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8/11 Radio Broadcast Continued

The big guns are due up
for Turn of Century
Kelley will lead it off
He will be followed by Nap
Lajoie and Sam Crawford
And Al studies the sign from Hays...
Now he's got it
The 2-2 offering...
Sinker, at the knees...
Swung on...
Kelley hits it into the hole
on the right side
Blade ranging to his left...
Scoops it up...
Throws on the run...
And Kelley is out by a step at first
One away
Nap Lajoie, a fine hitter, is due up next
Sam Crawford will follow

Lajoie finishes his practice swings
Now he strides to the batter's box
Lajoie is 0 for 2 today
Mighty ready quickly, looks
in for the sign
Mighty goes into his windup
Kicks his right leg high...
There's a hard bouncer to Palmer's left
He's over...
Makes the pick-up...
Over to Potpie...
Lajoie is out!
A sparkling glove hand pick-up
by Deacon Palmer!
And there's two away

Sam Crawford plants his left foot
The lefthanded left fielder for
Turn of Century appears set
Crawford gets set
He's 2 for 2 so far
Crawford tells the umpire he's ready
Blade comes in a couple steps
Yells something to Mighty
The delivery
Pounded on the ground to short
Taken by Nights
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 6-3
The Centurions go down in order, 1-2-3
After 5 and a half innings,

Turn of Century ahead 3 to 0

Starting the bottom of the
6th for FOFC is Treacy
Treacy is at .261 on the season
Treacy waits for the delivery
Now Christy delivers
Fly ball to right
Keeler is under it
He makes the grab
Mathewson gets the first out in the inning

Barrett Blade steps in now
for the All Stars
The Centurions lead in this one, 3-zip
Mathewson looks down at Bresnahan
for the sign

Now he's ready...
The windup, the pitch
Blade hits a deep fly ball into the alley
Hugh Duffy chases it down
But the ball hits the base of the wall
Duffy hits the wall and
falls to the ground
Blade is into third with a triple
Now they check on Duffy
He's okay
That ball hit right at the
base of the fence
399 feet from home plate

A. J. Tucker, the center fielder,
strides to the plate
Tucker digs in from the left side
of the plate against the righty Mathewson
Tucker waits patiently
The pitch to Tucker...
Swung on and missed by Tucker,
he's down on strikes
Two gone for FOFC

Slowly coming up is Pflaggstettler
for FOFC
He is finally in the batter's box
Turn of Century ahead 3 to 0
Pflaggstettler has hit 21
home runs this year
Mathewson likes the sign
"Big Six" lets loose with the 2-1 pitch...
Pflaggstettler swings and
lifts one toward right
Keeler drifts over slowly...
He is under it now...
And makes the easy catch...
That retires the side...
Persimmon Pflaggstettler fails to come
Through in the clutch
That's something you won't see very often

Collins is making his way to home plate
He's digging out his "spot"
in the batter's box
He's taking several practice swings

Bending from side to side

Finally, he's ready
Collins is one of the best hitters around
Fozborg steps off the rubber...
Adjusts his cap...
Now he's ready
Here's the 1-1 pitch
There's a fly ball to A. J. Tucker
Tucker circles under it...
He makes the play
And there's one away

With Hughie Jennings on deck
Batting now for Turn of
Century is Bresnahan
Bresnahan has a .254 average against
righthanders this season
Waiting for the pitch is Bresnahan
Fozborg winds and delivers
Bresnahan 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...
At the fence...
He dives for it...
OUT!!!
Two men gone, nobody on
Turn of Century leads by 3

Up now for Turn of Century is Jennings
Two away, nobody on
Fozborg has the sign from Hays
Fozborg's righthanded delivery...
It hits Jennings on the elbow
Jennings throws the bat away
and sprints to first base

Christy Mathewson steps into the box
Mathewson wiggles the bat above his head
Mathewson waits patiently for the pitch
His bat is coiled
Here's his delivery
It gets past Hays!
It's scored a wild pitch.
The pitch didn't look that bad
Fozborg must have crossed him up!
Jennings takes second

Christy Mathewson steps into the box
We'll see how they pitch to Mathewson
Mathewson awaits the delivery
Now Sirr delivers
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 Christy 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 ends the top of the 7th
No runs, no hits, no errors
and one man left on base
After 6 and a half innings, Turn
of Century leads by 3

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

Power hitting Jeeberoni
Potpie will lead off
FOFC's clean-up hitter will
see what he can do
against Turn of Century's
Christy Mathewson
Potpie is hitting .282 against righties
Potpie is waiting
His bat is wiggling slightly
The righthander Mathewson's delivery
Potpie cuts on a curve that
misses in the dirt
That ball is trapped nicely by Bresnahan
Potpie was badly fooled by Mathewson's
big breaking curve
STRIKE THREE!
Jeeberoni was a little overanxious
One gone for FOFC

Hays is up now for FOFC
Hays is 0 for 2 today
The righthander pitching to Hays...
A righthanded batter
Righties have a .253 average
against Christy
And the cripple pitch...
Routine grounder to second
Lajoie scoops it up
Over to first for the out
That's two down for Mathewson
FOFC will need to do better than that
They are running out of time

Stan Gunner will get a crack
at Mathewson next
Deacon Palmer would be up next...
But only if Gunner can reach safely
Gunner is batting .261 with
14 round trippers in 1900
Stan is ready for the delivery
Here's the pitch
Mathewson misses low on that one
Gunner draws the walk
Number 1 today by Mathewson

Palmer gets set at the plate
Palmer steps out of the box...
Looks towards Dick Howser for a sign
Mathewson's is working on a shutout
here at FOFC Stadium this afternoon
He is throwing as hard now
as when the game started

Righthander Mathewson's delivery
Fastball... down and away...
NO! It's called a strike
And Palmer is outta there
That is the third out for FOFC here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 50105

Hugh Duffy, Wee Willie Keeler,
and Joe Kelley are due up
for the Centurions
Turn of Century leads, 3-0
Duffy has hit 5 home runs this year
Fozborg is rubbing the ball up
Now the umpire wants to take a look
No problems found...
Now Fozborg gets the sign from Hays
Sirr winds... kicks... and delivers
There's a base hit towards Stan Gunner
Hugh Duffy decides to go for two
Much to the surprise of Gunner
Here's the throw to second
SAFE, Duffy just beats the tag
That's 19 doubles on the year for Duffy

That'll bring up Centurions' right
fielder Wee Willie Keeler...
Turn of Century with a man in
scoring position at second
Duffy is on second, nobody out
Hays flashes the sign...
Fozborg waves it off...
Now he's happy
The righthander delivers
Keeler smacks a fly to center
Tucker is waiting on it
Pounds his mitt
A. J. takes it in
And there's one away

Kelley, Turn of Century's first baseman,
is coming to the plate
He is finished with his pre-bat warmup
Nap Lajoie waits on deck
One out, man on second
Sirr Fozborg on in relief
for the All Stars
We're in the top of the 8th
Fozborg's righthanded delivery...
Struck him out on a terrible pitch
That bounced in front of the plate!
and Kelley couldn't hold up his swing!
Almost broke his back trying though...
Two down

Larry is now coming to bat
The outfield shades towards
left for Lajoie
Lajoie is set in the batter's box
He's staring intently out at Fozborg
He's waiting for the pitch
Fozborg brings it to the plate
It's in on the wrists
Nap tried to hold up
Now it appears he will be awarded first...
No, my mistake
The umpire was signaling strike three
That's 2 strike outs for Lajoie today
That's it for Turn of Century
Here at FOFC Stadium, After
7 and a half innings,
Turn of Century has 3 runs,
5 hits and no errors
While FOFC has no runs,
2 hits and one error
Turn of Century has left 4 on base
FOFC has stranded 4

The shortstop Nights will
start things off for the All Stars
Nights has hit 14 home runs this year
Mathewson rubbing the ball... has a chance
to improve his record to 12-10 with a win
It's coming down the pike
Nights pounds a grounder toward
Jennings at short
Hughie moves in front of it...
Whoops... a bad bounce
But Jennings stayed with it
Over to first and Nights is retired
Nice play by the Turn of
Century short stop
One up, one down

One out, nobody on base
David Gonzalez is the batter
Gonzalez steps out...
Takes a few more practice swings...
Now he's ready
Mathewson shakes off two signs
Now he's ready
Way ahead in the count
Mathewson turns the 0-2 pitch loose
And Gonzalez will sit down...
strike three called
That's two away

Blade leaves the on-deck circle...
He's going back to get a new bat...
Now he jogs to the plate
Blade is one of the best hitters around
Mathewson has the sign from Bresnahan
And the righthander starts
to work on Blade
Here comes the pitch
Pounded on the ground to the mound
Mathewson grabs it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 1-3
Three down in the 8th for FOFC
They trail by 3
It's always a bad sign when you are down
by as many runs as you have
outs to score them in

Here's the left fielder Crawford
To lead off the inning
He'll be followed by Jimmy Collins
And then Roger Bresnahan
James peers in for the sign...

Shakes off the first one...
Likes the second one
Here's the windup... and the pitch
Sinking fastball...
Crawford swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Nights...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
One away here in the top of the 9th
Turn of Century ahead 3 to 0
While we have time, let's
check the scoreboard
These scores are final...
Negro League I toppled Late 20th 4 to 0
Paige the winner, he's now 14-9
Martinez takes the loss, his
record drops to 6-8
Left Outs squeezed by Negro
League II 8 to 6
Goslin has hit his 25th
homerun for Left Outs
AL Pre WWII humbled Japanese
League 17 to 3
Lazzeri has hit his 3rd homerun
for AL Pre WWII
Dead Ball Era ripped NL Post WWII 7 to 1
Gibson takes the loss, his
record drops to 9-6
Walsh the winner, he's now 10-14
NL Pre WWII nipped Caribbean 4 to 3
Old Timers edged out AL Post WWII 3 to 2

So that brings up Jimmy Collins
the Turn of Century third baseman
Collins is trying to get
comfortable in the box
Digging that back foot in
Hays flashes the sign...
Rodney shakes it off, he wants another...

Now he's happy
Rodney fires
Curve in the dirt... and Collins 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 Collins went around
Strike three, swinging
One more chance for Turn
of Century this inning

Bresnahan finishes his practice swings
Now he strides to the batter's box
James Rodney steps off the
mound toward second
Gives the resin bag a toss
Now he toes the rubber...
He's ready to go
The righthander Rodney delivers
The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
Bresnahan swung, that's strike three
Bresnahan isn't happy at
all with that call
That wraps up the inning
for Turn of Century
So After 8 and a half innings
Turn of Century has 3 runs,
5 hits and no errors
While FOFC has no runs,
2 hits and one error
Turn of Century has left 4 stranded
FOFC has failed to bring home 4

FOFC's center fielder, Tucker,
will lead off the inning
Christy Mathewson has been tough
He's got a shutout going
Turn of Century leads 3 to nothing
Tucker is taking his practice swings
A. J. is 1 for 3 this afternoon
A. J. steadies his bat
And waits patiently for Mathewson's pitch
Here comes the cripple pitch
Grounded towards first
Kelley grabs it
IT'S A RACE TO THE BAG
SAFE!

First base coach Joe Adcock wants
a word with Tucker...
Now we're all set to go...
Persimmon Pflaggstettler steps in
Pflaggstettler checks for the sign
Mathewson looks down at Bresnahan
for the sign
Shakes him off once... twice...

Now he has the pitch he wants
Mathewson quick pitches the 0-2 offering
Pflaggstettler drives one into right
Wee Willie Keeler sprints
over to make the play
With one down

Kelley yells something out to Mathewson
Christy nods his head

Jeeberoni Potpie steps into the box
Potpie goes through his routine
of settling in
Potpie concentrates
He holds the bat down on the end
Mathewson kicks and fires
It's in the dirt and bounces away
Tucker heads to second
And he'll make it on the wild pitch

Jeeberoni Potpie steps into the box
Potpie a righty in the batter's box
facing the righthanded Mathewson
Mathewson is working on a shutout
He's yielded 3 hits so far
Christy rocks and fires
WATCH OUT!
Mathewson has hit Potpie!

That'll bring up catcher
Harry Hays...
Turn of Century out in front by 3
We're in the bottom of the 9th
1st and 2nd, one man down
Christy Mathewson is shooting
for victory number 12
A check on the runners... the pitch
STRIKE THREE... Change of pace
Hays is way out in front swinging
Number 9 so far today for Mathewson
That's out number two
Centurions' pitching coach,
Will Bill Donovan,
is out to talk with Mathewson
Looks like he wants to go
over something with him

Walking up to the plate now is Gunner
Deacon Palmer waits on deck
Gunner is batting .261 with
14 homers this year
Stan is eagerly awaiting Mathewson's pitch
Mathewson checks the runners
Fastball... just outside
And Gunner will take first on the walk
Everybody will move up a base...
Bases are loaded, with
Deacon Palmer due up

That'll bring up Deacon Palmer
Jeff Nights will follow
if Palmer gets aboard
Bresnahan is rubbing his thumb
He hurt it two or three days ago
And it still bothers him...
Some of Mathewson's pitches
really cause him to wince
But he wants to play through it
Palmer steps into the box
Stepping out, Palmer looks into the dugout
Steps back in
Deacon is set for the pitch
Here's the righthander's delivery
STRIKE THREE!
That is number 10 for Christy Mathewson
here this afternoon
And that will do it for FOFC
Turn of Century wins 3 to 0
Mathewson gets credit for the win
He threw a shut-out at them
Mighty takes the loss
The hitting star for Turn of Century
was Roger Bresnahan
He was 1 for 4
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.