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1952 World Series Game 1 was a tight affair at Yankee Stadium, where Monte Irvin played hero once more as he broke a 2-2 tie in the ninth inning with a homer. Blake closed it out and we won 3-2. They rebounded in game two as Howie Pollet out pitched Cal Hogue, throwing a complete game and knocking in 2 runs as they evened the series with a 5-1 win. Game 3 was a brutal loss. We carried a 3-2 lead into the eighth inning but Lasorda & Blake blew it, each allowing a run in their inning of work as they won 4-3 to take a 2-1 lead in the series. Joe Dobson bested Bill Purkey in game four as they won 4-1 and pushed us to the brink. Joe Cunnigham collected two hits for the Yankees. Game five was about as wild an affair as you'll ever see. Cruising 5-0 after seven, we decided to pull Burdette in case we need him for game seven. Welp. Herriage did fine in the eighth but struggled to start the ninth and loaded the bases with nobody out. We brought Blake in and he promptly gave up 6 runs, giving them a 6-5 lead headed to the bottom of the ninth. With two outs and Roy McMillan on first, Greengrass and Campanella delivered back to back singles to plate the tying run. In the bottom of the 10th, Irvin doubled to lead off and McMillan shot one in the gap to score him and give us a 7-6 win and send the series back to New York. My lord. Andy Seminick tore his knee up and will miss the rest of the series. Bleh. Cal Hogue was brilliant in game 6, matching Howie Pollet 1-1 through seven innings. In the eighth we broke through on a Greengrass RBI double and a 2 run Clem Koshorek single to give us a 5-1 lead. Hogue finished it up and we've come back from 3-1 down to force a game seven with Simmons starting and Burdette ready to go if needed. Game seven matched up Joe Dobson for the Yankees and Curt Simmons for the Phils. We scored first in the top of the first on a run scoring ground out from Vic Wertz. The Yankees jumped ahead when Ralph Kiner blasted a 2 run homer in the bottom of the first to give the Yankees a 2-1 lead. In the bottom of the fourth Joe Cunningham and Jerry Coleman each had RBI singles to push the lead to 4-1. An RBI groundout by Vern Morgan in the fifth got us to within 4-2. Bob Purkey came in in the fifth for us and promptly allowed a Bill Rodgers homer as the fifth inning ended with them up 5-2. In the top of the sixth inning, with 2 outs and 2 on, Campanella & Koshorek delivered back to back RBI singles and Del Ennis doubled in two more to complete the comeback and put us up 6-5. Purkey pitched into the seventh before yielding to Tommy Lasorda who came in with 2 out and 2 on and got Yogi Berra to ground out. Ed Blake tossed a scoreless eighth and we scored 3 more times in the top of the ninth to go up 9-5. Burdette came on and tossed a 1,2,3 ninth and clinch the series for us. Nice. We come back from being down 3 games to 1 and from being down 4-1 in game seven. Burdette had a 1.29 ERA over 14 innings, Hogue had a 1.06 ERA over 17 innings. Wertz hit .464 with 2 homers and Irvin collected 10 hits in the series. |
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1953 Offseason Here's the deal, we need to increase our operating budget but it will put us way back into debt, we're set up nicely for the next few seasons so I'm going out and spending, we will lose a ton of green the next few years but screw it. To that end we bring back Josh Gibson & resign Ed Blake. Only Fowler next year and Campanella the year after have expiring contracts, so we're settled in for 3 seasons of massive money losses to put it mildly. We're able to sign Burdett and Simmons to decent long term extensions that don't break our bank. Despite his loyalty and long term contributions to our team, coming off a knee injury we just can't pay Andy Seminick what he wants so we let him walk. Jim Greengrass and Cal Hogue get really nice raises in arbitration. We extend Monte Irvin, Jim Greengrass, Cal Hogue, Tommy Lasorda and Clem Koshorek. we sign a LH reliever by the name of Fred Waters who has very good stuff. We add 24 year old 1B Joe Adcock in a deal with Cincy that sends them some young arms, this allows us to move Campanella back to catcher. We make a deal with the A's to get young catcher Rube Walker to be our backup. We also make a deal where the essential pieces are LH reliever going to the White Sox for RH Tom Poholsky as we enough lefties in the pen with Waters & Lasorda. We're almost $400,000 over budget, heh. Edit: The Braves have not moved. I've got my own expansion/relocation scheme. |
1953 Season April- We went 14-12, 2 games behind the Reds, not the start I was hoping for. I can't even pinpoint an issue as everyone played pretty well. Joe Adcock missed 3 weeks with an ankle issue. May- We end May 31-23 and 5 games back of the Cubs. The one injury we couldn't afford, Monte Irvin, who has been on fire, is out a month with a broken wrist. Youngster Gale Wade is called up to play centerfield. Everyone is playing well, it just seems we're losing close games. Our starting pitching has been quite tremendous save for Bob Purkey. June- We struggled most of the month till Irvin returned and finished 46-36 and 12.5 games behind the Cubs. My grand scheme is falling apart here. Thing is, I still can't put my finger on why. We're individually having superb seasons. Jim Greengrass is leading the league in both homers and RBI. Cal Hogue tweaked his neck and will miss a few weeks, not what we needed, he's been pitching so well. Rookie Bud Black will move from the pen to the rotation. SS Clem Koshorek tweaked his knee and missed a few weeks. We're not winning and losing a ton of money doing it, oy. In the draft Bob Gibson went #1 overall to the Senators. Sandy Koufax went 7th to Cleveland. Frank Robinson went to the White Sox. July- We end the month 60-47, 14.5 games behind the Cubs. When Hogue came off the DL we moved Bob Purkey, who's been putrid, to AAA and kept Bud Black in the rotation, then just a couple of days later Curt Simmons injured his non throwing shoulder and went down for 3-4 weeks. 2B Roy McMillan had a heel issue and missed 3 weeks, great. SS Clem Koshorek had an eye problem and went down for awhile, jesus we're the walking wounded. Jim Greengrass went out and broke his arm in the middle of a great season, yay. Vic Wertz has been slumping since the end of May. I decided it was time to be sellers and we were able to send Ed Blake & Fred Waters along with a couple of middling prospects to the Red Sox for young reliever Phil Clark. Spending almost $80,000 on two relievers might have been a real dumb decision but I honestly thought it would push me over the top, it only pushed me off the cliff. August- 78-57, 16 games back. Wertz and Koshorek both spent time on the DL. This season can't end quick enough. September- We finish the season 86-68, a very good record, but dwarfed by the 110-44 Cubs. I can't even point to a scapegoat other than to say the Cubs were just that frigging good. Greengrass & Adcock had 25 dingers, Wertz had 24. Irvin hit .343, he's just a machine. Campy hit .293. Even Roy McMillan had a solid year with the bat. On the mound Burdette was stellar, his 2.45 ERA and 21 wins both placed him in the top 10 in baseball and Troy Herriage developed nicely, posting a 2.78 ERA to put him in the top 10. It just wasn't our year. To top it off we ended the year $95,000 in debt. The Cubs, led by Hank Bauer and Hal Jeffcoat at the dish and Bob Rush & Rene Valdez who combined for 45 wins on the mound, will take on the Richie Ashburn, Roy Sievers & Joe Smaza led White Sox in the World Series. Sievers led all of baseball with 48 long balls. |
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1953 World Series In a seven game thriller, the Cubs came from 3-2 down to win games six and seven at Wrigley Field and claim the world title in a cross town showdown with the White Sox. |
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1954 Off Season Not much to the off season this year. Josh Gibson retired at the age of 41. Bob Purkey was shipped off to St. Louis for a scrub just to save the $4K he was owed this year. We traded away a few middling pitchers who were making some salary to save some cash, nothing more than AAA depth. I still think this team can compete if our bullpen can hold up. St. Louis does not move to Baltimore. |
1954 Season April- We went 14-12 in April, 4 games back of the Reds. Herriage & Burdette both missed a couple of weeks. May- We ended May 26-27, 6 games behind the Reds. Greengrass missed 3 weeks with a balky knee, Herriage also missed a couple of weeks with a bad knee, we just can't stay healthy. June- June sees us at 42-39, 4 games behind the Cubs. Campanella & Morgan are the latest regulars to go down. Monte Irvin is having another amazing season, his career has been the coolest thing about this dynasty. But the big 3, Adcock, Greengrass and Wertz are all having subpar years. Our pitching has been magnificent and has really kept us as close as we are, if it weren't for them we'd be god awfull right now. In the draft, Don Drysdale went 1st overall to Pittsburgh. Harmon Killebrew went to Brooklyn with the 4th pick. July- Despite Vic Wertz breaking his wrist in early July and missing most of the month, and Campanella and Morgan missing extended time, we still managed to sit at 55-50 and 4 games behind the Cubs in a tight, if underwhelming NL race. Our bats are starting to come around. August- We got Wertz back in early August and we're looking like we might get hot when Troy Herriage broke his damn finger and missed 3 weeks. And then on August 28th, down 3 games in the standings, Monte Irvin blew out his knee. Christ. He'll miss almost a year. Damnit. We end the month 73-62 and 6 games out. September- We end the year 82-72, 10 games behind the pennant winning Cubs. I really think we would have won the pennant if Irvin hadn't gotten hurt. Adcock had a huge 2nd half for us and Wertz played a lot better too. I guess it just wasn't meant to be. Irvin had an astounding year, hitting .375 and hitting 28 homers and scoring 107 runs despite missing the final month. Adcock hit 36 homers and drove in 111, placing in the top 10 in both categories. Bud Black led all of baseball in ERA at 2.23 and Burdette was 5th at 2.53 We made enough money this year to get out of debt, so that's something. Still, I need to stop this deal of killing our operating budget every other year, it's really gonna mess up our farm system. The Cubs and White Sox will rematch in the World Series. The Cubs finished 92-62, while the White Sox finished 101-53. |
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1954 World Series In a rematch of the 53' series, The Cubs again found themselves down to the powerful White Sox, led by Roy Sievers, Johnny Temple and Richie Ashburn. The White Sox took a 2-0 lead before the Cubs stormed back to win 3 in a row but the Sox won game 6 at home to force a game 7 for a 2nd straight year, this time at Comiskey. The location may have changed, but the result was the same as the Cubs dispatched of the favored White Sox to win their 2nd straight World Series title. |
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1955 Offseason We extended 1B Joe Adcock & 3B Vern Morgan for 6 years, C Roy Campanella for 4 years and 2B Roy McMillan for 7 years, all to very reasonable deals. Closer Tom Poholsky got a nice raise in arbitration and then we extend him 5 years at a decent price. What is gonna kill us is Irvins salary hanging over our head. It really limits anything we can do, and since he has a no trade clause we're kind of effed. We move LF Del Ennis and RP Marshall Cuddles to the White Sox for a couple of Pitchers, that saves us $13K. I'm trying desperately to move Cal Hogue and his $30K salary. The Braves agree to send us young prospect Bob Conley in exchange for Hogue and Al Jackson. The only problem is, Conley is still only 20 and should spend more time in the minors, but we'll likely have to put him in our rotation right away. Monte Irvin is actually rehabbing quicker than anticipated. My goodness he's good at everything, even being injured. Heading into the season our pitching still looks solid, save for Bill Miller as our 5th starter. Our pen returns the same solid core. Our lineup is solid enough as well but we need Greengrass and Wertz to both produce in the middle, and to stay healthy. Gale Wade will patrol CF until Irvin is healthy which we now think could come as soon as early May. 2B Roy McMillan has blossomed into a really good ballplayer and he'll hit leadoff until Irvin returns. The Athletics do not go to Kansas City. |
1955 MLB Season April- 11-15, 6.5 games behind the Dodgers, in 7th place. Oy. Gale Wade not doing so well replacing Irvin, luckily he's back within the week. Campanella is really struggling as well but our heart of the order is hitting well. Lew Burdette missed two weeks with a broken finger. Troy Herriage has a 9 ERA over 34 innings, for the love of Lola. Our pen has been very good. May- 25-28, 11.5 games back of the Cubs in 3rd place. Irvin came back and it didn't spark us as I'd hoped, then he retweaked the knee and will miss 3-4 weeks. Bleh. June- 38-43, 17.5 games back. We traded SP Kent Peterson to the A's for a couple of guys, they offered and it saved us $4,000 so what the hell. Troy Herriage had an ERA over 7 in the middle of June, we had to demote him, not that his replacement is any good. In the draft, Juan Marichal went 2nd overall to Washington. We took 3B Brooks Robinson with our 1st round pick. July- 53-54, 17.5 games behind the Cubs. SS Clem Koshorek tore his quad and missed the month. Bud Black missed a couple of weeks with a broken finger. Our depth at starter can't sustain injuries. Unable to find any suitable deal for younger talent, we work out a 3 way deal with the Reds and Yankees. Campanella and a few minor leaguers to the Yankees, C Yogi Berra to the Reds and C Smoky Burgess to us. The deal saves us about $25K and Burgess is not a bad little player. I put some feelers out to see what we could get for Burdette and Wertz and I just couldn't pull the trigger. I really came close to just gutting the team. It'd be one thing if we were putting up bad numbers, but outside of McMillan our lineup is really producing and our pitching is decent. Our starters are solid but I have a feeling that in order to win I'm gonna need more than a few top notch aces. August- We had an insanely good August and are 73-62, 14 games back. Just when I think it's time to blow things up I'm teased with the idea that a full year with a healthy Irvin and 1 more stud pitcher we could be contenders again. September- Closer Tom Poholsky missed most of the month which did us no favors and we finished 79-75 and 23 games behind the Cubs who are building their own dynasty. Greengrass with 33 and Adcock with 31 placed in the top 10 in homers, Adcocks 180 hits were good for 9th in baseball and his 106 RBI were good for 8th. Black at 2.72 and Burdette at 2.93 both were top 10 in ERA. Monte Irvin had a solid comeback year, going .296 with 21 homers. 2B Roy McMillan really struggled and that no doubt hurt us. Our top 3 reliever, Poholsky, Lasorda and Clark all had really good years. I think it just comes down to our 3rd, 4th and 5th starters need to be better. We lost money on the year but still stayed above water with a decent operating budget so that's good. It may be time next year to try and move a bat for an arm, especially with Hank Aaron looming in the farm system. The Cubs and White Sox will meet in a 3rd straight World Series. |
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1955 World Series Led by Roy Sievers and Bill Ramsays 15 RBI, the White Sox avenged two straight series loses at the hands of the Cubs to defeat them in six games. Ramsay cracked 3 homers in the series Ralph Mauriello tossed 17 innings of 1.06 ERA ball for the ChiSox. |
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1956 Off Season Bud Black gets a big raise in arbitration to over $50K but we make a long term deal with him for about $43K per. Maybe playing with fire given how bad he was last year but Troy Herriage still looks like a solid pitcher to me so I give him a long term deal. We make a deal with the Cubs that sends them Vic Wertz, starting 3B Vern Morgan and decent prospect LF Stan Palys in return for 22 year old stud SP Joe McClain. The deal saves us a little more than $20 grand and gives us that 3rd ace. Interesting trade between rivals but they have a real good starting staff. So we enter the year with a bit of a different look. Gale Wade takes over CF and Irvin moves to RF for the time being. 24 year old Andy Carey is our new 3B, he's decent. Our staff is really strong 1 through 3 and Simmons is a solid 4th but Herriage is a wild card and we've got little depth. Hank Aaron is developing ok and probably has at least another year in the minors. Dunno if we've got enough to overtake the Cubs but we'll see. |
1956 Season April- That didn't last long, Bud Black went down for a couple of weeks with a shoulder issue just two starts into the season, then Monte Irvin broke his wrist and will miss some time. We lost 3B Andy Carey and SP Joe McClain to groin issues. Through all that we went 12-13 and are 4 games back, so all is not lost but all is not looking well either. May- We got off to a 3-0 start in May and Irvin tweaked his knee again and will miss a month. Jesus. When Andy Carey returns he doesn't get his 3B job back as Bubba Phillips, a comparable young player, has been hitting very well since taking over. Joe McClain came back for a few starts and then broke his wrist. Yay. This effing sucks big ones. Well hey, Joe Adcock broke his collar bone and will miss 3-4 weeks. Sure, why the hell not. We finish the month 25-27, 9 games back, and unless a miracle occurs in June, we're probably already out of it. We aren't hitting great but it's ok, Troy Herriage is having another shitty year so we'll probably be looking to get out from under that contract at some point, good job me. Burdette & Black have been subpar. Simmons & McClain have pitched great but McClain can't stay on the effing mound. June- What a shitty, shitty month. We end it 36-43, 16 games back. The Reds and Cubs are in a tight race. When Irvin comes back we hit him 3rd to try and stretch our depleted lineup out. Hey, Lew Burdette has an inflamed rotator cuff and will miss a month, couldn't have expected another injury. July- We had a decent July even though Curt Simmons tweaked his knee and Bud Black hurt his achilles. We went 14-11 and ended the month 50-54 and 18 games behind the Reds and Cubs who are tied for 1st. We put SS Clem Koshorek on the market, just because he's the only guy making a decent salary that I don't mind not having long term. The Cubs offer us a bunch of pieces including veteran IF's Dick Cole and Wayne Terwilliger. We make the deal. We have Luis Aparicio in the minors anyway. The deal saves us about $8 grand. August- 61-74, 25 games back. The Reds have a 2 game lead on the Cubs. September- 70-84, 27 games back of the Cubs who won the league by 3 games over the Reds. They'll meet the A's in the world series as our cross town rivals took the AL by seven games over Detroit with a 92-62 record. What a shitty year it was. Nobody placed top 10 in any of the major offensive categories. Irvin .282/16/40, Adcock .290/22/85 & Greengrass .276/19/87 were our best hitters. Burdette & Black had awful years on the mound. McClain was very good when healthy and Simmons was decent and Herriage bounced back to have a quality year, thank heaven. Our pen was solid enough but not great. Yuck. We lost a bit of money but not enough to push us in debt, still, we're at the brink where we can't really add salary because our operating budget is still pretty low so we're in a tough spot here going forward. |
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1956 World Series Led by 2B Nellie Fox and SP Robin Roberts, the A's took out the Cubs in 6 games to win the world series. Roberts threw 2 complete games and allowed just 1 earned run. Former Phillies catcher Andy Seminick had an insane series, belting 3 homers and driving in 10 runs. At least somebody from Philly is beating up on the Cubs. |
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1957 Off Season Joe McClain got a nice arbitration bump, $42K. Relievers Phil Clark and Ron Mrozinski got decent little raises too. We extend McClain for 7 years at $40K. We're going to blow this thing up and build around he and Bud Black. Time to dump some salary and truly enter a rebuilding phase, the current way aint working. We have a couple of decent starting arms in the minors so we're going to look to move Burdette & Simmons, Greengrass too. The Yankees offer us $46,000 for Simmoms & minor league pitcher Fritz Ackley, we take it. We move Greengrass to the Indians for a 6 player package that includes two decent SP prospects, Wynn Hawkins & Gordon Seyfried and a semi decent C prospect Earl Averill. Nothing studly but we've got to start rebuilding the system and it knocks Greengrasses salary off the books. Burdette goes to the Giants for 19 year old SP prospect Jim O'Toole. He's a very good prospect but a long ways off. C Smoky Burgess wants an extension far beyond what I think he deserves so since he's in the last year of his contract I move him to the Red Sox for decent 2B prospect Chuck Schilling. We add C Clint Courtney from the Browns in a minor deal since we're gonna need one of those. We deal a couple of minor league pitchers for Reds LF Rip Repulski who actually looks decent, much better than what we're giving up. We sign Gale Wade to a 5 year extension, we extend Monte Irvin for 3 years at $51K, cutting his salary by $30K which will be a bargain if he stays healthy. Once we're done we have a lot of money to put into our scouting/farm system/medical, and should continue for a couple of years. Aaron & 1B Willie McCovey are probably our best prospects and we have a pretty deep system at the lower levels so we're hunkered in for a years of low expectations. Our staff is Black, McClain, Herriage, rookie Bob Conley and veteran Bill Miller, it could honestly go either way, health will be a big key. Our pen should be solid. Our lineup is a far cry from the good old days. Outside of Irvin & Adcock we really have very little pop or talent for that matter. We'll have to look at moving Irvin & Adcock at some point in the next couple of years but I don't want to completely kill my lineup just yet and I've pared enough salary for now. |
1957 Season April- We went 8-18. Herriage, Conley and Adcock all had stints on the DL, it's almost laughable at this point. May- We're 16-37, 19.5 games out, in last place. Monte Irvin missed 3 weeks due do a sprained ankle. Bud Black tore his knee and will miss about 5 weeks. June- 21-59, 15 games out SEVENTH PLACE. I can't really say anything nice about this team. Joe Adcock is hitting over .300. Our starters have been awful, even Black and McClain, the two guys I'm trying to build around, have not been anything close to cornerstones. July- 30-76, sweet pete. Hey! Joe McClain got hurt again, awesome! August- 38-97. I didn't fathom we'd be this bad at all. September- We finish the season 43-111, 56 games back of the Cubs who won the league by 12 games. They'll play an A's team that finished 88-66 and won A hotly contested AL race by 3 games over Boston & Detroit, in the World Series, in a rematch of last year. Can't say much about our putrid offense. Irvin is finaly showing his mortality, hitting only .254 and more than that, getting on base at a mere .297 clip. Roy McMillan was so bad that he lost his 2B job to journeyman Wayne Terilliger. Joe Adcock was a bright spot as he hit .314 and hit 21 homers and knocked in a team high 77. LF Dusty Rhodes hit 18 homers, that's something. Gale Wade hit .284 and played pretty well in CF. Pitching wise it's even more disappointing as Bud Blacks 3.83 ERA led the team. He and McClain, our "aces", combined to go 8-27. Our pen was decent enough I suppose. I don't think I'll have any choice but to continue to eliminate salary in the off season. If we're gonna suck this hard, might as well do it on the cheapest of cheaps. |
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1957 World Series The underdog A's came from 3-1 down to shock the Cubs and claim their 2nd straight world series crown. Robin Roberts hurled a complete game shutout in game 7, striking out 10 in the process. |
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New York Times, December 21st 1957 Baseball Says "No" To Proposed Relocation Of Giants, Dodgers In a ruling handed down earlier today by Commisioner Ford Frick, New York sports fans got an early Christmas present when Major League Baseball denied the proposed relocation of the Giants and Dodgers to the west coast. In the ruling, Frick said that that the move was not in the best interest of baseball and he could not, in good conscience, agree to allow the move to take place. Giants owner Horace Stoneham & Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley have both hinted at a class action suit if baseball failed to approve the moves but Frick was unwavering. Both the Giants and Dodgers will remain in New York for the 1958 season but one must assume that this case is definately not closed. |
1958 Off Season With our state the way it is, we decide to release 2B Wayne Terwilliger and relievers Phil Clark & Bob Kelly rather than go to arbitration with them. Pitcher Jim Willis retired. We put Joe Adcock on the market and I don't much like the look of any of the offers we get as far as prospects go, but Detroit offers us $69,000 for him. That looks good to me. He gone. We deal C Clint Courtney to the Braves for a low level pitcher. RP Tommy Lasorda is making $15K, why I need a reliever on a shitty team making that much is beyond me so we sell him to the White Sox for $2,000. We ship out Closer Tom Poholsky to the Reds for a couple of minor leaguers. I'm gonna keep Irvin on the team, I can't get anything for him in a deal and it'd be nice to have one of the original 13 spend their whole career here. Ughh, this team is depressing at this point. Irvin will move to left field to make room for Hank Aaron who does not quite resemble the Hank Aaron of the real world. Dusty Rhodes moves to 1st. Black & McClain have pretty much been done in by injury and our bullpen is a hodgepodge of career minor leaguers and cast offs. Our system is slowly stocking but honestly I'm not blown away by any of our prospects so it's not like we have help on the way either. We're gonna suck so hard. |
New York Times, June 8th 1958 Stoneham, O'Malley, File Suit To Leave In a much expected move yesterday, The respected owners of the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers filed papers in NY District Court to stop Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick from blocking their move to the west coast. O'Malley & Stoneham claim that baseball has superseded it's powers by barring the relocation of the struggling franchises and has sought a federal ruling allowing them to move. |
1958 Season We stayed relatively injury free and McClain had a nice bounce back year as we shocked the world and won 50 games! We finished 49 games behind the 1st place Reds who won an amazing race by 1 game over the Cubs. They'll face the White Sox in the world series. The Sox edged out the Senators by a game and the A's by 3 games to win the AL. Sounds like an amazing season in both leagues. In the amateur draft we took SP Mickey Lolich 1st overall, passing on Ron Santo, Joe Torre and Luis Tiant. Our lineup was pretty putrid with a few exceptions. Catcher Earl Averill hit 31 bombs in only 394 AB's. Joe McClains 2.86 ERA put him 5th in baseball. Irvin went .277/11/50 in a decent year but obviously on the decline. Hank Aarons .249/15/70 is not the stuff legends are made of. The good news is that we do have some arms on the way, now if we could just do something about that lineup. |
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1958 World Series The Reds, led by 3 time MVP Willie Jones and SP Joe Nuxhall, rolled past the White Sox in 5 games to win the series. Jones went deep twice and CF Bob Marquis had 12 hits in the 5 games. |
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