out for Paige
That ends the top of the 7th
One run, one hit and no errors
After 6 and a half innings,
FOFC leads by 3

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

It's a wicked breaking ball
Out of the strike zone
Dihigo checks his swing
Bullock appeals to the first base umpire
Take a seat, Martin
That's one away

Dandridge hits it sharply on the ground...
into the hole at third
Fouts dives for it...
He's up with it...
a strong throw to first...
GOT HIM!!!
A sparkling play by the third
baseman, Dan Fouts!
Two gone for Negro League I
Time is running out for them

We are going to have a pinch hitter
Turkey Stearnes will bat for Satchel Paige
It will be the lefthand hitting, Stearnes
against the righty Babson
Stearnes is hitting righties
for a .297 average

STRIKE THREE!
That is number 10 for Brian Babson
here this afternoon
That is the third out for
Negro League I here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 37673
Dave Barnhill will be coming on
to pitch for Negro League I
Dave has appeared in 5 games this season
with a record of 0-1
In 6 innings, he has an 1.59 ERA
Satchel Paige has finished his work
here this afternoon

Tucker starts... but lays
off the pitch upstairs
Ball four, Barnhill walks him

Tucker inches away from the base
Barnhill holds the runner

Pflaggstettler laces a hard, low
bouncer to the right side
Dihigo steps in front of it
Whoa! The ball squirted
right under his legs!
Must have hit a pebble
Give Pflaggstettler a single on the play

Swung on and sliced down the line
Dihigo runs over
He's near the dugout steps
Reaches in...
The ball bounces into the dugout
. . . Potpie back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Grounded towards the bag
Dandridge grabs it
Over to Leonard
Got him!
Score It: 5-3
One down for FOFC...
Dandridge calls time as
he comes to the mound
to have a word with the pitcher

I'm sure he wants Barnhill to bear down
And not worry about the runners

Swung on and rocked toward Ray Dandridge
He leaps in the air...
Just out of his reach!
The runners are on the move
The throw comes in to the plate...
No, it's cut off
Over to first, but Bullock
dives back in safely
He comes through with a hard shot
and FOFC scores two
as Joe Adcock gives Billy a hand
dusting the dirt off his uniform

Fouts swings and misses
Strike three
Fouts didn't have a good cut at that pitch
One more chance for FOFC
in the top of the 8th

That's ball four
Gunner trots down to first
Bullock is already down on second

Bounced past the mound
Wells dives and grabs it!
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 6-3
That's it for FOFC
FOFC has 8 runs, 9 hits and one error
While Negro League I has 3 runs,
5 hits and no errors
FOFC has now left 4 runners stranded

Hard slider, paints the inside corner
Bell gets a piece of it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Potpie grabs it...
Races to first...
Beats Bell for the out
With one down

Potpie yells something out to Fozborg
Sirr nods his head

Wells is down
That was way inside
No call yet...
Now the umpire motions Willie to first

Fozborg comes with his best heat...
And this time it's too much for Charleston
As he swings right through
it for strike three
That's the second out of the inning
Time to check the scoreboard

Caribbean leads Negro League II 2 to 1
AL Pre WWII leads Old Timers 1 to 0
Mays and Bond currently dueling
NL Pre WWII leads Dead Ball Era 1 to 0
Rixey and Johnson currently dueling
NL Post WWII is in front
of Left Outs 7 to 4
Niekro comfortably ahead for NL Post WWII
Turn of Century is on top
of AL Post WWII 4 to 2
Japanese League is on top
of Late 20th 6 to 4
Oh has hit his 3rd homerun
for Japanese League
And right here in Negro League
I FOFC on top 8 to 3

Base hit to left for Gibson
Bill Madlock is waving Wells to third...
The throw is cut off...
That holds Gibson at first

Hard ground ball to second
Blade grabs it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 4-3

Blade rips the curve to left-center...
Bell racing back to the fence...
He reaches for the drive...
Can't quite reach it!!...
Blade makes it easily into second
That's a double for Blade

Nights rips one on the ground
It's a 'daisy cutter' to Dandridge
Ray fields it cleanly
Looks Blade back to second
Now fires it over to first...
Easy out
Negro League I gets the first
out of the inning

A line drive...
But right at Martin Dihigo
He doesn't have to move to
catch the wicked liner
Blade scurries back to second
With two gone, FOFC ahead 8 to
3 in the top of the 9th

Pflaggstettler swings...
He hits it to deep left...
Charleston is at the fence...
This one is going... going.....


CAUGHT!!!
Oscar Charleston makes a great catch
at the fence!

Unbelievable!!!
The crowd is giving him
quite the applause
That retires the side...
Persimmon Pflaggstettler fails to come
Through in the clutch
That's something you won't see very often

Checked swing by Torriente
Called ball four
Bullock motions down to
the third base umpire
He gives the "safe" sign
with no hesitation
Cristobal walks to lead it off

Hit right back to Fozborg
Turns and throws to second for one
On to first and Dihigo is gone as well
That's two away

It's grounded past the mound
Blade races to his right
Nights to his left
Nights scoops it up
Throws on one bounce to Potpie...
Ray beats it out!

Dusty Baker will send up a pinch
hitter for Dave Barnhill
Yes, Jelly Gardner steps out of the dugout
He will be up there against Fozborg

Base hit to center for Gardner
Dandridge is being held at
second by Bill Madlock
Dandridge will stay at second

Base hit to left for Bell
Bill Madlock puts up the stop sign...
Runners hold.

Base hit to right for Wells
Dandridge scores
Bill Madlock plays it safe and
stops him at third...
Runners hold.

He rips a grounder to second
Taken by Blade
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 4-3
And that will do it for Negro League I
FOFC wins 8 to 4
Babson gets credit for the win
Rodney notches the save
Paige takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Billy Bullock
He was 3 for 4 with a homerun
He also knocked in 5 runs
And that wraps things up
So long from Negro League I.

[Breeze]

GAME 15 - Tuesday, April 17th - Boxscore


All Stars AB R H RBI AVG Ones AB R H RBI AVG
B.Blade 2B 5 1 2 1 .283 C.Bell CF 5 0 1 0 .358
J.Nights SS 5 0 0 0 .267 W.Wells SS 4 0 2 1 .250
A.Tucker CF 4 1 1 0 .286 O.Charleston LF 5 1 1 0 .268
P.Pflaggstettler RF 4 3 2 0 .453 J.Gibson C 4 1 2 1 .345
J.Potpie 1B 4 2 2 2 .297 B.Leonard 1B 3 0 0 0 .333
B.Bullock C 4 1 3 5 .375 C.Torriente RF 3 1 1 0 .229
D.Fouts 3B 3 0 0 0 .207 M.Dihigo 2B 4 0 1 1 .345
S.Gunner LF 3 0 0 0 .240 R.Dandridge 3B 4 1 1 0 .227
B.Babson P 3 0 0 0 .111 S.Paige P 2 0 0 0 .182
B-S.Treacy PH 1 0 0 0 .125 A-T.Stearnes PH 1 0 0 0 .293
S.Fozborg P 0 0 0 0 ---- D.Barnhill P 0 0 0 0 ----
J.Rodney P 0 0 0 0 ---- C-J.Gardner PH 1 0 1 0 .333
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
Totals 36 8 10 8 Totals 36 4 10 3

A-Pinch Hit For Paige In 7th Inning
B-Pinch Hit For Babson In 8th Inning
C-Pinch Hit For Barnhill In 9th Inning

All Stars....... 0 2 0 1 0 2 1 2 0 - 8 10 1
Ones............ 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 - 4 10 0

All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
B.Babson WIN(3-0) 7 5 3 1 1 10 0 84 2.03
S.Fozborg 1 2/3 4 1 1 1 1 0 42 3.86
J.Rodney SAVE(1st) 0 1/3 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 4.15
Totals 9 10 4 2 2 11 0

Ones IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
S.Paige LOSS(2-1) 7 7 6 6 2 2 3 117 3.48
D.Barnhill 2 3 2 2 2 1 0 47 3.52
Totals 9 10 8 8 4 3 3

ATTENDANCE- 37,673 DATE- Tuesday, April 17th 1900 TIME- Day
T- 3:02
LEFT ON BASE- All Stars: 5 Ones: 8
DOUBLE PLAYS- All Stars: 1 Ones: 1
ERRORS- J.Nights
DOUBLES- B.Blade(3rd), B.Bullock(3rd), W.Wells(5th), O.Charleston(2nd)
HOME RUNS- B.Blade(1st), J.Potpie(2nd), B.Bullock(2nd)
WALKS- A.Tucker, P.Pflaggstettler, D.Fouts, S.Gunner, B.Leonard, C.Torriente
HIT BY PITCH- W.Wells
STRIKE OUTS- B.Bullock, D.Fouts, S.Gunner, C.Bell, W.Wells-2, O.Charleston,
J.Gibson, B.Leonard-2, M.Dihigo-2, R.Dandridge, T.Stearnes
GIDP- P.Pflaggstettler, M.Dihigo
PASSED BALLS- B.Bullock

[JeeberD]

Now THAT'S the kind of hiting I expect from myself...

[Breeze]

The National Herald - Wednesday, April 18th

SPORTS



TEAM WON LOST BATTING AVERAGE HOME RUNS RUNS BATTED IN
2001 NLO 10 6 P.Pflaggs FAS .453 J.Foxx LOH 9 J.Foxx LOH 18
2001 L20 9 7 D.Brouthe OTH .450 B.Ruth A1H 8 P.Traynor N1H 18
2001 A1H 7 7 T.Cobb DBH .441 O.Charles NLO 6 B.Ruth A1H 15
2001 DBH 6 10 N.Lajoie TCH .421 M.Ott N1H 6 R.Clement N2H 15
2001 OTH 4 9 B.Hamilto OTH .417 OTHERS TIED W 5 OTHERS TIED W 14
2001 A2H 4 9
2002 JLP 3 11 WINS SAVES ERA
B.Babson FAS 3 S.Knowles FAS 4 V.Starffi JLP 1.29
1000 FAS 14 1 J.Kronsid FAS 3 G.Gossage L20 4 C.Redding NLT 1.44
2001 N1H 11 3 J.Maricha N2H 3 L.Salazar CAP 3 A.Mighty FAS 1.57
2001 TCH 9 7 E.Rixey N1H 3 OTHERS TIED W 2 V.Mathis NLT 1.82
2001 N2H 9 7 C.Young TCH 3 R.Nielsen FAS 1.85
2001 LOH 8 8
2001 CAP 6 9 CUR HIT STREAK STOLEN BASES STRIKEOUTS
2001 NLT 5 11 G.Sisler DBH 14 C.Bell NLO 9 R.Johnson L20 33
T.Cobb DBH 13 S.Poles NLT 8 B.Babson FAS 31
L.Gehrig A1H 11 H.Duffy TCH 8 R.Nielsen FAS 30
C.Gehring A1H 10 OTHERS TIED W 6 R.Clemens L20 30
I.Suzuki JLP 8 L.Tiant S CAP 26

YESTERDAY'S GAMES TODAY'S SCHEDULE AND PROBABLE STARTERS
A2H 4 at TCH 5 A2H-Hunter(1-1, 6.10) at TCH-Waddell(1-2, 7.94)
N2H 8 at LOH 6 N2H-Koufax(1-0, 4.29) at LOH-Roberts(1-1, 4.97)
CAP 2 at NLT 1 CAP-Mendez(0-2, 5.24) at NLT-Wickwar(1-2, 9.00)
JLP 6 at L20 4 JLP-Inao(0-2, 3.27) at L20-Glavine(1-1, 3.00)
OTH 0 at A1H 1 OTH-Clarkso(1-2, 5.48) at A1H-Grove(2-1, 3.97)
N1H 1 at DBH 0 N1H-Alexand(2-1, 2.42) at DBH-Chesbro(1-2, 4.56)
FAS 8 at NLO 4 FAS-Nielsen(2-0, 1.85) at NLO-William(2-1, 8.84)

YESTERDAY'S BEST PERFORMANCES
BATTER TM OPP AB R H RB BB Ks HR SB
S.Oh JLP L20 4 2 2 3 0 1 2 0
B.Bullock FAS NLO 4 1 3 5 0 1 1 0
T.Wakamatsu JLP L20 4 1 3 3 0 1 1 0
J.Potpie FAS NLO 4 2 2 2 0 0 1 0
B.Ruth A1H OTH 2 1 1 1 2 0 1 0

PITCHER TM OPP INN H R ER BB Ks HR WLS
B.Babson FAS NLO 7.0 5 3 1 1 10 0 W
C.Mays A1H OTH 9.0 3 0 0 2 3 0 W
M.Cuellar CAP NLT 8.0 3 1 1 5 5 0 W
E.Rixey N1H DBH 9.0 5 0 0 4 3 0 W
W.Johnson DBH N1H 8.0 5 1 1 1 4 0 L

INJURY REPORT
S.Sugishita, Japanese League - 1 more games
P.Lloyd, Negro League I - 4 more games
W.Brown, Negro League II - 10 more games
W.Ford, AL Post WWII - 5 more games
J.Dimaggio, AL Pre WWII - 5 more games
B.Herman, Left Outs - 10 more games
H.Aaron, NL Post WWII - 6 more games
T.Seaver, NL Post WWII - 1 more games
H.Wagner, Turn of Century - 3 more games
G.Maddux, Late 20th - 11 more games




AL POST WWII AT TURN OF CENTURY
Post-Americans.. 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 - 4 9 2
Centurions...... 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 - 5 11 0
Win:Mathewson(2-1) Loss:Fingers(0-1)
Homeruns- A.Kaline(1st), C.Fisk(2nd)

Christy Mathewson went the distance at Yellowstone Park as the AL Post WWII
club lost a heartbreaker to Turn of Century Centurions by the score of 5 to
4.

The game was won by Turn of Century with a run in the 9th inning. After an
out was recorded, Jake Beckley delivered a single. Beckley then stole second
base. Jim O'Rourke then delivered a base-hit giving Turn of Century the win
and sending the home town fans into a frenzy. Turn of Century finished with
11 hits in the victory.

The winning pitcher was Mathewson(2-1) who allowed 4 runs for the game. Rollie
Fingers(0-1) took the loss in relief. With this win, Turn of Century has a
9-7 record. They have been 6-4 lately. With the loss, the AL Post WWII
ballclub's record is 4-9.

NL POST WWII AT LEFT OUTS
Post-Nationals.. 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 5 1 - 8 8 1
Leftovers....... 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 - 6 9 2
Win:Perry(2-1) Loss:Wynn(0-3)
Homeruns- E.Mathews(3rd), H.Heilmann(3rd), J.Foxx(9th), W.Stargell(2nd)

In a close game the NL Post WWII team got by the Left Outs Leftovers by the
score of 8 to 6.

NL Post WWII erupted with the game winning runs in the top of the 8th inning
when they tallied 5 runs on 3 hits. The key offensive moment was provided by
Eddie Mathews who silenced the crowd when he lifted one out of the park for a
two run home run (his 3rd of the season). NL Post WWII rapped out 8 hits for
the night.

The win was credited to Gaylord Perry(2-1) who went 1 inning allowing no runs.
Early Wynn(0-3) was the loser. He allowed 5 hits and 9 walks in 7 and 2/3
innings.

CARIBBEAN AT NEGRO LEAGUE II
Estrellas....... 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 - 2 11 1
Twos............ 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 - 1 4 0
Win:Cuellar(1-2) Loss:Manning(1-2) Save:Salazar(3rd)

Mike Cuellar carried a no-hitter into the 6th inning at Shadowball Stadium as
the Caribbean Estrellas beat the Negro League II Twos by the count of 2 to
1.

Cuellar(1-2) was very good in the win. He gave up just 3 hits and 5 walks in
8 innings lowering his ERA to 4.05. The left-handed Cuellar lost his chance
for a no-hitter when Dick Lundy singled with one out in the 6th inning.
Negro League II had a chance in the 9th but they came up short.

Lazaro Salazar was credited with his 3rd save. Max Manning(1-2) suffered the
loss in relief. He surrendered 1 run and 3 hits in 2 innings.


JAPANESE LEAGUE AT LATE 20TH
HOF Players..... 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 0 - 6 9 0
Modern Stars.... 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 - 4 11 0
Win:Starffin(1-0) Loss:Franco(1-1) Save:Suzuki(1st)
Homeruns- T.Wakamatsu(1st), S.Oh-2(3rd), M.McGwire(3rd)

Saduharu Oh rocketed 2 homeruns and had 3 RBI as the Japanese League HOF
Players beat the Late 20th Modern Stars by a score of 6 to 4.

Oh had a big evening at the plate. He popped a two-run clout over the fence
in the 6th inning and smashed a bases-empty 'big-fly' (his 3rd of the season)
in the 8th inning. Japanese League managed 9 in their victory.

The winning pitcher was Victor Starffin(1-0) who allowed 1 run in 2 innings.
Keishi Suzuki gained credit for his 1st save. John Franco(1-1) was given the
loss in relief. He was not very effective, surrendering 3 runs in 2 innings.


OLD TIMERS AT AL PRE WWII
Ancients........ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 3 0
Pre-Americans... 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 - 1 4 2
Win:Mays(1-1) Loss:Galvin(1-1)
Homeruns- B.Ruth(8th)

Carl Mays allowed 3 hits while blanking Old Timers as the AL Pre WWII ballclub
defeated the Old Timers Ancients by the score of 1 to 0 at Glory
Stadium.

Mays(1-1) came through with a virtuoso performance against the Old Timers
hitters. He allowed just 3 hits and 2 walks in 9 innings. Old Timers made
it exciting in the 9th, but they were unable to push the needed runs across.

Pud Galvin(1-1) absorbed the loss in relief. 'When Mays is on like that it is
a tough game to play, no doubt about it,' Frank Selee said. 'He always
pitches well against us.'

NL PRE WWII AT DEAD BALL ERA
Pre-Nationals... 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 - 1 6 0
Ghosts.......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 5 0
Win:Rixey(3-0) Loss:Johnson(2-2)

Eppa Rixey pitched a complete game shutout at Deadball Park where the NL Pre
WWII ballclub beat the struggling Dead Ball Era Ghosts 1 to 0.

Rixey(3-0) looked very much in control throughout the night. He didn't allow
much, just 5 hits and 4 walks in 9 innings improving his ERA from 3.00 to
2.00. NL Pre WWII had only 6 hits for the night.

Walter Johnson(2-2) was charged with the loss. He allowed just 5 hits and 1
walk in 8 innings. NL Pre WWII now has a record of 11-3. With this loss,
Dead Ball Era has a 3-7 record of late, 6-10 overall.

FOFC AT NEGRO LEAGUE I
All Stars....... 0 2 0 1 0 2 1 2 0 - 8 10 1
Ones............ 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 - 4 10 0
Win:Babson(3-0) Loss:Paige(2-1) Save:Rodney(1st)
Homeruns- B.Blade(1st), J.Potpie(2nd), B.Bullock(2nd)

Brian Babson racked up an impressive total of 10 strikeouts as the
blistering-hot FOFC All Stars defeated the Negro League I Ones by a score of
8 to 4 at Black Diamond Pk.

Billy Bullock had a big day with his bat. He doubled which scored a run in
the 4th inning, cracked a two-run shot (his 2nd of the season) in the 6th
inning and slapped a one-base hit plating two runs in the 8th inning. Negro
League I threatened in the 9th but FOFC was able to put down the rally.

Babson(3-0) went 7 innings allowing 3 runs for the victory. James Rodney
recorded his 1st save. Satchel Paige(2-1) was hit with the loss. He allowed
3 homeruns in 7 innings of work.

Babson was humble when questioned about his performance, 'Well, I felt
pretty confident in my pitches this afternoon. But, I had great support
behind me and I just threw what was called. That was an extremely well
called game!'



NOTE: the website has been updated

[Breeze]

FOFC - Manager Update

I've already gotten so accustomed to my morning routine that I failed to notice the cover story on the Sports page today. I didn't notice it dealt with my team until I closed it after reading the synopsis of last nights games.

I look at the picture on the cover. It's a great shot of Babson throwing a pitch with Maglie in the backgroun on the top step of the dug out watching. There are inset pictures of Mighty and Nielsen as well.

[Breeze]

The National Herald - Wednesday, April 18th

SPORTS


Blistering
by Lou Scribe

The late Spring sunshine has been hot, and there are several red, sunburned faces around the Dynasty League lockerrooms to prove it. However, nothing is as hot as the FOFC All Stars and more specifically their pitching. The FOFC All Stars, proved durning the spring with a 12 and 8 record that they would be able to compete with the games greatest players ever, but there were still some reservations from the fans, players, and even the manager.

"I feel like our pitching is good enough to let us compete, but Spring training is just that - training. The stats we accumulated are thrown out and we start from scratch. We'll have to see how we do when the lights come on." Manager Benton Breeze commented at his press conference following the last Spring game.

So far (with the lights on) so good.

How's a 14 and 1 record sound? Pretty good right? Well that's only part of the story, and it doesn't truly capture the teams dominating pitching. If I were to tell you that the FOFCers have a team batting average of .269, which places them in the middle of the pack, have 15 home runs which is also middle of the pack, and have managed to score only 62 runs, the only teams that have scored less are the 6 and 9 Caribbeans, the 4 and 9 Post- Americans, and the 3 and 11 Japanese teams, you would probably guess the All Stars are around a .500 team.

Let's get a little more specific about the teams offense...Pflaggstettler is the only full time player hitting over .300, but he is way over that number currently sitting at .453. The Catcher platoon of Bullock and Hays are hitting a combine .333 with Bullock getting the most at bats so far and carrying an impressive .375 average. The rest of the regulars are under .300 and Gunner who isn't even a full-time starter leads the team in home runs with 3. To give you a bit of comparison, Jimmy Foxx leads the league in homeruns with 9 and it takes 5 to get on the short list leaderboard. Pflaggstettlers 12 RBI lead the team, but that won't put him on the list of league leaders either. Despite the rather vanilla offensive statistics the team has a 2.5 game lead in the National League. How is that possible you ask?

...it's the pitching stupid.

"We've really done well pitching," says team pitching coach Sal Maglie. "Coming into the season we really preached to our guys to pitch to spots, but to challenge hitters. We knew free passes would kill us. In this league you can't be giving teams baserunners, and so far so good."

The FOFCers have only issued 40 walks, second lowest in the league to the Old Timers. With the low number of walks and the great pitching the FOFCers are only allowing just over 1 baserunner an inning. The teams ERA is 2.43, almost an entire run better than the next closest team the Pre-Nationals who are at 3.35. The biggest reason the All Stars have a low ERA - try the top 3 pitchers in the rotation - Babson, Nielsen and Mighty. All 3 are in the top 7 lowest ERAs in all of baseball. The league leader is Cannonball Dick Redding at 1.44, but Mighty is second (1.57), Nielsen is 4th (1.85) and Babson is 7th (2.03). The two right handers at the end of the games Kronside and Sammy Knowles have combined to go 14 scoreless innings, striking out 14 and walking only 4.

"We've been doing so good that pitchers like Rodney and Fozborg are getting very little work, and these guys are good enough to start for team in <i>this</i> league," Maglie points out. "Our 5th starter is 2 and 0 with a 3.21 ERA and he's goine 7 innings in both games. Not bad."

All that is great, but it still doesn't give you the full affect of how dominating the FOFC pitchers have been. Let's try throwing out a few more numbers -

9 and 0 in 1 run games
1 and 0 in extra innings
In the 15 games played - 7 times they have held opponents to 0 or 1 run.
In 9 of the 15 games opponents have been held to 2 or less.

Now is the pitching coach Maglie smiling - absolutlely. "We have a 2.43 ERA and that is awesome in any league, but we've done it against hitters with last names of Ruth, Gehrig, Gibson, Charleston, DiMaggio, Cobb, Speaker...I could go on and on and on. I'm extremely proud of my staff."

What about the Manager Benton Breeze -

"We've pitched well and gotten timely hitting, and I'm thrilled by our 14 and 1 start, but the numbers as impressive as they appear are hidding some very unsettling facts." Benton explains, "We are 9 and 0 in 1 runs games, that means we are 1 bad pitch, or misplayed ball away from losing those games.
We've played 14 of our 15 games at home, and that is a huge advantage. Our park isn't as cavernous as the Dead Ballers, Old Timers or the Centurions, but it's designed to help our pitchers, and they've benefitted from that. We have also benefited from being healthy this season. Have you seen some of the names on the Injury Report. Wow."

And of course we get his typical response for this time of year...

"It's early and there is a bunch of baseball still to be played. I just hope we can continue to play this way."

[Coffee Warlord]

His Robness would like to mention he is 3rd on the strikeout list....with only 3 games pitched to everyone else's 4.

Battters may begin trembling now.

[Breeze]

His Robness would like to mention he is 3rd on the strikeout list....with only 3 games pitched to everyone else's 4.

You can always count on reporters missing some important piece of information like that. :D

[Breeze]

GAME 16 - Wednesday, April 18th - Radio Broadcast

In the dirt
And Blade holds up
He draws the walk
Nice way to start out the inning

Swung on and lofted very high...
and deep...
Charleston starts back, turns...
He's at the fence...
And he pulls it in!
Williams gets the first out in the inning

Base hit to center for Tucker
Blade is racing towards third...
The throw is going to third...
Blade is safe at third!
And Tucker advances to second on the throw

Just inside with a fastball
Williams is visibly upset...
Gibson is quickly out to calm him down
Dihigo comes over as well
Blade on third, Tucker on second
and Pflaggstettler on first
They'll be loaded up for Jeeberoni Potpie

Potpie swings and hits a high fly to right
It is right along the line...
Torriente is over at the
fence... reaches...
It's going to be close...
Just out of the reach of Torriente
Foul ball into the seats
He would have had a chance
in most other parks
Only a smidgen of foul ground out
there at Black Diamond Pk
. . . Potpie back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Potpie swings and lifts one toward left
Charleston drifts over slowly...
He is under it now...
And makes the easy catch...
Williams needs one more out
to get the Ones out of this jam

Billy Bullock swings
This one may be out of here...
Back, back, back...
GONE! A homerun into the seats in left
Bullock gets a hearty slap on the back
from bench coach Chuck Tanner
as he ducks into the All Stars' dugout

There's a fly ball to Turkey Stearnes
Stearnes circles under it...
This one would end the inning...
He makes the play
After one-half inning
It's FOFC 4, Ones coming up

Grounded back to the mound
Nielsen comes up with it
Tosses it to first and gets him
One away, two to go in the
bottom of the 1st

Dihigo swings on a ball in on his fists
It results in a pop up to short
Nights is under it...
A few steps to his right...
One hands it for the out
Dihigo looked bad on that pitch
And there's two away

It's a sinker, up in the strike zone
Charleston hits it deep into the alley
Pflaggstettler is back to
the warning track...
To the fence...
He leaps in the air...
Can't reach it!...
It's in for extra bases...
Almost a fine play by Persimmon
Pflaggstettler
Charleston is at second with
a stand-up double

Gibson rips one hard to center
A. J. Tucker is on his horse
as he retreats to the fence
He is looking up...
Will he have a chance???

And this ball is caught!
At the end of one inning,...
FOFC leads 4 to 0

Hard slider, paints the inside corner
Fouts gets a piece of it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Leonard grabs it...
Races to first...
Beats Fouts for the out
And there's one away

It's hit down the line
Charleston ranges over quickly
He's under it
Easy out
Two up, two down

Blade hits a fly ball to center
Turkey Stearnes camps under it
This should wrap up the inning...
That's it
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
By the way, FOFC is 10 and 0
in their last ten games

Leonard hits a screamer at Rob Nielsen
Nielsen picks it up and fires to first
The throw pulls Potpie off the bag
Potpie swipes with the glove

Leonard is out!
Nice play by Potpie
One away in the bottom of the
2nd for Negro League I

Comebacker, right to Nielsen
Over to Potpie for the easy out
'Come back, Little Sheba'
That's the second out of the inning

It's popped up into foul territory
Billy Bullock is under it
He makes a nice play on it
Score It: 2
That wraps up the inning
for Negro League I
Time to check out the rest of the scores

Caribbean and Negro League
II have yet to score
Old Timers is in front of
AL Pre WWII 3 to 0
NL Pre WWII winning over
Dead Ball Era 6 to 0
Left Outs winning over NL Post WWII 7 to 1
Cochrane has hit his 2nd
homerun for Left Outs
AL Post WWII leads Turn of Century 3 to 2
Late 20th slipping by Japanese
League 2 to 0
And in our contest FOFC on top 4 to 0

Nights swings
He raps a deep fly ball
It's into the left field gap
Stearnes can't get to it
Now he fires it to second
Not in time
Jeff starts FOFC off right

Tucker rips one on the ground
It's a 'daisy cutter' to Dandridge
Ray fields it cleanly
Looks Nights back to second
Now fires it over to first...
Easy out

Base hit to left for Pflaggstettler
Dick Howser will send the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Aggressive baserunning by FOFC...
Not cut-off...
Nights scores!
Trailing runner advances.

Potpie watches strike three glide by
For that matter, he watched them all
That won't get it done
FOFC ahead 5 to 0 with
two away this inning

Fastball, belt high, away...
Bullock goes after it...
There's a fly ball to Charleston
Charleston is gliding under it...
He flags it down on the run
That ends the top of the 3rd
One run, 2 hits, no errors
and one man left on base
After 2 and a half innings,
FOFC leads by 5

Sinking fastball...
Dandridge swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Fouts...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
One up, one down

Cool Papa Bell will be batting
for Smokey Joe Williams
Dusty Baker would like to get
the speedster on board
He wrecks havoc on opposing pitchers
with his base stealing capabilites
Cool Papa has stolen 9
bases in 15 attempts
His on base percentage is .427

There's a liner over short
Solidly stroked by Bell...
Would you look at that!
Nights leaped two stories into the air
and robbed Bell of a sure base hit
Cool Papa is disgusted...
but tips his hat to Nights just the same
That ball had base hit written all over it
Two out, nobody on
FOFC leads 5 to 0

Low slider...
Stearnes takes a big rip at it...
Lofts a deep fly ball...
It could be going...
IT IS!!...
HOME RUN FOR Negro League I!

Base hit to center for Dihigo
A. J. Tucker is trying to get to it
This might be stretched into a double!
No... he decides to hold up

Charleston sits on the change up
He lofts a fly ball towards Tucker
Tucker gliding under it...
Appears to lose sight of it
Has it again...
And makes the catch in medium center
That ends the inning
After 3 innings, FOFC leads by 4
Dusty Baker will be bringing
in a relief pitcher
Rube Foster has been called
from the bullpen
A few warm up tosses and
we'll be set to go

Gunner swings
He slices it down the left field line
Charleston is on the warning track
The ball is going,...going
Just foul!
Missed by a whisker
. . . Gunner back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Gunner slaps a hard grounder past second
Torriente is over to pick it up
He tosses it back to second
Gunner will hold with a clean single

Swing and a miss
Strike three
Fouts goes down on strikes
That's one away

Fastball inside...
Swung on by Nielsen...
There's a ground ball between
first and second
Dihigo gloves it going away in short right
He spins, firing to the pitcher covering

SAFE!..By a step
Dihigo gave it a great effort

Pounded on the ground to short
Dandridge comes up with it
Over to second for one
On to first
Double Play!
Score It: 6-4-3
That does it for FOFC in
the top of the 4th

A slider by Nielsen
Gibson gets good wood on it...
Pflaggstettler back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
One down for Negro League I
Buck Leonard is still in
the on-deck circle
and Willie Wells is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Big bender...
Swung on...
Leonard pops it straight up
Three players converging on it
And it will be Potpie making the play
Two down

Just off the plate
Ball four

Fastball... down and away...
NO! It's called a strike
And Torriente is outta there
That wraps up the inning
for Negro League I
So After 4 innings
FOFC has 5 runs, 6 hits and no errors
While Negro League I has one
run, 3 hits and no errors
Negro League I has left 2 stranded
FOFC has failed to bring home 2

Nights rips a hard grounder
to the left of third
And on by the diving Wells
Nights takes a big turn at
first...but holds up
Nice hustle by Charleston to
get that ball in quickly

It's a rainbow shot toward right
Torriente reaches up
Makes the catch!
Didn't have to move an inch
One away here in the top of the 5th
FOFC on top 5 to 1
While we have time, let's
check the scoreboard

Caribbean and Negro League
II are all knotted at 1
Mendez battling Wickware
Old Timers with the lead over
AL Pre WWII 3 to 0
Keefe comfortably ahead for Old Timers
NL Pre WWII toppling Dead Ball Era 8 to 1
Grimes enjoying the big NL Pre WWII lead
Left Outs is comfortably ahead
of NL Post WWII 7 to 1
Roberts enjoying the big Left Outs lead
Turn of Century with the lead
over AL Post WWII 6 to 3
Waddell comfortably ahead
for Turn of Century
Japanese League and Late 20th
are deadlocked at 3

It is a high hard one...
Pflaggstettler goes on a fishin' trip
Strike three swinging!
That one sailed up out of the strike zone
but Pflaggstettler couldn't hold back
One more chance for FOFC this inning

Base hit to right for Potpie
Dick Howser is waving Nights to third...
The throw is going to third...
Nights is safe at third!
And Potpie advances to second on the throw

Bullock hits a roller to Willie Wells
Wells comes up with it and throws
It's in the dirt
Leonard can't come up with it
That'll be a throwing error on Wells
That's error number 1 of the
game for Negro League I

Gunner drives the ball to
right for extra bases
Potpie scores
Dick Howser won't risk sending
the runner home...
Double for Gunner

Ground ball to second
Dihigo comes up with it
Over to Leonard
Got him!
Score It: 4-3
And that's the final out of the inning
FOFC has 7 runs, 9 hits and no errors
While Negro League I has one
run, 3 hits and one error
FOFC has left 4 men on base today

Hot shot grounded to first
Potpie will take it himself
Score It: 3

Dusty Baker brings on Mule Suttles
to hit for Rube Foster
The Ones are way behind
They need baserunners...
And a lot of them!

Suttles hits it on the handle
He slices a soft pop behind first base
Blade roams over
Still after it
Drops in foul territory
. . . Suttles back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Hard inside slider...
The swing...
Suttles hits a grounder into the hole
Potpie makes an incredible stop...
But he's in no position to make a throw
Score that a single

It's hit high and deep
This one is deep!
THAT BALL'S SINGIN' WITH THE ANGELS NOW!!!
Stearnes takes Nielsen downtown!
That is Turkey Stearnes' 4th
home run of the year.

Dihigo hits a high pop into
short left field
Fouts sprints out
Gunner and Tucker sprint
towards the infield
A. J. Tucker sticks his glove out and
IT POPS OUT!
It's ruled a double

Big motion...
Charleston is way out in front
STRIKE THREE!
Nielsen pulled the string on him
Two away

Slider, inside...
Swung on...
Gibson rocks this one...
He got all of it...
It's going... Going...
GONE!
Man, he really crunched it!
Nielsen looks dejected on the mound

Swung on and hit sharply to second
Blade plays it on one bounce
Over to Potpie...
Out of there!
That's all for the Ones...
After 5 innings here at Black Diamond
Pk in Negro League I,
FOFC ahead 7 to 5
Bill Foster will be coming on
to pitch for Negro League I
Bill has appeared in 7 games this season
He has a record of 1-0
in 9 innings
His ERA stands at 1.00

It's a high fly to deep center
Stearnes is on his horse
It is carrying to the fence
Turkey jumps
It's off the wall
Palmer is around second
But retreats to the bag
as the throw comes in

Blade looks to lay one down
He bunts at it . . .
Fielded by B.Leonard
he's throwing for the lead runner...
OUT!
Fielders Choice To 1st Baseman
Score It: 3-5
The runner on second, Palmer, is out
One gone for FOFC

Nights takes a cut at the sinker...
Hits a hard grounder down to first...
Leonard can't get his glove on it...
It's into right for a single...
Blade hustles around to third

Tucker pokes it to left
It drops in front of Charleston
FOFC adds to their lead
FOFC leads 8 to 5

Grounded towards the bag
Wells grabs it
Throw to second for one
On to first
Double Play!
Score It: 5-4-3
That's it for FOFC
Here at Black Diamond Pk, After
5 and a half innings,
FOFC has 8 runs, 12 hits and no errors
While Negro League I has 5 runs,
7 hits and one error
FOFC has left 5 on base
Negro League I has stranded 3

Letterhigh, hard slider...
Swung on...
It's a line drive belted toward Nights
It's by him...
Gunner comes in...
Plays it off his chest
Recovers quickly, throwing into second
Good defensive recovery
Keeping Wells to a single

Hard slider...
Torriente swings from his heels...
He connects!...
There it goes...
Pflaggstettler is up against the fence
But he has no chance for this shot
IT'S DOWNTOWN!!!
A two run blast by Cristobal

Outside fastball... lashed
at by Dandridge...
Pop fly...Shallow left...
Dropping quickly...
Gunner pulls up, doesn't
want it to get by him
Base hit for Dandridge...
As Gunner fields it on one bounce

Beautifully placed bunt toward Fouts
He races in...
Scoops it up, bare-handed...
Only play is at first
OUT!
Dandridge advances easily
Nice job bunting, as usual, by Foster
Credit him with a sacrifice
That is one down now for Negro League
I in the bottom of the 6th
Benton Breeze takes a trip to the mound...
A few words are exchanged between
Bullock and James Rodney
Nights and Blade join them
Probably going over the signs
Dandridge is on second base...
with a good eye
They don't want to let the
Ones gain any advantage

Stearnes takes his cut at the slider...
He hits a long drive...
Pflaggstettler is racing towards the fence
This one may be out of here...
Back, back, back...
IT'S GONE!
A two-run home run for Stearnes
Putting Negro League I out in front
Negro League I leads 9 to 8
That's number 5 for Stearnes

Curveball in the dirt
Swung on and missed...Strike three
Bullock fumbles it,
but quickly recovers to tag Dihigo

Right down the middle... strike three
Charleston must have been looking
for something else
He just froze on that pitch
The All Stars finally get
out of the inning
but not until Negro League I scores 4 runs
The Ones now take over the lead by 1
It's Negro League I 9, FOFC 8

Potpie pounds a grounder toward
Dandridge at short
Ray moves in front of it...
Whoops... a bad bounce
But Dandridge stayed with it
Over to first and Potpie is retired
Nice play by the Negro League I short stop
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

Caribbean and Negro League
II are deadlocked at 1
Old Timers with the lead over
AL Pre WWII 3 to 0
NL Pre WWII is crushing
Dead Ball Era 13 to 3
Ott has hit his 7th homerun
for NL Pre WWII
He's on a healthy pace this year
Left Outs is giving it to
NL Post WWII 8 to 3
Roberts enjoying the big Left Outs lead
AL Post WWII and Turn of Century
are all knotted at 7
Japanese League and Late 20th
are deadlocked at 3

Bullock swings hard...
A squibber off his fists
It's dribbling towards short
Dandridge charges in on it...
Bare hands it...
Flips it to first...
Just in time to get Bullock
Nice play by Ray Dandridge
Another step and Bullock would be safe
That's two down for Foster
FOFC will need to do better than that
They are running out of time

Swung on and popped up
Leonard is waiting...
And that's an easy out
Three down for FOFC
They are 1 run behind
Let me point out that
coming in to today's game
FOFC is 9 and 0 in one run games
Negro League I has a 0 and 1
record in these "duels"

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

Struck him out on a fastball
Gibson goes down swinging
Rodney retires the first batter to
face him in the bottom of the 7th

Curve ball...
Leonard swings and misses by a mile
The bottom dropped out of that one!
A wicked pitch!
Two up, two down for Negro League I

What a pitch... strike three
Rodney put that one on the
black, a perfect pitch
That is the third out for
Negro League I here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 47161

Curveball, inside corner, low...
Swung on...
And lined to left for a base hit
No chance to get that one

STRIKE THREE CALLED!
Negro League I gets the first out
here late in this contest

Base hit to center for Blade
Fouts is rounding second...
But he pulls up quickly as he sees
the sign from Dick Howser
Fouts will stay at second

Nights reaches out and pokes it
on the ground to center
Base hit for Nights
The game is tied!

There is going to be a change in pitchers
Bill Foster will hit the showers
Dave Barnhill will be coming on in relief
We are in the top of the 8th
here at Black Diamond Pk
The score is tied at 9

Base hit to right for Tucker
Blade scores
Nights is racing towards third...
The throw is cut off...
That holds Tucker at first

Tucker watches Barnhill carefully
As he stretches out to his lead
Big sweeping curve...
Tucker is running on the pitch
Gibson fires it down...
Dihigo slaps a high tag on Tucker...
He's called SAFE
WOW is Dihigo upset with that call!

Base hit to left for Pflaggstettler
Nights scores
Dick Howser is giving the green light...
The throw is coming home...
Tucker scores!

Pflaggstettler moves away from first
Barnhill's move keeps Pflaggstettler
guessing
He's not getting a very good lead

Here's a curve...
Not a good one!
Potpie turns on it a BIG WAY...
Forget it, that one is long
gone... a home run!
Number 3 for Jeeberoni on the year
He also has 7 RBI's now

A hot shot on the ground to Dandridge
He's got it cleanly on one hop...
Over to first and Bullock is out
Two men gone, nobody on
FOFC leads by 5

It's a high fly into left
Charleston ranges to his right
Reaches up, and takes it for the easy out
That retires the side... but not before
6 runs cross the plate for FOFC
After 7 and a half innings,
FOFC leads 14 to 9

Good slider, inside part of the plate
Torriente gets the bat on it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Blade grabs it...
Throws to first...
OUT!
One down for Negro League I
Ray Dandridge is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to the
plate for Negro League I

Dandridge drives one into center
A. J. Tucker sprints over to make the play

Dave Barnhill is being called
back to the dugout
Looks like we'll be seeing a pinch hitter
Yep, out pops Jelly Gardner
Dusty Baker will play the
percentages as he sends
the left hand hitting Gardner
against the righty, Fozborg
In fact, Jelly is batting a splendid .333
versus righties this season
So the decision certainly is reasonable...
We shall soon see how it works out

Gardner starts... but lays
off the pitch upstairs
Ball four, Fozborg walks him

Base hit to right for Stearnes
Bill Madlock is waving Gardner to third...
The throw is cut off...
That holds Stearnes at first

A high foul, back behind the plate
Bullock is after it...
At the screen...
The ball lands just out of his reach
. . . Dihigo back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Fastball... down and away...
NO! It's called a strike
And Dihigo is outta there
The Ones are retired
It's 14-9 as we come to the 9th
Dusty Baker will be bringing
in a relief pitcher
Webster McDonald has been
called from the bullpen
A few warm up tosses and
we'll be set to go

Fouts hits a fly ball to center
Turkey Stearnes camps under it
He's got it
One up, one down here in
the top of the 9th

It's a BULLET, hit towards third
Wells snares it for the out!
Score It: 5

Slow ground ball
Dandridge is charging it
He fires it to first
He's OUT
That's all for FOFC
After 8 and a half innings in Negro
League I this evening,
FOFC on top 14 to 9

A jug-handled curve
Charleston goes out and gets it
It's a liner to right
Pflaggstettler will have to hurry...
Here he comes...
No sir... he has to play
it on the short hop
Single for Oscar Charleston

Grounded towards the sack
Potpie trots to the bag
Score It: 3
While we wait for Buck Leonard
to get a new bat
Let's check the scoreboard
These scores are final...
Negro League II squeezed
by Caribbean 3 to 1
Old Timers cuffed AL Pre WWII 3 to 0
Faber takes the loss, his
record drops to 1-1
Keefe the winner, he's now 1-3
NL Pre WWII humbled Dead Ball Era 17 to 4
Ott has hit his 7th homerun
for NL Pre WWII
They must be feeding him lots of beef
Left Outs easily defeated
NL Post WWII 8 to 3
Turn of Century downed AL Post WWII 9 to 7
Waddell the winner, he's now 2-2
Palmer takes the loss, his
record drops to 2-2
Japanese League easily defeated
Late 20th 10 to 5
Nomura has hit his 1st homerun
for Japanese League
And right here in Negro League
I FOFC ahead 14 to 9
OK, let's see if Negro League I
can get back in this ballgame
Currently down by 5

Low fastball...
Leonard swings...
Hits it into the hole between 1st and 2nd
Potpie snags it moving to his right
Leads Knowles perfectly
racing to the bag...
And he easily beats Leonard for the out
Charleston advances to third
Two gone for Negro League I

A high hopper to short
Nights comes up with it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 6-3
And that will do it for Negro League I
FOFC wins 14 to 9
Rodney gets credit for the win
Foster takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Billy Bullock
He was 1 for 5 with a homerun
He also knocked in 4 runs
And that wraps things up
So long from Negro League I.

[Breeze]

GAME 16 - Wednesday, April 18th - Boxscore


All Stars AB R H RBI AVG Ones AB R H RBI AVG
B.Blade 2B 5 3 1 0 .276 T.Stearnes CF 5 3 4 5 .348
J.Nights SS 5 3 4 1 .320 M.Dihigo 2B 5 1 2 0 .350
A.Tucker CF 5 2 3 2 .311 O.Charleston LF 5 0 2 0 .279
P.Pflaggstettler RF 4 2 2 3 .456 J.Gibson C 5 1 1 2 .333
J.Potpie 1B 5 2 2 2 .310 B.Leonard 1B 5 0 0 0 .305
B.Bullock C 5 1 1 4 .351 W.Wells 3B 4 1 1 0 .250
S.Gunner LF 5 0 2 1 .267 C.Torriente RF 4 1 1 2 .231
S.Fozborg P 0 0 0 0 ---- R.Dandridge SS 4 1 1 0 .229
G-S.Treacy LF 0 0 0 0 .125 S.Williams P 0 0 0 0 .143
D.Fouts 3B 5 1 1 0 .206 A-C.Bell PH 1 0 0 0 .353
R.Nielsen P 2 0 1 0 .100 R.Foster P 0 0 0 0 ----
C-D.Palmer PH 1 0 1 0 .261 B-M.Suttles PH 1 1 1 0 .250
J.Rodney P 0 0 0 0 ---- B.Foster P 0 0 0 0 .500
D-K.Ton PH 1 0 0 0 .150 D.Barnhill P 0 0 0 0 ----
E-G.Gazelle LF 1 0 0 0 .286 F-J.Gardner PH 0 0 0 0 .333
S.Knowles P 0 0 0 0 ---- W.McDonald P 0 0 0 0 ----
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
Totals 44 14 18 13 Totals 39 9 13 9

A-Pinch Hit For Williams In 3rd Inning
B-Pinch Hit For Foster In 5th Inning
C-Pinch Hit For Nielsen In 6th Inning
D-Pinch Hit For Rodney In 8th Inning
E-Subbed Defensively (LF) For Ton In 8th Inning
F-Pinch Hit For Barnhill In 8th Inning
G-Subbed Defensively (LF) For Fozborg In 9th Inning

INJURY: Gerald Gazelle INJURED in 9th inning

All Stars....... 4 0 1 0 2 1 0 6 0 - 14 18 0
Ones............ 0 0 1 0 4 4 0 0 0 - 9 13 1

All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
R.Nielsen 5 7 5 5 1 2 3 81 3.07
J.Rodney WIN(1-0) BS(2nd) 2 4 4 4 0 5 2 35 8.53
S.Fozborg 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 27 3.18
S.Knowles 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 17 0.00
Totals 9 13 9 9 2 8 5

Ones IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
S.Williams 3 4 5 5 2 1 1 62 9.70
R.Foster 2 5 2 0 0 2 0 47 4.91
B.Foster LOSS(1-1) 2 1/3 6 4 4 0 1 0 51 3.97
D.Barnhill 0 2/3 3 3 3 0 0 1 21 6.48
W.McDonald 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 2.70
Totals 9 18 14 12 2 4 2

ATTENDANCE- 47,161 DATE- Wednesday, April 18th 1900 TIME- Night
T- 3:31
LEFT ON BASE- All Stars: 5 Ones: 6
DOUBLE PLAYS- All Stars: 0 Ones: 2
ERRORS- W.Wells
DOUBLES- J.Nights(3rd), S.Gunner(2nd), D.Palmer(2nd), M.Dihigo(5th),
O.Charleston(3rd)
HOME RUNS- J.Potpie(3rd), B.Bullock(3rd), T.Stearnes-3(5th), J.Gibson(5th),
C.Torriente(1st)
STOLEN BASES- A.Tucker(6th)
SACRIFICE HITS- B.Foster
WALKS- B.Blade, P.Pflaggstettler, W.Wells, J.Gardner
STRIKE OUTS- P.Pflaggstettler, J.Potpie, D.Fouts, K.Ton, M.Dihigo-2,
O.Charleston-2, J.Gibson, B.Leonard, W.Wells, C.Torriente
GIDP- B.Blade, P.Pflaggstettler
WEB GEMS- Bot 9th: Jeeberoni Potpie robbed Buck Leonard of a base hit.

[Coffee Warlord]

Obviously I was upset by the media not touting me enough. Those kind of distractions can be killer.

[Breeze]

FOFC - TEAM UPDATE

Heading back into the dugout I mumble in a joking manner, "Damn writers jinxing our pitchers."

Howser got the joke and smirked, but Sal took me seriously, "At least we still won."

"No thanks to your "Blistering" pitchers," chirps Bob Hazzle.

"Well it's about time your players starting pulling their weight," Sal barks back.

Howser cuts in before I can to calm things, "Now, now, we need to stop speaking to each other this way or we'll scare the children." After a pause he continues, "We won, that's all that matters. Sal that won't be the last time your pitchers have a bad outing, and Bob, get over the article. It was well written and timely. Problem with those types of articles is the streaks come to an end. We'll have to see if our ended tonight."

I cut in and change the subject, "Any idea how Gazelle is doing?"

"No, I don't think it's serious though. Probably a strained hamstring. Tay is checking him out, but we probably won't know anything for sure until tomorrow."

[JeeberD]

Have I ever mentioned that I LOVE hitting home runs? :D

[JAG]

Wild game, thank goodness we came back to win it.

[Breeze]

FOFC - Manager Update

I woke up feeling lousy the day after our back and forth battle with the Ones, so I turned off the alarm and slept most of the day. I got out of bed just in time to catch the team bus to the park. Once at the park, I retreated to the closet called the Visiting Manager's Office, where I dozed on and off. I felt so bad, I didn't even bother to pick up the paper and read the results of other games. I was finally awaken by Dick Hoswer saying, "Ben...you need to get up, it's time to exchange lineup cards."

[Breeze]

GAME 17 - Thursday, April 19th - Radio Broadcast

Sinking fastball...
Blade swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Wells...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
That's one away

Hard line drive to second
Dihigo leaps
He grabs it for the out
Score It: 4
Two up, two down

Struck him out on a fastball
Tucker goes down swinging
Three up, three down here in the first
Nice start for Hilton Smith
FOFC is 10 and 0 in their last ten games

He walked him, ball four
The lead-off batter gets on here
in the bottom of the 1st

Bell is taking his lead from first
Another throw...
Mighty's five throws over
have been effective
Bell has a small lead now
He must be getting tired
from diving back in!

Dihigo takes the pitch...
That one is low for a ball... WAIT
The umpire says that one caught the knees
He's out on strikes
One down for Negro League I
Oscar Charleston is still
in the on-deck circle
and Josh Gibson is looking
for a bat in the dugout

It is a high hard one...
Charleston goes on a fishin' trip
Strike three swinging!
That one sailed up out of the strike zone
but Charleston couldn't hold back
Two down
Hays asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Hays and Mighty

LINE DRIVE
Blade grabs it for the out
Score It: 4
The side is retired
No runs, no hits, no errors
and one man left on base
Time for a break, just in
time, by the way as
I've just been handed a ballpark hotdog
As Humphrey Bogart once said
A hotdog at the ballpark is better than
steak at the Ritz

Pflaggstettler goes after
Smith's fastball...
He gets under it a little...
But it is going way back in left-center
Bell is retreating after it quickly
He is right at the fence...
He goes up after it...
And brings it down in the webbing!
Persimmon just missed a homer on that one
Only a long out for the FOFC right fielder
And there's one away

Fastball, over the plate...
Potpie turned that one around
in a BIG WAY...
Forget it, that one is long gone...
HOME RUN!!!
That gives Potpie 4 this year
And 8 RBI's

Hays swings and hits a shot
to deep left-center
Bell and Suttles are converging
on the ball
Looks like Suttles has the best shot at it
He dives for it...
WOW! He's got it!
Fantastic play by Suttles
That's the second out of the inning
Time to check the scoreboard

Caribbean is edging Negro League II 1 to 0
Old Timers is edging AL Pre WWII 1 to 0
Dead Ball Era leads NL Pre WWII 1 to 0
NL Post WWII leads Left Outs 3 to 2
Seaver and Jenkins currently dueling
AL Post WWII and Turn of
Century are scoreless
Japanese League and Late
20th have yet to score
Sugishita battling Clemens
And here in Negro League
I FOFC ahead 1 to 0

Deacon Palmer swings
This one may be out of here...
Back, back, back...
GONE! A homerun into the seats in left
Palmer gets a hearty slap on the back
from bench coach Chuck Tanner
as he ducks into the All Stars' dugout

Curveball, hung up in the strike zone
Gunner swings...
HE GETS ALL OF THAT ONE!...
IT IS LONG GONE IN A HURRY!!
HOME RUN FOR Gunner
WHAT A SHOT...
That's one for the record books!
It will also make all the
replays of the week

Mighty hits a screamer at Martin Dihigo
Dihigo picks it up and fires to first
The throw pulls Leonard off the bag
Leonard swipes with the glove

Mighty is out!
Nice play by Leonard
That's all for FOFC in the top of the 2nd
They pick up 3 runs
After 1 and a half innings,
it's 3-0 FOFC

Change up...
Leonard hits a fly ball to right
Pflaggstettler is under it...
He's got it

STRIKE THREE, CALLED!
Two up, two down for Negro League I

Swung on and chopped down
the third base line
Palmer stabs at it
He's got it!
Over to first...
GOT HIM!
What a nice play by Deacon Palmer
That's all for the Ones...
After 2 innings here at Black Diamond
Pk in Negro League I,
FOFC leads 3 to 0

There's a ground ball
between first and second
OH, Leonard snags it in short right field
He throws it to the pitcher
covering the bag
OUT is the call
What a play by Leonard
With one down, up next is Kris Terp
To be followed by A. J. Tucker

There's a ground ball into the hole
Dandridge and Wells converge on it
It's picked by Wells who fires to first
OUT is the call
Close play!!
That's two away

Tucker hits one on the ground
to the left side
A. J., who moves well,
is motoring to first
Dandridge wings it quickly to Leonard...
OUT by a step
That ends the top of the 3rd for FOFC
Three batters up, three batters down

There's a fly ball to A. J. Tucker
Tucker circles under it...
He makes the play
One up, one down for Negro League I

Over the outside corner
Smith hits the curve right to second...
Blade takes it on the second hop
Fires to 1st...
Smith is out by a couple of steps
Two down

Bell is down
That was way inside
No call yet...
Now the umpire motions Cool Papa to first

Swung on and missed
Strike Three!
Dihigo couldn't lay off the high fast ball
Number 4 on the day for Mighty
That's all for the Ones
After 3 innings in Negro
League I this evening,
FOFC on top 3 to 0

Fastball...
Pflaggstettler jumps all over it...
It's juiced to deep center
There goes Bell after it
Racing hard...
He dives...
And he's got it!!!
Beautiful play by Cool Papa Bell!
Negro League I gets the first
out of the inning

Sinking fastball...
Potpie swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Wells...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
Two gone for FOFC

Belt high...Swung on by Hays...
Hit's a soft liner towards the gap
Shortstop's going back...
Leaps...
Can't get it
It's just over his outstretched glove
Nice try by Wells, but not good enough

Base hit to center for Palmer
Hays is rounding second...
But he pulls up quickly as he sees
the sign from Dick Howser
Hays will stay at second

Pounded on the ground to second
Dihigo grabs it
Over to Leonard
Got him!
Score It: 4-3
That retires the side
FOFC with a 3 run lead
It's FOFC 3
and Negro League I still looking
to score their first run

It's a routine fly into center
Tucker ranges over and reaches up
He grabs it for the out
One away here in the bottom of the 4th
FOFC ahead 3 to 0
While we have time, let's
check the scoreboard

Caribbean is edging Negro League II 1 to 0
Tiant Jr. and Mathis currently dueling
Old Timers is on top of AL Pre WWII 3 to 1
Gehringer has hit his 3rd
homerun for AL Pre WWII
Dead Ball Era is in front
of NL Pre WWII 4 to 1
NL Post WWII slipping by Left Outs 8 to 6
AL Post WWII is edging Turn
of Century 4 to 3
Williams has hit his 4th homerun
for AL Post WWII
Late 20th is on top of Japanese
League 2 to 0

Fastball, a beauty...
Steee Rike THREE!
Two down
Al Mighty retires
the first two batters in order

Leonard goes after the big breaker...
Hit on the ground to Mighty's right...
Terp isn't able to cut it off...
It's bouncing into center
field for a single

There's a ground ball into the hole
Palmer and Terp converge on it
It's picked by Terp who fires to first
SAFE is the call by the ump
Close play!!

There's a drive down the line
Gunner turns and runs
It's over his head
Suttles running hard out of the box
Gunner has the ball
Suttles digging for 2nd
He's slides in, Safe!
Leonard scores from second!
Wells takes third

Dandridge rips a hard drive
off a hanging curve
That will be in there for extra bases
Dandridge is around first,
heading for two...
Tucker is up with it and
fires it in quickly
Ray pulls up sharply at second...
A stand-up double for the Negro
League I third baseman
Ray also ups his hitting
streak to 8 games!
That is Dandridge's 1st hit today
Wells scores from third!
Suttles scores from second!

Grounded into the hole
Fielded nicely by Blade
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 4-3
That retires the side... but not before
the Ones score 3 runs to tie it up
After 4 innings, Negro League I has
3 runs, 4 hits and no errors
While FOFC has 3 runs,
5 hits and no errors

Al pops it up
And Dihigo makes the play
One gone for FOFC

Grounded towards the sack
Taken by Dandridge
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 5-3

It's a BULLET, hit towards short
Wells makes a great catch!
Score It: 6
No runs for FOFC in the top of the 5th
The score is tied at 3
We'll be right back

Right down the middle... strike three
Bell must have been looking
for something else
He just froze on that pitch
So one up and one gone

Dihigo swings at the change-up...
Pounds it good!...
It's going into deep left
Gunner is racing back...
He's at the fence...
But he might as well wave that one goodbye
It's gone!
Quite a shot by Dihigo
Traveling about 430 feet
That's home run number 2 for him
He also has 10 RBI's now

Long fly to center
Tucker has a long run...
He's there and hauls it in
Charleston is retired on a fairly deep fly
Two down
Due up next is Josh Gibson
Having quite a year so far
He brings a lot of power to the Ones

Groundball down the line
That's into the outfield for extra bases!
Gibson coasts into second
He's got a double

A slider by Mighty
Leonard gets good wood on it...
Tucker back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
That's it for Negro League I
Here at Black Diamond Pk, After 5 innings,
Negro League I has 4 runs,
6 hits and no errors
While FOFC has 3 runs,
5 hits and no errors
Negro League I has left 3 on base
FOFC has stranded 2

Routine grounder to first
Leonard scoops it up
Over to first for the out
One away in the top of the 6th for FOFC

Fastball... low and away, ball four
Smith puts the tying run on base
Not a good idea

Potpie chases the breaking ball...
It's a grounder at third base...
Dandridge takes it on the second bounce...
Pumps once to first, then
throws to second...
They get the sliding Pflaggstettler...
That's one out...
And Dihigo holds onto the ball
There's no play at first
Negro League I ahead 4 to 3 with two away
Let's check some other scores as well

Caribbean is edging Negro League II 1 to 0
Tiant Jr. and Mathis currently dueling
Old Timers is on top of AL Pre WWII 3 to 1
Welch battling Gomez
Dead Ball Era is in front
of NL Pre WWII 4 to 1
NL Post WWII clipping Left Outs 10 to 6
Banks has hit his 6th homerun
for NL Post WWII
Turn of Century is edging
AL Post WWII 5 to 4
Late 20th leads Japanese League 2 to 1

Base hit to right for Hays
Potpie is being held at
second by Dick Howser
Potpie will stay at second

Hot shot grounded to second
Dihigo grabs it
Over to Leonard
Got him!
Score It: 4-3
We're in the middle of the 6th
Negro League I still leads 4-3

Wells is down
That was way inside
No call yet...
Now the umpire motions Willie to first
Hit batsman... leadoff runner aboard

Wells watches Mighty carefully
As he stretches out to his lead
Mighty tries to pick the runner...
Wells scrambles back in time

Slider, high and tight...
Swung at...
Suttles hits a ground ball into the hole
Palmer and Terp converge on it
Gloved by Palmer...Fires to first...
Called safe by the ump...
Close play...
But it looked like he beat the throw!!

Base hit to left for Dandridge
Bill Madlock is waving the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Stan Gunner throws the ball
away for an error!

Smith looks to lay one down
Smith fouls off the bunt attempt
The count goes to 1 and 2, we'll have
to see if they keep the squeeze on

Time is called by the umpire!
Mighty is a little upset
He's been called for a balk!

Sinker that stays up, belt high...
Smith goes after it...
Deep fly ball, way back...
Pflaggstettler moving under on it
He grabs it for the out
No chance for a play on the runner
Who scores for Negro League I

Sharp breaking curveball...
Bell reaches for it...
Hits a two bouncer right to Terp...
Grabs it easily...
Fires a bullet to Potpie at first!
Bell is out easily
Two men gone, nobody on
Negro League I leads by 4

Hard ground ball to short
Taken by Terp
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 6-3
So ends the bottom of the 6th
For Negro League I
3 runs, 2 hits and one error
After 6 innings, Negro League
I on top 7 to 3

Fastball... down and away...
Smith just misses the corner... ball four
That's 2 walks given up by Smith today

Fouts rolls one toward Martin Dihigo
He scoops it and fires to
second... close play
OUT
The relay to first
OUT there too, it's a twin-killing
And there's two away

Blade swings on a ball in on his fists
It results in a pop up to second
Dihigo is under it...
A few steps to his right...
One hands it for the out
Blade looked bad on that pitch
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
So After 6 and a half innings
Negro League I has 7 runs,
8 hits and no errors
While FOFC has 3 runs,
6 hits and one error
FOFC has left 4 stranded
Negro League I has failed to bring home 4

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

Charleston hits a pop into
short right field
Blade sprints out
Pflaggstettler and Tucker sprint
towards the infield
Persimmon Pflaggstettler sticks
his glove out and
IT POPS OUT!
The official scorer rules a single

Gibson drives one into right
Persimmon Pflaggstettler sprints
over to make the play
That's one away

It's a rainbow shot toward center
Tucker reaches up
Makes the catch!
Didn't have to move an inch
Two away now for Negro League I
They're ahead by 4
The Ones have 9 hits on the evening

Charleston takes his lead
The runner unable to take a big lead
Knowles keeps looking him back

Swung on...and it's in the
air to the left side
Backing just a bit is Gunner
And he pulls it in
Three away here in the bottom of the 7th
After 7 innings Negro League
I on top 7 to 3
The official attendance has
just been announced
45454 fans here at Black Diamond
Pk this evening

Baltimore chop
Into right for a single!

Base hit to right for Tucker
Third base coach Dick Howser is
motioning Terp to third...
The throw is cut off...
That holds Tucker at first

Breaking ball, down low
Pflaggstettler sends one toward short
Wells will make the pick-up
Over to second for one
Back to first for the deuce!
Terp scores on the play
Negro League I conceded the run
So now they lead by 3
Negro League I gets the second
out of the inning

The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
Potpie held up, and draws a walk
Smith isn't happy at all with that call

Base hit to left for Hays
Dick Howser puts up the stop sign...
Potpie will stay at second

There is going to be a change in pitchers
Hilton Smith will hit the showers
Rube Foster will be coming on in relief
We are in the top of the 8th
here at Black Diamond Pk
Negro League I ahead 7 to 4

David Gonzalez hits a high
pop fly on the infield
Willie Wells calls everyone off
The ball drifts a bit...
But Wells is there to make the play
Three down for FOFC
Now the Ones will be coming up
for what they hope will be their
last at bat of the evening
They lead by 3, 7-4

Slow ground ball
Potpie is charging it
He fires it to first
He's OUT
One up, one down

Ball four is the call
Kronside can't believe the call
And barks at the home plate umpire
The ump points out at Kronside
Dandridge takes first base

Now batting for the Ones...
Jelly Gardner...
He'll pinch hit for Rube Foster
Cool Papa Bell is on-deck

Dandridge studies Kronside intently...
Now he's walking away from the base
Kronside's move keeps Dandridge guessing
He's not getting a very good lead

Here's a big breaking curve, inside...
Gardner takes a cut at it...
Hits a grounder to second
Blade comes up with the smooth pickup...
He tosses it to second...
That's one out
The relay to first...
Not in time
Gardner beats the throw by a step
Negro League I ahead 7 to 4
with two away this inning

Looped to right...and it
will drop for a hit

Hard slider...
And Dihigo takes it right down the middle
Strike three called
So that's it for Negro League I
They fail to score against Kronside
In the bottom of the 8th
for Negro League I
No runs, one hit, no errors
and 2 men left on base
Dusty Baker will be bringing
in a relief pitcher
Webster McDonald has been
called from the bullpen
A few warm up tosses and
we'll be set to go
Negro League I is making
a defensive change
Torriente will bat 7th and play left

There's a deep fly ball to Cool Papa Bell
Bell circles under it...
And makes the catch
With one down

Leonard yells something out to McDonald
Webster nods his head

There's a towering fly ball hit by Fouts
Charleston sprints over,
and makes the catch
Two out, nobody on
Negro League I leads 7 to 4

It's a routine fly into left
Torriente ranges over and reaches up
This should do it...
And Torriente grabs it for the out
And that will do it for FOFC
Negro League I wins 7 to 4
Smith gets credit for the win
McDonald notches the save
Mighty takes the loss
The hitting star for Negro League I
was Ray Dandridge
He was 2 for 3
He also knocked in 3 runs
And that wraps things up
So long from Negro League I.

[Breeze]

GAME 17 - Thursday, April 19th - Boxscore



All Stars AB R H RBI AVG Ones AB R H RBI AVG
B.Blade 2B 5 0 0 0 .254 C.Bell CF 3 0 1 0 .352
K.Terp SS 4 1 1 0 .227 M.Dihigo 2B 5 1 1 1 .338
A.Tucker CF 4 0 1 0 .308 O.Charleston RF 4 0 1 0 .277
P.Pflaggstettler RF 3 0 0 0 .433 J.Gibson C 4 0 1 0 .328
J.Potpie 1B 3 1 1 1 .311 B.Leonard 1B 4 1 1 0 .302
H.Hays C 4 0 3 0 .345 W.Wells SS 3 2 1 0 .254
D.Palmer 3B 3 1 2 1 .308 M.Suttles LF 4 2 2 1 .333
B.Knowles P 0 0 0 0 ---- D-C.Torriente LF 0 0 0 0 .231
B-D.Gonzalez PH 1 0 0 0 .176 R.Dandridge 3B 3 1 2 3 .255
J.Kronside P 0 0 0 0 ---- H.Smith P 2 0 0 1 .333
S.Gunner LF 3 1 1 1 .273 R.Foster P 0 0 0 0 ----
A.Mighty P 2 0 0 0 .000 C-J.Gardner PH 1 0 0 0 .300
A-D.Fouts 3B 2 0 0 0 .194 W.McDonald P 0 0 0 0 ----
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
Totals 34 4 9 3 Totals 33 7 10 6

A-Subbed Defensively (3B) For Mighty In 6th Inning
B-Pinch Hit For Knowles In 8th Inning
C-Pinch Hit For Foster In 8th Inning
D-Subbed Defensively (LF) For Suttles In 9th Inning

All Stars....... 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 - 4 9 1
Ones............ 0 0 0 3 1 3 0 0 - 7 10 0

All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
A.Mighty LOSS(2-1) 5 1/3 8 7 6 1 6 1 106 3.18
B.Knowles 1 2/3 1 0 0 0 0 0 20 4.26
J.Kronside 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 23 0.00
Totals 8 10 7 6 2 7 1

Ones IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
H.Smith WIN(3-0) 7 2/3 9 4 4 3 1 3 132 2.90
R.Foster HOLD(2nd) 0 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4.76
W.McDonald SAVE(3rd) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 2.08
Totals 9 9 4 4 3 1 3

ATTENDANCE- 45,454 DATE- Thursday, April 19th 1900 TIME- Night
T- 3:23
LEFT ON BASE- All Stars: 6 Ones: 7
DOUBLE PLAYS- All Stars: 0 Ones: 2
ERRORS- S.Gunner
DOUBLES- J.Gibson(3rd), M.Suttles(1st), R.Dandridge(4th)
HOME RUNS- J.Potpie(4th), D.Palmer(1st), S.Gunner(4th), M.Dihigo(2nd)
SACRIFICE FLIES- H.Smith
WALKS- P.Pflaggstettler, J.Potpie, S.Gunner, C.Bell, R.Dandridge
HIT BY PITCH- C.Bell, W.Wells
STRIKE OUTS- A.Tucker, C.Bell, M.Dihigo-3, O.Charleston, J.Gibson, W.Wells
GIDP- P.Pflaggstettler, D.Fouts
BALKS- A.Mighty
WEB GEMS- Top 3rd: Buck Leonard robbed Barrett Blade of a base hit.

[Breeze]

FOFC - MANAGER UPDATE

Leaving the field after the game, I'm not feeling well, I'm disappointed in the loss and I'm real disappointed in the fact we've had 2 straight poor starts, so I grumble, "Damn writers, jinxing our pitchers." This time it's not so tounge in cheek.

[Blade]

Doh...Blade is just not doing his job at all...

[JeeberD]

I...I...I don't get it. What does it mean when the other team scores more than us? :(

On a bright note, I have a three game homer streak going.

[Breeze]

FOFC - Manager Update

I wake up still grumpy from the last couple days, so I head to the park and boycott the paper once again.

[Sublime 2]

Send Hunter to the mound!

[thealmighty]

You know what sucks?

Having your first bad outing of the year and having to wait forever to make another start and make the nasty taste of losing go away.

Oh, and having your ERA go up 1 1/2 points in one game REALLY sucks.

[Breeze]

FOFC - Team Update

The flight back was business as usual for the players, I was still quite for most of the trip.

[Breeze]

GAME 18 - Friday, April 20th - Radio Broadcast

Fastball, swung on and missed
Take a seat Mr. Robinson!
Hunter retires the first batter to
face him in the top of the 1st

Grounded towards first
Potpie grabs it
IT'S A RACE TO THE BAG
SAFE!

Changeup...
Ties Heilmann up in knots
An awkward swinging strike three!

Cochrane slowly moves away from the base
The runner unable to take a big lead
Hunter keeps looking him back

Hunter loses him
Snider heads down to first

There's a drive to straight away right
Pflaggstettler is running back...
At the warning track...
It might be.. IT..
NO!... a great leaping grab by
Persimmon Pflaggstettler!
Another foot and it's out of here
That's three outs here in
the top of the first
At the end of one half inning,
for Left Outs
No runs, one hit, no errors
and 2 men left on base
FOFC is coming to bat

And Blade will sit down...
strike three called
Left Outs gets the first out of the inning

Nights swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Carlton strikes out Jeff Nights
And there's two away

Tucker cuts on a curve that
misses in the dirt
That ball is trapped nicely by Cochrane
Tucker was badly fooled by Carlton's
big breaking curve
STRIKE THREE!
A. J. was a little overanxious
Three up, three down
Carlton sails through the
bottom of the 1st

McCovey really smacks this one
He was waiting on the change
It's a gapper...
But hit high...
Tucker has a shot at it
He leaps for it at the fence...
OUT!!!
One out
Due up next is Goose Goslin

Outside fastball...
The swing...
There's a drive into left by Goslin
He went with the pitch
Hitting it the other way
Smart hitting got him a single
Left Outs has the runner on first

A low change-up by Hunter...
Vaughan chases it...
Manages a slow bouncer to Nights...
He takes it, tosses it to Blade...
Getting the force on Goslin
The relay back to first...
Not in time...
Vaughan beats the throw by a step
Two down
Bullock asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Bullock and Hunter

Base hit to left for Carlton
Tony LaRussa puts up the stop sign...
Vaughan will stay at second

Smashed to third
Palmer grabs it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 5-3
That's all for the Leftovers
No runs, 2 hits, no errors and
2 men left on base...
We go to the bottom of the 2nd...
Scoreless game

Sinking line drive
Caught by Jimmie Foxx
So one up and one gone

Potpie is hit!
That ball hit him on the arm
Jeeberoni is squeezing his elbow
The trainer, Tay Pemup
is out to check him
He'll stay in
He gets a nice round of applause
He heads to first

Bouncer to short...made to
order doubleplay ball
Vaughan has it on two hops...wrists
it to Robinson
He evades the slide of Potpie
The throw to McCovey...
It just nips Bullock!
So it is nothing across for the All
Stars in the bottom of the 2nd
After 2 innings
FOFC has no runs, no hits and no errors
While Left Outs has no runs,
3 hits and no errors

Base hit to center for Cochrane
A. J. Tucker is trying to get to it
This might be stretched into a double!
No... he decides to hold up

There goes Cochrane...
And it's ball four...
Cochrane pulls up and walks into second

Flyball to center
it's caught
Cochrane has a chance to move up...
Cochrane will hold at second base

He rips a grounder
It's into right field
Jimmie Foxx has a base hit
Foxx extends his hitting streak
to 10 games!
Cochrane scores from second!
Heilmann takes third

McCovey swings on a ball in on his fists
It results in a pop up to second
Blade is under it...
A few steps to his right...
One hands it for the out
McCovey looked bad on that pitch
That's the second out of the inning

Foxx watches Hunter as he inches
away from the base
Hunter holds the runner

Base hit to left for Goslin
Heilmann scores
Tony LaRussa puts up the stop sign...
Foxx will stay at second

A slider by Hunter
Vaughan gets good wood on it...
Tucker back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
That retires the side... but not before
2 runs cross the plate for Left Outs
After 2 and a half innings,
Left Outs ahead 2 to 0

Well hit by Palmer
Goslin moves back...
Still going back...
He makes the catch up against the fence
One down for FOFC
Gerald Gazelle is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to
the plate for FOFC

Gazelle hits a fly ball to right
Harry Heilmann camps under it
He's got it
Two up, two down for FOFC

Curve ball...
Hunter swings and misses by a mile
The bottom dropped out of that one!
A wicked pitch!
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
By the way, FOFC is 9 and 1
in their last ten games

Carlton hits it sharply on the ground...
into the hole at third
Palmer dives...
It's through for a base hit!
He almost got his glove on it...
Carlton reaches on a sizzling
single to left
A nice try by the third baseman,
Deacon Palmer

It's a scorching liner
to the third baseman
OUT!
Palmer didn't have to move!
Carlton stays put
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

AL Post WWII and Japanese League
have yet to score
NL Pre WWII and Caribbean
have yet to score
Negro League II leads NL Post WWII 1 to 0
AL Pre WWII clipping Negro League I 4 to 0
Turn of Century besting Old Timers 5 to 0
Dead Ball Era is edging Late 20th 1 to 0
And here in FOFC Left Outs on top 2 to 0

The pitch is low
It bounces away from Bullock!
He's got it
But there's no throw.
It's scored a wild pitch.

Base hit to left for Cochrane
Tony LaRussa won't risk sending
the runner home...
Runner holds.

Fastball in on the hands
Heilmann tries to hold up, but can't
He hits a blooper to left
Gazelle is coming in fast
Now he has it in his sights...
Easy out
Gerald rifles it back in to Blade
He walks it on over to Hunter
FOFC gets the second out of the inning

Sharp slider, catches the outside corner
Snider swings at it...
Hammers a hard grounder right at short
Picked up smoothly...
Throw to first...
IT'S OFF THE BAG!!...
Potpie grabs it, turns back to the bag
NOT IN TIME!
Snider is SAFE!
That'll be an error on that play
Score It: E6
Carlton scores from third!
Cochrane takes second
Snider to first

Change up...
Foxx was way out in front...
Strike Three
That does it for Left Outs here
in the top of the 4th
But they pick up 1 run
So After 3 and a half innings,
Left Outs on top 3 to 0

Curve, a beauty...
Strike three looking!
Carlton punches him out!
And there's one away

It's a sinker, up in the strike zone
Nights hits it deep into the alley
Heilmann is back to the warning track...
To the fence...
He leaps in the air...
Just out of his reach!...
It's in for extra bases...
Harry picks it up quickly
Spins, throws...
Not a strong throw but they have no chance
Nights is at second with a stand-up double
Almost a fine play by Harry Heilmann
Well give him an "A" for effort

Groundball to short
Nights will hold at second base
Tucker is retired on the groundout

Pflaggstettler hits a three hopper
towards Arky Vaughan
Vaughan scoops it and fires
it to first for the out
That's it for FOFC
Here at FOFC Stadium, After 4 innings,
Left Outs has 3 runs, 8 hits and no errors
While FOFC has no runs,
one hit and one error
FOFC has left 1 on base
Left Outs has stranded 8

The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
McCovey held up, and draws a walk
Hunter isn't happy at all with that call

Broken bat ground ball to first
Potpie takes it to the bag himself
Score It: 3
That's one away

It is a fastball up high
Vaughan rips it directly at Blade
My goodness! Barrett had to
catch it or get killed
He did the former
much to his family's relief!
Boy, Vaughan really
took the toenails off that one!
McCovey still at second
That's the second out of the inning

Big slow curve...
And it's in there, strike three
That does it for Left Outs
in the top of the 5th

Excellent sinker pitch, outside...
Potpie gets good wood on it anyway
There's no doubt, that one is outta here!!
Potpie circles the bases
As Carlton asks for a new
ball from the umpire
Now Left Outs ahead 3 to 1

Bullock rips a whistling
liner down the line
Bingo! Foxx spears it!
A shot hit right on the screws
but right at the Left Outs third baseman
One down for FOFC
Deacon Palmer is still in
the on-deck circle
and Gerald Gazelle is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Let up pitch grounded through
the middle...
Robinson ranges towards
the bag at second...
Makes a smooth pick up...
Has to make the throw across his body...
Can't get enough on it to beat Palmer
SAFE!...Score it an infield single

Low, ball four...
Gazelle takes first

Bounding ball to third
Foxx grabs it
Throw to second for one
Could be two . . .
Double Play!
Score It: 5-4-3
That's it for FOFC
Left Outs has 3 runs, 8 hits and no errors
While FOFC has one run,
3 hits and one error
FOFC has now left 1 runners stranded

He bunts the ball!
Potpie fields it and fires to first
And he is . . .
OUT!

Baltimore chop
Into right for a single!

The runner is off with the pitch
Hit and run!
Heilmann only gets a piece of it
Lifted up over the infield...
It should be an easy out...
And it will be Blade making the play
That's two away

He hits a tough grounder to second
Taken by Blade
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 4-3
That ends the top of the 6th
No runs, one hit, no errors
and one man left on base
After 5 and a half innings,
Left Outs leads by 2

Soft liner to third
Foxx makes a great catch!
Score It: 5
FOFC with one away
Carlton steps off the mound as
he waits for Jeff Nights to
come to the plate

There's a fly ball to Duke Snider
Snider circles under it...
He makes the play
That's two away
Vaughan comes over from his shortstop
position to say a few words to Carlton
A. J. Tucker will be next up...

Tucker hits a deep ball
Goslin retreats toward the wall
He leaps...
He's got it!
The All Stars go down in order...
No runs, no hits and no errors
After 6 full innings of play,
it's 3-1 Leftovers

Foxx fights one off his fists
It's lined weakly to the left of short
Nights is over quickly
Easy out
With one down, up next is Willie McCovey
To be followed by Goose Goslin

Shallow fly ball
Pflaggstettler charging
HE DIVES...
HE'S GOT IT!
Two down

Pop-up
Bullock throws away the mask
He makes the catch
Fozborg sets them down in order
Here in the top of the 7th

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

A hot shot on the ground to Foxx
He's got it cleanly on one hop...
Over to first and Pflaggstettler is out
That's the first out of the inning
Two more to go

Breaking ball...
It darts down and out
as Potpie swings way over it
He was fooled completely
Cochrane loses it momentarily,
but now finds the handle and tags
Jeeberoni as he was heading for the dugout
That's two quick outs for Steve Carlton
FOFC will need to do better than that
They are running out of time

Bullock rips a hard drive
off a hanging curve
That will be in there for extra bases
Bullock is around first,
heading for two...
Snider is up with it and
fires it in quickly
Billy pulls up sharply at second...
A stand-up double for the FOFC catcher
Billy also ups his hitting
streak to 9 games!
That is Bullock's 1st hit today

Fastball, belt high, away...
Palmer goes after it...
There's a fly ball to Goslin
Goslin is gliding under it...
He flags it down on the run
That retires the side...
Palmer fails to come through in the clutch
For FOFC, No runs, one hit, no errors
and one man left on base

Vaughan starts... but lays
off the pitch upstairs
Ball four, Fozborg walks him

We are going to have a pinch hitter
Willie Stargell will bat for Steve Carlton
It will be the lefthand hitting, Stargell
against the righty Fozborg
Stargell is hitting righties
for a .500 average

Hard slider...
And Stargell takes it right
down the middle
Strike three called
With one down

Potpie yells something out to Fozborg
Sirr nods his head

Fozborg just misses outside
Ball four to Robinson

Fozborg loses him
Cochrane heads down to first
Robinson and Vaughan move up a base
Bases are waterlogged

It is a high hard one...
Heilmann goes on a fishin' trip
Strike three swinging!
That one sailed up and
out of the strike zone...
Heilmann couldn't hold back
Two gone for Left Outs

Fozborg spins in a curve...
And Snider will spin right out of there
That's strike three swinging
So ends the top of the 8th
For Left Outs
No runs, no hits, no errors
and 3 men left on base
After 7 and a half innings,
Left Outs on top 3 to 1
Sparky Anderson will be bringing
in a relief pitcher
Bob Lemon has been called from the bullpen
A few warm up tosses and
we'll be set to go
Left Outs is making a defensive change
Boudreau will bat 8th and play short

He rips a grounder
It's into left field
Base hit for Gazelle
Goslin has the ball
Now it gets past him
He's got to chase it down!
Score It: Single + E7
Gazelle to third

Broken bat ground ball to first
Gazelle heads for home
McCovey will take it himself
Score It: 3
Sparky Anderson will be bringing
in a relief pitcher
Herb Pennock has been called
from the bullpen
A few warm up tosses and
we'll be set to go

There's a ground ball into the hole
Foxx and Boudreau converge on it
It's picked by Foxx who fires to first
OUT is the call
Close play!!
One more chance for FOFC in
the bottom of the 8th

Low fastball, at the knees
Nights goes after it...
Lines a single to left...
Jeff rounds first... TRIPS ON THE BAG!!
The throw is into second
The relay to first...
Not in time... Nights manages
to crawl to the bag
He's really hurting
Here comes Tay Pemup...

They are calling for Ben
Dover, the team doc
This could be real serious

Let's take a short commercial break
while they work on him...

Welcome back folks...
Nights is on his feet...
Benton Breeze wants him to come out
Jeff wants to stay in
And...
It looks like he'll stay in

Tucker chases the sinker...
Lines a hit into right...
Nights' not slowing at all
Rounds second heading to third...
Heilmann throws in to Robinson
covering second...
Nights is in at third without a play

Pflaggstettler swings awkwardly...
strike three
Pennock took something off
of that breaking ball
He had Pflaggstettler way out in front
That's all for the All Stars...
After 8 innings here at
FOFC Stadium in FOFC,
Left Outs ahead 3 to 2

It's a high fly to deep center
Tucker is on his horse
It is carrying to the fence
A. J. jumps
It's off the wall
Foxx is around second
But retreats to the bag
as the throw comes in

Routine fly to center
Tucker starts in
Now he starts backpedaling...
Faster...
Just does catch up to it!
Foxx scampers back to second
One away here in the top of the 9th
Left Outs leads 3 to 2
While we have time, let's
check the scoreboard
These scores are final...
AL Post WWII edged out Japanese
League 2 to 1
Yastrzemski has hit his 1st
homerun for AL Post WWII
NL Pre WWII squeezed by Caribbean 5 to 3
NL Post WWII cuffed Negro League II 5 to 2
Beckwith has hit his 3rd homerun
for Negro League II
AL Pre WWII is the winner over
Negro League I 4 to 0
Turn of Century beat up
on Old Timers 9 to 0
Dead Ball Era edged out Late 20th 1 to 0

He rips a grounder to the mound
Knowles comes up with it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 1-3

Great change up...
Boudreau out in front...
Gets a piece of it...
It's a shallow fly towards Gunner
Gunner charges, dives for it...
He has it...
Fine catch by the right fielder
Three down for Left Outs
Still a 1 run deficit for FOFC
Let me point out that
coming in to today's game
Left Outs is 4 and 1 in one run games
FOFC has a 9 and 0 record
in these tight contests

Swung on and missed by Potpie,
he's down on strikes
That is 2 on the day for Potpie
One up, one down

Smash to second
Jackie Robinson boots the ball
He's charged with an error
That's 1 miscue for Robinson

Palmer drives the ball to
center for extra bases
Dick Howser plays it safe and
stops him at third...
Double for Palmer

Base hit to right for Gonzalez
Bullock scores
Dick Howser is waving the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Aggressive baserunning by FOFC...
Not cut-off...
Palmer scores!
FOFC wins 4 to 3
Knowles gets credit for the win
Pennock takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Jeeberoni Potpie
He was 1 for 3 with a homerun
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.

[Breeze]

GAME 18 - Friday, April 20th - Boxscore


Leftovers AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG
J.Robinson 2B 4 0 0 0 .304 B.Blade 2B 4 0 0 0 .239
M.Cochrane C 4 1 4 0 .254 J.Nights SS 4 0 2 0 .333
H.Heilmann RF 4 1 0 0 .206 A.Tucker CF 4 0 1 0 .304
D.Snider CF 4 0 0 0 .293 P.Pflaggstettler RF 4 0 0 0 .406
J.Foxx 3B 5 0 2 1 .382 J.Rodney P 0 0 0 0 ----
W.McCovey 1B 4 0 0 0 .157 B.Knowles P 0 0 0 0 ----
G.Goslin LF 5 0 2 1 .278 J.Potpie 1B 3 1 1 1 .313
D.Drysdale P 0 0 0 0 .000 B.Bullock C 4 1 1 0 .341
A.Vaughan SS 3 0 0 0 .295 D.Palmer 3B 4 1 2 0 .333
C-L.Boudreau SS 1 0 0 0 .143 G.Gazelle LF 2 1 1 0 .333
S.Carlton P 3 1 2 0 .364 F-D.Gonzalez PH 1 0 1 2 .222
B-W.Stargell PH 1 0 0 0 .444 O.Hunter P 1 0 0 0 .000
B.Lemon P 0 0 0 0 ---- A-K.Ton PH 1 0 0 0 .143
H.Pennock P 0 0 0 0 .000 S.Fozborg P 0 0 0 0 ----
E-H.Wilson LF 0 0 0 0 .158 D-S.Gunner PH,RF 1 0 0 1 .265
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
Totals 38 3 10 2 Totals 33 4 9 4

A-Pinch Hit For Hunter In 5th Inning
B-Pinch Hit For Carlton In 8th Inning
C-Subbed Defensively (SS) For Vaughan In 8th Inning
D-Pinch Hit For Fozborg In 8th Inning
E-Subbed Defensively (LF) For Pennock In 9th Inning
F-Pinch Hit For Gazelle In 9th Inning

INJURY: Bob Lemon INJURED (for 15 more games) in 8th inning

Leftovers....... 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 - 3 10 2
All Stars....... 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 - 4 9 1

Leftovers IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
S.Carlton 7 4 1 1 1 6 1 88 4.46
B.Lemon HOLD(3rd) 0 1/3 1 1 1 0 0 0 7 2.08
H.Pennock L(1-2) H(1st) 1 3 2 1 0 2 0 25 4.24
D.Drysdale BS(3rd) 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 5.79
Totals 8 1/3 9 4 3 1 8 1

All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
O.Hunter 5 8 3 2 3 4 0 115 4.50
S.Fozborg 3 1 0 0 3 3 0 56 2.08
J.Rodney 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 8.53
B.Knowles WIN(2-0) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 3.68
Totals 9 10 3 2 6 7 0

ATTENDANCE- 46,486 DATE- Friday, April 20th 1900 TIME- Night
T- 1:35
LEFT ON BASE- Leftovers:14 All Stars: 5
DOUBLE PLAYS- Leftovers: 2 All Stars: 0
ERRORS- J.Robinson, G.Goslin, J.Nights
DOUBLES- J.Foxx(5th), J.Nights(4th), B.Bullock(4th), D.Palmer(3rd)
HOME RUNS- J.Potpie(5th)
WALKS- J.Robinson, M.Cochrane, H.Heilmann, D.Snider, W.McCovey, A.Vaughan,
G.Gazelle
HIT BY PITCH- J.Potpie
STRIKE OUTS- J.Robinson, H.Heilmann-2, D.Snider, J.Foxx, S.Carlton, W.Stargell,
B.Blade-2, J.Nights, A.Tucker, P.Pflaggstettler, J.Potpie-2,
O.Hunter
GIDP- B.Bullock, K.Ton
WILD PITCHES- O.Hunter

[Blade]

Damn you Blade!

[JeeberD]

Four games in a row with a dinger! :D

[Breeze]

FOFC Manager Update

As I filling out tonights lineup, Howser approaches me.

"You making any changes tonight?"

"Yep."

"Thought so, you sitting Blade down?" he asks

"Yep."

"Figured as much. He started off so good, to bad he's slumped."

"Yep. He'll be fine. I need to give Treacy a shot to play and nows a perfect time. Blade needs to get his mind off of his struggles so I'll let him have a few days off."

[Breeze]

GAME 19 - Satuday, April 21st - Radio Broadcast

WATCH OUT!
Williams has hit Robinson!

Cochrane squares
He bunts at it . . .
It's popped up...
Caught by J.Potpie
a poor bunt by Cochrane

Williams loses him
Heilmann heads down to first

LINE DRIVE
Palmer jumps
He snares it for the out!
He throws to Treacy
OUT!
Double Play!
Score It: 5-4
And that retires the side

Over the outside corner
Nights hits the curve right to third...
Foxx takes it on the second hop
Fires to 1st...
Nights is out by a couple of steps
One out
Due up next is A. J. Tucker

A. J. Tucker offers at the curveball,
but checks his swing
Oh, Tucker couldn't get the
bat out of the way
It's a soft line drive to Jackie
Robinson for the out
Tucker never even left the batter's box
One more chance for FOFC in
the bottom of the 1st

Pflaggstettler hits a screamer
at Arky Vaughan
Vaughan picks it up and fires to first
The throw pulls Robinson off the bag
Robinson swipes with the glove

Pflaggstettler is out!
Nice play by Robinson
Don Sutton holds the All Stars
scoreless in the first

Sinking line drive
Caught by Sean Treacy
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

AL Post WWII and Japanese
League are scoreless
Newhouser and Kaneda currently dueling
NL Pre WWII and Caribbean are tied at 1
Negro League II is edging
NL Post WWII 1 to 0
Negro League I is edging
AL Pre WWII 2 to 1
Turn of Century slipping
by Old Timers 2 to 0
Dead Ball Era and Late 20th are scoreless
And here in FOFC No score

It's dinked out front
Hays is on it...throws to first...
Nice play
Two down
John Williams retires
the first two batters in a row

Goslin is gone on strikes
Left with the bat still in
the cocked position
1-2-3, nothing across...

Swung on and hit sharply to second
Robinson plays it on one hop
Over to Robinson...
Out of there!
So one up and one gone

Right down the middle... strike three
Palmer must have been looking
for something else
He just froze on that pitch
Two down
Sutton retires two in a row

Good slider, inside part of the plate
Gunner gets the bat on it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Robinson grabs it...
Throws to first...
OUT!
Sutton retires the side in order
Here in the bottom of the 2nd

Slider, over the inside corner...
Lashed hard out into right
It's in for a base hit...
Pflaggstettler quickly racing over...
Fields it smoothly, fires it
in behind the runner...
Vaughan dives back into the bag...
SAFE!!
Credit Vaughan with a single

Sutton squares around
He bunts at it . . .
A quick glance at the lead runner...
Fielded by D.Palmer
the throw to first...
Out
Sutton gets the job done.
That's one away

Fastball, belt high, away...
Robinson goes after it...
There's a fly ball to Tucker
Tucker is gliding under it...
He flags it down on the run
FOFC gets the second out of the inning

Mickey Cochrane offers at the slider,
but checks his swing
Oh, Cochrane couldn't get
the bat out of the way
It's a soft line drive to
Treacy for the out
Cochrane never even left the batter's box
And that retires the side

Swung on and popped up
Vaughan is waiting...
And that's an easy out
One down for FOFC
Sean Treacy is still in the on-deck circle
and John Williams is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Belt high...Swung on by Treacy...
Hit's a soft liner towards the gap
Shortstop's going back...
Leaps...
Can't get it
It's just over his outstretched glove
Nice try by Vaughan, but not good enough

And Williams will sit down...
strike three called
One more chance for FOFC this inning

Hot shot grounded to third
Foxx grabs it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 5-3
No runs for FOFC in the bottom of the 3rd
We're scoreless
We'll be right back

Fastball, busted in on the hands
Heilmann manages to get a piece of it
Bouncing it over the mound
Treacy cuts it off in front of the bag
Rifles a throw to Potpie...
And Heilmann is called out on a close play
One down for Left Outs
Jimmie Foxx is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to the
plate for Left Outs

Foxx taps one on the ground
Deacon Palmer charges in
He boots it!
He can't make the throw
It'll be an error on Palmer
FOFC has committed 1 error this evening

Fastball down low...
Wilson swings and hits one out to center
A. J. Tucker is drifting over...
Now he's under it...
Easy out for Williams
Foxx trots back to first
Two down

Hit in the air to left
Camped under it is Gunner
And he has it
That wraps up the inning for Left Outs
By the way, Left Outs is 4 and
6 in their last ten games

Liner drilled to second
Robinson grabs it for the out
Score It: 4
One up, one down for FOFC

Pflaggstettler starts... but lays
off the pitch upstairs
Ball four, Sutton walks him

Potpie goes after the low slider...
Lofts a shallow fly towards Goslin
He's racing in for it...
Catches it at his knees
HE KICKS IT LOOSE!!!
He's chasing it down
Potpie walks into second on the error
Goslin should've had that one
Score It: E7
Pflaggstettler takes third
Potpie to second

Routine grounder to second
Robinson grabs it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 4-3
That's two away

Swung on...
And Gunner got a little piece of it
But Cochrane held on to
the tip, strike three
That does it in the bottom of the 4th
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After 4 innings, Scoreless game

Goslin sends a routine
ground ball to first
Potpie takes it on one hop
Flips it to Williams
Easy out
One up, one down

Comebacker, right to Williams
Over to Potpie for the easy out
Two up, two down for Left Outs
Williams is moving along
with the efficiency
of a well oiled machine

There's a cue shot off the
end of the bat by Sutton
Treacy makes the routine catch
of the soft liner
That's three up, three down
FOFC has no runs, one hit and one error
While Left Outs has no runs,
one hit and one error

Base hit to center for Hays
Hack Wilson is trying to get to it
This might be stretched into a double!
No... he decides to hold up

The runner is off with the pitch
Hit and run!
Treacy rolls one toward Jackie Robinson
He scoops it and fires to first...
Close play
OUT, says the first base umpire
The first base coach throws his hands up
in disbelief
And there's one away

Too high...
That'll be ball four
Williams will get a free
pass to first base
The bat boy brings out John's jacket
Force now at any base except home

Nights drives the ball to
center for extra bases
Hays scores
Dick Howser will send the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Aggressive baserunning by FOFC...
Not cut-off...
Williams scores!
Trailing runner advances.
Double for Nights

Groundball to second
Dick Howser is giving the green light...
A quick glance at the lead runner...
The play is to first...
And Tucker is out

Breaking ball...
It darts down and out
as Pflaggstettler swings way over it
He was fooled completely
Cochrane loses it momentarily,
but now finds the handle and tags
Persimmon as he was heading for the dugout
That ends the bottom of the 5th
3 runs, 2 hits and no errors
After 5 innings, FOFC leads by 3

Slider, down and away...
Robinson reaches for the pitch...
It's a grounder to the third base side...
Palmer is there
IT BOUNCES OVER HIS HEAD!...
Gunner is hustling after it...
Robinson with the big turn...
The throw from Gunner goes into second
And Robinson holds at first

There's a high pop down
the left field line
It's going to go into foul territory
Palmer and Nights are chasing
it down the line
Jeff dives, but can't make the play
Foul ball
. . . Cochrane back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Cochrane is gone on strikes
Left with the bat still in
the cocked position
With one down, up next is Harry Heilmann
To be followed by Jimmie Foxx

Heilmann swings and sends
a high fly to right
It is hugging the line...
Pflaggstettler is over at the fence...
It's going to be close...
It's just foul!
Heilmann just missed on that one
. . . Heilmann back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Heilmann rips a line shot
to the second baseman
OUT!
Treacy didn't have to move!
One blink and that would have
been past him!
Robinson stays put
FOFC ahead 3 to 0 with two away
Let's check some other scores as well

Japanese League is edging
AL Post WWII 6 to 5
Caribbean slipping by NL Pre WWII 5 to 3
NL Post WWII clipping Negro
League II 5 to 1
AL Pre WWII is on top of
Negro League I 5 to 3
Gehringer has hit his 4th
homerun for AL Pre WWII
Turn of Century is giving
it to Old Timers 5 to 0
Young enjoying the big
Turn of Century lead
Late 20th leads Dead Ball Era 4 to 3

Foxx swings hard...
Nobody is going to get this one...
Yes sir! Foxx will have himself a single
And he extends his hitting streak
to 11 games!
1 for 3 on the evening
Robinson takes third

Sharp slider, catches the outside corner
Wilson swings at it...
Hammers a hard grounder right at second
Picked up smoothly...
Throw to first...
IT'S OFF THE BAG!!...
Potpie grabs it, turns back to the bag
NOT IN TIME!
Wilson is SAFE!
That'll be an error on that play
Score It: E4
Robinson scores from third!
Foxx takes second
Wilson to first

Robinson rips a deep drive to left
This one has a chance...
Gunner is back at the warning track
It's going...
It's going...
It's CAUGHT!
At the fence
Robinson just missed a three run blast
That would have given Left Outs the lead
FOFC still with that 2 run advantage

It busts inside on Potpie
And he can't get out of the way
He was hit by the pitch!
Potpie gets up and brushes himself off
He is staring out at Sutton
Potpie walks slowly to first base

Base hit to right for Palmer
Third base coach Dick Howser is
motioning Potpie to third...
The throw is going to third...
Potpie is out at third base!
Palmer advances to 2nd on the throw

A slider by Sutton
Gunner gets good wood on it...
Heilmann back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
Two gone for FOFC

And now they're going to put Hays on
Cochrane is up and holding out his glove
There's ball 3...
and now ball 4
Sean Treacy is waiting on deck

Curve in the dirt... and Treacy holds up
Looked like he went around from here
But the umpire says no
Treacy will take first on the walk
That loads them up for John Williams

Low... ball four
Terp works Sutton for a walk
That forces in a run
Palmer crosses the plate
FOFC leads 4 to 1
The bases are still loaded
And Jeff Nights is scheduled to come up

Lined hard to short
Vaughan makes a great catch!
Score It: 6
And that's the final out of the inning
FOFC has 4 runs, 4 hits and 2 errors
While Left Outs has one run,
3 hits and one error
FOFC has left 6 men on base today

Slow ground ball
Nights is charging it
He fires it to first
He's OUT
One gone in the top of the 7th
Up next is Arky Vaughan
He's having a fine year so far

There's a drive to right by Vaughan
Pflaggstettler scoops it up
Fires it to second
Vaughan turns back and
settles for a single
Terrific play by Pflaggstettler

Don Sutton is scheduled
to bat next, but...
Looks like we'll be seeing a pinch hitter
Yes Willie Stargell is stepping
out to the on-deck circle
Sparky Anderson will send Willie
up to face Fozborg
Stargell has a knack for getting on base
His .545 OBP proves that
He is hitting righties at a .444 pace

Grounded towards the middle
Fielded nicely by Nights
Throw to second for one
On to first
Double Play!
Score It: 6-4-3
That's three outs, side retired

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!
Early Wynn will be coming on
to pitch for Left Outs
Early has appeared in 8 games this season
with a record of 0-3
In 15 innings, he has an 5.28 ERA
Don Sutton has finished his work
here this evening

Drilled on the ground to the mound
Wynn comes up with it
Over to Robinson
Got him!
Score It: 1-3
FOFC with one away
Wynn steps off the mound as
he waits for Persimmon Pflaggstettler to
come to the plate

Wynn loses him
Pflaggstettler heads down to first
2 walks today for Pflaggstettler

Pflaggstettler inches away from first base
Wynn steps off the rubber
Looks Pflaggstettler back to the bag

Potpie connects on the curve...
This one is really smoked...
Goslin starts back...
Now he just stops to look
Potpie got all of this one....
See ya, It's a home run!
Pflaggstettler scores in front of him

Sinking fastball...
Palmer swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Vaughan...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
That's two away
Vaughan comes over from his shortstop
position to say a few words to Wynn
Stan Gunner will be next up...

It is a slow change...
Gunner's not at all fooled
He hits it squarely...
It is heading out to right-center
almost on a line...
Very well hit ball by Stan
Wilson is running after it...
He hopes to play it off the fence
He picks it up on the second bounce
He turns and gets it back into the infield
Gunner slides into second base
but it was not necessary
Two-bagger for the FOFC left fielder

Right down the middle... strike three
Hays must have been looking
for something else
He just froze on that pitch
That is the third out for FOFC here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 48008

He walked him, ball four
The lead-off batter gets on here
in the top of the 8th

There goes Robinson...
And it's ball four...
Robinson pulls up and walks into second

Flyball to right
it's caught
Robinson might have a chance to move up...
Robinson will hold at second base

Big slow curve... and it's in there
Strike three
FOFC ahead 6 to 1 with
two away this inning

Grounded towards the hole
Nice play by Treacy
He throws
and gets the force at second
Score It: 4-6
The runner on first, Cochrane, is out
That retires the side...
Hack Wilson fails to come
Through in the clutch
That's something you won't see very often

Treacy really smacks this one
He was waiting on the change
It's a gapper...
But hit high...
Wilson has a shot at it
He leaps for it at the fence...
OUT!!!
With one down

Robinson yells something out to Wynn
Early nods his head

Curve ball, just misses the corner
That'll be ball four and a walk
Wynn has issued 2 bases on balls
this evening

Blade a few feet off the bag at first
Wynn continues to hold the runner close

Strike three swinging!
And a quick peg to first by Cochrane
Blade dives back in...
SAFE!
The first base ump says Blade made it back
That's the second out of the inning

He lays off the pitch
Ball four, he walks
Sparky Anderson will be bringing
in a relief pitcher
Herb Pennock has been called
from the bullpen
A few warm up tosses and
we'll be set to go

Base hit to left for Pflaggstettler
Dick Howser is waving the runner home...
The throw is cut off...
And that allows the run to score

Low and inside
It hit him on the foot!
Potpie tried to dance out of the way
But it got him

Palmer drives the ball to
left for extra bases
Pflaggstettler and Tucker will score
Dick Howser is waving the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Potpie scores!
Double for Palmer

Gunner reaches out and pokes it
on the ground to right
Base hit for Gunner
FOFC adds to their lead
FOFC ahead 11 to 1

Bounced towards the hole
Nice play by Vaughan
THE LONG THROW . . .
HE GOT HIM!!!
Score It: 6-3
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
Time to check out the rest of the scores

AL Post WWII and Japanese
League are tied at 8
Caribbean clipping NL Pre WWII 7 to 3
NL Post WWII is in front of
Negro League II 5 to 2
Negro League I and AL Pre
WWII are tied at 5
Gehringer has hit his 4th
homerun for AL Pre WWII
Turn of Century is pounding
Old Timers 7 to 0
Dead Ball Era is in front
of Late 20th 7 to 4

Curveball, inside corner, low...
Swung on...
And lined to left for a base hit
No chance to get that one

Fastball, a dandy...
Steee Rike THREE!
And Goslin is punched out
One away in the top of the
9th for Left Outs

Base hit to right for Vaughan
Tony LaRussa puts up the stop sign...
Robinson will stay at second

We are going to have a pinch hitter
Willie McCovey will bat for Herb Pennock
It will be the lefthand hitting, McCovey
against the righty Rodney
McCovey is hitting righties
for a .167 average

Change up...
McCovey was way out in front...
Strike Three
Two gone for Left Outs
Time is running out for them
They need a touchdown!
FOFC is certainly in the catbird seat

Change of pace
Robinson is way out in front
STRIKE THREE swinging
Number 3 so far today for Rodney
And that will do it for Left Outs
FOFC wins 11 to 1
Williams gets credit for the win
Sutton takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Jeeberoni Potpie
He was 1 for 3 with a homerun
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.

[SirFozzie]

S.Fozborg 3 1 0 0 3 3 0 56 2.08

NICE.. glad to be providing some good innings

[Breeze]

GAME 19 - Saturday, April 21st - Boxscore


Leftovers AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG
J.Robinson 2B 3 1 1 0 .305 J.Nights SS 5 1 1 2 .322
M.Cochrane C 3 0 0 0 .243 A.Tucker CF 4 1 0 1 .288
H.Heilmann RF 3 0 0 0 .197 P.Pflaggstettler RF 3 2 1 1 .403
J.Foxx 3B 4 0 1 0 .375 J.Potpie 1B 3 2 1 2 .314
H.Wilson CF 4 0 0 0 .130 D.Palmer 3B 5 2 2 3 .343
F.Robinson 1B 4 0 1 0 .200 S.Gunner LF 5 0 2 1 .282
G.Goslin LF 4 0 0 0 .263 H.Hays C 4 1 1 0 .333
A.Vaughan SS 4 0 3 0 .323 S.Treacy 2B 3 0 1 0 .182
D.Sutton P 1 0 0 0 .200 J.Rodney P 0 0 0 0 ----
B-W.Stargell PH 1 0 0 0 .400 J.Williams P 1 1 0 0 .000
E.Wynn P 0 0 0 0 .000 A-K.Terp PH 0 0 0 1 .227
H.Pennock P 0 0 0 0 .000 S.Fozborg P 0 0 0 0 ----
D-W.McCovey PH 1 0 0 0 .154 C-B.Blade PH,2B 0 1 0 0 .239
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
Totals 32 1 6 0 Totals 33 11 9 11

A-Pinch Hit For Williams In 6th Inning
B-Pinch Hit For Sutton In 7th Inning
C-Pinch Hit For Fozborg In 8th Inning
D-Pinch Hit For Pennock In 9th Inning

INJURY: Early Wynn INJURED (for 0 more games) in 8th inning

Leftovers....... 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 - 1 6 1
All Stars....... 0 0 0 0 3 1 2 5 - 11 9 2

Leftovers IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
D.Sutton LOSS(1-2) 6 4 4 4 5 4 0 108 6.21
E.Wynn 1 2/3 2 4 4 3 2 1 38 6.88
H.Pennock 0 1/3 3 3 3 0 0 0 14 5.71
Totals 8 9 11 11 8 6 1

All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
J.Williams WIN(3-0) 6 3 1 0 1 2 0 80 2.25
S.Fozborg HOLD(1st) 2 1 0 0 2 1 0 32 1.69
J.Rodney 1 2 0 0 0 3 0 17 7.36
Totals 9 6 1 0 3 6 0

ATTENDANCE- 48,008 DATE- Saturday, April 21st 1900 TIME- Night
T- 1:52
LEFT ON BASE- Leftovers: 9 All Stars: 8
DOUBLE PLAYS- Leftovers: 0 All Stars: 2
ERRORS- G.Goslin, D.Palmer, S.Treacy
DOUBLES- J.Nights(5th), D.Palmer(4th), S.Gunner(3rd)
HOME RUNS- J.Potpie(6th)
SACRIFICE HITS- D.Sutton
WALKS- J.Robinson, M.Cochrane, H.Heilmann, A.Tucker, P.Pflaggstettler-2, H.Hays,
S.Treacy, J.Williams, K.Terp, B.Blade
HIT BY PITCH- J.Robinson, J.Potpie-2
STRIKE OUTS- J.Robinson, M.Cochrane, J.Foxx, G.Goslin-2, W.McCovey, J.Nights,
P.Pflaggstettler, D.Palmer, S.Gunner, H.Hays, J.Williams
GIDP- W.Stargell

[JeeberD]

Five in a row, bitches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

[Johnny93g]

nice win boys, loved the offense, lets keep it going

[Blade]

Great job, guys!

[Breeze]

GAME 20 - Sunday, April 22nd - Radio Broadcast

Robinson hits one on the ground
to the left side
Jackie, who moves well,
is motoring to first
Nights wings it quickly to Potpie...
OUT by a step
One down for Left Outs
Mickey Cochrane is still
in the on-deck circle
and Jimmie Foxx is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Hot line drive to second
Treacy jumps
He grabs it for the out
Score It: 4
Two down
Babson retires two in a row

Ball four is the call
Babson can't believe the call
And barks at the home plate umpire
The ump points out at Babson
Foxx takes first base

Fastball, up in the strike zone
Swung on...
It's a swinging bunt...
Nights charges in, barehands it
THROWS TO SECOND!...
OUT AT SECOND!
Score this one a force out
That's three outs here in
the top of the first
At the end of one half inning,
for Left Outs
No runs, no hits, no errors
and one man left on base
FOFC is coming to bat

High hard fastball, swung on...
It's a grounder hammered at second...
Robinson is there...
IT'S INTO RIGHT!!...
It took a HIGH hop right over him!
That's a single for Tucker

Hit and run...
Nights misses the pitch!
The steal attempt...
It's a pitchout!
Cochrane steps out...
Tucker takes off!
The peg...
Cochrane with a strong throw, but...
It ends up in center field
That's 7 stolen bases for Tucker this year
Give Cochrane an error on the throw

Dribbler to short
Tucker is coming home
Vaughan grabs it
Over to Stargell
Got him!
Score It: 6-3
One gone in the bottom of the 1st
Up next is Persimmon Pflaggstettler
He's having a fine year so far

There's a long drive...
Its' way back there...
Duke Snider is at the wall...
(Possible HR or Out
Fielding ability: Great,)
He's jumping for it...
He's got it!!!
What a great play by Snider!

It's a high fly ball into shallow right
Robinson runs in...
He calls for it...
Robinson yells "take it"
And Robinson puts it away
Potpie is retired on a lazy fly to right
The side is retired
One run, one hit and one error
Time for a break, just in
time, by the way as
I've just been handed a ballpark hotdog
As Humphrey Bogart once said
A hotdog at the ballpark is better than
steak at the Ritz

Fastball over the plate
Goslin swings and sends a shot
to deep right-center
Tucker and Pflaggstettler are
converging toward the fence
Pflaggstettler has a chance...
He goes up for it...
Man alive! He pulls it down!
Fantastic play by Persimmon
One gone for Left Outs

Swing and a miss
Struck him out
Number 32 on the season for Babson
That's the second out of the inning
Time to check the scoreboard

AL Post WWII slipping by
Japanese League 2 to 0
Caribbean is on top of NL Pre WWII 2 to 0
NL Post WWII leads Negro League II 1 to 0
Negro League I slipping
by AL Pre WWII 2 to 0
Turn of Century and Old Timers
have yet to score
Dead Ball Era and Late 20th are scoreless
And in our contest FOFC ahead 1 to 0

Stargell lifts a long fly ball...
Heading into right...
Hit pretty good, carrying very well...
Pflaggstettler heading back...
IT'S OUTTA HERE, A HOME RUN!

Vaughan slaps a hard grounder past second
Pflaggstettler is over to pick it up
He tosses it back to second
Vaughan will hold with a clean single

Base hit to right for Roberts
Vaughan is being held at
second by Tony LaRussa
Vaughan will stay at second

Fastball... just outside
And Robinson will take first on the walk
Everybody will move up a base...
Bases are waterlogged, with
Mickey Cochrane due up

The pitch is low
It bounces away from Bullock!
He's got it
But there's no throw.
It's scored a wild pitch.

Cochrane swings and lifts one toward left
Ton drifts over slowly...
He is under it now...
And makes the easy catch...
That retires the side... but not before
2 runs cross the plate for Left Outs
After 1 and a half innings,
Left Outs on top 2 to 1

There's a towering fly ball hit by Palmer
Robinson sprints over, and makes the catch
One up, one down

Bullock hits a fly ball to center
Duke Snider camps under it
He's got it
That's two away

Swung on and hit sharply to short
Vaughan plays it on one bounce
Over to Stargell...
Out of there!
The All Stars go down in order
It's the bottom of the 2nd

STRIKE THREE, CALLED!

Snider cuts on a curve that
misses in the dirt
That ball is trapped nicely by Bullock
Snider was badly fooled by Babson's
big breaking curve
STRIKE THREE!
Duke was a little overanxious
That's two up, two down

Comebacker, right to Babson
Over to Potpie for the easy out
That wraps up the inning for Left Outs
By the way, Left Outs is 4 and
6 in their last ten games

It's a routine fly into right
Robinson ranges over and reaches up
He grabs it for the out
One down for FOFC
Brian Babson is still in
the on-deck circle
and A. J. Tucker is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Babson swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Roberts strikes out Brian Babson
Two up, two down for the All Stars

It's a Texas Leaguer to left
Here comes Goslin...
He is really motoring...
He reaches down...
But catches it on one hop!
Tucker is on with a bloop single to left

Tucker is taking his lead from first
Tucker held closely by Roberts

Base hit to right for Nights
Dick Howser is waving Tucker to third...
The throw is cut off...
That holds Nights at first

He rips a grounder to short
Taken by Vaughan
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 6-3
The All Stars fail to capitalize
So for FOFC in the bottom of the 3rd, No
runs, 2 hits, no errors and 2 men left on base
d 2 men left on base

Robinson swings and hits
a high fly to right
It is right along the line...
Pflaggstettler is over at
the fence... reaches...
It's going to be close...
Just out of the reach of Pflaggstettler
Foul ball into the seats
He would have had a chance
in most other parks
Only a smidgen of foul ground
out there at FOFC Stadium
. . . Robinson back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Fly ball to right
Pflaggstettler is under it
He makes the grab
That's one away

Fastball, lined to right...
Base hit for Stargell...
Pflaggstettler over...Grabs
it on the big hop...
Fires it back in...
Holding Stargell at first

It's a rocket over second
Treacy leaps
He's got it!
Quickly over to first
Double play!
That wraps up the inning for Left Outs
So After 3 and a half innings
Left Outs has 2 runs, 4 hits and one error
While FOFC has one run,
3 hits and no errors
Left Outs has left 3 stranded
FOFC has failed to bring home 2

Potpie really smacks this one
He was waiting on the change
At the fence...
Snider can't get this one
It's gone, just over the fence!
Potpie has just tied the game at 2 a piece

Slow ground ball
Vaughan is charging it
He fires it to first
He's OUT
One down, nobody on
Game tied

Sharp breaking curveball...
Bullock reaches for it...
Hits a two bouncer right to Vaughan...
Grabs it easily...
Fires a bullet to Stargell at first!
Bullock is out easily
Two down
Cochrane asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Cochrane and Roberts

Sinking fastball...
Ton swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Foxx...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
FOFC is retired...
But they come up with 1 run to tie it
After 4 innings,
it's all even at 2

Roberts takes the pitch...
That one is low for a ball... WAIT
The umpire says that one caught the knees
Roberts is out on strikes
One down for Left Outs
Jackie Robinson is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to the
plate for Left Outs

Robinson swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Babson strikes out Jackie Robinson
We're all tied up at 2 with two away
Let's check some other scores as well

Japanese League leads AL Post WWII 3 to 2
Nomura has hit his 3rd homerun
for Japanese League
Caribbean is in front of
NL Pre WWII 5 to 2
Mendez comfortably ahead for Caribbean
NL Post WWII toppling Negro
League II 7 to 0
Bench has hit his 1st homerun
for NL Post WWII
Negro League I leads AL Pre WWII 3 to 2
Turn of Century is edging
Old Timers 2 to 1
Dead Ball Era is edging Late 20th 1 to 0

Grounded towards first
Potpie grabs it
IT'S A RACE TO THE BAG
SAFE!

Foxx swings hard...
Nobody is going to get this one...
Yes sir! Foxx will have himself a single
And he extends his hitting streak
to 12 games!
1 for 2 on the afternoon
Cochrane takes third

Off speed pitch on the way...
And Snider watches it go by
for the third strike
That retires the side...
Duke Snider fails to come
Through in the clutch
That's something you won't see very often

It is a slow change...
Treacy's not at all fooled
He hits it squarely...
It is heading out to right-center
almost on a line...
Very well hit ball by Sean
Snider is running after it...
He hopes to play it off the fence
He picks it up on the second bounce
He turns and gets it back into the infield
Treacy slides into second base
but it was not necessary
Two-bagger for the FOFC second baseman

It's a shallow fly by Babson
Snider runs in, calls for it
He makes the catch with
a snap of his glove
Babson is out
That is one down now for FOFC
in the bottom of the 5th
Sparky Anderson takes a
trip to the mound...
A few words are exchanged between
Cochrane and Robin Roberts
Vaughan and Robinson join them
Probably going over the signs
Treacy is on second base...
with a good eye
They don't want to let the
All Stars gain any advantage

Paaahhhhhpped it up.......
Vaughan makes the easy catch!
The score is knotted at 2 with
two away this inning

Grounded down the line
Foxx grabs it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 5-3
That does it for FOFC in the 5th
They leave 1 on base
3 stranded so far today

And Goslin will sit down...
strike three called
One up, one down for Left Outs

Hot line drive to short
Nights makes a great catch!
Score It: 6
Two up, two down for Left Outs

A slider by Babson
Stargell gets good wood on it...
Tucker back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
And that will do it for Left Outs

Grounded down the line
Taken by Foxx
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 5-3
FOFC with one away
Roberts steps off the mound as
he waits for Jeeberoni Potpie to
come to the plate

It's grounded past the mound
Robinson races to his right
Vaughan to his left
Vaughan scoops it up
Throws on one bounce to Stargell...
Jeeberoni beats it out!

Back door breaking ball...
And it's in there...
Palmer looks at strike three
Two down for FOFC in the bottom of the 6th
The score is tied at 2

Base hit to right for Bullock
Potpie is racing towards third...
The throw is cut off...
That holds Bullock at first

He is way out in front
STRIKE THREE swinging
Roberts had him fishing
as he pulled the string on that pitch
That's it for FOFC
FOFC has 2 runs, 7 hits and no errors
While Left Outs has 2 runs,
6 hits and one error
FOFC has now left 4 runners stranded

Smashed on the ground...
It's through the infield for a hit!
Pflaggstettler is chasing it into
the corner in right field
It's in there for extra bases!
Vaughan is tearing around second...
He's digging for third!
He slides...
SAFE AT THIRD!
Vaughan stretched it into a triple
with some dazzling speed on the bases

We are going to have a pinch hitter
Harry Heilmann will bat for Robin Roberts
It will be the righthand hitting, Heilmann
against the righty Babson
Heilmann is hitting righties
for a .182 average

Heilmann squares around
He bunts the ball . . .
It's popped up...
Caught by J.Potpie
a poor bunt by Heilmann
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

Japanese League is edging
AL Post WWII 3 to 2
Caribbean is in front of
NL Pre WWII 5 to 2
NL Post WWII toppling Negro
League II 7 to 0
Gibson enjoying the big NL Post WWII lead
Negro League I is on top
of AL Pre WWII 4 to 2
Leonard has hit his 4th homerun
for Negro League I
Turn of Century is edging
Old Timers 4 to 3
Dead Ball Era is in front
of Late 20th 3 to 0
And here in FOFC The score is knotted at 2

The squeeze play is on!
It's hit a little hard
Potpie is up with it...
Fires home
Vaughan barrels into Bullock!
HE HOLDS ON TO THE BALL!
OUT
And there's two away

Robinson takes a walking lead
Robinson has stolen 3 bases
in 4 attempts in 1900
Babson throws over to first...
He puts nothin' on it...
Just a bluff...
Now he is set again...
Spins and fires one to first...
The tag...
SAFE!

Time is called by the umpire!
Babson is a little upset
He's been called for a balk!
The runner Robinson is
waved to second base

And Cochrane will sit down...
strike three called
That's all for Left Outs
in the top of the 7th...
After 6 and a half innings,
the score is tied, 2-all

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!
Early Wynn will be coming on
to pitch for Left Outs
Early has appeared in 9 games this season
with a record of 0-3
In 17 innings, he has an 6.88 ERA
Robin Roberts has finished his work
here this afternoon

What a pitch... strike three
Wynn put that one on the
black, a perfect pitch
And there's one away

Gunner swings and hits one down the line
It'll be in there for extra bases
The ball is kicking around in the corner
Gunner is heading for second
The ball comes in...
A whistling two-bagger for Stan Gunner

Base hit to left for Tucker
Dick Howser is waving the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Aggressive baserunning by FOFC...
Not cut-off...
Gunner scores!
Trailing runner advances.

Swung on and hit right at short
Arky Vaughan up with it...
Looks Tucker back to second
Then fires it to Stargell for the out
Two down

Looks like Pflaggstettler will
be given a free pass here
And he is... that's four wide ones
Jeeberoni Potpie is the batter due up next

Drilled deep to left field
This one is deep!
GOOD-BYE MR. SPALDING!
That is Jeeberoni Potpie's 8th
home run of the year.

Palmer fights one off his fists
It's lined weakly to the left of short
Vaughan is over quickly
Easy out
That is the third out for FOFC here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 45443

Foxx skies one very high
The ball drifts a bit
Bullock calls for it
Puts it away!

Off speed pitch on the way...
And Snider watches it go by
for the third strike
Snider stood there like a bump on a log
3 strike outs for Snider today
Two away for Left Outs
They trail FOFC by 4
They have only 4 outs to score 4 runs
Never a good sign when
those two numbers are equal

Goslin swings...
Hits the fastball on the ground...
Down the line at first...
Potpie trying to backhand it...
Can't get a glove on it
It's into right field for a hit

Robinson swings and misses
Strike three
Robinson didn't have a good
cut at that pitch
And that will do it for Left Outs

Billy Bullock offers at the curveball,
but checks his swing
Oh, Bullock couldn't get
the bat out of the way
It's a soft line drive to Arky
Vaughan for the out
Bullock never even left the batter's box
With one down

Stargell yells something out to Wynn
Early nods his head

Screaming liner towards short
Vaughan makes a nice play on it
Score It: 6
Two up, two down for the All Stars
We're in the bottom of the 8th

Sharp slider, catches the outside corner
Treacy swings at it...
Hammers a hard grounder right at third
Picked up smoothly...
Throw to first...
IT'S OFF THE BAG!!...
Stargell grabs it, turns back to the bag
NOT IN TIME!
Treacy is SAFE!
That'll be an error on that play
Score It: E5
Treacy to first

Treacy extends his lead towards second
Wynn holds the runner

The ball is low and outside
Did he go around?
The umpire says no
Ball four
For Gunner, that's 1 walk today

Hit in the air to left
Camped under it is Goslin
And he has it
After 8 innings
FOFC ahead 6 to 2

Knowles misses low on that one
Stargell draws the walk
Number 1 today by Knowles

Lifted in the air, back this way
The catcher, Bullock, will
take it for the out
FOFC gets the first out of the inning

Sparky Anderson will send
up a pinch hitter
Chick Hafey steps out of the dugout!
He will be up there against Knowles

Knowles' pitch is a rising fastball
Hafey tries to hold up
Ball four
Bullock points down to first
He did not go around

A slider by Knowles
Robinson gets good wood on it...
Tucker back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Just out of his reach...!
A. J. runs it down...
throws it back in to the cut-off man
All runners advace two on that one
Robinson is standing on second

We are going to have a pinch hitter
Hack Wilson will bat for Mickey Cochrane
It will be the righthand hitting, Wilson
against the lefty Knowles
Wilson is hitting southpaws
for a .188 average

Wilson rips a scorcher towards
the third base side
Palmer dives to his right
Takes it on one hop
He's up...
Fires to first
Potpie scoops it out of the dirt
OUT!
Nice play
Two down
Due up next is Jimmie Foxx
Let's see what happens now

Looks like Foxx will be given
a free pass here
And he is... That's four wide ones
That'll set up a force at any base
and bring Duke Snider up to the plate

Srike three!
Well that is 4 on the afternoon for Snider
He earns himself a silver sombrero!
And that will do it for Left Outs
FOFC wins 6 to 3
Babson gets credit for the win
Kronside notches the save
Wynn takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Jeeberoni Potpie
He was 3 for 4 with 2 homeruns!
He also knocked in 4 runs
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.

[Breeze]

GAME 20 - Sunday, April 22nd - Boxscore


Leftovers AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG
J.Robinson 2B 4 0 1 1 .302 A.Tucker CF 5 2 3 1 .308
M.Cochrane C 4 0 1 0 .244 J.Nights SS 4 0 1 1 .317
D-H.Wilson PH 1 0 0 0 .125 P.Pflaggstettler RF 3 1 0 0 .386
J.Foxx 3B 3 0 1 0 .373 B.Knowles P 0 0 0 0 ----
D.Snider CF 5 0 0 0 .270 J.Kronside P 0 0 0 0 ----
G.Goslin LF 4 0 1 0 .263 J.Potpie 1B 4 2 3 4 .345
F.Robinson RF 4 0 0 0 .179 D.Palmer 3B 4 0 0 0 .308
W.Stargell 1B 3 2 2 1 .462 B.Bullock C 4 0 1 0 .333
A.Vaughan SS 4 1 2 0 .333 K.Ton LF 4 0 0 0 .120
R.Roberts P 2 0 1 0 .250 S.Treacy 2B 4 0 1 0 .200
A-H.Heilmann PH 1 0 0 0 .194 B.Babson P 2 0 0 0 .091
E.Wynn P 0 0 0 0 .000 B-S.Gunner PH,RF 1 1 1 0 .300
C-C.Hafey PH 0 0 0 0 .000
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
Totals 35 3 9 2 Totals 35 6 10 6

A-Pinch Hit For Roberts In 7th Inning
B-Pinch Hit For Babson In 7th Inning
C-Pinch Hit For Wynn In 9th Inning
D-Pinch Hit For Cochrane In 9th Inning

Leftovers....... 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 3 9 2
All Stars....... 1 0 0 1 0 0 4 0 - 6 10 0

Leftovers IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
R.Roberts 6 7 2 1 0 3 1 104 4.02
E.Wynn LOSS(0-4) 2 3 4 4 2 1 1 48 8.05
Totals 8 10 6 5 2 4 2

All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
B.Babson WIN(4-0) 7 7 2 2 2 8 1 111 2.13
B.Knowles 1 1/3 2 1 1 2 2 0 34 4.15
J.Kronside SAVE(3rd) 0 2/3 0 0 0 1 1 0 5 0.00
Totals 9 9 3 3 5 11 1

ATTENDANCE- 45,443 DATE- Sunday, April 22nd 1900 TIME- Day
T- 1:56
LEFT ON BASE- Leftovers:10 All Stars: 7
DOUBLE PLAYS- Leftovers: 0 All Stars: 1
ERRORS- M.Cochrane, J.Foxx
DOUBLES- J.Robinson(5th), S.Treacy(1st), S.Gunner(4th)
TRIPLES- A.Vaughan(2nd)
HOME RUNS- W.Stargell(3rd), J.Potpie-2(8th)
STOLEN BASES- A.Tucker(7th)
WALKS- J.Robinson, J.Foxx-2, W.Stargell, C.Hafey, P.Pflaggstettler, S.Gunner
STRIKE OUTS- J.Robinson, M.Cochrane, J.Foxx, D.Snider-4, G.Goslin, F.Robinson-2,
R.Roberts, D.Palmer, K.Ton, S.Treacy, B.Babson
BALKS- B.Babson
WILD PITCHES- B.Babson
WEB GEMS- Bot 1st: Duke Snider robbed Persimmon Pflaggstettler of a Homerun!

[tucker342]

There we go, much better!:)

[Breeze]

FOFC Manager Update

Having survived the short run of poor pitching and seeing our record at 18 and 2, I decide I'm safe to resume reading the daily paper.

[Breeze]

The National Herald - Monday, April 23rd

SPORTS



TEAM WON LOST BATTING AVERAGE HOME RUNS RUNS BATTED IN
2001 NLO 13 8 N.Lajoie TCH .451 B.Ruth A1H 9 R.Clement N2H 21
2001 L20 10 11 D.Brouthe OTH .442 J.Foxx LOH 9 P.Traynor N1H 21
2001 DBH 9 12 T.Cobb DBH .411 J.Potpie FAS 8 P.Cepeda CAP 20
2001 A1H 8 11 R.Clement N2H .410 M.Ott N1H 7 J.Beckley TCH 20
2001 OTH 7 11 B.Hamilto OTH .403 OTHERS TIED W 6 OTHERS TIED W 19
2001 A2H 6 12
2002 JLP 5 14 WINS SAVES ERA
B.Babson FAS 4 W.McDonal NLO 4 V.Mathis NLT 1.76
1000 FAS 18 2 J.Maricha N2H 4 S.Knowles FAS 4 P.Martine L20 2.10
2001 N1H 14 5 C.Young TCH 4 G.Gossage L20 4 P.Galvin OTH 2.10
2001 TCH 13 8 OTHERS TIED W 3 OTHERS TIED W 3 B.Babson FAS 2.13
2001 N2H 13 8 J.William FAS 2.25
2001 LOH 9 12
2001 CAP 8 12 CUR HIT STREAK STOLEN BASES STRIKEOUTS
2001 NLT 7 14 G.Sisler DBH 18 H.Duffy TCH 13 R.Clemens L20 40
J.Foxx LOH 12 C.Bell NLO 11 B.Babson FAS 39
B.Bullock FAS 10 S.Poles NLT 9 R.Johnson L20 38
J.Kelley TCH 10 P.Mesa CAP 8 L.Tiant S CAP 32
OTHERS TIED W 8 OTHERS TIED W 7 R.Nielsen FAS 32

YESTERDAY'S GAMES TODAY'S SCHEDULE AND PROBABLE STARTERS
N1H 2 at CAP 5 N1H-Alexand(2-1, 3.09) at CAP-Cuellar(1-2, 4.05)
N2H 8 at NLT 4 N2H-Seaver(1-0, 7.71) at NLT-Mathis(2-0, 1.76)
DBH 3 at L20 2 DBH-Plank(1-3, 8.87) at L20-Clemens(3-0, 2.52)
LOH 3 at FAS 6 LOH-Jenkins(2-2, 5.02) at FAS-Nielsen(2-0, 3.07)
NLO 7 at A1H 5 NLO-Smith(3-0, 2.90) at A1H-Gomez(0-3, 5.53)
A2H 3 at JLP 5 A2H-Feller(1-4, 4.83) at JLP-Sugishi(0-1, 3.12)
TCH 4 at OTH 5

YESTERDAY'S BEST PERFORMANCES
BATTER TM OPP AB R H RB BB Ks HR SB
J.Potpie FAS LOH 4 2 3 4 0 0 2 0
K.Nomura JLP A2H 4 2 2 5 0 0 2 0
E.Mathews N2H NLT 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 0
B.Williams N2H NLT 4 1 2 4 1 0 1 0
M.Mantle A2H JLP 3 1 2 3 1 0 1 0

PITCHER TM OPP INN H R ER BB Ks HR WLS
W.Johnson DBH L20 8.1 2 2 2 4 4 0 W
J.Mendez CAP N1H 9.0 7 2 2 2 7 0 W
C.Hunter A2H JLP 3.0 1 0 0 0 2 0
B.Babson FAS LOH 7.0 7 2 2 2 8 1 W
B.Foster NLO A1H 1.1 1 0 0 2 3 0 W

INJURY REPORT
M.Dihigo, Negro League I - 13 more games
C.Torriente, Negro League I - 15 more games
W.Brown, Negro League II - 5 more games
B.Herman, Left Outs - 5 more games
B.Lemon, Left Outs - 13 more games
H.Aaron, NL Post WWII - 1 more games
E.Rixey, NL Pre WWII - 15 more games
G.Maddux, Late 20th - 6 more games
J.Smoltz, Late 20th - 14 more games



NL PRE WWII AT CARIBBEAN
Pre-Nationals... 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 - 2 7 0
Estrellas....... 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 - 5 7 0
Win:Mendez(1-2) Loss:Rixey(3-1)

Jose Mendez was able to finish what he started and was credited with a
complete game as the Caribbean Estrellas beat the NL Pre WWII team by a score
of 5 to 2.

Mendez(1-2) was very good in the win. He didn't allow much, just 7 hits and 2
walks in 9 innings seeing his ERA drop from 4.61 to 3.96. Both teams totaled
7 on the afternoon.

Eppa Rixey(3-1) was tagged with the loss. He gave up 6 hits and 2 walks in 5
and 1/3 innings.

NL POST WWII AT NEGRO LEAGUE II
Post-Nationals.. 0 1 2 0 4 0 0 0 1 - 8 15 0
Twos............ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 - 4 11 0
Win:Gibson(2-1) Loss:Wickware(1-3)
Homeruns- E.Mathews(5th), B.Williams(1st), J.Bench(1st), J.Wilson(3rd)

Left fielder Billy Williams connected with a 'big fly' and had 4 RBI at
Shadowball Stadium where the NL Post WWII club beat the Negro League II Twos
8 to 4.

Negro League II was unable to recover after NL Post WWII went ahead in the 2nd
inning scoring one runner using 2 hits. NL Post WWII out-hit Negro League II
for the game, 15 hits to 11.

Bob Gibson(2-1) went 8 and 1/3 innings allowing 4 runs for the win. Frank
Wickware(1-3) was the loser. He was touched for 3 homeruns in his 4 and 1/3
innings of work.

This win by NL Post WWII continues their recent hot streak. In their last ten
games, they have a record of 8-2. For the season, they are 13-8. With the
loss, Negro League II has a record of 4-6 lately, 7-14, worst in the division
overall.

DEAD BALL ERA AT LATE 20TH
Ghosts.......... 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 - 3 6 0
Modern Stars.... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 - 2 3 0
Win:Johnson(3-2) Loss:Martinez(0-1) Save:Brown(2nd)
Homeruns- G.Sisler(1st)

Walter Johnson carried a no-hitter into the 8th inning and George Sisler
cracked a homer as the Dead Ball Era Ghosts defeated the Late 20th Modern
Stars 3 to 2 at Free Agent Field.

Johnson(3-2) contributed a very nicely pitched game. He gave up just 2 hits
and 4 walks in 8 and 1/3 innings. The right-handed Johnson lost his no-hit
bid when Cal Ripken singled with nobody out in the 8th inning. Late 20th
threatened in the 9th but their rally came up short.

Johnson got relief help from Three Finger Brown who gained credit for his 2nd
save. Pedro Martinez(0-1) took the loss. 'It was a tough one to lose' said
Bobby Cox 'We'll get them next time out.'

NEGRO LEAGUE I AT AL PRE WWII
Ones............ 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 - 7 12 0
Pre-Americans... 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 - 5 12 1
Win:Foster(2-1) Loss:Coveleski(0-2) Save:Day(1st)
Homeruns- B.Leonard(4th), T.Stearnes(6th)

Turkey Stearnes slammed a homerun and had 3 RBI at Glory Stadium where the
Negro League I Ones beat the AL Pre WWII ballclub in 11 innings by the score
of 7 to 5.

Both teams were tied at 5 runs apiece after nine innings. Negro League I came
out on top in the 11th inning. Cool Papa Bell opened up the inning nicely
when he doubled. Two outs later Stearnes came to the plate and bombed a
two-run dinger (his 6th of the season). Negro League I and AL Pre WWII each
finished the afternoon with 12 hits.

The win was credited to Bill Foster(2-1) who went 1 and 1/3 innings allowing
no runs. Foster was helped out by Leon Day who recorded his 1st save. Stan
Coveleski(0-2) absorbed the loss in relief.


AL POST WWII AT JAPANESE LEAGUE
Post-Americans.. 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 - 3 10 0
HOF Players..... 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 2 - 5 7 1
Win:Bessho(1-2) Loss:Wilhelm(0-1)
Homeruns- M.Mantle(5th), K.Nomura-2(4th)

Katsuya Nomura smashed 2 homeruns and had 5 RBI and Takehiko Bessho tossed a
complete game as the Japanese League HOF Players defeated the AL Post WWII
club by the score of 5 to 3 at Nintendo Field.

Nomura helped send the fans home happy. He lost the ball over the fence for
three runs in the 3rd inning and cracked a two-run shot (his 4th of the
season) in the 8th inning. Japanese League won despite being out-hit by AL
Post WWII 10 hits to 7.

The victory went to Bessho(1-2) who went the distance allowing 3 runs. Hoyt
Wilhelm(0-1) suffered the loss in relief.


TURN OF CENTURY AT OLD TIMERS
Centurions...... 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 - 4 12 1
Ancients........ 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 - 5 11 3
Win:Galvin(2-1) Loss:Willis(1-1)

Billy Hamilton had 2 base hits at Cow Pasture Field as the Old Timers Ancients
beat the Turn of Century Centurions in 11 innings by the count of 5 to
4.

The score was knotted at 4 after nine innings. Old Timers won the game in the
11th inning. George Davis hit a single. After another out, Pud Galvin
stepped in and he laid down a sacrifice bunt. Hamilton then was walked
intentionally. John Ward was up next and he delivered a base-hit resulting
in an exciting win for Old Timers and a raucous post-game celebration by the
home town fans. Old Timers managed 11 in their victory.

Galvin(2-1) got credit for the victory, pitching 2 innings and allowing no
runs. Vic Willis(1-1) was hit with the loss in relief.


LEFT OUTS AT FOFC
Leftovers....... 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 3 9 2
All Stars....... 1 0 0 1 0 0 4 0 - 6 10 0
Win:Babson(4-0) Loss:Wynn(0-4) Save:Kronside(3rd)
Homeruns- W.Stargell(3rd), J.Potpie-2(8th)

Jeeberoni Potpie slammed 2 homeruns and had 4 RBI as the FOFC All Stars
defeated the Left Outs Leftovers by a score of 6 to 3 at FOFC
Stadium.

Potpie had a good day at the plate. He delivered a solo blast in the 4th
inning, laced a base-hit in the 6th inning and belted a three-run homer (his
8th of the season) in the 7th inning. FOFC had a total of 10 hits for the
game.

The winning pitcher was Brian Babson(4-0) who allowed 2 runs in 7 innings.
Jace Kronside recorded his 3rd save. Early Wynn(0-4) was charged with the
loss in relief. He was not very effective, surrendering 4 runs in 2 innings.



NOTE: The website has been updated.

[JeeberD]

Does the newspaper man not realize that I've hit dingers in SIX consecutive games? That's gotta be a DL record...

[Breeze]

GAME 21 - Monday, April 23rd - Radio Broadcast

Robinson rips one to center
He hit it right on the nose...
Tucker is off to the races...
He is coming fast...
He dives...

OUT!
Nice play by A. J. Tucker
One down for Left Outs
Mickey Cochrane is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to the
plate for Left Outs

Cochrane swings and lifts
one toward center
Tucker drifts over slowly...
He is under it now...
And makes the easy catch...
That is the second out here
in the top of the 1st
Nights comes in to kibitz with Nielsen
While we have a moment,
let me set the outfield distances for you
It's 318 feet down the line in left
399 feet to left-center
408 feet to straight-away center field
Then over in right-center
it's 385 feet from home plate
and 314 feet to the right field foul pole

Heilmann lines one over short for a single
He rounds the bag hard and
starts for second
Oh, look at that throw by Stan Gunner
Heilmann scrambles back to first and holds

There's a high pop fly to the outfield
A. J. Tucker moves to his left
He makes the catch
Wait, he bobbles it!
Tucker grabs it with his
bare hand for the out
After one-half inning
It's Left Outs nothing, the
All Stars coming up

Tucker rips one to right
He hit it right on the nose...
Heilmann is off to the races...
He is coming fast...
He dives...

OUT!
Nice play by Harry Heilmann
One up, one down

He misses outside
Ball four

Pflaggstettler sends a scorcher to short
Vaughan takes it on one hop
Fires to Robinson for one
Back to Robinson for the double play!

In the dirt
That's ball four

Fastball, a dandy...
Steee Rike THREE swinging!
Frank looked like Casey on that pitch
Went for the HIGH CHEESE!
That's one away

Bouncer up the middle and
past Jeff Nights...
Base hit into center field!
Third base coach Tony LaRussa
holds the runner, Wilson

Nubber to first
Potpie trots to the bag
Score It: 3
One more chance for Left Outs
in the top of the 2nd

Bouncer to short
Nights grabs it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 6-3
And that's the final out of the inning
FOFC has no runs, no hits and no errors
While Left Outs has no runs,
2 hits and no errors
Left Outs has left 3 men on base today

It's a wicked breaking ball
Out of the strike zone
Potpie checks his swing
Cochrane appeals to the first base umpire
Take a seat, Jeeberoni
FOFC with one away
Jenkins steps off the mound as
he waits for Deacon Palmer to
come to the plate

Sinking fastball...
Palmer swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Vaughan...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
Two down

It hits Gunner on the elbow
Gunner throws the bat away
and sprints to first base

There's a long drive...
Its' way back there...
Goose Goslin is at the wall...
(Possible HR or Out
Fielding ability: Good,)
He's jumping for it...
He's got it!!!
What a great play by Goslin!

Robinson hits a screamer at Jeff Nights
Nights takes it with the backhand...
The throw is short...
Potpie scoops it on one hop

Robinson is out!
Nice play by Potpie
One up, one down here in
the top of the 3rd

Swung on...and it's in the
air to the left side
Backing just a bit is Gunner
And he pulls it in
And there's two away

Heilmann swings at the change-up...
Pounds it good!...
It's going into deep left
Gunner is racing back...
He's at the fence...
But he might as well wave that one goodbye
It's gone!
Quite a shot by Heilmann
Traveling about 425 feet
That's home run number 5 for him
He also has 13 RBI's now

It's popped behind home plate
Hays throws down his mask
He's running back
At the screen...
The wind blows it right into the screen
. . . Foxx back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Foxx tries to hold up
Hays points down at the first base umpire
The ump says he went around
STRIKE THREE!
That's all for Left Outs
After 2 and a half innings
in FOFC this afternoon,
Left Outs ahead 1 to 0

Fly ball to right
Heilmann is under it
He makes the grab
And there's one away

Smashed to the mound
Jenkins grabs it
Over to Robinson
Got him!
Score It: 1-3
Two gone for FOFC

Baltimore chop
Into right for a single!

Tucker takes a walking lead
Tucker has stolen 7 bases
in 8 attempts in 1900
Tucker held closely by Jenkins

Changeup...
Ties Nights up in knots
An awkward swinging strike three!
So that's it for FOFC
They fail to score against Jenkins
In the bottom of the 3rd for FOFC
No runs, one hit, no errors
and one man left on base

Wilson swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Nielsen strikes out Hack Wilson
That's the first out of the inning
Two more to go

There's a ground ball into the hole
Palmer and Nights converge on it
It's picked by Palmer who fires to first
OUT is the call
Close play!!
That's the second out of the inning

Right down the middle... strike three
Goslin must have been looking
for something else
He just froze on that pitch
That's it for Left Outs
Here at FOFC Stadium, After
3 and a half innings,
Left Outs has one run,
3 hits and no errors
While FOFC has no runs,
one hit and no errors
Left Outs has left 3 on base
FOFC has stranded 2

It's wide... he missed with a slider
Pflaggstettler will stroll down to first
He continues to get on
base with regularity
He has a .452 OBP this year

Smashed to third
Foxx comes up with it
Throw to second for one
To first
Not in time!
Score It: 5-4
The runner on first, Pflaggstettler,
is out
One down for FOFC
Deacon Palmer is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to
the plate for FOFC

Swung on and missed by Palmer,
he's down on strikes
Two gone here in the bottom of the 4th
We want to welcome the FOFC
"Sportsman Club"
to the game today
We hope you enjoy your
trip to the ballpark

Swung on...and it's in the
air to the left side
Backing just a bit is Goslin
And he pulls it in
That's all for the All Stars
After 4 innings in FOFC this afternoon,
Left Outs on top 1 to 0

Shallow fly ball
Pflaggstettler charging
HE DIVES...
HE CAN'T GET IT!
Vaughan stops at first
That's a single

Jenkins fouls off the bunt attempt
The count goes to 1 and 2, we'll have
to see if they keep the bunt play on
Jenkins squares
He bunts it . . .
It's popped up...
Caught by R.Nielsen
He throws trying to double
off the runner...
Safe, but it was close!
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

AL Post WWII leads Japanese League 4 to 3
Doby has hit his 1st homerun
for AL Post WWII
Caribbean is in front of
NL Pre WWII 3 to 0
Cuellar comfortably ahead for Caribbean

Nielsen's pitch is a rising fastball
Robinson tries to hold up
Ball four
Hays points down to first
He did not go around

Nielsen loses him
Cochrane heads down to first
Robinson and Vaughan move up a base
Bases are waterlogged

Screaming liner towards second
Treacy makes a nice play on it
Score It: 4
Two down
Jimmie Foxx is due up next

Hanging curve...
Swung on...
Foxx turned that one around
in a BIG WAY...
Forget it, that one is long
gone... a home run
Gunner didn't even move

Swing and a miss
Struck him out
Number 37 on the season for Nielsen
The All Stars finally get the side out
But the damage has been done...
4 runs cross the plate for the Leftovers
After 4 and a half innings,
Left Outs ahead 5 to 0

Grounded towards the sack
Taken by Foxx
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 5-3
Left Outs gets the first out of the inning

Right down the middle... strike three
Treacy must have been looking
for something else
He just froze on that pitch
That's two away

Grounded towards first
Robinson grabs it
IT'S A RACE TO THE BAG
OUT!
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
By the way, FOFC is 9 and 1
in their last ten games

Robinson hits a hot shot on the ground
Nights, a diving stop
Long throw...
He's out!
OH! A sensational play!
That brings this crowd roaring to its feet
Jeff Nights made a diving
stop to his right
followed by a perfect throw to
get the speedy Robinson
And Frank Robinson has been
robbed of a base hit
What a remarkable effort by Nights
One down for Left Outs
Goose Goslin is still in
the on-deck circle
and Arky Vaughan is looking
for a bat in the dugout

It busts inside on Goslin
And he can't get out of the way
He was hit by the pitch!
Goslin gets up and brushes himself off
He is staring out at Fozborg
Goslin walks slowly to first base

There's a ground ball into the hole
Palmer and Nights converge on it
It's picked by Palmer who fires to first
SAFE is the call by the ump
Close play!!

Jenkins squares
He bunts at it . . .
It's popped up...
Caught by D.Palmer
He throws trying to double
off the runner...
Safe, but it was close!
With two gone, Left Outs on top
5 to 0 in the top of the 6th

Swung on and popped up
Hays grabs it for the out
Score It: 2
That's all she wrote for this inning
Left Outs has 5 runs, 6 hits and no errors
While FOFC has no runs,
one hit and no errors
Left Outs has left 5 baserunners
stranded today

Fastball, belt high...
Swung on...
Tucker drills a drive down the line
Goose Goslin racing towards the line...
Dives for it, but can't make the play
He does knock it down...
He recovers quickly, tossing the ball in
Vaughan has it
as Tucker coasts into second
base with a double
Almost a great snag by Goslin

Waist high fastball... juiced
to deep center
There goes Wilson
Racing hard...
He dives...
Just misses it!
A two bagger for Jeff Nights

Curve, at the belt...
Pflaggstettler times his swing...
Hammers a long fly ball...
Goose Goslin retreats toward the fence
He leaps...

It's gone, put that one on the board
A home run!!

Pounded on the ground to first
Robinson to Jenkins covering first
Score It: 3-1
One out
Due up next is Deacon Palmer

Palmer swings and hits one down the line
It'll be in there for extra bases
Heilmann plays it off the wall on a hop
Palmer is heading for second
Heilmann turns and fires
Palmer slides head first...
and beats the throw
A whistling two-bagger for Deacon Palmer

Gunner just gets a piece of it
He 'nubs' it to second
Robinson races in quickly...
Barehands it...
Over to first
Just in time!
The runner moves up easily...
Here's the ump coming out
To brush the plate clean
There's two away

A hard drive down the line
Heilmann trying to track it down
He can't get to it
Hays running hard out of the box
Heilmann has the ball
Hays digging for 2nd
He's slides in, Safe!
Palmer scores from third!

Treacy jack-knifes out of the way
But it's in there!
Treacy was really fooled
on that strike three
The side is retired
4 runs, 5 hits, no errors and
one man left on base
Time for a break, just in
time, by the way as
I've just been handed a ballpark hotdog
As Humphrey Bogart once said
A hotdog at the ballpark is better than
steak at the Ritz

Cochrane hits a deep fly to right-center
Tucker is at the warning track
He stumbles a little...
Rights himself
He won't get this one...
it's off the fence
Two-bagger for Mickey Cochrane

Base hit to left for Heilmann
Tony LaRussa won't risk sending
the runner home...
Runner holds.

Sinker over the inside corner
Ripped at...
Foxx manages a grounder to Palmer...
No problem with the hop...
The throw...
Wide of the bag at first
The ball caroms into right field
Pflaggstettler runs it down
Foxx jogs into second
Give Palmer a a two base throwing error
Score It: E5
Cochrane scores from third!
Heilmann takes third
Foxx to second

Groundball to third
Tony LaRussa won't risk sending
the runner home...
Wilson is retired on the groundout

Slider, hit to deep left-center...
Tucker won't catch that one...
That will plate a pair...
Tucker retrieves the ball, throws it in
Frank coasts into secondbase
Give him a double and two ribbies

Fastball
OUCH! It hit Goslin!

A slider by Fozborg
Vaughan gets good wood on it...
Tucker back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
With that putout
Fozborg only needs one more out
to get out of this inning
But 3 runs already across for Left Outs

STRIKE THREE!
He swung on a ball that was in the dirt
Jenkins was overanxious up there
That was almost a wild pitch
That ends the top of the 7th
3 runs, 3 hits, one error
and 2 men left on base
After 6 and a half innings,
Left Outs leads by 4

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

Hard high fastball
Terp slams a one hopper down the line
Robinson grabs it behind the bag
He waves off Jenkins
He easily beats Terp by several steps
So one up and one gone

Base hit to center for Tucker
Hack Wilson is trying to get to it
This might be stretched into a double!
No... he decides to hold up

Lined hard to short
Vaughan leaps
He snares it for the out!
Score It: 6
Two down
Cochrane asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Cochrane and Jenkins

Base hit to left for Pflaggstettler
Third base coach Dick Howser
thinks he can make it...
Here comes Tucker...
The throw is cut off...
That holds Pflaggstettler at first

The pitch is way inside at the knees
Potpie hits the dirt...
It is a bad time for Ferguson Jenkins
to be getting so wild
That loads them up for FOFC

There's a pop fly into short center
Wilson has got a long run
He grabs it
Nice play!
Score It: 8
That is the third out for FOFC here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 32924

Robinson fights one off his fists
It's a slow roller to third
Palmer is in quickly
Nice throw to first
In plenty of time to get Jackie
One up, one down for Left Outs

Curve, a beauty...
Strike three looking!
Kronside punches him out!
Two away

Heilmann pounds a grounder
toward Nights at short
Jeff moves in front of it...
Whoops... a bad bounce
But Nights stayed with it
Over to first and Heilmann is retired
Nice play by the FOFC short stop
That does it in the top of the 8th
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After 7 and a half innings,
Left Outs leads 8 to 4

Fastball, swung on and missed
Take a seat Mr. Gunner!
One gone for FOFC

Hays gets a good cut at it...
He lifts it high and deep toward left
Goslin is heading back...
At the fence
It is just over for a home run!
Goslin slaps his glove in disgust

Treacy rips a hard grounder
to the left of third
And on by the diving Vaughan
Treacy takes a big turn at
first...but holds up
Nice hustle by Goslin to get
that ball in quickly

Base hit to right for Gonzalez
Third base coach Dick Howser
doesn't want to gamble
Nothing ventured, nothing gained...
Treacy will stay at second

The pitch is in for a strike
It gets away from Cochrane
There go the runners
No play on either
Score it a passed ball on Cochrane

Flyball to center
it's caught
Treacy tags up and scores easily
Gonzalez has a chance to move up...
Gonzalez will hold at second base

Big slow curve...
Swung on...
Nights lofts a high fly, not very deep
Goslin settling under it...
Has it... NO HE DROPS IT!!!
Nights rounds first, but holds up as
Goslin quickly recovers
and throws it back it
That ball hit the heel of his glove
And just popped out for an error
Score It: E7
Gonzalez takes third
Nights to first

Grounded into the hole
Nice play by Robinson
Robinson flips to Jenkins covering
Score It: 3-1
The All Stars get 2 in the
bottom of the 8th
After 8 innings, Left Outs leads by 2

Long fly to center
Tucker has a long run...
He's there and hauls it in
Foxx is retired on a fairly deep fly
With one down

Gonzalez yells something out to Kronside
Jace nods his head

Wilson hits it sharply on the ground...
into the hole at third
Palmer dives for it...
He's up with it...
a strong throw to first...
GOT HIM!!!
A sparkling play by the third
baseman, Deacon Palmer!
Two men gone, nobody on
Left Outs leads by 2

Struck him out on a fastball
Robinson goes down swinging
That wraps up the inning for Left Outs
Time to check out the rest of the scores
These scores are final...
Japanese League downed AL Post WWII 9 to 7
Caribbean topped NL Pre WWII 3 to 0
And in our matchup Left Outs ahead 8 to 6

Sinking fastball...
Blade swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Foxx...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
With one down, up next is Deacon Palmer
To be followed by Stan Gunner

Palmer pounds a grounder toward
Vaughan at short
Arky moves in front of it...
Whoops... a bad bounce
But Vaughan stayed with it
Over to first and Palmer is retired
Nice play by the Left Outs short stop

It's a smash over first
Robinson leaps
Just over his outstretched glove
Gunner makes a wide turn at first
He will hold at first
The ball comes in quickly

Base hit to right for Hays
Gunner is racing towards third...
The throw is cut off...
That holds Hays at first

Sparky Anderson is visiting the umpire...
He'll be making a double switch
Don Drysdale has been called
from the bullpen
And Willie McCovey will come
in as the first baseman

The Whiff!
Swung on the HIGH CHEESE!
And that will do it for FOFC
Left Outs wins 8 to 6
Jenkins gets credit for the win
Drysdale notches the save
Nielsen takes the loss
The hitting star for Left Outs
was Jimmie Foxx
He was 1 for 5 with a homerun
He also knocked in 4 runs
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.

[Breeze]

GAME 21 - Monday, April 23rd - Boxscore


Leftovers AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG
J.Robinson 2B 4 1 0 0 .289 A.Tucker CF 4 1 3 1 .329
M.Cochrane C 4 2 1 0 .244 J.Nights SS 4 1 1 1 .313
H.Heilmann RF 5 2 3 1 .221 P.Pflaggstettler RF 4 1 2 2 .392
J.Foxx 3B 5 2 1 4 .364 J.Potpie 1B 3 0 0 0 .328
H.Wilson CF 4 0 0 0 .107 J.Kronside P 0 0 0 0 ----
F.Robinson 1B 5 0 1 2 .182 D-B.Blade PH 1 0 0 0 .235
D.Drysdale P 0 0 0 0 .000 D.Palmer 3B 5 1 1 0 .295
G.Goslin LF 2 0 1 0 .268 S.Gunner LF 4 0 1 0 .295
A.Vaughan SS 4 1 2 0 .342 H.Hays C 5 1 3 2 .368
F.Jenkins P 4 0 0 0 .200 S.Treacy 2B 5 1 1 0 .200
E-W.McCovey 1B 0 0 0 0 .154 R.Nielsen P 1 0 0 0 .091
A-D.Fouts PH 1 0 0 0 .189
S.Fozborg P 0 0 0 0 ----
B-K.Terp PH 1 0 0 0 .217
C-D.Gonzalez 1B 1 0 1 0 .263
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
Totals 37 8 9 7 Totals 39 6 13 6

A-Pinch Hit For Nielsen In 5th Inning
B-Pinch Hit For Fozborg In 7th Inning
C-Subbed Defensively (1B) For Terp In 8th Inning
D-Pinch Hit For Kronside In 9th Inning
E-Subbed Defensively (1B) For Jenkins In 9th Inning

Leftovers....... 0 0 1 0 4 0 3 0 0 - 8 9 1
All Stars....... 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 2 0 - 6 13 1

Leftovers IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
F.Jenkins WIN(3-2) 8 2/3 13 6 5 3 6 2 170 5.06
D.Drysdale SAVE(3rd) 0 1/3 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 5.59
Totals 9 13 6 5 3 7 2

All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
R.Nielsen LOSS(2-1) 5 5 5 5 3 5 2 86 3.93
S.Fozborg 2 4 3 2 0 1 0 47 2.84
J.Kronside 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 21 0.00
Totals 9 9 8 7 3 8 2

ATTENDANCE- 32,924 DATE- Monday, April 23rd 1900 TIME- Day
T- 2:18
LEFT ON BASE- Leftovers: 7 All Stars:11
DOUBLE PLAYS- Leftovers: 1 All Stars: 0
ERRORS- G.Goslin, D.Palmer
DOUBLES- M.Cochrane(6th), F.Robinson(3rd), A.Tucker(1st), J.Nights(6th),
D.Palmer(5th), H.Hays(2nd)
HOME RUNS- H.Heilmann(5th), J.Foxx(10th), P.Pflaggstettler(3rd), H.Hays(2nd)
SACRIFICE FLIES- A.Tucker
WALKS- J.Robinson, M.Cochrane, H.Wilson, J.Nights, P.Pflaggstettler, J.Potpie
HIT BY PITCH- G.Goslin-2, S.Gunner
STRIKE OUTS- M.Cochrane, J.Foxx, H.Wilson-2, F.Robinson-2, G.Goslin, F.Jenkins,
J.Nights, J.Potpie, D.Palmer, S.Gunner, S.Treacy-3
GIDP- P.Pflaggstettler
PASSED BALLS- M.Cochrane
WEB GEMS- Bot 2nd: Goose Goslin robbed Harry Hays of a Homerun!

[JeeberD]

And there goes the homer streak. Those damn Sports Illustrated guys must have jinxed me... :mad:

[kingfc22]

I actually got a hit. WOOOOO!!!!!

[terpkristin]

I didn't. :(

I really need to pull out of this slump, it's making me look REALLY bad...

/tk

[Fouts]

Freaking Palmer has a good game and I can't get back in the lineup. C'mon, you know the team needs my glove!

[Breeze]

FOFC Manager Update


I wake up following last nights tough loss. It was a difficult one to swallow, but I was pleased they the team kept fighting back. We actually out hit the Left Outs, and followed up their 4 run 5th with our own 4 run inning in the 6th. That was great character in my opinion. I also felt like Nielsen pitched better than his line in the box scores would indicate, but that hanging curve to Foxx was brutal and the free passes before that just killed him.

Tonight Mighty will get a chance to redeem himself following his bad outing 5 games ago.

I fix myself a couple fried egg sandwiches and start reading the morning paper...

[Breeze]

The National Herald - Tuesday, April 24th

SPORTS



TEAM WON LOST BATTING AVERAGE HOME RUNS RUNS BATTED IN
2001 NLO 13 8 N.Lajoie TCH .451 J.Foxx LOH 10 J.Foxx LOH 23
2001 L20 11 11 D.Brouthe OTH .442 B.Ruth A1H 9 P.Cepeda CAP 21
2001 A1H 8 11 T.Cobb DBH .429 J.Potpie FAS 8 R.Clement N2H 21
2001 DBH 9 13 B.Hamilto OTH .403 O.Linares CAP 7 P.Traynor N1H 21
2001 OTH 7 11 G.Sisler DBH .392 M.Ott N1H 7 J.Beckley TCH 20
2001 A2H 6 13
2002 JLP 6 14 WINS SAVES ERA
B.Babson FAS 4 W.McDonal NLO 4 V.Mathis NLT 1.63
1000 FAS 18 3 J.Maricha N2H 4 S.Knowles FAS 4 P.Martine L20 2.10
2001 N1H 14 6 C.Young TCH 4 G.Gossage L20 4 P.Galvin OTH 2.10
2001 TCH 13 8 OTHERS TIED W 3 OTHERS TIED W 3 B.Babson FAS 2.13
2001 N2H 13 9 C.Redding NLT 2.45
2001 LOH 10 12
2001 CAP 9 12 CUR HIT STREAK STOLEN BASES STRIKEOUTS
2001 NLT 8 14 J.Foxx LOH 13 H.Duffy TCH 13 R.Clemens L20 40
B.Bullock FAS 10 C.Bell NLO 11 B.Babson FAS 39
J.Kelley TCH 10 S.Poles NLT 10 R.Johnson L20 38
W.Wells NLO 8 P.Mesa CAP 8 R.Nielsen FAS 37
B.Ruth A1H 8 OTHERS TIED W 7 B.Feller A2H 33

YESTERDAY'S GAMES TODAY'S SCHEDULE AND PROBABLE STARTERS
N1H 0 at CAP 3 CAP-Tiant J(0-0, 4.80) at TCH-Mathews(2-1, 3.38)
N2H 1 at NLT 2 N1H-Hubbell(3-1, 2.78) at FAS-Mighty(2-1, 3.18)
DBH 3 at L20 12 OTH-Keefe(1-3, 6.08) at L20-Clemens(3-0, 2.52)
LOH 8 at FAS 6 A2H-Hunter(1-1, 5.85) at A1H-Gomez(0-3, 5.53)
NLO at A1H JLP-Inao(0-3, 3.00) at NLO-Smith(3-0, 2.90)
A2H 7 at JLP 9 LOH-Carlton(1-1, 4.46) at N2H-Koufax(2-1, 5.74)
NLT-Redding(1-3, 2.45) at DBH-Walsh(2-3, 3.66)

YESTERDAY'S BEST PERFORMANCES
BATTER TM OPP AB R H RB BB Ks HR SB
L.Doby A2H JLP 4 2 2 3 0 1 2 0
M.McGwire L20 DBH 2 3 1 2 2 0 1 0
E.Collins DBH L20 3 1 2 3 1 0 1 0
H.Killebrew A2H JLP 3 2 2 2 1 0 1 0
O.Linares CAP N1H 3 1 2 2 1 0 1 1

PITCHER TM OPP INN H R ER BB Ks HR WLS
M.Cuellar CAP N1H 9.0 1 0 0 2 9 0 W
V.Mathis NLT N2H 8.0 2 1 1 2 4 1
J.Kronside FAS LOH 2.0 0 0 0 0 2 0
B.Grimes N1H CAP 3.0 2 0 0 1 2 0
H.Fujimoto JLP A2H 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 W

INJURY REPORT
M.Dihigo, Negro League I - 13 more games
C.Torriente, Negro League I - 15 more games
W.Brown, Negro League II - 4 more games
B.Herman, Left Outs - 4 more games
B.Lemon, Left Outs - 12 more games
E.Rixey, NL Pre WWII - 14 more games
G.Maddux, Late 20th - 5 more games
J.Smoltz, Late 20th - 13 more games




NL PRE WWII AT CARIBBEAN
Pre-Nationals... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 1 1
Estrellas....... 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 - 3 7 0
Win:Cuellar(2-2) Loss:Alexander(2-2)
Homeruns- O.Linares(7th)

Mike Cuellar carried a no-hitter into the 9th inning as the Caribbean
Estrellas defeated the NL Pre WWII ballclub 3 to 0 at Paradise
Park.

Cuellar(2-2) was indeed brilliant as he hand-cuffed the NL Pre WWII offense.
He didn't give up much, just 1 hit and 2 walks in 9 innings lowering his ERA
to 3.03. The left-handed Cuellar lost his chance for a no-hitter when
Frankie Frisch singled with one out in the 9th inning. Caribbean had 7 hits
for the afternoon.

Pete Alexander(2-2) took the loss. He pitched 5 innings and surrendered 5
hits and 3 walks.

AL POST WWII AT JAPANESE LEAGUE
Post-Americans.. 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 - 7 10 1
HOF Players..... 0 0 0 1 2 0 4 0 2 - 9 13 0
Win:Fujimoto(1-2) Loss:Fingers(1-2)
Homeruns- H.Killebrew(4th), L.Doby-2(2nd), S.Oh(4th)

In a dramatic ending at Nintendo Field the Japanese League HOF Players won in
their last at-bat beating the AL Post WWII club by the count of 9 to
7.

Japanese League won the game with a rally in the bottom of the 9th inning
scoring 2 runs using 2 hits. Katsuya Nomura opened up the inning nicely when
he laced a one-base hit. Saduharu Oh stepped up to the plate and he smashed
a two-run homer (his 4th of the season) resulting in an exciting win for
Japanese League and a wild post-game celebration by the home town fans.
Overall Japanese League out-hit AL Post WWII 13 to 10.

The winning pitcher was Hideo Fujimoto(1-2) who allowed no runs in 1 inning.
Rollie Fingers(1-2) was the losing pitcher in relief. He gave up 2 hits and
no walks without retiring a batter.

NL POST WWII AT NEGRO LEAGUE II
Post-Nationals.. 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 - 1 3 1
Twos............ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 - 2 9 0
Win:Manning(2-2) Loss:Seaver(1-1)
Homeruns- P.Rose(1st)

Verdell Mathis came through with a solid 8 innings at Shadowball Stadium as
the Negro League II Twos staged a comeback win over the NL Post WWII team by
the count of 2 to 1.

Negro League II had the game winning rally in the bottom of the 9th inning
with 2 runs utilizing 3 base hits. After an out was recorded, John Beckwith
began the rally when he stroked a base-hit. Louis Santop came to the plate
and doubled. Pete Hill then doubled resulting in an exciting win for Negro
League II and a raucous post-game celebration by the home town fans. The
game was a scoreless duel until the 6th inning.

Max Manning(2-2) went 1 inning allowing no runs for the win. The losing
pitcher was Tom Seaver(1-1). Cito Gaston was in great spirits in his
post-game interview. Yet, when asked about his feelings after the thrilling
comeback victory, he volunteered, 'I'll tell you this much - I know how my
counterpart, Tommy Lasorda, feels right now - and it's not very good. It's
terrible when you come up on the short end of one of these!'

DEAD BALL ERA AT LATE 20TH
Ghosts.......... 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 - 3 10 2
Modern Stars.... 2 0 2 3 0 1 3 1 - 12 9 0
Win:Glavine(2-1) Loss:Plank(1-4)
Homeruns- E.Collins(5th), M.McGwire(4th)

They almost ran out of baseballs at Free Agent Field as Late 20th Modern Stars
clobbered the Dead Ball Era Ghosts pitching staff, scoring 12 runs while Tom
Glavine(2-1), with relief help from Dennis Eckersley, surrendered 3 runs to
Dead Ball Era.

Dead Ball Era fell behind quickly as the Late 20th offense came through in the
first inning scoring 2 runs on 2 hits. After two outs Mike Piazza started
the attack as he drew a walk. Mark McGwire next to the plate and he cracked
a two-run shot (his 4th of the season). Late 20th dominated offensively as
they scored in 6 different innings.

Eddie Plank(1-4) was given the loss. He gave up 12 runs in 7 innings of work.

LEFT OUTS AT FOFC
Leftovers....... 0 0 1 0 4 0 3 0 0 - 8 9 1
All Stars....... 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 2 0 - 6 13 1
Win:Jenkins(3-2) Loss:Nielsen(2-1) Save:Drysdale(3rd)
Homeruns- H.Heilmann(5th), J.Foxx(10th), P.Pflaggstettler(3rd), H.Hays(2nd)

Harry Heilmann cracked a homer as the Left Outs Leftovers topped the FOFC All
Stars by a score of 8 to 6 at FOFC Stadium.

FOFC was unable to recover after Left Outs went ahead in the top of the 3rd
inning scoring one runner. FOFC had a chance in the 9th but they came up
short.

The win went to Ferguson Jenkins(3-2) who allowed 6 runs in 8 and 2/3 innings.
Don Drysdale recorded his 3rd save. Rob Nielsen(2-1) was the loser. He gave
up 5 runs and 5 hits in 5 innings.

When questioned about the loss, Benton Breeze said, 'The fans got to see an
exciting game out there this afternoon. Unfortunately, we couldn't get it
done this time. Next time, though, we'll be the clubhouse with all the
smiles.'



NOTE: The Website has been updated

[Breeze]

FOFC Manager Update

Because we were facing a screwballing lefty, I decided to make a few changes in the lineup. I let Persimmon sit and I put Gazelle in the outfield, because Gazelle is so tough on lefties. I put Terp in at short. Terp is a lefty who hits lefties well so I'm going to give it a shot.

[Breeze]

GAME 22 - Tuesday, April 24th - Radio Broadcast

Slow ground ball
Treacy is charging it
He fires it to first
He's OUT
With one gone
NL Pre WWII will have Pie
Traynor coming up

Soft liner to second
Treacy jumps
He makes a nice play on it
Score It: 4
That's two away
Terp comes over from his shortstop
position to say a few words to Mighty
Rogers Hornsby will be next up,
A dangerous hitter, no doubt about it...

Swung on and chopped down
the third base line
Palmer stabs at it
He's got it!
Over to first...
GOT HIM!
What a nice play by Deacon Palmer
That wraps up the inning for NL Pre WWII
By the way, NL Pre WWII is 6 and
4 in their last ten games

Good slider, inside part of the plate
Tucker gets the bat on it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Hornsby grabs it...
Throws to first...
OUT!
One away in the bottom of the 1st for FOFC

Terp hits a fly ball to right
Mel Ott camps under it
He's got it
Two down
Carl Hubbell retires
the first two batters in a row

Extra base hit to center for Palmer
Kiki Cuyler is trying to get to it
This one is rolling to the wall...
This might be stretched into an
inside the park homerun!
No... he decides to hold up

Potpie rips a fastball down the line
This one may have the distance...
But will it be fair?
It is heading right at the foul pole...
It is....


A foul ball!
. . . Potpie back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Topped in front of home
Taken by Hartnett
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 2-3
That retires the side...
Potpie fails to come through in the clutch
For FOFC, No runs, one hit, no errors
and one man left on base

There's a ground ball into the hole
Palmer and Terp converge on it
It's picked by Terp who fires to first
OUT is the call
Close play!!
One up, one down

Cuyler swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Mighty strikes out Kiki Cuyler
Two out, nobody on
No score

Curve in the dirt... and Medwick holds up
Looked like he went around from here
But the plate umpire says no
Bullock asks the first base ump's opinion
He says Medwick went around
Strike three, swinging
1-2-3, nothing across...

Swung on and chopped down
the third base line
Traynor stabs at it
He's got it!
Over to first...
GOT HIM!
What a nice play by Pie Traynor
One down in the 2nd
Today the Boys Club stopped by for pictures
and the kids had a great time

There's a checked swing...
But Ton gets a piece of it anyway
It's a pop fly into center
Cuyler comes in on it...
Easy out
Ton couldn't get his bat out of the way
Two up, two down for the All Stars
We're in the bottom of the 2nd

The pitch is just inside
and Gazelle holds up
Hartnett points down at
the first base umpire
He gives the "safe" sign
Gerald trots down to first... ball four

Gazelle takes a short lead against
the lefty Hubbell
Hubbell steps off the rubber
Looks Gazelle back to the bag

He hits a tough grounder to short
Frisch comes up with it
Over to Terry
Got him!
Score It: 6-3
That's all for the All Stars...
After 2 innings here at
FOFC Stadium in FOFC,
No score

Sinking fastball...
Hartnett swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Terp...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
FOFC gets the first out of the inning

It's a high fly to deep center
Tucker is on his horse
It is carrying to the fence
A. J. jumps...
Catch at the fence by Tucker!
Two down

Breaking ball...
It darts down and out
as Hubbell swings way over it
He was fooled completely
Bullock loses it momentarily,
but now finds the handle and tags
Carl as he was heading for the dugout
Mighty sets the Pre-Nationals
down in order

There's a towering fly ball hit by Mighty
Medwick sprints over, and makes the catch
And there's one away

A. J. Tucker swings
It's a line drive...
Sizzles past Frisch into left...
Base hit for Tucker...
Medwick is over to cut it off...
Now he tosses it in to the infield
Tucker is on with a sharp single

The runner goes
Terp loves to hit and run...
Grounded towards the bag
Terry takes it to the bag himself
The hit and run moves the runner up.
Score It: 3
That's two away

They're not going to pitch to Palmer
They'll give him an intentional pass
Oh! Hubbell nearly threw ball
four to the backstop
Tucker bluffed a move toward third

Low and away... ball four
Potpie gets an 'Annie Oakley'
That will load them up for Billy Bullock!

That's hit deep to left-center
This one is deep!
Back she goes! Back! Back!! Back!!!
HEY-HEY!!!!
WOW! Get out the tape measure!!!
Bullock extends his hitting streak
to 11 games!
That is Billy Bullock's 4th
home run of the year.

There's a ground ball
between first and second
OH, Terry snags it in short right field
He throws it to the pitcher
covering the bag
OUT is the call
What a play by Terry
That'll do it in the bottom of the 3rd
4 runs, 2 hits and no errors
FOFC on top 4 to 0
And now we'll pause for station
identification
This is your Strat-O-Matic
Broadcast System...

Frisch hits a three hopper
towards Deacon Palmer
Palmer scoops it and fires
it to first for the out
One down for NL Pre WWII
Pie Traynor is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to the
plate for NL Pre WWII

Curve ball...
Traynor swings and misses by a mile
The bottom dropped out of that one!
A wicked pitch!
Two gone for NL Pre WWII

High and away
Ball four

Base hit to center for Ott
Casey Stingle puts up the stop sign...
Hornsby will stay at second

Base hit to center for Cuyler
Casey Stingle will send the runner home...
The throw is cut off...
And that allows the run to score

This one is hit a mile high!
Terp grabs it for the out
Medwick chokes in the clutch!
Score It: 6
That's it for NL Pre WWII
Here at FOFC Stadium, After
3 and a half innings,
FOFC has 4 runs, 3 hits and no errors
While NL Pre WWII has one run,
2 hits and no errors
NL Pre WWII has left 2 on base
FOFC has stranded 2

Gazelle swings and hits one down the line
It'll be in there for extra bases
Ott plays it off the wall on a hop
Gazelle is heading for second
Ott turns and fires
Gazelle slides head first...
and beats the throw
A whistling two-bagger for Gerald Gazelle

Treacy goes after the curve...
He pulls it into left field
It's hooking away from Medwick...
Running hard, he's there...
Makes the catch
Gazelle will hold on second base
There's one out in the bottom of the 4th
Hartnett walks half way to the mound
Says something to Hubbell...
With Gazelle on second
He's probably making sure that
Hubbell keeps him close

Base hit to left for Mighty
Dick Howser is waving the runner home...
The throw is cut off...
And that allows the run to score

Base hit to center for Tucker
Dick Howser puts up the stop sign...
Mighty will stay at second

Swung on...and it's in the
air to the right side
Backing just a bit is Ott
And he pulls it in
That's out number two
Pre-Nationals' pitching
coach, Johnny Allen,
is out to talk with Hubbell
Looks like he wants to go
over something with him

Hit on the ground to short
Taken by Frisch
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 6-3
That's all for the All Stars
After 4 innings in FOFC this evening,
FOFC on top 5 to 1

Hartnett swings
He slices it down the right field line
Gazelle is on the warning track
The ball is going,...going
Just foul!
Missed by a whisker
. . . Hartnett back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Hartnett hits a screamer at Sean Treacy
Treacy takes it with the backhand...
The throw is short...
Potpie scoops it on one hop

Hartnett is out!
Nice play by Potpie
That's one away

Terry starts... but lays
off the pitch upstairs
Ball four, Mighty walks him

We are going to have a pinch hitter
Paul Waner will bat for Carl Hubbell
It will be the lefthand hitting, Waner
against the lefty Mighty
Waner is hitting soutpaws
for a .286 average

Waner gets under this one
It's popped high in the air to second
Treacy is waving everybody off
Waner is retired
Two down
Bullock asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Bullock and Mighty

Frisch sits on the change up
He lofts a fly ball towards Ton
Ton gliding under it...
Appears to lose sight of it
Has it again...
And makes the catch in medium left
No runs for NL Pre WWII
in the top of the 5th
FOFC ahead 5 to 1
We'll be right back
Dazzy Vance will be coming on
to pitch for NL Pre WWII
Dazzy has appeared in 5 games this season
He has a record of 1-0
in 9 innings
His ERA stands at 1.04

Swung on and hit sharply to second
Hornsby plays it on one bounce
Over to Terry...
Out of there!
One out
Due up next is Billy Bullock

It's a wicked breaking ball
Out of the strike zone
Bullock checks his swing
Hartnett appeals to the first base umpire
Take a seat, Billy
And there's two away

1 Base Error By G.Hartnett
Score It: E2
Ton to first

That's ball four
Gazelle trots down to first
Ton is already down on second

A high hopper to second
Hornsby grabs it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 4-3
That does it for FOFC in the 5th
They leave 2 on base
4 stranded so far today

Traynor drives one into right
Gerald Gazelle sprints over
to make the play
One gone for NL Pre WWII

The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
Hornsby held up, and draws a walk
Mighty isn't happy at all with that call

Ott laces a clean base hit
into the outfield
He rounds first, but will hold there
Hornsby moves up 90 feet

It's inside and bounds off
the catcher's mitt
That'll be a passed ball

Long fly ball to left
Ton turns and runs
He grabs it
Nice play!
Hornsby is tagging up
He'll make it easily
Score It: 7
That's out number two
The Pre-Nationals have chipped
away at the All Stars' lead
They've scored 1 run in the inning
FOFC leads 5 to 2

Ground ball to first
Potpie takes it to the bag himself
Score It: 3
We're in the middle of the 6th
FOFC still leads 5-2

Mighty cuts on a curve that
misses in the dirt
That ball is trapped nicely by Hartnett
Mighty was badly fooled by Vance's
big breaking curve
STRIKE THREE!
Al was a little overanxious
One away for FOFC here in
the bottom of the 6th

Tucker hits a grounder to short
This should be an out
Frankie Frisch bobbles it
He can't make the throw
It'll be an error on Frisch
That's 2 errors committed
by NL Pre WWII so far

It's a scorching liner to
the second baseman
OUT!
Hornsby didn't have to move!
Tucker stays put
That's the second out of the inning

Tucker takes a walking lead
Tucker has stolen 7 of 8 bases this year
The runner can't seem to get a good lead

Palmer swings and lofts
one softly into left
Medwick comes in...
Settles under it
And makes the catch
As we head into the 7th
the Pre-Nationals will try
to get something going
They trail by 3, 5-2

Hartnett takes the pitch
STRIKE THREE, is the call
Hartnett can't believe it and
says something to the ump
Chalk up a whiff for Mighty
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

AL Post WWII is crushing
AL Pre WWII 16 to 6
Dead Ball Era jumping all over
Negro League II 11 to 2
McGinnity and Dead Ball Era
are on cruise control
Left Outs is on top of NL Post WWII 2 to 0
Turn of Century is edging Caribbean 2 to 1
Old Timers and Late 20th
are all knotted at 3
Galvin battling Clemens
And here in FOFC FOFC ahead 5 to 2

Fastball, swung on and missed
Take a seat Mr. Terry!
Two down
Mighty retires two in a row

Struck him out on a fastball
Lombardi goes down swinging
And that will do it for NL Pre WWII

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!
Leo Durochure will be bringing
in a relief pitcher
Jesse Haines has been called
from the bullpen
A few warm up tosses and
we'll be set to go

It's a wicked breaking ball
Out of the strike zone
Potpie checks his swing
Hartnett appeals to the first base umpire
He held up, ball four
Never a good time for a lead-off walk
But especially not late in the game

Fastball... down and away...
NO! It's called a strike
And Bullock is outta there

Low, ball four...
Ton takes first

A sharp breaking curve...
Gazelle was waiting for it
He hits it squarely... and well
Medwick turns to chase it down...
This one is going, going...
GONE!
Gerald Gazelle can touch them all

Baltimore chop
Into right for a single!

Fouts swings a bit late on the heater...
He still pops it pretty good towards left
Unfortunately for Dan, Medwick
is standing right there
Easy out
With two gone, FOFC ahead 8 to
2 in the bottom of the 7th

A slider by Haines
Tucker gets good wood on it...
Cuyler back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
That is the third out for FOFC here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 47992

There's a cue shot off the
end of the bat by Frisch
Terp makes the routine catch
of the soft liner
One up, one down for NL Pre WWII

Traynor pounds a grounder
toward Fouts at third
Dan moves in front of it...
Whoops... a bad bounce
But Fouts stayed with it
Over to first and Traynor is retired
Nice play by the FOFC third baseman

Hornsby swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Rodney strikes out Rogers Hornsby
Rodney shuts down NL Pre WWII
here in the top of the 8th
So FOFC still with the lead
as we go to a commercial break

Hard slider, paints the inside corner
Terp gets a piece of it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Terry grabs it...
Races to first...
Beats Terp for the out
With one down

Terry yells something out to Haines
Jesse nods his head

A high foul, straight back
Hartnett doesn't know where the ball is
Haines is pointing him to it
Now Hartnett sees it... near the screen
Nope, he can't make the catch...
The ball is on the screen
. . . Blade back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Fly ball to right
Ott is under it
He makes the grab
Two away now for FOFC
They're ahead by 6
The All Stars have 8 hits on the evening

Curve ball, just misses the corner
That'll be ball four and a walk
Haines has issued 3 bases on balls
this evening

Back door breaking ball...
And it's in there...
Bullock looks at strike three
That will do it for FOFC
Nip-and-tuck here at FOFC
Stadium this evening
NL Pre WWII coming in for their last shot
They need 6 to tie, and only
7 to take the lead!
Hmmmmmm......

Curveball in the dirt
Swung on and missed...Strike three
Bullock fumbles it,
but quickly recovers to tag Ott
While we wait for Kiki Cuyler
to get a new bat
Let's check the scoreboard
These scores are final...
AL Post WWII pulverized
AL Pre WWII 16 to 6
Grove takes the loss, his
record drops to 3-2
Hunter the winner, he's now 2-1
Dead Ball Era jumped all over
Negro League II 11 to 3
McGinnity the winner, he's now 2-1
Holland takes the loss, his
record drops to 0-1
NL Post WWII edged out Left Outs 3 to 2
Turn of Century squeezed
by Caribbean 5 to 3
Old Timers squeezed by Late 20th 5 to 3
And here in FOFC FOFC leads 8 to 2
OK, let's see if NL Pre WWII can
get back in this ballgame
Currently down by 6

Cuyler tries to hold up, but can't
He pops one into short center
Tucker is coming in hard...
Terp is racing with his
back to the infield
And neither is going to get it!
Cuyler is on with the "excuse me" single!

Medwick slaps a slow bouncer
in front of second
Blade races in
He reaches down
Scoops it up and fires to first
Out!
Cuyler advances on the play
Two gone for NL Pre WWII
Time is running out for them
They need a touchdown!
FOFC is certainly in the catbird seat

He lays off the pitch
Ball four, he walks

Grounded down the line
Gonzalez will take it himself
Score It: 3
And that will do it for NL Pre WWII
FOFC wins 8 to 2
Mighty gets credit for the win
Hubbell takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Gerald Gazelle
He was 2 for 2 with a homerun
He also knocked in 3 runs
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.

[Breeze]

GAME 22 - Tuesday, April 24th - Boxscore


Pre-Nationals AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG
F.Frisch SS 4 0 0 0 .241 A.Tucker CF 5 1 2 0 .333
P.Traynor 3B 4 0 0 0 .296 K.Terp SS 5 0 0 0 .179
R.Hornsby 2B 2 2 0 0 .273 D.Palmer 3B 3 1 1 0 .298
M.Ott RF 4 0 2 0 .313 D-B.Blade 2B 1 0 0 0 .232
K.Cuyler CF 3 0 2 2 .311 J.Potpie 1B 2 2 0 0 .317
J.Medwick LF 4 0 0 0 .432 E-D.Gonzalez PH,1B 0 0 0 0 .263
G.Hartnett C 3 0 0 0 .236 B.Bullock C 5 1 1 4 .320
B.Terry 1B 3 0 0 0 .240 K.Ton LF 3 1 0 0 .107
C.Hubbell P 1 0 0 0 .214 G.Gazelle RF 2 2 2 3 .455
A-P.Waner PH 1 0 0 0 .281 S.Treacy 2B 4 0 1 0 .208
D.Vance P 0 0 0 0 .000 J.Rodney P 0 0 0 0 ----
B-E.Lombardi PH 1 0 0 0 .345 A.Mighty P 3 0 1 1 .091
J.Haines P 0 0 0 0 ---- C-D.Fouts PH,3B 1 0 0 0 .184
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
Totals 30 2 4 2 Totals 34 8 8 8

A-Pinch Hit For Hubbell In 5th Inning
B-Pinch Hit For Vance In 7th Inning
C-Pinch Hit For Mighty In 7th Inning
D-Subbed Defensively (2B) For Palmer In 8th Inning
E-Pinch Hit For Potpie In 8th Inning

Pre-Nationals... 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 - 2 4 2
All Stars....... 0 0 4 1 0 0 3 0 - 8 8 0

Pre-Nationals IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
C.Hubbell LOSS(3-2) 4 6 5 5 3 0 1 71 3.72
D.Vance 2 0 0 0 1 2 0 34 0.84
J.Haines 2 2 3 3 3 2 1 49 11.57
Totals 8 8 8 8 7 4 2

All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
A.Mighty WIN(3-1) 7 3 2 1 3 7 0 108 2.80
J.Rodney 2 1 0 0 1 2 0 28 5.79
Totals 9 4 2 1 4 9 0

ATTENDANCE- 47,992 DATE- Tuesday, April 24th 1900 TIME- Night
T- 1:54
LEFT ON BASE- Pre-Nationals: 6 All Stars: 9
DOUBLE PLAYS- Pre-Nationals: 0 All Stars: 0
ERRORS- F.Frisch, G.Hartnett
DOUBLES- G.Gazelle(2nd)
TRIPLES- D.Palmer(1st)
HOME RUNS- B.Bullock(4th), G.Gazelle(2nd)
SACRIFICE FLIES- K.Cuyler
WALKS- R.Hornsby-2, G.Hartnett, B.Terry, D.Palmer, J.Potpie-2, D.Gonzalez,
K.Ton, G.Gazelle-2
STRIKE OUTS- P.Traynor, R.Hornsby, M.Ott, K.Cuyler, J.Medwick, G.Hartnett,
B.Terry, C.Hubbell, E.Lombardi, B.Bullock-3, A.Mighty
PASSED BALLS- B.Bullock

[Breeze]

FOFC Manager Update

On the way back into the club house, while the players were on the field shaking hands and high fiving, Bob Hazzle says,"Must be nice to have a laugher on your birthday."

I snap my head around and look at him. Howser who is right behind him starts laughing. "You didn't think we had forgotten did you?" he asks

"Honestly? Yes."

"Hurry up, shower and change. We have reservations at that new Italian joint everyones been talking about." Sal throws in. "I'm even excited about eating there."

I nod, then Howser adds in, "Your wife is meeting us there."

Now I smile and quicken my step.

[terpkristin]

Well, at least I can play defense.

DANG IT I need to get out of this hitting slump. :(

/tk

[Katon]

Wow. My eye's still good, but I can't get a hit to save my life.

[Breeze]

The National Herald - Wednesday, April 25th


TEAM WON LOST BATTING AVERAGE HOME RUNS RUNS BATTED IN
2001 NLO 13 9 D.Brouthe OTH .455 J.Foxx LOH 10 J.Foxx LOH 23
2001 L20 11 12 N.Lajoie TCH .451 B.Ruth A1H 9 P.Cepeda CAP 21
2001 DBH 10 13 T.Cobb DBH .415 J.Potpie FAS 8 R.Clement N2H 21
2001 A1H 9 12 H.Jenning TCH .400 O.Linares CAP 7 P.Traynor N1H 21
2001 OTH 8 11 G.Sisler DBH .398 M.Ott N1H 7 J.Beckley TCH 20
2001 A2H 7 13
2002 JLP 6 14 WINS SAVES ERA
B.Babson FAS 4 W.McDonal NLO 4 V.Mathis NLT 1.63
1000 FAS 19 3 J.Maricha N2H 4 S.Knowles FAS 4 P.Galvin OTH 1.91
2001 N1H 14 7 C.Young TCH 4 G.Gossage L20 4 P.Martine L20 2.10
2001 TCH 14 8 OTHERS TIED W 3 OTHERS TIED W 3 B.Babson FAS 2.13
2001 N2H 14 9 C.Redding NLT 2.45
2001 LOH 10 13
2001 CAP 9 13 CUR HIT STREAK STOLEN BASES STRIKEOUTS
2001 NLT 8 15 J.Foxx LOH 13 H.Duffy TCH 14 R.Clemens L20 48
B.Bullock FAS 11 C.Bell NLO 12 B.Babson FAS 39
J.Kelley TCH 11 S.Poles NLT 10 R.Johnson L20 38
B.Ruth A1H 10 P.Mesa CAP 9 R.Nielsen FAS 37
W.Wells NLO 9 J.Morgan N2H 8 OTHERS TIED W 33

YESTERDAY'S GAMES TODAY'S SCHEDULE AND PROBABLE STARTERS
CAP 3 at TCH 5 CAP-Tiant S(2-3, 6.00) at TCH-Young(4-1, 3.46)
N1H 2 at FAS 8 N1H-Marquar(1-2, 5.90) at FAS-Hunter(1-1, 4.50)
OTH 5 at L20 3 OTH-Radbour(1-2, 3.62) at L20-Johnson(2-3, 3.06)
A2H 16 at A1H 6 A2H-Newhous(0-1, 4.85) at A1H-Mays(1-2, 5.45)
JLP at NLO JLP-Inao(0-3, 3.00) at NLO-Rogan(2-3, 4.79)
LOH 2 at N2H 3 LOH-Carlton(1-1, 4.46) at N2H-Maricha(4-1, 3.68)
NLT 3 at DBH 11 NLT-Wickwar(1-3, 8.10) at DBH-Walsh(2-3, 3.66)

YESTERDAY'S BEST PERFORMANCES
BATTER TM OPP AB R H RB BB Ks HR SB
G.Gazelle FAS N1H 2 2 2 3 2 0 1 0
H.Killebrew A2H A1H 4 3 4 2 2 0 0 0
G.Sisler DBH NLT 4 4 2 3 1 1 0 0
J.Morgan N2H LOH 5 1 4 1 0 0 1 1
R.Carew A2H A1H 5 2 3 2 1 0 1 0

PITCHER TM OPP INN H R ER BB Ks HR WLS
A.Mighty FAS N1H 7.0 3 2 1 3 7 0 W
P.Niekro N2H LOH 2.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 W
D.Vance N1H FAS 2.0 0 0 0 1 2 0
S.Koufax N2H LOH 8.0 5 2 2 3 10 2
J.Rodney FAS N1H 2.0 1 0 0 1 2 0

INJURY REPORT
M.Dihigo, Negro League I - 12 more games
C.Torriente, Negro League I - 14 more games
W.Brown, Negro League II - 3 more games
B.Herman, Left Outs - 3 more games
B.Lemon, Left Outs - 11 more games
E.Rixey, NL Pre WWII - 13 more games
G.Maddux, Late 20th - 4 more games
J.Smoltz, Late 20th - 12 more games



CARIBBEAN AT TURN OF CENTURY
Estrellas....... 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 - 3 9 1
Centurions...... 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 - 5 11 0
Win:Mathewson(3-1) Loss:Valenzuela(1-3)
Homeruns- S.Crawford(1st), J.Kelley(1st)

Christy Mathewson allowed Connie Mack to rest his bullpen, tossing a complete
game at Yellowstone Park as the Caribbean Estrellas lost a heartbreaker to
Turn of Century Centurions by the score of 5 to 3.

Turn of Century came through with the game-winning runs in the 9th inning
scoring 2 runs utilizing 2 base hits. After an out was recorded, Jesse
Burkett was the sparkplug when he laced a one-base hit. Sam Crawford next to
the plate and he blasted a two-run home run (his 1st of the season) resulting
in a mighty exciting win for Turn of Century and the 48,182 home town fans in
attendance. Turn of Century rapped out 11 hits for the night.

The winning pitcher was Mathewson(3-1) who allowed 3 runs for the game.
Fernando Valenzuela(1-3) suffered the loss in relief. The winning ways
continue for Turn of Century. They now have a record of 8-2 in recent days.
With the loss Caribbean now has a record of 9-13.

OLD TIMERS AT LATE 20TH
Ancients........ 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 1 - 5 11 1
Modern Stars.... 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 - 3 7 1
Win:Galvin(3-1) Loss:Clemens(3-1) Save:Spalding(2nd)

In a two run game the Old Timers Ancients got by the Late 20th Modern Stars by
the score of 5 to 3.

Old Timers won the game with a run in the top of the 8th inning. Dan
Brouthers stroked a single. Ward was safe at second on a stolen base.
George Davis then lined a single scoring the run. Old Timers had 11 hits for
the night while Late 20th had 7.

The win went to Pud Galvin(3-1) who allowed no runs in 2 and 2/3 innings. Al
Spalding was credited with his 2nd save. Roger Clemens(3-1) was the losing
pitcher. By giving up 4 runs in 8 and 1/3 innings his ERA increased from
2.52 to 2.86.


AL POST WWII AT AL PRE WWII
Post-Americans.. 0 1 3 8 2 2 0 0 0 - 16 19 0
Pre-Americans... 1 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 - 6 18 1
Win:Hunter(2-1) Loss:Grove(3-2)
Homeruns- R.Carew(1st), E.Averill(5th)

Baseballs were flying all over the ballpark as the AL Post WWII ballclub ran
roughshod over the seemingly hapless AL Pre WWII team. The AL Post WWII
offense rolled up a total of 16 runs!.

AL Post WWII took the lead for keeps in the top of the 3rd inning as they
scored 3 runs on 4 base hits. AL Post WWII bats were hot in the 4th inning
which saw them plate 8 runs on 7 hits. AL Post WWII managed 19 in their
victory.

Catfish Hunter(2-1) allowed 6 runs in 8 and 2/3 innings, and picked up the
victory. Lefty Grove(3-2) took the loss. He was unable to control the AL
Post WWII offense and allowed 10 hits and 2 walks in 3 and 1/3 innings.


LEFT OUTS AT NL POST WWII
Leftovers....... 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 2 5 0
Post-Nationals.. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 - 3 8 1
Win:Niekro(1-1) Loss:Wynn(0-5)
Homeruns- J.Robinson(1st), F.Robinson(1st), J.Morgan(4th)

Sandy Koufax whiffed 10 batters and second baseman Joe Morgan had 4 hits as
the NL Post WWII club outscored the Left Outs Leftovers in 10 innings 3 to
2.

Both teams were tied at 2 runs apiece after nine innings. NL Post WWII ended
up winning it in the 10th inning. After an out was recorded, Morgan lofted a
solo-blast 'downtown' (his 4th of the season) giving NL Post WWII the victory
as 26,155 happy fans celebrated wildly. NL Post WWII had 8 hits overall,
while Left Outs had 5.

Phil Niekro(1-1) was the winner allowing no runs in 2 innings. The losing
pitcher was Early Wynn(0-5) in relief. NL Post WWII continued their winnings
ways improving their record to 14-9. They are 8-2 in their last ten games.
With this loss, Left Outs has a 4-6 record of late, 10-13 overall.

NEGRO LEAGUE II AT DEAD BALL ERA
Twos............ 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 - 3 10 1
Ghosts.......... 4 0 0 3 3 0 1 0 - 11 17 3
Win:McGinnity(2-1) Loss:Holland(0-1)

First baseman George Sisler collected 2 extra-base hits and had 3 RBI and Joe
McGinnity was able to finish what he started and was credited with a complete
game as the Dead Ball Era Ghosts defeated the Negro League II Twos 11 to 3 at
Deadball Park.

Sisler enjoyed a big evening at the plate. He tripled which scored a run in
the 1st inning and doubled which was good for two runs in the 5th inning.
Dead Ball Era finished with 17 hits in the victory.

The victory was credited to McGinnity(2-1) who went the distance, allowing 3
runs. Bill Holland(0-1) was given the loss. He gave up 7 runs in 4 innings
of work.


NL PRE WWII AT FOFC
Pre-Nationals... 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 - 2 4 2
All Stars....... 0 0 4 1 0 0 3 0 - 8 8 0
Win:Mighty(3-1) Loss:Hubbell(3-2)
Homeruns- B.Bullock(4th), G.Gazelle(2nd)

Gerald Gazelle went deep and had 3 RBI as the FOFC All Stars topped the NL Pre
WWII ballclub by a score of 8 to 2 at FOFC Stadium.

Al Mighty(3-1) pitched a solid game. He went 7 innings allowing 3 hits and 3
walks improving his ERA from 3.18 to 2.80. FOFC out-hit NL Pre WWII for the
game, 8 hits to 4.

The loss was charged to Carl Hubbell(3-2). He allowed FOFC 5 runs in 4
innings of work.

[oykib]

Nothing like a perfect day at the plate in a win to improve your outlook on life.

[Breeze]

GAME 23 - Wednesday, April 25th - Radio Broadcast

He walked him, ball four
The lead-off batter gets on here
in the top of the 1st

Frisch sneaks away from the base
Hunter looks Frisch back
He is unable to get his normal lead

Waner pulls one to deep right-center
Tucker is after it
He can't bring it down
Paul is running like a thief
Here's the play at third...
SAFE!
Waner showed his great speed
Triple number 2 of the year for Paul Waner

Change up...
Hornsby hits a high fly ball
Tucker drifting under it...
He makes the catch, but trips...
And he is unable to make the throw
Waner scores on the sac fly
NL Pre WWII with one away
Hunter steps off the mound as
he waits for Chuck Klein to
come to the plate

A slider by Hunter
Klein gets good wood on it...
Pflaggstettler back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!

Off speed pitch on the way...
And Mize watches it go by
for the third strike
That will do it for NL Pre WWII
But they do get 2 runs
right out of the barrel
So NL Pre WWII leads 2 to zip
as FOFC comes to bat

Tucker takes the pitch
STRIKE THREE, is the call
Tucker can't believe it and
says something to the ump
Chalk up a whiff for Marquard

Curveball, inside corner, low...
Swung on...
And lined to left for a base hit
No chance to get that one

Swung on and missed...
Pflaggstettler is down on strikes

It is right down the middle
Potpie takes a wicked swing...
He connects!
That one is really hit...
Klein is racing back toward the fence
He is on the warning track...
But that ball is long gone!!!
That one was out of here in a hurry!
Marquard delivered up a 'prayer ball'...
SMACK DAB in the center of the plate...
with no break on it at all
And Jeeberoni Potpie did not
miss the opportunity
That is home run number 9 on the year
And that also gives him 17 RBI's

Big bender, low and inside...
Swung on...
Line single to Klein in left...
Picking it up in a hurry is Klein...
Hays takes a wide turn...
But stays at first base
as the throw comes in

Hard slider...
And Fouts takes it right down the middle
Strike three called
FOFC is retired...
But they come up with 2 runs to tie it
After 1 inning,
it's all even at 2

Long fly to left
Gazelle has a long run...
He's there and hauls it in
Ott is retired on a fairly deep fly
FOFC gets the first out of the inning

Hartnett swings early on the change
He skies one really high
A Major League pop-up to be sure
Who wants it?
Anybody???
Nights finally lunges forward
to make the grab
He gives his compadres a questioning look
That one almost dropped in there!
Two down
Hunter retires two in a row

Traynor hits a high pop
into short left field
Fouts and Nights sprint
towards the outfield
Here comes Gazelle
Nights puts his glove out...
Makes a super catch in front of Gazelle!!
That's all for NL Pre WWII
After 1 and a half innings
in FOFC this evening,
The score is knotted at 2

Good slider, inside part of the plate
Gazelle gets the bat on it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Hornsby grabs it...
Throws to first...
OUT!
One down for FOFC
Barrett Blade is still in
the on-deck circle
and Owen Hunter is looking
for a bat in the dugout

There's a ground ball up the middle
It gets by the pitcher
It's headed into center field
OH, Frankie Frisch gets to the ball...
But there won't be a throw
Base hit for Blade

Hunter squares around
He lays a beauty down the third base line
Marquard and Traynor collide
going for the ball
Traynor recovers, picks it up
And fires to first
OUT!!
Credit Owen Hunter with a sacrifice
Two away

Curveball...
STRIKE THREE!
Rube Marquard has 24 this season so far
And that was number 4 today
That's all for the All Stars
After 2 innings in FOFC this evening,
The score is tied at 2

Marquard pulls one to the right side
It's going to scoot on through the infield
Pflaggstettler will retrieve
it without difficulty
He tosses it back in to second
as Marquard retreats to first
after a wide turn

It's the hit and run play
by NL Pre WWII...
Slow ground ball to the mound
Hunter comes up with it
Over to Potpie
Got him!
Score It: 1-3
That's one away

A high pop-up to first
Potpie is under it...
He backpedals
Got it just in fair territory
Fake pump towards second
Marquard gets back to the bag
That's the second out of the inning

Base hit to left for Hornsby
Casey Stingle is windmilling
the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Marquard is out!

Struck him out on a fastball
Nights goes down swinging
One gone for FOFC in the bottom of the 3rd

It's a wicked breaking ball
Out of the strike zone
Pflaggstettler checks his swing
Hartnett appeals to the first base umpire
Take a seat, Persimmon
Two down
Marquard retires the first
two FOFC batters

Grounded towards first
Mize grabs it
IT'S A RACE TO THE BAG
SAFE!

Soft liner to first
It's into the outfield for a base hit!
Potpie takes third

Hard slider...
Fouts swings from his heels...
He connects!...
There it goes...
Ott is up against the fence
But he has no chance for this shot
IT'S DOWNTOWN!!!
What a blast by Dan

Sinking fastball...
Gazelle swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Frisch...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
That retires the side... but not before
3 runs cross the plate for FOFC
After 3 innings, FOFC on top 5 to 2

Fly ball to left
Gazelle is under it
He makes the grab
With one gone
NL Pre WWII will have Johnny
Mize coming up
A dangerous hitter, no doubt about it

Changeup down low...
Mize makes contact and hits
one out to center
A. J. Tucker is drifting over...
Now he's under it...
Easy out for Hunter
That's the second out of the inning
Time to check the scoreboard

AL Pre WWII is edging AL Post WWII 1 to 0
Dead Ball Era is edging Negro
League II 2 to 1
NL Post WWII slipping by Left Outs 6 to 4
Bench has hit his 2nd homerun
for NL Post WWII
Caribbean leads Turn of Century 3 to 2
Tiant Sr. and Rusie currently dueling
Old Timers leads Late 20th 1 to 0

Owen comes in there with a dipsy-do
And it freezes Ott
He can't get the bat off his shoulder
as he watches it just catch
the outside corner...
STRIKE THREE!
Here we are at the half-way point
in today's ballgame
FOFC leads NL Pre WWII by 3
The All Stars with 5 runs
NL Pre WWII has 2

Grounded towards the sack
Taken by Traynor
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 5-3

STRIKE THREE, CALLED!
That's two away

There's a long drive...
Its' way back there...
Chuck Klein is at the wall...
(Possible HR or Out
Fielding ability: Poor,)
He's jumping for it...
He can't get it!
That's a homerun for A. J. Tucker

Nights swings...
He hits a ground ball down
the left field line
It's by Traynor and into the corner
Nights rounds first...
He will try for two
Klein makes a smooth pick-up
Here's the throw...
Not in time!

Base hit to left for Pflaggstettler
Dick Howser is windmilling
the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Nights scores!

There's a check swing by Potpie
It's a high pop in foul territory
It looks playable
Gabby Hartnett makes the catch
against the stands
That retires the side
The All Stars score 2 runs in the inning
After 4 innings, FOFC leads 7 to 2

Here's a curveball, up in the zone...
It's juiced to deep center
There goes Tucker after it
Racing hard...
Reaching...
Can't get it...
It was just out of his reach!
He chases it to the fence
Hartnett around first, coasts into second
As the throw comes in late
Score that a two bagger

The pitch is up and in
Looks like a slider
Swung on...
It's a lazy fly ball to the left side
Backpedaling is Nights...
But it's over his head...
And in front of Gazelle...
It's a single and Hartnett
scores from second

Leo Durochure will send up a pinch
hitter for Rube Marquard
Yes, Ross Youngs steps out of the dugout
He will be up there against Hunter

Fastball, a dandy...
Steee Rike THREE!
And Youngs is punched out
One away in the top of the
5th for NL Pre WWII

High and away
Ball four

Waner hits a routine grounder to Nights
He scoops it up, and throws to first
SAFE, the throw pulled Potpie off the bag
Charge Nights with the error
That's error number 1 of the game for FOFC

Screaming liner towards right
Tough chance for Pflaggstettler
It drops in!
Base hit for Hornsby
Traynor scores from third!
Frisch scores from second!
Waner takes third

It's popped up into foul territory
Harry Hays is under it
He makes a nice play on it
Score It: 2
With that putout
Hunter only needs one more out
to get out of this inning
But 3 runs already across for NL Pre WWII

The pitch is way inside
It gets away from Hays
Waner is coming hard
Hays fires to Hunter
And Waner barrels Owen over
He dropped the ball!
Both runners advanced on that wild pitch
Now, FOFC leads 7 to 6

Hard slider...
And Mize takes it right down the middle
Strike three called
That's it for NL Pre WWII
Here at FOFC Stadium, After
4 and a half innings,
FOFC has 7 runs, 10 hits and one error
While NL Pre WWII has 6 runs,
6 hits and no errors
NL Pre WWII has left 2 on base
FOFC has stranded 3
Burleigh Grimes will be coming
on to pitch for NL Pre WWII
Burleigh has appeared in
6 games this season
He has a record of 3-0
in 34 innings
His ERA stands at 3.74

Curve in the dirt... and Hays holds up
Looked like he went around from here
But the man in blue says no
Hartnett appeals to first
Appeal fails
Hays will take first on the walk
That's 1 walk today for Hays

A high bouncer to Mize
He makes a one handed grab
Over to Frisch for one...
Back to Mize for the deuce!
That's two away
Frisch comes over from his shortstop
position to say a few words to Grimes
Gerald Gazelle will be next up...

Hot shot grounded to first
Grimes takes the flip from Mize
Score It: 3-1
That does it for FOFC in
the bottom of the 5th

Sharp breaking curveball...
Ott reaches for it...
Hits a two bouncer right to Fouts...
Grabs it easily...
Fires a bullet to Potpie at first!
Ott is out easily
So one up and one gone

Bounding ball to short
Taken by Nights
Over to Potpie
Got him!
Score It: 6-3

Change up...
Traynor hits a fly ball to right
Pflaggstettler is under it...
This should end the inning...
He's got it
That wraps up the inning for NL Pre WWII
So After 5 and a half innings
FOFC has 7 runs, 10 hits and one error
While NL Pre WWII has 6 runs,
6 hits and no errors
NL Pre WWII has left 2 stranded
FOFC has failed to bring home 3

Topped in front of home
Hartnett grabs it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 2-3
One down for FOFC
Owen Hunter is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to
the plate for FOFC

Grounded to the right side
Mize comes up with it
Waves off Grimes...
Runs to the bag
Out!
One more chance for FOFC in
the bottom of the 6th

There's a fly ball to Paul Waner
Waner circles under it...
He makes the play
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
Time to check out the rest of the scores

AL Post WWII leads AL Pre WWII 3 to 2
Dead Ball Era is pounding
Negro League II 8 to 1
Walsh enjoying the big Dead Ball Era lead
NL Post WWII is on top of Left Outs 6 to 4
Caribbean is edging Turn of Century 3 to 2
Tiant Sr. and Rusie currently dueling
Old Timers and Late 20th
are deadlocked at 1
And in our contest FOFC on top 7 to 6

Bottomley laces a hit into the outfield
A. J. Tucker picks it up
Fires it to the infield
Bottomley holds with a single

Frisch hits a screamer at Barrett Blade
Blade picks it up and fires to second
Out there...
And the throw to first
A tailor made double play
One more chance for NL
Pre WWII this inning

Waner hits a fly ball to left
Gerald Gazelle camps under it
He's got it
That ends the inning
After 6 and a half innings,
FOFC leads by 1

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!
Dazzy Vance will be coming on
to pitch for NL Pre WWII
Dazzy has appeared in 6 games this season
He has a record of 1-0
in 11 innings
His ERA stands at .84

Fastball, busted in on the hands
Nights manages to get a piece of it
Bouncing it over the mound
Frisch cuts it off in front of the bag
Rifles a throw to Mize...
And Nights is called out on a close play
One up, one down for FOFC

Pflaggstettler hits a deep
fly ball into the alley
Paul Waner chases it down
But the ball hits the base of the wall
Waner hits the wall and
falls to the ground
Pflaggstettler is into third with a triple
Now they check on Waner
He's okay
That ball hit right at the
base of the fence
399 feet from home plate

That's hit down the line
Chuck Klein giving chase
It one-hops the fence
Potpie rounds first
Klein has the ball
Potpie motors into second
Two-bagger!
Pflaggstettler scores from third!

Base hit to right for Hays
Dick Howser puts up the stop sign...
Runner holds.

Pounded on the ground to second
Taken by Hornsby
Throw to second for one
On to first
Double Play!
Score It: 4-6-3
That is the third out for FOFC here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 47039

The pitch is just inside
and Hornsby holds up
Hays points down at the first base umpire
He went around
That is strike three!
One out
Chuck Klein is due up next

It's a quail shot headed
towards the outfield
Blade takes off after it...
Leaps...
And Klein is OUT!
Very impressive range shown on that play!
Barrett is very fine fielder!
Two quick outs for NL Pre WWII
They need baserunners; and now!
At least they have one of
their better hitters
Johnny Mize, up next

Mize rips a hard drive off a hanging curve
That will be in there for extra bases
Mize is around first, heading for two...
Tucker is up with it and
fires it in quickly
Johnny pulls up sharply at second...
A stand-up double for the NL
Pre WWII first baseman
Johnny also ups his hitting
streak to 7 games!
That is Mize's 1st hit today

Ott smacks a fly to center
Tucker is waiting on it
Pounds his mitt
A. J. takes it in
That retires the side
NL Pre WWII comes up empty-handed
Here in the top of the 8th
No runs, one hit, no errors
and one man left on base

Fastball, a beauty...
Steee Rike THREE!
One up, one down

Blade checks his swing
WAIT
The home plate ump is pointing
towards first base
He's ruling the pitch touched
the uniform of Blade
Blade is awarded first base

Base hit to center for Gonzalez
Blade is racing towards third...
The throw is going to third...
Blade is safe at third!
And Gonzalez advances to
second on the throw

Groundball to first
Dick Howser will send the runner home...
They throw trying to get
the lead runner...
Here's the play at home...
He's OUT!

Nights drives the ball to
center for extra bases
Gonzalez scores
Dick Howser is waving the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Tucker scores!
Double for Nights

Looks like they want nothing
to do with Pflaggstettler
Persimmon is dangerous in
situations like this...
He's being put on to set up the force...

He struck him out on a foul tip
Hartnett held on to that heater
in on Potpie's fists
That ends the bottom of the 8th
After 8 innings, the All Stars lead by 4

Ground ball to second
Blade comes up with it
Over to first
He just beat it out

Base hit to left for Traynor
Third base coach Casey Stingle
doesn't want to gamble
Nothing ventured, nothing gained...
Hartnett will stay at second

It's right down the pike!
Strike three looking!
Knowles crossed Terry up that time
One down...
Knowles has to continue to bear down

Frisch laces a hit into the outfield
Persimmon Pflaggstettler picks it up
He fires it to the infield
Frisch holds with a single

The pitch is low
It bounces away from Hays!
He's got it
But there's no throw.
It's scored a wild pitch.

That's hit deep to center
A. J. Tucker giving chase
He grabs it
Nice play!
Traynor is tagging up
He'll make it easily
Score It: 8
FOFC leads 10 to 8 with
two away this inning

The Whiff on the "high cheese"!
And that will do it for NL Pre WWII
FOFC wins 10 to 8
Hunter gets credit for the win
Marquard takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Jeeberoni Potpie
He was 3 for 5 with a homerun
He also knocked in 3 runs
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.

[Breeze]

GAME 23 - Wednesday, April 25th - Boxscore


Pre-Nationals AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG
F.Frisch SS 3 2 1 0 .244 A.Tucker CF 5 2 1 1 .326
P.Waner CF 4 2 1 2 .279 J.Nights SS 5 2 3 2 .333
R.Hornsby 2B 4 0 2 3 .286 P.Pflaggstettler RF 4 1 2 1 .397
C.Klein LF 4 0 0 0 .326 J.Potpie 1B 5 2 3 3 .338
J.Mize 1B 4 0 1 0 .356 H.Hays C 3 1 3 0 .415
M.Ott RF 4 0 0 0 .298 D.Fouts 3B 4 1 1 3 .190
G.Hartnett C 4 2 2 0 .254 G.Gazelle LF 4 0 0 0 .333
P.Traynor 3B 4 2 2 1 .306 B.Blade 2B 3 0 1 0 .236
R.Marquard P 1 0 1 0 .222 O.Hunter P 1 0 0 0 .000
A-R.Youngs PH 1 0 0 0 .250 B-K.Terp PH 1 0 0 0 .172
B.Grimes P 0 0 0 0 .375 S.Fozborg P 0 0 0 0 ----
C-J.Bottomley PH 1 0 1 0 .500 D-D.Gonzalez PH 1 1 1 0 .300
D.Vance P 0 0 0 0 .000 S.Knowles P 0 0 0 0 ----
E-B.Terry PH 1 0 0 0 .231
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
Totals 35 8 11 6 Totals 36 10 15 10
A-Pinch Hit For Marquard In 5th Inning
B-Pinch Hit For Hunter In 6th Inning
C-Pinch Hit For Grimes In 7th Inning
D-Pinch Hit For Fozborg In 8th Inning
E-Pinch Hit For Vance In 9th Inning

Pre-Nationals... 2 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 2 - 8 11 0
All Stars....... 2 0 3 2 0 0 1 2 - 10 15 1

Pre-Nationals IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
R.Marquard LOSS(1-3) 4 10 7 7 0 7 3 94 7.09
B.Grimes 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 25 3.53
D.Vance 2 5 3 3 1 2 0 36 2.84
Totals 8 15 10 10 2 9 3

All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
O.Hunter WIN(2-1) 6 6 6 5 2 4 0 95 5.14
S.Fozborg HOLD(2nd) 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 24 2.45
S.Knowles 1 3 2 2 0 2 0 30 3.18
Totals 9 11 8 7 2 7 0
ATTENDANCE- 47,039 DATE- Wednesday, April 25th 1900 TIME- Night
T- 2:06
LEFT ON BASE- Pre-Nationals: 4 All Stars: 6
DOUBLE PLAYS- Pre-Nationals: 2 All Stars: 1
ERRORS- J.Nights
DOUBLES- J.Mize(6th), G.Hartnett(2nd), J.Nights-2(8th), J.Potpie(2nd)
TRIPLES- P.Waner(2nd), P.Pflaggstettler(3rd)
HOME RUNS- A.Tucker(1st), J.Potpie(9th), D.Fouts(1st)
SACRIFICE HITS- O.Hunter
SACRIFICE FLIES- P.Waner, R.Hornsby
WALKS- F.Frisch-2, P.Pflaggstettler, H.Hays
HIT BY PITCH- B.Blade
STRIKE OUTS- R.Hornsby-2, J.Mize-2, M.Ott, R.Youngs, B.Terry, A.Tucker-2,
J.Nights, P.Pflaggstettler-2, J.Potpie, D.Fouts, G.Gazelle,
O.Hunter
GIDP- F.Frisch, D.Fouts-2
WILD PITCHES- O.Hunter, S.Knowles

[terpkristin]

Coach,
Can I quit?
I'm super-stinking up the joint. :(

/tk

[tucker342]

Finally I hit my first home run!:)

[SirFozzie]

Nice.. I seem to be kicking butt :)

[Sublime 2]

Coach,
Can I quit?
I'm super-stinking up the joint. :(

/tk

Owen Hunter is in the same boat.

[Blade]

Owen Hunter is in the same boat.

Blade isn't doing much better...

[kingfc22]

I'm a stud pinch hitter. At least I can do that right......for now.

[oykib]

Seems I can't break the pattern of knocking the stuffing out of the ball in one game then following that with an oh-fer.

[Breeze]

FOFC Manager Update


I call a team meeting this morning. Funny with a 20 and 3 record this would be needed, but the Chuck Tanner insisted it was necessary. He apparently overheard some people who were upset with their performance.

"Team, I have to say I'm extremely proud of our start. This has exceeded my wildest expectations. I hoped for a good start and the long homestand helped us considerably, but I never dreamed we would be 20 and 3 right now. We've pitched well and hit well for the most part, and those of you who are struggling, hang in there - it's a long season and you'll be needed somewhere down the road.

Things can change rapidly - look at Palmer. He started off slow and now he's hitting right at .300. Blade started out on fire, but now he's in the low .230s. Things change quickly, and I won't be surprised if in a couple weeks Blade is back up around .300 and leading off again.

One more thing, we are about to take a road trip to Japan. If you've never played over there or seen a Japanese baseball game it's very different that what you are used to. It's more like a College Football game, loud, noise makers, constant chanting. It's fun, but you'll need to stay focused and remember we are there to win baseball games. Also it's one long freakin' flight, so do whatever you have to - so you'll be comfortable on it.

Now lets go get our work in before the game, and take care of the Pre-Nationals tonight"

[Breeze]

FOFC Manager Update


I finish my talk and head into my office to read the paper. I didn't get to do that this morning, because Tanner "had to talk to me about the team."

I sit down to read and my phone rings.

"Hello?"

"Coach, it's Herb Marketing."

The name means nothing to me, and I'm sure I've never set eyes on this guy but I go along, "Morning Herb, what can I do for you?"

"I just got a call from ESPN." I roll my eyes, knowing what's coming. "They was to do a feature on your teams fast start, and they want to get it in before you head to Japan. So when would you like to talk with them?"

"How's never?"

"Ok, let me rephrase," he says in an aggravated tone. "You will meet with them, and I'll schedule it at a time that is convenient for me is you don't pick a time."

"How soon can they be here." I sigh.

"They are already in town." He answers in a perky voice and I'm having thoughts about smaking this guy.

"Fine, tell them to talk with me after the game. Any idea when they want to air this?"

"Next couple of days." he answers then quickly follows up with "Got go, need to contact them with the time," and he hangs up.

I look at the phone and listen to the dial tone. I place it gently in the receiver because it isn't the phones fault I have to do this. Then I say out loud, "Great here comes Jinx number 2".

In hanging up the phone I nudge the morning paper and remember I still haven't read it, so I open it to the baseball section and...

[Breeze]

The National Herald - Thursday, April 26th

SPORTS

TEAM WON LOST BATTING AVERAGE HOME RUNS RUNS BATTED IN
2001 NLO 14 9 D.Brouthe OTH .455 J.Foxx LOH 10 J.Foxx LOH 23
2001 L20 11 13 N.Lajoie TCH .452 J.Potpie FAS 9 P.Cepeda CAP 22
2001 DBH 11 13 T.Cobb DBH .407 B.Ruth A1H 9 R.Clement N2H 22
2001 OTH 9 11 G.Sisler DBH .402 OTHERS TIED W 7 P.Traynor N1H 22
2001 A1H 9 13 C.Bell NLO .400 J.Beckley TCH 20
2001 A2H 8 13
2002 JLP 6 15 WINS SAVES ERA
B.Babson FAS 4 W.McDonal NLO 4 V.Mathis NLT 1.63
1000 FAS 20 3 J.Maricha N2H 4 S.Knowles FAS 4 P.Galvin OTH 1.91
2001 TCH 15 8 C.Young TCH 4 G.Gossage L20 4 P.Martine L20 2.10
2001 N1H 14 8 OTHERS TIED W 3 OTHERS TIED W 3 B.Babson FAS 2.13
2001 N2H 14 10 C.Redding NLT 2.45
2001 LOH 11 13
2001 CAP 9 14 CUR HIT STREAK STOLEN BASES STRIKEOUTS
2001 NLT 8 16 B.Bullock FAS 11 H.Duffy TCH 14 R.Clemens L20 48
J.Kelley TCH 11 C.Bell NLO 13 R.Johnson L20 44
H.Duffy TCH 9 S.Poles NLT 10 L.Tiant S CAP 39
J.Burkett TCH 8 P.Mesa CAP 9 B.Babson FAS 39
OTHERS TIED W 7 J.Morgan N2H 8 R.Nielsen FAS 37

YESTERDAY'S GAMES TODAY'S SCHEDULE AND PROBABLE STARTERS
CAP 3 at TCH 5 CAP-Mendez(1-2, 3.96) at TCH-Young(4-1, 3.46)
N1H 8 at FAS 10 N1H-Haines(0-0,11.57) at FAS-Babson(4-0, 2.13)
OTH 2 at L20 1 OTH-Clarkso(1-3, 5.23) at L20-Eckersl(0-0, 4.76)
A2H 15 at A1H 3 A2H-Ryan(0-2, 6.26) at A1H-Lyons(2-0, 4.00)
JLP at NLO JLP-Kaneda(1-2, 6.21) at NLO-Paige(2-1, 3.25)
LOH 9 at N2H 8 LOH-Not announced at N2H-Gibson(2-1, 5.29)
NLT 2 at DBH 8 NLT-Redding(1-3, 2.45) at DBH-Johnson(3-2, 2.61)

YESTERDAY'S BEST PERFORMANCES
BATTER TM OPP AB R H RB BB Ks HR SB
W.Mays N2H LOH 4 2 2 3 1 0 2 0
M.Mantle A2H A1H 6 3 4 4 0 0 1 0
J.Potpie FAS N1H 5 2 3 3 0 1 1 0
H.Wagner TCH CAP 4 1 2 3 1 0 1 1
H.Baker DBH NLT 4 0 3 5 1 0 0 1

PITCHER TM OPP INN H R ER BB Ks HR WLS
E.Walsh DBH NLT 9.0 5 2 1 4 3 0 W
M.Welch OTH L20 9.0 6 1 1 2 1 0 W
V.Willis TCH CAP 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 W
B.Sutter L20 OTH 1.0 0 0 0 0 3 0
B.Grimes N1H FAS 2.0 0 0 0 1 0 0

INJURY REPORT
M.Dihigo, Negro League I - 11 more games
C.Torriente, Negro League I - 13 more games
W.Brown, Negro League II - 2 more games
B.Herman, Left Outs - 2 more games
B.Lemon, Left Outs - 10 more games
E.Rixey, NL Pre WWII - 12 more games
G.Maddux, Late 20th - 3 more games
J.Smoltz, Late 20th - 11 more games



CARIBBEAN AT TURN OF CENTURY
Estrellas....... 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 3 4 0
Centurions...... 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 - 5 11 0
Win:Willis(2-1) Loss:Garcia(1-2)
Homeruns- P.Coimbre(3rd), P.Cepeda(5th), H.Wagner(1st), J.Collins(1st)

Shortstop Honus Wagner blasted a homerun and had 3 RBI as the Turn of Century
Centurions won in dramatic fashion over the Caribbean Estrellas by a score of
5 to 3 at Yellowstone Park.

Turn of Century erupted with the game winning runs in the 9th inning scoring 3
runs on 3 hits. Hugh Duffy started the inning off right when he laced a
base-knock. Jesse Burkett came to the plate and stroked a base-hit. Wagner
then lost the ball over the fence for three runs (his 1st of the season)
making Turn of Century victorious to the delight of the the home town crowd.
For the game Turn of Century out-hit Caribbean 11 to 4.

Vic Willis(2-1) was the winner allowing no runs in 1 inning. Mike Garcia(1-2)
absorbed the loss in relief. He surrendered 2 hits and no walks without
retiring a batter.

Connie Mack was ebullient after the game, 'It's great to win a hard fought
game like that. Our guys just weren't going to be denied. And did you see
the fans - they were going wild! Yes sir, a very enjoyable win tonight!'

OLD TIMERS AT LATE 20TH
Ancients........ 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 - 2 8 0
Modern Stars.... 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 - 1 6 0
Win:Welch(3-1) Loss:Johnson(2-4)
Homeruns- S.Thompson(2nd)

Mickey Welch tossed a complete game as the Old Timers Ancients defeated the
Late 20th Modern Stars by a score of 2 to 1 at Free Agent Field.

Old Timers scored the deciding run in the 8th inning. After two were out Sam
Thompson delivered a solo blast (his 2nd of the season). Late 20th had a
chance in the 9th but they came up short.

Welch(3-1), allowing 1 run for the game, picked up the victory. Randy
Johnson(2-4) took the loss. He pitched 8 innings allowing 8 hits and 4
walks.

With this win, Old Timers has a 9-11 record. They have been 5-5 lately. Late
20th continued their losing ways and their record is now 11-13. They are 2-8
in their last ten games.

AL POST WWII AT AL PRE WWII
Post-Americans.. 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 8 4 - 15 16 1
Pre-Americans... 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 - 3 6 0
Win:Ford(1-0) Loss:Mays(1-3)
Homeruns- M.Mantle(6th)

Center fielder Mickey Mantle had 4 hits and 4 RBI as the AL Pre WWII club were
badly beaten by the AL Post WWII team, 15 to 3.

Mantle had a big day against AL Pre WWII. He hit a single in the 4th inning,
ripped a base-knock in the 6th inning, laced a one-base hit scoring a run in
the 8th inning and lofted a three-run bomb (his 6th of the season) in the 9th
inning. AL Post WWII provided plenty of action in the 8th inning with 8 runs
on 7 hits and the 9th inning scoring 4 runs. AL Pre WWII was out-hit by AL
Post WWII, 16 hits to 6.

The winning pitcher was Whitey Ford(1-0) who allowed 1 run in 2 innings. Carl
Mays(1-3) was the loser. He allowed 11 hits and 5 walks in 7 and 1/3
innings.


LEFT OUTS AT NL POST WWII
Leftovers....... 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 5 - 9 8 0
Post-Nationals.. 5 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 - 8 14 0
Win:Roberts(3-1) Loss:Bunning(1-3) Save:Jenkins(1st)
Homeruns- M.Cochrane(3rd), W.Mays-2(7th), J.Bench(2nd), E.Banks(7th)

In a dramatic ending the Left Outs Leftovers staged a comeback and held on to
win over the NL Post WWII ballclub by the count of 9 to 8.

Left Outs had the game winning rally in the 9th inning when they scored 5 runs
on 2 hits. The key at-bat was by Jackie Robinson who deflated the spirits of
the home town crowd when he smacked a single bringing in two baserunners. NL
Post WWII had 14 hits in the game while Left Outs had 8, but Left Outs had
the more timely hits.

Robin Roberts(3-1) got credit for the victory, pitching 2 innings and allowing
1 run. Roberts got relief help from Ferguson Jenkins who gained credit for
his 1st save. The losing pitcher was Jim Bunning(1-3) in relief. He pitched
1 inning giving up 2 hits and 1 walk.

Bunning was feeling apologetic in the locker room, 'I sure let that one get
away. What a miserable feeling to let the guys down; and our fans. One
minute things are looking great, then. BOOM, it's over with! I just hope I
get a chance to redeem myself real soon!'

NEGRO LEAGUE II AT DEAD BALL ERA
Twos............ 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 - 2 5 2
Ghosts.......... 0 1 0 1 2 4 0 0 - 8 12 2
Win:Walsh(3-3) Loss:Wickware(1-4)

Home Run Baker had 3 base hits and 5 RBI and Ed Walsh went the distance at
Deadball Park where the Dead Ball Era Ghosts beat the Negro League II Twos by
the score of 8 to 2.

Baker made sure the Dead Ball Era fans enjoyed themselves. He tripled
bringing in a run in the 2nd inning, laced a base-hit plating two runs in the
5th inning and laced a one-base hit which was good for two runs in the 6th
inning. Dead Ball Era had a total of 12 hits for the game.

Walsh(3-3) finished the game allowing 2 runs in the victory. The loss was
charged to Frank Wickware(1-4). He got hit hard, allowing 11 hits and 5
walks in 5 and 2/3 innings.


NL PRE WWII AT FOFC
Pre-Nationals... 2 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 2 - 8 11 0
All Stars....... 2 0 3 2 0 0 1 2 - 10 15 1
Win:Hunter(2-1) Loss:Marquard(1-3)
Homeruns- A.Tucker(1st), J.Potpie(9th), D.Fouts(1st)

In a close game it was the FOFC All Stars 10, the NL Pre WWII team 8 at FOFC
Stadium.

The home town fans were very appreciative of the fine hitting performance
provided by Jeeberoni Potpie. He blasted a two-run home run (his 9th of the
season) in the 1st inning, slapped a single in the 3rd inning and doubled
resulting in a run in the 7th inning. NL Pre WWII threatened in the 9th but
FOFC was able to put down the rally.

Owen Hunter(2-1) got the win allowing 6 runs in 6 innings. Rube Marquard(1-3)
ended up with the loss. He was touched for 3 homeruns in his 4 innings of
work.

FOFC continued their winnings ways improving their record to a division
leading 20-3. They are 8-2 in their last ten games. With this loss, NL Pre
WWII has a 5-5 record of late, 14-8 overall.

[Breeze]

GAME 24 - Thursday, April 26th - Radio Broadcast

Frisch pulls one to the left side
It's going to scoot on through the infield
Gunner will retrieve it without difficulty
He tosses it back in to second
as Frisch retreats to first
after a wide turn

Frisch watches Williams move...
He's moving away from the bag
Excellent lead...
The slider from Williams...
Frisch takes off on the pitch!...
Fastball at the belt...
Here's the peg down...
Good slide...
Frisch is in there!

Base hit to left for Traynor
Casey Stingle is windmilling
the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Frisch scores!

It's a scorching liner to
the second baseman
OUT!
Blade didn't have to move!
Traynor stays put

Base hit to left for Ott
Casey Stingle puts up the stop sign...
Traynor will stay at second

Cuyler rips a solid shot to left
Gunner ranges to his right...
He is juggling it!...
Finally finds the handle
Whew!
Runners can't advance
Two down
Bullock asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Bullock and Williams

A slider by Williams
Medwick gets good wood on it...
Tucker back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
That retires the side
The Pre-Nationals score
1 run in the inning
After one half inning, NL
Pre WWII on top 1 to 0

Inside slider...
Tucker raps it hard...
Over the bag at first
Ott giving chase...
He plays it nicely in the
corner off the fence
Tucker doesn't slow down rounding first...
Here's the throw from Ott...
But Tucker is into second with a double

Nights rips one on the ground
It's a 'daisy cutter' to Frisch
Frankie fields it cleanly
Looks Tucker back to second
Now fires it over to first...
Easy out
With one down, up next is Persimmon
Pflaggstettler
To be followed by Jeeberoni Potpie

Just off the plate
Ball four

There's the heater...
Strike three swinging!
Potpie will take his seat
That's two away

Hit in the air to left
Camped under it is Medwick
And he has it
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
So After 1 inning
NL Pre WWII has one run,
3 hits and no errors
While FOFC has no runs,
one hit and no errors
FOFC has left 2 stranded
NL Pre WWII has failed to bring home 2

Hard slider, outside part of the plate...
Hartnett steps into it...
Lifts a high fly ball to deep left
This one's going to be close...
It looks like it will stay in the park
Gunner maneuvering under it...

IT'S TOO DEEP... It's a home
run for Hartnett!

There's a liner over short...
Solidly stroked by Terry
No chance for either Nights or Gunner
That one had base hit written all over it

Jesse Haines squares to bunt
Potpie fields it, THEN DROPS THE BALL!
Potpie picks it up and fires to first
Haines is out by an eyelash
Credit Haines with a sacrifice
One down for NL Pre WWII
Frankie Frisch is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to the
plate for NL Pre WWII

Swung on and popped up
Nights is under it
He puts it away
Score It: 6
And there's two away

Traynor hits a fly ball to center
Tucker moves over to make the catch
Tucker FALLS DOWN
He gets up... he makes the catch!
Nice recovery by A. J. Tucker
NL Pre WWII gets 1 in the top of the 2nd
One run, 2 hits, no errors
and one man left on base
After 1 and a half innings,
NL Pre WWII leads by 2

Bullock starts... but lays
off the pitch upstairs
Ball four, Haines walks him

Fastball inside...
Swung on by Gunner...
There's a ground ball between
first and second
Hornsby gloves it going
away in short right
He spins, firing to the pitcher covering

SAFE!..By a step
Hornsby gave it a great effort

Hit and run...
Routine grounder to short
Taken by Frisch
Throws to second
He's out
They might turn it . . .
Double Play!
Score It: 6-4-3
Two down

Williams swings...
And hits nothing but air!
Strike three!
Boy, whatta aggitatin' curve ball!
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
By the way, FOFC is 8 and 2
in their last ten games

Curveball, inside corner, low...
Swung on...
And lined to center for a base hit
No chance to get that one

Ground ball to short
Nights comes up with it
He tosses it to second...
Gets the force
That's one away

Big heater...
In on the hands...
Swung on and popped up
Palmer is waiting...
And that's an easy out
Two down for NL Pre WWII
in the top of the 3rd
NL Pre WWII ahead 2 to 0

Base hit to right for Medwick
Third base coach Casey Stingle
doesn't want to gamble
Nothing ventured, nothing gained...
Ott will stay at second

Base hit to right for Hartnett
Casey Stingle will send the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Aggressive baserunning by NL Pre WWII...
Not cut-off...
Ott scores!
Trailing runners advance.

Pounded on the ground to second
Taken by Blade
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 4-3
That ends the inning for NL Pre WWII
NL Pre WWII has 3 runs,
8 hits and no errors
While FOFC has no runs,
2 hits and no errors
They have now stranded 5 baserunners

Curveball, breaking to the outside...
Lazy ground ball to the right side
It'll be a very tough play for Terry
He picks it up, throws to
Haines covering first
Not in time as Tucker beats the throw

Base hit to center for Nights
Dick Howser puts up the stop sign...
Tucker will stay at second

Pflaggstettler squares around
He bunts at it . . .
Fielded by P.Traynor
the throw to first...
Out
Pflaggstettler gets the job done.
One down for FOFC
Jeeberoni Potpie is still
in the on-deck circle
and Deacon Palmer is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Potpie goes after Haines' fastball...
He gets under it a little...
But it is going way back in left-center
Medwick is retreating after it quickly
He is right at the fence...
It's out of here!
Jeeberoni just hit home run number 10
of this 1900 season

Curve in the dirt... and Palmer holds up
Looked like he went around from here
But the plate umpire says no
Hartnett asks the first base ump's opinion
He says Palmer went around
Strike three, swinging
With two gone, We're all tied up
at 3 in the bottom of the 3rd

Right down the middle... strike three
Bullock must have been looking
for something else
He just froze on that pitch
The All Stars come from behind in the 3rd
They pick up 3 runs to tie it up
We go to the 4th...
All Stars 3, Pre-Nationals 3

Breaking ball...
It darts down and out
as Haines swings way over it
He was fooled completely
Bullock loses it momentarily,
but now finds the handle and tags
Jesse as he was heading for the dugout
One down, nobody on
Game tied

Frisch hits a fly ball to center
A. J. Tucker camps under it
He's got it
Two down
Williams retires two in a row

There's a high pop fly to the outfield
Stan Gunner moves to his left
He makes the catch
Wait, he bobbles it!
Gunner grabs it with his
bare hand for the out
1-2-3, nothing across...

High
Gunner works out a walk

Blade raps a hard grass-cutter
toward third
Traynor takes two steps to his left
Scoops it up...
Over to second for one
Back to first...
Not in time!
Speed on the bases helped FOFC there
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

AL Post WWII is in front
of AL Pre WWII 7 to 4
Mantle has hit his 7th homerun
for AL Post WWII
Quite a year for the slugger
Dead Ball Era is in front of
Negro League II 3 to 0
Wallace has hit his 1st homerun
for Dead Ball Era
Turn of Century is edging Caribbean 3 to 2
Kelley has hit his 2nd homerun
for Turn of Century
And right here in FOFC The
score is knotted at 3

Williams squares around
He lays a beauty down the first base line
Haines and Terry collide
going for the ball
Terry recovers, picks it up
and fires to first
OUT!!
Credit John Williams with a sacrifice
Two gone here in the bottom of the 4th
We want to welcome the FOFC
"Sportsman Club"
to the game today
We hope you enjoy your
trip to the ballpark

Hit in the air to left
Camped under it is Medwick
And he has it
That retires the side...
Tucker fails to come through in the clutch
For FOFC, No runs, no hits, no errors
and one man left on base

Low fastball...
Hornsby swings...
Hits it into the hole between 1st and 2nd
Potpie snags it moving to his right
Leads Williams perfectly
racing to the bag...
And he easily beats Hornsby for the out
With one gone
NL Pre WWII will have Mel Ott coming up
A dangerous hitter, no doubt about it

Slider, down and in...
Ott manages to hit a shallow fly
Tucker charging hard... dives...
Great diving catch by Tucker!
He slid several feet after
making that stab
Two up, two down for NL Pre WWII

Cuyler hits a screamer at Barrett Blade
Blade takes it with the backhand...
The throw is short...
Potpie scoops it on one hop

Cuyler is out!
Nice play by Potpie
That's all for NL Pre WWII
After 4 and a half innings
in FOFC this evening,
We're all tied up at 3

Swung on and hit sharply to short
Frisch plays it on one hop
Over to Terry...
Out of there!
So one up and one gone

Comebacker, right to Haines
Over to Terry for the easy out
Two up, two down for the All Stars

Swung on and missed by Potpie,
he's down on strikes
That is 2 on the day for Potpie
That does it for FOFC in
the bottom of the 5th

Medwick rips the curve to left-center...
Gunner racing back to the fence...
He reaches for the drive...
It's over his head!
Medwick will lope into
second with a double

Flyball to center
it's caught
Medwick has a chance to move up...
Medwick is trying to advance
to third base...
Here's the play...
He's SAFE!

Groundball to back to the mound
Casey Stingle plays it safe
and stops him at third...
Terry is retired on the groundout

Haines looks at ball four
That pitch wasn't even close...
Must have got away from Williams
Now there are runners at the corners

Haines takes a short lead against
the lefty Williams
Haines has to hold tight to the bag

Frisch swings and lifts one toward left
Gunner drifts over slowly...
He is under it now...
And makes the easy catch...
That's it for NL Pre WWII
Here at FOFC Stadium, After
5 and a half innings,
FOFC has 3 runs, 5 hits and no errors
While NL Pre WWII has 3 runs,
9 hits and no errors
NL Pre WWII has left 7 on base
FOFC has stranded 4

Deacon Palmer offers at the curveball,
but checks his swing
Oh, Palmer couldn't get the
bat out of the way
It's a soft line drive to
Pie Traynor for the out
Palmer never even left the batter's box
One away for FOFC here in
the bottom of the 6th

Bullock swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Haines strikes out Billy Bullock
Two down in the 6th
Time for a station break
This is the Strat-O-Matic Broadcast System
your 4 Sports Network...
OK, we're back and ready to go...

Gunner lofts a fly to deep right
Ott trots slowly under it...
He makes the catch
Easy inning for Haines
So after six complete...
The score is tied at 3

Grounded towards third
Palmer scoops it
LONG THROW...
HE'S OUT!
One gone for NL Pre WWII

Rogers raps a high bouncer toward third
Palmer snatches it on the third hop
Overhands one to first
Easy out
That's the second out of the inning

He rips a grounder to the mound
Rodney grabs it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 1-3
That wraps up the inning for NL Pre WWII
Time to check out the rest of the scores

AL Post WWII is in front
of AL Pre WWII 7 to 4
Ryan comfortably ahead for AL Post WWII
Dead Ball Era slipping by
Negro League II 3 to 1
Chesbro battling Redding
Caribbean and Turn of Century
are tied at 3
Cepeda has hit his 6th homerun
for Caribbean
He's putting up big numbers this year
And in our matchup We're all tied up at 3

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

Curve in the dirt... and Blade holds up
Looked like he went around from here
But the man in blue says no
Hartnett appeals to first
Appeal fails
Blade will take first on the walk
That's 1 walk today for Blade

Kris Terp shows bunt
And lays it down right to Gabby Hartnett
Hartnett looks at second
But passes up a sure force play
He fires to first to retire Terp
But Blade moves up
FOFC was in luck that time...
Credit Kris Terp with a sacrifice
One gone in the bottom of the 7th
Up next is A. J. Tucker
He's having a fine year so far

Curveball, in and low
Tucker hits it to Terry at first
Takes it cleanly...
Races to the bag...
It's going to be close...
And...
Out is the call
That could have gone either way
Blade is now perched over at third
We're all tied up at 3 with
two away this inning

Jeff Nights offers at the slider,
but checks his swing
Oh, Nights couldn't get the
bat out of the way
It's a soft line drive to
Pie Traynor for the out
Nights never even left the batter's box
That is the third out for FOFC here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 41542

There's a deep fly ball to Stan Gunner
Gunner circles under it...
He hauls it in on the warning track
And there's one away

It's a long, lazy fly into left
Gunner ranges over to his left
He makes the catch

What a pitch... strike three
Fozborg put that one on the
black, a perfect pitch
That'll do it for NL Pre WWII
So we're still tied
After 7 and a half innings
FOFC has 3 runs, 5 hits and no errors
While NL Pre WWII has 3 runs,
9 hits and no errors

Pflaggstettler swings and lines
it on the nose to center
Cuyler picks it up on one bounce
Flips it in to second
Pflaggstettler rounds first and holds
with a sharply hit single
He hit a curve ball
that he was just "sitting" on

Well hit by Potpie
Medwick moves back, back... and...
He pulls it down near the fence in left
NL Pre WWII gets the first out
here late in this contest

Palmer chases the breaking ball...
It's a grounder at third base...
Traynor takes it on the second bounce...
Pumps once to first, then
throws to second...
They get the sliding Pflaggstettler...
That's one out...
And Hornsby holds onto the ball
There's no play at first
Two down
Due up next is Billy Bullock
Having quite a year so far
He brings a lot of power to the All Stars

There's a fly ball into straight-away left
Medwick one hands it...
OUT!
That's all for the All Stars
No runs, one hit, no errors and
one man left on base...
At the end of eight full innings...
We're all tied up at 3

Terry pounds a grounder toward
Blade at second
Barrett moves in front of it...
Whoops... a bad bounce
But Blade stayed with it
Over to first and Terry is retired
Nice play by the FOFC second baseman
One up, one down here in
the top of the 9th

In the dirt
That's ball four

The runner goes
Frisch likes the hit and run...
Frisch misses the pitch!
The steal attempt...
Bullock is up and firing...
One hopper to Blade...
Headfirst slide...
And Bottomley is STILL out!...
Nice play by Nights...
That was a tough catch

Frisch swings on a ball in on his fists
It results in a pop up to first
Potpie is under it...
A few steps to his right...
One hands it for the out
Frisch looked bad on that pitch
The Pre-Nationals are gone
in the 9th... they get
No runs, no hits and no errors...
We head to the bottom of the 9th...
The score is tied at 3
Burleigh Grimes will be coming
on to pitch for NL Pre WWII
Burleigh has appeared in
7 games this season
He has a record of 3-0
in 36 innings
His ERA stands at 3.53

Curveball...
BALL FOUR!
Always nice to get a lead off walk...
but especially in a tie ballgame!

Blade showing bunt...
He lays it down
Burleigh Grimes looks at second
But goes to first...
Out... Gunner advances to 2nd
A sacrifice for Barrett Blade
NL Pre WWII gets the first
out of the inning

A high pop-up to first
Terry is under it...
He backpedals
Got it just in fair territory
Fake pump towards second
Gunner gets back to the bag
That's the second out of the inning

They are issuing a free pass to Tucker
Tucker watches ball four
He takes his base

Grounded towards the sack
Terry flips to Grimes covering
Score It: 3-1
And we go to extra innings!

Shallow fly ball
Tucker charging
HE DIVES...
HE'S GOT IT!
One away in the top of the
10th for NL Pre WWII

Hornsby drives one into center
A. J. Tucker sprints over to make the play
Two gone for NL Pre WWII

Curveball, high in the strike zone...
Ott goes after it...
There's a high fly... going deep
Persimmon Pflaggstettler
leaps at the fence...
He can't get it...
It's gone

A home run for Mel Ott

Groundball off the change-up...
Past Potpie at first...
It's rolling into the outfield grass...
Cuyler gets a base hit

Jace Kronside watches Cuyler
As he moves away from the bag
Kronside fails to hold Cuyler near the bag
He has himself a very
big start toward second base
A definite weakness of the
All Stars pitcher
I jinxed Kronside...
As Cuyler is off and running!
Bullock comes up from his stance firing...
The ball and the runner are both there...
Cuyler is in there under the tag!
Good headfirst slide
for number 2 in 1900

Hard slider...
And Medwick takes it right down the middle
Strike three called
Three down for NL Pre WWII
Still a 1 run deficit for FOFC
Let me point out that
coming in to today's game
NL Pre WWII is 4 and 2 in one run games
FOFC has a 10 and 0 record
in these tight contests

Changeup down low...
Pflaggstettler makes contact
and hits one out to left
Joe Medwick is drifting over...
Now he's under it...
Easy out for Grimes
One up, one down

Potpie pulls it hard over third...
And it's snared by Traynor!
Pie half fell and half dove
To grab that ball before it hit the ground
Two down
Grimes retires the first two FOFC batters

Sharp breaking curveball...
Palmer reaches for it...
Hits a two bouncer right to Frisch...
Grabs it easily...
Fires a bullet to Terry at first!
Palmer is out easily
And that will do it for FOFC
NL Pre WWII wins 4 to 3
Grimes gets credit for the win
Kronside takes the loss
The hitting star for NL Pre WWII
was Gabby Hartnett
He was 2 for 4 with a homerun
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.

[Breeze]

GAME 24 - Thursday, April 26th - Boxscore


Pre-Nationals AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG
F.Frisch SS 5 1 1 0 .242 A.Tucker CF 4 1 2 0 .333
P.Traynor 3B 5 0 1 1 .300 J.Nights SS 5 1 1 0 .325
R.Hornsby 2B 5 0 1 0 .280 P.Pflaggstettler RF 3 0 1 0 .395
M.Ott RF 5 2 2 1 .303 J.Potpie 1B 5 1 1 3 .329
K.Cuyler CF 5 0 1 0 .300 D.Palmer 3B 5 0 0 0 .269
J.Medwick LF 5 0 2 0 .429 B.Bullock C 3 0 0 0 .302
G.Hartnett C 4 1 2 2 .270 S.Gunner LF 2 0 1 0 .304
B.Terry 1B 4 0 1 0 .233 B.Blade 2B 2 0 0 0 .230
J.Haines P 1 0 0 0 .000 J.Williams P 1 0 0 0 .000
B-J.Bottomley PH 0 0 0 0 .500 J.Rodney P 0 0 0 0 ----
B.Grimes P 0 0 0 0 .375 A-K.Terp PH 0 0 0 0 .172
S.Fozborg P 0 0 0 0 ----
C-D.Gonzalez PH 1 0 0 0 .286
J.Kronside P 0 0 0 0 ----
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
Totals 39 4 11 4 Totals 31 3 6 3

A-Pinch Hit For Rodney In 7th Inning
B-Pinch Hit For Haines In 9th Inning
C-Pinch Hit For Fozborg In 9th Inning

Pre-Nationals... 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 4 11 0
All Stars....... 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 3 6 0

Pre-Nationals IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
J.Haines 8 6 3 3 4 6 1 123 5.23
B.Grimes WIN(4-0) 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 29 3.35
Totals 10 6 3 3 6 6 1

All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
J.Williams 6 9 3 3 1 1 1 124 2.77
J.Rodney 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 5.23
S.Fozborg 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 28 2.16
J.Kronside LOSS(3-1) 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 18 0.60
Totals 10 11 4 4 2 3 2

ATTENDANCE- 41,542 DATE- Thursday, April 26th 1900 TIME- Night
T- 2:38
LEFT ON BASE- Pre-Nationals: 8 All Stars: 8
DOUBLE PLAYS- Pre-Nationals: 1 All Stars: 0
DOUBLES- J.Medwick(6th), A.Tucker(2nd)
HOME RUNS- M.Ott(8th), G.Hartnett(4th), J.Potpie(10th)
STOLEN BASES- F.Frisch(2nd), K.Cuyler(2nd)
CAUGHT STEALING- J.Bottomley
SACRIFICE HITS- J.Haines, P.Pflaggstettler, B.Blade, J.Williams, K.Terp
WALKS- J.Haines, J.Bottomley, A.Tucker, P.Pflaggstettler, B.Bullock, S.Gunner-2,
B.Blade
STRIKE OUTS- J.Medwick, G.Hartnett, J.Haines, J.Potpie-2, D.Palmer, B.Bullock-2,
J.Williams
GIDP- B.Blade

[Breeze]

FOFC - Manager Update

Walking down the tunnel to the clubhouse I go extra slow allowing most of the players to pass. I know my team pretty well, even though I haven't managed the players for long, I know who's going to be last to leave the dugout. I actually have to come to a complete stop for a few minutes before I see the 6' 4" righthander come sulking down the tunnel. I slowly start walking again and in no time the bigger pitcher has caught up to me. Just before we enter the clubhouse, I slap Kronside on the back and say, "Hey kid, let's try to not break any mirrors this time - OK?" I wink at him and head to my office.