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GAME 63 - June 6 - Radio Broadcast

Welcome to Shadowball Stadium!
And in a moment we'll be ready
for the game between
Negro League II and FOFC
The ump shouts "PLAY BALL!"
We're ready to go here in Negro League II
Jeff Nights to lead it off for FOFC
Now ready, here it is...
Base hit to center for Nights
Wild Bill Wright is trying to get to it
This might be stretched into a double!
No... he decides to hold up

Nights inches away from the base
From the lead looks like Nights may go...
Throw to first, back in time...
Close play...
Now he's staying closer to the bag

The center fielder, A. J.
Tucker, is up next
Not sure, Tucker steps out
He's checking the signs again to be sure
Dick Howser re-delivers them
A. J. seems to be relaxed
and ready for the pitch
He steadies his bat now
Wickware brings it home
It's in on the hands
Inside... ball four
Tucker trots to first as
Nights takes second

Persimmon Pflaggstettler coming up
No score...
The ballgame is just under way
Pflaggstettler is at .300 on the season
He is hitting .317 against righties
Pflaggstettler, a righthand hitter
Waits patiently for the
pitch from Wickware
The righthander Wickware delivers
Pflaggstettler tees off on a
Frank Wickware fastball
This one's deep...
Wright going back in center
Off the fence!
Pflaggstettler's digging for two...
Wright misplays the carom!
Wright's miscue allows Pflaggstettler
to reach third
Score it a double... and an
error on Wild Bill Wright
That clears the bases
Now Pflaggstettler has 2 RBI's in 1900

One aboard, nobody out
Up next is Potpie
Potpie has hit 16 home runs this year
Frank gets the sign from Beckwith
Righthander Wickware's delivery
Potpie rolls one toward Willard Brown
He scoops it and fires to
first...close play
OUT, says the first base umpire
Joe Adcock throws his hands up
in disbelief
Negro League II gets the first
out of the inning

Walking up to the plate now is Gunner
FOFC leading in the game
FOFC ahead 3 to 0
Right-hander Wickware eyes
the lefty Gunner
Here's the 2 strike offering
Gunner swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Wickware strikes out Stan Gunner
Two men gone, nobody on
FOFC leads by 3

Deacon Palmer is coming to the plate
Palmer is batting .304 with
3 round trippers in 1900
Wickware wastes no time
He takes the first sign
Here's the righthander's delivery
Palmer slaps a hard grounder past short
Poles is over to pick it up
He tosses it back to second
Palmer will hold with a clean single

Palmer takes a three step lead
Wickware's move keeps Palmer guessing
He doesn't have a very good lead

Hays is ready to bat
On first is Palmer
He's not known for his speed
Hitching up his pants...

Hays gazes out to the mound
And Frank studies the sign
from Beckwith...
Now he's got it
Wickware brings it to the plate
Hays connects on the Wickware fastball...
This one is really smoked...
Poles starts back...
Now he just stops to look
Hays got all of this one....
Goodbye baseball!
Palmer scores in front of him

There is going to be a pitching change
Frank Wickware will head to the dugout
as Max Manning will come on here
in the top of the 1st
Manning has appeared in 29 games
His record is 6-5 with a 5.95 ERA
over 56 innings

FOFC second baseman, Barrett
Blade, is up next
Manning steps on the rubber...
Looks in for the sign
The pitch is on the way
Blade cuts on a curve that
misses in the dirt
That ball is trapped nicely by Beckwith
Blade was badly fooled by Manning's
big breaking curve
STRIKE THREE!
Barrett was a little overanxious
After one-half inning
It's FOFC 5, Twos coming up

Poles saunters to the plate
He does some stretching...
Knocks the dirt from his spikes...
Now he steps into the batter's box
Poles scuffs up the lines around the box
Fozborg steps off the rubber...
Adjusts his cap...
Now he's ready
Now Sirr delivers
Curveball, inside corner, low...
Swung on...
And lined to right for a base hit
No chance to get that one

Wright gets set at the plate
Time is called...
Wright has asked the ump
to clean the plate
We'll be ready in a second...
OK, now we are ready again
Fozborg wastes no time
He has the sign from Hays
Fozborg's 3-1 pitch...
Drilled down the right-field line
It is...
a FAIR BALL by about a foot in the corner
Base hit for Wright!
Persimmon Pflaggstettler
is chasing after it...
Wright will have at least
two, maybe three...
It's a...
Triple for Wild Bill Wright
Poles scores from first

Brown settles in at the plate
Fozborg eyes Brown intently
Now the delivery, here is is...
It's just misses outside
Brown checks his swing
Hays appeals to the first base umpire
It will be ball four

It will be Wilson to face Fozborg
The outfield's shaded towards right
With Wilson at the plate
Fozborg adjusts his cap...
Now he's set
The pitch to Wilson...
Curve in the dirt... and Wilson holds up
Looked like he went around from here
But the plate umpire says no
Hays asks the third base ump's opinion
He motions it's a walk...
Wilson will take first
Bases are tenanted

The catcher, John Beckwith
will be up next for Negro League II
Fozborg is on the first-base
side of the rubber...
Fozborg brings it to the plate
A curve...
Just outside, ball four!
He tried a breaking ball with
three balls on Beckwith
Didn't work
That forces in a run

Pete Hill steps into the box
Watching Fozborg, Hill wiggles the bat
He's ready for the pitch
After getting set, Hill waits on the pitch
He brings it home
It gets past Hays!
It's scored a passed ball.
The pitch didn't look that bad
Fozborg must have crossed him up!

Pete Hill steps into the box
Fozborg is happy with the sign
Fozborg checks the runners
Slow roller to second
Wilson breaks for home
Taken by Blade
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 4-3
With one down, up next is Sam Bankhead
To be followed by Oliver Marcelle

Now batting will be Sam Bankhead
Bankhead asks the ump for time
Now he's back in
Bankhead is ready for the pitch
Here comes the pitch
Grounded into the hole
Beckwith is coming home
Potpie comes up with it
Over to first
NOT IN TIME!
Bankhead gets an infield hit
Beckwith scores from third!

Bankhead looks like he
might be going . . .
There he goes!
Here's the peg . . .
HE'S IN THERE!

Oliver Marcelle steps into the box
Marcelle digs into the box
Marcelle is waiting for the pitch
The pitch
Flyball to left
it's caught
Bankhead has a chance to move up...
Bankhead is trying to advance
to third base...
Here's the play...
He's OUT!

It's the All Stars' turn at bat
here in the top of the 2nd
Sean Treacy, Jeff Nights, and A. J. Tucker
are due up to face righthander Max Manning
Manning steps off the mound toward second
Gives the resin bag a good squeeze...

Now he toes the rubber...
He's ready to go
Manning's righthanded delivery...
Treacy hits a screamer at Willard Brown
Brown picks it up and fires to first
The throw pulls Wilson off the bag
Wilson swipes with the glove

Treacy is out!
Nice play by Wilson
One down for FOFC
Jeff Nights is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to
the plate for FOFC

Facing Manning now is Nights
A. J. Tucker heads to the on deck circle
Persimmon Pflaggstettler waits in the hole
Jeff is hitting at .305 on the year
He has 65 hits in 213 at bats
FOFC's leadoff hitter...
Jeff has scored 34 runs on the season
All set, Nights is ready for the pitch
Max rocks and fires
Nights rips the curve to left-center...
Turning at the sound of the bat
Wright is racing back to the fence...
He reaches up for the drive...
It's over his head!
He plays the bounce off the fence
But he needn't hurry
Nights will lope into second with a double
(Ballpark Double Effect)

A. J. Tucker, the center fielder,
strides to the plate
Tapping the plate is Tucker
He has 14 steals this year
13th in the league!
If he gets on Manning will have to
watch him closely
Tucker is waiting on the pitch
Manning looks back towards second...

The pitch
Curveball, in and low
Tucker hits it to Wilson at first
Takes it cleanly...
Races to the bag...
It's going to be close...
And...
Out is the call
That could have gone either way
Nights is now perched over at third
That's the second out of the inning
While we wait for Persimmon Pflaggstettler
to get a new bat
Let's point out that FOFC is 4 and
6 in their last ten games

That will bring up right fielder,
Persimmon Pflaggstettler
Pflaggstettler a righty
in the batter's box
facing the righthanded Manning
Pflaggstettler readies himself
for the pitch
The pitch is on the way
Hit right back to Manning
On to first and Pflaggstettler is gone
That's all for FOFC
After 1 and a half innings in Negro
League II this evening,
The score is tied at 5

Manning leading off
Manning steps out of the box...
Looks towards Willie Randolph for a sign
The umpire says let's go
Hunter goes into his windup
And here's the 3-1 offering
Swung on and topped toward short
Nights comes in
Backhands it
Over to first
Not in time!
Infield single by Max

Manning watches Hunter carefully
As he stretches out his lead
Hunter snaps a throw to Potpie...
Diving back just in time...
Manning is called safe

Making his way up is Poles
Manning takes his lead
Hunter tosses the resin bag aside
He steps on the rubber...
The righthander Hunter's delivery
A slider by Hunter
Poles gets good wood on it...
Gunner back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
One down for Negro League II
Wild Bill Wright is still
in the on-deck circle
and Willard Brown is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Wright now at the plate
Willard Brown waits on deck
Hunter studies his sign
He's into the stretch
Takes a look over to first
Quick throw!
Manning dives back in!...

SAFE!
Potpie tosses it back to Hunter
Now here's the pitch
Wright rips a line shot
to the second baseman
OUT!
Treacy didn't have to move!
One blink and that would have
been past him!
Manning stays put
Two down

Brown heads to the plate
for Negro League II
The infield is at regular depth
Brown is hitting .287 against righties
Brown is waiting
His bat is wiggling slightly
Manning is dancing off first
Now to the belt, here it is...
Ripped to third, but right
at Palmer...easy out
That'll do it in the bottom of the 2nd
No runs, one hit, no errors
and one man left on base
The score is tied at 5
And now we'll pause for station
identification
This is your Strat-O-Matic
Broadcast System...

Here's the first baseman Potpie
To lead off the inning
He'll be followed by Stan Gunner
And then Deacon Palmer
Beckwith flashes the sign...
Manning waves it off...
Now he's happy
Manning kicks and fires
It's a wicked breaking ball
Out of the strike zone
Potpie checks his swing
Beckwith appeals to the first base umpire
Take a seat, Jeeberoni
One up, one down

Gunner digs in at the plate
Ready now for Manning to come set
Beckwith flashes the sign...
Manning shakes it off, he wants another...

Now he's happy
Max winds his right arm
Lets it go
Good slider, inside part of the plate
Gunner gets the bat on it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Bankhead grabs it...
Throws to first...
OUT!
That's two away
Brown comes over from his shortstop
position to say a few words to Manning
Deacon Palmer will be next up...

Up now for FOFC is Palmer
Two away, nobody on
Palmer is trying to get comfortable
in the box
Digging that back foot in
Set now is Palmer
The pitch on the way, here it is...
Palmer lifts a flyball towards Pete Hill
Hill seems to be having trouble
picking up the ball
Hill stumbles... he sticks his glove up...
He's got it!
Nice recovery by Hill
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
Time to check out the rest of the scores

Turn of Century leads Caribbean 1 to 0
Negro League I is running roughshod
over AL Post WWII 10 to 0
Late 20th leads Dead Ball Era 2 to 1
Glavine battling Walsh
AL Pre WWII and Left Outs
have yet to score
NL Pre WWII is in front of
NL Post WWII 3 to 0
Japanese League and Old
Timers are scoreless

The Twos will send
Wilson, John Beckwith, and Pete Hill up
to the plate this inning
So far this season
Wilson is hitting .241
when facing righthanded pitching
The bat is cocked
Hunter winds
Kicks the left leg high...
Comebacker, right to Hunter
Over to Potpie for the easy out
One gone for Negro League II

Coming up for Negro League
II is John Beckwith
Nobody on base, one out
We're all tied up at 5
Hunter looks down at Hays for the sign
Shakes him off once... twice...

Now he has the pitch he wants
Hunter brings it to the plate
Sinking fastball...
Beckwith swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Nights...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
That's two away

Walking up to the plate now is Hill
Sam Bankhead waits on deck
Pete is hitting at .260 on the year
He has 58 hits in 223 at bats
This includes 14 doubles, 3 triples
4 home runs and 29 RBI's
Hays flashes the sign to Hunter
With a 0-1 count... here's the pitch
Hard slider...
Hill swings from his heels...
He connects!...
There it goes...
Gunner is up against the fence
But he has no chance for this shot
IT'S DOWNTOWN!!!
What a blast by Pete

The Twos will send
Sam Bankhead up to the plate
The outfield shades towards
left for Bankhead
Bankhead is set for the pitch
And the delivery by Hunter
Bankhead hits a pop into short right field
Out goes Potpie and Treacy
In comes Pflaggstettler
Treacy waves his hands in the air
And makes the catch over his shoulder
Pretty play by Treacy
Negro League II gets 1 in
the bottom of the 3rd
One run, one hit and no errors
After 3 innings, Negro
League II leads by 1

Max Manning, out there on the
mound for Negro League II
prepares to face Harry Hays
to get the 4th inning underway
here in Shadowball Stadium
Hays is 1 for 1 today
Harry hit a two-run homer last time around
Max peers in for the sign...

Shakes off the first one...
Likes the second one
Manning is into his rocking motion
Now his right arm comes around
Swing and a miss
Struck him out
Number 28 on the season for Manning
So one up and one gone

Now here's Hunter
Max looks for the sign he wants...
Shakes off the first one
But he likes the next
It's coming down the pike
Curve, a beauty...
Strike three looking!
Manning punches him out!
That's two up, two down

Slowly coming up is Treacy for FOFC
He is finally in the batter's box
Negro League II leads 6 to 5
Treacy is 0 for 1 today
Manning adjusts his belt...
Looks in for the sign from Beckwith
Now Max delivers
Fastball, busted in on the hands
Treacy manages to get a piece of it
Bouncing it over the mound
Brown cuts it off in front of the bag
Rifles a throw to Wilson...
And Treacy is called out on a close play
That's all she wrote
A three up, three down inning
So After 3 and a half innings
Negro League II on top, 6-5

Oliver Marcelle stops at
the on deck circle
Takes a couple more practice swings
Now heads for the plate
Marcelle grips the bat handle
Hunter adjusts his belt...
Looks in for the sign from Hays
Here's the 0-2 pitch
There's a fly ball to A. J. Tucker
Tucker circles under it...
He makes the play
One up, one down for Negro League II

Manning finishes his practice swings
Now he strides to the batter's box
We'll see how they pitch to Manning
Manning waits
Hunter brings it to the plate
Pounded on the ground to third
Taken by Palmer
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 5-3
Two down
Hays asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Hays and Hunter

Poles, Negro League II's left fielder,
is coming to the plate
He is finished with his pre-bat warmup
Wild Bill Wright waits on deck
Poles is 1 for 2 today
Owen Hunter on in relief of Sirr Fozborg
Treacy comes in a couple steps
Yells something to Hunter
The delivery
Fastball up at the shoulders...
Poles still goes after it...
Rips one down the right field line
Chasing after it is Pflaggstettler...
He won't get it!...
Poles is digging for third...
Pflaggstettler has it, makes
the hurried throw
Palmer takes it on the short hop
The slide...
SAFE! at third

Wild Bill Wright moves in to face Hunter
1 on, 2 outs here in the bottom of the 4th
2 men away, Poles on third
Hunter wastes no time
He has the sign from Hays
The count is full
And the pay-off pitch...
Grounded to short
Taken by Nights
Over to Potpie
Got him!
Score It: 6-3
The side is retired
No runs, one hit, no errors
and one man left on base
Time for a break, just in
time, by the way as
I've just been handed a ballpark hotdog
As Humphrey Bogart once said
A hotdog at the ballpark is better than
steak at the Ritz

We're back at the top of
the order for FOFC
Jeff Nights coming to bat
Nights wiggles the bat above his head
Manning has the sign from Beckwith
It's a 3-2 count
Here comes the pay-off pitch...
Nights chases the change up
Hits a slow grounder right past Manning
Brown snares it behind the bag...
Plants...
Throws to first...
Beats him by a step for the out!
One away...
Wilson is coming over to the mound...
He wants to chat with the pitcher...
Here comes Marcelle also...
Now they return to their positions

One out, nobody on base
A. J. Tucker is the batter
Against righthanders
Tucker is hitting .278
Tucker is set
And the righthander is into his windup
Here's the pitch...
Tucker hits a screamer at Willard Brown
Brown takes it with the backhand...
The throw is short...
Wilson scoops it on one hop

Tucker is out!
Nice play by Wilson
Two down
Manning retires two in a row

Pflaggstettler walks to the plate
The outfield's shaded towards
left for Pflaggstettler
He's 1 for 2 today
Pflaggstettler is set in the batter's box
He's staring intently out at Manning
He's waiting for the pitch
Here's his delivery
Pflaggstettler hits a fly ball to center
Wild Bill Wright camps under it
He's got it
That's it for FOFC
Here at Shadowball Stadium, After
4 and a half innings,
Negro League II has 6 runs,
6 hits and one error
While FOFC has 5 runs,
5 hits and no errors
FOFC has left 1 on base
Negro League II has stranded 2

The big guys are due up
for Negro League II
Brown will lead it off
He will be followed by Jud
Wilson and John Beckwith
Owen is ready
Here comes the cripple pitch
There's a checked swing...
But Brown gets a piece of it anyway
It's a pop fly into left
Gunner comes in on it...
Easy out
Brown couldn't get his bat out of the way
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

Turn of Century leads Caribbean 1 to 0
Negro League I is embarrassing
AL Post WWII 13 to 1
Dead Ball Era is beating Late 20th 6 to 2
Left Outs slipping by AL Pre WWII 2 to 0
Carlton battling Gomez
NL Pre WWII is in front of
NL Post WWII 3 to 0
Japanese League and Old Timers
have yet to score
And here in Negro League II Negro
League II on top 6 to 5

Settling in at the plate is Wilson
Jud is 0 for 1 this summer evening
He grounded out in his last
plate appearance
Wilson awaits the delivery
Hunter fires
A jug-handled curve
Wilson goes out and gets it
It's a liner to right
Pflaggstettler will have to hurry...
Here he comes...
No sir... he has to play
it on the short hop
Single for Jud Wilson

Wilson inches away from first base
Hunter's move keeps Wilson guessing
He's not getting a very good lead

Beckwith is up next
One gone, bottom of the 5th
Pete Hill moves out on deck
Beckwith looks down toward the third
base coach, Willie Randolph
The umpire says let's go
Beckwith is ready
Now ready, here it is...
Beckwith swings a bit late
on the heater...
He still pops it pretty good towards right
Unfortunately for John, Pflaggstettler
is standing right there
Easy out
Two away now for Negro League II
They're ahead by 1
The Twos have 7 hits on the evening

Stepping in the batter's box, Hill
Wilson at first, two away
Pete steps out of the batter's
box to get the sign
Pete is 1 for 2 today with 1 home run
Hill waiting on the delivery
Hunter goes into his stretch
Looks over at the fidgety Wilson
He lobs one to Potpie...
Wilson is back easily
We're ready again
Now Hunter comes home
Hill hits it deep towards the gap
Pflaggstettler is back to
the warning track...
To the fence...
He leaps against the wall...
He can't get it!
Hill is at third, with a triple
Wilson scores from first

Sam Bankhead is up next
The Twos' second baseman
finds 1 on with 2 outs
Bankhead steps out of the batter's
box to get the sign
Sam is 1 for 2 today
Right-hander Hunter prepares for the pitch
to the right-handed swinging Bankhead
Way ahead in the count
Hunter turns the 0-2 pitch loose
Ripped to third, but right
at Palmer...easy out

Jeeberoni Potpie will start things off
Potpie is hitting .296
against righthanders
Potpie waits for the delivery
Manning rocks and fires
Let up pitch, inside and low
Swung on...
High hopping ball towards left...
Into the hole...
Stopped there by Brown before
it gets through...
He starts to throw but stops
Potpie has the infield single

Nobody out, Potpie at first
Now up is Gunner
Stepping in and then stepping out again
Gunner looks to third for a sign
He's ready
Manning goes into his stretch
Looks over at the fidgety Potpie
He lobs one to Wilson...
Potpie is back easily...

We're ready again
Now Manning comes home
Gunner goes down after the fastball...
Puts the lumber to it...
Wright turns and races for the fence...
Wow, this one is really stroked...
It's going, going, GONE!
A deep blast to right-center
The score is tied at 7

Next up is Deacon Palmer,
the FOFC third baseman
On-deck is Harry Hays...
He'll be followed by Owen Hunter
Palmer adjusts his glove...
Steps into the box...
Deacon is 1 for 2 this evening
Palmer gets ready for Manning's pitch
His bat is cocked
Manning winds and delivers
Inside slider, on the fists...
Swung on...
It's a high bounding ball...
Through the infield into left by Palmer
That's 2 hits for Palmer this game

Cito Gaston will go to his bullpen
It'll be Double-Duty Radcliffe
here in the top of the 6th
The score is knotted at 7
Radcliffe has a 2 and 2 record
in 29 appearances with a 4.03 ERA
He'll be facing Harry Hays
after a few warm-up tosses

Hays is the next hitter
Palmer is on first
Negro League II won't watch
him too closely
Harry is batting .354 with
5 home runs on the season
He is 1 for 2 today
Hays is poised and ready for the pitch
Here's the 3-2 offering
The runner goes with the pitch!
It's the hit and run!
Hays hits a screamer at Sam Bankhead
Bankhead picks it up and fires to second
Out there...
And the throw to first
A tailor made double play
Two gone for FOFC

Walking up to the plate now is Gonzalez
Sean Treacy waits on deck
Radcliffe has the sign from Beckwith
The windup, the pitch
He rips a grounder to the mound
Radcliffe grabs it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 1-3
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
By the way, FOFC is 4 and 6
in their last ten games

Oliver Marcelle leads it off
Marcelle is 0 for 2 on the day
He looks around at the FOFC infield
Potpie is kicking the dirt at first
Palmer is even with the bag at third
Treacy and Nights are ready
with hands on knees
at second and short
Marcelle, batting righthanded
is in his crouch
Ready to face the righthanded Rodney
And the delivery by Rodney
A slider by Rodney
Marcelle gets good wood on it...
Pflaggstettler back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
That's one away

One away, nobody on base
Radcliffe stands ready at the plate
Rodney looks down at Hays for the sign
Now he's ready
The righthander delivers
Hard slider, paints the inside corner
Radcliffe gets a piece of it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Potpie grabs it...
Races to first...
Beats Radcliffe for the out
That's the second out of the inning

Poles leaves the on-deck circle...
He's going back to get a new bat...
Now he jogs to the plate
Poles is batting .290 with
3 round trippers in 1900
Spotswood is eagerly awaiting
Rodney's pitch
Here's the 3-1 pitch
Rodney misses low on that one
Poles draws the walk
Number 1 today by Rodney

Poles takes a walking lead
Curve, inside corner...
Poles' on his way to second!
He couldn't resist
after getting a very nice lead
Here's the peg...
Poles with the hook slide...
The tag...
He's out on a very questionable call

Sean Treacy leads off for FOFC
Jeff Nights and A. J. Tucker will follow
FOFC will be looking to score
one to take the lead
We are late in the game
Sean is 0 for 2 this summer evening
He's batting .300 on the season
Treacy is set for the 1-2 pitch
Radcliffe leans back and fires
Treacy skies one very high
The ball drifts a bit
Wilson calls for it
Puts it away!
One gone for FOFC

Nobody on, one away for FOFC
Up now is Nights
Nights is at .307 on the season
Radcliffe shakes off two signs
Now he's ready
Now Double-Duty delivers
Fastball
Ball four

Nights stretches his lead
Slider, taken by Tucker
Nights is on his way!
He couldn't resist
After getting a very nice lead
Beckwith comes up from
his stance firing...
SAFE...
As Bankhead is unable to handle
the throw cleanly

A. J. Tucker steps into the box
One out, man on second
Right-hander Radcliffe eyes
the lefty Tucker
Righthander Radcliffe's delivery
Lifted down the right field line
Coming hard is Bankhead
But Wilson waves him away
and makes the grab
Two away in today's tightly contested game
Score still tied here with two
down in the top of the 7th

Beckwith heads out to the mound . . .
They want to talk strategy.
They might be discussing walking
Pflaggstettler.
Now the ump comes out to break it up . . .
And we're ready to go . . .
They are going to put Pflaggstettler on
Pflaggstettler takes ball four

Jeeberoni Potpie, the first baseman,
strides to the plate
Potpie is 1 for 3 today
He is currently batting .284
Poles, Wright and Hill
are playing him deep
Set now is Potpie
Checks the runners
Here's his delivery
Potpie drives one into left
Spotswood Poles sprints
over to make the play
That's it for FOFC
Here at Shadowball Stadium, After
6 and a half innings,
Negro League II has 7 runs,
8 hits and one error
While FOFC has 7 runs,
8 hits and no errors
FOFC has left 3 on base
Negro League II has stranded 3

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

Here's the center fielder Wright
To lead off the inning
He'll be followed by Willard Brown
And then Jud Wilson
Wright has 13 doubles this year
Rodney way behind in the count, 3-0
Wright stands ready...
The pitch is on the way
Ball four, Wright walks
Rodney has issued 2 bases
on balls this evening
And fans, it's about time for you
to walk to the kitchen and
grab a refreshment
That's what I'm gonna do
while we have a moment

Up next for the Twos
The hometown shortstop, Willard Brown
Brown has hit 7 home runs this year
Rodney rubs down the ball...
Now he's asking for a new one
After he rubs this one down
He looks in for the sign
Now James delivers
Brown just gets a piece of it
He 'nubs' it to second
Treacy races in quickly...
Barehands it...
Over to first
Just in time!
The runner moves up easily...
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's take a ten second station break
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Wright represents the go-ahead run
And up comes Jud Wilson
Negro League II needs only that 1 run
to break the tie
Wilson digs in from the left side
of the plate against the righty Rodney
Wilson waits for the pitch
His bat is coiled
He brings it home
Routine fly to center
Tucker starts in
Now he starts backpedaling...
Faster...
Just does catch up to it!
Wright scampers back to second
And there's two away

Now up in the Negro League II seventh
will be John Beckwith
Beckwith is 0 for 2 today
John flied out last time up
Beckwith is set in the batter's box
He's staring intently out at Rodney
He's waiting for the pitch
Rodney brings it to the plate
It's a duck snort headed
towards the outfield
WOW!
A retreating Nights snags it for the out
Great range shown on that play!
That is the third out for
Negro League II here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 33997

Stan Gunner stepping in
He will be the first batter for FOFC
We are in the top of the 8th
The score is tied at 7
Gunner is hitting .265
against righthanders
Stan is ready for the delivery
The righthander Radcliffe's delivery
There's a checked swing...
But Gunner gets a piece of it anyway
It's a pop fly into left
Poles comes in on it...
Easy out
Gunner couldn't get his bat out of the way
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

Caribbean is edging Turn of Century 3 to 2
Negro League I is destroying
AL Post WWII 17 to 2
Smith and Negro League I
are on cruise control
Dead Ball Era besting Late 20th 7 to 2
Cobb has hit his 2nd homerun
for Dead Ball Era
Left Outs clipping AL Pre WWII 5 to 1
Heilmann has hit his 11th
homerun for Left Outs
NL Post WWII leads NL Pre WWII 4 to 3
Ott has hit his 20th homerun
for NL Pre WWII
Japanese League and Old
Timers are scoreless

And it brings up Deacon Palmer
On deck is Harry Hays
James Rodney in the hole
Palmer has hit 3 home runs this year
Radcliffe steps on the rubber
Radcliffe brings it to the plate
Slow ground ball
Brown is charging it
He fires it to first
He's OUT
That's two away

Next up is Harry Hays, the FOFC catcher...
If he gets on, James Rodney would bat next
Hays has 1 home run today
And 5 home runs this year
The question is?...
Can he belt another?
FOFC definitely could use it
Radcliffe shakes off the
sign from Beckwith
And another...
Still another...
Looks like Radcliffe doesn't
want to pitch to Hays
Maybe hoping he'll get tired of waiting
Now he's finally ready
It's a full count...
Radcliffe winds and fires...
Pop-up
Beckwith drifts behind the plate
He makes the catch
That'll do it for FOFC
So we're still tied
After 7 and a half innings
Negro League II has 7 runs,
8 hits and one error
While FOFC has 7 runs,
8 hits and no errors

Hill is walking to the plate
Now he steps into the batter's box
Rodney looks down at Hays for the sign

Now he's ready...
The righthander winds and delivers
Over the outside corner
Hill hits the curve right to second...
Treacy takes it on the second hop
Fires to 1st...
Hill is out by a couple of steps
With one down

Potpie yells something out to Rodney
James nods his head

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

The infield shifts slightly to the left
for the right hand hitting Bankhead
Rodney looks at the ball...
Steps off the rubber
Throws it in to Hays
He wants a new ball
The ump looks at it...

Tosses it aside... throws
a new one to Rodney
Now he is ready...
Rodney throws the 3-1 pitch
Shallow fly ball
Pflaggstettler charging
HE DIVES...
HE'S GOT IT!
Two up, two down for Negro League II

Up now for Negro League II is Marcelle
Two away, nobody on
Marcelle digs in on the right side
of the plate facing the righty Rodney
Marcelle tells the umpire he's ready
Rodney brings it to the plate
Marcelle hits one toward third
Palmer fronts it...
Oops, he bobbles it...
Now he has the handle...
Long throw to first
Marcelle is safe by a step!
Man, speed on the bases helped there!
And the bobble costs Palmer an error

Double-Duty Radcliffe, will be up next
Spotswood Poles hopes to
get a chance as well
One on... two away
Late in the game, we're all tied
We're all tied up at 7
Hays flashes the sign to Rodney
Rodney goes into his stretch...
Looks at Marcelle...
He fires one to Potpie...
Marcelle dives back in
That's his best move to first...
Potpie lobs it back
Now Rodney comes home
Swung on and missed by Radcliffe,
he's down on strikes
We head to the 9th...
The scored is tied, 7-all

K. A. Ton leads off for FOFC
Sean Treacy and Jeff Nights will follow
We've got a dandy here today
at Shadowball Stadium
Ton is batting .225 with 5 HR's this year
Double-Duty looks for the sign he wants...
Shakes off the first one
But he likes the next
Radcliffe kicks and fires
It's a Texas Leaguer to center
Here comes Wright...
He is really motoring...
He reaches down...
But catches it on one hop!
Ton is on with a bloop single to center

Sean Treacy shows bunt
And lays it down right to Oliver Marcelle
Marcelle looks at second
But passes up a sure force play
He fires to first to retire Treacy
But Ton moves up
FOFC was in luck that time...
Credit Sean Treacy with a sacrifice
And there's one away

The shortstop, Nights, is ready to bat
The score is knotted at 7
in the top of the 9th
Nights is 2 for 3 today
Radcliffe ready quickly,
looks in for the sign
The pitch to Nights...
Curve, at the belt...
Nights times his swing...
Hammers a long fly ball...
Spotswood Poles retreats toward the fence
He leaps...

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

Now batting will be A. J. Tucker
The center fielder is walking to the plate
Bases empty... one out
FOFC up by 2
Tucker is at .301 on the season
Radcliffe tosses the resin bag aside
He steps on the rubber...
Radcliffe is into his wind-up
And the pay-off pitch
The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
Tucker held up, and draws a walk
Radcliffe isn't happy at
all with that call

Tucker studies Radcliffe intently...
Now he's walking away from the base
Radcliffe tosses another
quick one to first...
Even the speedy Tucker looks
a bit tentative now...
He doesn't seem to be getting a great lead

Pflaggstettler coming to bat
Walking slowly from the on deck circle
Tucker on first, with one away
Pflaggstettler is batting .300
with 9 homers this year
All set, Pflaggstettler is
ready for the pitch
Radcliffe brings it to the plate
Pflaggstettler swings and hits
a shot to deep left-center
Wright and Poles are converging
on the ball
Looks like Wright has the best shot at it
He dives for it...
WOW! He's got it!
Fantastic play by Wright
Tucker scurries back to first
He was already around second!
Two down

Two outs, with a man at first
Potpie is the next batter
We'll see how they pitch to Potpie
He's waiting on the pitch
Still waiting...

Now he steps out of the box...
We have a game of cat and mouse going on
OK, now we're ready to go
as Potpie steps back in
Radcliffe's into the stretch...

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

SAFE!...

Wilson tosses it back to Radcliffe
Now here's the pitch
The Whiff!
Radcliffe punches Potpie out!
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
So After 8 and a half innings
FOFC has 9 runs, 10 hits and one error
While Negro League II has 7 runs,
8 hits and one error
FOFC has left 4 stranded
Negro League II has failed to bring home 5

Spotswood Poles, Wild Bill Wright, and
Willard Brown are due up
Poles can't seem to get
settled at the plate
Kronside likes the sign
The initial offering to Poles
is on its way...
There's a shot off the bat
of Spotswood Poles
But it's right at Treacy
who makes the catch of the line drive
Poles throws his bat into
the dirt in disgust
Negro League II with one away
Kronside steps off the mound as
he waits for Wild Bill Wright to
come to the plate

Nobody on base, one away
Wright steps into the batter's box
Kronside is slow to get ready

He has a 1.97 ERA this year
Now he's ready
With a 1-2 count... here's the pitch
Slow ground ball
Treacy is charging it
HE DROPS IT!
That's an error
That's error number 2 of the game for FOFC

Brown waltzes up to the batter's box
Negro League II trails by 2 runs
We're in the bottom of the 9th
FOFC is set up for two
The right-hander Kronside is
set to deliver to Brown
Jace will have to come in
with this 3-0 delivery
It's on its way...
Fastball juuust outside
Ball four!
Brown tosses his bat away
and trots down to first
Kronside serves up four stright wide ones

With one out, and two men on
Wilson strides purposefully to the plate
Wilson swinging from the left side
of the plate against the righty Kronside
Jace gets the sign from Hays
Kronside checks the runners
The HIGH CHEESE.........
STRIKE THREE SWINGING!
One more chance for Negro
League II this inning

John Beckwith will get a
crack at Knowles next
Pete Hill would be up next...
But only if Beckwith can reach safely
Knowles has the sign from Hays
Sammy checks the runners
Steps off the rubber...

Again he's into the stretch...
The pitch
Base hit to left for Beckwith
Willie Randolph will send
the runner home...
The throw is cut off...
And that allows the run to score

Pete Hill is up next
He'll be hitting with 2 men on board
Hill is 2 for 4 today
For the season, Pete has 5 homers
14 doubles, and 4 triples
He has scored 26 runs
while driving in 31
Hill awaits the delivery
Knowles kicks and fires
Grounded towards the bag
Potpie to Knowles covering first
Score It: 3-1
And that will do it for Negro League II
FOFC wins 9 to 8
Rodney gets credit for the win
Knowles notches the save
Radcliffe takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Jeff Nights
He was 3 for 4 with a homerun
And that wraps things up
So long from Negro League II.