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8/23 Radio Broadcast


Welcome to the ballpark!
Tonight FOFC will be taking
on Dead Ball Era
Barrett Blade is ready to step
into the batter's box
The ball goes once around the horn
And the game is set to begin
The pitch is on the way
Blade hits a pop into short left field
Baker sprints out
Jackson and Speaker sprint
towards the infield
Tris Speaker sticks his glove out and
IT POPS OUT!
The official scorer rules a single

Stretching to his lead is Blade
He has this down to a science
He is an outstanding base stealer
He gives opposing teams fits
Plank steps away from the mound...
Now Blade moves back to first
He's not getting far from the bag

Next up is Stan Gunner,
the FOFC left fielder
On-deck is Jeeberoni Potpie...
He'll be followed by Gerald Gazelle
Gunner checks for the sign
All set, Gunner is ready for the pitch
He brings it home
Slider, down and away...
Swung on...
Gunner rips a bouncer to Collins
He takes it and goes to 2nd for the force
One down for FOFC
Jeeberoni Potpie is still
in the on-deck circle
and Gerald Gazelle is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Jeeberoni Potpie steps up to the plate
Gunner, with excellent speed, is at first
Jeeberoni looks at the sign
from the coach at third
Dick Howser flashes a series of them...
Now Potpie taps the bat on home plate
Plank likes the sign
The southpaw Plank delivers the 1-0 pitch
Potpie hits one high to right
Cobb is racing after it...
He has a long way to go...
Still running...
Now he reaches out...
GOT IT!
Man, that is a zebra for sure
out there in right
The runner races back to first

The center fielder, Gerald
Gazelle, is up next
Plank squeezes the resin bag...
Peers in
The southpaw delivers
Base hit to left for Gazelle
Third base coach Dick Howser
thinks he can make it...
Here comes Gunner...
The throw is cut off...
That holds Gazelle at first

The catcher, Harry Hays
will be up next for FOFC
2 men out, runners 1st and 3rd
Eddie is ready
The lefthander delivers
A slider by Plank
Hays gets good wood on it...
Speaker back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
That's it for FOFC here
in the top of the 1st
They leave 2 runners stranded
Dead Ball Era has no runs,
no hits and no errors
While FOFC has no runs,
2 hits and no errors

Here's Eddie Collins to lead off
the inning for Dead Ball Era
We're looking at a beautiful, star filled
night sky, just a great
night for baseball!
Against righthanders
Collins is hitting .310
Babson looks down at Hays for the sign...
Shakes him off once... twice
Now he has the pitch he wants
Babson brings it home
Collins really smacks this one
He was waiting on the change
It's a gapper...
But hit high...
Gazelle was positioned well
and has a shot at it
He dives for it...
NO DICE!!!
It caroms off his glove a few feet away
He scurries to get the ball back in
as Collins pulls up easily
with a two-bagger

Up now is Sisler
The Ghosts have Collins on second
George is batting .329 in
340 at bats in 1900
He will be followed by Tris Speaker
Sisler waiting on the delivery
Brian rocks and fires
And Sisler will sit down...
strike three called

So that brings up Tris Speaker
the Dead Ball Era center fielder
We'll see how they pitch to Speaker
Speaker is waiting
His bat is wiggling slightly
Here's the 3-2 offering
There is a drive way back there...
It might be...
It could be...
IT IS!!!
Buy Tris a drink...
And get his dog one too!

Cobb gets set at the plate
Before getting ready
Cobb checks out the defensive alignment
Ty steadies his bat
And waits patiently for Babson's pitch
Babson kicks and fires
He lays off the pitch
Ball four, he walks

Cobb stretches his lead
Babson steps off the rubber
Looks Cobb back to the bag

Ghosts' left fielder Jackson
is up next
Jackson has hit 6 home runs this year
Babson is ready quickly
Here comes the cripple pitch
Fastball down low...
Jackson swings and hits one out to right
Persimmon Pflaggstettler
is drifting over...
Now he's under it...
Easy out for Babson
Cobb trots back to first
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

Baker finishes his practice swings
Now he strides to the batter's box
Baker swinging from the left side
of the plate against the righty Babson
Set now is Baker
Here's the 1-0 pitch
Base hit to left for Baker
Third base coach Jim Thorpe
thinks he can make it...
Here comes Cobb...
The throw is cut off...
That holds Baker at first

Wallace is up now for Dead Ball Era
Wallace has hit 4 home runs this year
Babson steps off the rubber...
Adjusts his cap...
Now he's ready
Now ready, here it is...
Base hit to left for Wallace
Cobb scores
Third base coach Jim Thorpe
thinks he can make it...
Here comes Baker...
The throw is cut off...
That holds Wallace at first

Frank Chance moves in to face Babson
2 on, 2 outs here in the bottom of the 1st
The outfield shades towards
left for Chance
Chance is set for the 2 strike pitch
Babson brings it to the plate
Chance swings awkwardly... strike three
Babson took something off
of that breaking ball
He had Chance way out in front
That retires the side
Dead Ball Era with a 3 run lead
It's Dead Ball Era 3
and FOFC still looking
to score their first run

Fouts saunters to the plate
He does some stretching...
Knocks the dirt from his spikes...
Now he steps into the batter's box
Fouts scuffs up the lines around the box
Dan stands with bat ready
Plank kicks, delivers
Fouts rips one to left
He hit it right on the nose...
Jackson is off to the races...
He is coming fast...
He dives...

OUT!
Nice play by Joe Jackson
With one gone
FOFC will have Persimmon Pflaggstettler
coming up
A dangerous hitter, no doubt about it

Pflaggstettler heads to the plate for FOFC
The infield is at regular depth
Time is called...
Pflaggstettler has asked the
ump to clean the plate
We'll be ready in a second...
OK, now we are ready again
He's in his crouch
Pflaggstettler can really swing that wood
Here's the 2-2 pitch
There's a towering fly ball
hit by Pflaggstettler
Speaker sprints over, and makes the catch
That's the second out of the inning
Time to check the scoreboard

Japanese League slipping
by Caribbean 3 to 1
Negro League II is edging
AL Post WWII 1 to 0
NL Pre WWII and AL Pre WWII are tied at 1
Turn of Century is on top
of Left Outs 2 to 0
Keeler has hit his 3rd homerun
for Turn of Century
Negro League I besting NL Post WWII 5 to 0
Late 20th and Old Timers have yet to score
And in our matchup Dead Ball
Era on top 3 to 0

Jeff Nights, the shortstop,
strides to the plate
Nights is one of the best hitters around
Plank adjusts his cap...
Now he's set
The pitch on the way, here it is...
A hanging curve...
Nights laces it hard just
to the right of Baker
He makes a stab at it...
Just misses it!
It's on into the outfield for a single
A wide turn by Jeff...
but he'll stay at first
as the ball comes in

Two out, Nights at first
Coming up is Brian Babson
Plank shakes off two signs
Now he's ready
Plank's into the stretch...

Looks over at first
Quick throw!
Nights dives back in!...

SAFE!...

Sisler tosses it back to Plank
Now here's the pitch
Grounded to second
Collins grabs it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 4-3
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
So After 1 and a half innings
Dead Ball Era has 3 runs,
4 hits and no errors
While FOFC has no runs,
3 hits and no errors
FOFC has left 3 stranded
Dead Ball Era has failed to bring home 2

Here's the pitcher Plank
To lead off the inning
He'll be followed by Eddie Collins
And then George Sisler
Brian looks for the sign he wants...
Shakes off the first one
But he likes the next
The righthander Babson's delivery
Plank smashes a wicked ground
ball towards third
Fouts dives to his left...
Snares it in front of Nights
He's up
Powerful throw to first
OUT!
Beautiful play!
One up, one down for Dead Ball Era

Batting next for Dead Ball Era is Collins
Dead Ball Era ahead 3 to 0
Eddie Collins is hitting .313 this year
against righthanded pitchers
Eddie seems to be relaxed
and ready for the pitch
He steadies his bat now
Brian winds and delivers...
The 0-2 pitch...
Hard ground ball to the mound
Babson grabs it
Over to Potpie
Got him!
Score It: 1-3
Two down
Babson retires two in a row

Settling in at the plate is Sisler
Sisler is 0 for 1 today
Right-hander Babson eyes the lefty Sisler
Here's the righthander's delivery
Sisler swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Babson strikes out George Sisler
Three up, three down for the Ghosts
Here in the bottom of the 2nd

Blade saunters to the plate...
He stretches out a little
Then kicks the dirt from his spikes...

Now he steps into the batter's box
Blade can't seem to get
settled at the plate
The bat is cocked
Here's the windup and the 3-1 delivery
Sinker, down at the knees...
Swung on...
Blade hits a Baltimore chop...
Past the infield into right for a single!
That was a difficult ball to handle

Gunner leaves the on-deck circle
He saunters to the plate on
this muggy summer evening
Gunner steps out of the batter's
box to get the sign
Stan is 0 for 1 today
Blade kicks the dirt at first
Plank has the sign he wants
Now to the belt, here it is...
It's a rainbow shot toward center
Speaker reaches up
Makes the catch!
Didn't have to move an inch

Plank glares in at Potpie as he steps in
Now he's ready to go
Potpie is 0 for 1 today
The lefty shakes off the sign...
....
...
Now Plank shakes off another one
Plank is a Gettysburg College grad
and is very deliberate on the mound
The pitch is on the way
Fastball, right over the plate
Potpie gives it a good cut...
And connects!
It is sailing to deep left
Joe Jackson turns and races
back to the fence
He measures it carefully...
Jumps and...
He's got it!
Nice play by Jackson
So that will retire Potpie on
a very deep fly to left
Blade hauls buggy back to first
as the ball comes in on a line
Two down

Gazelle is the batter
Blade's the runner on first
He's doing a little jig off first
to rattle the pitcher
Chance flashes the sign to Plank
He's into the stretch
Takes a look over to first
Quick throw!
Blade dives back in!...

SAFE!
Sisler tosses it back to Plank
Now here's the pitch
Swung on and missed...
Gazelle is down on strikes
And that retires the side

The big guys are due up for Dead Ball Era
Speaker will lead it off
He will be followed by Ty
Cobb and Joe Jackson
Speaker is 1 for 1 today
Babson tosses the resin bag aside
He steps on the rubber...
Now Brian delivers
Fastball, belt high...
Swung on...
Speaker drills a drive down the line
Stan Gunner 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
Nights has it
as Speaker coasts into second
base with a double
Almost a great snag by Gunner

Here's Ty Cobb
Speaker is on second, nobody out
Brian is getting his sign from Hays
Hopefully it isn't for the gopher ball
He has quite a tendency
to deliver those up
In 191 innings
Brian has allowed lefties
to blast 18 taters!
Babson brings it to the plate
Cobb pokes it to right
It drops in front of Pflaggstettler
Dead Ball Era adds to their lead
Dead Ball Era on top 4 to 0

Jackson steps in
Cobb's trying to rattle Brian Babson
by taking a big lead off first
He can drive a pitcher to drink
So far this season
Jackson is hitting .337
when facing righthanded pitching
Jackson readies himself for the pitch
And the delivery by Babson
Jackson drives one into center
Gerald Gazelle sprints over
to make the play
One away in the bottom of the
3rd for Dead Ball Era

Cobb inches slowly away from the bag
Throw to first... SAFE!...
Close play...
Now Cobb is staying closer

Next up is Home Run Baker, the
Dead Ball Era third baseman
Baker is batting .312 with
12 HR's this year
Right-hander Babson prepares for the pitch
to the left-handed swinging Baker
Babson will have to come in with this one
A 3-0 count...
Babson delivers...
Fastball juuust outside
Ball four!
Baker tosses his bat away
and trots down to first
Babson serves up four stright wide ones

Cobb extends out slowly toward third
Cobb can steal third as easily as second
He's a speedster and has fine technique
Cobb is running!
The slider is low...
Hays blocks the pitch
Hays takes the pitch... fires...
Off line throw...
No chance to get the runner...
It's a steal for Cobb

Bobby Wallace steps into the box
Wallace a righty in the batter's box
facing the righthanded Babson
Babson gets the sign, it's one he likes
Babson brings it to the plate
Just outside with a fastball
Babson is visibly upset...
Hays is quickly out to calm him down
Blade comes over as well
Cobb on third, Baker on second
and Wallace on first
They'll be loaded up for Frank Chance

Frank Chance steps into the box
Chance is 0 for 1 today
There is no place for Babson to put Chance
He will have to give him something to hit
Hays flashes the sign...
Babson shakes it off, he wants another...

Now he's happy
The pitch is on the way
It's low
and it gets away from Hays!
It's rolling to the backstop
Now Hays has it
too late, the damage is done.
It's scored a wild pitch.

Frank Chance steps into the box
Frank is hitting at .248 on the year
He has 82 hits in 331 at bats
His speed has propelled him
to 28 stolen bases
Chance cocks his bat
The runners stretch out to their leads
Babson rocks and fires
There's the heater...
Strike three called!
Chance doesn't get it done
With that putout
Babson only needs one more out
to get out of this inning
But 2 runs already across
for Dead Ball Era

The Ghosts' pitcher is up next
Dead Ball Era has 2 on board with 2 outs
Dead Ball Era on top 5 to 0
Babson steps on the rubber...
Looks in for the sign
Here's his delivery
Babson loses him
Plank heads down to first
No more room on the bases now
Babson has to bear down now

Dead Ball Era second baseman,
Eddie Collins, is up next
Collins digs in from the left side
of the plate against the righty Babson
Collins is set
The righthander delivers
Collins swings and lifts one toward center
Gazelle drifts over slowly...
He is under it now...
And makes the easy catch...
Son of a gun!
Collins leaves the bases full of Ghosts!

Chance fires the ball down to Collins
He whips it around the infield
Over to Baker who walks it over to Plank
Hays steps in to face the southpaw
Here we go in the top of the 4th
Against lefthanders
Hays is hitting .420 this season
Plank with a big 5-run
lead to work with...
Plank goes into his windup
And here's the 2 strike offering
Its a high fly ball into shallow center
Speaker runs in...
He calls for it...
Wallace yells "take it Tris"
And he does
Hays is retired on a lazy
fly to short center
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

Japanese League is on top
of Caribbean 3 to 1
Inao and Tiant Jr. currently dueling
Negro League II winning over
AL Post WWII 6 to 0
NL Pre WWII and AL Pre WWII are tied at 1
Left Outs is edging Turn of Century 3 to 2
Jenkins and Mathewson currently dueling
Negro League I bombing NL Post WWII 8 to 0
Day enjoying the big Negro League I lead
Old Timers is edging Late 20th 1 to 0

Walking up to the plate now is Fouts
Persimmon Pflaggstettler waits on deck
Fouts has 11 doubles this year
He's ready for the delivery
The lefthander Plank comes home with it
Swing and a miss!
Bad looking cut by Fouts
And here's why - Catchers interference!
No argument by Chance
Fouts heads to first
The ump caught Chance red handed!
Score It: E2
Fouts to first

One on, one out
Pflaggstettler walks to the batter's box
Right hand hitting Pflaggstettler
is 0 for 1 today
He has banged out 22 home runs this year
A very tough out for Plank
And Eddie studies the sign from Chance...
Now he's got it
Plank brings it to the plate
That's ball four
Pflaggstettler will trot down to first
Fouts is now down on second

Nights saunters to the plate
Does some stretching...
Kicks the imaginary dirt from his spikes
Now he steps into the batter's box
Nights is a righthanded batter
A dangerous long ball threat
5th in the league in home runs
He has smacked 16 so far in 1900
Nights waits for the pitch
His bat is coiled
The southpaw's 3-2 delivery
Curve, at the belt...
Nights times his swing...
Hammers a long fly ball...
Joe Jackson retreats toward the fence
He leaps...

It's gone, put that one on the board
A home run!!

Nobody on base, one away
Treacy steps into the batter's box
Treacy goes through his routine
of settling in
Treacy awaits the delivery
Collins comes in a couple steps
Yells something to Plank
The delivery
Swung on and hit sharply to short
Wallace plays it on one hop
Over to Sisler...
Out of there!
That's out number two
The All Stars have chipped
away at the Ghosts' lead
They've scored 3 runs in the inning
Dead Ball Era ahead 5 to 3

Two out, nobody on
Up now is Blade
Blade is batting .279 with
3 HR's this year
Plank adjusts his belt...
Looks in for the sign from Chance
The lefty Plank delivers
It's a Texas Leaguer to left
Here comes Jackson...
He is really motoring...
He reaches down...
But catches it on one hop!
Blade is on with a bloop single to left

Blade takes a walking lead
Blade has stolen 8 of 10 bases this year
Slider, down and in...
Breaking on the pitch
There goes Blade for second
Here's the peg down...

Blade is OUT!...
Hold on folks...

They are calling him safe now...
Apparently he kicked the ball loose
We couldn't see it from here

Stan Gunner steps into the box
Gunner is taking his practice swings
Stan is 0 for 2 this evening
The umpire says let's go
The southpaw Plank's delivery
Inside for ball four
And Gunner walks
That's 2 walks given up by Plank today

So with 2 on and 2 outs
FOFC sends their first baseman,
Jeeberoni Potpie, up to face Plank
Hard-hitting Gerald Gazelle is walking
towards the on-deck circle
Potpie steps out of the batter's
box to get the sign
Jeeberoni is 0 for 2 today
The left-hander Plank is now ready
Eddie checks the runners
Steps off the mound
Again he's into the stretch
The pitch
Potpie laces a clean base hit
He pounced on the fastball
Potpie rounds first, but will hold there
Both runners move up 90 feet

Gerald Gazelle, the FOFC center fielder,
steps into the batter's box
Dead Ball Era on top 5 to 3
He has a chance here to drive
home at least one
Gazelle is 1 for 2 today, with no walks
Left-hander Eddie Plank prepares
for the pitch
to the right-handed swinging Gazelle
The southpaw delivers the 2 strike pitch
Fastball...
Just outside
No, it's called STRIKE THREE!
Gazelle is beside himself!
Here comes Benton Breeze
This ought to be a good one!
BUT, that's it for FOFC!
And that will do it for FOFC

George Sisler is up to lead off the inning
The crowd is chanting for Dead
Ball Era to get things going
Watching Fozborg, Sisler wiggles the bat
He's ready for the pitch
Fozborg steps on the rubber
Fozborg throws the 3-1 pitch
Sisler chases the change up
Hits a slow grounder right past Fozborg
Nights snares it behind the bag...
Plants...
Throws to first...
Beats him by a step for the out!
That's one away

Tris Speaker is entering the batter's box
John McGraw has his big bopper, Ty Cobb,
waiting in the on-deck circle
Fozborg ready quickly, looks
in for the sign
It's coming down the pike
Speaker swings...
This one looks like it might go...
Pflaggstettler is going back...
He is at the fence...

And it is over the fence! Home run!
The Dead Ball Era center fielder now
has hit 2 here tonight!
And that gives him 21 in 1900
That is Tris Speaker' 21st
home run of the year.

One away, nobody on base
Cobb stands ready at the plate
So far this year Cobb is batting .370
He has 36 doubles, 10 triples
4 homeruns with 95 RBI's
and 44 stolen bases
Cobb chokes up on the bat a little
The pitch to Cobb...
Hard ground ball to the mound
Outstanding play by Fozborg!
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 1-3
Two gone for Dead Ball Era

The left fielder, Jackson, is ready to bat
Dead Ball Era on top 6 to 3
in the bottom of the 4th
Fozborg is rubbing the ball up
Now the umpire wants to take a look
No problems found...
Now Fozborg gets the sign from Hays
The windup, the pitch
Topped in front of home
Hays comes up with it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 2-3
That wraps up the inning for Dead Ball Era
By the way, Dead Ball Era is 5 and
5 in their last ten games