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Old 06-20-2011, 07:52 PM   #15
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1903 - Season Summary


Season in review
A change in nicknames and the most powerful offense in the league brought the Chicago Cubs their first pennant of the 20th century as the hit .293 as a team led by Roger Bresnahan (.331-4-97), Bill Bradley (.318-6-104) and Frank Chance (.317-0-47,136 runs and 83 SB). Rookie Jake Weimer (26-5, 2.98) took advantage of this support to win both the Cy Young and Rookie Pitcher of the year awards, while Nixey Callahan chipped in 22 wins of his own. NL MVP Honus Wagner (.359-5-93), Ginger Beaumont (.338-7-86) and three 16+ game winners (Waddell, Chesbro and Phillippe) kept the Pirates close, but the Cubs won their final 10 games to widen the gap to 4 by seasons end.

The newly relocated New York Highlanders limped home with just enough to hold off Boston, despite the year long holdout of reigning AL MVP Stubs Corchorane. Taking advantage of his absence, Path Twelve stepped into his spikes as the starting RF and put together an MVP and Rookie of the year season at .336-1-75, with 87 runs scored. Veteran Steve Brodie (.312-0-56) chipped in as well and the emergence of Barney Wolfe (21-10, 2.25) offset a down year by Cy Crooks, while Rob Neilsen and Finn O’Connell contributed 16 and 14 wins respectively. Boston rode Fred Clarke (.341-0-66) and George Winter (21-13, 2.12) but newly acquired Noodles Hahn (17-15, 2.61) was inconsistent and lost some big games down the stretch.

The World Series started in promising fashion as the Cubs took the first game 5-4 at home with 2 runs in the bottom of the 9th, after the Highlanders plated 2 in the top half to take the lead. From there on out it was all windy city as the NL Champions won 9-0, 8-2 and 6-2 to give the senior circuit their second straight sweep in the fall classic.



Notable Achievements
• Cy Crooks only redeeming factor to a frustrating season was holding opponents to a .196 average in August.
• Finn O’Connell was death to right handed batters holding them to a .185 batting average for the season and posting a WHIP of 1.08.
• Mathurin Hawkins was again selected to the All-Star team as a reserve with 608,083 votes as well as winning the Silver Slugger award for Catchers. Hawkins also finished 2nd in the AL with 94 RBI.
• Path Twelve may make Stubs Corchoran the original Wally Pipp as he led the AL in hits (185) walks (83) and OPB (.421) en route to winning both the MVP and Rookie of the Year awards. He also started in CF for the AL in the All-Star game garnering 715,730 votes, won the CF Silver Slugger award and added a Gold Glove for good measure.
• Ulysses A Spear was an impressive 5 for 10 with runners in scoring position as a pinch hitter.


Transactions
• Mathurin Hawkins signed a 2 year extension with New York at $150 per season.
• Finn O’Connell signed a 4 year extension with New York at $152 per season.

Injuries
• Cy Crooks was again as fragile as a glass vase landing on the 15 day DL on May 8th due to an arm injury and being hampered later in the season by a hamstring pull (July 22nd) and a rotator cuff strain (August 18th)
• Finn O’Connell also wore down at season’s end, being slowed by a Hamstring pull on August 14th and Rotator Cuff trouble on September 12th.
• Rob Neilsen suffered a minor arm injury on August 20th.


It will be interesting to see if our three outcasts return to Baseball’s good graces and without a doubt a message was sent to the players in both leagues that you are never too good to be locked out if you don’t play the proverbial ‘ball’ as Stubs Corchoran found out in the most painful of ways.

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