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8/28 Radio Broadcast

I see by the clock that we're
ready to go here in FOFC
Poles steps in to start things
off for Negro League II
Let's set the FOFC defense for you
Battery mates are Williams and Hays
Covering the corners at first and third
Will be Potpie and Palmer
The keystone combo has Blade at second
And Nights playing short
In the outfield
From left to right
Its Gunner, Gazelle and Pflaggstettler
Now Poles steps into the batter's box
This game's about to begin
Poles finishes his stretching
Let's play some ball...
Williams brings it to the plate
There's a fly ball to Stan Gunner
Gunner circles under it...
He makes the play
That's one away

Now batting will be Wild Bill Wright
Williams likes the sign
Williams brings it to the plate
Letterhigh, hard slider...
Swung on...
It's a line drive belted toward Palmer
It's by him...
Gunner comes in...
Plays it off his chest
Recovers quickly, throwing into second
Good defensive recovery
Keeping Wright to a single

Taking his lead is Wright
Wright held closely by Williams

Coming to the plate is Brown
Wright's the runner on first
He's doing his best to unnerve Williams
FOFC is set up for two
Williams adjusts his cap...
Now he's set
Now John delivers
Bouncer in the hole
It's past Blade into right field
An opposite field hit!
Wright is tearing around second
Coach Willie Randolph is
waving him on to third
He'll make it easily

Planting his right foot
Beckwith is set in the box...

The infield shifts slightly to the left
for the right hand hitting Beckwith
Beckwith has 25 doubles this year
John gets the sign from Hays
Williams brings it to the plate
Base hit to center for Beckwith
Wright scores
Third base coach Willie Randolph
is motioning Brown to third...
The throw is going to third...
Gerald Gazelle throws the
ball away for an error!

That'll bring up Twos' catcher
Louis Santop...
Negro League II with a man in
scoring position at second
Williams looks down at Hays for the sign
Shakes him off once... twice...

Now he has the pitch he wants
Williams fires
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 Louis 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's the second out of the inning
While we wait for Jud Wilson
to get a new bat
Let's point out that Negro League II
is 7 and 3 in their last ten games

The first baseman, Jud Wilson
will be up next for Negro League II
Wilson is at .281 on the season
Hays flashes the sign to Williams
The southpaw delivers
It's popped up into foul territory
Barrett Blade is under it
He puts it away
Score It: 4
That does it in the top of the 1st
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After one half inning, Negro
League II leads 2 to 0

To lead off this inning is Barrett Blade
FOFC needs a pair to tie this game
Barrett is hitting at .279 on the year
He has 116 hits in 416 at bats
FOFC's leadoff hitter...
Barrett has scored 59 runs on the season
Brewer steps on the rubber
Brewer will try to get Blade to go fishing
as the 0-2 pitch heads towards the plate
Blade really smacks this one
He was waiting on the change
It's a gapper...
But hit high...
Poles was positioned well
and has a shot at it
He is still running...
At the fence...
He dives for it...
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

All Stars' shortstop Nights
is up next
Nights is one of the best hitters around
Brewer squeezes the resin bag...
Peers in
Now ready, here it is...
There's a long drive...
Its' way back there...
Spotswood Poles 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 Jeff Nights

Coming up for FOFC is Persimmon
Pflaggstettler
Nobody on base, one out
Pflaggstettler wiggles the
bat above his head
Pflaggstettler is set for the pitch
Here's the righthander's delivery
Extra base hit to center
for Pflaggstettler
Wild Bill Wright is trying to get to it
This might be stretched into a triple!
No... he decides to hold up

Next up is Jeeberoni Potpie
Pflaggstettler is the runner on second
He represents the tying run
One out, man on second
Brewer gets the sign, it's one he likes
Brewer rocks and fires
It's a shallow fly by Potpie
Wright runs in, calls for it
He makes the catch with
a snap of his glove
Potpie is out
Two gone for FOFC

Harry Hays is up next
Pflaggstettler, who can fly is at second
Brewer and Santop will be on their toes
Negro League II is only ahead by 1
A base hit should score Pflaggstettler
Chet is ready
Brewer's 0-2 pitch...
Fastball... down and away...
NO! It's called a strike
And Hays is outta there
The crowd is showering the home plate ump
with a barrage of "blind" barbs
That's all for the All Stars...
As we head to the top of
the second inning...
Negro League II leads 2 to 1

Here's the second baseman Bankhead
To lead off the inning
He'll be followed by Dick Lundy
And then Chet Brewer
Left-hander John Williams
prepares for the pitch
to the right-handed swinging Bankhead
The southpaw Williams' delivery
Fastball, STRIKE THREE!
Bankhead was frozen on that
fastball by Williams
High and on the outside corner
He was looking for an off-speed pitch
And there's one away

Walking up to the plate now is Lundy
Negro League II leading in the game
Lundy is at .267 on the season
Williams ready quickly,
looks in for the sign
With a 2-0 count, the pitch
Slow ground ball
Palmer is charging it
He fires it to first
He's OUT
That's the second out of the inning

Chet Brewer, the pitcher,
strides to the plate
Hitching up his pants...

Brewer gazes out to the mound
Brewer is waiting on the pitch
The lefthander Williams delivers
Fastball... and it hits
Brewer... or did it?
No, it didn't!!!
It's ball four...
Brewer will take first base on a walk

Negro League II left fielder,
Spotswood Poles, is up next
Williams looks down at
Hays for the sign...
Shakes him off once... twice
Now he has the pitch he wants
He's into the stretch
Looks over at first
Quick throw!...
Brewer dives back in!...
SAFE!
Potpie tosses it back to Williams
Now here's the pitch
Bouncer to the mound
Williams comes up with it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 1-3
That's all for the Twos
No runs, no hits, no errors and
one man left on base...
We go to the bottom of the 2nd...
Negro League II ahead 2 to 1

Stan Gunner, Deacon Palmer,
and Gerald Gazelle are the
scheduled hitters
It's the bottom of the 2nd...
Twos lead the All Stars, 2-1
Santop flashes the sign...
Brewer shakes it off, he wants another...

Now he's happy
Now to the belt, here it is...
What a pitch... strike three
Brewer put that one on the
black, a perfect pitch
One down for FOFC
Deacon Palmer is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to
the plate for FOFC

Nobody on base, one away
Palmer steps into the batter's box
Palmer is one of the best hitters around
Right-hander Brewer eyes the righty Palmer
He brings it home
Fastball, at the letters...
Palmer crunches it...
There's a high belt...
Driven deep into left-centerfield...
Wright running to the fence...
It's outta here
HOME RUN 8 for Palmer this year!

Making his way up is Gazelle
Gazelle is hitting .173
against righthanders
Gerald steadies his bat
And waits patiently for Brewer's pitch
Now Chet delivers
Gazelle tries to hold up
Santop points down at the
first base umpire
The ump says he went around
STRIKE THREE!
Two down
Santop asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Santop and Brewer

FOFC sends the pitcher,
John Williams, up to the plate
Williams swinging from the right side
facing the righty Brewer
Williams waits patiently
Bankhead comes in a couple steps
Yells something to Brewer
The delivery
Williams swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Brewer strikes out John Williams
That's all for the All Stars...
After 2 innings here at
FOFC Stadium in FOFC,
The score is knotted at 2

Wright up now to lead off
The outfield shades towards
left for Wright
Williams studies his sign
The southpaw delivers the 2 strike pitch
Wright swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Williams strikes out Wild Bill Wright
One down, nobody on
Game tied

And the batter is Willard Brown
John Beckwith is on-deck
Willard, a right-handed hitter,
will face the lefty Williams
Of his 15 home runs, 2 are
against southpaws
He's ready for the delivery
Here's the southpaw's delivery
Struck him out on a fastball
Brown goes down swinging
That's two away

The third baseman, John
Beckwith, is up next
Beckwith is batting .265
with 27 HR's this year
Williams' reaching for the resin bag
He is having a fine year for FOFC
Quite an important member of the staff
Already with 15 wins,
John has racked up 179 innings in 1900
Now he is ready to go
John rocks and fires
A jug-handled curve
Beckwith goes out and gets it
It's a liner to left
Gunner will have to hurry...
Here he comes...
No sir... he has to play
it on the short hop
Single for John Beckwith

Two out, Beckwith at first
Coming up is Louis Santop
Santop has a .274 average against lefties
Santop waits for the pitch
His bat is coiled
Williams goes into his stretch...
Looks over at Beckwith
Fires to Potpie...
Beckwith is back easily...

We're ready again
Now Williams comes home
It's a BULLET, hit towards second
Blade makes a great catch!
Score It: 4
That's it for Negro League II
Here at FOFC Stadium, After
2 and a half innings,
FOFC has 2 runs, 3 hits and one error
While Negro League II has 2 runs,
4 hits and no errors
Negro League II has left 3 on base
FOFC has stranded 1

Barrett Blade, Jeff Nights, and
Persimmon Pflaggstettler are due up
Barrett is batting .278 with
3 home runs on the season
He is 0 for 1 today
Blade looks very intent...
He stares down at Brewer...
Cocks his bat
The righthander delivers
Blade gets wood on the hard slider
It's a bouncer hit past the mound...
And PAST Lundy into the outfield...
Base hit for Blade

Nights gets set at the plate
Jeff looks down at the third base coach
He gets the sign from Dick Howser
Blade takes his lead
Brewer has the sign from Santop
The stretch... the delivery
Nights will try the hit and run!
Nights misses the pitch!
The steal attempt...
Blade is off to the races
He can run...
The peg down...
Blade slides head first to the outside...
Avoids the tag... He's safe...
WAIT, he overslid the bag...
And he's back in safely avoiding
the tag again!
That will be stolen base number 10
for the 1900 season

Nights squares, and bunts it down the line
Beckwith picks it up and fires to first
OUT by a whisker
Had Nights been a left-handed hitter
He might have had a hit
Score it a sacrifice
That's one away

Now here's Pflaggstettler
Pflaggstettler is hitting
.309 against righties
Brewer has the sign he wants
Here's his delivery
Swung on and missed by Pflaggstettler,
he's down on strikes
Two gone in the bottom of the 3rd
Negro League II is still in quite a jam
Clutch situation for Jeeberoni Potpie
He'll come up against the
righthanded Brewer

Facing Brewer now is Potpie
Harry Hays heads to the on deck circle
Stan Gunner waits in the hole
Jeeberoni is hitting at .278 on the year
He has 137 hits in 493 at bats
Today, he is 0 for 1
Potpie flied out his last time up
Potpie is set in the batter's box
He's staring intently out at Brewer
He's waiting for the pitch
The pitch is on the way
Grounded down the line
Beckwith can't come up with it
BASE HIT!
Blade scores from third!

Stepping in the batter's box, Hays
Potpie at first, two away
Hays is at .325 on the season
Brewer shakes off two signs
Now he's ready
Here's the 0-1 offering
Swung on and lofted very high...
and deep...
Poles starts back, turns...
He's at the fence...
And he pulls it in!
That's all for the All Stars
After 3 innings in FOFC this evening,
FOFC ahead 3 to 2

Negro League II will send Wilson,
Sam Bankhead, and Dick Lundy to face
John Williams this inning
Wilson has a .321 average
against lefthanders
He is .280 overall
Jud steadies his bat
Waits patiently for Williams' pitch
Williams brings it home
Jud Wilson swings
He hits a long drive
This one may be out of here...
Back, back, back...
IT'S CAUGHT!
Stan Gunner hauls it in
up against the fence in left
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

AL Pre WWII with the lead over
Japanese League 4 to 1
Dead Ball Era and Negro League
I have yet to score
NL Post WWII is in front
of Caribbean 5 to 2
Mathews has hit his 44th homerun
for NL Post WWII
Left Outs leads NL Pre WWII 1 to 0
Old Timers and Turn of Century
are scoreless
AL Post WWII is beating Late 20th 6 to 2

And it brings up Sam Bankhead
On deck is Dick Lundy
Chet Brewer in the hole
Bankhead is 0 for 1 today
Williams wastes no time
He has the sign from Hays
Williams kicks and fires
Curve, a beauty...
Strike three looking!
Williams punches him out!
Two down

That'll bring up Dick Lundy
Chet Brewer will follow
if Lundy gets aboard
Hays is rubbing his thumb
He hurt it two or three days ago
And it still bothers him...
Some of Williams' pitches really
cause him to wince
But he wants to play through it
Lundy steps into the box
Lundy is at .265 on the season
Lundy is set for the 3-2 pitch
Here's Williams' windup
And the lefthander comes home with it
Sinking fastball...
Lundy swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Nights...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step

Stan Gunner up first for FOFC
He is a threat to steal if he gets on
We're in the bottom of the 4th
Brewer tosses the resin bag aside
He steps on the rubber...
Here's the windup... and the pitch
Breaking ball...
It darts down and out
as Gunner swings way over it
He was fooled completely
Santop loses it momentarily,
but now finds the handle and tags
Stan as he was heading for the dugout
One gone for FOFC

Deacon Palmer will face Brewer
Righty against righty
Palmer a righty in the batter's box
facing the righthanded Brewer
Right-hander Brewer prepares for the pitch
to the right-handed swinging Palmer
The pitch is on the way
Belt high fastball, on the outside corner
Grounded to short
Lundy ranging into the hole...
He backhands it...
Plants his right foot...
Fires to first
SAFE!...By a step

Coming to the plate is Gazelle
One down and runner at first
Gazelle is batting .245 with
26 HR's this year
Brewer is happy with the sign
The righthander Brewer delivers
Back door breaking ball...
And it's in there...
Gazelle looks at strike three
One more chance for FOFC this inning

Slowly coming up is Williams for FOFC
He is finally in the batter's box
FOFC leads 3 to 2
Brewer adjusts his belt...
Looks in for the sign from Santop
The righthander Brewer's delivery
Strike Three!
Brewer has now struck out 8
and we are only in fourth!
That's all for the All Stars
After 4 full innings of play,
they lead by 1

Buck O'Neil is swinging a bat
He'll come up to hit for Chet Brewer

O'Neil is walking to the plate
Now he steps into the batter's box
Williams steps off the rubber...
Adjusts his cap...
Now he's ready
The 2-0 delivery by the lefthander
It's a routine fly into center
Gazelle ranges over and reaches up
He grabs it for the out
So one up and one gone

One out, nobody on base
Spotswood Poles is the batter
Poles is at .324 on the season
Williams adjusts his belt...
Looks in for the sign from Hays
Williams brings it to the plate
Poles drives one into center
Gerald Gazelle sprints over
to make the play
And there's two away

Up now for Negro League II is Wright
Two away, nobody on
Wright is batting .293 with
17 HR's this year
Williams rubs down the ball...
Now he's asking for a new one
After he rubs this one down
He looks in for the sign
The southpaw Williams' delivery
on the 2 strike pitch
Wright is gone on strikes
Left with the bat still in
the cocked position
No runs for Negro League II
in the top of the 5th
FOFC on top 3 to 2
We'll be right back
Max Manning will be coming on to
pitch for Negro League II
Max has appeared in 76 games this season
He has a record of 13-11
with 4 saves
His ERA stands at 5.47

Blade 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
Blade looks down toward the third
base coach, Dick Howser
Set now is Blade
The pitch to Blade...
Extra base hit to center for Blade
Wild Bill Wright 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

Up next for the All Stars
Jeff Nights, the shortstop
On-deck is Persimmon Pflaggstettler...
He'll be followed by Jeeberoni Potpie
Nights is batting .283 with
18 HR's this year
Manning is slow to get ready

He has a 5.47 ERA this year
Now he's ready
And the delivery by Manning
The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
Nights held up, and draws a walk
Manning isn't happy at all with that call

Persimmon Pflaggstettler makes
his way to home plate
Pflaggstettler is 1 for 2 on the day
He looks around at the Negro
League II infield
Wilson is kicking the dirt at first
Beckwith is even with the bag at third
Bankhead and Lundy are ready
with hands on knees
at second and short
Pflaggstettler cocks his bat
The runners stretch out to their leads
Here's the 3-2 pitch
Base hit to center for Pflaggstettler
Blade scores
Third base coach Dick Howser is
motioning Nights to third...
The throw is going to third...
Nights is out at third base!
Pflaggstettler advances
to 2nd on the throw

Potpie, the first baseman, moves
into the batter's box

FOFC leads 4 to 2
Potpie is 1 for 2 today
Jeeberoni singled last time around
Santop flashes the sign...
Manning waves it off...
Now he's happy
The pitch on the way, here it is...
Potpie slaps a routine grounder to Lundy
Dick picks it up...
Looks Pflaggstettler back to second
Sidearms a throw to Wilson
Potpie is out
Two away now for FOFC
They're ahead by 2
The All Stars have 8 hits on the evening

Looks like they want nothing
to do with Hays
Or his .324 batting average...
He is being put on to set up the force...

The All Stars will send
Stan Gunner up to the plate
Stan steps out of the batter's
box to get the sign
Gunner is 0 for 2 today
He struck out last time up
Gunner waits for the pitch
A quick check of the runners...
And the pitch
Gunner pops it straight up
over the infield...
And it will be Bankhead making the play
Gunner chokes in the clutch!
That's it for FOFC here in
the bottom of the 5th
They leave 2 runners stranded
FOFC has 4 runs, 8 hits and one error
While Negro League II has 2 runs,
4 hits and no errors

Leading off now for Negro
League II is Brown
Williams is ready quickly
Williams is behind in the count
Here's the 2-0 offering
There's a check swing by Brown
It's a high pop in foul territory
It looks playable
Harry Hays makes the catch
against the stands
One out
Due up next is John Beckwith

Nobody on, one away for Negro League II
Up now is Beckwith
John steps out to check for his sign
Now he steps back in
Willie Randolph relays the
sign from Cito Gaston
Beckwith singled last time up
and now is 2 for 2
John takes off his cap...
He brushes some hair off his forehead
He taps his bat on the plate
He's ready to go
The lefty Williams delivers
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
John Beckwith is out
Two out, nobody on
FOFC ahead 4 to 2