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GAME 3 - Wednesday, April 4th - Radio Broadcast

Here we are at beautiful FOFC Stadium, where the red-hot FOFC All Stars, coming off the dramatic 9th inning walk off homerun by Stan Gunner, will go for the sweep in the 3 game series to open the season.

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Gehringer will once again lead off the game for the Pre-Americans

Gehringer pops one straight up, the infield converges, but
it will be Blade making the play
One away in the top of the
1st for AL Pre WWII

The pitch is just inside
and Cronin holds up
Hays points down at the first base umpire
He gives the "safe" sign
Joe trots down to first... ball four

A high fastball...
and Ruth, who was looking for the breaking ball swings late...
He hits a routine pop just left of Blade
Barrett is under it...
And takes it in for the easy out

That's the second out of the inning

Swung on and missed...
Simmons is down on strikes
That's three outs here in
the top of the first
At the end of one half inning,
for AL Pre WWII
No runs, no hits, no errors
and one man left on base
FOFC is coming to bat

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Fastball, swung on...
Driven to left-center, into the gap...
Dimaggio goes back, back...
He's not going to get it...
It goes over his head!...
He's got to chase it down...
Has it, wings a strong throw to Lazzeri
But Blade slides in safely at third
Just barely...
A beautiful peg by Dimaggio

Broken bat ground ball to short
Blade breaks for home
Cronin comes up with it
Over to Gehrig
Got him!
Score It: 6-3
FOFC with one away
Gomez steps off the mound as
he waits for A. J. Tucker to
come to the plate

Tucker grounds ball into the hole
Lazzeri and Cronin converge on it
It's fielded by Lazzeri who fires to first
SAFE is the call by the ump
Close play - but replays indicate Tucker's speed pays off as he just does beat the throw.!!

Tucker studies Gomez intently...
Now he's walking away from the base
Gomez holds the runner, with several tosses over that way

Gomez loses Potpie after being up 1 and 2

Fouts drives the ball to
left for extra bases
Tucker scores
Dick Howser puts up the stop sign...and Potpie holds
Double for Fouts

Curveball, Ton lets it go by
The umpire signals STRIKE THREE!
Ton looks imploringly at him
No words, but a very long look
Now he walks slowly back to the dugout
That's two away

Hays swings and lifts one toward left
Simmons drifts over slowly...
He is under it now...
And makes the easy catch...
And that will do it for FOFC

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Gehrig cuts on a curve that
misses in the dirt
That ball is trapped nicely by Hays
Gehrig was badly fooled by Mighty's
big breaking curve
STRIKE THREE!
Lou was a little overanxious
FOFC gets the first out of the inning

Dimaggio swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Mighty strikes out Joe Dimaggio
Two down
Mighty retires the first two
AL Pre WWII batters

Good slider, inside part of the plate
Dickey gets the bat on it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Blade grabs it...
Throws to first...
OUT!
The Pre-Americans go quickly
in the top of the 2nd
No runs, no hits and no errors
After 1 and a half innings,
it's 2-0 FOFC

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Pflaggstettler his a Fly ball to center
Dimaggio is under it
He makes the grab
That's one away

Mighty goes down swinging
Two up, two down

Fastball, STRIKE THREE!
Blade was frozen on that fastball by Gomez
High and on the outside corner
He was looking for an off-speed pitch
That's all for the All Stars
in the 2nd inning
No runs, no hits and no errors...
We head to the 3rd...
FOFC ahead 2 to 0

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Lazzeri Swung on and chopped down
the third base line
Fouts stabs at it
He's got it!
Over to first...
GOT HIM!
What a nice play by Dan Fouts
One down for AL Pre WWII

Lefty Gomez is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to the
plate for AL Pre WWII

It's a high fly into right
Pflaggstettler ranges to his right
Reaches up, and takes it for the easy out
And there's two away

Sinking fastball...
Gehringer swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Nights...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
The Pre-Americans go quietly
in the top of the 3rd
No runs, no hits and no errors
After 2 and a half innings,
it's 2-0 FOFC

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Nights hits a screamer at Joe Cronin
Cronin picks it up and fires to first
The throw pulls Gehrig off the bag
Gehrig swipes with the glove

Nights is out!
Nice play by Gehrig
One down for FOFC
A. J. Tucker is still in
the on-deck circle
and Jeeberoni Potpie is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Fastball...
Tucker jumps all over it...
It's juiced to deep center
There goes Dimaggio after it
Racing hard...
He dives...
And he's got it!!!
Beautiful play by Joe Dimaggio!
That's the second out of the inning
Time to check the scoreboard

Late 20th leads Japanese League 1 to 0
Left Outs is on top of Caribbean 2 to 0
Negro League I besting Old Timers 7 to 2
Leonard has hit his 1st homerun
for Negro League I
Dead Ball Era is beating
AL Post WWII 4 to 0
Collins has hit his 1st homerun
for Dead Ball Era
NL Post WWII winning over
Turn of Century 7 to 1
NL Pre WWII slipping by Negro
League II 2 to 0
And in our contest FOFC on top 2 to 0

A slider by Gomez and
Potpie gets good wood on it...
Dimaggio back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
That's three outs, side retired

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Cronin hits a hard bouncer to Fouts' left
He's over...
Makes the pick-up...
Over to Potpie...
Cronin is out!
A sparkling glove hand pick-up
by Dan Fouts!
So one up and one gone

Hanging curveball...
Ruth times it, swings...
There's a high drive...
Crunched deep towards right center...
Pflaggstettler doesn't have a chance
Home Run for Ruth
That was way over the fence

A hot shot on the ground to Blade
He's got it cleanly on one hop...
Over to first and Simmons is out
Two gone for AL Pre WWII

Pop-up
Hays throws away the mask
He makes the catch
That does it for AL Pre WWII
here in the top of the 4th
But they pick up 1 run
So After 3 and a half innings,
FOFC ahead 2 to 1

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Fouts tries to hold up
Dickey points down at the
first base umpire
The ump says he went around
STRIKE THREE!
One out
Due up next is K. A. Ton

Change-up, Ton is looking for it...
He smacks a deep fly to left-center...
Dimaggio is at the warning track...
and Joe can't come up with it...
The ball rolls to the fence...
Ton coasts into second...

Curve ball, down and in...
Swung on by Hays...
Grounded to the left side...
Lazzeri can't get his glove on it...
It's through for a single...
Here comes Ton to score without a throw!

Base hit to center for Pflaggstettler
Dick Howser puts up the stop sign...
Hays will stay at second

Mighty squares to bunt
He bunts the ball . . .
Fielded by T.Lazzeri
the throw to first...
close play...
Out
Mighty gets the job done.
Two down
Due up next is Barrett Blade
Let's see what happens now

Wait, Dickey calls time
He is looking to the dugout
Now he's signaling for an intentional pass
This will load them up
But AL Pre WWII now has
a force at any base

Nights, with the bases juiced hits A high hopper to second
Gehringer grabs it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 4-3
That's it for FOFC
Here at FOFC Stadium, After 4 innings,
FOFC has 3 runs, 6 hits and no errors
While AL Pre WWII has one run,
one hit and no errors
FOFC has left 5 on base
AL Pre WWII has stranded 1

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Off speed pitch on the way...
And Dimaggio watches it go
by for the third strike
Dimaggio stood there like a bump on a log
2 strike outs for Dimaggio today
One away in the top of the
5th for AL Pre WWII

Sinker, down at the knees...
Swung on...
Dickey hits a Baltimore chop...
Past the infield into right for a single!
That was a difficult ball to handle

It is a high hard one...
Lazzeri goes on a fishin' trip
Strike three swinging!
That one sailed up out of the strike zone
but Lazzeri couldn't hold back
FOFC on top 3 to 1 with
two away this inning

Gomez hits a blooper just
beyond the infield
It looks like that one will drop
Barrett Blade dives toward
the outfield grass
AND SNAGS THE BALL BEFORE
IT HITS THE GROUND - AMAZING CATCH.
That ends the inning
After 4 and a half innings,
FOFC leads by 2

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Tucker slaps a routine fly into right
Ruth ranges over and reaches up
He grabs it for the out
One gone for FOFC

The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
Potpie held up, and draws a walk
Gomez isn't happy at all with that call

Fastball down low...
Fouts swings and hits one out to center
Joe Dimaggio is drifting over...
Now he's under it...
Easy out for Gomez
Potpie trots back to first
Two down

Fastball, a dandy...
Steee Rike THREE!
And Ton is punched out
No runs for FOFC in the bottom of the 5th
FOFC ahead 3 to 1
We'll be right back

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Gehringer raps a hard shot...
CAUGHT!
That ball was lined right at third
Fouts just got his glove up in time
Great reflexes
So one up and one gone

WATCH OUT!
Mighty has hit Cronin!

Ruth drives one into center
A. J. Tucker sprints over to make the play
Two down in the 6th
Time for a station break
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Simmons swings and misses
Strike three
Simmons didn't have a good
cut at that pitch
That wraps up the inning for AL Pre WWII
So After 5 and a half innings
FOFC has 3 runs, 6 hits and no errors
While AL Pre WWII has one run,
2 hits and no errors
AL Pre WWII has left 3 stranded
FOFC has failed to bring home 6

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Curve ball...
Hays swings and misses by a mile
The bottom dropped out of that one!
A wicked pitch!
Gomez gets the first out in the inning

Pflaggstettler hits a hard ground ball to short
Cronin comes up with it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 6-3
One more chance for FOFC in
the bottom of the 6th

Mighty, with a 2 hitter is going to take his hacks
Swing and a miss
Struck him out
As we head into the 7th
the Pre-Americans will try
to get something going
They trail by 2, 3-1

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Gehrig gets jammed
He still gets a good piece of it
It's sliced down the left field line
Drifting...
Foul
. . . Gehrig back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
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Hays drifts behind the plate
He makes the catch
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

Late 20th leads Japanese League 2 to 1
Maddux battling Inao
Left Outs slipping by Caribbean 2 to 0
Negro League I toppling Old Timers 10 to 3
Leonard has hit his 1st homerun
for Negro League I
Dead Ball Era is giving it
to AL Post WWII 7 to 2
Chesbro enjoying the big
Dead Ball Era lead
NL Post WWII is pounding Turn
of Century 10 to 3
Mays has hit his 1st homerun
for NL Post WWII
Negro League II slipping
by NL Pre WWII 6 to 4
Mathis battling Dean
And right here in FOFC FOFC leads 3 to 1

Dimaggio hits a screamer at Jeff Nights
Nights takes it with the backhand...
The throw is short...
Potpie scoops it on one hop

Dimaggio is out!
Nice play by Potpie
Two down
Mighty retires two in a row

Right down the middle... strike three
Dickey must have been looking
for something else
He just froze on that pitch

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

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Blade hits a three hopper
towards Joe Cronin
Cronin scoops it and fires
it to first for the out
One out
The All Stars have a 2 run lead


Nights pounds a grounder
toward Cronin at short
Joe moves in front of it...
Whoops... a bad bounce
But Cronin stayed with it
Over to first and Nights is retired
Nice play by the AL Pre WWII short stop

Hard ground ball to second
Taken by Gehringer
Over to Gehrig
Got him!
Score It: 4-3
Three away here in the bottom of the 7th
After 7 innings FOFC on top 3 to 1
The official attendance has
just been announced
48195 fans here at FOFC
Stadium this evening

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Lazzeri digs in...
Fastball, a beauty...
Steee Rike THREE!
With one down

Potpie yells something out to Mighty
Al nods his head

Now batting for AL Pre WWII...
Luke Appling...
He'll pinch hit for Lefty Gomez

There's a cue shot off the end
of the bat by Appling
Blade makes the routine catch
of the soft liner
Two gone in the inning
The Pre-Americans are in danger
of losing this game
Down by 2

Pounded on the ground to third
Taken by Fouts
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 5-3
Three down for AL Pre WWII
Now the All Stars will be coming up
for what they hope will be their
last at bat of the evening
They lead by 2, 3-1
Miller Huggins will be bringing
in a relief pitcher
Waite Hoyt has been called
from the bullpen
A few warm up tosses and
we'll be set to go

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Changeup down low...
Potpie makes contact and
hits one out to center
Joe Dimaggio is drifting over...
Now he's under it...
Easy out for Hoyt
Hoyt retires the first batter to
face him in the bottom of the 8th

Curveball, inside corner, low...
Fouts Swings...
And lined to right for a base hit
No chance to get that one

Ton sends a scorcher to short
Cronin takes it on one hop
Fires to Gehringer for one
Back to Gehrig for the double play!
That's all for the All Stars
After 8 full innings,
they lead by 2

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Benton Breeze brings in Sammy Knowles to close and Gazelle will go into leftfield as a defensive replacement.

There's a fly ball to Gerald Gazelle
Gazelle circles under it...
He makes the play - I think even Ton could have caught that can of corn.
One up, one down for AL Pre WWII

There's a towering fly ball hit by Ruth
Tucker sprints over, and makes the catch
Two gone for AL Pre WWII
Time is running out for them

Hit right back to Knowles
On to first and Simmons is gone
And that will do it for AL Pre WWII
FOFC wins 3 to 1
Mighty gets credit for the win
Knowles notches the save
Gomez takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Dan Fouts
He was 2 for 4
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.