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Old 05-15-2013, 11:33 PM   #651
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Impressive season so far. Pretty crazy with the amount of talent around that only one team is really keeping it close in the standings right now and only two others really have a shot at climbing into contention any time soon. Now time to ramp it up to another level and really leave these guys in our dust.
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Old 05-16-2013, 01:01 PM   #652
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Impressive season so far. Pretty crazy with the amount of talent around that only one team is really keeping it close in the standings right now and only two others really have a shot at climbing into contention any time soon. Now time to ramp it up to another level and really leave these guys in our dust.

Most of the problems with the HOF teams revolve around a lack of arms in the pen/rotation. If I do this again, I'm going to find some pitchers from the appropriate era to add to the team. That way the HOFers aren't constantly using pitchers that are tired....

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Old 05-16-2013, 04:41 PM   #653
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Most of the problems with the HOF teams revolve around a lack of arms in the pen/rotation. If I do this again, I'm going to find some pitchers from the appropriate era to add to the team. That way the HOFers aren't constantly using pitchers that are tired....

Plus it helps to be run by a human who reacts better to situations than preconfigured AI settings. There have been a number of times that I would have swapped pitchers or used a pinch hitter but the game didn't make the switch.
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Old 05-16-2013, 09:18 PM   #654
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Radio Broadcast 7/16 - Game 100

Are you ready for some baseball?...

All right then, let's get
the show on the road
Rob Nielsen with his 13 and 4 record
Will be facing Billy Hamilton

Here we go, well almost...
Here comes Hays out to the mound...
Looks like they are checking their signs

Now we are ready to start
The 0-2 delivery by the lefthander
Strike three swinging...
Now that is something you
don't see very often
Hamilton rarely ever strikes out
But Nielsen got him that time!
So one up and one gone

John Ward will make his way to home plate
He's the shortstop for Old Timers
Hitching up his pants...

Ward gazes out to the mound
Ward is set
Nielsen brings it to the plate
Fastball, swung on and missed
Take a seat Mr. Ward!
Two down
Hays asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Hays and Nielsen

Walking up to the plate now is Delahanty
Sam Thompson waits on deck
Delahanty has 31 doubles this year
Ed seems to be relaxed and
ready for the pitch
He steadies his bat now
The fans want the "K"
Rob winds and comes in
with the 0-2 pitch
And Delahanty will sit down...
strike three called
Rob Nielsen holds Old Timers scoreless
in the first inning

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 steps out of the box...
Looks towards Dick Howser for a sign
Blade, batting righthanded
is in his crouch
Ready to face the righthanded Keefe
"Sir Timothy" fires the 2-1 pitch
Slow ground ball
Kelly is charging it
He fires it to first
He's OUT
With one down, up next is Jeff Nights
To be followed by Persimmon Pflaggstettler

FOFC shortstop, Jeff Nights, is up next
Keefe shakes off the sign...
Now the righty brushes off another one...
Keefe has a fastball, change and curve
Keefe brings it to the plate
Shallow fly ball
Delahanty charging
HE DIVES...
HE'S GOT IT!
Two down
Tim Keefe retires
the first two batters in order

Pflaggstettler is up near the batter's box
He is going through his obligatory ritual
Finally, he steps in
Pflaggstettler grips the bat handle
Tim Keefe steps off the
mound toward second
Gives the resin bag a toss
Now he toes the rubber...
He's ready to go
Here's the pitch
Routine grounder to short
Ward scoops it up
Over to first for the out
Tim Keefe holds the All Stars
scoreless in the first

The Old Timers clean-up hitter,
Sam Thompson, to lead it off
We're in the top of the 2nd
We'll see how they pitch to Thompson
Rob is set to go... a quick
look toward Hays again
Now he steps back to get
a squeeze of the resin bag
He is facing a power hitter in Thompson
Nielsen has allowed 5 home
runs to lefties so far
10 to right-handers
Here's the windup... and the pitch
Swung on and popped up
Potpie is waiting...
And that's an easy out
So one up and one gone

Kelly is up now for Old Timers
Kelly goes through his routine
of settling in
Kelly waits
Here's the southpaw's delivery
Kelly hits it sharply on the ground...
into the hole at short
Nights dives for it...
He's up with it...
a strong throw to first...
GOT HIM!!!
A sparkling play by the short
stop, Jeff Nights!
Two down
Nielsen retires the first
two Old Timers batters

Davis heads to the plate for Old Timers
The infield is at regular depth
Davis has a .229 average
against lefthanders
He is .252 overall
Davis is set in the batter's box
He's staring intently out at Nielsen
He's waiting for the pitch
Now Rob delivers
Ground ball through the middle
Nights ranges behind second
Nice pick up...
Twists and fires it
OUT!
That wraps up the inning for Old Timers
Time to check out the rest of the scores

Late 20th slipping by Negro
League II 2 to 0
Left Outs is beating AL Pre WWII 4 to 0
Caribbean is beating Dead Ball Era 5 to 1
NL Post WWII is on top of
Japanese League 2 to 0
NL Pre WWII is edging Negro
League I 3 to 2
Alexander battling Day
Turn of Century is edging
AL Post WWII 1 to 0
And in our matchup No score

Potpie saunters to the plate
He does some stretching...
Knocks the dirt from his spikes...
Now he steps into the batter's box
Keefe shakes off the sign...
Now he shakes off another one...
Tim has a myriad of pitches
but his best is the change-up!
McPhee comes in a couple steps
Yells something to Keefe
The delivery
Potpie rips a hard drive
off a hanging curve
That will be in there for extra bases
Potpie is around first, heading for two...
Hamilton is up with it and
fires it in quickly
Jeeberoni pulls up sharply at second...
A stand-up double for the
FOFC first baseman
Jeeberoni also ups his hitting
streak to 6 games!
That is Potpie's 1st hit today

Deacon Palmer steps into the box
Palmer is one of the best hitters around
Tim looks for the sign he wants...
Shakes off the first one
But he likes the next
Tim rocks and fires
It almost hits Deacon Palmer
It goes all the way back to the screen
Potpie takes third on the wild pitch

Deacon Palmer steps into the box
Potpie is 90 feet away
Keefe shakes off the sign...
Now he shakes off another one...
Tim has a myriad of pitches
but his best is the change-up!
Now ready, here it is...
Lined hard to third
Davis snares it for the out!
Score It: 5

That brings up K. A. Ton, the left fielder
The right-hander Keefe is
set to deliver to Ton
Keefe's 2-2 pitch...
Grounder topped to short
Potpie heads for home
Ward grabs it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 6-3
Two away

Hays leaves the on-deck circle
And heads to the batter's box
Hays is hitting .292 against righties
Harry is set for the pitch
The windup, and the 3-2 pitch
Hays swings and hits one down the line
It's in for extra bases
The ball is kicking around in the corner
Hays is heading for second
The ball comes in...
A sharply hit double for Harry Hays

While Rob Nielsen heads for
the on deck circle
A. J. Tucker makes his way to the plate
A base hit should score Hays
Keefe asks for a new ball...
Rubs it down to get the shine off it...
Now he steps on the rubber again
And the delivery by Keefe
Tucker smacks a fly to left
Delahanty is waiting on it
Pounds his mitt
Ed takes it in
That does it in the bottom of the 2nd
Now a brief message from our hosts
This is the Strat-O-Matic Broadcast System
We are pleased you joined
us for today's ballgame
Now back to baseball where
After 2 innings, FOFC leads 1 to 0

The Old Timers catcher, Ewing,
will lead off
He'll be followed by Bid McPhee
And then Tim Keefe
Nielsen shakes off two signs
Now he's ready
Now the delivery, here is is...
Fly ball to left
Ton is under it
He makes the grab
That's one away

Nielsen looks down at McPhee
as he steps in
Bid is ready to go
McPhee is at .190 on the season
Nielsen looks down at Hays for the sign
Shakes him off once... twice...

Now he has the pitch he wants
Here's the 0-2 offering
Curve in the dirt... and McPhee holds up
Looked like he went around from here
But the plate umpire says no
Hays asks the first base ump's opinion
He says McPhee went around
Strike three, swinging
That's out number two
Benton Breeze moving around
Hollers something down at Nielsen
Rob nods "UH HUH"

Tim Keefe will step in
to face Nielsen next
If he gets on, Billy Hamilton will follow
Keefe taps home plate
Looks into the dugout
Now he's ready
Keefe is set for the 2 strike pitch
The pitch on the way, here it is...
Right down the middle... strike three
Keefe must have been looking
for something else
He just froze on that pitch
That ends the inning
After 2 and a half innings,
FOFC leads by 1

Rob Nielsen, Barrett Blade, and
Jeff Nights are due up
Keefe looks down at Ewing for the sign
Now he's ready
Keefe throws the 2 strike pitch
Nielsen swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Keefe strikes out Rob Nielsen
One up, one down for FOFC

Barrett Blade, the second baseman,
strides to the plate
Keefe eyes Blade intently
And now the pitch...
Fastball, just inside...
Looked very close...
Keefe's obviously peeved at that call
But Barrett tends to get those calls
He has a great eye and doesn't mind
taking the free ride to first

The All Stars will send
Jeff Nights up to the plate
Old Timers is set up for two
Keefe is rubbing the ball up
Now the umpire wants to take a look
No problems found...
Now Keefe gets the sign from Ewing
The righthander Keefe delivers
Nights drives the ball to
center for extra bases
Dick Howser is giving the green light...
The throw is cut off...
And that allows the run to score
Double for Nights

And the batter is Persimmon Pflaggstettler
Jeeberoni Potpie is on-deck
One out, man on second
Tim peers in for the sign...

Shakes off the first one...
Likes the second one
Ward trying to slip in behind Nights
Now he slips away
Here's the 2-0 offering
Persimmon Pflaggstettler swings
He smashes it on a line...
BINGO!!!...
Stabbed by Davis to rob Pflaggstettler
of a sure base hit
Two down
Due up next is Jeeberoni Potpie
Having quite a year so far
He brings a lot of power to the All Stars

Jeeberoni Potpie will get
a crack at Keefe next
Deacon Palmer would be up next...
But only if Potpie can reach safely
Potpie is 1 for 1 today
The righthander pitching to Potpie...
A righthanded batter
Righties have a .250 average against Tim
Keefe looks back towards second...

The pitch
Potpie jack-knifes out of the way
But it's in there!
Potpie was really fooled
on that strike three
That does it for FOFC here
in the bottom of the 3rd
But they pick up 1 run
So After 3 innings, FOFC on top 2 to 0

Rob Nielsen, out there on
the mound for FOFC
prepares to face Billy Hamilton
to get the 4th inning underway
here in FOFC Stadium
Hamilton digs in on the left side
of the plate facing the lefty Nielsen
He's ready for the delivery
Nielsen's windup... the delivery
Swung on...and it's in the
air to the left side
Backing just a bit is Ton
And he pulls it in
One gone for Old Timers

And it brings up John Ward
On deck is Ed Delahanty
Sam Thompson in the hole
Nielsen looks down at Hays for the sign...
Shakes him off once... twice
Now he has the pitch he wants
The southpaw's 3-1 delivery
Ward laces a hit into the outfield
A. J. Tucker picks it up
Fires it to the infield
Ward holds with a single

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

The infield shifts slightly to the left
for the right hand hitting Delahanty
Ed takes a couple of practice cuts
Delahanty cocks his bat
Nielsen goes into his stretch
Looks over at the fidgety Ward
He lobs one to Potpie...
Ward is back easily...

We're ready again
Now Nielsen comes home
Screaming liner towards third
Palmer makes a great catch!
He fires it to Potpie
OUT!
Double Play!
Score It: 5-3
That wraps up the inning for Old Timers
By the way, Old Timers is 4 and
6 in their last ten games

Deacon Palmer stops at the on deck circle
Takes a couple more practice swings
Now heads for the plate
Palmer is batting .329 with 4 homeruns
He has 14 doubles, 2 triples and 33 RBI's
His OBP of .392 is why
Old Timers doesn't like to see him
leading off an inning

or at bat at any time for that matter!!
The umpire says let's go
Here's the 0-1 offering
Ground ball to third
Davis comes up with it
Over to first
He just beat it out

Ton digs in at the plate
Ready now for Keefe to come set
So far this season
Ton is hitting .250
when facing righthanded pitching
K. A. is ready for the delivery
Keefe quick pitches the 0-2 offering
Swing and a miss
Strike three
Ton goes down on strikes
One down for FOFC
Harry Hays is still in the on-deck circle
and A. J. Tucker is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Now batting will be Harry Hays
The catcher is walking to the plate
One on... one out
FOFC up by 2
Hays can't seem to get
settled at the plate
Hays is waiting
His bat is wiggling slightly
Palmer is dancing off first
Now Tim delivers
Hit towards the middle
Smooth pickup by McPhee
Over to second for one
On to first
Double Play!
Score It: 4-6-3
That'll do it in the bottom of the 4th
No runs, one hit and no errors
FOFC ahead 2 to 0
And now we'll pause for station
identification
This is your Strat-O-Matic
Broadcast System...

Leading off now for Old Timers is Thompson
Sam looks at the sign from
the coach at third
Charley Gould flashes a series of them...
Now Thompson taps the bat on home plate
Thompson gets ready for Nielsen's pitch
His bat is cocked
Here's the southpaw's windup and delivery
Smash to third
Deacon Palmer boots the ball
He's charged with an error
That's 1 miscue for Palmer

"Highpockets" is making
his way to the plate
Kelly is 0 for 1 today
George grounded out last time up
George steadies his bat
Waits patiently for Nielsen's pitch
Nielsen goes into his stretch...
Looks at Thompson...
He fires one to Potpie...
Thompson dives back in
That's his best move to first...
Potpie lobs it back
Now Nielsen comes home
Bouncer to third baseman Deacon Palmer...
To Blade for one...
Over to Potpie... in time
The All Stars turn the doubleplay!
Two gone for Old Timers

Now here's Davis
Davis is 0 for 1 today
Nielsen tosses the resin bag aside
He steps on the rubber...
The 3-2 delivery by the lefthander
There's a fly ball to A. J. Tucker
Tucker circles under it...
This one would end the inning...
He makes the play
And that will do it for Old Timers

Here's the center fielder Tucker
To lead off the inning
He'll be followed by Rob Nielsen
And then Barrett Blade
Tucker is batting .295 with
4 homers this year
Keefe steps off the rubber...
Adjusts his cap...
Now he's ready
Now to the belt, here it is...
Fastball, lined to left...
Base hit for Tucker...
Delahanty over...Grabs
it on the big hop...
Fires it back in...
Holding Tucker at first

Nielsen squares to bunt
He bunts the ball . . .
A quick glance at the lead runner...
Fielded by G.Davis
the throw to first...
Out
Nielsen gets the job done.
One out
Due up next is Barrett Blade

Barrett Blade will face Keefe
Righty against righty
Blade is 0 for 1 today
Keefe steps on the rubber...
Looks in for the sign
It's a full count...
Keefe winds and fires...
Drilled deep to center field
Hamilton takes off after it
He can't get to it
Blade rounds first
Hamilton has the ball
Blade coasts into second
He's got a double
Tucker scores from second!

Nights, the shortstop, moves
into the batter's box

FOFC ahead 3 to 0
Jeff Nights is hitting .279 this year
against righthanded pitchers
After getting set, Nights
waits on the pitch
Keefe's righthanded delivery...
Hard ground ball to short
Taken by Ward
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 6-3
And there's two away

Looks like Pflaggstettler will
be given a free pass here
And he is... that's four wide ones
Jeeberoni Potpie is the batter due up next

Facing Keefe now is Potpie
Deacon Palmer heads to the on deck circle
K. A. Ton waits in the hole
Right-hander Keefe eyes the righty Potpie
Keefe stretches, checks his runners
The pitch...
Hit towards the middle
Smooth pickup by Ward
Over to Kelly
Got him!
Score It: 6-3
That's it for FOFC here in
the bottom of the 5th
They leave 2 runners stranded
FOFC has 3 runs, 6 hits and one error
While Old Timers has no runs,
one hit and no errors
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Old 05-16-2013, 09:19 PM   #655
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Radio Broadcast 7/16 Continued

Buck Ewing to lead things
off for Old Timers
FOFC with a 3 run lead
The visitors will try to quiet the crowd
A few base runners would do the trick
Ewing has hit 15 triples this year
Ewing waits patiently
The southpaw Nielsen delivers
the 0-2 pitch
Curve ball...
Ewing swings and misses by a mile
The bottom dropped out of that one!
A wicked pitch!
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

Late 20th besting Negro League II 8 to 3
Martinez enjoying the big Late 20th lead
Left Outs and AL Pre WWII
are all knotted at 5
Snider has hit his 27th
homerun for Left Outs
He's really lighting it up this season
Caribbean is beating Dead Ball Era 6 to 2
NL Post WWII besting Japanese
League 5 to 0
NL Pre WWII clipping Negro
League I 10 to 6
Turn of Century is edging
AL Post WWII 2 to 1

Nobody on, one away for Old Timers
Up now is McPhee
The outfield shades towards
left for McPhee
McPhee is waiting on the pitch
It's coming down the pike
Sinker, at the knees...
Swung on...
McPhee hits it into the hole
on the right side
Blade ranging to his left...
Scoops it up...
Throws on the run...
And McPhee is out by a step at first
Two out, nobody on
FOFC ahead 3 to 0

We are going to have a pinch hitter
Dan Brouthers will bat for Tim Keefe
It will be the lefthand hitting, Brouthers
against the lefty Nielsen
Brouthers is hitting soutpaws
for a .480 average

Brouthers moseys up to the plate
Billy Hamilton is heading
for the on-deck circle
Brouthers has managed a .480 average
against lefthanders this year
Two balls, two strikes, 2 down
The southpaw Nielsen's delivery
Strike three swinging...
Now that is something you
don't see very often
Brouthers rarely ever strikes out
But Nielsen got him that time!
We head to the bottom of the 6th
here in FOFC...
Still 3-0, FOFC
Candy Cummings will be coming
on to pitch for Old Timers
Candy has appeared in 32 games this season
with a record of 2-5
In 45 innings, he has an 5.44 ERA
Tim Keefe has finished his work
here this evening

Palmer is walking to the plate
Now he steps into the batter's box
Deacon is batting .332 with
4 home runs on the season
He is 1 for 2 today
Palmer waits for the pitch
Cummings rocks and fires
Palmer rips a hard grounder
to the left of third
And on by the diving Davis
Palmer takes a big turn at
first...but holds up
Nice hustle by Delahanty to
get that ball in quickly

K. A. Ton steps into the box
One wouldn't expect Ton to bunt
But you never can be sure
Ton is poised and ready for the pitch
He's into the stretch
Takes a look over to first
Quick throw!
Palmer dives back in!...

SAFE!
Kelly tosses it back to Cummings
Now here's the pitch
It bounces in front of the
plate and gets by Ewing
Palmer moves up 90 feet on the wild pitch

K. A. Ton steps into the box
Palmer is on second, nobody out
Cummings is slow to get ready

He has a 5.44 ERA this year
Now he's ready
Here's his delivery
Ton swings very late
He pops it foul
Ewing gives chase
Here comes Davis
They are both at the rail...
Just next to the screen
Neither can make the play
. . . Ton back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Change up, on the inside corner...
Ton was looking for it...
He hammers the pitch...
It's a deep fly to left-center
It's into the alley...
That will score a run
Ton is in at second standing with a double
All Hamilton could do was keep him
from getting a triple

That'll bring up All Stars'
catcher Harry Hays...
All Stars with a runner in scoring
position at second
Harry comes to the plate batting .337
with 10 home runs

He is 1 for 2 so far today
Harry is eagerly awaiting Cummings' pitch
Ton seems to be looking down at Ewing
Maybe hopes to pick up a sign
The pitch is on the way
Swung on and missed, strike three!
That breaking ball really had
a nasty bend on it
It ended up in the left-handed
batter's box!
And there's one away

Tucker is up next
One gone, bottom of the 6th
Rob Nielsen moves out on deck
Tucker will be batting lefty
versus Cummings
The switch hitter is 1 for 2 today
.296 average on the year
Last time up he singled
Tucker, batting lefthanded
Gets in his crouch...
Ready to face the righthanded Cummings
Candy looks over his shoulder at Ton
Fakes a throw...
Now he is ready
The pitch
Cummings jams him with a fastball
Swung on and topped out toward short
Ward is up with it...
Over to Kelly at first
And Tucker beats it out!
Ton advances on the play

Rob Nielsen steps into the box
If it's deep enough, a fly
ball could score Ton
FOFC has 1 run already this inning
Nielsen is set for the pitch
The pitch is on the way
The pitch is way inside
It gets away from Ewing
Ton is coming hard
Ewing fires to Cummings
And Ton barrels Candy over
He dropped the ball!
Both runners advanced on that wild pitch
Now, FOFC ahead 5 to 0

Rob Nielsen steps into the box
Stepping in and then stepping out again
Nielsen looks to third for a sign
He's ready
Cummings brings it home
Groundball to short
Tucker is trying to advance
to third base...
A quick glance at the lead runner...
The play is to first...
And Nielsen is out

The All Stars have Tucker on third
Blade steps in
Blade is 1 for 2 on the day
He looks around at the Old Timers infield
Kelly is kicking the dirt at first
Davis is even with the bag at third
McPhee and Ward are ready
with hands on knees
at second and short
Blade is set in the batter's box
He's staring intently out at Cummings
He's waiting for the pitch
Here's the righthander's delivery
Paaahhhhhpped it up.......
Drifting toward home plate...
Ewing makes the catch!
That wouldn't be a homerun
in a phone booth...
And that retires the side

Here's Billy Hamilton leading off
John Ward is on deck
And Ed Delahanty is in the hole
Hamilton steps out of the batter's
box to get the sign
Billy is 0 for 2 today
Hamilton chokes up on the bat a little
Nielsen goes into his windup
Kicks his right leg high...
Swung on and missed by Hamilton,
he's down on strikes
That is 2 on the day for Hamilton
One down for Old Timers
John Ward is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to the
plate for Old Timers

John Ward is coming to the plate
He is struggling so far in 1900
Time is called...
The umpire asks for some new balls
from the All Stars ballboy
Ward waits for the pitch
His bat is coiled
Here's the 3-1 pitch
Slider, in on the hands...
Ward swings...
There's a ground ball into the hole
Palmer and Nights both
stretching for it...
Palmer makes the pickup, fires to first...
SAFE!...
The ball is off the glove of Potpie
It rolls into the dugout...
Ward is awarded secondbase
He'll be given a base hit, and
Palmer gets the error
That's error number 2 of the game for FOFC

So with 1 on and 1 out
Old Timers sends their left fielder,
Ed Delahanty, up to face Nielsen
Hard-hitting Sam Thompson is walking
towards the on-deck circle
Delahanty is at .356 on the season
Delahanty waits for the pitch
His bat is coiled
Nielsen fires
Swung on, line drive, base hit to left
Ton had to slide to stop that one
There goes Ward to third
Delahanty holds at first
as the ball almost got by Ton
K. A. couldn't come up throwing
quickly enough

Sam Thompson is the next batter
in the top of the 7th
Old Timers continues to trail FOFC
Men on 1st and 3rd
Nielsen has a 3-hitter going
through 6 1/3 innings
Nielsen looks to first...
over his shoulder to third...
The pitch
A slider by Nielsen
Thompson gets good wood on it...
Pflaggstettler back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
That's the second out of the inning

Kelly finishes his practice swings
Now he strides to the batter's box
George comes to the plate batting .270
with 11 home runs

He is 0 for 2 so far today
Kelly waits on Nielsen
He's into the stretch
Checks Delahanty at first
Quick throw!
He has to dive back in!...
SAFE!... Close play
Potpie tosses it back to Nielsen
Now here's the pitch
Kelly drives the ball to
center for extra bases
Ward scores
Charley Gould will send the runner home...
The throw is cut off...
And that allows the run to score
Double for Kelly

That'll bring up Ancients' third
baseman George Davis...
Old Timers with a man in scoring
position at second
Davis adjusts his glove...
Steps into the box...
George is 0 for 2 this evening
Nielsen adjusts his cap...
Now he's set
Nielsen will try to get
Davis to go fishing
as the 0-2 pitch heads towards the plate
Big motion...
Davis is way out in front
STRIKE THREE!
Nielsen pulled the string on him
And that retires the side
But not before Old Timers gets 2 runs
to put an end to Rob Nielsen's
hopes of a shutout
After 6 and a half innings,
FOFC is still on top, 5-2

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

Nights leading off
Watching Cummings, Nights wiggles the bat
He's ready for the pitch
Ewing flashes the sign...
Cummings waves it off...
Now he's happy
Here's the 2-1 pitch
Sinking fastball...
Tailing away...
Swung on...
Nights hits a deep fly to left-center
Back to the fence
Hamilton is at the warning track
He's a little out of control...
Rights himself
Can't get it...
It bounces off the fence...
Nights around first...
Here's the throw...
It's a rope...
The slide...
SAFE!!
Two-base hit for Nights

Walking up now to the plate
is Pflaggstettler
Pflaggstettler is batting .302
with 15 HR's this year
Cummings has the sign from Ewing
Cummings' righthanded delivery...
Drilled on the ground to short
Ward comes up with it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 6-3
One out
The All Stars have a 3 run lead


Making his way up is Potpie
Potpie wiggles the bat above his head
The right-hander Cummings is
set to deliver to Potpie
Here's the 3-1 offering
It's sinker, up in the strike zone...
There's a hard ground ball into the hole
Davis and Ward after it...
It's fielded by Davis who fires to first

SAFE!!!...Says the Ump
It was a close play
Potpie beat the throw by an eyelash!!

Now batting will be Deacon Palmer
The third baseman is walking to the plate
Runners on the corners... only one out
K. A. Ton is heading for
the on-deck circle
FOFC up by 3
Against righthanders
Palmer is hitting .308
Cummings studies his sign
Here's his delivery
Palmer swings and lifts one toward left
Delahanty drifts over slowly...
He is under it now...
And makes the easy catch...
Two down
Ewing asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Ewing and Cummings

And now here's K. A. Ton
Harry Hays on deck...
Two outs here in the bottom of the 7th
K. A. is 1 for 3 this summer evening
He doubled in his last plate appearance
Ton tells the umpire he's ready
The righthander Cummings' delivery
There's a pop fly into short center
Hamilton has got a long run
He's got it
Fine running catch!
Score It: 8
That is the third out for FOFC here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 45216

Ewing is walking to the plate
Now he steps into the batter's box
We'll see how they pitch to Ewing
Buck is eagerly awaiting Knowles' pitch
The righthander Knowles delivers
Ewing hits a fly ball to right
Persimmon Pflaggstettler camps under it
He's got it
That's one away

Slowly coming up is McPhee for Old Timers
He is finally in the batter's box
FOFC leads 5 to 2
The outfield's shaded towards
left for McPhee
He's 0 for 2 today
Knowles has the sign he wants
Knowles kicks and fires
It rides in on McPhee and
hits him on the hands
McPhee is in a lot of pain...
We'll see if he can continue...
He heads to first

Candy Cummings is being called
back to the dugout
Looks like we'll be seeing a pinch hitter
Yep, Roger Connor steps out
Frank Selee will play the
percentages as he sends
the left hand hitting Connor against
the righty, Knowles
In fact, Roger is batting a splendid .345
versus righties this season
So the decision certainly is reasonable...
We shall soon see how it works out

McPhee is taking his lead from first
Knowles looks McPhee back
He is unable to get his normal lead

Connor gets set in the batter's box
The speedy McPhee is on first
He probably won't be taking
any chances, though
Old Timers is trailing by 3 runs
FOFC is set up for two
Knowles looks down at Hays for the sign...
Shakes him off once... twice
Now he has the pitch he wants
He's into the stretch
Takes a look over to first
Quick throw!
McPhee dives back in!...

SAFE!
Potpie tosses it back to Knowles
Now here's the pitch
Connor sends a hot smash to first
Potpie takes it on one hop
Fires to Nights for one
Back to Jeeberoni Potpie...
Roger beats the relay
That's out number two
Benton Breeze moving around
Hollers something down at Knowles
Sammy nods "UH HUH"

Connor moves away from first
Knowles fires it behind Connor...
Connor scrambles back in time

Walking up to the plate now is Hamilton
John Ward waits on deck
Connor will be running if it's hit
Knowles has been involved
in one decision, so far
He's 0-1 in 34 appearances
Now Sammy delivers
Smashed to second
Blade comes up with it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 4-3
Three down in the 8th for Old Timers
They trail by 3
It's always a bad sign when you are down
by as many runs as you have
outs to score them in
Al Spalding will be coming on
to pitch for Old Timers
Al has appeared in 18 games this season
with a record of 3-1
In 18 innings, he has an 3.50 ERA
Candy Cummings has finished his work
here this evening

Here's Hays to lead off the inning
Before he does...
lets take a look at the scoreboard

Late 20th besting Negro League II 9 to 4
Franco enjoying the big Late 20th lead
AL Pre WWII with the lead
over Left Outs 9 to 6
Mays comfortably ahead for AL Pre WWII
Caribbean clipping Dead Ball Era 6 to 2
NL Post WWII is giving it to
Japanese League 5 to 0
NL Pre WWII is on top of
Negro League I 10 to 8
Alexander battling Foster
Turn of Century slipping
by AL Post WWII 6 to 4
Mathewson battling Wilhelm
And here in FOFC FOFC on top 5 to 2
Remember, FOFC is 1st in the National
Harry takes a couple of practice cuts
Spalding toes the rubber again
He gets his sign from Ewing
Al Spalding, with 18 appearances
before today's game
looks down for the sign from Ewing
Spalding has great control
He's looking for win number 4
He's into the windup
Over the outside corner
Hays hits the curve right to third...
Davis takes it on the second hop
Fires to 1st...
Hays is out by a couple of steps
One away in the bottom of the 8th for FOFC

Here's A. J. Tucker
Spalding adjusts his belt...
Looks in for the sign from Ewing
Spalding brings it to the plate
It's a quail shot headed
towards the outfield
McPhee takes off after it...
Leaps...
And Tucker is OUT!
Very impressive range shown on that play!
Bid is very fine fielder!
That's two away
Ward comes over from his shortstop
position to say a few words to Spalding
Gerald Gazelle will be next up...

Gazelle coming up for FOFC
Nobody on, two away
Gazelle is batting .283 with
18 round trippers in 1900
Gazelle, a righthand hitter
Waits patiently for the
pitch from Spalding
The pitch is on the way
There's a towering fly ball hit by Gazelle
Hamilton sprints over, and makes the catch
That's all for the All Stars
After 8 full innings,
they lead by 3

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

Now he steps into the batter's box
Ward is 2 for 3 today
John singled last time up
Knowles is asking for a new ball...
The ump throws him a new one...
Knowles looks in...
Now he's ready
We've got a full count...
Knowles winds and fires...
It's a routine fly into center
Tucker ranges over and reaches up
He grabs it for the out
Old Timers with one away
Knowles steps off the mound as
he waits for Ed Delahanty to
come to the plate

Settling in at the plate is Delahanty
Knowles looks down at Hays for the sign
Now he's ready
Sammy rocks and fires
Delahanty swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Knowles strikes out Ed Delahanty
That's two up, two down

Sam Thompson plants his left foot
The lefthanded right fielder
for Old Timers appears set
Thompson has 27 doubles this year
Knowles steps off the mound toward second
Gives the resin bag a good squeeze...

Now he toes the rubber...
He's ready to go
And the delivery by Knowles
Long fly to left
Gazelle has a long run...
He's there and hauls it in
Thompson is retired on a fairly deep fly
And that will do it for Old Timers
FOFC wins 5 to 2
Nielsen gets credit for the win
Knowles notches the save
Keefe takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Jeff Nights
He was 2 for 4
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.
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Old 05-16-2013, 09:21 PM   #656
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7/16 Boxscore

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BOXSCORE: 2001 Old Timers Ancients At 1000 FOFC All Stars 7/16/1900 Ancients AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG B.Hamilton CF 4 0 0 0 .300 B.Blade 2B 3 1 1 1 .264 J.Ward SS 4 1 2 0 .201 J.Nights SS 4 0 2 1 .283 E.Delahanty LF 4 1 1 0 .357 P.Pflaggstettler RF 3 0 0 0 .301 S.Thompson RF 4 0 0 0 .298 J.Potpie 1B 4 1 2 0 .291 G.Kelly 1B 3 0 1 2 .273 D.Palmer 3B 4 1 2 0 .333 G.Davis 3B 3 0 0 0 .249 B-D.Fouts 3B 0 0 0 0 .255 B.Ewing C 3 0 0 0 .312 K.Ton LF 4 1 1 2 .274 B.McPhee 2B 2 0 0 0 .182 S.Knowles P 0 0 0 0 ---- T.Keefe P 1 0 0 0 .089 H.Hays C 4 0 1 0 .333 A-D.Brouthers PH 1 0 0 0 .416 A.Tucker CF 4 1 2 0 .297 C.Cummings P 0 0 0 0 .000 R.Nielsen P 2 0 0 0 .113 D-R.Connor PH 1 0 0 0 .366 C-G.Gazelle LF 1 0 0 0 .281 A.Spalding P 0 0 0 0 .000 -- -- -- --- -- -- -- --- Totals 30 2 4 2 Totals 33 5 11 4 A-Pinch Hit For Keefe In 6th Inning B-Subbed Defensively (3B) For Palmer In 8th Inning C-Subbed Defensively (LF) For Nielsen In 8th Inning D-Pinch Hit For Cummings In 8th Inning Ancients........ 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 - 2 4 0 All Stars....... 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 0 - 5 11 2 Ancients IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA T.Keefe LOSS(7-12) 5 6 3 3 2 3 0 78 4.96 C.Cummings 2 5 2 2 0 1 0 51 5.59 A.Spalding 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 3.3 Totals 8 11 5 5 2 4 0 All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA R.Nielsen WIN(14-4) 7 4 2 1 0 9 0 93 2.94 S.Knowles SAVE(19th) 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 25 1.54 Totals 9 4 2 1 0 10 0 ATTENDANCE- 45,216 DATE- Monday, July 16th 1900 TIME- Night T- 1:47 LEFT ON BASE- Ancients: 2 All Stars: 7 DOUBLE PLAYS- Ancients: 1 All Stars: 2 ERRORS- D.Palmer-2 DOUBLES- G.Kelly(16th), B.Blade(13th), J.Nights-2(26th), J.Potpie(16th), K.Ton(7th), H.Hays(3rd) SACRIFICE HITS- R.Nielsen WALKS- B.Blade, P.Pflaggstettler HIT BY PITCH- B.McPhee STRIKE OUTS- B.Hamilton-2, J.Ward, E.Delahanty-2, G.Davis, B.Ewing, B.McPhee, T.Keefe, D.Brouthers, J.Potpie, K.Ton, H.Hays, R.Nielsen GIDP- G.Kelly, H.Hays WILD PITCHES- T.Keefe, C.Cummings-2
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7/17 Radio Broadcast - Game 101

Welcome to FOFC Stadium!
And in a moment we'll be ready
for the game between
FOFC and AL Pre WWII
The ump shouts "PLAY BALL!"
We're ready to go here in FOFC
Charlie Gehringer to lead
it off for AL Pre WWII
Babson goes into his windup
And here's the 3-1 offering
Checked swing by Gehringer
Called ball four
Hays motions down to the third base umpire
He gives the "safe" sign
with no hesitation
Charlie walks to lead it off

Simmons fouls off the bunt attempt
The count goes to 1 and 2, we'll have
to see if they keep the bunt play on

On first is Gehringer
He's a real speed merchant
Simmons steps into the batter's box
Simmons checks with Harlond Clift at third
Right-hander Babson eyes
the righty Simmons
Here's the 3-2 offering
Base hit to right for Simmons
Harlond Clift puts up the stop sign...
Gehringer will stay at second

The "Sultan of Swat" is
coming to the plate
Ruth is hitting .350 with 40 homeruns
Babe also has 23 doubles and 2 triples
And has driven in a total of 92 runs
Babson eyes Ruth intently
The pitch on the way, here it is...
Off speed pitch on the way...
And Ruth watches it go by
for the third strike
With one gone
AL Pre WWII will have Lou Gehrig coming up
A dangerous hitter, no doubt about it

Larrupin' Lou is up next
Gehrig is trying to get comfortable
in the box
Digging that back foot in
Set now is Gehrig
Babson brings it home
Gehrig drives the ball to
left for extra bases
Gehringer scores
Harlond Clift plays it safe
and stops him at third...
Double for Gehrig

The center fielder, Earl Averill
is up for the Pre-Americans
We are in the top of the 1st
Earl, a lefty batter, will square
off against Babson
Of his 12 home runs, 10
are against righties
Earl steadies his bat
Waits patiently for Babson's pitch
Here's the 1-2 offering
Averill laces a high bouncer
between first and second
Potpie lunges to his right
Up with it
Turns and throws to Babson
Just in time
The runners advance
That's the second out of the inning

Dickey gets set at the plate
2 men away, Gehrig on third
Babson steps on the rubber
Gehrig is dancing off third
Babson is ignoring him
Here's the pitch
Fastball
Ball four

Cronin now at the plate
Joe Sewell waits on deck
Cronin is hitting .268 against righties
Cronin is waiting
His bat is wiggling slightly
Babson brings it to the plate
Hit on the ground to second
Taken by Blade
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 4-3
That wraps up the inning for AL Pre WWII
By the way, AL Pre WWII is 6 and
4 in their last ten games

AL Pre WWII has taken the field
in the bottom of the first inning...

Here's how they look, defensively
In the outfield
Simmons will play left
Averill in center
Ruth in right...
Around the diamond
Sewell will play the hot corner
Cronin and Gehringer
Make up the doubleplay combination...
Over at first Gehrig
And a battery of Lefty Gomez
and Dickey behind the plate
First batter for the All Stars
Barrett Blade steps in
Stepping in and then stepping out again
Blade looks to third for a sign
Lefty gets the sign from Dickey
The lefty Gomez delivers
Blade pulls one to the left side
It's going to scoot on through the infield
Simmons will retrieve it
without difficulty
He tosses it back in to second
as Blade retreats to first
after a wide turn

Facing Gomez now is Nights
A. J. Tucker heads to the on deck circle
Jeeberoni Potpie waits in the hole
Dickey flashes the sign...
Gomez shakes it off, he wants another...

Now he's happy
Gomez fires
Fastball, high and tight
Ball Four
Chin music...
Nights didn't like it

A. J. Tucker is entering the batter's box
Benton Breeze has his big bopper,
Jeeberoni Potpie,
waiting in the on-deck circle
A. J. is hitting at .297 on the year
He has 126 hits in 424 at bats
This includes 16 doubles, 6 triples
4 home runs and 42 RBI's
The bat is cocked
Now Lefty delivers
Base hit to left for Tucker
Dick Howser is waving the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Blade is out!

First base coach Joe Adcock wants
a word with Tucker...
Now we're all set to go...
Jeeberoni Potpie steps in
Potpie is at .291 on the season
Gomez is rubbing the ball up
Now the umpire wants to take a look
No problems found...
Now Gomez gets the sign from Dickey
Way ahead in the count
Gomez turns the 0-2 pitch loose
Potpie goes after Gomez's fastball...
He gets under it a little...
But it is going way back in left-center
Averill is retreating after it quickly
He is right at the fence...
He goes up after it...
And brings it down in the webbing!
Jeeberoni just missed a homer on that one
Only a long out for the FOFC first baseman
That's the second out of the inning

Gazelle, FOFC's left fielder,
is coming to the plate
He is finished with his pre-bat warmup
Persimmon Pflaggstettler waits on deck
The righthander, Gazelle has
an average of .281
His success against lefties, like Gomez
is better, however, at .317
Gazelle awaits the delivery
Lefty checks the runners
Here's the 2 strike offering
The HIGH CHEESE.........
STRIKE THREE SWINGING!
FOFC is out of here in the
bottom of the 1st
This game is coming to you from
FOFC Stadium in FOFC
After 1 inning
AL Pre WWII has 2 runs,
2 hits and no errors
While FOFC has no runs,
2 hits and no errors

Sewell is walking to the plate
Now he steps into the batter's box
Sewell wiggles the bat above his head
Sewell readies himself for the pitch
And the cripple pitch...
It's popped up into foul territory
Harry Hays is under it
He grabs it for the out
Score It: 2
That's one away

Walking up to the plate now is Gomez
Charlie Gehringer waits on deck
Gomez steps out...
Takes a few more practice swings...
Now he's ready
Gomez waits for the delivery
Babson brings it to the plate
Slow ground ball
Fouts is charging it
He fires it to first
He's OUT
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

Settling in at the plate is Gehringer
Gehringer is batting .303
with 10 homers this year
Gehringer is set in the batter's box
He's staring intently out at Babson
He's waiting for the pitch
It's coming down the pike
A sharp breaking curve...
Gehringer was waiting for it
He hits it squarely... and well
Pflaggstettler turns to chase it down...
This one is going, going...
GONE!
Charlie Gehringer can touch them all

Al Simmons will face Babson
Righty against righty
Babson looks down at Hays for the sign...
Shakes him off once... twice
Now he has the pitch he wants
Babson kicks, delivers
Fastball, a beauty...
Steee Rike THREE!
That's all for AL Pre WWII
After 1 and a half innings
in FOFC this evening,
AL Pre WWII leads 3 to 0

Persimmon Pflaggstettler, Harry Hays, and
Dan Fouts are due up
Gomez is on the third-base
side of the rubber...
Here's the 1-1 pitch
Pflaggstettler hits a fly ball to left
Al Simmons camps under it
He's got it
So one up and one gone

Nobody on base, one away
Hays steps into the batter's box
Hays is batting .333 with
10 round trippers in 1900
Waiting for the pitch is Hays
Gomez is into his windup
Here's the pitch
Sinking fastball...
Hays swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Sewell...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
Two gone for FOFC

Two out, nobody on
Up now is Fouts
Fouts has 7 doubles this year
Fouts waits for the pitch
His bat is coiled
Gomez brings it to the plate
Fouts swings at the change-up...
Pounds it good!...
It's going into deep left
Simmons is racing back...
He's at the fence...
But he might as well wave that one goodbye
It's gone!
Quite a shot by Fouts
Traveling about 430 feet
That's home run number 13 for him
He also has 24 RBI's now

With AL Pre WWII leading in
the bottom of the 2nd
Here's Babson now up for FOFC
On deck will be Barrett Blade
Babson scuffs up the lines around the box
Babson is poised and ready for the pitch
The lefthander delivers
Routine grounder to short
Cronin scoops it up
Over to first for the out
That's all for the All Stars
After 2 innings in FOFC this evening,
AL Pre WWII leads 3 to 1

The AL Pre WWII right fielder, Ruth,
will lead off
He'll be followed by Lou Gehrig
And then Earl Averill
We'll see how they pitch to Ruth
Babson adjusts his belt...
Looks in for the sign from Hays
Babson kicks and fires
Here's a curve...
Not a good one!
Ruth turns on it a BIG WAY...
Forget it, that one is long
gone... a home run!
Number 41 for Babe on the year
He also has 93 RBI's now

Here's the AL Pre WWII clean-up
hitter, Lou Gehrig
The FOFC outfield is playing Gehrig
almost straight away
Unusual for the power hitter
But with Babson on the mound
it is understandable
Gehrig is waiting on the pitch
Here is the 2-2 pitch
Curve ball...
Gehrig swings and misses by a mile
The bottom dropped out of that one!
A wicked pitch!
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

Caribbean is in front of
Japanese League 5 to 2
Cepeda has hit his 15th
homerun for Caribbean
Left Outs slipping by Negro
League I 2 to 0
NL Pre WWII with the lead over
AL Post WWII 3 to 0
Terry has hit his 4th homerun
for NL Pre WWII
Turn of Century and Dead
Ball Era are scoreless
Negro League II is in front
of Old Timers 5 to 2
Late 20th is edging NL Post WWII 1 to 0

Nobody on, one away for AL Pre WWII
Up now is Averill
Averill goes through his
routine of settling in
Averill tells the umpire he's ready
Babson rocks and fires
Drilled on the ground to the mound
Babson comes up with it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 1-3
FOFC gets the second out of the inning

Babson glares in at Dickey
Bill Dickey just calmly stares right back
Infield at regular depth
Dickey is batting .328 with
17 HR's this year
Babson squeezes the resin bag...
Peers in
Now ready, here it is...
Dickey skies one very high
The ball drifts a bit
Hays calls for it
Puts it away!
After 2 and a half innings
AL Pre WWII ahead 4 to 1

Barrett Blade will step into the
box to start the inning
FOFC would like to get some
runners on board
Home plate is covered with dirt
The ump cleans it off
He's ready for the delivery
The pitch is on the way
It's a routine fly into center
Averill ranges over and reaches up
He grabs it for the out
One out
Jeff Nights is due up next

Nights is up to see what he can do
FOFC trails by 3 runs
We're in the bottom of the 3rd
Nights swinging from the right side
of the plate against the lefty Gomez
Nights waits patiently
Here's his delivery
A hot shot on the ground to Sewell
He's got it cleanly on one hop...
Over to first and Nights is out
And there's two away

With Jeeberoni Potpie on deck
Batting now for FOFC is Tucker
Tucker is one of the best hitters around
Left-hander Lefty Gomez prepares
for the pitch
to the right-handed swinging Tucker
And the delivery by Gomez
Tucker tries to hold up
Dickey points down at the
first base umpire
The ump says he went around
STRIKE THREE!
That ends the inning
After 3 innings, AL Pre WWII leads by 3

Joe Cronin, batting seventh will
lead off for AL Pre WWII
He will be followed by Joe
Sewell and Lefty Gomez
Joe steps out to check for his sign
Now he steps back in
Harlond Clift relays the sign
from Miller Huggins
Cronin grounded out last time up
and now is 0 for 1
Joe is eagerly awaiting Babson's pitch
Here's the 2-1 pitch
Cronin hits a three hopper
towards Jeff Nights
Nights scoops it and fires
it to first for the out
One out
Due up next is Joe Sewell

Sewell, the third baseman, moves
into the batter's box

AL Pre WWII leads 4 to 1
Against righthanders
Sewell is hitting .260
Sewell is set
Babson brings it to the plate
Low fastball...
Sewell swings...
Hits it into the hole between 1st and 2nd
Potpie snags it moving to his right
Leads Babson perfectly
racing to the bag...
And he easily beats Sewell for the out
Two men gone, nobody on
AL Pre WWII leads by 3

Up now for AL Pre WWII is Gomez
Two away, nobody on
Looking to Harlond Clift for a sign
Babson is happy with the sign
Babson winds and delivers
The 2-2 pitch
Swung on and hit sharply to short
Nights plays it on one hop
Over to Potpie...
Out of there!
That's three outs, side retired

The first baseman Potpie will
start things off for the All Stars
Potpie is 0 for 1 today
Dickey flashes the sign to Gomez
"Goofy" comes in with the
2 strike pitch...
Hard slider...
Potpie swings from his heels...
He connects!...
There it goes...
Simmons is up against the fence
But he has no chance for this shot
IT'S DOWNTOWN!!!
What a blast by Jeeberoni

Gazelle is up now for FOFC
Gazelle is 0 for 1 today
Gomez has the sign from Dickey
Gomez goes into his windup
And here's the 2-2 offering
Gazelle cuts on a curve that
misses in the dirt
That ball is trapped nicely by Dickey
Gazelle was badly fooled by Gomez's
big breaking curve
STRIKE THREE!
Gerald was a little overanxious
AL Pre WWII gets the first
out of the inning

One away, nobody on...
bottom of the 4th
The first base coach exhorting
Pflaggstettler to get on base...

One of those perennial war cries
Pflaggstettler is 0 for 1 today
The left-hander Gomez is now ready
The pitch is on the way
Sinker, at the knees...
Swung on...
Pflaggstettler hits it into the
hole on the right side
Gehringer ranging to his left...
Scoops it up...
Throws on the run...
And Pflaggstettler is out
by a step at first
Two down...
The All Stars are chipping away
at the AL Pre WWII lead
They've scored 1 run in the inning
AL Pre WWII on top 4 to 2

Now here's Hays
Hays has a .414 average against lefties
Gomez is saying a few words
to Gehringer...
So far in 1900,
Lefty has a 6 and 8 record
with 6 complete games
OK, now he looks in for the sign
Now to the belt, here it is...
Big bender, low and inside...
Swung on...
Line single to Averill in center...
Picking it up in a hurry is Averill...
Hays takes a wide turn...
But stays at first base
as the throw comes in

Fouts digs in at the plate
Ready now for Gomez to come set
Fouts gets set
He's 1 for 1 so far
The umpire says let's go
Fouts is ready
The stretch... the delivery
Fouts drives the ball to
center for extra bases
Dick Howser won't risk sending
the runner home...
Double for Fouts

Stepping in is Brian Babson
All Stars with runners on second and third
Babson digs in from the right side
of the plate against the southpaw Gomez
Babson is ready
Gomez's 0-2 pitch...
Big slow curve...
And it's in there, strike three
That's it for FOFC
Here at FOFC Stadium, After 4 innings,
AL Pre WWII has 4 runs,
4 hits and no errors
While FOFC has 2 runs,
6 hits and no errors
FOFC has left 4 on base
AL Pre WWII has stranded 2

Charlie Gehringer up first for AL Pre WWII
He is a threat to steal if he gets on
Gehringer is hitting .288
against righthanders
Babson wastes no time
He has the sign from Hays
Here's the righthander's delivery
Swing and a miss
Struck him out
Number 126 on the season for Babson
One gone for AL Pre WWII

AL Pre WWII left fielder,
Al Simmons, is up next
Simmons is 1 for 2 today
Babson toes the rubber again
He gets his sign from Hays
The righthander delivers
Al Simmons offers at the curveball,
but checks his swing
Oh, Simmons couldn't get
the bat out of the way
It's a soft line drive to
Jeff Nights for the out
Simmons never even left the batter's box
Two down
Brian Babson retires
the first two batters in order

Babe Ruth will step in to face Babson next
If he gets on, Lou Gehrig will follow
AL Pre WWII leads 4 to 2
Babson steps off the mound toward second
Gives the resin bag a good squeeze...

Now he toes the rubber...
He's ready to go
Now Brian delivers
Change-up, Ruth is looking for it...
He smacks a deep fly to left-center...
Gazelle is at the warning track...
Waits...
Hauls it in
Babson sets the Pre-Americans
down in order

Here's Blade to lead off the inning
Before he does...
lets take a look at the scoreboard

Caribbean is in front of
Japanese League 6 to 3
Gonzalez has hit his 20th
homerun for Caribbean
Left Outs is giving it to
Negro League I 6 to 1
NL Pre WWII is giving it
to AL Post WWII 6 to 1
Turn of Century and Dead
Ball Era are tied at 1
Negro League II is in front
of Old Timers 5 to 2
NL Post WWII is edging Late 20th 2 to 1
Blade steps out of the batter's
box to get the sign
Barrett is 1 for 2 today
Dickey flashes the sign...
Gomez waves it off...
Now he's happy
Gomez goes into his windup
And here's the 3-2 offering
Curveball, breaking in on him
DOWN HE GOES!...
It missed him for ball four
Blade's slow getting up...
Here comes Tay Pemup the trainer...
He looks OK, just shaken up a bit...
Blade heads down to first

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

The infield shifts slightly to the left
for the right hand hitting Nights
Nights is 0 for 1 today
Lefty is ready
The southpaw Gomez's delivery
on the 3-1 pitch
Base hit to left for Nights
Dick Howser puts up the stop sign...
Blade will stay at second

Tucker squares around
He bunts the ball . . .
A quick glance at the lead runner...
Fielded by L.Gehrig
the throw to first...
Out
Tucker gets the job done.
One away in the bottom of the 5th for FOFC

Now batting will be Jeeberoni Potpie
The first baseman is walking to the plate
Blade on third, Nights
on second... one out
AL Pre WWII leads FOFC by 2 runs
Potpie is 1 for 2 today
Gomez asks for a new ball...
Gives it a good rubbing down...

Now he steps on the rubber
Gomez checks the runners
Slow ground ball to short
Blade breaks for home
Cronin grabs it
Over to Gehrig
Got him!
Score It: 6-3
Two down
Due up next is Gerald Gazelle
Having quite a year so far
He brings a lot of power to the All Stars

With two out
Batting for FOFC now is Gazelle
Gazelle taps home plate
Looks into the dugout
Now he's ready
After getting set, Gazelle
waits on the pitch
Lefty rocks and fires
Gazelle swings on a ball in on his fists
It results in a pop up to short
Cronin is under it...
A few steps to his right...
One hands it for the out
Gazelle looked bad on that pitch
That's all for the All Stars
in the 5th inning
They get 1 run across
At the end of five...
It's Pre-Americans 4, FOFC 3
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7/17 Radio Broadcast Continued

AL Pre WWII will send Gehrig,
Earl Averill, and Bill Dickey to face
Brian Babson this inning
Gehrig is 1 for 2 today
Babson looks down at Hays for the sign

Now he's ready...
Righthander Babson's delivery
Good slider, inside part of the plate
Gehrig gets the bat on it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Blade grabs it...
Throws to first...
OUT!
And there's one away

Coming up for AL Pre WWII is Earl Averill
Nobody on base, one out
AL Pre WWII ahead 4 to 3
And Brian studies the sign from Hays...
Now he's got it
The righthander Babson delivers
Baltimore chop
Into right for a single!

Now batting will be Bill Dickey
The catcher is walking to the plate
One on... one out
AL Pre WWII up by 1
Dickey is at .327 on the season
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 141 innings
Brian has allowed lefties
to blast 15 taters!
He brings it home
Dickey swings
It is popped down the line
Fouts is giving chase
The ball is drifting foul...
Dan dives...
Great try, but no cigar
. . . Dickey back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Dickey hits a screamer at Barrett Blade
Blade picks it up and fires to second
Out there...
And the throw to first
A tailor made double play
That wraps up the inning for AL Pre WWII
So After 5 and a half innings
AL Pre WWII has 4 runs,
5 hits and no errors
While FOFC has 3 runs,
7 hits and no errors
AL Pre WWII has left 2 stranded
FOFC has failed to bring home 5

Pflaggstettler 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
The slender lefty shakes off the sign
Now Lefty brushes off another one...
Lefty has a high leg kick
and a whip-like arm delivery
The southpaw's 1-2 delivery
Ripped to third, but right
at Sewell...easy out
One up, one down

Now batting will be Harry Hays
The catcher is walking to the plate
Bases empty... one out
AL Pre WWII leads FOFC by 1 run
Gomez steps on the rubber...
Looks in for the sign
Here's the southpaw's delivery
Fastball, lined to left...
Base hit for Hays...
Simmons over...Grabs it on the big hop...
Fires it back in...
Holding Hays at first

First base coach Joe Adcock
wants a word with Hays...
Now we're all set to go...
Dan Fouts steps in
Fouts scuffs up the lines around the box
Gomez is asking for a new ball...
The ump throws him a new one...
Gomez looks in...
Now he's ready
The lefthander Gomez comes home with it
Hard slider...
Fouts swings from his heels...
He connects!...
There it goes...
Simmons is up against the fence
But he has no chance for this shot
IT'S DOWNTOWN!!!
A two run blast by Dan

Ton leaves the on-deck circle...
He's going back to get a new bat...
Now he jogs to the plate
Watching Gomez, Ton wiggles the bat
He's ready for the pitch
Ton waits patiently for the pitch
His bat is coiled
The southpaw Gomez's delivery
Ton hits a screamer at Joe Cronin
Cronin takes it with the backhand...
The throw is short...
Gehrig scoops it on one hop

Ton is out!
Nice play by Gehrig

Barrett Blade will get a
crack at Gomez next
Jeff Nights would be up next...
But only if Blade can reach safely
Time is called...
Blade has asked the ump to clean the plate
We'll be ready in a second...
OK, now we are ready again
Gomez wastes no time
He has the sign from Dickey
Gehringer comes in a couple steps
Yells something to Gomez
The delivery
Long fly to center
Averill has a long run...
He's there and hauls it in
Blade is retired on a fairly deep fly
That'll do it in the bottom of the 6th
2 runs, 2 hits and no errors
FOFC ahead 5 to 4
And now we'll pause for station
identification
This is your Strat-O-Matic
Broadcast System...

Leading off now for AL Pre WWII is Cronin
Cronin has a .288 average
against lefthanders
He is .270 overall
Mighty looks down at Hays for the sign...
Shakes him off once... twice
Now he has the pitch he wants
The southpaw delivers the 1-2 pitch
Fastball, STRIKE THREE!
Cronin was frozen on that
fastball by Mighty
High and on the outside corner
He was looking for an off-speed pitch
That's one away

Sewell is up now for AL Pre WWII
Sewell steps out of the batter's
box to get the sign
Joe is 0 for 2 today
One strike on the batter, Sewell...
Mighty rocks and fires
A jug-handled curve
Sewell 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 Joe Sewell

Gomez fouls off the bunt attempt
The count goes to 1 and 2, we'll have
to see if they keep the bunt play on

Pre-Americans pitcher Lefty Gomez
will bat for himself
Stepping in and then stepping out again
Gomez looks to third for a sign
Mighty adjusts his belt...
Looks in for the sign from Hays
The stretch... the 1-2 delivery
There's a high pop fly to the outfield
A. J. Tucker moves to his left
He makes the catch
Wait, he bobbles it!
Tucker grabs it with his
bare hand for the out
Two down

Charlie Gehringer steps into the box
FOFC has the outfield shaded towards right
Gehringer is 1 for 2 today
Waiting for the pitch is Gehringer
Al rocks and fires
It bounces in front of the
plate and gets by Hays
Sewell moves up 90 feet on the wild pitch

Charlie Gehringer steps into the box
A base hit should score Sewell
Mighty tosses the resin bag aside
He steps on the rubber...
Now Al delivers
Swung on...and it's in the
air to the left side
Backing up just a bit is Gazelle
And he pulls it in
That retires the side...
Gehringer fails to come
through in the clutch
For AL Pre WWII, No runs, one hit, no
errors and one man left on base

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

Jeff Nights, A. J. Tucker, and
Jeeberoni Potpie are due up
Nights has hit 10 home runs this year
Dickey flashes the sign...
Gomez shakes it off, he wants another...

Now he's happy
The southpaw delivers
Swung on and hit sharply to short
Cronin plays it on one bounce
Over to Gehrig...
Out of there!
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

Caribbean slipping by Japanese
League 7 to 5
Left Outs is giving it to
Negro League I 6 to 1
NL Pre WWII toppling AL Post WWII 8 to 1
Turn of Century and Dead Ball
Era are deadlocked at 1
Negro League II slipping
by Old Timers 5 to 3
NL Post WWII is edging Late 20th 2 to 1
And in our contest FOFC ahead 5 to 4

Tucker pounds the plate
Now he stares out at Gomez
Tucker grips the bat handle
The umpire says let's go
Tucker is ready
And "Goofy" wings it home...
Struck him out on a fastball
Tucker goes down swinging
Two gone here in the bottom of the 7th
We want to welcome the FOFC
"Sportsman Club"
to the game today
We hope you enjoy your
trip to the ballpark

Up next for the All Stars
Jeeberoni Potpie, the first baseman...
If he gets on, Gerald Gazelle
would bat next
Potpie digs in from the right side
of the plate against the southpaw Gomez
Gomez has the sign he wants
The lefthander Gomez delivers
Potpie hits a three hopper
towards Joe Cronin
Cronin scoops it and fires
it to first for the out
That's it for FOFC
Still a 1 run deficit for AL Pre WWII
By the way...
coming in to today's game
FOFC is 19 and 12 in one run games
AL Pre WWII has a 23 and 13 record
in these tight contests

Simmons saunters to the plate
He does some stretching...
Knocks the dirt from his spikes...
Now he steps into the batter's box
Al is batting .338 with 18
home runs on the season
He is 1 for 3 today
He's ready
Mighty's into the windup... the delivery
Inside slider, on the fists...
Swung on and clubbed to left-center...
Tucker backing up quickly...
He grabs it for the out
With one gone
AL Pre WWII will have Babe Ruth coming up
A dangerous hitter, no doubt about it

One away, nobody on base
Ruth stands ready at the plate
The outfield's shaded towards right
With Ruth at the plate
Babe steadies his bat
And waits patiently for Mighty's pitch
Mighty fires
Ruth hits a deep fly
Pflaggstettler retreats toward the fence
He leaps...
He's got it!
That's two away

Moseying up now is Gehrig
Gehrig is 1 for 3 on the day
He looks around at the FOFC infield
Potpie is kicking the dirt at first
Fouts is even with the bag at third
Blade and Nights are ready
with hands on knees
at second and short
Gehrig is set in the batter's box
He's staring intently out at Mighty
He's waiting for the pitch
The southpaw Mighty's delivery
on the 3-2 pitch
Fastball... low and away, ball four
Mighty puts the tying run on base
Not a good idea

We are going to have a pinch
runner for Lou Gehrig
Miller Huggins will bring in
Sam Rice for Lou Gehrig
He's a threat to steal

That brings up Earl Averill,
the center fielder
Mighty gets the sign, it's one he likes
Mighty looks at the runner
The pitch
Hard slider...
Averill swings from his heels...
He connects!...
There it goes...
Pflaggstettler is up against the fence
But he has no chance for this shot
IT'S DOWNTOWN!!!
A two run blast by Earl

Dickey coming up for AL Pre WWII
Nobody on, two away
Dickey a lefty in the batter's box
facing the lefthanded Mighty
A battle of lefties...
Hays flashes the sign...
Mighty waves it off...
Now he's happy
The pitch is on the way
Dickey pulls one to the right side
It's going to scoot on through the infield
Pflaggstettler will retrieve
it without difficulty
He tosses it back in to second
as Dickey retreats to first
after a wide turn

Joe Cronin is up next
AL Pre WWII's shortstop finds
1 on with 2 outs
Cronin is at .270 on the season
Cronin awaits the delivery
Mighty goes into his stretch...
Looks at Dickey...
He fires one to Potpie...
Dickey dives back in
That's his best move to first...
Potpie lobs it back
Now Mighty comes home
Cronin takes the pitch...
That one is low for a ball... WAIT
The umpire says that one caught the knees
He's out on strikes
That's it in the top of the 8th
After 7 and a half innings in FOFC,
AL Pre WWII ahead 6 to 5
AL Pre WWII's defensive changes are...
Greenberg will bat 4th and play 1B

Gerald Gazelle up first for FOFC
He is a threat to steal if he gets on
Gerald is batting .275 with
18 home runs on the season
He is 0 for 3 today
Gerald steadies his bat
Waits patiently for Gomez's pitch
It's coming down the pike
Curve ball, just misses the corner
That'll be ball four and a walk
Gomez has issued 3 bases on balls
this evening

Persimmon Pflaggstettler
steps up to the plate
Gazelle, with excellent speed, is at first
Pflaggstettler looks for a sign from third
Dick Howser delivers it to Persimmon
Persimmon is 0 for 3 today
lined out his last at bat
Persimmon seems to be relaxed
and ready for the pitch
He steadies his bat now
The lefthander delivers
Base hit to left for Pflaggstettler
Gazelle is being held at
second by Dick Howser
Gazelle will stay at second

Harry Hays, the catcher,
strides to the plate
Runners first and second
Gomez has the sign from Dickey
A check on the runners... the pitch
Grounded down the line
Sewell grabs it
Over to second for one
Could be two . . .
Not in time!
Score It: 5-4
Gazelle takes third
The runner on first, Pflaggstettler,
is out
AL Pre WWII gets the first out
here late in this contest

All Stars with runners on the corners
Fouts at bat
Dan Fouts will step in to face Gomez
He is 3 for 3 on the evening
with 2 home runs!
That impressive display of power has
been good for 3 RBI's
Fouts awaits the delivery
Here's the 3-1 offering
Bounced towards the hole
Unbelievable play by Gehringer!
Over to Greenberg
Got him!
Score It: 4-3
That's the second out of the inning

It looks as though they'll put him on...
Yes, Dickey is calling for the free pass
And there's ball four
That fills the bases for FOFC

Barrett Blade, the FOFC second baseman,
steps into the batter's box
AL Pre WWII leads 6 to 5
He has a chance here to drive
home at least one
Gomez adjusts his belt...
Looks in for the sign from Dickey
Gomez checks the runners
Blade swings and lifts one toward center
Averill drifts over slowly...
He is under it now...
And makes the easy catch...
That's out number three
Blade leaves the bases loaded
So for FOFC, No runs, one hit, no
errors and 3 men left on base

The AL Pre WWII third baseman, Sewell,
will lead off
He'll be followed by Lefty Gomez
And then Charlie Gehringer
Sewell is taking his practice swings
Joe is 1 for 3 this evening
Sewell is set for the pitch
Here's the righthander's delivery
Swung on and drilled into left
Gazelle going back...
The ball is hit over his head
And there's Sewell around first base
coming into second and stands
up for a double
That's 19 doubles for Sewell on the year

Gomez looks to lay one down
He bunts the ball . . .
Fielded by D.Fouts
the throw to first...
Out
Gomez gets the job done.
And there's one away

Gehringer squares around
He bunts at it . . .
They throw trying to get
the lead runner...
Fielded by J.Kronside
he's throwing for the lead runner...
OUT!
Fielders Choice To Pitcher
Score It: 1-2
The runner on third, Sewell, is out
AL Pre WWII ahead 6 to 5 with
two away this inning

Gehringer watches Kronside carefully
As he stretches out his lead
Fastball in on the fists...
And there goes Gehringer on the steal!
Hays comes up firing...
The headfirst slide...
Gehringer is OUT!...
Outstanding throw by Hays!

Jeff Nights, the All Stars' shortstop,
is ready to lead off the bottom of the 9th
He can be a nightmare for pitchers
when he gets on
He's one of the league's
better base stealers
Jeff is 1 for 3 this summer evening
He's batting .283 on the season
Gomez likes the sign
Gomez kicks and fires
A sharp breaking curve...
Nights was waiting for it
He hits it squarely... and well
Simmons turns to chase it down...
This one is going, going...
GONE!
Jeff Nights can touch them all

Gomez glares in at Tucker as he steps in
Now he's ready to go
Tucker swinging from the right side
of the plate against the lefty Gomez
Tucker is ready
The southpaw winds and delivers
Swing and a miss
Struck him out
Number 106 on the season for Gomez
One down for FOFC
Jeeberoni Potpie is still
in the on-deck circle
and Gerald Gazelle is looking
for a bat in the dugout

A big bopper coming to the plate...
Batting clean-up, Jeeberoni Potpie
Against lefthanders
Potpie is hitting .283 this season
Potpie, a righthand hitter
Waits patiently for the pitch from Gomez
Gomez brings it home
Slider, down and in...
Potpie manages to hit a shallow fly
Averill charging hard... dives...
Great diving catch by Averill!
He slid several feet after
making that stab
One more chance for FOFC this inning

Nobody on, two away
Gazelle steps in for FOFC
Gazelle says a few words
to Dickey and smiles
The righthanded batter is
0 for 3 on the day
He'll be going against the
lefty, Lefty Gomez
Gerald is hitting .306
versus lefty pitching
With 12 of his 18 homers
coming against southpaw offerings
Gomez is ready quickly
Lefty winds
Kicks... and delivers
Long fly ball to left field
This one is deep!
Back she goes! Back! Back!! Back!!!
HEY-HEY!!!!
The fans are going wild here in FOFC!!!
Gerald Gazelle has just won the game
And his teammates gather at home plate
They greet him as he crosses the plate!!!
That is Gerald Gazelle's 19th
home run of the year.
FOFC wins 7 to 6
Kronside gets credit for the win
Gomez takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Dan Fouts
He was 3 for 4 with 2 homeruns!
He also knocked in 3 runs
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.
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Old 05-17-2013, 10:11 PM   #659
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BOXSCORE: 2001 AL Pre WWII Pre-Americans At 1000 FOFC All Stars 7/17/1900 Pre-Americans AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG C.Gehringer 2B 4 2 1 1 .303 B.Blade 2B 4 1 1 0 .264 A.Simmons LF 4 1 1 0 .337 J.Nights SS 4 1 2 1 .285 B.Ruth RF 4 1 1 1 .349 A.Tucker CF 4 0 1 0 .297 L.Gehrig 1B 3 0 1 1 .328 J.Potpie 1B 5 1 1 2 .289 B-S.Rice PR 0 1 0 0 .500 G.Gazelle LF 4 1 1 1 .280 C-H.Greenberg 1B 0 0 0 0 .347 P.Pflaggstettler RF 4 0 1 0 .301 E.Averill CF 4 1 2 3 .329 H.Hays C 4 1 2 0 .336 B.Dickey C 3 0 1 0 .328 D.Fouts 3B 4 2 3 3 .268 J.Cronin SS 4 0 0 0 .269 B.Babson P 2 0 0 0 .098 J.Sewell 3B 4 0 2 0 .263 A-K.Ton PH 1 0 0 0 .271 L.Gomez P 3 0 0 0 .023 A.Mighty P 0 0 0 0 .102 D-D.Palmer PH 0 0 0 0 .333 J.Kronside P 0 0 0 0 .000 -- -- -- --- -- -- -- --- Totals 33 6 9 6 Totals 36 7 12 7 A-Pinch Hit For Babson In 6th Inning B-Pinch Ran For Gehrig In 8th Inning C-Subbed Defensively (1B) For Rice In 8th Inning D-Pinch Hit For Mighty In 8th Inning Pre-Americans... 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 - 6 9 0 All Stars....... 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 0 2 - 7 12 0 Pre-Americans IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA L.Gomez LOSS(6-9) 8 2/3 12 7 7 4 6 5 146 4.43 Totals 8 2/3 12 7 7 4 6 5 All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA B.Babson 6 5 4 4 2 4 2 94 3.63 A.Mighty BS(1st) 2 3 2 2 1 2 1 40 3.82 J.Kronside WIN(7-1) 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 10 2.28 Totals 9 9 6 6 3 6 3 ATTENDANCE- 46,889 DATE- Tuesday, July 17th 1900 TIME- Night T- 2:28 LEFT ON BASE- Pre-Americans: 4 All Stars: 8 DOUBLE PLAYS- Pre-Americans: 0 All Stars: 1 DOUBLES- L.Gehrig(24th), J.Sewell(19th), D.Fouts(8th) HOME RUNS- C.Gehringer(11th), B.Ruth(41st), E.Averill(13th), J.Nights(11th), J.Potpie(25th), G.Gazelle(19th), D.Fouts-2(14th) CAUGHT STEALING- C.Gehringer SACRIFICE HITS- L.Gomez, A.Tucker WALKS- C.Gehringer, L.Gehrig, B.Dickey, B.Blade, J.Nights, G.Gazelle, D.Palmer STRIKE OUTS- C.Gehringer, A.Simmons, B.Ruth, L.Gehrig, J.Cronin-2, A.Tucker-3, G.Gazelle-2, B.Babson GIDP- B.Dickey WILD PITCHES- A.Mighty WEB GEMS- Top 4th: Jeeberoni Potpie robbed Joe Sewell of a base hit. Top 5th: Gerald Gazelle robbed Babe Ruth of an extra base hit. Bot 8th: Charlie Gehringer robbed Dan Fouts of a base hit.

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7/18 Radio Broadcast - Game 102


Welcome to FOFC Stadium!
And in a moment we'll be ready
for the game between
FOFC and AL Pre WWII
The ump shouts "PLAY BALL!"
We're ready to go here in FOFC
Charlie Gehringer to lead
it off for AL Pre WWII
Now the delivery, here is is...
Hard slider, paints the inside corner
Gehringer gets a piece of it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Potpie grabs it...
Races to first...
Beats Gehringer for the out
One up, one down for AL Pre WWII

Appling heads to the plate for AL Pre WWII
The infield is at regular depth
Left-hander John Williams
prepares for the pitch
to the right-handed swinging Appling
Williams' into his windup... the pitch
Appling swings and hits one down the line
It'll be in there for extra bases
The ball is kicking around in the corner
Appling is heading for second
The ball comes in...
A whistling two-bagger for Luke Appling

The "Sultan of Swat" is
coming to the plate
Ruth is batting .349 with
41 homers this year
Ruth is poised and ready for the pitch
Here's the 3-1 pitch
He lost him, ball four
Ruth is having a great year
His OBP of .436 is among
the league's elite

One away, Ruth at first, Appling at second
Simmons steps into the batter's box
Simmons digs in from the right side
of the plate against the southpaw Williams
Williams is taking his
sweet time out there
Now he is finished fiddling around
John is in quite a jam
He gets the sign from Bullock
After checking the runners
Here comes the pitch
Simmons drives the ball to
left for extra bases
Appling scores
Harlond Clift is windmilling
the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Bullock is trying to block the plate
(Ability to block: Good,)...
Ruth is out!
Double for Simmons

Larrupin' Lou is up next
Bullock flashes the sign...
Williams shakes it off,
he wants another...

Now he's happy
And the delivery by Williams
Right down the middle... strike three
Gehrig must have been looking
for something else
He just froze on that pitch
That wraps up the inning for AL Pre WWII
By the way, AL Pre WWII is 5 and
5 in their last ten games

AL Pre WWII has taken the field
here in the bottom of the first...
Here's the way they look, defensively
In the outfield from left to right
Simmons in left...
Dimaggio in center...
And Ruth in right

The infield, third to first
Sewell will play the hot corner
Appling is at short
Over at second, Gehringer
and at first base Gehrig
Taking the mound is Grove and
his battery mate is Ferrell
FOFC second baseman, Barrett
Blade, will lead off
Blade goes through his routine
of settling in
After getting set, Blade
waits on the pitch
Lefty rocks and fires
There's a towering fly ball hit by Blade
Ruth sprints over, and makes the catch
That's the first out of the inning
Two more to go

One out, nobody on base
Jeff Nights is the batter
Nights has 26 doubles this year
Set now is Nights
He brings it home
Nights raps a hard shot...
CAUGHT!
That ball was lined right at third
Sewell just got his glove up in time
Great reflexes
Two down
Grove retires the first two FOFC batters

All Stars' right fielder Gazelle
is up next
Grove wastes no time
He has the sign from Ferrell
Here's the 3-1 offering
Gerald Gazelle swings at a breaking ball
There it goes, way back
towards left-center
Dimaggio looks up
Kiss that one good bye!!
Gazelle takes Grove deep
to tie it, 1 a piece!
That one had some distance

Potpie now at the plate
K. A. Ton waits on deck
Potpie wiggles the bat above his head
The bat is cocked
The lefthander Grove delivers
Sinking fastball...
Potpie swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Appling...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
That'll do it in the bottom of the 1st
One run, one hit and no errors
The score is tied at 1
And now we'll pause for station
identification
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AL Pre WWII will send Dimaggio,
Joe Sewell, and Rick Ferrell to face
John Williams this inning
Dimaggio is at .232 on the season
Dimaggio is set
The lefthander delivers
Dimaggio hits a high pop
into short left field
Fouts sprints out
Ton and Tucker sprint towards the infield
K. A. Ton sticks his glove out and
IT POPS OUT!
It's ruled a double

That will bring up third
baseman, Joe Sewell
Sewell has a .276 average against lefties
Sewell gets ready for Williams' pitch
His bat is cocked
Now ready, here it is...
Flyball to right
it's caught
Dimaggio might have a chance to move up...
Gazelle makes the catch...
Dimaggio is tagging up at second...
He'll move up to third as the
throw comes into second

One away, Dimaggio at third
Now up for AL Pre WWII, Ferrell
Stepping out, Ferrell looks
into the dugout
Steps back in
Ferrell cocks his bat
Here's his delivery
Fastball, busted in on the hands
Ferrell manages to get a piece of it
Bouncing it over the mound
Nights cuts it off in front of the bag
Rifles a throw to Potpie...
And Ferrell is called out on a close play
Dimaggio scores easily
Two gone for AL Pre WWII

Next up is Lefty Grove, the
AL Pre WWII pitcher...
If he gets on, Charlie Gehringer
would bat next
Grove a lefty in the batter's box
facing the lefthanded Williams
A battle of lefties...
Lefty steadies his bat
And waits patiently for Williams' pitch
Williams' 0-2 pitch...
Fastball... down and away...
NO! It's called a strike
And Grove is outta there
That retires the side
The Pre-Americans score
1 run in the inning
After 1 and a half innings,
AL Pre WWII leads 2 to 1

K. A. Ton will step into the
box to start the inning
FOFC would like to get some
runners on board
Ton is batting .271 with 9 HR's this year
Grove shakes off two signs
Now he's ready
The southpaw delivers the 2-2 pitch
There's a fly ball to Al Simmons
Simmons circles under it...
He makes the play
One down for FOFC
Dan Fouts is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to
the plate for FOFC

Dan Fouts stands in for FOFC
Grove gets the sign
He rocks and fires
Low and inside
It hit him on the foot!
Fouts tried to dance out of the way
But it got him

Billy Bullock is at the plate
Bullock has hit 15 home runs this year
Grove grips the ball
He delivers
Pounded on the ground to the mound
Grove grabs it
Over to second for one
They might turn it . . .
Not in time!
Score It: 1-6
The runner on first, Palmer, is out

Tucker is ready to bat
On first is Bullock
He's not known for his speed
Grove is slow to get ready

He has a 3.61 ERA this year
Now he's ready
Grove brings it to the plate
Here's the change up...
Waiting on it...
Tucker drives one over Ruth's head...
Ruth backing up quickly...
He's got his legs twisted...
But he rights himself in time
Ruth recovers and makes the grab
We head to the 3rd...
The score is still AL Pre
WWII 2, All Stars 1

Gehringer steps up to the
plate for AL Pre WWII
It's the top of the 3rd
here at FOFC Stadium
AL Pre WWII leads 2 to 1
Gehringer is at .302 on the season
Williams is having a fine year so far
His 10 victories make him
6th in the league in that category
Now he's about ready
It's coming down the pike
Gehringer hits a three hopper
towards Barrett Blade
Blade scoops it and fires
it to first for the out
One down for AL Pre WWII
Luke Appling is still in
the on-deck circle
and Babe Ruth is looking for
a bat in the dugout

Nobody on base, one away
Appling steps into the batter's box
Luke steps out to check for his sign
Now he steps back in
Harlond Clift relays the sign
from Miller Huggins
Appling doubled last time up
and now is 1 for 1
Williams looks down at
Bullock for the sign
Now he's ready
The 3-2 delivery by the lefthander
Appling chases the change up
Hits a slow grounder right past Williams
Blade snares it behind the bag...
Plants...
Throws to first...
Beats him by a step for the out!
Two down
Bullock asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Bullock and Williams

Up next for the visiting Pre-Americans
Babe Ruth, their right fielder
Williams steps off the mound toward second
Gives the resin bag a good squeeze...

Now he toes the rubber...
He's ready to go
Williams kicks and fires
Babe Ruth offers at the curveball,
but checks his swing
Oh, Ruth couldn't get the
bat out of the way
It's a soft line drive to Barrett
Blade for the out
Ruth never even left the batter's box
That's it for AL Pre WWII
Here at FOFC Stadium, After
2 and a half innings,
AL Pre WWII has 2 runs,
3 hits and no errors
While FOFC has one run,
one hit and no errors
AL Pre WWII has left 1 on base
FOFC has stranded 1

Here's the pitcher Williams
To lead off the inning
He'll be followed by Barrett Blade
And then Jeff Nights
Williams grips the bat handle
Williams tells the umpire he's ready
Grove fires
Struck him out on a fastball
Williams goes down swinging
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

Caribbean leads Japanese League 3 to 2
Gonzalez has hit his 21st
homerun for Caribbean
Left Outs leads Negro League I 2 to 1
NL Pre WWII with the lead over
AL Post WWII 3 to 0
Jackson has hit his 4th homerun
for NL Pre WWII
Turn of Century leads Dead Ball Era 1 to 0
Old Timers is edging Negro
League II 3 to 2
Radbourn and Holland currently dueling
NL Post WWII and Late 20th
are deadlocked at 2
Bench has hit his 16th homerun
for NL Post WWII

Grove glares in at Blade as he steps in
Now he's ready to go
Blade looks into the dugout
Now he steps back in...
0 for 1 on the day for Barrett
He readies his bat
Blade will cut down on his swing
as he has 2 strikes on him
Grove is into his windup
Here's the pitch
Ground ball to the left side...
Appling scoops it up
Over to first for the putout
Two up, two down

Jeff Nights will make his
way to home plate
He's the shortstop for FOFC
Nights is trying to get comfortable
in the box
Digging that back foot in
Nights waits for the pitch
The lefthander Grove comes home with it
Routine grounder to short
Appling scoops it up
Over to first for the out
1-2-3, nothing across...

It is the top of the 4th, AL
Pre WWII ahead 2 to 1
Here come the "big guns" for AL Pre WWII
Al Simmons will start things off
Lou Gehrig will follow
Simmons, AL Pre WWII's left
fielder, is about ready
He will see if he can add
to AL Pre WWII's lead
Al is batting .338 in 399 at bats in 1900
He will be followed by Lou Gehrig
Williams is ready quickly
Williams brings it to the plate
It's a quail shot headed
towards the outfield
Nights takes off after it...
Leaps...
And Simmons is OUT!
Very impressive range shown on that play!
Jeff is very fine fielder!
That's one away

Lou Gehrig, the first baseman,
strides to the plate
Gehrig is batting .327 with
26 HR's this year
Williams studies his sign
Williams' behind on the count
Here's the 2-0 offering
It's a drive into deep center
Tucker goes to the warning track
He jumps...
Nabs it for the putout
Two down
John Williams retires
the first two batters in order

The "Yankee Clipper" is making
his way to the plate
Williams steps off the rubber...
Adjusts his cap...
Now he's ready
The southpaw's 2-2 delivery
Slow ground ball
Blade is charging it
HE DROPS IT!
That's an error
That's error number 1 of the game for FOFC

Dimaggio takes a short lead against
the lefty Williams
The runner can't seem to get a good lead

Facing Williams now is Sewell
Rick Ferrell heads to the on deck circle
Lefty Grove waits in the hole
Sewell is hitting .267 against southpaws
0 for 1 so far this game
He flied out in his last at bat
2 down, Sewell behind in the count, 0-2
Williams brings it home
Sewell takes the pitch
STRIKE THREE, is the call
Sewell can't believe it
He says something to the ump
Chalk up a whiff for Williams

The right fielder Gazelle will
start things off for the All Stars
Gazelle looks for a sign from third
Dick Howser delivers it to Gerald
Gerald is 1 for 1 today
homered his last at bat
Waiting for the pitch is Gazelle
Here is the 3-2 delivery from "Mose"
Gazelle swings and sends
a high fly to right
It is hugging the line...
Ruth is over at the fence...
It's going to be close...
It's just foul!
Gazelle just missed on that one
. . . Gazelle back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Fastball, STRIKE THREE!
Gazelle was frozen on that
fastball by Grove
High and on the outside corner
He was looking for an off-speed pitch
With one down, up next is Jeeberoni Potpie
To be followed by K. A. Ton

Potpie gets set at the plate
We'll see how they pitch to Potpie
Grove looks in for the sign
He has to be careful with Potpie
who has 25 homeruns this year
Grove has allowed 20 round trippers
already this season
Now Lefty delivers
Fastball...
Swung on...
Lined to left... Single for Potpie
HE TRIPS OVER THE BAG AT FIRST!!
The throw to first...
He manages to scramble back safely...
Potpie's not getting up
Joe Adcock, the first base coach
is calling for help
Here comes the trainer, Tay Pemup...
They are looking at his ankle...

Now he's on his feet, walking a bit
Looks like he'll be OK, at least for now
Give him a single on the play

The left fielder, K. A. Ton
will be up next for FOFC
AL Pre WWII is set up for two
Grove adjusts his belt...
Looks in for the sign from Ferrell
The southpaw Grove's delivery
Ton hits a screamer at Joe Sewell
Sewell picks it up and fires to second
Out there...
And the throw to first
A tailor made double play
That's all for the All Stars...
After 4 innings here at
FOFC Stadium in FOFC,
AL Pre WWII on top 2 to 1

Here is Rick Ferrell to start
it off for AL Pre WWII
Williams eyes Ferrell intently
The pitch on the way, here it is...
Ferrell swings hard...
A squibber off his fists
It's dribbling towards third
Palmer charges in on it...
Bare hands it...
Flips it to first...
Just in time to get Ferrell
Nice play by Deacon Palmer
Another step and Ferrell would be safe
AL Pre WWII with one away
Williams steps off the mound as
he waits for Lefty Grove to
come to the plate

Lefty Grove makes his way to home plate
Lefty looks at the sign from
the coach at third
Harlond Clift flashes a series of them...
Now Grove taps the bat on home plate
Bullock flashes the sign to Williams
The lefty Williams delivers
Curve ball...
Grove swings and misses by a mile
The bottom dropped out of that one!
A wicked pitch!
That's the second out of the inning
Time to check the scoreboard

Caribbean slipping by Japanese
League 5 to 3
Cuellar battling Sugishita
Left Outs is edging Negro League I 2 to 1
Snider has hit his 28th
homerun for Left Outs
NL Pre WWII is giving it
to AL Post WWII 5 to 0
Turn of Century leads Dead Ball Era 1 to 0
Old Timers slipping by Negro
League II 7 to 5
Poles has hit his 7th homerun
for Negro League II
NL Post WWII and Late 20th are tied at 2
Marichal and Johnson currently dueling

The second baseman, Charlie Gehringer
is up for the Pre-Americans
We are in the top of the 5th
Charlie is in the midst of a 26 game
hitting streak
It has upped his average to .301
He grounded out his last at bat
0 for 2 so far this afternoon
Looking to continue his streak
John looks for the sign he wants...
Shakes off the first one
But he likes the next
Blade comes in a couple steps
Yells something to Williams
The delivery
It's a routine fly into center
Tucker ranges over and reaches up
This should do it...
And Tucker grabs it for the out
Williams sets the Pre-Americans
down in order

Palmer 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
The left-hander Grove is now ready
Lefty winds... kicks... and delivers
In the dirt
And Palmer holds up
He draws the walk
Nice way to start out the inning

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

The infield shifts slightly to the left
for the right hand hitting Bullock
Billy steps out of the batter's
box to get the sign
Billy is 0 for 1 today...

Palmer kicks the dirt at first
Joe Adcock says something to him
Bullock waits patiently
Grove brings it to the plate
Hit in the air to left
Camped under it is Simmons
And he has it
One gone for FOFC

Tucker is the next hitter
Palmer is on first
AL Pre WWII won't watch him too closely
AL Pre WWII is set up for two
Lefty Grove still on the mound
for the Pre-Americans...
Grove has gone the distance so far
He's given up 2 hits in 4 1/3 innings
Grove goes into his stretch
Looks over at the fidgety Palmer
He lobs one to Gehrig...
Palmer is back easily
We're ready again
Now Grove comes home
The big heater...
Swung on...
Tucker turned on that one in a BIG WAY...
Forget it, that one is long gone
A long home run by A. J. Tucker
That's homer number 5 for him

Williams is up now for FOFC
The outfield shades towards
left for Williams
Grove is asking for a new ball...
The ump throws him a new one...
Grove looks in...
Now he's ready
Now the delivery, here is is...
Pounded on the ground to third
Sewell grabs it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 5-3
AL Pre WWII gets the second
out of the inning

With two out
Batting for FOFC now is Blade
And Lefty studies the sign from Ferrell...
Now he's got it
Grove kicks and fires
Long fly to center
Dimaggio has a long run...
He's there and hauls it in
Blade is retired on a fairly deep fly
That retires the side...
2 runs cross the plate for FOFC
After 5 innings, FOFC on top 3 to 2
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Appling saunters to the plate
He does some stretching...
Knocks the dirt from his spikes...
Now he steps into the batter's box
Appling has managed a .294 average
against lefthanders this year
All set, Appling is ready for the pitch
Williams goes into his windup
Here it comes
Ground ball through the middle
Blade ranges behind second
Nice pick up...
Twists and fires it
OUT!
One up, one down for AL Pre WWII

Walking up to the plate now is Ruth
Al Simmons waits on deck
Babe is batting .348 so far this season
He carries a 17 game hitting streak
into today's game
So far today, he's 0 for 1
Ruth waits patiently for the pitch
His bat is coiled
John will have to come in
with this 3-0 delivery
It's on its way...
Williams loses him
Ruth heads down to first
2 walks today for Ruth

Simmons coming up
FOFC out in front by 1 run
We're in the top of the 6th
Simmons is taking his practice swings
Al is 1 for 2 this afternoon
He lined out last time at bat
Williams gets the sign, it's one he likes
The pitch is on the way
Base hit to center for Simmons
Harlond Clift puts up the stop sign...
Ruth will stay at second

Lou Gehrig is up next
He'll be hitting with 2 men on board
Gehrig is 0 for 2 today
Lou flied out last time up
He's in his crouch
Gehrig can really swing that wood
John checks the runners
Steps off the rubber...

Again he's into the stretch...
The pitch
Gehrig takes the pitch...
That one is low for a ball... WAIT
The umpire says that one caught the knees
He punches Gehrig out
And there's two away

Dimaggio leaves the on-deck circle
And heads to the batter's box
Joe comes to the plate batting .234
with 5 home runs

He is 1 for 2 so far today
Dimaggio gets set for the pitch
Williams checks the runners
Bounced towards the hole
Fielded nicely by Nights
THE LONG THROW . . .
HE GOT HIM!!!
Score It: 6-3
That's all for AL Pre WWII
After 5 and a half innings
in FOFC this afternoon,
FOFC ahead 3 to 2

Nights is walking to the plate
Now he steps into the batter's box
Nights looks down toward
the third base coach
Nights is ready
Into the windup... here's the pitch
Base hit to right for Nights
Babe Ruth is trying to get to it
This might be stretched into a double!
No... he decides to hold up

Gerald Gazelle is entering
the batter's box
Benton Breeze has his big bopper,
Jeeberoni Potpie,
waiting in the on-deck circle
Gazelle is 1 for 2 today,
with 1 strike outs
Grove has the sign from Ferrell
The pitch to Gazelle...
Here's a high fastball, at the letters...
Gazelle raps a hard grounder toward third
Sewell takes two steps to his left
Scoops it up...
Flips over to second for one...
The throw to first...
Not in time!
Score it a force play
Speed on the bases helped FOFC there
With one gone
FOFC will have Jeeberoni Potpie coming up
A dangerous hitter, no doubt about it

Gazelle takes his lead
Grove looks Gazelle back...
He's taking a shorter lead now

The All Stars' first baseman is up next
FOFC has 1 on board with 1 out
Jeeberoni, a right-handed hitter,
will face the lefty Grove
Of his 25 home runs, 7 are
against southpaws
Grove looks down at Ferrell for the sign
Shakes him off once... twice...

Now he has the pitch he wants
Grove goes into his stretch...
Looks at Gazelle...
He fires one to Gehrig...
Gazelle dives back in
That's his best move to first...
Gehrig lobs it back
Now Grove comes home
Fastball... down and away...
NO! It's called a strike
And Potpie is outta there
Two down
Due up next is K. A. Ton
Having quite a year so far
He brings a lot of power to the All Stars

Coming to the plate is Ton
Gazelle's the runner on first
He's doing his best to unnerve Grove
Ton is hitting .267 with 9 homeruns
K. A. also has 7 doubles and 2 triples
And has driven in a total of 27 runs
Ton looks very intent...
He stares down at Grove...
Cocks his bat
He's into the stretch
Looks over at first
Quick throw!...
Gazelle dives back in!...
SAFE!
Gehrig tosses it back to Grove
Now here's the pitch
Ton drives the ball to
left for extra bases
Dick Howser is waving the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Gazelle scores!
Double for Ton

And now they're going to put Palmer on
Ferrell is up and holding out his glove
There's ball 3...
and now ball 4
Billy Bullock is waiting on deck

The All Stars will send
Billy Bullock up to the plate
Billy is hitting at .263 on the year
He has 52 hits in 198 at bats
Today, he is 0 for 2
Bullock flied out his last time up
Palmer and Ton inch off first and second
Bullock is waiting for the pitch
Here's the southpaw's delivery
Hit on the ground to short
Appling comes up with it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 6-3
That does it in the bottom of the 6th
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After 6 innings, FOFC ahead 4 to 2

The AL Pre WWII third baseman, Sewell,
will lead off
He'll be followed by Rick Ferrell
And then Lefty Grove
Against lefthanders
Sewell is hitting .258 this season
Williams is happy with the sign
And here is the 1-2 delivery
Grounded towards the sack
Williams takes the flip from Potpie
Score It: 3-1
So one up and one gone

Coming up for AL Pre WWII is Rick Ferrell
Nobody on base, one out
Williams has the sign from Bullock
Williams rocks and fires
Slider, down and away...
Ferrell reaches for the pitch...
It's a grounder to the third base side...
Palmer is there
IT BOUNCES OVER HIS HEAD!...
Ton is hustling after it...
Ferrell with the big turn...
The throw from Ton goes into second
And Ferrell holds at first

Lefty Grove is scheduled
to bat next, but...
Looks like we'll be seeing a pinch hitter
Yes Heinie Manush is stepping
out to the on-deck circle
Miller Huggins will send Heinie
up to face Williams
Manush has a knack for getting on base
His .364 OBP proves that
He is hitting lefties at a .400 pace

One on, one out
Manush walks to the batter's box
Manush is batting .300 with
2 round trippers in 1900
Williams is on the third-base
side of the rubber...
The southpaw delivers
Fastball, a dandy...
Steee Rike THREE!
And Manush is punched out
Two down

Charlie Gehringer, will be up next
Luke Appling hopes to get a chance as well
One on... two away
FOFC leads AL Pre WWII by 2 runs
Charlie comes to the plate batting .300
with 11 home runs

He is 0 for 3 so far today
Williams steps on the rubber
The pitch to Gehringer...
Swung on by Gehringer...
It will be a tough chance
Gazelle is going after it...
Gehringer will have himself a single
to extend his hitting streak to
a very impressive 27 games!
1 for 4 this afternoon
Ferrell takes third

Here comes the AL Pre WWII
shortstop, Luke Appling
Most believe he has quite
a future in the big leagues
Appling is at .239 on the season
John Williams on the mound
for the All Stars...
Williams has gone the distance so far
He's given up 6 hits and 2 runs
And the delivery by Williams
Appling drives the ball to
center for extra bases
Ferrell scores
Harlond Clift will send the runner home...
The throw is cut off...
And that allows the run to score
Double for Appling

Defensive manager has decided
to pitch around Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth, the right fielder,
strides to the plate
The outfield's shaded towards right
With Ruth at the plate
Williams has the sign from Bullock
The lefthander delivers
It's in on the wrists
Babe tried to hold up
Now it appears he will be awarded first...
Yes, Williams walks him

Simmons walks to the plate
He taps his cleats with the bat
Al is batting at .339 with 18 home runs
He is 2 for 3 so far today
Simmons waits on Knowles
Knowles brings it to the plate
There's a weak fly ball
in front of K. A. Ton
He dives, but he traps it
Wait, the second base umpire
overrules the call
He calls the batter out
Three away in the top of the 7th
We're all tied up at 4
Let's go to the ticker
And see how everyone else is faring

Caribbean with the lead over
Japanese League 6 to 3
Negro League I with the lead
over Left Outs 5 to 2
Wells has hit his 9th homerun
for Negro League I
NL Pre WWII is pounding
AL Post WWII 9 to 2
Jackson has hit his 5th homerun
for NL Pre WWII
Dead Ball Era clipping Turn
of Century 5 to 1
Old Timers slipping by Negro
League II 7 to 5
Poles has hit his 7th homerun
for Negro League II
NL Post WWII slipping by Late 20th 5 to 3
Aaron has hit his 34th homerun
for NL Post WWII

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!
Ted Lyons will be coming on
to pitch for AL Pre WWII
Ted has appeared in 27 games this season
He has a record of 12-1
in 138 innings
His ERA stands at 3.79

Tucker is walking to the plate
Now he steps into the batter's box
Tucker is hitting .294 against righties
Lyons studies his sign
Now Ted delivers
Long fly to left
Simmons has a long run...
He's there and hauls it in
Tucker is retired on a fairly deep fly
One up, one down

Coming up for FOFC is Harry Hays
Nobody on base, one out
Hays digs in on the right side
of the plate facing the righty Lyons
Right-hander Lyons eyes the righty Hays
Lyons rocks and fires
At the knees, looks like a sinker...
Swung on and topped toward third...
Sewell charging...
Has to backhand it...
He zips a throw to Gehrig...
NOT IN TIME!!
Score it an infield single for Hays

Making his way up now is Barrett Blade
The score is tied
And Hays is on first
Blade is batting .261 with
2 HR's this year
Lyons wastes no time
He has the sign from Ferrell
Lyons brings it to the plate
Fastball... down and away...
NO! It's called a strike
And Blade is outta there

The go-ahead run is on...
And up comes shortstop Jeff Nights
FOFC needs only the 1 run
to break the 4-4 tie
Nights is at .286 on the season
Ted gets the sign from Ferrell
Here's the righthander's delivery
It's in on the hands
Inside... ball four
Nights trots to first as Hays takes second

Now here's Gazelle
Two men on, two men out
The righthander pitching to Gazelle...
A righthanded batter
Righties have a .268 average against Ted
Righthander Lyons' delivery
Swung on...and it's in the
air to the right side
Backing just a bit is Ruth
And he pulls it in
That is the third out for FOFC here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 30566

Lou Gehrig leads off for AL Pre WWII
Joe Dimaggio and Joe Sewell will follow
We've got a dandy here today
at FOFC Stadium
We're all tied up at 4
Knowles is walking around the mound
While we wait, let me mention
He is 1st in saves this year
He has 19...

Now Sammy is ready...
The righthander Knowles delivers
Gehrig swings and misses for strike three
Gehrig peers out at Knowles wondering
about that pitch
Knowles smiles back
That's a strikeout for Knowles
With one down

Potpie yells something out to Knowles
Sammy nods his head

Dimaggio saunters to the plate...
He stretches out a little...
Taps the dirt from his spikes...
Now he steps into the batter's box
Dimaggio is taking his practice swings
Joe is 1 for 3 this afternoon
He grounded out last time at bat
Joe seems to be relaxed and
ready for the pitch
He steadies his bat now
He brings it home
Slider, down and away...
Dimaggio reaches for the pitch...
It's a grounder to the third base side...
Palmer is there
IT BOUNCES OVER HIS HEAD!...
Ton is hustling after it...
Dimaggio with the big turn...
The throw from Ton goes into second
And Dimaggio holds at first

Dimaggio studies Knowles intently...
Now he's walking away from the base
Knowles steps off the rubber
Firing to first at the same time...
He's a dead duck!
Dimaggio trots meekly back to the dugout

Two out, nobody on
Up now is Sewell
Right-hander Knowles eyes the lefty Sewell
Knowles brings it to the plate
Strike three swinging...
Now that is something you
don't see very often
Sewell rarely ever strikes out
But Knowles got him that time!
That's it for AL Pre WWII
Here at FOFC Stadium, After
7 and a half innings,
FOFC has 4 runs, 6 hits and one error
While AL Pre WWII has 4 runs,
8 hits and no errors
AL Pre WWII has left 6 on base
FOFC has stranded 5

Jeeberoni Potpie leads off for FOFC
K. A. Ton and Deacon Palmer will follow
FOFC will be looking to score
one to take the lead
We are late in the game
Potpie adjusts his glove...
Steps into the box...
Jeeberoni is 1 for 3 this afternoon
Jeeberoni is eagerly awaiting Lyons' pitch
With a 3-1 count
Lyons kicks and fires
Good slider, inside part of the plate
Potpie gets the bat on it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Gehringer grabs it...
Throws to first...
OUT!
With one gone
FOFC will have K. A. Ton coming up
A dangerous hitter, no doubt about it

The left fielder, Ton, is ready to bat
The score is knotted at 4 in
the bottom of the 8th
Lyons looks down at Ferrell for the sign
Now he's ready
Now Ted delivers
A hot shot on the ground to Sewell
He's got it cleanly on one hop...
Over to first and Ton is out
(Guarding lines worked, he was robbed!)

And the batter is Deacon Palmer
Sammy Knowles is on-deck
Deacon Palmer is hitting .307 this year
against righthanded pitchers
Palmer waits for the delivery
The righthander Lyons' delivery
It's a routine fly into center
Dimaggio ranges over and reaches up
This should wrap-up the inning...
It's in the bank
That's three outs, side retired

The AL Pre WWII catcher, Ferrell,
will lead off
He'll be followed by Ted Lyons
And then Charlie Gehringer
Ferrell swinging from the right side
facing the righty Knowles
Waiting for the pitch is Ferrell
It's coming down the pike
Ferrell slaps a hard grounder past second
Gazelle is over to pick it up
He tosses it back to second
Ferrell will hold with a clean single

We are going to have a pinch
runner for Rick Ferrell
Miller Huggins will bring in
Sam Rice for Rick Ferrell
He's a threat to steal

Bunted...
Palmer has it...
His play is to first base
A successful sacrifice for Lyons
Rice now in scoring position
That's one away

Up next is the ex-Michigan U star,
the reliable hitting Charlie Gehringer
Gehringer is taking his practice swings
Charlie is 1 for 4 this afternoon
Gehringer waits patiently for the pitch
His bat is coiled
Knowles looks back towards second...

The pitch
Gehringer pokes it to center
It drops in front of Tucker
AL Pre WWII goes out in front
AL Pre WWII ahead 5 to 4

Appling digs in at the plate
Ready now for Knowles to come set
Appling is 2 for 4 today
Luke doubled last time around
Sammy looks for the sign he wants...
Shakes off the first one
But he likes the next
Knowles' righthanded delivery...
And Appling will sit down...
strike three called
Here's the ump coming out
To brush the plate clean
There's two away

Slowly coming up is Ruth for AL Pre WWII
He is finally in the batter's box
AL Pre WWII ahead 5 to 4
Ruth is at .348 on the season
Mighty tosses the resin bag aside
He steps on the rubber...
Mighty's into the stretch...

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

SAFE!...

Potpie tosses it back to Mighty
Now here's the pitch
Bounding ball to second
Blade comes up with it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 4-3
That wraps up the inning for AL Pre WWII
So After 8 and a half innings
AL Pre WWII has 5 runs,
10 hits and no errors
While FOFC has 4 runs,
6 hits and one error
AL Pre WWII has left 7 stranded
FOFC has failed to bring home 5
AL Pre WWII's defensive changes are...
Dickey will bat 8th and play C

Persimmon Pflaggstettler, A. J. Tucker and
Harry Hays will be the first three men
to face the pitcher Ted Lyons
We are in the bottom of the 9th
The outfield shades towards
left for Pflaggstettler
Pflaggstettler awaits the pitch
The pitch is on the way
Sinker, at the knees...
Swung on...
Pflaggstettler hits it into the
hole on the right side
Gehringer ranging to his left...
Scoops it up...
Throws on the run...
And Pflaggstettler is out
by a step at first
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games
These scores are final...
Caribbean topped Japanese League 6 to 3
Negro League I topped Left Outs 5 to 2
Paige the winner, he's now 10-9
Sutton takes the loss, his
record drops to 7-5
NL Pre WWII smacked AL Post WWII 9 to 2
Jackson has hit his 5th homerun
for NL Pre WWII
Dead Ball Era toppled Turn
of Century 5 to 1
Negro League II nipped Old Timers 8 to 7
Radbourn takes the loss, his
record drops to 7-7
Manning the winner, he's now 12-8
NL Post WWII squeezed by Late 20th 6 to 4
Johnson takes the loss, his
record drops to 8-12
Marichal the winner, he's now 13-8

Tucker is up now for FOFC
Lyons has the sign he wants
Lyons is into his windup
Here's the pitch
Tucker hits one on the ground
to the left side
A. J., who moves well,
is motoring to first
Sewell wings it quickly to Gehrig...
OUT by a step
Two gone for FOFC

Now batting will be Harry Hays
Harry is hitting at .340 on the year
He has 73 hits in 215 at bats
This includes 3 doubles, 2 triples
10 home runs and 30 RBI's
All set, Hays is ready for the pitch
Way ahead in the count
Lyons turns the 0-2 pitch loose
Hays swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Lyons strikes out Harry Hays
And that will do it for FOFC
AL Pre WWII wins 5 to 4
Lyons gets credit for the win
Knowles takes the loss
The hitting star for AL Pre WWII
was Luke Appling
He was 2 for 5
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.
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Old 05-18-2013, 08:56 PM   #662
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BOXSCORE: 2001 AL Pre WWII Pre-Americans At 1000 FOFC All Stars 7/18/1900 Pre-Americans AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG C.Gehringer 2B 5 1 2 1 .304 B.Blade 2B 4 0 0 0 .260 L.Appling SS 5 1 2 2 .250 J.Nights SS 3 0 1 0 .286 B.Ruth RF 2 0 0 0 .347 G.Gazelle RF,LF 4 2 1 1 .279 A.Simmons LF 4 0 2 1 .338 J.Potpie 1B 4 0 1 0 .289 L.Gehrig 1B 4 0 0 0 .325 K.Ton LF 4 0 1 1 .270 J.Dimaggio CF 4 1 2 0 .237 A.Mighty P 0 0 0 0 .102 J.Sewell 3B 4 0 0 0 .259 D.Fouts 3B 0 0 0 0 .268 R.Ferrell C 4 1 2 1 .244 A-D.Palmer PR,3B 1 1 0 0 .332 D-S.Rice PR 0 1 0 0 .500 B.Bullock C 3 0 0 0 .261 F-B.Dickey C 0 0 0 0 .328 S.Knowles P 0 0 0 0 ---- L.Grove P 2 0 0 0 .188 E-P.Pflaggstettler RF 1 0 0 0 .300 B-H.Manush PH 1 0 0 0 .294 A.Tucker CF 4 1 1 2 .296 T.Lyons P 0 0 0 0 .277 J.Williams P 2 0 0 0 .136 C-H.Hays C 2 0 1 0 .338 -- -- -- --- -- -- -- --- Totals 35 5 10 5 Totals 32 4 6 4 A-Pinch Ran For Fouts In 2nd Inning B-Pinch Hit For Grove In 7th Inning C-Subbed Defensively (C ) For Williams In 7th Inning D-Pinch Ran For Ferrell In 9th Inning E-Subbed Defensively (RF) For Knowles In 9th Inning F-Subbed Defensively (C ) For Rice In 9th Inning INJURY: Dan Fouts INJURED (for 0 more games) in 2nd inning Pre-Americans... 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 - 5 10 0 All Stars....... 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 - 4 6 1 Pre-Americans IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA L.Grove 6 5 4 4 2 3 2 94 3.67 A1 T.Lyons WIN(13-1) 3 1 0 0 1 2 0 43 3.71 Totals 9 6 4 4 3 5 2 All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA J.Williams 6 2/3 7 4 4 3 6 0 117 3.52 S.Knowles LOSS(0-2) 2 3 1 1 0 3 0 28 1.70 A.Mighty 0 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 3.81 Totals 9 10 5 5 3 9 0 ATTENDANCE- 30,566 DATE- Wednesday, July 18th 1900 TIME- Day T- 1:38 LEFT ON BASE- Pre-Americans: 7 All Stars: 5 DOUBLE PLAYS- Pre-Americans: 1 All Stars: 0 ERRORS- B.Blade DOUBLES- L.Appling-2(5th), A.Simmons(27th), J.Dimaggio(10th), K.Ton(8th) HOME RUNS- G.Gazelle(20th), A.Tucker(5th) SACRIFICE HITS- T.Lyons WALKS- B.Ruth-3, J.Nights, D.Palmer-2 HIT BY PITCH- D.Fouts STRIKE OUTS- L.Appling, L.Gehrig-3, J.Sewell-2, L.Grove-2, H.Manush, B.Blade, G.Gazelle, J.Potpie, J.Williams, H.Hays GIDP- K.Ton WEB GEMS- Top 1st: Billy Bullock blocked the plate, saving a run!
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That 7/17 win was rather dramatic.
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7/19 Radio Broadcast - Game 103

Howdy, folks, we're coming to you
from Overshadow Pk today
It's a beautiful night for baseball
So sit back, put your feet up
We are just about ready to begin
Left Outs' Robin Roberts will bring
his 6 and 12 record
And face off against Sirr Fozborg
He has a 5 and 0 record
with a 3.14 ERA
Roberts, a righthander, will
open against Barrett Blade
Righties hit at a .307 average
against Roberts
Robin rocks and fires
Sinking fastball...
Blade swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Vaughan...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
And there's one away

Nights leaves the on-deck circle
He saunters to the plate on
this muggy summer evening
Nights has 26 doubles this year
Roberts looks down at Cochrane
for the sign
Shakes him off once... twice...

Now he has the pitch he wants
The 2-2 offering...
Here's a curveball, up in the zone...
It's juiced to deep center
There goes Snider after it
Racing hard...
Reaching...
Can't get it...
It was just out of his reach!
He chases it to the fence
Nights around first, coasts into second
As the throw comes in late
Score that a two bagger

takes a three step lead
Here's Vaughan sneaking in behind second
Roberts turns and fires to him...
Nights dives back to second...
OUT!!!...
He was caught leaning the wrong way
The fans love it!

Persimmon Pflaggstettler
steps into the box
Pflaggstettler is at .300 on the season
He is hitting .307 against righties
Waiting for the pitch is Pflaggstettler
Roberts' into the windup... the delivery
There's a long drive...
Its' way back there...
Duke Snider is at the wall...
(Possible HR or Out
Fielding ability: Great,)
He's jumping for it...
He's got it!!!
What a great play by Snider!

The second baseman Herman
will lead off for the Leftovers
He'll be followed by Mickey Cochrane
And then Jimmie Foxx
Herman is batting .266 with
3 HR's this year
The right-hander Fozborg is
set to deliver to Herman
Fozborg brings it to the plate
Herman raps a hard shot...
CAUGHT!
That ball was lined right at third
Palmer just got his glove up in time
Great reflexes

Mickey Cochrane, the catcher,
strides to the plate
Fozborg squeezes the resin bag...
Peers in
Here's the pitch
Hot line drive to second
Tough chance for Blade
He makes a nice play on it
Score It: 4
That's the second out of the inning

Jimmie Foxx is advancing to the plate
No score as yet in the early going
Foxx is at .312 on the season
Fozborg tosses the resin bag aside
He steps on the rubber...
Now Sirr delivers
High heater, at the letters...
Foxx swings from his heels...
Drives one long and deep...
Tucker backpedaling to
the warning track...
It's going, going, GONE!
A deep blast to left-center
That's homer number 25 for Foxx this year
Left Outs ahead 1 to 0

Nobody on, two away
McCovey steps in for Left Outs
Fozborg gets the sign, it's one he likes
He brings it home
McCovey starts... but lays
off the pitch upstairs
Ball four, Fozborg walks him

Here comes the "Silver Fox" to the plate
McCovey will be running if it's hit
Fozborg looks down at Bullock for the sign

Now he's ready...
The righthander delivers
There goes McCovey...
And it's ball four...
McCovey pulls up and walks into second

Two on, two outs...
Robinson steps to the plate
Robinson swinging from the right side
facing the righty Fozborg
The umpire says let's go
Robinson is ready
Here's the righthander's delivery
Robinson takes the pitch...
That one is low for a ball... WAIT
The umpire says that one caught the knees
He punches Robinson out
That ends the bottom of the 1st
After 1 inning, the Leftovers lead by 1

Potpie is coming to the plate
He stops to towel off his face
It's very humid today
Looking to get something going
Potpie has walloped 25 homers this year
7th in the league
He'd like one here
You should have seen his show
in batting practice
Potpie waiting on the delivery
Here's his delivery
Potpie tries to hold up
Cochrane points down at
the first base umpire
The ump says he went around
STRIKE THREE!
So one up and one gone

Palmer finishes his practice swings
Now he strides to the batter's box
Palmer is batting .332 with
4 round trippers in 1900
Robin is ready
Now ready, here it is...
Fly ball to center
Snider is under it
He makes the grab
That's out number two
Sparky Anderson moving around
Hollers something down at Roberts
Robin nods "UH HUH"

Gerald Gazelle is up to face Robin Roberts
Roberts eyes Gazelle intently
The pitch is on the way
Slider, down at the knees...
Cut on by Gazelle...
He smashes a hard shot...
It's through into left field...
Vaughan made a great effort
But the ball was just out of his reach

Gazelle takes his lead from first...
He's challenging Roberts' pickoff move
Roberts steps away from the mound...
Now Gazelle moves back to first
He's not getting far from the bag

The catcher, Billy Bullock
will be up next for FOFC
Left Outs on top 1 to 0
Roberts adjusts his belt...
Looks in for the sign from Cochrane
The righthander Roberts delivers
There's a drive to right by Bullock
Robinson fields it on the short hop
He fires it to second
Bullock turns back and
settles for a single
Gazelle is now perched over at third
Terrific play by Robinson

Now here's Tucker
A. J. takes a couple of practice cuts
Tucker waits patiently
Now to the belt, here it is...
Hard ground ball to short
Vaughan comes up with it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 6-3
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
By the way, FOFC is 6 and 4
in their last ten games

Here's Goose Goslin to lead off
the inning for Left Outs
We're looking at a beautiful, star filled
night sky, just a great
night for baseball!
Goslin grips the bat handle
Fozborg rubs down the ball...
Now he's asking for a new one
After he rubs this one down
He looks in for the sign
Fozborg brings it to the plate
Ball four is the call
Fozborg can't believe the call
And barks at the home plate umpire
The ump points out at Fozborg
Goslin takes first base

Left Outs shortstop, Arky Vaughan,
will be up next
He will be followed by Robin Roberts
One on... no one out
Left Outs up by 1
Vaughan checks the coach, Tony LaRussa...
May be a bunt here
Right-hander Fozborg eyes
the lefty Vaughan
Fozborg goes into his stretch...
Looks at Goslin...
He fires one to Potpie...
Goslin dives back in
That's his best move to first...
Potpie lobs it back
Now Fozborg comes home
Fastball, high and tight
Ball Four
Chin music...
Vaughan didn't like it

Robin Roberts is up next
He'll be hitting with 2 men on board
Fozborg is asking for a new ball...
The ump throws him a new one...
Fozborg looks in...
Now he's ready
It's coming down the pike
Slow ground ball to short
Nights grabs it
Throws to second
He's out
Over to first
Not in time!
Score It: 6-4
Goslin takes third
The runner on first, Vaughan, is out
And there's one away

Herman comes to the plate
Leftovers with runners on first and third
Herman is taking his practice swings
Billy is 0 for 1 this evening
Fozborg is happy with the sign
Righthander Fozborg's delivery
Bounding ball to short
Nights comes up with it
Throw to second for one
They might turn it . . .
Double Play!
Score It: 6-4-3
That's all for the Leftovers
in the 2nd inning
No runs, no hits, no errors and
one man left on base...
We head to the 3rd...
Left Outs on top 1 to 0

Here's the pitcher Fozborg
To lead off the inning
He'll be followed by Barrett Blade
And then Jeff Nights
Roberts wastes no time
He takes the first sign
Robin winds
Kicks... and delivers
Fozborg hits a high pop
into short left field
Foxx and Vaughan sprint
towards the outfield
Here comes Goslin
Vaughan puts his glove out...
Makes a super catch in front of Goslin!!
One away in the top of the 3rd for FOFC

FOFC sends the second baseman,
Barrett Blade, up to the plate
Blade can't seem to get
settled at the plate
He's ready
Roberts brings it to the plate
Long fly to center
Snider has a long run...
He's there and hauls it in
Blade is retired on a fairly deep fly
Two up, two down for FOFC

Up next for the visiting All Stars
Jeff Nights, their shortstop
Nights has hit 11 home runs this year
Roberts steps on the rubber...
Looks in for the sign
Here's the 1-2 offering
Sinking line drive
Caught by Arky Vaughan
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
Time to check out the rest of the scores

Negro League I is in front of
Japanese League 4 to 1
Smith comfortably ahead for Negro League I
Late 20th is edging Caribbean 1 to 0
AL Post WWII slipping by Old Timers 2 to 0
AL Pre WWII with the lead over
Dead Ball Era 3 to 0
NL Pre WWII is on top of
NL Post WWII 2 to 0
Marquard and Koufax currently dueling
Negro League II and Turn of
Century are scoreless

Cochrane is walking to the plate
Now he steps into the batter's box
Cochrane is at .271 on the season
Mickey stands with bat ready
Now the delivery, here is is...
It's a dying quail headed
towards the outfield
OHHHHH, snagged by a retreating
Blade for the out
Outstanding range shown on that play!
One down for Left Outs
Jimmie Foxx is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to the
plate for Left Outs

Now batting will be Jimmie Foxx
The third baseman is walking to the plate
Bases empty... one out
Left Outs up by 1
Right hand hitting Foxx is 1 for 1 today
He has banged out 25 home runs this year
A very tough out for Fozborg
The count two balls,
two strikes on Foxx
Fozborg is into his windup
Here's the pitch
Sinking fastball...
Foxx swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Nights...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
FOFC gets the second out of the inning

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

Left Outs on top 1 to 0
We'll see how they pitch to McCovey
Right-hander Fozborg prepares
for the pitch
to the left-handed swinging McCovey
Fozborg brings it to the plate
Fozborg loses him
McCovey heads down to first
2 walks today for McCovey

Duke Snider is up next
The Leftovers' center fielder
finds 1 on with 2 outs
So far this season
Snider is hitting .295
when facing righthanded pitching
Fozborg studies his sign
Here's the 3-1 offering
Snider connects on the Fozborg fastball...
This one is really smoked...
Gazelle starts back...
Now he just stops to look
Snider got all of this one....
HOME RUN!
McCovey scores in front of him and
waits to give Duke congratulations

Walking up to the plate now is Robinson
Goose Goslin waits on deck
Robinson looks for a sign from third
Tony LaRussa delivers it to Frank
Frank is 0 for 1 today
struck out his last at bat
Fozborg is slow to get ready

He has a 3.38 ERA this year
Now he's ready
Fozborg leans back and fires
Frank Robinson hits a drive down the line
If it stays fair it may be gone
Gerald Gazelle is right at the foul pole
He won't get it, it's a foul
ball for Robinson
Just to the left of the pole
318 feet from home plate
. . . Robinson back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
Robinson held up, and draws a walk
Fozborg isn't happy at all with that call

Goose Goslin moves in to face Fozborg
1 on, 2 outs here in the bottom of the 3rd
Goslin is hitting .288
against righthanders
Goslin looks very intent...
He stares down at Fozborg...
Cocks his bat
The stretch... the delivery
The Whiff!
Fozborg punches Goslin out!
That retires the side
Left Outs with a 3 run lead
It's Left Outs 3
and FOFC still looking
to score their first run

The big guys are due up for FOFC
Pflaggstettler will lead it off
He will be followed by Jeeberoni
Potpie and Deacon Palmer
Before getting ready
Pflaggstettler checks out
the defensive alignment
Roberts is rubbing the ball up
Now the umpire wants to take a look
No problems found...
Now Roberts gets the sign from Cochrane
Roberts goes into his windup
And here's the 3-0 offering
Fastball... just outside
Pflaggstettler will take first on the walk
Persimmon knows how to get on base
His OBP of .400 is among
the league leaders

Pflaggstettler at first, nobody out
Potpie comes to the plate
Jeeberoni is hitting at .288 on the year
FOFC's cleanup hitter has
knocked in 71 runs
He has a fine .558 slugging average
Roberts shakes off two signs
Now he's ready
Roberts kicks and fires
Fastball down low...
Potpie swings and hits one out to center
Duke Snider is drifting over...
Now he's under it...
Easy out for Roberts
Pflaggstettler trots back to first
One out
Due up next is Deacon Palmer

Palmer coming to bat
Walking slowly from the on deck circle
Pflaggstettler on first, with one away
Palmer digs in on the right side
of the plate facing the righty Roberts
Deacon is ready for the delivery
Now Robin delivers
Fastball, a dandy...
Steee Rike THREE swinging!
Deacon looked like Casey on that pitch
Went for the HIGH CHEESE!
Two down
Cochrane asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Cochrane and Roberts

Pflaggstettler yells something to Roberts
It sounded like a challenge from here
I wouldn't be surprised...
Pflaggstettler is great on the bases
He wants to unnerve Robin
No doubt he does!
Roberts holds the runner

Next up is Gerald Gazelle,
the FOFC left fielder
Gazelle goes through his
routine of settling in
Gazelle waits on Roberts
The 3-1 pitch is on its way to the plate
Roberts needs to come in with this one
Drilled deep to center field
Snider trying to track it down
It's out of his reach
Gazelle rounds first
Snider corrals the ball
Gazelle digging for 2nd
He's slides in, Safe!
Pflaggstettler takes third

Bullock heads to the plate for FOFC
The infield is at regular depth
Looking to Dick Howser for a sign
Roberts ready quickly, looks
in for the sign
And here is the 1-2 delivery
The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
Bullock swung, that's strike three
Bullock isn't happy at all with that call
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
So After 3 and a half innings
Left Outs has 3 runs, 2 hits and no errors
While FOFC has no runs,
4 hits and no errors
FOFC has left 4 stranded
Left Outs has failed to bring home 4

Arky Vaughan to lead it off for Left Outs
Vaughan swinging from the left side
of the plate against the righty Fozborg
Fozborg adjusts his belt...
Looks in for the sign from Bullock
Fozborg rocks and fires
A hot shot on the ground to Blade
He's got it cleanly on one hop...
Over to first and Vaughan is out

Nobody on base, one away
Roberts steps into the batter's box
Roberts steps out of the box...
Looks towards Tony LaRussa for a sign
Robin steadies his bat
Waits patiently for Fozborg's pitch
The pitch to Roberts...
Roberts lines one over short for a single
He rounds the bag hard and
starts for second
Oh, look at that throw by Gerald Gazelle
Roberts scrambles back to first and holds

Billy Herman makes his way to home plate
Billy Herman is hitting .241 this year
against righthanded pitchers
The righthander pitching to Herman...
A righthanded batter
Righties have a .176 average against Sirr
Fozborg goes into his stretch
Looks over at the fidgety Roberts
He lobs one to Potpie...
Roberts is back easily...

We're ready again
Now Fozborg comes home
Bouncer to short...made to
order doubleplay ball
Nights has it on two hops...wrists
it to Blade
He evades the slide of Roberts
The throw to Potpie...
It just nips Herman!
That's all for the Leftovers
in the 4th inning
No runs, one hit and no errors...
We go to the 5th...
Left Outs ahead 3 to 0

A. J. Tucker up first for FOFC
He is a threat to steal if he gets on
A. J. is hitting at .296 on the year
He has 128 hits in 433 at bats
Today, he is 0 for 1
Tucker grounded out his last time up
Tucker waits
The pay-off pitch...
Fastball, down and in...
Tucker laces a hit into the outfield...
Robinson picks it up
Fires it quickly into the infield
Tucker holds with a single
Good start to the inning for FOFC

Sirr Fozborg squares to bunt
Foxx fields it, THEN DROPS THE BALL!
Foxx picks it up and fires to first
Fozborg is out by an eyelash
Credit Fozborg with a sacrifice
One down for FOFC
Barrett Blade is still in
the on-deck circle
and Jeff Nights is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Here's Barrett Blade
Barrett is 0 for 2 this summer evening
He flied out in his last plate appearance
He's ready for the delivery
And the delivery by Roberts
Just inside, BALL FOUR
And Blade walks
That's 2 walks given up by Roberts today

Jeff Nights stands in for FOFC
Nights is at .286 on the season
Roberts nods, he's ready
The pitch
Hot shot grounded to the mound
Roberts boots the ball!
Score It: E1
Tucker takes third
Blade takes second
Nights to first

So with 3 on and 1 out
FOFC sends their right fielder,
Persimmon Pflaggstettler,
up to face Roberts
Hard-hitting Jeeberoni Potpie is walking
towards the on-deck circle
Cochrane flashes the sign to Roberts
Roberts fires
Fastball down low...
Pflaggstettler hits a grounder to short
Vaughan takes it on the big hop
Flips it to Herman
Relay to first...
A lightning double play!
And that gets Left Outs out of quite a jam
as Pflaggstettler grounds
in to an inning ending
twin-killing with the bases loaded
So that's it for FOFC
They fail to score against Roberts
In the top of the 5th for FOFC
No runs, one hit, one error
and 2 men left on base
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7/19 Radio Broadcast Continued

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

Now he steps into the batter's box
Stepping out, Cochrane looks
into the dugout
Steps back in
Cochrane waits for the pitch
His bat is coiled
The pitch is on the way
Slow ground ball
Blade is charging it
He fires it to first
He's OUT
One away...
Potpie is coming over to the mound...
He wants to chat with the pitcher...
Here comes Palmer also...
Now they return to their positions

Foxx pounds the plate
Now he stares out at Fozborg
Foxx is batting .313 with
25 HR's this year
Fozborg is on the first-base
side of the rubber...
The pitch on the way, here it is...
Right down the middle... strike three
Foxx must have been looking
for something else
He just froze on that pitch
That's two away
Nights comes over from his shortstop
position to say a few words to Fozborg
Willie McCovey will be next up...

Up next for the Leftovers
Willie McCovey, the first baseman...
If he gets on, Duke Snider would bat next
Against righthanders
McCovey is hitting .269
Fozborg toes the rubber again
He gets his sign from Bullock
Way ahead in the count
Fozborg turns the 0-2 pitch loose
Sinking fastball...
McCovey goes down after it...
And slaps a hard grounder
right at Nights...
He scoops it up, over to first...
And McCovey is out by a step
1-2-3, nothing across...

Jeeberoni Potpie will step into
the box to start the inning
FOFC would like to get some
runners on board
Potpie is batting .287 with
25 homers this year
Potpie concentrates
He holds the bat down on the end
And the cripple pitch...
Potpie hits a three hopper
towards Billy Herman
Herman scoops it and fires
it to first for the out
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

Negro League I is beating
Japanese League 5 to 1
Smith comfortably ahead for Negro League I
Late 20th leads Caribbean 2 to 1
AL Post WWII is in front
of Old Timers 4 to 1
Jackson has hit his 20th homerun
for AL Post WWII
AL Pre WWII with the lead over
Dead Ball Era 5 to 2
Gehrig has hit his 27th homerun
for AL Pre WWII
NL Pre WWII leads NL Post WWII 4 to 3
Turn of Century slipping by
Negro League II 2 to 0
Joss and Wickware currently dueling
And here in Left Outs Left
Outs ahead 3 to 0

Coming up for FOFC is Deacon Palmer
Nobody on base, one out
Palmer is batting .330 with
4 HR's this year
Cochrane flashes the sign...
Roberts waves it off...
Now he's happy
Roberts' righthanded delivery...
Palmer fights one off his fists
It's lined weakly to the left of short
Vaughan is over quickly
Easy out
Two up, two down

Gerald Gazelle will face Roberts
Righty against righty
Gazelle has been poison
for Left Outs today
He is 2 for 2 on the evening
Roberts ready quickly, looks
in for the sign
Robin rocks and fires
Breaking ball...
It darts down and out
as Gazelle swings way over it
He was fooled completely
Cochrane loses it momentarily,
but now finds the handle and tags
Gerald as he was heading for the dugout
Three outs, just like that
Sparky Anderson and Roberts
exchange smiles
as the pitcher steps into the dugout
What a game he is pitching

Here's Duke Snider to lead it off
Snider is trying to get comfortable
in the box
Digging that back foot in
Set now is Snider
Here's the 2-1 pitch
Snider 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 Left Outs center fielder now
has hit 2 here tonight!
And that gives him 30 in 1900
That is Duke Snider's 30th
home run of the year.

Robinson gets set at the plate
Robinson is hitting .258 with 11 homeruns
Frank also has 11 doubles and 4 triples
And has driven in a total of 37 runs
Robinson awaits the pitch
The righthander winds and delivers
Baltimore chop
Into center for a single!

Goose Goslin steps up to the plate
Fleet-footed Robinson is at first
Goslin looks down at Tony
LaRussa to get the sign
The third base coach glances
over at Sparky Anderson
Now he relays the signal to Goslin
Fozborg steps off the rubber...
Adjusts his cap...
Now he's ready
The righthander Fozborg's delivery
Base hit to right for Goslin
Tony LaRussa is waving
Robinson to third...
The throw is cut off...
That holds Goslin at first

Next up is Arky Vaughan, the
Left Outs shortstop
On-deck is Robin Roberts...
He'll be followed by Billy Herman
Vaughan steps out of the batter's
box to get the sign
Arky is 0 for 1 today
Vaughan is set in the batter's box
He's staring intently out at Fozborg
He's waiting for the pitch
Fozborg looks the runners back
Now here's the delivery
Vaughan chases the inside fastball...
He hits a high fly ball...
Pflaggstettler backs up...
Starts forward towards the plate...
Makes the catch on the run...
Uncorks a bullet...
The throw is wide to the first base side
Robinson is safe on the sac fly
One away for Left Outs here
in the bottom of the 6th

Roberts looks to lay one down
He bunts at it . . .
A quick glance at the lead runner...
Fielded by J.Potpie
the throw to first...
Out
Roberts gets the job done.

Herman saunters to the plate...
He stretches out a little...
Taps the dirt from his spikes...
Now he steps into the batter's box
A base hit should score Goslin
Fozborg has the sign from Bullock
The home town crowd is yelling
out to Goslin
telling him to watch out
as Blade sneaks in behind him
He shortens up his lead...
Now Fozborg delivers the 3-1 offering
Grounded towards the bag
Potpie will take it himself
Score It: 3
That's all for the Leftovers...
After 6 innings here at Overshadow
Pk in Left Outs,
Left Outs leads 5 to 0

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

Now he steps into the batter's box
Bullock is 1 for 2 today
Roberts wastes no time
He has the sign from Cochrane
He brings it home
Curve, at the belt...
Bullock times his swing...
Hammers a long fly ball...
Goose Goslin retreats toward the fence
He leaps...

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

FOFC center fielder, A. J.
Tucker, will be up next
He will be followed by Sirr Fozborg
Bases empty... no one out
Left Outs leads FOFC by 4 runs
Tucker is batting .297 with
5 homers this year
Tucker awaits the pitch
Here's the 0-1 pitch
Grounded towards third
Foxx scoops it
LONG THROW...
HE'S SAFE!

Gunner gets set at the plate
Gunner is one of the most feared sluggers
Roberts tosses the resin bag aside
He steps on the rubber...
Now Robin delivers
Gunner hits a three hopper
towards Billy Herman
Herman scoops it and fires it to second...
Out
The throw to first...
Out at first, it's a double play
Roberts gets the second out of the inning
I was talking to Robin before
the game about
how he pitches to various batters
He said he goes over the batters
before the game
with Sparky Anderson and Cochrane
When he gets on the mound
he doesn't like to think too much
He says it gives him "brain cramps"!
Considering his current ERA of 6.04
he needs to do something different!

Up now for FOFC is Blade
Two away, nobody on
Blade has a .241 average against
righthanders this season
The right-hander Roberts is
set to deliver to Blade
Roberts' 3-1 pitch...
Fly ball to center
Snider is under it
He makes the grab
That's three outs, side retired

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

The catcher Cochrane will
start things off for the Leftovers
Cochrane scuffs up the
lines around the box
Cochrane waits for the delivery
The pitch to Cochrane...
Breaking ball...
It darts down and out
as Cochrane swings way over it
He was fooled completely
Bullock loses it momentarily,
but now finds the handle and tags
Mickey as he was heading for the dugout
One away in the bottom of
the 7th for Left Outs

And it brings up Jimmie Foxx
On deck is Willie McCovey
Duke Snider in the hole
Foxx is 1 for 3 today
Jimmie struck out last time around
Foxx, a righthand hitter
Waits patiently for the pitch from Hunter
The pitch is on the way
Fastball in on the fists...
Swung on...
It's pulled down the line by Foxx...
Gazelle trying to run it down...
Good play off the fence...
Foxx has to stop at second
As Gazelle fires a bullet
into Palmer at third
He has a double

McCovey moseys up to the plate
Duke Snider is heading for
the on-deck circle
We'll see how they pitch to McCovey
He's ready
Hunter looks back towards second...

The pitch
Right down the middle... strike three
McCovey must have been looking
for something else
He just froze on that pitch
And there's two away

The power hitting center fielder,
Duke Snider, is approaching the plate
Duke has blasted some shots
onto Bedford Avenue
Duke Snider will step in to face Hunter
He is 2 for 2 on the evening
with 2 home runs!
That impressive display of power has
been good for 3 RBI's
Snider is ready
Here's his delivery
Base hit to left for Snider
Tony LaRussa plays it safe and
stops him at third...
Runner holds.

Frank Robinson will face Hunter
Righty against righty
Frank comes to the plate batting .261
with 11 home runs

He is 1 for 2 so far today
Frank is eagerly awaiting Hunter's pitch
Hunter brings it to the plate
Looped to short
Nights grabs it for the out
Score It: 6
That is the third out for Left Outs here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 46472

Here's Jeff Nights
Leading off the inning for FOFC
It's a beautiful, clear night sky
One couldn't ask for a better
night for baseball
Nights is 1 for 3 today
Roberts steps off the mound toward second
Gives the resin bag a good squeeze...

Now he toes the rubber...
He's ready to go
It's coming down the pike
Sinking fastball...
Nights goes down after it...
And slaps a hard grounder
right at Vaughan...
He scoops it up, over to first...
And Nights is out by a step
Left Outs gets the first out
here late in this contest

Slowly coming up is Pflaggstettler
for FOFC
He is finally in the batter's box
Left Outs leads 5 to 1
Roberts looks down at Cochrane
for the sign
Now he's ready
Robin rocks and fires
Strike three called
A curve that broke over
Number 5 for Robin Roberts today
73 on the year
That's two down for Roberts
FOFC will need to do better than that
They are running out of time

With Left Outs leading in
the top of the 8th
Here's Potpie now up for FOFC
On deck will be Deacon Palmer
Potpie has hit 25 home runs this year
Roberts' sittin' in the catbird seat...
He has completely shut down the All Stars
He also has a 4 run lead to work with
With a 3-2 count, the pitch
It's hit high and deep
This one is deep!
YOU CAN KISS THAT BALL GOOD-BYE!
That is Jeeberoni Potpie's 26th
home run of the year.

Palmer leaves the on-deck circle...
He's going back to get a new bat...
Now he jogs to the plate
Palmer is hitting .301 against righties
All set, Palmer is ready for the pitch
Roberts brings it to the plate
Fastball... down and away...
Roberts just misses the
corner... ball four
That's 3 walks given up by Roberts today

So with 1 on and 2 outs
FOFC sends their left fielder,
Gerald Gazelle, up to face Roberts
Hard-hitting Billy Bullock is walking
towards the on-deck circle
Gazelle is trying to get
comfortable in the box
Digging that back foot in
Roberts likes the sign
Roberts fires
Gazelle rips a single to right field
It falls in front of Robinson
Frank takes it on one bounce
Palmer motors into third easily

Sparky Anderson is visiting the mound...
He decides to let Roberts pitch to Bullock
Billy Bullock will get a
crack at Roberts next
A. J. Tucker would be up next...
But only if Bullock can reach safely
Bullock is 2 for 3 today
Roberts shakes off the sign...
Now he shakes off another one...
Robin has excellent control
of many pitches
and he just throws strikes!
Roberts brings it home
Belted right back at Foxx
Jimmie makes the one-handed grab
Three down for FOFC
Now the Leftovers will be coming up
for what they hope will be their
last at bat of the evening
They lead by 3, 5-2

Here's Goslin to lead off the inning
Before he does...
lets take a look at the scoreboard

Negro League I is in front of
Japanese League 5 to 2
Late 20th besting Caribbean 6 to 1
Sutter enjoying the big Late 20th lead
AL Post WWII leads Old Timers 4 to 3
AL Pre WWII slipping by
Dead Ball Era 5 to 3
Ruffing battling Bender
NL Post WWII leads NL Pre WWII 5 to 4
Ott has hit his 30th homerun
for NL Pre WWII
Turn of Century is on top of
Negro League II 2 to 0
And in our contest Left Outs on top 5 to 2
Goslin is batting .298 with
21 HR's this year
And Owen studies the sign from Bullock...
Now he's got it
Hunter rocks and fires
High heater from Hunter...
Goslin cuts at it...
Hits a bouncer right side...
It goes by the diving Blade and Potpie
It's into right for a single
Goslin takes his turn and holds at first

Vaughan is up now for Left Outs
Look for a drag bunt
As Vaughan checks for the sign
Vaughan tells the umpire he's ready
And the delivery by Hunter
Vaughan will try the hit and run!
Fastball, up in the strike zone
Swung on...
It's a swinging bunt...
Nights charges in, barehands it
THROWS TO SECOND!...
OUT AT SECOND!
Score this one a force out
That's one away

Sparky Anderson will send
up a pinch hitter
Willie Stargell steps out of the dugout!
He will be up there against Hunter

Stargell up
The Leftovers have Vaughan on first
FOFC is set up for two
Owen gets the sign from Bullock
Hunter's righthanded delivery...
Stargell swings and lifts one toward right
Pflaggstettler drifts over slowly...
He is under it now...
And makes the easy catch...
Two away now for Left Outs
They're ahead by 3
The Leftovers have 9 hits on the evening

That'll bring up Leftovers' second
baseman Billy Herman...
Leftovers with a runner in scoring
position at second
Right-hander Hunter eyes the righty Herman
Blade comes in a couple steps
Yells something to Hunter
The delivery
Great change up...
Herman out in front...
Gets a piece of it...
It's a shallow fly towards Tucker
Tucker charges, dives for it...
He has it...
Fine catch by the center fielder
That ends the inning
Left Outs threatens but does not score
here in the bottom of the 8th
Don Drysdale will be coming
on to pitch for Left Outs
Don has appeared in 45 games this season
He has a record of 7-4
with 7 saves
His ERA stands at 7.32
Left Outs is making a defensive change
Boudreau will bat 8th and play short

FOFC will send Tucker,
Owen Hunter, and Barrett Blade to face
Don Drysdale this inning
Right-hander Drysdale eyes
the lefty Tucker
Here's the 1-2 offering
Tucker cuts on a curve that
misses in the dirt
That ball is trapped nicely by Cochrane
Tucker was badly fooled by Drysdale's
big breaking curve
STRIKE THREE!
A. J. was a little overanxious
One gone for FOFC

Gonzalez departs the on-deck circle
He makes his way slowly to the plate
He's not known for his speed anyway!
Gonzalez swinging from the left side
of the plate against the righty Drysdale
Gonzalez waits patiently
Here comes the cripple pitch
Grounded towards first
McCovey grabs it
IT'S A RACE TO THE BAG
SAFE!

Blade is the next hitter
Gonzalez is on first
Left Outs won't watch him too closely
Blade is a tough man up there at the plate
He's hard to get past in the lineup
Barrett certainly knows how to get on base
He'll make Drysdale earn his salary
He's ready for the delivery
Drysdale goes into his stretch...
Looks at Gonzalez...
He fires one to McCovey...
Gonzalez dives back in
That's his best move to first...
McCovey lobs it back
Now Drysdale comes home
Ground ball to third
Foxx comes up with it
He tosses it to second...
Gets the force
Two down
Cochrane asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Cochrane and Drysdale

That'll bring up shortstop
Jeff Nights...
Left Outs out in front by 3
We're in the top of the 9th
Nights wiggles the bat above his head
Drysdale has the sign from Cochrane
And "Big D" wings it home...
Hit towards the middle
Great pickup by Boudreau
Over to McCovey
Got him!
Score It: 6-3
And that will do it for FOFC
Left Outs wins 5 to 2
Roberts gets credit for the win
Drysdale notches the save
Fozborg takes the loss
The hitting star for Left Outs
was Duke Snider
He was 3 for 3 with 2 homeruns!
He also knocked in 3 runs
And that wraps things up
So long from Left Outs.
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7/19 Boxscore


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BOXSCORE: 1000 FOFC All Stars At 2001 Left Outs Leftovers 7/19/1900 All Stars AB R H RBI AVG Leftovers AB R H RBI AVG B.Blade 2B 4 0 0 0 .256 B.Herman 2B 5 0 0 0 .259 J.Nights SS 5 0 1 0 .285 M.Cochrane C 4 0 0 0 .268 P.Pflaggstettler RF 3 0 0 0 .297 J.Foxx 3B 4 1 2 1 .313 J.Potpie 1B 4 1 1 1 .288 W.McCovey 1B 2 1 0 0 .262 D.Palmer 3B 3 0 0 0 .328 D.Snider CF 3 2 3 3 .297 G.Gazelle LF 4 0 3 0 .291 F.Robinson RF 3 1 1 0 .260 B.Bullock C 4 1 2 1 .266 G.Goslin LF 3 0 2 0 .300 A.Tucker CF 4 0 2 0 .298 A.Vaughan SS 2 0 0 1 .310 S.Fozborg P 1 0 0 0 .000 C-L.Boudreau SS 0 0 0 0 .250 A-S.Gunner PH 1 0 0 0 .262 R.Roberts P 2 0 1 0 .162 O.Hunter P 0 0 0 0 .071 B-W.Stargell PH 1 0 0 0 .321 D-D.Gonzalez PH 1 0 1 0 .289 D.Drysdale P 0 0 0 0 .000 -- -- -- --- -- -- -- --- Totals 34 2 10 2 Totals 29 5 9 5 A-Pinch Hit For Fozborg In 7th Inning B-Pinch Hit For Roberts In 8th Inning C-Subbed Defensively (SS) For Vaughan In 9th Inning D-Pinch Hit For Hunter In 9th Inning All Stars....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 - 2 10 0 Leftovers....... 1 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 - 5 9 1 All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA S.Fozborg LOSS(5-1) 6 6 5 5 6 3 3 108 3.46 O.Hunter 2 3 0 0 0 2 0 34 5.37 Totals 8 9 5 5 6 5 3 Leftovers IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA R.Roberts WIN(7-12) 8 9 2 2 3 5 2 134 6.02 D.Drysdale SAVE(8th) 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 15 7.21 Totals 9 10 2 2 3 6 2 ATTENDANCE- 46,472 DATE- Thursday, July 19th 1900 TIME- Night WEATHER- Good T- 3:00 LEFT ON BASE- All Stars: 9 Leftovers: 8 DOUBLE PLAYS- All Stars: 2 Leftovers: 2 ERRORS- R.Roberts DOUBLES- J.Nights(27th), G.Gazelle(8th), J.Foxx(27th) HOME RUNS- J.Potpie(26th), B.Bullock(16th), J.Foxx(25th), D.Snider-2(30th) SACRIFICE HITS- S.Fozborg, R.Roberts SACRIFICE FLIES- A.Vaughan WALKS- B.Blade, P.Pflaggstettler, D.Palmer, W.McCovey-2, D.Snider, F.Robinson, G.Goslin, A.Vaughan STRIKE OUTS- P.Pflaggstettler, J.Potpie, D.Palmer, G.Gazelle, B.Bullock, A.Tucker, M.Cochrane, J.Foxx, W.McCovey, F.Robinson, G.Goslin GIDP- P.Pflaggstettler, S.Gunner, B.Herman-2 WEB GEMS- Top 1st: Duke Snider robbed Persimmon Pflaggstettler of a Homerun!
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Dynasty Update

All, I will be taking some time to address the computer settings of the other teams over the next few weeks. I'm going to take their current stats and adjust lineups, rotations, strategy, etc.

I don't expect significant changes, but thought I'd keep you updated on what is happening in the background.

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7/20 Radio Broadcast - Game 104

Are you ready for some baseball?...

All right then, let's get
the show on the road
Ferguson Jenkins with his 8 and 8 record
Will be facing A. J. Tucker

Here we go, well almost...
Here comes Cochrane out to the mound...
Looks like they are checking their signs

Now we are ready to start
And the cripple pitch...
Slow ground ball
Herman is charging it
He fires it to first
He's OUT
One up, one down here in
the top of the 1st

Jeff Nights, the shortstop,
strides to the plate
We'll see how they pitch to Nights
Nights waits patiently for the pitch
His bat is coiled
It's coming down the pike
Nights swings and lifts one toward left
Goslin drifts over slowly...
He is under it now...
And makes the easy catch...
That's out number two
Sparky Anderson moving around
Hollers something down at Jenkins
Ferguson nods "UH HUH"

Jenkins looks down at Pflaggstettler
as he steps in
Persimmon is ready to go
Jenkins steps on the rubber
And the delivery by Jenkins
Pflaggstettler hits a deep
fly ball into the alley
Goose Goslin chases it down
But the ball hits the base of the wall
Goslin hits the wall and
falls to the ground
Pflaggstettler is into third with a triple
Now they check on Goslin
He's okay
That ball hit right at the
base of the fence
399 feet from home plate

Potpie moseys up to the plate
Deacon Palmer is heading
for the on-deck circle
2 men away, Pflaggstettler on third
Jenkins looks down at Cochrane
for the sign

Now he's ready...
Here's his delivery
Grounded towards the hole
Nice play by Herman
Over to Robinson
Got him!
Score It: 4-3
Ferguson Jenkins holds FOFC scoreless
in the first inning

Arky Vaughan will lead it off
in the first for Left Outs
Vaughan is batting .310
with 9 HR's this year
Nielsen is rubbing the ball up
Now the umpire wants to take a look
No problems found...
Now Nielsen gets the sign from Hays
Now the delivery, here is is...
Arky Vaughan swings
He really stings this one
It rifles past Blade into right...
Base hit for Vaughan...
Pflaggstettler is over to cut it off...
Now he tosses it in to the infield
Vaughan is on with a sharp single

Cochrane is up now for Left Outs
Vaughan takes his lead
Hays flashes the sign...
Nielsen waves it off...
Now he's happy
Now to the belt, here it is...
Cochrane is gone on strikes
Left with the bat still in
the cocked position
With one gone
Left Outs will have Harry
Heilmann coming up
A dangerous hitter, no doubt about it

Walking up to the plate now is Heilmann
Hack Wilson waits on deck
Stepping in and then stepping out again
Heilmann looks to third for a sign
Nielsen wastes no time
He has the sign from Hays
The stretch... the 1-1 delivery
Bounced towards the hole
Tremendous diving grab by Potpie!
Potpie to Nielsen covering first
Score It: 3-1
Two down
Due up next is Hack Wilson
Having quite a year so far
He brings a lot of power to the Leftovers

Hack Wilson will get a crack
at Nielsen next
Frank Robinson would be up next...
But only if Wilson can reach safely
Wilson steps out of the box...
Looks towards Tony LaRussa for a sign
Rob is set to go... a quick
look toward Hays again
Now he steps back to get
a squeeze of the resin bag
Left Outs' clean-up hitter is waiting
Nielsen has allowed 10 taters
to righties this year
And 5 when facing lefties
The southpaw Nielsen's delivery
Base hit to left for Wilson
Tony LaRussa is waving the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Aggressive baserunning by Left Outs...
It's cut-off
The run scores
Here's the play on the trail runner...
Wilson is out going to 2nd!

Deacon Palmer, Gerald Gazelle, and
Harry Hays are due up
Palmer a righty in the batter's box
facing the righthanded Jenkins
Time is called...
Don't know what for...

Now we appear ready
Jenkins' 1-1 pitch...
A slider by Jenkins
Palmer gets good wood on it...
Heilmann back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
One up, one down

The left fielder, Gazelle, is ready to bat
Left Outs on top 1 to 0
in the top of the 2nd
Jenkins is slow to get ready

He has a 5.58 ERA this year
Now he's ready
Righthander Jenkins' delivery
Gazelle hits one on the ground
to the left side
Gerald, who moves well,
is motoring to first
Vaughan wings it quickly to Robinson...
OUT by a step
That's the second out of the inning

Up now for FOFC is Hays
Two away, nobody on
Hays is at .338 on the season
He's ready
The righthander Jenkins' delivery
Hays takes the pitch
STRIKE THREE, is the call
Hays can't believe it and says
something to the ump
Chalk up a whiff for Jenkins
And that will do it for FOFC

Robinson is walking to the plate
Now he steps into the batter's box
Robinson swinging from the right side
of the plate against the lefty Nielsen
Robinson readies himself for the pitch
Nielsen brings it to the plate
Swung on and hit sharply to second
Blade plays it on one hop
Over to Potpie...
Out of there!
Left Outs with one away
Nielsen steps off the mound as
he waits for Goose Goslin to
come to the plate

Nielsen glares in at Goslin
Goose Goslin just calmly stares right back
Infield at regular depth
Goslin has hit 21 home runs this year
Nielsen steps on the rubber...
Looks in for the sign
Blade comes in a couple steps
Yells something to Nielsen
The delivery
Fastball, a beauty...
Steee Rike THREE!
Two away now for Left Outs
They're ahead by 1
The Leftovers have 2 hits on the evening

Herman heads to the plate for Left Outs
The infield is at regular depth
Herman is at .259 on the season
Nielsen has the sign he wants
He brings it home
He rips a grounder to the mound
Nielsen grabs it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 1-3
That's all for the Leftovers
After 2 innings in Left Outs this evening,
Left Outs leads 1 to 0

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 is hitting .238 against righties
Jenkins is asking for a new ball...
The ump throws him a new one...
Jenkins looks in...
Now he's ready
With a 2 strike count
Jenkins kicks and fires
Sinking line drive
Caught by Arky Vaughan
With one down, up next is Rob Nielsen
To be followed by A. J. Tucker

Coming up for FOFC is Rob Nielsen
Nobody on base, one out
Nielsen grips the bat handle
Nielsen waits
The righthander delivers
Nielsen swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Jenkins strikes out Rob Nielsen
Here's the ump coming out
To brush the plate clean
There's two away

A. J. Tucker will step in
to face Jenkins next
If he gets on, Jeff Nights will follow
Right-hander Jenkins eyes the lefty Tucker
Here's the 0-2 offering
Good slider, inside part of the plate
Tucker gets the bat on it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Herman grabs it...
Throws to first...
OUT!
Three up, three down
A perfect inning for Ferguson Jenkins
in the top of the 3rd

Leading off for the Leftovers
is the third baseman Boudreau
He'll be followed by Ferguson Jenkins
And then Arky Vaughan
Lou is batting .250 in 48 at bats in 1900
He will be followed by Ferguson Jenkins
After getting set, Boudreau
waits on the pitch
Nielsen goes into his windup
And here's the 3-1 offering
Boudreau hits it sharply on the ground...
into the hole at third
Palmer dives...
It's through for a base hit!
He almost got his glove on it...
Boudreau reaches on a sizzling
single to left
A nice try by the third baseman,
Deacon Palmer

Ferguson Jenkins squares to bunt
And lays it down right to Jeeberoni Potpie
Potpie looks at second
But passes up a possible force play
He fires to first to retire Jenkins
But Boudreau moves up
One down for Left Outs
Arky Vaughan is still in
the on-deck circle
and Mickey Cochrane is looking
for a bat in the dugout

So that brings up the top of the order
Arky Vaughan will step in
Vaughan is looking for another hit
He has 1 hit so far today
He is hitting .312 on the year
Vaughan cocks his bat
The lefthander Nielsen delivers
A sharp breaking curve...
Vaughan was waiting for it
He hits it squarely... and well
Pflaggstettler turns to chase it down...
This one is going, going...
GONE!
Arky Vaughan can touch them all

Now here's Cochrane
Mickey is batting at .267
with 10 home runs
He is 0 for 1 so far today
Cochrane waits patiently
Now ready, here it is...
Cochrane waves half-heartedly at the curve
Strike Three!
Mickey looked fooled on that one
2 strike outs on the night
And that is 3 for Nielsen
Left Outs ahead 3 to 0 with two away
Let's check some other scores as well

Negro League I leads Japanese
League 3 to 2
Late 20th leads Caribbean 1 to 0
Old Timers leads AL Post WWII 1 to 0
AL Pre WWII and Dead Ball
Era are tied at 1
NL Post WWII is on top of
NL Pre WWII 2 to 0
Seaver battling Grimes
Negro League II and Turn of
Century have yet to score

While Hack Wilson heads for
the on deck circle
Harry Heilmann makes his way to the plate
Heilmann scuffs up the
lines around the box
He's ready
Nielsen brings it to the plate
Sinker, down at the knees...
Swung on...
Heilmann hits a Baltimore chop...
Past the infield into left for a single!
That was a difficult ball to handle

The center fielder, Hack Wilson
will be up next for Left Outs
Wilson is 1 for 1 today
Hack singled last time around
Nielsen's reaching for the resin bag
He is having a fine year for FOFC
Quite an important member of the staff
Already with 14 wins,
Rob has racked up 165 innings in 1900
Now he is ready to go
Nielsen's into the stretch...

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

SAFE!...

Potpie tosses it back to Nielsen
Now here's the pitch
It's fouled off very high
Just to the right of third base
Nights circles under it...
Waits...
WATCH OUT!
He caught it!
Jeff had to bend over backwards
to bring it in
That wraps up the inning for Left Outs
By the way, Left Outs is 5 and
5 in their last ten games

FOFC will send Nights,
Persimmon Pflaggstettler, and
Jeeberoni Potpie to face
Ferguson Jenkins this inning
Nights digs in on the right side
of the plate facing the righty Jenkins
All set, Nights is ready for the pitch
Jenkins rocks and fires
Ripped to third, but right
at Boudreau...easy out
That's one away

Persimmon Pflaggstettler will face Jenkins
Righty against righty
So far this season
Pflaggstettler is hitting .306
when facing righthanded pitching
Pflaggstettler is waiting on the pitch
Jenkins is into his windup
Here's the pitch
Curve in the dirt... and Pflaggstettler
holds up
Looked like he went around from here
But the man in blue says no
Cochrane appeals to first
Appeal fails
Pflaggstettler will take first on the walk
That's 1 walk today for Pflaggstettler

Potpie finishes his practice swings
Now he strides to the batter's box
Jenkins eyes Potpie intently
Jenkins brings it home
Fastball, a dandy...
Steee Rike THREE!
And Potpie is punched out
Two down
Cochrane asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Cochrane and Jenkins

Pflaggstettler studies Jenkins intently...
Now he's walking away from the base
Pflaggstettler takes his lead...

Jenkins is not paying enough attention
Pflaggstettler extends his
lead... the pitch
It's a slow curve...
He breaks for second!
Cochrane displays his strong arm...
Pflaggstettler sliding to the outside...
Avoids the tag...
He's safe
Good throw by Cochrane

Deacon Palmer steps into the box
Palmer can't seem to get
settled at the plate
Deacon is ready for the delivery
Jenkins brings it to the plate
Palmer watches strike three glide by
For that matter, he watched them all
That won't get it done
That ends the inning
FOFC threatens but does not score
here in the top of the 4th

The first baseman Robinson will
start things off for the Leftovers
Frank is batting .259 with 11
home runs on the season
He is 0 for 1 today
Robinson is set in the batter's box
He's staring intently out at Nielsen
He's waiting for the pitch
The southpaw Nielsen delivers
the 2 strike pitch
Robinson pulls one into left field
Hooking away from Gazelle
Gerald is there
He's got it for the out
And there's one away

Goslin settles in at the plate
Goslin is at .299 on the season
Nielsen gets the sign from Hays
He is 3rd in the league in strike outs
He has 158 on the season
Nielsen kicks and fires
Inside
That's ball four

The Leftovers' second baseman is up next
Left Outs has 1 on board with 1 out
Herman is 0 for 1 today
Nielsen shakes off two signs
Now he's ready
The 3-2 delivery by the lefthander
Herman drives the ball to
center for extra bases
Tony LaRussa is waving the runner home...
The throw is cut off...
And that allows the run to score
Double for Herman

Facing Nielsen now is Boudreau
Ferguson Jenkins heads to
the on deck circle
Arky Vaughan waits in the hole
Rob is ready
Nielsen is behind in the count
Here's the 2-0 offering
Swung on and chopped toward second
Blade races in
He bare hands it!
Underhands one to first...
One hopper!
GOT HIM!
What a nice play by Potpie
A backhand pickup by the FOFC firstsacker!
Herman over to third easily
Darryl Evans is arguing that he
took his foot off the bag
but the play is going to stand

Next up for the Leftovers
is Ferguson Jenkins
Left-hander Rob Nielsen prepares
for the pitch
to the right-handed swinging Jenkins
And here is the 1-2 delivery
Swung on...
And Jenkins got a little piece of it
But Hays held on to the tip, strike three
After 4 innings tonight,
the Leftovers lead by 4

Gazelle 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
Gerald is hitting at .289 on the year
He has 44 hits in 152 at bats
Today, he is 0 for 1
Gazelle grounded out his last time up
Gazelle is waiting
His bat is wiggling slightly
Ferguson rocks and fires
Sinking fastball...
Gazelle swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Boudreau...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
One gone for FOFC

And the batter is Harry Hays
Barrett Blade is on-deck
Looking for his first hit today
Hays is 0 for 1
Ferguson is getting his sign from Cochrane
Hopefully it isn't for the gopher ball
He has quite a tendency
to deliver those up
In 166 innings
Ferguson has allowed righties
to crush 17 dingers!
The pitch is on the way
Fastball...
Hays jumps all over it...
It's juiced to deep center
There goes Wilson after it
Racing hard...
He dives...
And he's got it!!!
Beautiful play by Hack Wilson!
Two up, two down

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

The infield shifts slightly to the left
for the right hand hitting Blade
Blade steps out of the batter's
box to get the sign
Barrett is 0 for 1 today
Blade is set for the pitch
The righthander winds and delivers
Fastball, swung on...
Driven to left-center, into the gap...
Wilson 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 Boudreau
But Blade slides in safely at third
Just barely...
A beautiful peg by Wilson

Up for FOFC, Kris Terp
Left Outs out in front by 4
We're in the top of the 5th
Terp is trying to get comfortable
in the box
Digging that back foot in
2 down, Jenkins ahead in the count...
One ball, two strikes
Jenkins' righthanded delivery...
High chopper to second
Herman picks it up on the short hop
Over to first...
In time
Herman charged it nicely
and made it look easy
Score It: 4-3
That ends the inning
After 4 and a half innings,
Left Outs leads by 4
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7/20 Radio Broadcast Continued

Arky Vaughan will lead off
for the Leftovers
The top of the line-up here for Left Outs
Arky steps out of the batter's
box to get the sign
Arky is 2 for 2 today with 1 home run
Arky steadies his bat
Waits patiently for Rodney's pitch
Now James delivers
Breaking ball...
It darts down and out
as Vaughan swings way over it
He was fooled completely
Hays loses it momentarily,
but now finds the handle and tags
Arky as he was heading for the dugout
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

Negro League I with the lead over
Japanese League 6 to 3
Stearnes has hit his 15th homerun
for Negro League I
Caribbean is edging Late 20th 4 to 3
Pacheco has hit his 11th
homerun for Caribbean
Old Timers and AL Post WWII are tied at 1
AL Pre WWII and Dead Ball
Era are tied at 1
NL Post WWII with the lead
over NL Pre WWII 3 to 0
Turn of Century is edging
Negro League II 2 to 1
And in our matchup Left Outs leads 4 to 0

"Black Mike" is up next
Rodney is on the first-base
side of the rubber...
And now the pitch...
A wave and a miss!
Strike Three!

"Slug" is coming to the plate
Rodney wastes no time
He has the sign from Hays
Rodney goes into his windup
Here it comes
Slider, outside...
Heilmann reaches for it...
Gets some wood on it
It's rolling towards Palmer...
He scoops it up smoothly
Firing to Potpie in one motion...
Close play...
SAFE!... by a whisker
Potpie is arguing the call
But to no avail
That's a single for Heilmann

Stepping in the batter's box, Wilson
Heilmann at first, two away
Wilson is at .288 on the season
Hays flashes the sign to Rodney
And the cripple pitch...
Ground ball to second
Blade comes up with it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 4-3
That's it for Left Outs
Here at Overshadow Pk, After 5 innings,
Left Outs has 4 runs, 7 hits and no errors
While FOFC has no runs,
2 hits and no errors
Left Outs has left 2 on base
FOFC has stranded 3

The All Stars will have their
lead-off batter up
appropriately enough to lead things
off in the top of the 6th
Tucker is getting a few last
practice cuts in in
Jeff Nights and Persimmon Pflaggstettler
will follow
And then FOFC's clean-up
man, Jeeberoni Potpie
would be due up next
Left Outs on top 4 to 0
A. J. comes to the plate batting .297
with 5 home runs

He is 0 for 2 so far today
A. J. is eagerly awaiting Jenkins' pitch
The pay-off pitch...
Strike three called
A curve that broke over
Number 5 for Ferguson Jenkins today
110 on the year
Left Outs gets the first out of the inning

Nights gets set at the plate
The outfield shades towards
left for Nights
Nights tells the umpire he's ready
The pitch to Nights...
It's popped up into foul territory
Mickey Cochrane is under it
He grabs it for the out
Score It: 2
Two up, two down for FOFC
Jenkins is moving along
with the efficiency
of a well oiled machine

Pflaggstettler saunters to the plate...
He stretches out a little...
Taps the dirt from his spikes...
Now he steps into the batter's box
Ferguson looks for the sign he wants...
Shakes off the first one
But he likes the next
Here's the righthander's delivery
Pflaggstettler takes the pitch...
That one is low for a ball... WAIT
The umpire says that one caught the knees
Pflaggstettler is out on strikes
After 5 and a half innings tonight,
the Leftovers lead by 4

Frank Robinson, Goose Goslin,
and Billy Herman are the first three
Leftovers batters due up
Left Outs leads, 4-0
Robinson looks for a sign from third
Tony LaRussa delivers it to Frank
Frank is 0 for 2 today
flied out his last at bat
Robinson gets ready for Rodney's pitch
His bat is cocked
The righthander Rodney delivers
Robinson lifts a long fly ball...
Heading into center...
Hit pretty good, carrying very well...
Tucker heading back...
IT'S OUTTA HERE, A HOME RUN!

Making his way up is Goslin
Rodney studies his sign
The pitch is on the way
Off-speed pitch...
Goslin swings at it...
its a high fly to deep center
Tucker bolting after it...
This one might carry all the way
Tucker jumps for it...
It bounds off the fence
Goslin cruises into second
as the throw comes in
It's a two-bagger for Goose Goslin

Herman pounds the plate
Now he stares out at Rodney
Herman has a .236 average against
righthanders this season
Herman waiting on the delivery
Rodney fires
Hard ground ball to the mound
Rodney grabs it
Over to Potpie
Got him!
Score It: 1-3
One out
Due up next is Lou Boudreau

So that brings up Lou Boudreau
the Left Outs third baseman
Left Outs on top 5 to 0
James gets the sign from Hays
Rodney looks back towards second...

The pitch
A curve is wide...
But swung on and missed!
Strike three!
That is 3 on the evening for Rodney

That'll bring up Leftovers' pitcher
Ferguson Jenkins...
Leftovers with a runner in scoring
position at second
Time is called...
Jenkins has asked the ump
to clean the plate
We'll be ready in a second...
OK, now we are ready again
The right-hander Rodney is set
to deliver to Jenkins
James looks over his shoulder at Goslin
Fakes a throw...
Now he is ready
The pitch
Jenkins rips a sharp grounder
to Jeff Nights
It rolls up his arm
Nights can't find the handle
Jenkins is safe on the error by Nights

Now batting for Left Outs will be
their shortstop, Arky Vaughan
The Leftovers are out in front by 5
We are in the bottom of the 6th
Vaughan adjusts his glove...
Steps into the box...
Arky is 2 for 3 this evening
Vaughan gets set for the pitch
The pitch on the way, here it is...
Curve in the dirt... and Vaughan 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...
Vaughan will take first
Bases are tenanted

Mickey Cochrane is up next
Left Outs' catcher finds 3 on with 2 outs
Rodney is happy with the sign
Rodney checks all the baserunners
Now he comes home with it
Hot shot grounded to first
Potpie to Rodney covering first
Score It: 3-1
That's it for Left Outs
Left Outs has 5 runs, 9 hits and no errors
While FOFC has no runs,
2 hits and one error
Left Outs has now left 5 runners stranded

Here's the first baseman Potpie
To lead off the inning
He'll be followed by Deacon Palmer
And then Gerald Gazelle
The outfield is shading
Potpie towards left
He's 0 for 2 today
Jenkins adjusts his cap...
Now he's set
With a 1-2 count... here's the pitch
Potpie swings and hits a shot
to deep left-center
Wilson and Goslin are converging
on the ball
Looks like Wilson has the best shot at it
He dives for it...
WOW! He's got it!
Fantastic play by Wilson
While we wait for Deacon Palmer
to get a new bat
Let's check the scoreboard

Negro League I is in front of
Japanese League 8 to 5
Charleston has hit his 19th homerun
for Negro League I
Caribbean is beating Late 20th 7 to 3
Old Timers and AL Post WWII are tied at 1
Dead Ball Era with the lead
over AL Pre WWII 4 to 1
NL Post WWII is comfortably ahead
of NL Pre WWII 6 to 0
Seaver enjoying the big NL Post WWII lead
Turn of Century clipping
Negro League II 7 to 3
Rusie comfortably ahead
for Turn of Century
And in our contest Left Outs on top 5 to 0
OK, let's see if FOFC can get
back in this ballgame
Currently down by 5

One away, nobody on base
Palmer stands ready at the plate
Palmer is 0 for 2 today
Ferguson looks for the sign he wants...
Shakes off the first one
But he likes the next
Here comes the cripple pitch
A slider by Jenkins
Palmer gets good wood on it...
Goslin back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
And there's two away

Walking up to the plate now is Gazelle
Harry Hays waits on deck
Gerald is hitting at .288 on the year
He has 44 hits in 153 at bats
Today, he is 0 for 2
Gazelle grounded out his last time up
Waiting for the pitch is Gazelle
The pitch to Gazelle...
Fastball... down and away...
NO! It's called a strike
And Gazelle is outta there
That's three up, three down
Another scoreless inning
for Ferguson Jenkins

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

Heilmann saunters to the plate
He does some stretching...
Knocks the dirt from his spikes...
Now he steps into the batter's box
Heilmann is taking his practice swings
Harry is 2 for 3 this evening
He singled last time at bat
Heilmann readies himself for the pitch
Rodney brings it home
Heilmann rips one to right
He hit it right on the nose...
Pflaggstettler is off to the races...
He is coming fast...
He dives...

OUT!
Nice play by Persimmon Pflaggstettler
One down for Left Outs
Hack Wilson is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to the
plate for Left Outs

Wilson steps in...
He pounds the bat on the plate
Now he is ready
Wilson looks down toward the third
base coach, Tony LaRussa
Hack seems to be relaxed and
ready for the pitch
He steadies his bat now
James rocks and fires
Curve in the dirt... and Wilson holds up
Looked like he went around from here
But the plate umpire says no
Hays asks the first base ump's opinion
He says Wilson went around
Strike three, swinging
Two up, two down for the Leftovers
We're in the bottom of the 7th

"Robbie" is sauntering up to the plate
Robinson has hit 12 home runs this year
And James studies the sign from Hays...
Now he's got it
Rodney brings it to the plate
Sinker, at the knees...
Swung on...
Robinson hits it into the
hole on the right side
Blade ranging to his left...
Scoops it up...
Throws on the run...
And Robinson is out by a step at first
That is the third out for Left Outs here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 33569

FOFC will send Hays,
Barrett Blade, and James Rodney to face
Ferguson Jenkins this inning
Before getting ready
Hays checks out the defensive alignment
Hays is set for the pitch
Jenkins is behind in the count
Here's the 2-0 offering
Fly ball to center
Wilson is under it
He makes the grab
One up, one down for FOFC

Blade departs the on-deck circle
He makes his way quickly to the plate
Jenkins has the sign from Cochrane
Now Ferguson delivers
Blade hits a screamer at Lou Boudreau
Boudreau takes it with the backhand...
The throw is short...
Robinson scoops it on one hop

Blade is out!
Nice play by Robinson
Two down

Gunner gets set at the plate
Gunner is hitting .257 against righties
Ferguson is ready
With a 2 strike count... here's the pitch
A wave and a whiff!
Strike Three!
That's three outs, side retired

Goslin leading off
Hunter studies his sign
Hunter kicks and fires
Swung on and missed by Goslin,
he's down on strikes
That is 2 on the day for Goslin
FOFC gets the first out
here late in this contest

Billy Herman will face Hunter
Righty against righty
Herman steps out of the box...
Looks towards Tony LaRussa for a sign
After getting set, Herman
waits on the pitch
The righthander Hunter delivers
Another hook for strike three!
Herman just stood there looking
Left Outs leads 5 to 0 with
two away this inning

Boudreau is up near the batter's box
He is going through his obligatory ritual
Finally, he steps in
Boudreau goes through his
routine of settling in
Boudreau waits patiently for the pitch
His bat is coiled
Into the windup... here's the pitch
Boudreau hits a deep fly
ball into the alley
Gerald Gazelle chases it down
But the ball hits the base of the wall
Gazelle hits the wall and
falls to the ground
Boudreau is into third with a triple
Now they check on Gazelle
He's okay
That ball hit right at the
base of the fence
399 feet from home plate

Walking up to the plate now is Jenkins
Left Outs leading in the game
2 men away, Boudreau on third
Hunter 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 Hunter
Now he is ready...
It's coming down the pike
He rips a grounder to second
Taken by Blade
Over to Potpie
Got him!
Score It: 4-3
That retires the side...
Jenkins fails to come through
in the clutch
For Left Outs, No runs, one hit, no
errors and one man left on base

The center fielder, A. J. Tucker,
will lead off the inning
Ferguson Jenkins has been tough
FOFC has reached him for 2 hits
in the game so far
The outfield's shaded towards right
With Tucker at the plate
A. J. is ready for the delivery
Here's the 2 strike offering
A vicious cut by Tucker
And what a breeze he creates!
Strike three!
A. J. gave it his Sunday
punch... but missed
One gone for FOFC in the top of the 9th

Now batting will be Jeff Nights
The shortstop is walking to the plate
Bases empty... one out
Left Outs leads FOFC by 5 runs
Nights looking for his first base knock
here this evening...
He is 0 for 3
Jenkins is ready quickly
The righthander Jenkins' delivery
Sinking fastball...
Nights swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Vaughan...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
That's two down for Jenkins
FOFC will need to do better than that
They are running out of time

Persimmon Pflaggstettler will
get a crack at Jenkins next
Jeeberoni Potpie would be up next...
But only if Pflaggstettler
can reach safely
Persimmon comes to the plate batting .299
with 15 home runs

He is 1 for 2 so far today
Pflaggstettler is poised and
ready for the pitch
Jenkins brings it to the plate
Base hit to center for Pflaggstettler
Hack Wilson is trying to get to it
This might be stretched into a double!
No... he decides to hold up

Jeeberoni Potpie, will be up next
Deacon Palmer hopes to
get a chance as well
One on... two away
Left Outs leads FOFC by 5 runs
Pflaggstettler will be running if it's hit
Jenkins looks down at Cochrane
for the sign

Now he's ready...
Here's the righthander's delivery
It busts inside on Potpie
And he can't get out of the way
He was hit by the pitch!
Potpie gets up and brushes himself off
He is staring out at Jenkins
Potpie takes first base on the HBP

Now batting will be Palmer
The third baseman for FOFC
Palmer has hit 4 home runs this year
Jenkins adjusts his cap...
Now he's set
A quick check of the runners...
And the pitch
Fastball, just inside to Palmer
So Palmer walks
A rare walk today by Jenkins
Only 2 issued in the game
That is certainly part of the reason
he now enjoys a 5 run lead

Gerald Gazelle is up for FOFC
The tying run is on deck
In the person of Harry Hays
Sparky Anderson is walking
down to the water cooler
Gerald is hitless on the evening, 0 for 3
He's due...
He cocks the bat as he
peers out at Jenkins
The runners step away from their bases
Jenkins is in a tough spot
Jenkins brings it to the plate
Swung on...and it's in the
air to the left side
Backing just a bit is Goslin
And he pulls it in
And that will do it for FOFC
Left Outs wins 5 to 0
Jenkins gets credit for the win
He threw a shut-out at them
Nielsen takes the loss
The hitting star for Left Outs
was Arky Vaughan
He was 2 for 3 with a homerun
And that wraps things up
So long from Left Outs.
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Old 05-20-2013, 11:14 PM   #670
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7/20 Boxscore

Code:
BOXSCORE: 1000 FOFC All Stars At 2001 Left Outs Leftovers 7/20/1900 All Stars AB R H RBI AVG Leftovers AB R H RBI AVG A.Tucker CF 4 0 0 0 .295 A.Vaughan SS 3 2 2 2 .313 J.Nights SS 4 0 0 0 .282 M.Cochrane C 4 0 0 0 .265 P.Pflaggstettler RF 3 0 2 0 .301 H.Heilmann RF 4 0 2 0 .332 J.Potpie 1B 3 0 0 0 .286 H.Wilson CF 4 0 1 1 .285 D.Palmer 3B 3 0 0 0 .325 F.Robinson 1B 4 1 1 1 .260 G.Gazelle LF 4 0 0 0 .284 G.Goslin LF 3 1 1 0 .300 H.Hays C 3 0 0 0 .333 B.Herman 2B 4 0 1 1 .259 B.Blade 2B 3 0 1 0 .257 L.Boudreau 3B 4 1 2 0 .269 R.Nielsen P 1 0 0 0 .111 F.Jenkins P 3 0 0 0 .200 A-K.Terp PH 1 0 0 0 .153 J.Rodney P 0 0 0 0 ---- B-S.Gunner PH 1 0 0 0 .261 O.Hunter P 0 0 0 0 .071 -- -- -- --- -- -- -- --- Totals 30 0 3 0 Totals 33 5 10 5 A-Pinch Hit For Nielsen In 5th Inning B-Pinch Hit For Rodney In 8th Inning All Stars....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 3 1 Leftovers....... 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 - 5 10 0 All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA R.Nielsen LOSS(14-5) 4 6 4 4 1 4 1 73 3.08 J.Rodney 3 3 1 1 1 4 1 55 2.68 O.Hunter 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 13 5.32 Totals 8 10 5 5 2 10 2 Leftovers IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA F.Jenkins WIN(9-8) 9 3 0 0 2 9 0 123 5.33 Totals 9 3 0 0 2 9 0 ATTENDANCE- 33,569 DATE- Friday, July 20th 1900 TIME- Night WEATHER- Average T- 3:06 LEFT ON BASE- All Stars: 6 Leftovers: 7 DOUBLE PLAYS- All Stars: 0 Leftovers: 0 ERRORS- J.Nights DOUBLES- G.Goslin(17th), B.Herman(6th) TRIPLES- P.Pflaggstettler(7th), B.Blade(4th), L.Boudreau(1st) HOME RUNS- A.Vaughan(10th), F.Robinson(12th) STOLEN BASES- P.Pflaggstettler(6th) SACRIFICE HITS- F.Jenkins WALKS- P.Pflaggstettler, D.Palmer, A.Vaughan, G.Goslin HIT BY PITCH- J.Potpie STRIKE OUTS- A.Tucker-2, P.Pflaggstettler, J.Potpie, D.Palmer, G.Gazelle, H.Hays, R.Nielsen, S.Gunner, A.Vaughan, M.Cochrane-3, H.Wilson, G.Goslin-2, B.Herman, L.Boudreau, F.Jenkins WEB GEMS- Bot 1st: Jeeberoni Potpie robbed Harry Heilmann of a base hit.
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LEAGUE STANDINGS FOR 1900 Dynasty Baseball
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American WON LOST PCT GB MAGIC# 2001 AL Pre WWII A1H 62 43 .590 ---- 48 2001 Negro League I NLO 61 45 .575 1.5 2001 Old Timers OTH 56 50 .528 6.5 2001 Late 20th L20 55 51 .519 7.5 2001 Dead Ball Era DBH 52 55 .486 11.0 2001 AL Post WWII A2H 41 64 .390 21.0 2002 Japanese League JLP 26 80 .245 36.5 National WON LOST PCT GB MAGIC# 1000 FOFC FAS 68 37 .648 ---- 48 2001 NL Post WWII N2H 67 39 .632 1.5 2001 NL Pre WWII N1H 57 49 .538 11.5 2001 Turn of Century TCH 55 50 .524 13.0 2001 Caribbean CAP 50 56 .472 18.5 2001 Left Outs LOH 49 56 .467 19.0 2001 Negro League II NLT 41 65 .387 27.5

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Manager Update

I sit at my desk and replay the events of the past few days. Howser is sitting across from me drinking a beer and sitting quietly. He knows that I’m beating myself up right now and he available for moral support if needed. He gets up, grabs a beer out of the cooler and hands it to me saying, “Alright…speak already.”

This breaks my introspection, I look up, offer a weak smile and take the beer. I open the beer, take a long pull and then say, “Wow, how quickly things change in this game. Just a few days ago we were cruising along, had a nice lead and we were hitting, pitching, and fielding great. Now we’ve lost 3 in a row and if I’m honest with myself, we could easily be on a 4 game losing streak. It took a ridiculous ninth inning for us to be Gomez earlier this week.”

“Still a long way to go Benton…” Dick replies in a matter of fact tone.

“Oh, I know. Don’t misunderstand, I’m not depressed. I still like our chances, I’m just looking back over things to determine if there was something I could have done differently that might have helped. You know, standard manager stuff.”

“Have you come up with anything?”

“A million things…” I pause…take another big tug on the beer…put it down, smirk and add, “and nothing at all…”

“So do you have a plan moving forward?” Dick asks with his own smirk.

“Yep, I was thinking we should try to win more,” at which point a rosin bag hits me in the shoulder. I roll my eyes because I know Sal’s at it again. I look past Dick to see Sal in the doorway.

“I like that plan, I go tell the guys.” I flip the rosin bag back. “But seriously I’m wanted you to know I’m going to have a … um … ‘talk’ with the guys. They have to know in no uncertain terms that we can’t be giving up 5 runs in 6 innings and think we’ve done our job. I’ve got to get the ship righted with the staff. Don’t worry, I’ll get this thing straightened out on my end,” and he starts to walk away.

I yell, “Sal, hang on…”

He pokes his head back in, “Yeah, skip?”

“Don’t beat them up too much. Our offense hasn’t be great lately either. In this losing streak the best we’ve done is 4 runs, and getting blanked tonight was painful.”

“Oh, I know…but batters aren’t my responsibility.”

I shake my head as he heads down the hall, knowing the staff is going to get an earful, but also knowing somehow, and for the life of me I can’t figure out how, he’ll chew on the hard for a bit, but ultimately, they’ll walk out of the meeting pumped up and loving Sal. I turn back to Dick and ask, “Where were we?”

“The plan moving forward?”

“Oh yeah. I’m not completely sure. For pitching we are kind of stuck without Bo in the pen. We desperately need the lefty late in games, and so right now we’ll have to stick with Mighty in the pen and Foz in the rotation. When Bo comes back we can reassess the rotation.”

“And the batting order?” Dick continues.

“I can’t decide. I’m leaning towards going back to our old lineup with Blade, Nights, Tucker, and Potpie at the top, but Blade is really struggling right now. His batting average has dropped almost 10 points this week, and Plaggsettler has played so well recently, I’ve liked having more power in the 3 hole. I’m just not sure.”

Dick grabs a couple more beers, hands me one and says, “Honestly Benton, I don’t think it is really going to matter. We are just in a cold streak right now. It isn’t our first of the season and with about 50 games left it won’t be our last. Things are going to turn back around soon and we’ll just open up a 4 game lead again. Don’t stress this, just keep managing the way you’ve been. Play your hunches, make your decisions and move on. You’ve done a phenomenal job up until now. Hell, Kronside was just telling me the other day how impressed he’s been with the team. That he came into the season feeling like we weren’t going to have a shot, but everyday he looks at the standings and he’s amazed we have the best record in the league and most of the other teams can’t even remotely keep pace. I think the players respect you and the job you are doing, and Lord knows they play hard for you. Keep your chin up and stay positive and things will work out.”

“Are you my assistant coach, or the team psychologist,” I ask?

“Well, I think I should get paid for both roles…I hear that psychologist job pulls in a nice salary just to be on retainer, and I’ll bet no one has ever even called him yet this season.”

“I know I haven’t, that’s what I have you for…”
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7/21 Radio Broadcast - Game 105


The pre-game ceremonies are over
and we're ready to get this one going

Barrett Blade strides to the plate
and here I think we're ready...

Carlton's finishing his warm-up tosses
It will be lefty versus righty
Blade is hitting .304 against southpaws
Here's Carlton's windup
And the lefthander comes home with it
Bouncer in the hole
and past Willie McCovey...
Base hit into right field!
That one had eyes on it
Good piece of hitting by Blade

Jeff Nights coming up
No score...
The ballgame is just under way
Nights wiggles the bat above his head
Nights readies himself for the pitch
The lefthander delivers
Nights hits a screamer at Arky Vaughan
Vaughan picks it up and fires to second
Out there...
And the throw to first
A tailor made double play
One more chance for FOFC
in the top of the 1st

With two out
Batting for FOFC now is Tucker
Tucker is batting .295 with
5 HR's this year
Carlton is slow to get ready

He has a 5.15 ERA this year
Now he's ready
Now to the belt, here it is...
It's hit to the left of third
It's a base knock!
The ball glanced off of Vaughan's glove
Vaughan retrieved it, but not
in time to get Tucker
A. J. is safe on first with a single
No throw on the play

The first baseman, Jeeberoni
Potpie, is up next
Potpie swinging from the right side
of the plate against the lefty Carlton
OK, it's 3 and 0
Potpie is looking for his pitch
Does he have the green light?
Carlton goes into his stretch...
Looks over at Tucker
Fires to McCovey...
Tucker is back easily...

We're ready again
Now Carlton comes home
Hard slider...
Potpie swings from his heels...
He connects!...
There it goes...
Goslin is up against the fence
But he has no chance for this shot
IT'S DOWNTOWN!!!
What a blast by Jeeberoni

Gerald Gazelle is next
Gazelle has hit 20 home runs this year
Carlton looking in
He kicks and fires
LINE DRIVE
Foxx grabs it for the out
Score It: 5
After one half inning
FOFC on top 2 to 0

FOFC has taken the field
in the bottom of the first inning...

Here's how they look, defensively
In the outfield
Ton will play left
Tucker in center
Gazelle in right...
Around the diamond
Palmer will play the hot corner
Nights and Blade
Make up the doubleplay combination...
Over at first Potpie
And a battery of Brian Babson
and Hays behind the plate
First batter for the Leftovers
Billy Herman steps in
Stepping out, Herman looks into the dugout
Steps back in
Herman is poised and ready for the pitch
Babson rocks and fires
Drilled on the ground to first
Potpie to Babson covering first
Score It: 3-1

The Leftovers will send
Mickey Cochrane up to the plate
Cochrane goes through his
routine of settling in
Cochrane gets ready for Babson's pitch
His bat is cocked
Now Brian delivers
Cochrane starts... but lays
off the pitch upstairs
Ball four, Babson walks him

"Slug" is coming to the plate
FOFC is set up for two
Babson wastes no time
He has the sign from Hays
Babson's into the stretch...

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

SAFE!...

Potpie tosses it back to Babson
Now here's the pitch
Low, ball four...
Heilmann takes first

Here comes the "Silver Fox" to the plate
Duke is hitting at .297 on the year
He has 93 hits in 313 at bats
This includes 14 doubles, 2 triples
30 home runs and 84 RBI's
Snider waits
It's coming down the pike
Grounded towards the middle
Nice play by Blade
Over to second for one
They might turn it . . .
Double Play!
Score It: 4-6-3
That's all for the Leftovers...
As we head to the top of
the second inning...
FOFC on top 2 to 0

The All Stars get their turn to bat
here in the top of the 2nd
Deacon Palmer, K. A. Ton, and Harry Hays
the first three FOFC batters
They'll be facing the southpaw
Steve Carlton
Palmer is batting .325 with
4 round trippers in 1900
Palmer is waiting
His bat is wiggling slightly
The southpaw's 0-1 delivery
There's a drive to left by Palmer
Goslin picks the ball up on one bounce
Fires it to second
Palmer turns back and settles for a single
Terrific play by Goslin

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

The infield shifts slightly to the left
for the right hand hitting Ton
Hitching up his pants...

Ton gazes out to the mound
Carlton looks down at Cochrane
for the sign
Shakes him off once... twice...

Now he has the pitch he wants
The southpaw Carlton delivers
the 0-2 pitch
Swung on and missed by Ton,
he's down on strikes
One down for FOFC
Harry Hays is still in the on-deck circle
and Brian Babson is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Walking up to the plate now is Hays
FOFC leading in the game
Hays can't seem to get
settled at the plate
Harry is set for the pitch
The lefthander Carlton comes home with it
Base hit to right for Hays
Dick Howser puts up the stop sign...
Palmer will stay at second

Babson looks to lay one down
He bunts it . . .
Fielded by S.Carlton
he's throwing for the lead runner...
OUT!
Force Play To Pitcher
Score It: 1-5
The runner on second, Palmer, is out
Hays takes second
FOFC on top 2 to 0 with
two away this inning

The All Stars will send
Barrett Blade up to the plate
If he gets on, Jeff Nights would bat next
Looking to Dick Howser for a sign
The left-hander Carlton is now ready
The southpaw delivers the 1-2 pitch
Fastball, down the middle...
Blade swings and skies one to left
Goslin is at the fence...
Looks up...
Doesn't have a prayer...
It's a homer for Blade!
Number 3 for him this season
He also has 20 RBI's

Nights digs in at the plate
Ready now for Carlton to come set
Against lefthanders
Nights is hitting .297 this season
Carlton looks down at Cochrane
for the sign...
Shakes him off once... twice
Now he has the pitch he wants
Carlton brings it to the plate
Curve ball...
Nights swings and misses by a mile
The bottom dropped out of that one!
A wicked pitch!
That's three outs, side retired

Jimmie Foxx will step into the
box to start the inning
Left Outs would like to get
some runners on board
Babson asks for a new ball...
Rubs it down to get the shine off it...
Now he steps on the rubber again
The pitch to Foxx...
Fastball
Ball four

Facing Babson now is Goslin
Willie McCovey heads to the on deck circle
Arky Vaughan waits in the hole
Goslin is hitting .300 with 21 homeruns
Goose also has 17 doubles and 7 triples
And has driven in a total of 63 runs
Goslin is waiting
His bat is wiggling slightly
Foxx is dancing off first
Babson checks Foxx on first...
The 2-1 delivery
Here's a high fastball, at the letters...
Goslin raps a hard grounder toward short
Nights takes two steps to his left
Scoops it up...
Flips over to second for one...
The throw to first...
Not in time!
Score it a force play
Speed on the bases helped Left Outs there
One down for Left Outs
Willie McCovey is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to the
plate for Left Outs

The Leftovers' first baseman is up next
Left Outs has 1 on board with 1 out
The lefty hitting McCovey, will
face the righty Babson
22 of his 22 home runs
are against righties
All set, McCovey is ready for the pitch
Babson looks at the runner
The pitch
It's in on the hands
Inside... ball four
McCovey trots to first as
Goslin takes second

Vaughan leaves the on-deck circle
He saunters to the plate on
this muggy summer evening
A sacrifice situation
Vaughan looks to third for the sign
I'll bet it will be a bunt
Tony LaRussa goes through his routine
Babson steps on the rubber...
Looks in for the sign
Babson looks over at McCovey
Now back at Goslin
He's coming home with it
Back door breaking ball...
And it's in there...
Vaughan looks at strike three
And there's two away

Sparky Anderson will send
up a pinch hitter
Yes, Willie Stargell steps
out of the dugout
He will be up there against Babson
Stargell is batting .321 on the year
.326 as a pinch hitter
And that includes 3 home runs

Stargell is up now for Left Outs
Stargell is at .321 on the season
Babson is making his 23rd
start of the season
He brings it home
A sharp breaking curve...
Stargell was waiting for it
He hits it squarely... and well
Tucker turns to chase it down...
This one is going, going...
GONE!
Willie Stargell can touch them all

Now here's Herman
Herman looks down toward the third
base coach, Tony LaRussa
Herman is ready
Babson's behind on the count
Here's the 2-0 offering
Big bender, low and inside...
Swung on...
Line single to Tucker in center...
Picking it up in a hurry is Tucker...
Herman takes a wide turn...
But stays at first base
as the throw comes in

Mickey Cochrane, will be up next
Harry Heilmann hopes to
get a chance as well
One on... two away
FOFC leads Left Outs by 2 runs
Mickey Cochrane is hitting .269 this year
against righthanded pitchers
Mickey is eagerly awaiting Babson's pitch
The pitch is on the way
Bouncer to first
Babson takes the flip from Potpie
Score It: 3-1
That's all for Left Outs in
the bottom of the 2nd
They pick up 3 runs
After 2 innings,
FOFC still leads, 5-3
Herb Pennock will be coming
on to pitch for Left Outs
Herb has appeared in 54 games this season
He has a record of 8-9
in 112 innings
His ERA stands at 6.45

The FOFC center fielder, Tucker,
will lead off
He'll be followed by Jeeberoni Potpie
And then Gerald Gazelle
Tucker, a switch-hitter, batting
right-handed against the
lefty Herb Pennock
Pennock is asking for a new ball...
The ump throws him a new one...
Pennock looks in...
Now he's ready
The southpaw Pennock's delivery
Ground ball through the middle
Herman ranges behind second
Nice pick up...
Twists and fires it
OUT!
One out
Due up next is Jeeberoni Potpie

Now batting will be Jeeberoni Potpie
The first baseman is walking to the plate
Bases empty... one out
FOFC up by 2
Potpie is batting .288 with
27 HR's this year
Pennock eyes Potpie intently
With a 0-2 count... here's the pitch
Swung on and hit sharply to third
Foxx plays it on one hop
Over to McCovey...
Out of there!
FOFC on top 5 to 3 with two away
Let's check some other scores as well

Japanese League leads Negro
League I 1 to 0
Caribbean is in front of Late 20th 3 to 0
Coimbre has hit his 13th
homerun for Caribbean
Old Timers and AL Post WWII
are all knotted at 1
Dead Ball Era is giving it
to AL Pre WWII 6 to 1
Johnson enjoying the big
Dead Ball Era lead
NL Post WWII slipping by
NL Pre WWII 3 to 1
Negro League II and Turn of
Century are scoreless

Here's Gerald Gazelle
Gerald is hitting at .282 on the year
He has 44 hits in 156 at bats
Today, he is 0 for 1
Gazelle lined out his last time up
Gazelle awaits the delivery
The pitch on the way, here it is...
Gazelle hits a fly ball to left
Goose Goslin camps under it
This should wrap up the inning...
That's it
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
By the way, FOFC is 6 and 4
in their last ten games

The power boys are due up for Left Outs
Heilmann will lead it off
He will be followed by Duke
Snider and Jimmie Foxx
Heilmann has 30 doubles this year
Heilmann gets set for the pitch
Now ready, here it is...
Heilmann swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Babson strikes out Harry Heilmann
One gone for Left Outs

That'll bring up center fielder,
Duke Snider...
FOFC leads by 2
We're in the bottom of the 3rd
The outfield's shaded towards right
With Snider at the plate
Snider awaits the pitch
Here's the righthander's delivery
Changeup down low...
Snider makes contact and
hits one out to center
A. J. Tucker is drifting over...
Now he's under it...
Easy out for Babson
Two gone for Left Outs

Babson glares in at Foxx
Jimmie Foxx just calmly stares right back
Infield at regular depth
Home plate is covered with dirt
The ump cleans it off
The umpire says let's go
Babson's into his windup... the pitch
Foxx hits a screamer at Deacon Palmer
Palmer picks it up and fires to first
The throw pulls Potpie off the bag
Potpie swipes with the glove

Foxx is out!
Nice play by Potpie
That ends the inning
After 3 innings, FOFC leads by 2

Deacon Palmer to lead it off for FOFC
Deacon is batting .327 with
4 home runs on the season
He is 1 for 1 today
Deacon stands with bat ready
The lefthander Pennock delivers
It's a high fly into left
Goslin ranges to his right
Reaches up, and takes it for the easy out
And there's one away

K. A. Ton, the left fielder,
strides to the plate
Herb is ready
Now the delivery, here is is...
The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
Ton held up, and draws a walk
Pennock isn't happy at all with that call

Hays now at the plate
Brian Babson waits on deck
Hays is 1 for 1 today
Harry singled last time up
Cochrane flashes the sign...
Pennock waves it off...
Now he's happy
The southpaw delivers
Hays swings and misses
Strike three
Hays didn't have a good cut at that pitch
That's the second out of the inning

Up steps Brian Babson,
the fine hitting pitcher for FOFC
He is no gimmee by any means for Pennock
And Herb studies the sign from Cochrane...
Now he's got it
Pennock brings it home
Grounded into the hole
Nice play by Vaughan
He throws
and gets the force at second
Score It: 6-4
The runner on first, Ton, is out
That's it for FOFC
Here at Overshadow Pk, After
3 and a half innings,
FOFC has 5 runs, 6 hits and no errors
While Left Outs has 3 runs,
2 hits and no errors
FOFC has left 1 on base
Left Outs has stranded 2

Goslin will come up to lead off the
bottom of the 4th for Left Outs
So far this season
Goslin is hitting .293
when facing righthanded pitching
Goslin waits patiently
Brian rocks and fires
Breaking ball...
It darts down and out
as Goslin swings way over it
He was fooled completely
Hays loses it momentarily,
but now finds the handle and tags
Goose as he was heading for the dugout

"Stretch" will be up next
Willie, a lefty batter, will
square off against Babson
Of his 22 home runs, 22
are against righties
Babson wastes no time
He has the sign from Hays
Blade comes in a couple steps
Yells something to Babson
The delivery
Swung on...
High fly ball into left
Not hit well
Ton is under it...
He's got it
Easy chance for K. A.
That's two away

Arky Vaughan will make his
way to home plate
He's the shortstop for Left Outs
Babson has the sign from Hays
With a 0-2 count
Babson kicks and fires
Fastball, STRIKE THREE!
Vaughan was frozen on that
fastball by Babson
High and on the outside corner
He was looking for an off-speed pitch
That's all for the Leftovers...
After 4 innings here at Overshadow
Pk in Left Outs,
FOFC leads 5 to 3
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7/21 Radio Broadcast Continued

Blade is walking to the plate
Now he steps into the batter's box
With 3 RBI's in the game
Blade has 20 on the season
Blade waits for the pitch
His bat is coiled
Pennock kicks and fires
There's a hard bouncer to Foxx's left
He's over...
Makes the pick-up...
Over to McCovey...
Blade is out!
A sparkling glove hand pick-up
by Jimmie Foxx!
One up, one down for FOFC

Nights heads to the plate for FOFC
The infield is at regular depth
Nights is a tough man up
there at the plate
He's hard to get past in the lineup
Jeff certainly knows how to get on base
He'll make Pennock earn his salary
Nights awaits the delivery
The southpaw winds and delivers
Fastball, lined to center...
Base hit for Nights...
Snider over...Grabs it on the big hop...
Fires it back in...
Holding Nights at first

Tucker coming to bat
Walking slowly from the on deck circle
Nights on first, with one away
Left Outs is set up for two
Herb peers in for the sign...

Shakes off the first one...
Likes the second one
And the delivery by Pennock
The Whiff!
Pennock punches Tucker out!
Two down
Cochrane asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Cochrane and Pennock

So with 1 on and 2 outs
FOFC sends their first baseman,
Jeeberoni Potpie, up to face Pennock
Hard-hitting Gerald Gazelle is walking
towards the on-deck circle
Jeeberoni steps out of the batter's
box to get the sign
Jeeberoni is 1 for 2 today with 1 home run
He's ready
Now Herb delivers
There's a fly ball into straight-away left
Goslin one hands it...
Potpie is retired... and so is FOFC
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
So After 4 and a half innings
FOFC has 5 runs, 7 hits and no errors
While Left Outs has 3 runs,
2 hits and no errors
FOFC has left 2 stranded
Left Outs has failed to bring home 2

Herb Pennock, Billy Herman, and
Mickey Cochrane are due up
Babson has the sign from Hays
The righthander Babson's delivery
A jug-handled curve
Pennock goes out and gets it
It's a liner to center
Tucker will have to hurry...
Here he comes...
No sir... he has to play
it on the short hop
Single for Herb Pennock

The tying run comes to the plate,
in the person of Billy Herman
Leftovers with 1 runner on base
The All Stars lead, 5-3
Herman is at .261 on the season
Babson is happy with the sign
The stretch... the delivery
Swung on and missed...
Herman is down on strikes
One away here in the bottom of the 5th
FOFC leads 5 to 3
While we have time, let's
check the scoreboard

Japanese League is edging
Negro League I 1 to 0
Kaneda battling Williams
Caribbean slipping by Late 20th 3 to 1
AL Post WWII leads Old Timers 2 to 1
Ryan battling Galvin
Dead Ball Era besting AL Pre WWII 6 to 1
NL Post WWII toppling NL Pre WWII 8 to 1
Turn of Century leads Negro
League II 2 to 1

Cochrane up
The Leftovers have Pennock on first
FOFC is set up for two
Babson ready quickly, looks
in for the sign
Here comes the cripple pitch
That's ball four
Cochrane will trot down to first
Pennock is now down on second

Harry Heilmann is up next
Left Outs' right fielder
finds 2 on with 1 out
Babson asks for a new ball...
Gives it a good rubbing down...

Now he steps on the rubber
The home town crowd is yelling
out to Pennock
telling him to watch out
as Blade sneaks in behind him
He shortens up his lead...
Now Babson delivers the 1-0 offering
Curve, up high...
Heilmann rips it to left...
Babson hung that breaking ball
However, Harry got under it just a bit
Ton started back on it
Now he's coming in...
He's under it and makes the easy catch
"Can of Corn"
One more chance for Left Outs this inning

Duke Snider is up next
The Leftovers' center fielder
finds 2 on with 2 outs
Snider is trying to get comfortable
in the box
Digging that back foot in
Snider waits on Babson
Babson brings it to the plate
It's right down the pike!
Strike three looking!
Babson crossed Snider up that time
That retires the side...
Duke Snider fails to come
Through in the clutch
That's something you won't see very often

Gerald Gazelle, Deacon Palmer,
and K. A. Ton are due up for the All Stars
FOFC leads, 5-3
Gazelle taps home plate
Looks into the dugout
Now he's ready
Gazelle is set for the pitch
Herb winds
Kicks... and delivers
Change-up, Gazelle is looking for it...
He smacks a deep fly to left-center...
Goslin is at the warning track...
HE STUMBLES!!!...
The ball rolls to the fence...
Gazelle coasts into second...
Gazelle will get a double
from the offical scorer

FOFC will send their third baseman
Deacon Palmer up to the plate

The on-deck batter K. A. Ton will be next
Followed by Harry Hays
Palmer is 1 for 2 today
Herb looks for the sign he wants...
Shakes off the first one
But he likes the next
The lefty Pennock delivers
It's a curve up high...
Palmer rips this one toward left-center
Snider appears to have the
best shot at it...
But it is by him and to the fence...
Palmer rounds first...
A nice bounce right back to Snider
Palmer cruises into second
way ahead of the throw
where he is in with a stand-up double!
Of course, Gazelle scores easily
and FOFC goes up by 3

Herb Pennock gets the hook!
Sparky Anderson is walking to the mound
They've signaled for the righthander
Early Wynn will be coming on in relief
He'll be the 3rd hurler used by
the Leftovers this evening
Herb Pennock hands the ball over to
Sparky Anderson and walks off
Early Wynn is 3-7
with an 4.74 ERA in 59 appearances

That'll bring up All Stars'
left fielder K. A. Ton...
FOFC with a man in scoring
position at second
Ton looks into the dugout
Now he steps back in...
0 for 1 on the day for K. A.
Wynn adjusts his cap...
Now he's set
Wynn brings it to the plate
Fastball, low and inside...
Ton goes down after it...
He lines one deep to center...
Snider is back at the fence...
Waits...

Jumps high...
CAN'T GET IT!... It's a HOME RUN!
K. A. comes through for FOFC
That's number 10 for Ton

The catcher, Hays, is ready to bat
FOFC leads 8 to 3 in the top of the 6th
Hays is looking for another hit
He has 1 hit so far today
He is hitting .335 on the year
Hays cocks his bat
Wynn's 3-1 pitch...
Inside slider, on the fists...
Swung on...
It's a high bounding ball...
Through the infield into left by Hays
That's 2 hits for Hays this game

Babson squares around
He lays a beauty down the first base line
Wynn and McCovey collide
going for the ball
McCovey recovers, picks it up
and fires to first
OUT!!
Credit Brian Babson with a sacrifice
That's one away

The second baseman, Barrett Blade
will be up next for FOFC
One out, man on second
Wynn adjusts his belt...
Looks in for the sign from Cochrane
Early looks over his shoulder at Hays
Fakes a throw...
Now he is ready
The pitch
Curve, down low...
Swung on and missed
Strike three right by Blade
Now that one had a nice wrinkle to it!

Walking up to the plate now is Nights
A. J. Tucker waits on deck
A base hit should score Hays
Wynn steps off the rubber...
Adjusts his cap...
Now he's ready
"Gus" fires it home...
Curve in the dirt... and Nights holds up
Looked like he went around from here
But the plate umpire says no
Nights will take first on the walk
Number 1 today for Nights

A. J. Tucker steps up to the plate
Tucker is one of the best hitters around
Wynn shakes off his sign
Now he's set
Here it comes
Liner drilled to second
Herman reaches
He snares it for the out!
Score It: 4
And that will do it for FOFC

Jimmie Foxx is up to lead off the inning
The crowd is chanting for Left
Outs to get things going
Right hand hitting Foxx is 0 for 1 today
He has banged out 25 home runs this year
A very tough out for Babson
Babson steps on the rubber
And the cripple pitch...
Swung on, liner towards second...
Blade leaps...
He can't come up with it!
No chance for either Blade or Gazelle
That one had base hit written all over it

Nobody out, Foxx at first
Now up is Goslin
Goslin 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
Blade and Nights are ready
with hands on knees
at second and short
Brian gets the sign from Hays
Babson's righthanded delivery...
A low change-up by Babson...
Goslin chases it...
Manages a slow bouncer to Nights...
He takes it, tosses it to Blade...
Getting the force on Foxx
The relay back to first...
Not in time...
Goslin beats the throw by a step
With one down, up next is Willie McCovey
To be followed by Arky Vaughan

McCovey up
The Leftovers have Goslin on first
McCovey is 0 for 1 today
Right-hander Babson prepares for the pitch
to the left-handed swinging McCovey
He brings it home
Hard slider...
And McCovey takes it right down the middle
Strike three called
With two gone, FOFC leads 8 to
3 in the bottom of the 6th

Vaughan leaves the on-deck circle
He saunters to the plate on
this muggy summer evening
Vaughan is a tough man up
there at the plate
He's hard to get past in the lineup
Arky certainly knows how to get on base
He'll make Babson earn his salary
Babson has a 4-hitter going
through 5 2/3 innings
Babson checks Goslin on first
Now the 1-1 pitch
Belted right back at Blade
He snares it just before
it hits the ground
That wraps up the inning for Left Outs
So After 6 innings
FOFC has 8 runs, 11 hits and no errors
While Left Outs has 3 runs,
4 hits and no errors
Left Outs has left 3 stranded
FOFC has failed to bring home 4

Potpie is walking to the plate
Now he steps into the batter's box
Potpie scuffs up the lines around the box
Potpie is set in the batter's box
He's staring intently out at Wynn
He's waiting for the pitch
Early rocks and fires
Fastball, a beauty...
Steee Rike THREE!
So one up and one gone

Gerald Gazelle, the right fielder,
strides to the plate
Gerald comes to the plate batting .285
with 20 home runs

He is 1 for 3 so far today
Gazelle waits
It's coming down the pike
Fastball...
Gazelle jumps all over it...
It's juiced to deep left
There goes Goslin after it
Racing hard...
He dives...
And he's got it!!!
Beautiful play by Goose Goslin!
Two men gone, nobody on
FOFC leads by 5

Deacon Palmer will face Wynn
Righty against righty
Palmer wiggles the bat above his head
Palmer gets set for the pitch
The righthander Wynn delivers
Slider, inside...
Swung on...
Palmer rocks this one...
He got all of it...
It's going... Going...
GONE!
Man, he really crunched it!
Wynn looks dejected on the mound

Next up for FOFC is K. A. Ton
Ton is hitting .259 against righthanders
Ton waits for the delivery
Righthander Wynn's delivery
Hard slider, paints the inside corner
Ton gets a piece of it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
McCovey grabs it...
Races to first...
Beats Ton for the out
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
By the way, FOFC is 6 and 4
in their last ten games

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

Sparky Anderson will send
up a pinch hitter
Yes, Frank Robinson steps
out of the dugout
He will be up there against Babson
Robinson is batting .260 on the year
with 12 home runs

Robinson steps to the plate
It's the bottom of the 7th
here at Overshadow Pk
FOFC on top 9 to 3
Robinson is batting .260
with 12 HR's this year
Babson is saying a few words to Blade...
So far in 1900,
Brian has a 7 and 9 record
with 3 complete games
OK, now he looks in for the sign
The pitch is on the way
Slow ground ball
Blade is charging it
He fires it to first
He's OUT
While we wait for Billy Herman
to get a new bat
Let's check the scoreboard

Japanese League slipping by
Negro League I 2 to 0
Late 20th and Caribbean
are all knotted at 3
Piazza has hit his 17th
homerun for Late 20th
AL Post WWII is in front
of Old Timers 4 to 1
Dead Ball Era besting AL Pre WWII 6 to 1
NL Post WWII toppling NL Pre WWII 8 to 1
Turn of Century leads Negro
League II 2 to 1
OK, let's see if Left Outs can
get back in this ballgame
Currently down by 6

Herman finishes his practice swings
Now he strides to the batter's box
Herman looks for a sign from third
Tony LaRussa delivers it to Billy
Billy is 1 for 3 today
struck out his last at bat
Time is called...
Don't know what for...

Now we appear ready
And here is the 1-2 delivery
Ripped to third, but right
at Palmer...easy out
That's the second out of the inning

Mickey Cochrane will get
a crack at Babson next
Harry Heilmann would be up next...
But only if Cochrane can reach safely
Mickey is hitting at .264 on the year
He has 89 hits in 337 at bats
This includes 12 doubles, 2 triples
10 home runs and 44 RBI's
After getting set, Cochrane
waits on the pitch
Babson winds and delivers
Breaking ball...
It darts down and out
as Cochrane swings way over it
He was fooled completely
Hays loses it momentarily,
but now finds the handle and tags
Mickey as he was heading for the dugout
That is the third out for Left Outs here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 48956
Bob Lemon will be coming on
to pitch for Left Outs
Bob has appeared in 32 games this season
He has a record of 2-6
in 49 innings
His ERA stands at 8.88

FOFC will send Hays,
Brian Babson, and Barrett Blade to face
Bob Lemon this inning
Hays has hit 10 home runs this year
The righty shakes off the sign...
Now he brushes off another one...
Lemon's money pitch is a sinking fastball
but he is slightly wild
Lemon brings it to the plate
Hays pounds a grounder toward
Vaughan at short
Arky moves in front of it...
Whoops... a bad bounce
But Vaughan stayed with it
Over to first and Hays is retired
Nice play by the Left Outs short stop
That's one away

Treacy gets set at the plate
Treacy is hitting .291 against righties
Lemon is ready quickly
Lemon fires
Fastball, just inside...
Looked very close...
Lemon's obviously peeved at that call
But Sean tends to get those calls
He has a great eye and doesn't mind
taking the free ride to first

Blade comes to the plate
One out, Treacy at first
Blade is 2 for 4 today, with 1 home run
Lemon gets set...
His foot meets the pitching slab
He's got his sign
The righthander delivers
Base hit to left for Blade
Treacy is being held at
second by Dick Howser
Treacy will stay at second

Nights is up now for FOFC
Nights saunters to the plate
The righthander is 1 for 3 on the day
He'll be going against the
righty hurler, Lemon
Nights is hitting .275 versus
righties this year
Of his 11 homeruns,
7 came while facing righties
Nights, a righthand hitter
Waits patiently for the pitch from Lemon
Lemon rocks and fires
He hits a tough grounder to short
Taken by Vaughan
Over to second for one
To first
Double Play!
Score It: 6-4-3
That does it for FOFC in
the top of the 8th

The big guys are due up for Left Outs
Heilmann will lead it off
He will be followed by Duke
Snider and Jimmie Foxx
Heilmann has hit 17 home runs this year
Jace gets the sign from Hays
Now Jace delivers
Fastball, up at the letters...
Heilmann swings...
Skies on to deep right
Gazelle racing back...
Back...
At the wall...
HE'S GOT IT!... NOW HE DROPS IT!
The ump is signaling no out
Heilmann motors easily into second
As Gazelle throws the ball in
That'll be a two base error on him
That should have been an easy catch
Score It: E9
Heilmann to second

The "Duke of Flatbush" will step in
Hays flashes the sign...
Kronside waves it off...
Now he's happy
Nights trying to slip in behind Heilmann
Now he slips away
Here's the 1-2 offering
Snider tries to hold up,
but can't...
Strike three!
Kronside took something off
of that back door breaking ball
He had Snider way out in front
With one down

Potpie yells something out to Kronside
Jace nods his head

That'll bring up Leftovers' third
baseman Jimmie Foxx...
Leftovers with a runner in scoring
position at second
Kronside shakes off two signs
Now he's ready
Here's the righthander's delivery
Driven down the line
Stan Gunner giving chase
It one-hops the fence
Foxx running hard out of the box
Gunner corrals the ball
Foxx digging for 2nd
He's slides in, Safe!
Heilmann scores from second!

While Willie McCovey heads
for the on deck circle
Goose Goslin makes his way to the plate
Goose is hitless on the evening, 0 for 3
He's due...
Goose is eagerly awaiting Kronside's pitch
Foxx seems to be looking down at Hays
Maybe hopes to pick up a sign
Here's the 3-1 offering
In the dirt
That's ball four

McCovey saunters to the plate
Does some stretching...
Kicks the imaginary dirt from his spikes
Now he steps into the batter's box
Willie is 0 for 2 this summer evening
He struck out in his last plate appearance
Set now is McCovey
Jace checks the runners
Steps off the rubber...

Again he's into the stretch...
The pitch
McCovey dribbles one toward Barrett Blade
He scoops it and fires to first...
Close play
OUT, says the umpire
The first base coach is having a tizzy fit
That's out number two
All Stars' pitching coach, Sal Maglie,
is out to talk with Kronside
Looks like he wants to go
over something with him

Making his way up is Vaughan
Vaughan is batting .310 with
10 round trippers in 1900
Arky waits...
He steps out as Kronside takes too long
Now he's back in the box
Runners on second and third
Kronside takes the full windup
The arm comes around...
And the 2 strike pitch
Swung on and missed...
Vaughan is down on strikes
That does it for Left Outs here
in the bottom of the 8th
But they pick up 1 run
So After 8 innings, FOFC ahead 9 to 4

Here's Tucker to lead off the inning
Before he does...
lets take a look at the scoreboard
These scores are final...
Japanese League nipped Negro
League I 3 to 2
Oh has hit his 36th homerun
for Japanese League
He must be eating his Wheaties
Late 20th squeezed by Caribbean 5 to 3
AL Post WWII gets an easy win
over Old Timers 8 to 2
Dead Ball Era spanked AL Pre WWII 6 to 1
NL Post WWII gets an easy win
over NL Pre WWII 8 to 2
Negro League II nipped Turn
of Century 3 to 2
Tucker is 1 for 4 today
A. J. lined out last time around
Full count on the batter, 3-2
Here's the righthander's
windup and delivery
It's a rocket over first
McCovey leaps
He's got it!
Look at that smile on his face
FOFC with one away
Lemon steps off the mound as
he waits for Jeeberoni Potpie to
come to the plate

Walking up to the plate now is Potpie
Gerald Gazelle waits on deck
Potpie is looking for another hit
He has 1 hit so far today
He is hitting .285 on the year
He's ready
Now Bob delivers
Ground ball through the middle
Herman ranges behind second
Nice pick up...
Twists and fires it
OUT!
That's out number two
Sparky Anderson moving around
Hollers something down at Lemon
Bob nods "UH HUH"

Two away, nobody on
Gazelle comes to the plate for FOFC
Gazelle grips the bat handle
The count is nothing and 2
Gazelle has to protect the plate
And the delivery by Lemon
Swung on and hit sharply to third
Foxx plays it on one hop
Over to McCovey...
Out of there!
And that retires the side

Now batting for the Leftovers...
Hack Wilson...
He'll pinch hit for Bob Lemon
Billy Herman is on-deck

Wilson saunters to the plate
He does some stretching...
Knocks the dirt from his spikes...
Now he steps into the batter's box
Wilson a righty in the batter's box
facing the righthanded Knowles
Hack steadies his bat
Waits patiently for Knowles' pitch
With a 1-2 count... here's the pitch
It's a routine fly into left
Gunner ranges over and reaches up
He grabs it for the out
One away in the bottom of
the 9th for Left Outs

Nobody on, one away for Left Outs
Up now is Herman
Billy is batting .259 with
3 home runs on the season
He is 1 for 4 today
Hays flashes the sign...
Knowles shakes it off, he wants another...

Now he's happy
Knowles leans back and fires
Checked swing
Slow bouncer toward third
Palmer scrambles in
Picks it up
Flicks it quickly to Potpie
SAFE!
Who shot Billy out of a cannon?!

Cochrane is up next
Left Outs has a runner
at first and one out
Cochrane has a .267 average against
righthanders this season
Knowles looks down at Hays for the sign...
Shakes him off once... twice
Now he has the pitch he wants
Knowles kicks and fires
There's a high pop fly to the outfield
Gerald Gazelle moves to his left
He makes the catch
Wait, he bobbles it!
Gazelle grabs it with his
bare hand for the out

Harry Heilmann is entering
the batter's box
Sparky Anderson has his big
bopper, Duke Snider,
waiting in the on-deck circle
Heilmann has hit 17 home runs this year
Knowles tosses the resin bag aside
He steps on the rubber...
And the cripple pitch...
Knowles' fastball is ripped toward first
Potpie can't get to it!
It is into the outfield...
Herman was off and running with
the crack of the bat
He is on his way to third...
They'll have a chance to get him...
Here's the throw...
SAFE!
A nice shot by Heilmann
and a nice piece of baserunning as well
So there are runners on the
corners for Duke Snider

Duke Snider, the Left Outs center fielder,
steps into the batter's box
FOFC on top 9 to 4
He has a chance here to drive
home at least one
Duke is batting .293 with 30
home runs on the season
He is 0 for 4 today
Snider tells the umpire he's ready
Knowles' righthanded delivery...
Knowles bores one right down the pike
Strike three swinging!
Superb fastball that time
And that will do it for Left Outs
FOFC wins 9 to 4
Babson gets credit for the win
Carlton takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Barrett Blade
He was 3 for 5 with a homerun
He also knocked in 3 runs
And that wraps things up
So long from Left Outs.
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Old 05-21-2013, 10:31 PM   #675
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7/21 Boxscore

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BOXSCORE: 1000 FOFC All Stars At 2001 Left Outs Leftovers 7/21/1900 All Stars AB R H RBI AVG Leftovers AB R H RBI AVG B.Blade 2B 5 1 3 3 .263 B.Herman 2B 5 0 2 0 .262 J.Nights SS 4 0 1 0 .281 M.Cochrane C 3 0 0 0 .263 A.Tucker CF 5 1 1 0 .294 H.Heilmann RF 4 1 1 0 .331 J.Potpie 1B 5 1 1 2 .284 D.Snider CF 5 0 0 0 .292 G.Gazelle RF 5 1 1 0 .281 J.Foxx 3B 3 0 2 1 .316 D.Palmer 3B 4 2 3 2 .331 G.Goslin LF 3 1 0 0 .298 K.Ton LF 3 1 1 2 .272 W.McCovey 1B 3 1 0 0 .259 B-S.Gunner LF 0 0 0 0 .261 A.Vaughan SS 4 0 0 0 .309 H.Hays C 4 1 2 0 .336 S.Carlton P 0 0 0 0 .255 B.Babson P 2 1 0 0 .093 A-W.Stargell PH 1 1 1 3 .329 D-S.Treacy PH 0 0 0 0 .268 H.Pennock P 1 0 1 0 .200 J.Kronside P 0 0 0 0 .000 E.Wynn P 0 0 0 0 .125 S.Knowles P 0 0 0 0 ---- C-F.Robinson PH 1 0 0 0 .259 B.Lemon P 0 0 0 0 .400 E-H.Wilson PH 1 0 0 0 .283 -- -- -- --- -- -- -- --- Totals 37 9 13 9 Totals 34 4 7 4 A-Pinch Hit For Carlton In 2nd Inning B-Subbed Defensively (LF) For Ton In 7th Inning C-Pinch Hit For Wynn In 7th Inning D-Pinch Hit For Babson In 8th Inning E-Pinch Hit For Lemon In 9th Inning All Stars....... 2 3 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 - 9 13 1 Leftovers....... 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 - 4 7 0 All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA B.Babson WIN(8-9) 7 4 3 3 5 8 1 120 3.64 J.Kronside 1 1 1 0 1 2 0 23 2.24 S.Knowles 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 21 1.66 Totals 9 7 4 3 6 11 1 Leftovers IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA S.Carlton LOSS(6-6) 2 6 5 5 0 2 2 37 5.40 H.Pennock 3 3 2 2 1 2 0 44 6.44 E.Wynn 2 3 2 2 1 2 2 31 4.81 B.Lemon 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 31 8.53 Totals 9 13 9 9 3 6 4 ATTENDANCE- 48,956 DATE- Saturday, July 21st 1900 TIME- Night WEATHER- Good T- 2:58 LEFT ON BASE- All Stars: 5 Leftovers: 9 DOUBLE PLAYS- All Stars: 1 Leftovers: 2 ERRORS- G.Gazelle DOUBLES- G.Gazelle(9th), D.Palmer(15th), J.Foxx(28th) HOME RUNS- B.Blade(3rd), J.Potpie(27th), D.Palmer(5th), K.Ton(10th), W.Stargell(7th) SACRIFICE HITS- B.Babson WALKS- J.Nights, K.Ton, S.Treacy, M.Cochrane-2, H.Heilmann, J.Foxx, G.Goslin, W.McCovey STRIKE OUTS- B.Blade, J.Nights, A.Tucker, J.Potpie, K.Ton, H.Hays, B.Herman, M.Cochrane, H.Heilmann, D.Snider-3, G.Goslin, W.McCovey, A.Vaughan-3 GIDP- J.Nights-2, D.Snider
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I admit that I haven't been in the Dynasty forum for quite a while, but Travis told me this was going on again. Very good stuff, though I really hope that 3 for 5 night spells a turn around for me at the plate...

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I admit that I haven't been in the Dynasty forum for quite a while, but Travis told me this was going on again. Very good stuff, though I really hope that 3 for 5 night spells a turn around for me at the plate...


Glad you are back...I hope the 3 for 5 is a good sign too...we'll need you to play well down the stretch...
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Old 05-22-2013, 09:11 PM   #678
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7/22 Radio Broadcast - Game 106

What a great day for a baseball game
If you can't be here today
I hope you are outdoors listening
One couldn't ask for a better sunny day

The players are taking the field
After a few warm-up pitches by Sutton
We should be ready, in today's contest
It will be Left Outs against FOFC

OK, it looks like the game
is about to begin
The Leftovers' hurler winds and delivers
Sinker, at the knees...
Swung on...
Blade hits it into the hole
on the right side
Herman ranging to his left...
Scoops it up...
Throws on the run...
And Blade is out by a step at first
Sutton retires the first batter to
face him in the top of the 1st

Nights is up now for FOFC
Nights goes through his routine
of settling in
Sutton looks down at Cochrane for the sign
Now he's ready
Sutton fires
Nights tries to hold up
Cochrane points down at
the first base umpire
The ump says he went around
STRIKE THREE!
Two down
Sutton retires two in a row

Settling in at the plate is Tucker
Sutton is asking for a new ball...
The ump throws him a new one...
Sutton looks in...
Now he's ready
Sutton brings it to the plate
Hard slider, paints the inside corner
Tucker gets a piece of it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Robinson grabs it...
Races to first...
Beats Tucker for the out
After one-half inning
It's FOFC nothing, the Leftovers coming up

The second baseman Herman will
start things off for the Leftovers
John is ready
Williams rocks and fires
Line shot
and it catches the mound!
Nice bounce right to third
Palmer takes his time
and throws Herman out
A sure hit turned into an easy out!
Score It: 5-3
Left Outs with one away
Williams steps off the mound as
he waits for Mickey Cochrane to
come to the plate

Left Outs catcher, Mickey
Cochrane, is up next
Cochrane has a .250 average
against lefthanders
He is .263 overall
Williams gets the sign, it's one he likes
With a 2 strike count
Williams kicks and fires
Off speed pitch on the way...
And Cochrane watches it go
by for the third strike
Two up, two down for the Leftovers

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

The infield shifts slightly to the left
for the right hand hitting Heilmann
Heilmann is batting .331 with
17 homers this year
Time is called...
Don't know what for...

Now we appear ready
Blade comes in a couple steps
Yells something to Williams
The delivery
Heilmann pulls one to the left side
It's going to scoot on through the infield
Gazelle will retrieve it
without difficulty
He tosses it back in to second
as Heilmann retreats to first
after a wide turn

Two out, Heilmann at first
Coming up is Jimmie Foxx
Bullock flashes the sign...
Williams waves it off...
Now he's happy
The southpaw Williams' delivery
Foxx swings and misses
Strike three
Foxx didn't have a good cut at that pitch
That wraps up the inning for Left Outs
By the way, Left Outs is 6 and
4 in their last ten games

Potpie 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
Sutton studies his sign
Now to the belt, here it is...
Swung on and drilled into center
Wilson going back...
The ball is hit over his head
It hits off the 7 foot high fence
And there's Potpie around first base
coming into second and stands
up for a double
That's 17 doubles for Potpie on the year

And it brings up Persimmon Pflaggstettler
On deck is Deacon Palmer
Gerald Gazelle in the hole
Pflaggstettler is at .301 on the season
Pflaggstettler awaits the delivery
Sutton brings it to the plate
Big motion...
Pflaggstettler is way out in front
STRIKE THREE!
Sutton pulled the string on him
That's one away

And the batter is Deacon Palmer
Gerald Gazelle is on-deck
Deacon Palmer is hitting .300 this year
against righthanded pitchers
Palmer waiting on the delivery
It's coming down the pike
It's a fly ball to center
Wilson is on his horse
Running with the crack of the bat
And he tracks it down nicely!
Potpie holds second
Sutton gets the second out of the inning
I was talking to Don before the game about
how he pitches to various batters
He said he goes over the batters
before the game
with Sparky Anderson and Cochrane
When he gets on the mound
he doesn't like to think too much
He says it gives him "brain cramps"!
Considering his current ERA of 7.47
he needs to do something different!

Next up for FOFC is Gerald Gazelle
Gazelle is trying to get
comfortable in the box
Digging that back foot in
Gazelle is set in the batter's box
He's staring intently out at Sutton
He's waiting for the pitch
Sutton brings it to the plate
Great change up...
Gazelle out in front...
Gets a piece of it...
It's a shallow fly towards Wilson
Wilson charges, dives for it...
He has it...
Fine catch by the center fielder
That does it in the top of the 2nd
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Wilson saunters to the plate
He does some stretching...
Knocks the dirt from his spikes...
Now he steps into the batter's box
Wilson grips the bat handle
Wilson waits for the pitch
Williams brings it to the plate
Hot line drive to short
Nights leaps
He grabs it for the out
Score It: 6
One down for Left Outs
Frank Robinson is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to the
plate for Left Outs

Nobody on base, one away
Robinson steps into the batter's box
Frank is batting .259 in
228 at bats in 1900
He will be followed by Goose Goslin
He's ready
Williams kicks, delivers
A hot shot on the ground to Blade
He's got it cleanly on one hop...
Over to first and Robinson is out
That's the second out of the inning

Goslin finishes his practice swings
Now he strides to the batter's box
We'll see how they pitch to Goslin
Goslin is poised and ready for the pitch
Williams brings it home
Slow ground ball
Blade is charging it
He fires it to first
He's OUT
That wraps up the inning for Left Outs
Time to check out the rest of the scores

Japanese League is edging
Negro League I 1 to 0
Old Timers with the lead over
AL Post WWII 5 to 2
Williams has hit his 21st homerun
for AL Post WWII
AL Pre WWII is pounding
Dead Ball Era 7 to 0
Gehrig has hit his 28th homerun
for AL Pre WWII
NL Pre WWII is edging NL Post WWII 1 to 0
Turn of Century is on top of
Negro League II 3 to 1
Young and Brewer currently dueling

Here's the catcher Bullock
To lead off the inning
He'll be followed by John Williams
And then Barrett Blade
Bullock is batting .266 with
16 round trippers in 1900
All set, Bullock is ready for the pitch
Here's the 3-2 pitch
The pitch is just inside
and Bullock holds up
Cochrane points down at
the first base umpire
He went around
That is strike three!

Now here's Williams
The outfield shades towards
left for Williams
Williams readies himself for the pitch
Sutton goes into his windup
Here it comes
There's a fly ball to Harry Heilmann
Heilmann circles under it...
He makes the play
Two down
Cochrane asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Cochrane and Sutton

Now at the plate will be Blade
second baseman for FOFC today
Blade steps out...
Takes a few more practice swings...
Now he's ready
Barrett waits...
He steps out as Sutton takes too long
Now he's back in the box
Here's the righthander's delivery
Blade cuts on a curve that
misses in the dirt
That ball is trapped nicely by Cochrane
Blade was badly fooled by Sutton's
big breaking curve
STRIKE THREE!
Barrett was a little overanxious
1-2-3, nothing across...

Arky Vaughan is up to lead off the inning
The crowd is chanting for Left
Outs to get things going
Williams steps off the mound toward second
Gives the resin bag a good squeeze...

Now he toes the rubber...
He's ready to go
The lefty Williams delivers
Vaughan swings and hits one down the line
It'll be in there for extra bases
The ball is kicking around in the corner
Vaughan is heading for second
The ball comes in...
A whistling two-bagger for Arky Vaughan

Sutton squares, and bunts it down the line
Palmer picks it up and fires to first
OUT by a whisker
Had Sutton been a left-handed hitter
He might have had a hit
Score it a sacrifice
FOFC gets the first out of the inning

Billy Herman is up next
Left Outs' second baseman
finds 1 on with 1 out
Billy is hitting at .261 on the year
He has 58 hits in 222 at bats
Today, he is 0 for 1
Herman grounded out his last time up
Herman waits for the pitch
His bat is coiled
The lefthander Williams delivers
There's a major league pop-up
Palmer is under it...
Waiting...
A quick step backward and makes the catch

Two gone, Vaughan at third
Batting now is Mickey Cochrane
Cochrane looks for a sign from third
Tony LaRussa delivers it to Mickey
Mickey is 0 for 1 today
struck out his last at bat
Williams ready quickly,
looks in for the sign
The pitch is on the way
Swings...
HIt's up the middle, past the pitcher
It's through into centerfield
for a base hit
Tucker is up with it off the grass
And throws it in to Blade at second
Vaughan scores easily
That's RBI number 45 for Cochrane in 1900
Left Outs leads 1 to 0

Harry Heilmann is up next
The Leftovers' right fielder
finds 1 on with 2 outs
Heilmann wiggles the bat above his head
Williams eyes Heilmann intently
Williams kicks and fires
Hard slider...
Heilmann swings from his heels...
He connects!...
There it goes...
Gazelle is up against the fence
But he has no chance for this shot
IT'S DOWNTOWN!!!
A two run blast by Harry

Jimmie Foxx will get a crack
at Williams next
Hack Wilson would be up next...
But only if Foxx can reach safely
Foxx having a great year in 1900
He is 8th in the league
in slugging average
with a fine .589 mark
He also has 25 home runs
Foxx concentrates
He holds the bat down on the end
Here's his delivery
It's a duck snort headed
towards the outfield
Blade is after it...
Running hard...
He snares it for the out
Excellent range shown on that play!
Left Outs is finally retired in
the bottom of the 3rd...
After a 3 run outburst,
they lead FOFC by 3

Don Sutton, out there on the
mound for Left Outs
prepares to face Jeff Nights
to get the 4th inning underway
here in Overshadow Pk
Nights is a tough man up
there at the plate
He's hard to get past in the lineup
Jeff certainly knows how to get on base
He'll make Sutton earn his salary
Nights is set for the 1-0 pitch
Don winds his right arm
Lets it go
Sinking fastball...
Nights goes down after it...
And slaps a hard grounder
right at Vaughan...
He scoops it up, over to first...
And Nights is out by a step
And there's one away

Next up is A. J. Tucker, the
FOFC center fielder
Sutton is on the first-base
side of the rubber...
Now ready, here it is...
There's a towering fly ball hit by Tucker
Wilson sprints over, and makes the catch
Two out, nobody on
Left Outs ahead 3 to 0

Potpie coming up for FOFC
Nobody on, two away
Potpie is one of the most feared sluggers
Don looks for the sign he wants...
Shakes off the first one
But he likes the next
Sutton's windup... the delivery
Potpie swings, foul tipped
Cochrane hangs on to it
Strike out for Sutton
Number 5 on the day
Three up, three down for FOFC

Leading off for the Leftovers
is the center fielder Wilson
He'll be followed by Frank Robinson
And then Goose Goslin
The right-handed Wilson will
be facing the southpaw
5 of his 10 home runs come via this route
Williams is happy with the sign
The southpaw Williams delivers
the 3-2 pitch
Wilson rips one to right
He hit it right on the nose...
Pflaggstettler is off to the races...
He is coming fast...
He dives...

OUT!
Nice play by Persimmon Pflaggstettler
One gone for Left Outs

Walking up to the plate now is Robinson
Goose Goslin waits on deck
Robinson has hit 4 triples this year
Williams steps on the rubber...
Looks in for the sign
The pitch on the way, here it is...
There's a high pop up
drifting into foul ground
it may get out of play
Blade races over
He's over by the stands
Can he get to it???
NO, IT'S A FOUL BALL!!!
. . . Robinson back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Sinking fastball...
Robinson swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Palmer...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
Two down

Goose Goslin steps in against Williams
Left-hander against left-hander
Goslin scuffs up the lines around the box
He should get a good one to hit
The count at 3 and 1
Goose brings the bat back...
The windup, the pitch
Fly ball to left
Gazelle is under it
He makes the grab
That's the third out of the inning
Three up, three down
It's 3-0, Left Outs
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7/22 Radio Broadcast Continued

FOFC will send up Persimmon
Pflaggstettler,
Deacon Palmer and Gerald Gazelle
to face Sutton
They'll try to get something going
here in the top of the 5th
Pflaggstettler has hit 15
home runs this year
The righty shakes off the sign...
Now Sutton shakes off another one...
Don is a finesse pitcher and
always in playing shape
Sutton will have to come
in with this 3-0 pitch
Here it comes...
It's wide... he missed with a slider
Pflaggstettler will stroll down to first
He continues to get on
base with regularity
He has a .402 OBP this year

Palmer departs the on-deck circle
He makes his way slowly to the plate
He's not known for his speed anyway!
Sutton rubs down the ball...
Now he's asking for a new one
After he rubs this one down
He looks in for the sign
Here's the 3-2 offering
There's a fly ball into
straight-away right
Heilmann one hands it...
OUT!
One away...
Robinson is coming over to the mound...
He wants to chat with the pitcher...
Here comes Foxx also...
Now they return to their positions

Gazelle digs in at the plate
Ready now for Sutton to come set
Gazelle is taking his practice swings
Gerald is 0 for 1 this afternoon
Gazelle looks very intent...
He stares down at Sutton...
Cocks his bat
Sutton's righthanded delivery...
Gazelle watches a roundhouse
curve all the way in
Strike Three called!
That one started out right at Gerald,
In fact, he started to bend back
out of the way
Sutton just delivered a sweeping curve
that just caught
the inside corner of the plate
One more chance for FOFC this inning

Pflaggstettler sneaks away from the base
Big sweeping curve...
Pflaggstettler is running on the pitch
And here's the overhand throw...
Nobody's covering second!...
The throw sails into centerfield...
Wilson is on the ball quickly...
Pflaggstettler is unable to recover
in time to take third...
They are giving him a steal on the play

Billy Bullock steps into the box
Looking to Dick Howser for a sign
Bullock, a righthand hitter
Waits patiently for the pitch from Sutton
The righthander Sutton delivers
He lays off the pitch
Ball four, he walks

John Williams, the pitcher,
strides to the plate
Two men on, two men out
The right-hander Sutton is set
to deliver to Williams
Don checks the runners
Here's the 3-0 offering
Williams drives the ball to
center for extra bases
Pflaggstettler scores
Dick Howser is waving the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Bullock is out!
Double for Williams

The shortstop Vaughan
will lead off for the Leftovers
He'll be followed by Don Sutton
And then Billy Herman
Vaughan looks down toward the third
base coach, Tony LaRussa
Williams toes the rubber again
He gets his sign from Bullock
The lefthander winds and delivers
STRIKE THREE, CALLED!
One down for Left Outs
Don Sutton is still in the on-deck circle
and Billy Herman is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Don Sutton is up to face John Williams
Williams adjusts his belt...
Looks in for the sign from Bullock
The southpaw delivers
Fastball, lined to left...
Base hit for Sutton...
Gazelle over...Grabs it on the big hop...
Fires it back in...
Holding Sutton at first

Sutton sneaks away from the base
Williams' throws over have been effective
Sutton has a shorter lead now
He must be getting tired
diving back into the bag

Herman is up next
Left Outs has a runner
at first and one out
Looking for his first hit today
Herman is 0 for 2
Herman is set
The lefthander delivers
It's popped up into foul territory
Billy Bullock is under it
He grabs it for the out
Score It: 2
FOFC gets the second out of the inning

So with 1 on and 2 outs
Left Outs sends their catcher,
Mickey Cochrane, up to face Williams
Hard-hitting Harry Heilmann is walking
towards the on-deck circle
Sutton will be running if it's hit
Williams likes the sign
Now John delivers
Fastball, a dandy...
Steee Rike THREE swinging!
Mickey looked like Casey on that pitch
Went for the HIGH CHEESE!
That's all for the Leftovers
After 5 innings in Left
Outs this afternoon,
Left Outs ahead 3 to 1

Barrett Blade up first for FOFC
He is a threat to steal if he gets on
Blade is 0 for 2 today
Sutton has the sign he wants
Don rocks and fires
Lined to third
Foxx makes a great catch!
Score It: 5
Sutton retires the first batter to
face him in the top of the 6th

Nights gets set at the plate
Nights has a .272 average against
righthanders this season
Jeff steadies his bat
Waits patiently for Sutton's pitch
And the delivery by Sutton
Grounded towards third
Foxx scoops it
LONG THROW...
HE'S OUT!
And there's two away

Tucker heads to the plate for FOFC
The infield is at regular depth
Tucker is 0 for 2 today
Sutton tosses the resin bag aside
He steps on the rubber...
Don will have to come in
with this 3-0 delivery
It's on its way...
Soft liner to second
Herman makes a nice play on it
Score It: 4
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
So After 5 and a half innings
Left Outs has 3 runs, 5 hits and no errors
While FOFC has one run,
2 hits and no errors
FOFC has left 2 stranded
Left Outs has failed to bring home 2

The big guys are due up for Left Outs
Heilmann will lead it off
He will be followed by Jimmie
Foxx and Hack Wilson
Heilmann is 2 for 2 today
And John studies the sign from Bullock...
Now he's got it
It's a full count...
Williams winds and fires...
It's a routine fly into left
Gazelle ranges over and reaches up
He grabs it for the out
One out
The Leftovers have a 2 run lead


Coming up for Left Outs is Jimmie Foxx
Nobody on base, one out
Foxx is at .314 on the season
Williams looks down at
Bullock for the sign
Shakes him off once... twice...

Now he has the pitch he wants
He brings it home
Foxx hits a screamer at Jeff Nights
Nights picks it up and fires to first
The throw pulls Potpie off the bag
Potpie swipes with the glove

Foxx is out!
Nice play by Potpie
Two gone for Left Outs

Making his way up is Wilson
Hack is 0 for 2 today
Now he steps out a moment
to adjust his belt
He's back in the batter's box now
John gets the sign from Bullock
The southpaw's 2-0 delivery
Slider, down and away...
Wilson reaches for the pitch...
It's a grounder to the third base side...
Palmer is there
IT BOUNCES OVER HIS HEAD!...
Gazelle is hustling after it...
Wilson with the big turn...
The throw from Gazelle goes into second
And Wilson holds at first

Slowly coming up is Robinson for Left Outs
He is finally in the batter's box
Left Outs leads 3 to 1
Frank is batting .257 with 12
home runs on the season
He is 0 for 2 today
Robinson is ready
Here's the 1-1 offering
Slider, inside...
Swung on...
Robinson rocks this one...
He got all of it...
It's going... Going...
GONE!
Man, he really crunched it!
Williams looks dejected on the mound

Up next for the Leftovers
Goose Goslin, the left fielder...
If he gets on, Arky Vaughan would bat next
Goslin is 0 for 2 today
Williams steps off the rubber...
Adjusts his cap...
Now he's ready
The pitch is on the way
Hit hard back through the box
And it takes a funny hop over to third
Palmer has got it and throws to first
In time!
That one caught a piece of the mound!
Score It: 5-3
After 6 innings today,
the Leftovers lead by 4

Cochrane fires the ball down to Vaughan
He starts it around the infield
To Herman, Robinson
And then to Foxx walking it over to Sutton
Potpie steps in to face the righthander
Here we go in the top of the 7th
Potpie is looking for another hit
He has 1 hit so far today
He is hitting .286 on the year
Potpie is waiting
His bat is wiggling slightly
Sutton's 0-1 pitch...
Potpie pounds a grounder toward
Vaughan at short
Arky moves in front of it...
Whoops... a bad bounce
But Vaughan stayed with it
Over to first and Potpie is retired
Nice play by the Left Outs short stop
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

Negro League I and Japanese League
are all knotted at 2
Paige battling Sugishita
Old Timers is crushing
AL Post WWII 15 to 3
AL Pre WWII is comfortably ahead
of Dead Ball Era 9 to 3
NL Post WWII and NL Pre WWII are tied at 1
Turn of Century is pounding
Negro League II 10 to 3
Wilson has hit his 19th homerun
for Negro League II

Now batting will be Persimmon
Pflaggstettler
Sutton shakes off two signs
Now he's ready
Here comes the cripple pitch
Pflaggstettler hits a fly ball to right
Harry Heilmann camps under it
He's got it
That's out number two
Sparky Anderson moving around
Hollers something down at Sutton
Don nods "UH HUH"

Two out, nobody on
Up now is Palmer
Palmer is taking his practice swings
Deacon is 0 for 2 this afternoon
He flied out last time at bat
The umpire says let's go
Here's the pitch
LINE DRIVE
Vaughan makes a nice play on it
Score It: 6
The All Stars go down in order, 1-2-3
After 6 and a half innings,

Left Outs leads 5 to 1

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

Vaughan is walking to the plate
Now he steps into the batter's box
Vaughan is at .310 on the season
Rodney looks down at Bullock
for the sign...
Shakes him off once... twice
Now he has the pitch he wants
Here's his delivery
Ground ball through the middle
Nights ranges behind second
Nice pick up...
Twists and fires it
OUT!

Walking up now to the plate is Sutton
Sutton a righty in the batter's box
facing the righthanded Rodney
James looks for the sign he wants...
Shakes off the first one
But he likes the next
Rodney goes into his windup
Here it comes
A wave and a miss!
Strike Three!
Sutton is down on strikes
Number 1 here today for Rodney
Two away now for Left Outs
They're ahead by 4
The Leftovers have 7 hits on the afternoon

Now batting for Left Outs will be
their second baseman, Billy Herman
The Leftovers are out in front by 4
We are in the bottom of the 7th
We'll see how they pitch to Herman
Herman tells the umpire he's ready
James rocks and fires
Herman swings and lifts one toward center
Tucker drifts over slowly...
He is under it now...
And makes the easy catch...
That is the third out for Left Outs here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 48639

Gerald Gazelle to lead it off for FOFC
Gazelle is 0 for 2 today
Gerald struck out last time around
The count is nothing and 2
Gazelle has to protect the plate
The righthander Sutton's delivery
Fastball...
Gazelle jumps all over it...
It's juiced to deep right
There goes Heilmann after it
Racing hard...
He dives...
And he's got it!!!
Beautiful play by Harry Heilmann!
Left Outs gets the first out
here late in this contest

Bullock is up now for FOFC
Bullock is trying to get
comfortable in the box
Digging that back foot in
Bullock awaits the delivery
Sutton leans back and fires
Bullock hits a fly ball to center
Hack Wilson camps under it
He's got it
Two down
Don Sutton retires
the first two batters in order

Fouts now at the plate
Barrett Blade waits on deck
Sutton's sittin' in the catbird seat...
He has completely shut down the All Stars
He also has a 4 run lead to work with
And now the pitch...
Hard slider...
Fouts swings from his heels...
He connects!...
There it goes...
Heilmann is up against the fence
But he has no chance for this shot
IT'S DOWNTOWN!!!
What a blast by Dan

Walking up to the plate now is Blade
Jeff Nights waits on deck
Left Outs leads 5 to 2
Don peers in for the sign...

Shakes off the first one...
Likes the second one
The righthander Sutton delivers
It's a smash over short
Vaughan leaps
Just over his outstretched glove
Blade makes a wide turn at first
He will hold at first
The ball comes in quickly

Jeff Nights, will be up next
A. J. Tucker hopes to get a chance as well
One on... two away
Left Outs leads FOFC by 3 runs
Blade will be running if it's hit
Cochrane flashes the sign...
Sutton waves it off...
Now he's happy
Righthander Sutton's delivery
Nights drives the ball to
center for extra bases
Dick Howser is giving the green light...
The throw is cut off...
And that allows the run to score
Double for Nights

Sparky Anderson is on his way
to the mound for Left Outs
That will do it for Don Sutton today
The right hander, Bob Lemon
will be coming on
He has 33 previous appearances
He is 2 and 6 with a 8.53 ERA
Tucker awaits

A. J. Tucker makes his way to home plate
A base hit should score Nights
Bob gets the sign from Cochrane
Lemon brings it to the plate
Hit in the air to left
Camped under it is Goslin
And he has it
FOFC gets 2 in the top of the 8th
After 7 and a half innings,
Left Outs leads by 2

Here's Cochrane to lead off the inning
Before he does, lets check out how
the Leftovers have been playing lately
Left Outs is 6 and 4 in
their last ten games
Cochrane is batting .263
with 10 HR's this year
Rodney gets set...
His foot meets the pitching slab
He's got his sign
Now the delivery, here is is...
Fastball, swung on and missed
Take a seat Mr. Cochrane!
One up, one down

One out, nobody on base
Left Outs ahead 5 to 3 in the eighth
Here comes Harry Heilmann to face Rodney
Heilmann is at .333 on the season
Bullock flashes the sign to Rodney
The pitch is on the way
Heilmann gets a good cut at it...
He lifts it high and deep toward right
Pflaggstettler is heading back...
At the fence
And he makes the catch for the out!
Rodney breathes a sigh of relief
Two gone for Left Outs

"The Beast" settles in...
Foxx steps out of the box...
Looks towards Tony LaRussa for a sign
Jimmie steadies his bat
Waits patiently for Rodney's pitch
And the righthander starts to work on Foxx
Here comes the pitch
Letterhigh, hard slider...
Swung on...
It's a line drive belted toward Fouts
It's by him...
Gazelle comes in...
Plays it off his chest
Recovers quickly, throwing into second
Good defensive recovery
Keeping Foxx to a single

Wilson is up next
Two out with Foxx at first
Wilson is one of the best hitters around
Right-hander Rodney eyes the righty Wilson
Now James delivers
Wilson crushes it...
Gerald Gazelle starts back...

baaack....


baaaaack...
But no chance for this blast...
Wilson can put another notch
in his bat handle...
He gave that ball a very nice ride
Two ribbies for the Left
Outs center fielder

Robinson leaves the on-deck circle
He saunters to the plate on
this muggy summer day
Robinson wiggles the bat above his head
Rodney wastes no time
He has the sign from Bullock
And the cripple pitch...
Swung on...
High fly ball into right
Not hit well
Pflaggstettler is under it...
He's got it
Easy chance for Persimmon
That will do it for Left Outs
Nip-and-tuck here at Overshadow
Pk this afternoon
FOFC coming in for their last shot
They need 4 to tie, and only
5 to take the lead!
Could be just a "wee" bit difficult...

The heart of the order will be up for FOFC
Jeeberoni Potpie to lead things
off in the top of the 9th
Potpie grips the bat handle
Jeeberoni is eagerly awaiting
Lemon's pitch
Lemon brings it to the plate
Potpie fouls it back
Way back into the upper deck
. . . Potpie back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Fastball, STRIKE THREE!
Potpie was frozen on that
fastball by Lemon
High and on the outside corner
He was looking for an off-speed pitch
One down for FOFC
Persimmon Pflaggstettler is
in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to
the plate for FOFC

Coming up for FOFC is Persimmon
Pflaggstettler
Nobody on base, one out
Pflaggstettler adjusts his glove...
Steps into the box...
Persimmon is 0 for 2 this afternoon
Waiting for the pitch is Pflaggstettler
Lemon brings it to the plate
It's a high fly to deep center
Wilson is on his horse
It is carrying to the fence
Hack jumps...
Leaping catch... No, it
pops out of his glove
Pflaggstettler will get a two-base hit

Gonzalez strides to the plate
Runner at second, and one out
David Gonzalez is hitting .290 this year
against righthanded pitchers
Gonzalez cocks his bat
Lemon looks back towards second...

The pitch
Gonzalez goes after the fastball...
It's a base hit by Vaughan...
Pflaggstettler only moves down to third
and that's where he'll hold
as the ball was hit very sharply
making it impossible for him to score

Here's Gerald Gazelle
The infield is back
They are looking for the double play
The outfield's shaded towards
left for Gazelle
He's 0 for 3 today
Gazelle waits on Lemon
Lemon brings it to the plate
Base hit to left for Gazelle
Pflaggstettler scores
Dick Howser puts up the stop sign...
Gonzalez will stay at second

The tying run comes to the plate,
in the person of Billy Bullock
All Stars with 2 runners on base
Leftovers have the lead, 7-4
Stepping in and then stepping out again
Bullock looks to third for a sign
Bullock awaits the pitch
Here comes the cripple pitch
Bullock tops one right to Vaughan
Over to Robinson for the easy out

Defensive manager has decided
to pitch around Dan Fouts
Dan Fouts is the next batter
this sunny afternoon
A single could plate two runs
Lemon looks down at Cochrane for the sign
Now he's ready
Lemon checks the runners
Hot shot grounded to second
Herman grabs it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 4-3
And that will do it for FOFC
Left Outs wins 7 to 4
Sutton gets credit for the win
Lemon notches the save
Williams takes the loss
The hitting star for Left Outs
was Harry Heilmann
He was 2 for 4 with a homerun
And that wraps things up
So long from Left Outs.
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Old 05-22-2013, 09:13 PM   #680
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7/22 Boxscore

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BOXSCORE: 1000 FOFC All Stars At 2001 Left Outs Leftovers 7/22/1900 All Stars AB R H RBI AVG Leftovers AB R H RBI AVG B.Blade 2B 4 1 1 0 .263 B.Herman 2B 4 0 0 0 .258 J.Nights SS 4 0 1 1 .281 M.Cochrane C 4 1 1 1 .262 A.Tucker CF 4 0 0 0 .292 H.Heilmann RF 4 1 2 2 .332 J.Potpie 1B 4 0 1 0 .284 J.Foxx 3B 4 1 1 0 .315 P.Pflaggstettler RF 3 2 1 0 .301 H.Wilson CF 4 2 2 2 .288 D.Palmer 3B 3 0 0 0 .327 F.Robinson 1B 4 1 1 2 .259 J.Rodney P 0 0 0 0 ---- G.Goslin LF 3 0 0 0 .296 B-D.Gonzalez PH 1 0 1 0 .296 A.Vaughan SS 3 1 1 0 .309 G.Gazelle LF 4 0 1 1 .280 D.Sutton P 2 0 1 0 .163 B.Bullock C 3 0 0 0 .262 B.Lemon P 0 0 0 0 .400 J.Williams P 2 0 1 1 .152 A-D.Fouts 3B 2 1 1 1 .271 -- -- -- --- -- -- -- --- Totals 34 4 8 4 Totals 32 7 9 7 A-Subbed Defensively (3B) For Williams In 7th Inning B-Pinch Hit For Rodney In 9th Inning All Stars....... 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 - 4 8 0 Leftovers....... 0 0 3 0 0 2 0 2 - 7 9 0 All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA J.Williams LOSS(10-2) 6 7 5 5 0 4 2 97 3.72 J.Rodney 2 2 2 2 0 2 1 25 2.91 Totals 8 9 7 7 0 6 3 Leftovers IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA D.Sutton WIN(8-5) 7 2/3 5 3 3 2 6 1 108 7.32 B.Lemon SAVE(2nd) 1 1/3 3 1 1 0 1 0 24 8.48 Totals 9 8 4 4 2 7 1 ATTENDANCE- 48,639 DATE- Sunday, July 22nd 1900 TIME- Day WEATHER- Good T- 2:46 LEFT ON BASE- All Stars: 5 Leftovers: 2 DOUBLE PLAYS- All Stars: 0 Leftovers: 0 DOUBLES- J.Nights(28th), J.Potpie(17th), P.Pflaggstettler(18th), J.Williams, A.Vaughan(15th) HOME RUNS- D.Fouts(15th), H.Heilmann(18th), H.Wilson(11th), F.Robinson(13th) STOLEN BASES- P.Pflaggstettler(7th) SACRIFICE HITS- D.Sutton WALKS- P.Pflaggstettler, B.Bullock STRIKE OUTS- B.Blade, J.Nights, J.Potpie-2, P.Pflaggstettler, G.Gazelle, B.Bullock, M.Cochrane-3, J.Foxx, A.Vaughan, D.Sutton
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3…2…1…floor producer points to Ken Dawl, one of the talking heads on the Total Sports Programming Channel that is currently hosting…

“Good Morning, and welcome SportsZone…Ken Dawl here, along with my sidekick, like Robin to Batman, Dick Grayson.”

Grayson smiles politely at the camera and thinks ‘wow, that’s original, I’ve only heard it, oh I don’t know…about a million times, and that’s only the fourth time you’ve used that same line to open the show with this week…IDIOT…’

Grayson doesn’t respond to Dawl’s inane comment and just starts reading the teleprompter, “Lots to talk about today, Football training camps are opening and there have already been some injuries that may impact the season, plus some interesting veteran cuts to talk about, but the big story right now is in Baseball…” Grayson, turns to Dawl, who is so busy primping his hair he missed his queue for the verbal handoff…

“So Dawl, what’s going on in BASEBALL?”, Grayson emphasizes the last word to snap Ken out of his narcissistic indulgence, again thinking IDIOT…

Dawl, with a startled look on his face initially recovers quickly, “Um…the baseball season has only about 50 games to go, and things are starting to tighten up. The American League is looking like a 4 team race with the AL Pre WW2 team making a charge, the Negro League Ones hanging tough, and the Old Timers and Late 20s scratching to stay relevant in the division.”

Grayson jumps in, “As great as the AL is right now, the standings have been basically the same for most of the season. The real interesting development is in the National League, where the once dominate FOFC All-Stars currently lead by just a half a game.”

Dawl, not missing the queue this time around, “It was less than 2 weeks ago when the FOFC team was sitting on a pretty comfortable 5 game lead, now they find themselves scrambling. To discuss this with us, we’ve brought in Lou Scribe, baseball writer from the National Herald, and former players and managers Roger Craig, and Gil Hodges…”

Screen pans out and to the right where we see the three guests sitting at a table with Grayson, who obviously moved while Dawl was finishing up the introductions on a tight shot.

“Guys, the big talk in baseball right now is what’s wrong with the FOFC All-Stars?…They’ve dominated the league until now, and currently they find themselves just a half a game up on the National Post War team.”

Lou, not surprisingly jumps in first, “Actually, I think the FOFCers are finished. I think they are going to struggle the rest of the way, and backslide to the point where they might not even finish second.”

Grayson, honestly surprised by the comment responds, “Wow, that’s a strong statement. They are sitting about 11 games up on third place, so for them to fall that far back they’d have to really play poorly down the stretch.”

Hodges almost interupts, “I don’t know where you’re getting that opinion on the FOFCers from.”

Lou defending his position, “I think the FOFCers got a great early start and really took the league by surprise, but at this point, I think these great Hall of Fame teams, as well as the Negro Leaguers, Japanese All-Starts and Caribbean team have figured them out. The book is out on them and these other teams now know what it takes to beat them.”

Hodges, “So you think the entire team is like a rookie that other teams get a book on and they become a mediocre player once the book is out?”

“I do.” Lou replies…

Craig finally speaks, “And what evidence other than the losses recently makes you think a book is out on the FOFCers.”

“Is there any better evidence than the losses?” Lou counters.

Grayson directing traffic to prevent these short clipped responses focuses in on Scribe, “Lou, you make a good point that losses are an indicator a team isn’t playing well, but that doesn’t mean a book is out on them. Do you see anything specifically that caused you to come to this opinion?”

“The biggest reason that I believe the FOFCers are in trouble is the pitching. Teams seems to have figured out those once dominating pitchers. Let’s look at some of the recent starts shall we…Williams last night 6 innings 5 earned runs, Nielsen, who at one time looked like a lock for the Premium Pitcher Award 4 innings, 4 earned runs, Fozborg, given a chance to start because Mighty had been struggling goes 6 innings, 5 runs…I’m seeing a very disturbing pattern.”

Craig, “A few bad outings isn’t an indication of teams figuring players out. It could easily be a situation where the pitchers are tired, a bit of dead arm, or maybe it is mentally tired. It is a long season, and you aren’t going to pitch well the entire time. The key is to win when you don’t have your best stuff, and the FOFCers have done a decent job of that recently.”

Lou, adding to his argument, “The offense is also scraping it around. Other than the 8 runs scored the other day in Babson’s start, I don’t think they’ve managed to push more than 4 across in a week. That’s not going to cut it in this league.”

Hodges, “Lou, you’re right, the offense like the pitching isn’t playing well, but again, I don’t think that means that the league’s pitches now know what to do to get these guys out all the time.”

“Oh really, let’s look at some of the pitchers that have shut them down recently shall we…Jenkins, who shut them out a few days back, 5.33 ERA, after the shutout. Sutton a 7.32 ERA with 7 and two-thirds strong innings, and Roberts with a 6.02 ERA and 8 terrific innings pitched. These aren’t the elite pitchers of the league, and they have the FOFCers tied in knots.”

Grayson, “So Lou, what do you expect from the FOFCers the rest of the way?”

Lou, “Sub 500 ball.”

Grayson, “I believe the FOFCers have 47 games remaining, if they go 1 game under 500 the rest of the way, they would end up around 85 wins…is that about what you are thinking?”

“That might be high actually...but If I remember correctly 85 wins was my prediction heading into the season, and right now I’m not seeing anything that would make me change that opinion for a better win total,” Lou states.

Grayson, “Gil, thoughts?”

Gil smiles, “Lou does make some good points, but I think the idea that a book is out on this team is a bit far-fetched. I think they are just playing poorly right now, and one thing we haven’t discussed is how well the Post War NL team is playing. I believe they’ve won 8 or 9 in a row. When you go on a win streak like that standings start to change. “

Craig steps in, “I’m not sure the FOFCers are going to win, because the Post
War NL team seems to have hit their stride. Have you looked at the
numbers those guys are putting up offensively. Aaron, Matthews, Mays, Morgan, Musial…every one of their starters are raking the ball…They are hard to stop. Plus their pitching is starting to kick in. Seaver looks like the front runner for the Premium Pitcher award, Koufax has found his rhythm, and the back half of the rotation is producing well enough for that offense.”

“Ok, with that in mind, how do you see this playing out…” Grayson again, asking his quick question and getting out of the way so the expert can comment.

“I think 85 wins is probably low. I think the FOFCer will win around 88 or 89, but I don’t think it will be enough. I think the Post NLers will win the division, and ultimately the Series.”

“Hodges?” Grayson.

“I’m a little different than Roger…I think the FOFCers are going to find a way
to pull this out. I like their manager, he’s kept them on an even keel
through this rough patch, and we all know in baseball, things always seem to come back to the middle. Extremes just don’t continue. So I expect FOFC to start playing better again, and I expect the red hot Post NLers to slow down. I think FOFC might still get to 90 wins…and in an 154 game season, that’s really good.”

Pan to Ken Dawl, “Thanks guys, we’ll get back to our group to discuss the AL later in the show…”

.......I turn the TV in my office off and head out to get some breakfast...

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Old 05-23-2013, 10:27 PM   #682
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7/23 Radio Broadcast - Game 107

A warm hello to you, Ladies and Gentleman
Big game tonight for the FOFCers as they
find themselves in a situation where they
may not be in first place when this evening
ends...

Tonight FOFC will be doing
battle with Old Timers
Let's see how the Ancients
shape up, defensively...
From left to right in the outfield
McCarthy is in left...
Delahanty is in center...
And Thompson is in right
Around the infield, third to first it's

Kelly playing third
Davis at short
Covering second is McPhee
At first base Brouthers
And the battery...
Pitching, John Clarkson
with Ewing behind the plate
Okay, let's get it underway...
Clarkson fires
It's a high fly to deep center
Delahanty is on his horse
It is carrying to the fence
Ed jumps
It's off the wall
Blade is around second
But retreats to the bag
as the throw comes in

Jeff Nights steps into the box
Nights is batting .281 with
11 HR's this year
John looks for the sign he wants...
Shakes off the first one
But he likes the next
Clarkson fires
It gets past Ewing!
It's scored a passed ball.
The pitch didn't look that bad
Clarkson must have crossed him up!

Jeff Nights steps into the box
Nights digs into the box
Nights is ready for the pitch
He delivers
Long fly ball to center
Ed Delahanty is running hard
He's got it
Fine running catch!
That's deep enough to score Blade
Score It: 8
Frank Selee will be bringing
in a relief pitcher
Candy Cummings has been called
from the bullpen
A few warm up tosses and
we'll be set to go

Persimmon Pflaggstettler
is coming to the plate
Candy Cummings on in relief
for the Ancients
We're in the top of the 1st
Cummings winds
Kicks the left leg high...
Hard slider, at the knees...
Pflaggstettler clubs a deep
drive to center...
Delahanty turns, and races
back after it...
It goes off the wall!
Pflaggstettler is steaming toward third
Delahanty has it, throws...
Not in time...
Pflaggstettler has his triple
Number 8 on the year for him

So with 1 on and 1 out
FOFC sends their first baseman,
Jeeberoni Potpie, up to face Cummings
Hard-hitting Gerald Gazelle is walking
towards the on-deck circle
He's yelling something towards the mound!
There must be bad blood between them!
He's ready for the delivery
Cummings brings it to the plate
Lunging after the change-up
Potpie hits a grounder through to left...
Scoring from third is Pflaggstettler
Credit Potpie with a single and an RBI

Facing Cummings now is Gazelle
Deacon Palmer heads to the on deck circle
Harry Hays waits in the hole
Cummings steps on the rubber...
Looks in for the sign
And the cripple pitch...
There's a high pop up
drifting into foul ground
it may get out of play
Davis races over
He's over by the stands
Can he get to it???
HE'S GOT IT!!!
Nice play by Davis
Score It: 6
Two gone for FOFC

Palmer is up now for FOFC
Palmer is batting .327 with
5 HR's this year
Cummings likes the sign
It's coming down the pike
Base hit to right for Palmer
Dick Howser puts up the stop sign...
Potpie will stay at second

Harry Hays steps into the box
Hays is batting seventh in the order today
He is hitting a fine .336 for FOFC
He also has has contributed with 29 runs
3 doubles, 2 triples and 10 home runs
Hays waiting on the delivery
Cummings stretches, checks his runners
The pitch...
The pitch is low
It bounces away from Ewing!
He's got it
But there's no throw.
It's scored a wild pitch.
Potpie takes third
Palmer takes second

Harry Hays steps into the box
Hays grips the bat handle
Candy is ready
Now to the belt, here it is...
Hard ground ball to short
Davis comes up with it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 6-3
That's three outs here in
the top of the first
At the end of one half inning, for FOFC
2 runs, 4 hits, no errors
and 2 men left on base
Old Timers is coming to bat

FOFC has taken the field
here in the bottom of the first...
Here's the way they look, defensively
The fly chasers from left to right
Gazelle in left...
Tucker in center...
And Pflaggstettler in right

The infield, third to first
Palmer will play the hot corner
Nights is at short
Over at second, Blade
and at first base Potpie
Fozborg gets the nod as starter
Behind the dish is Hays
Old Timers left fielder, Tommy
McCarthy, will lead off
We'll see how they pitch to McCarthy
Fozborg making his 5th start of the season
The righthander Fozborg delivers
There's a liner over short...
Solidly stroked by McCarthy
No chance for either Nights or Gazelle
That one had base hit written all over it

King Kelly steps in now for the Ancients
The All Stars lead in this one, 2-zip
Kelly is at .295 on the season
Sirr peers in for the sign...

Shakes off the first one...
Likes the second one
He brings it home
Kelly chases the sinker...
Lines a hit into left...
McCarthy's not slowing at all
Rounds second heading to third...
Gazelle throws in to Blade
covering second...
McCarthy is in at third without a play

Thompson quickly moves into
the batter's box
Runners on at the corners
Kelly on first represents the tying run
Thompson is a tough man
up there at the plate
He's hard to get past in the lineup
Sam certainly knows how to get on base
He'll make Fozborg earn his salary
Thompson tells the umpire he's ready
Here's his delivery
Bouncer up the middle
and past Jeff Nights...
Base hit into center field!
FOFC's lead is trimmed by a run
FOFC ahead 2 to 1

Ed Delahanty steps in
Thompson at first, Kelly
at third, no one out
Delahanty is at .352 on the season
Sirr is set to go... a quick
look toward Hays again
Now he steps back to get
a squeeze of the resin bag
Old Timers' clean-up hitter is waiting
Fozborg has allowed 3 taters
to righties this year
And 6 when facing lefties
Fozborg checks the runners
The pitch is way inside at the knees
Delahanty hits the dirt...
It is a bad time for Sirr Fozborg
to be getting so wild
That loads them up for Old Timers

Dan Brouthers makes his way to home plate
Dan, a lefty batter, will square
off against Fozborg
Of his 4 home runs, 3 are against righties
Set now is Brouthers
The righthander Fozborg's delivery
Brouthers flies out to right
Charley Gould is giving the green light...
The throw is coming home...
Kelly scores!

Delahanty at first, Thompson
at second, one out
Davis is now at bat
George is hitting at .245 on the year
He has 80 hits in 326 at bats
His speed has propelled him
to 17 stolen bases
He's ready
Sirr checks the runners...
Steps off the mound...

Again he's into the stretch...

The pitch
Curve, up high...
Davis rips it to left...
Fozborg hung that breaking ball
However, George got under it just a bit
Gazelle started back on it
Now he's coming in...
He's under it and makes the easy catch
"Can of Corn"
Two down
Due up next is Buck Ewing
Let's see what happens now

Ewing steps in
Two out, Delahanty at first,
Thompson at second
Fozborg has the sign from Hays
Now Sirr delivers
A high fastball...
Ewing swings late...
He hits a routine pop just left of Nights
Jeff is under it...
And takes it in for the easy out
Ewing was looking for the breaking ball
That wraps up the inning for Old Timers
So After 1 inning
Old Timers has 2 runs,
3 hits and no errors
While FOFC has 2 runs,
4 hits and no errors
Old Timers has left 2 stranded
FOFC has failed to bring home 2

As we get ready to start
the top of the 2nd
Tucker is talking to Ewing
Tucker is hitting .292 with 5 homeruns
A. J. also has 16 doubles and 6 triples
And has driven in a total of 44 runs
Time is called...
Don't know what for...

Now we appear ready
Cummings brings it to the plate
It's a smash over first
Brouthers leaps
Just over his outstretched glove
Tucker makes a wide turn at first
He will hold at first
The ball comes in quickly

Sirr Fozborg squares to bunt
And lays it down right to Buck Ewing
Ewing looks at second
But passes up a possible force play
He fires to first to retire Fozborg
But Tucker moves up
And there's one away

While Jeff Nights heads for
the on deck circle
Barrett Blade makes his way to the plate
Blade has 14 doubles this year
Blade, a righthand hitter
Waits patiently for the
pitch from Cummings
Cummings rocks and fires
Slider, over the inside corner...
The swing...
Blade rips one down the left field line
McCarthy is after it...
Rolling to the fence...
Blade takes the wide turn at second...
Keeps on running for third...
The hurried throw by McCarthy in to Kelly
Blade slides in around the tag
Give Blade a triple on the play
Tucker scored on the play
That gives Blade 5 triples on the season

Making his way up is Nights
So far this season
Nights is hitting .274
when facing righthanded pitching
After getting set, Nights
waits on the pitch
Now ready, here it is...
Nights rolls one toward Bid McPhee
He scoops it and fires to
first...close play
OUT, says the first base umpire
Joe Adcock throws his hands up
in disbelief
That's the second out of the inning
Time to check the scoreboard

Caribbean is on top of Japanese
League 2 to 0
Cuellar battling Inao
Negro League II and AL Post
WWII are scoreless
Negro League I and Left Outs
are all knotted at 1
NL Post WWII slipping by
AL Pre WWII 2 to 0
Mathews has hit his 36th homerun
for NL Post WWII
They must be feeding him lots of beef
Dead Ball Era is edging Turn
of Century 1 to 0
NL Pre WWII and Late 20th
have yet to score
And in our contest FOFC leads 4 to 2

With two out
Batting for FOFC now is Pflaggstettler
Looking to Dick Howser for a sign
Persimmon is eagerly awaiting
Cummings' pitch
The windup, the pitch
Good slider, inside part of the plate
Pflaggstettler gets the bat on it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
McPhee grabs it...
Throws to first...
OUT!
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
By the way, FOFC is 5 and 5
in their last ten games

Bid McPhee is up to lead off the inning
The crowd is chanting for Old
Timers to get things going
Bid has been used sparingly for Old Timers
He has only 49 at bats so far
although we are deep into summer
He is batting .245 in limited duty
Fozborg eyes McPhee intently
Here's the windup... and the pitch
He bunts the ball!
Potpie fields it and fires to first
And he is . . .
SAFE!!! A bunt base hit.

Candy Cummings squares, and lays
down a beauty of a bunt
Harry Hays picks it up,
he'll have to hurry
OUT at first
But the sacrifice works to perfection
One down for Old Timers
Tommy McCarthy is still
in the on-deck circle
and King Kelly is looking
for a bat in the dugout

McCarthy strides to the plate
Runner at second, and one out
McCarthy is batting .314 with
2 round trippers in 1900
Right-hander Fozborg eyes
the righty McCarthy
Sirr rocks and fires
Flyball to right
it's caught
McPhee has a chance to move up...
McPhee is trying to advance
to third base...
Here's the play...
He's SAFE!

Kelly digs in at the plate
Ready now for Fozborg to come set
2 men away, McPhee on third
Fozborg 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 pitch is on the way
Fastball, in on the hands...
Kelly hits it deep to left-center...
It's into the gap...
That will score a run
Kelly moves into second standing up
Tucker makes the play back in...
It's a double

Now here's Thompson
Against righthanders
Thompson is hitting .326
The umpire says let's go
Thompson is ready
Blade comes in a couple steps
Yells something to Fozborg
The delivery
A slider by Fozborg
Thompson gets good wood on it...
Pflaggstettler back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
That's all for the Ancients
After 2 innings in Old
Timers this evening,
FOFC leads 4 to 3

Potpie is walking to the plate
Some in the crowd are razzing him
He gives them a quick glance... Not smart!
That has only encouraged
them to get louder
He should just let his bat answer back
Jeeberoni is batting .286
in 353 at bats in 1900
He will be followed by Gerald Gazelle
Jeeberoni steadies his bat
And waits patiently for Cummings' pitch
Cummings brings it to the plate
Potpie rips the curve to left-center...
Delahanty racing back to the fence...
He reaches for the drive...
It's over his head!
Potpie will lope into second with a double

Here's Gerald Gazelle
Potpie is on second, nobody out
Cummings adjusts his cap...
Now he's set
Now the delivery, here is is...
Gazelle takes the pitch...
That one is low for a ball... WAIT
The umpire says that one caught the knees
Gazelle's outta there
That's one away

Walking up to the plate now is Palmer
FOFC leading in the game
Palmer swinging from the right side
facing the righty Cummings
Palmer in the hole, 0-2
Cummings looks back towards second...

The pitch
Base hit to right for Palmer
Dick Howser won't risk sending
the runner home...
Runner holds.

A. J. Tucker gets the weighted
donut from Hays
Now Harry saunters to the plate
1 out and 2 on base
Hays bats in the seventh slot
in the order for FOFC
FOFC leads 4 to 3
Candy gets the sign from Ewing
Here's the 1-2 pitch
Lined to first
Tough chance for Brouthers
Base hit!
He couldn't get to it
Potpie scores from third!
Palmer takes third

Here's A. J. Tucker
Old Timers looking for two
Cummings looks down at Ewing for the sign
Now he's ready
Cummings goes into the stretch...
Watches the speedy Palmer at third...
Looks at Hays...
The pitch home
Tucker smacks a hard shot...
CAUGHT!
That ball was lined straight to first
Brouthers just got his glove up in time
It saved his skin and a run!
Cummings gets the second out of the inning
I was talking to Candy before
the game about
how he pitches to various batters
He said he goes over the batters
before the game
with Frank Selee and Ewing
When he gets on the mound
he doesn't like to think too much
He says it gives him "brain cramps"!
Considering his current ERA of 6.02
he needs to do something different!

Fozborg leaves the on-deck circle
He saunters to the plate on
this muggy summer evening
Fozborg taps home plate
Looks into the dugout
Now he's ready
Cummings studies his sign
The pitch to Fozborg...
Sirr Fozborg swings
It's a hot smash, left of McPhee
WOWZA!...
It is stabbed by Bid...
robbing Fozborg of a sure base hit
FOFC gets 1 in the top of the 3rd
One run, 3 hits, no errors
and 2 men left on base
After 2 and a half innings,
FOFC leads by 2

The Old Timers crowd has been pretty quiet
Here is Delahanty to lead off
He certainly will try to liven things up!

If he can get on
Home plate is covered with dirt
The ump cleans it off
Delahanty is set in the batter's box
He's staring intently out at Fozborg
He's waiting for the pitch
Here's the righthander's delivery
Fozborg loses him
Delahanty heads down to first
2 walks today for Delahanty

Dan Brouthers steps into the box
Brouthers is batting .404
with 4 HR's this year
Hays flashes the sign to Fozborg
He's into the stretch
Looks over at first
Quick throw!...
Delahanty dives back in!...
SAFE!
Potpie tosses it back to Fozborg
Now here's the pitch
The pitch gets away from Fozborg
Hays can't handle it
Charge a wild pitch to Fozborg

Dan Brouthers steps into the box
Delahanty is on second, nobody out
The right-hander Fozborg is set
to deliver to Brouthers
Fozborg brings it to the plate
It's a dying quail headed
towards the outfield
OHHHH, snagged by a retreating
Blade for the out
Outstanding range shown on that play!
One gone for Old Timers

Davis now at the plate
Buck Ewing waits on deck
Right-hander Fozborg prepares
for the pitch
to the left-handed swinging Davis
Sirr looks over his shoulder at Delahanty
Fakes a throw...
Now he is ready
The pitch
Groundball to back to the mound
Delahanty is trying to advance
to third base...
A quick glance at the lead runner...
The play is to first...
And Davis is out

Ancients' catcher Ewing
is up next
Ewing is 0 for 1 today
Right-hander Fozborg prepares
for the pitch
to the right-handed swinging Ewing
Sirr comes home quickly
with the 0-2 offering
Change up, a beauty...
Heeee struck him out!
We head to the 4th...
The score is still FOFC 5, Ancients 3

Barrett Blade stops at the on deck circle
Takes a couple more practice swings
Now heads for the plate
Candy Cummings on in relief
of John Clarkson
The pitch on the way, here it is...
Blade rips one to right
He hit it right on the nose...
Thompson is off to the races...
He is coming fast...
He dives...

OUT!
Nice play by Sam Thompson
One down for FOFC
Jeff Nights is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to
the plate for FOFC

Walking up to the plate now is Nights
Persimmon Pflaggstettler waits on deck
FOFC leads 5 to 3
Cummings ready quickly,
looks in for the sign
Cummings' righthanded delivery...
Nights hits a fly ball to center
Ed Delahanty camps under it
He's got it
Two down
Candy Cummings retires
the first two batters in order

Pflaggstettler gets set at the plate
Pflaggstettler is at .302 on the season
Cummings steps off the rubber...
Adjusts his cap...
Now he's ready
Cummings kicks and fires
Pflaggstettler starts... but lays
off the pitch upstairs
Ball four, Cummings walks him

Pflaggstettler takes a walking lead
Pflaggstettler has stolen 7 bases
in 7 attempts in 1900
Cummings looks Pflaggstettler back...
He's taking a shorter lead now

Jeeberoni Potpie is up next
Pflaggstettler, who can fly is at first
Cummings will try to keep him close
FOFC would like to add
to their slim 2 run lead
Pflaggstettler will be running if it's hit
Cummings looks down at Ewing
for the sign...
Shakes him off once... twice
Now he has the pitch he wants
Cummings looks at the runner
The pitch
It is a high hard one...
Potpie goes on a fishin' trip
Strike three swinging!
That one sailed up out of the strike zone
but Potpie couldn't hold back
So that's it for FOFC
They fail to score against Cummings
In the top of the 4th for FOFC
No runs, no hits, no errors
and one man left on base

The second baseman McPhee
will lead off for the Ancients
He'll be followed by Candy Cummings
And then Tommy McCarthy
McPhee is trying to get comfortable
in the box
Digging that back foot in
McPhee looks very intent...
He stares down at Fozborg...
Cocks his bat
The pitch is on the way
Just off the plate
Ball four
That lead-off walk is a killer!

Cummings fouls off the bunt attempt
The count goes to 1 and 2, we'll have
to see if they keep the bunt play on

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

The infield shifts slightly to the left
for the right hand hitting Cummings
Cummings checks with the
coach, Charley Gould
Fozborg shakes off two signs
Now he's ready
Here's the 1-2 offering
Cummings swings and misses
Strike three
Cummings didn't have a good
cut at that pitch
With one down, up next is Tommy McCarthy
To be followed by King Kelly

McCarthy, Old Timers' left fielder,
is coming to the plate
He is finished with his pre-bat warmup
King Kelly waits on deck
Tommy steps out of the batter's
box to get the sign
McCarthy is 1 for 2 today
He flied out last time up
The bat is cocked
Fozborg goes into his stretch...
Looks at McPhee...
He fires one to Potpie...
McPhee dives back in
That's his best move to first...
Potpie lobs it back
Now Fozborg comes home
McCarthy raps a sizzling ground ball
It zips through the hole
Pflaggstettler is over to pick it up
Throws a strike to Nights
No chance to get McPhee at third

King Kelly, the Ancients' third
baseman is up next
Old Timers has 2 men on with 1 out
Stepping out, Kelly looks into the dugout
Steps back in
Fozborg is rubbing the ball up
Now the umpire wants to take a look
No problems found...
Now Fozborg gets the sign from Hays
He's into the stretch
Checks McCarthy at first
Quick throw!
He has to dive back in!...
SAFE!... Close play
Potpie tosses it back to Fozborg
Now here's the pitch
Hard line drive to short
Base hit!
Nights couldn't get to it
McPhee scores from third!
McCarthy takes third

Thompson walks from the on deck circle
Knocks the dirt from his spikes...
Now he steps into the batter's box
Ed Delahanty moves into the on deck circle
Old Timers needs some runs
FOFC has the outfield shaded towards right
Thompson is 1 for 2 today
Fozborg is slow to get ready

He has a 3.74 ERA this year
Now he's ready
Fozborg's 1-0 pitch...
Base hit to center for Thompson
McCarthy scores
Charley Gould is waving Kelly to third...
The throw is cut off...
That holds Thompson at first

Delahanty is up next
One gone, bottom of the 4th
Dan Brouthers moves out on deck
Delahanty goes through his
routine of settling in
Waiting for the pitch is Delahanty
Rodney looks the runners back
Now here's the delivery
Rodney comes with his best heat...
And this time it's too much for Delahanty
As Ed swings right through
it for strike three
Two down
Hays asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Hays and Rodney

The Ancients' first baseman is up next
Old Timers has 2 on board with 2 outs
The lefty hitting Brouthers, will
face the righty Rodney
3 of his 4 home runs are against righties
All set, Brouthers is ready for the pitch
Rodney checks the runners
Rodney bores one right down the pike
Strike three swinging!
Superb fastball that time
That ends the inning for Old Timers
Old Timers has 5 runs,
8 hits and no errors
While FOFC has 5 runs,
9 hits and no errors
Old Timers has now stranded 5 baserunners
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7/23 Radio Broadcast Continued



Here's Gazelle to lead off the inning
He is the left fielder for FOFC tonight
The outfield shades towards
left for Gazelle
He's ready
And the delivery by Cummings
Ball four is the call
Cummings can't believe the call
And barks at the home plate umpire
The ump points out at Cummings
Gazelle takes first base

Candy Cummings gets the hook!
Frank Selee is walking to the mound
They've signaled for the righthander
Tommy Bond will be coming on in relief
He'll be the 3rd hurler used by
the Ancients this evening
Candy Cummings hands the ball over
to Frank Selee and walks off
Tommy Bond is 5-3
with an 5.65 ERA in 32 appearances

Deacon Palmer, the third baseman,
strides to the plate
Palmer looks down toward
the third base coach
And Tommy studies the sign from Ewing...
Now he's got it
Bond's into the stretch...

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

SAFE!...

Brouthers tosses it back to Bond
Now here's the pitch
Base hit to left for Palmer
Dick Howser puts up the stop sign...
Gazelle will stay at second

Slowly coming up is Hays for FOFC
He is finally in the batter's box
The score is tied at 5
Before getting ready
Hays checks out the defensive alignment
Harry waits...
He steps out as Bond takes too long
Now he's back in the box
Bond brings it home
Hays goes after Bond's fastball...
He gets under it a little...
But it is going way back in left-center
Delahanty is retreating after it quickly
He is right at the fence...
He goes up after it...
And brings it down in the webbing!
Harry just missed a homer on that one
Only a long out for the FOFC catcher
One down for FOFC...
Kelly calls time as he comes to the mound
to have a word with the pitcher

I'm sure he wants Bond to bear down
And not worry about the runners

Men at first and second
A. J. Tucker, a dangerous
man at the plate...
3rd this year in the league
in slugging average

He's cruising along at a .388 pace
Bond is taking his sweet time out there
Now he is finished fiddling around
Tommy is in quite a jam
He gets the sign from Ewing
After checking the runners
Here comes the pitch
And Tucker will sit down...
strike three called
One more chance for FOFC
in the top of the 5th

Ton moseys up to the plate
Barrett Blade is heading
for the on-deck circle
Ton is at .272 on the season
He is hitting .256 against righties
Bond wastes no time
He has the sign from Ewing
A quick check of the runners...
And the pitch
Change of pace...
Swung on and popped up
Kelly is waiting...
And that's an easy out
He was certainly fooled on that pitch
That's it for FOFC
Old Timers has 5 runs,
8 hits and no errors
While FOFC has 5 runs, 10
hits and no errors
FOFC has now left 7 runners stranded

George Davis up first for Old Timers
He is a threat to steal if he gets on
Davis is 0 for 2 today
George grounded out last time around
Hunter asks for a new ball...
Gives it a good rubbing down...

Now he steps on the rubber
Now Owen delivers
Davis goes after the change up...
Swung on and slammed to right-center...
Pflaggstettler is going back, back...
He hauls it in... nice catch
FOFC gets the first out of the inning

Nobody on base, one away
Ewing steps into the batter's box
Ewing has hit 16 triples this year
Ewing is poised and ready for the pitch
Here's the 2-2 offering
It's a duck snort headed
towards the outfield
Nights is after it...
Running hard...
He snares it for the out
Excellent range shown on that play!
That's the second out of the inning

Settling in at the plate is McPhee
McPhee is hitting .255
against righthanders
Hunter is happy with the sign
Owen winds
Kicks... and delivers
Pop-up
Hays throws away the mask
He makes the catch
That's all for the Ancients...
After 5 innings here at Cow Pasture
Field in Old Timers,
The score is knotted at 5

Barrett Blade is up to lead
off the top of the 6th
The FOFC second baseman is not the batter
Bond would pick to face
to lead off an inning

He knows how to get on base...
And then things get even
worse for the defense
Blade has hit 3 home runs this year
Tommy looks for the sign he wants...
Shakes off the first one
But he likes the next
He brings it home
Sinking line drive
Caught by King Kelly
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

Caribbean is beating Japanese
League 4 to 0
AL Post WWII is giving it to
Negro League II 5 to 0
Newhouser enjoying the big
AL Post WWII lead
Negro League I leads Left Outs 4 to 3
Goslin has hit his 22nd
homerun for Left Outs
NL Post WWII besting AL Pre WWII 5 to 0
Dead Ball Era and Turn of Century
are deadlocked at 1
Plank battling Waddell
Late 20th slipping by NL Pre WWII 3 to 1
McGwire has hit his 10th
homerun for Late 20th

Coming up for FOFC is Jeff Nights
Nobody on base, one out
Nights wiggles the bat above his head
Nights, batting righthanded
is in his crouch
Ready to face the righthanded Bond
Bond kicks, delivers
Sinker, at the knees...
Swung on...
Nights hits it into the hole
on the right side
McPhee ranging to his left...
Scoops it up...
Throws on the run...
And Nights is out by a step at first
Two down in the 6th
Time for a station break
This is the Strat-O-Matic Broadcast System
your 4 Sports Network...
OK, we're back and ready to go...

Persimmon Pflaggstettler up
The score is tied
Bond tosses the resin bag aside
He steps on the rubber...
Tommy winds his right arm
Lets it go
Pflaggstettler takes the pitch
STRIKE THREE, is the call
Pflaggstettler can't believe it
and says something to the ump
Chalk up a whiff for Bond
Bond sets the All Stars down in order

Here's Tommy Bond to lead off
the inning for Old Timers
We're looking at a beautiful, star filled
night sky, just a great
night for baseball!
Before getting ready
Bond checks out the defensive alignment
Bond waits for the delivery
Hunter brings it to the plate
There's a ground ball into the hole
Palmer and Nights converge on it
It's picked by Palmer who fires to first
OUT is the call
Close play!!
And there's one away

Walking up to the plate now is McCarthy
King Kelly waits on deck
Hunter has the sign from Hays
Hunter brings it home
What a pitch... strike three
Hunter put that one on the
black, a perfect pitch
That's two away
Nights comes over from his shortstop
position to say a few words to Hunter
King Kelly will be next up...

Kelly coming up for Old Timers
Nobody on, two away
Kelly is 3 for 3 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
Blade and Nights are ready
with hands on knees
at second and short
He's ready for the delivery
Here's the 3-1 pitch
King Kelly offers at the curveball,
but checks his swing
Oh, Kelly couldn't get the
bat out of the way
It's a soft line drive to Deacon
Palmer for the out
Kelly never even left the batter's box
That wraps up the inning for Old Timers
By the way, Old Timers is 3 and
7 in their last ten games

Potpie is walking to the plate
Now he steps into the batter's box
The outfield's shaded towards
left for Potpie
He's 2 for 3 today
Right-hander Bond prepares for the pitch
to the right-handed swinging Potpie
The pitch is on the way
A jug-handled curve
Potpie goes out and gets it
It's a liner to left
McCarthy will have to hurry...
Here he comes...
No sir... he has to play
it on the short hop
Single for Jeeberoni Potpie

Gerald Gazelle, the left fielder,
strides to the plate
Potpie takes his lead
Bond squeezes the resin bag...
Peers in
Here comes the cripple pitch
There's a routine pop by Gazelle
George Davis moves under the ball
He makes the routine catch
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's take a ten second station break
This is your Strat-O-Matic
Broadcast System
Your four sports network!

Potpie at first, one away
Palmer is ready for the pitch
Palmer is a tough man up
there at the plate
He's hard to get past in the lineup
Deacon certainly knows how to get on base
He'll make Bond earn his salary
Palmer is ready
Bond brings it to the plate
He goes after the low slider
At the knees...
There's a fly ball into straight-away left
McCarthy slides under it...
one hands it...
Almost drops it, but hangs on
That could have been a costly
error by McCarthy

Two gone for FOFC

Hays leaves the on-deck circle
He saunters to the plate on
this muggy summer evening
Hays saunters to the plate
The righthander is 1 for 3 on the day
He'll be going against the
righty hurler, Bond
Hays is hitting .291 versus
righties this year
Of his 10 homeruns,
4 came while facing righties
Tommy is ready
Now Tommy delivers
Hays swings and lofts one
softly into center
Delahanty comes in...
Now backs up a couple steps
And makes the catch
That'll do it for FOFC
So we're still tied
After 6 and a half innings
Old Timers has 5 runs,
8 hits and no errors
While FOFC has 5 runs, 11
hits and no errors

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

Sam Thompson will lead it
off for Old Timers
We are coming into the bottom of the 7th
Tight game
Owen gets the sign from Hays
Here's the windup... and the pitch
Lined right back up the middle...
Hunter has it...NO, he drops it
But he'll pick it up in plenty of time
To throw over and get his man at first
Now Old Timers has one away
Frank Selee is signalling something
to Charley Gould
Now he is up on the dugout steps
calling out to Ed Delahanty
The Ancients' manager is
really into this game
Tie score, late in the contest
He wants to leave no stone unturned

Walking up now to the plate is Delahanty
So far this year Delahanty
is batting .351
He has 34 doubles, 4 triples
9 homeruns with 77 RBI's
and 17 stolen bases
Hunter is ready quickly
Hunter winds
Kicks the left leg high...
Delahanty hits a screamer at Barrett Blade
Blade picks it up and fires to first
The throw pulls Potpie off the bag
Potpie swipes with the glove

Delahanty is out!
Nice play by Potpie
Two up, two down for the Ancients

Brouthers walks slowly to home plate
Hunter's had mixed success
against him in the past
Brouthers can't seem to get
settled at the plate
Dan steadies his bat
And waits patiently for Hunter's pitch
The pitch is on the way
Curve, at the belt...
Brouthers times his swing...
Hammers a long fly ball...
Gerald Gazelle retreats toward the fence
He leaps...

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

Up next for the Ancients
The hometown shortstop, George Davis
George will be facing the
right-handed Hunter
from the left side of the plate
The Ancients switch hitter is
hitting .243 on the year
He hits righties at a .257 clip
Hays flashes the sign to Hunter
Hunter winds and delivers
Belt high fastball, on the outside corner
Grounded to short
Nights ranging into the hole...
He backhands it...
Plants his right foot...
Fires to first
SAFE!...By a step

Davis takes his lead
Hunter looks the runner back

With a runner at first and two outs
Ewing walks to the plate
Buck is batting .310 with 5
home runs on the season
He is 0 for 3 today
Hunter is asking for a new ball...
And now gets one...
He's set now
It's coming down the pike
Drilled on the ground to third
Palmer grabs it
Over to Potpie
Got him!
Score It: 5-3
That is the third out for Old Timers here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 45302

Tucker 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
Tucker is trying to get comfortable
in the box
Digging that back foot in
Tommy Bond looks in at Ewing for the sign
They have been in synch most of the night
Bond has pitched 3 innings
since coming on in the 6th
Now we're set to go
The pitch to Tucker...
Tucker hits one on the ground
to the left side
A. J., who moves well,
is motoring to first
Kelly wings it quickly to Brouthers...
OUT by a step
One up, one down

One out, nobody on base
Old Timers leads 6 to 5 in the eighth
Here comes Stan Gunner to face Bond
Against righthanders
Gunner is hitting .256
He should get a good one to knock
The count 3 and 1
Stan gets the bat back...
Bond fires
Comebacker, right to Bond
Over to Brouthers for the easy out
Two down
Ewing asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Ewing and Bond

And now here's Barrett Blade
Jeff Nights on deck...
Two outs here in the top of the 8th
Blade is 2 for 4 today
Barrett lined out last time up
Ewing flashes the sign...
Bond waves it off...
Now he's happy
Here's the pitch
Blade rips the curve to left-center...
Delahanty racing back to the fence...
He reaches for the drive...
Can't quite reach it!!...
Blade makes it easily into second
That's a double for Blade

Next up is Jeff Nights
Blade is the runner on second
He represents the tying run
Bond is asking for a new ball...
The ump throws him a new one...
Bond looks in...
Now he's ready
Davis trying to slip in behind Blade
Now he slips away
Here's the 2-0 offering
Base hit to left for Nights
Dick Howser is waving the runner home...
The throw is cut off...
And that allows the run to score

Nights stretches his lead
Nights held closely by Bond

Persimmon Pflaggstettler will
get a crack at Bond next
Jeeberoni Potpie would be up next...
But only if Pflaggstettler
can reach safely
Pflaggstettler is at .301 on the season
He is hitting .308 against righties
Pflaggstettler readies himself
for the pitch
The righthander Bond delivers
Pflaggstettler gets under this one
It's popped high in the air to third
Kelly is waving everybody off
Pflaggstettler is retired
The All Stars refuse to go down quietly...
They tie it here with 1 run
We go to the Old Timers half of the 8th...
It's all tied up...
Ancients 6, All Stars 6

Here's Bid McPhee
Leading off the inning for Old Timers
It's a beautiful, clear night sky
One couldn't ask for a better
night for baseball
The score is knotted at 6
Kronside studies his sign
The righthander delivers
Sinking fastball...
McPhee swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Palmer...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
One up, one down for Old Timers

One away, nobody on base
Bond stands ready at the plate
Bond swinging from the right side
facing the righty Kronside
Kronside has the sign he wants
Kronside kicks and fires
Shallow fly ball
Tucker charging
HE DIVES...
HE'S GOT IT!
That's two away for the Ancients
We have a real "nail-biter" here today

McCarthy leaves the on-deck circle...
He's going back to get a new bat...
Now he jogs to the plate
Tommy is 2 for 4 this summer evening
He's batting .314 on the season
Now set, McCarthy waits for the pitch
Jace comes home quickly
with the 0-2 offering
There is a shot right up the middle
Hit right on the nose by McCarthy
It bounces right into the
waiting glove of Tucker
McCarthy has himself a single

McCarthy inches away from the base
The runner can't seem to get a good lead

The third baseman, King Kelly, is up next
McCarthy will be running if it's hit
The right-hander Kronside is
set to deliver to Kelly
Kronside's righthanded delivery...
Kelly is gone on strikes
Left with the bat still in
the cocked position
We head to the 9th...
The scored is tied, 6-all

It is the top of the 9th,
The score is tied at 6
Here come the "big guns" for FOFC
Jeeberoni Potpie will start things off
Gerald Gazelle will follow
Potpie, FOFC's first baseman,
is out at the plate
He will see if he can get things going
Potpie is 3 for 4 today
Tommy Bond steps off the
mound toward second
Gives the resin bag a toss
Now he toes the rubber...
He's ready to go
And the cripple pitch...
The pitch comes inside...
Potpie rips the fastball...
There's a high deep drive by Potpie
It's still going...
The wind is carrying that one...
OUTTA HERE, it's gone
Homer number 28 for Potpie
He also has 76 RBI's and a
.291 batting average

Tommy Bond gets the hook!
Frank Selee is walking to the mound
They've signaled for the righthander
Al Spalding will be coming on in relief
He'll be the 4th hurler used by
the Ancients this evening
Tommy Bond hands the ball over
to Frank Selee and walks off
Al Spalding is 4-1
with an 3.58 ERA in 22 appearances

Gazelle is up now for FOFC
The outfield shades towards
left for Gazelle
Gazelle cocks his bat
Here's the 1-1 offering
Gazelle pounds a grounder
toward Davis at short
George moves in front of it...
Whoops... a bad bounce
But Davis stayed with it
Over to first and Gazelle is retired
Nice play by the Old Timers short stop
One down for FOFC
Deacon Palmer is still in
the on-deck circle
and Harry Hays is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Next up is Deacon Palmer,
the FOFC third baseman
Time is called...
Palmer has asked the ump
to clean the plate
We'll be ready in a second...
OK, now we are ready again
Palmer gets set for the pitch
Spalding brings it to the plate
Good slider, inside part of the plate
Palmer gets the bat on it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
McPhee grabs it...
Throws to first...
OUT!
That's the second out of the inning
Time to check the scoreboard
These scores are final...
Caribbean squeezed by Japanese
League 4 to 2
AL Post WWII ripped Negro League II 7 to 1
Negro League I nipped Left Outs 4 to 3
Goslin has hit his 22nd
homerun for Left Outs
NL Post WWII gets an easy win
over AL Pre WWII 8 to 2
Turn of Century toppled
Dead Ball Era 5 to 1
Waddell the winner, he's now 9-10
Bender takes the loss, his
record drops to 4-5
Late 20th edged out NL Pre WWII 4 to 3
And in our contest FOFC ahead 7 to 6

And the batter is Harry Hays
A. J. Tucker is on-deck
Hays adjusts his glove...
Steps into the box...
Harry is 1 for 4 this evening
Spalding looks down at Ewing for the sign

Now he's ready...
Here's the righthander's delivery
It's a pop-up in back of short
Davis is under it
Still waiting...
Now he clutches it for the out
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
So After 8 and a half innings
FOFC has 7 runs, 14 hits and no errors
While Old Timers has 6 runs,
11 hits and no errors
FOFC has left 9 stranded
Old Timers has failed to bring home 8

Leading off for the Ancients
is the right fielder Thompson
He'll be followed by Ed Delahanty
And then Dan Brouthers
Sam is 2 for 4 today
He precedes Ed Delahanty in the order
as the first of the Old Timers
"run producers"
He has 27 doubles with 13 home runs
so far in 1900
Sam steadies his bat
Waits patiently for Kronside's pitch
Here's the 1-2 offering
Fastball, STRIKE THREE!
Thompson was frozen on that
fastball by Kronside
High and on the outside corner
He was looking for an off-speed pitch
So one up and one gone

So that brings up Ed Delahanty
the Old Timers center fielder
We'll see how they pitch to Delahanty
Delahanty, a righthand hitter
Waits patiently for the
pitch from Kronside
Now Jace delivers
Fastball... just outside
Delahanty will take first on the walk
Ed knows how to get on base
His OBP of .418 is among
the league leaders

Delahanty moves away from first
It's a pitchout!
Hays steps out...
Delahanty takes off!
Quickly out of his stance Hays fires...
It's high...
The catch...
The tag...
STOLEN BASE!

Dan Brouthers steps into the box
FOFC has the outfield shaded towards right
Brouthers is 1 for 3 today
Kronside looks down at Hays for the sign
Shakes him off once... twice...

Now he has the pitch he wants
Kronside brings it to the plate
Just off the plate
Ball four

Delahanty sneaks away from the base
Delahanty is going on the pitch!
It's a fastball at the knees...
The throw...
Low throw into the dirt...
Bouncing off the bag and
out into leftfield...
Gunner is charging in...
Davis gets up and heads for home...
The long throw home...
NOT IN TIME!!...
Credit Delahanty with a stolen base
and a run scored on the error

George Davis steps into the box
Runner on 3rd, 1 man out
Hays flashes the sign...
Kronside shakes it off,
he wants another...

Now he's happy
Righthander Kronside's delivery
It's hit high and deep
Gerald Gazelle giving chase
This one is deep!
HE JUMPS . . .
HE CAN'T GET IT
HOMERUN!
The fans are going wild
here in Old Timers!!!
George Davis has just won the game
And his teammates gather at home plate
They greet him as he crosses the plate!!!
That is George Davis' 7th
home run of the year.
Old Timers wins 9 to 7
Spalding gets credit for the win
Kronside takes the loss
The hitting star for Old Timers
was George Davis
He was 2 for 5 with a homerun
And that wraps things up
So long from Old Timers.
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BOXSCORE: 1000 FOFC All Stars At 2001 Old Timers Ancients 7/23/1900 All Stars AB R H RBI AVG Ancients AB R H RBI AVG B.Blade 2B 5 3 3 1 .269 T.McCarthy LF 5 2 3 0 .317 J.Nights SS 4 0 1 3 .281 K.Kelly 3B 5 1 3 2 .300 P.Pflaggstettler RF 4 1 1 0 .300 S.Thompson RF 5 0 2 2 .298 J.Kronside P 0 0 0 0 .000 E.Delahanty CF 2 1 0 0 .350 J.Potpie 1B 5 2 4 2 .291 D.Brouthers 1B 3 2 1 2 .403 G.Gazelle LF,RF 4 0 0 0 .274 G.Davis SS 5 1 2 2 .248 D.Palmer 3B 5 0 3 0 .332 B.Ewing C 4 0 0 0 .309 C-D.Fouts 3B 0 0 0 0 .271 B.McPhee 2B 3 2 1 0 .250 H.Hays C 5 0 1 1 .333 J.Clarkson P 0 0 0 0 .121 A.Tucker CF 4 1 1 0 .291 C.Cummings P 1 0 0 0 .000 S.Fozborg P 1 0 0 0 .000 T.Bond P 2 0 0 0 .211 J.Rodney P 0 0 0 0 ---- A.Spalding P 0 0 0 0 .200 A-K.Ton PH 1 0 0 0 .270 O.Hunter P 0 0 0 0 .071 B-S.Gunner PH,LF 1 0 0 0 .259 -- -- -- --- -- -- -- --- Totals 39 7 14 7 Totals 35 9 12 8 A-Pinch Hit For Rodney In 5th Inning B-Pinch Hit For Hunter In 8th Inning C-Subbed Defensively (3B) For Palmer In 9th Inning INJURY: John Clarkson INJURED (for 15 more games) in 1st inning All Stars....... 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 - 7 14 1 Ancients........ 2 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 3 - 9 12 0 All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA S.Fozborg 3 1/3 8 5 5 3 2 0 78 3.84 J.Rodney 0 2/3 0 0 0 0 2 0 7 2.88 O.Hunter 3 2 1 1 0 1 1 42 5.25 J.Kronside LOSS(7-2) 1 1/3 2 3 3 2 2 1 34 2.63 Totals 8 1/3 12 9 9 5 7 2 Ancients IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA J.Clarkson 0 1/3 1 1 1 0 0 0 3 5.78 C.Cummings 3 2/3 8 4 4 2 2 0 76 5.84 T.Bond 4 5 2 2 0 2 1 75 5.59 A.Spalding WIN(5-1) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 3.45 Totals 9 14 7 7 2 4 1 ATTENDANCE- 45,302 DATE- Monday, July 23rd 1900 TIME- Night WEATHER- Good T- 3:16 LEFT ON BASE- All Stars: 9 Ancients: 8 DOUBLE PLAYS- All Stars: 0 Ancients: 0 ERRORS- H.Hays DOUBLES- B.Blade-2(15th), J.Potpie(18th), K.Kelly(19th) TRIPLES- B.Blade(5th), P.Pflaggstettler(8th) HOME RUNS- J.Potpie(28th), D.Brouthers(5th), G.Davis(7th) STOLEN BASES- E.Delahanty-2(19th), D.Brouthers(13th) SACRIFICE HITS- S.Fozborg, C.Cummings SACRIFICE FLIES- J.Nights, D.Brouthers WALKS- P.Pflaggstettler, G.Gazelle, E.Delahanty-3, D.Brouthers, B.McPhee STRIKE OUTS- P.Pflaggstettler, J.Potpie, G.Gazelle, A.Tucker, T.McCarthy, K.Kelly, S.Thompson, E.Delahanty, D.Brouthers, B.Ewing, C.Cummings WILD PITCHES- S.Fozborg, C.Cummings PASSED BALLS- B.Ewing WEB GEMS- Bot 5th: Persimmon Pflaggstettler robbed George Davis of an extra base hit.

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Heading back to the clubhouse, I turn to Dick and ask, "Did the NL Post team win?"

"Yep..."

"Great...just great...a bad loss and now we are out of first to top it off..."
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7/24 Radio Broadcast - Game 108

Welcome everyone to Cow Pasture Field
The players are on the field
and we're almost ready to go
As Barrett Blade prepares to face Radbourn
let's check out the Old Timers defense
At first base is Anson
Davis is down at the hot corner
Kelly and Ward
are at second and short, respectively
From left to right... Delahanty,
Hamilton and Thompson
and now Ewing is just
settling in behind the plate
Here's his delivery
He rips a grounder to second
Kelly comes up with it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 4-3
One gone for FOFC

Nights gets set at the plate
Nights can't seem to get
settled at the plate
One ball, one strike
The pitch is on the way
Jeff pops it up
And Ward makes the play

Persimmon Pflaggstettler will step
in to face Radbourn next
If he gets on, Jeeberoni
Potpie will follow
Persimmon takes a couple of practice cuts
Persimmon is ready for the delivery
Here's the 2 strike pitch
Sinking fastball...
Pflaggstettler swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Ward...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
So that's it for FOFC
They fail to score against Radbourn
In the top of the 1st for FOFC
No runs, no hits and no errors

FOFC has taken the field
here in the bottom of the first...
Here's the way they look, defensively
In the outfield from left to right
Gunner in left...
Tucker in center...
And Pflaggstettler in right

The infield, third to first
Fouts will play the hot corner
Nights is at short
Over at second, Blade
and at first base Potpie
Taking the hill is Nielsen and
the backstop is Bullock
Old Timers center fielder, Billy
Hamilton, will lead off
Hamilton grips the bat handle
Hamilton waits patiently
The lefthander winds and delivers
He bunts the ball!
Fouts fields it and fires to first
And he is . . .
OUT!

Nobody on base, one away
Ward steps into the batter's box
Ward is trying to get comfortable
in the box
Digging that back foot in
Ward waits
Windup by Nielsen
And the pitch
Ward hits a three hopper
towards Barrett Blade
Blade scoops it and fires
it to first for the out
Two down
Rob Nielsen retires
the first two batters in order

Delahanty is up now for Old Timers
Delahanty is hitting .350 with 9 homeruns
Ed also has 34 doubles and 4 triples
And has driven in a total of 77 runs
Delahanty awaits the pitch
Nielsen throws the 2-2 pitch
Pounded on the ground to first
Potpie to Nielsen covering first
Score It: 3-1
That wraps up the inning for Old Timers
By the way, Old Timers is 4 and
6 in their last ten games

Potpie is walking to the plate
Now he steps into the batter's box
Radbourn looks down at Ewing for the sign
Now he's ready
Way ahead in the count
Radbourn turns the 0-2 pitch loose
It's a high pop-up in back of short
Ward is under it
Still waiting...
Now he clutches it for the out
And there's one away

The left fielder, Stan Gunner, is up next
Gunner needs to get on...
He has a .352 on base percentage
Gunner cocks his bat
He brings it home
Gunner hits it sharply on the ground...
into the hole at third
Davis dives...
It's through for a base hit!
He almost got his glove on it...
Gunner reaches on a sizzling
single to left
A nice try by the third
baseman, George Davis

Billy Bullock will try his
luck against Radbourn
This is a very difficult background
to hit against
There is shade at home plate
But, bright sun on the mound
So far this season
Bullock is hitting .249
when facing righthanded pitching
Old Hoss gets the sign from Ewing
The righthander delivers
Bullock sits on the change up
He lofts a fly ball towards Delahanty
Delahanty gliding under it...
Appears to lose sight of it
Has it again...
And makes the catch in medium left
That's the second out of the inning

Fouts steps in
Gunner's trying to rattle
Old Hoss Radbourn
by taking a big lead off first
He can drive a pitcher to drink
Fouts is at .271 on the season
Radbourn wastes no time
He has the sign from Ewing
The stretch... the delivery
Fouts swings
It is popped down the line
Kelly is giving chase
The ball is drifting foul
Kelly dives
Got it!
That does it in the top of the 2nd
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After 1 and a half innings, No score

Power hitting Sam Thompson will lead off
Old Timers' clean-up hitter
will see what he can do
against FOFC's Rob Nielsen
Thompson is at .298 on the season
Thompson is ready
The lefthander Nielsen delivers
Sinking fastball...
Thompson goes down after it...
And slaps a hard grounder
right at Nights...
He scoops it up, over to first...
And Thompson is out by a step
FOFC gets the first out of the inning

Anson departs the on-deck circle
He makes his way quickly to the plate
Anson scuffs up the lines around the box
He should get a good one to knock
The count 3 and 1
Cap gets the bat back...
Rob is ready to zip it homeward
Here it comes
It's a quail shot headed
towards the outfield
Nights takes off after it...
Leaps...
And Anson is OUT!
Very impressive range shown on that play!
Jeff is very fine fielder!
Two down
Rob Nielsen retires
the first two batters in a row

"Highpockets" will be up next
Kelly is batting .281 with
11 homers this year
Nielsen rubs down the ball...
Now he's asking for a new one
After he rubs this one down
He looks in for the sign
Nielsen leans back and fires
And Kelly will sit down...
strike three called
1-2-3, nothing across...

A. J. Tucker up first for FOFC
He is a threat to steal if he gets on
Tucker is at .291 on the season
Radbourn is slow to get ready

He has a 3.60 ERA this year
Now he's ready
Old Hoss rocks and fires
There's a high pop in front of the plate
Looks like the ball is drifting foul
Ewing calls for it
and makes the play
As the ump signals a foul ball
One down for FOFC
Rob Nielsen is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to
the plate for FOFC

Slowly coming up is Nielsen for FOFC
He is finally in the batter's box
We're scoreless
The right-hander Radbourn is
set to deliver to Nielsen
Radbourn brings it home
Ground ball through the middle
Ward ranges behind second
Nice pick up...
Twists and fires it
OUT!
Two up, two down for FOFC

Blade coming up for FOFC
Nobody on, two away
Right-hander Radbourn eyes
the righty Blade
Radbourn brings it to the plate
Hard slider, paints the inside corner
Blade gets a piece of it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Anson grabs it...
Races to first...
Beats Blade for the out
That does it for FOFC in
the top of the 3rd

George Davis stops at the on deck circle
Takes a couple more practice swings
Now heads for the plate
Davis wiggles the bat above his head
Now set, Davis waits for the pitch
Nielsen brings it to the plate
Davis swings hard...
But he was fooled on the pitch
Nubs it off the fists
It's dribbling toward short
Nights charges in on it...
Bare hands it...
Sidearms it to first...
Davis beats it out by a whisker
It was a bleeder...
Davis' speed got him a hit on that one
Looks good in tommorrow's box score
He'll take it

Davis sneaks away from the base
Nielsen fires it behind Davis...
Davis dives back...
He's safe!

Old Timers catcher, Buck Ewing, is up next
Ewing checks with the coach, Charley Gould
Ewing gets set for the pitch
Nielsen goes into his stretch...
Looks over at Davis
Fires to Potpie...
Davis is back easily...

We're ready again
Now Nielsen comes home
Ewing drives the ball to
left for extra bases
Charley Gould is waving the runner home...
The throw is cut off...
And that allows the run to score
Double for Ewing

Radbourn, the pitcher, moves
into the batter's box

Old Timers on top 1 to 0
Before getting ready
Radbourn checks out the
defensive alignment
Nielsen adjusts his belt...
Looks in for the sign from Bullock
The lefty Nielsen delivers
Nielsen comes in there with a dipsy-do
And Radbourn is frozen stiff...
He can only watch as the ball
just nips the "black" of the plate...
STRIKE THREE!
One gone for Old Timers

Hamilton moseys up to the plate
John Ward is heading for
the on-deck circle
One out, man on second
Bullock flashes the sign...
Nielsen shakes it off, he wants another...

Now he's happy
Nielsen looks back towards second...

The pitch
Hamilton just gets a piece of it
He 'drizzles' it to second
Blade races in quickly...
Barehands it...
Over to first
Just in time!
The runner moves up easily...
What a day out here at beautiful
Cow Pasture Field
Sunny skies, a light summer breeze
This is what makes baseball
the national pastime
Summer is what people think of when
they think of their childhood
It stirs up an incredible
emotion within people
And the sport synonymous with
summer is baseball

Now here's Ward
Ward is 0 for 1 today
Nielsen gets the sign, it's one he likes
The lefthander Nielsen comes home with it
And Ward will sit down...
strike three called
After 3 innings today,
the Ancients lead by 1

The FOFC shortstop, Nights,
will lead off
He'll be followed by Persimmon
Pflaggstettler
And then Jeeberoni Potpie
Nights has a .273 average against
righthanders this season
Nights is set
Here's the righthander's
windup and delivery
Nights rips one to center
He hit it right on the nose...
Hamilton is off to the races...
He is coming fast...
He dives...

OUT!
Nice play by Billy Hamilton
One up, one down here in
the top of the 4th

Nobody on, one away for FOFC
Up now is Pflaggstettler
Radbourn is rubbing the ball up
Now the umpire wants to take a look
No problems found...
Now Radbourn gets the sign from Ewing
The pitch to Pflaggstettler...
Pflaggstettler tries to hold up, but can't
He pops one into short right
Thompson is coming in hard...
Kelly is racing with his
back to the infield
And neither is going to get it!
Pflaggstettler is on with
the "excuse me" single!

Potpie is ready to face Radbourn
Jeeberoni Potpie is hitting
.293 this year
against righthanded pitchers
Radbourn squeezes the resin bag...
Peers in
He's into the stretch
Takes a look over to first
Quick throw!
Pflaggstettler dives back in!...

SAFE!
Anson tosses it back to Radbourn
Now here's the pitch
Fastball
Ball four

Radbourn looks down at Gunner
as he steps in
Stan is ready to go
Gunner swinging from the left side
of the plate against the righty Radbourn
Stan is eagerly awaiting Radbourn's pitch
Here's the righthander's delivery
Gunner wallops the change to right
It's hit very high and very deep
Thompson turns after it...
Races to warning track...
But can only wave goodbye
Stan was going for the downs on that one
And he got it there!

Bullock is up near the batter's box
He is going through his obligatory ritual
Finally, he steps in
Against righthanders
Bullock is hitting .247
Billy stands with bat ready
Old Hoss winds his right arm
Lets it go
It's a dying quail headed
towards the outfield
OHHHHH, snagged by a retreating
Ward for the out
Outstanding range shown on that play!
That's out number two
Frank Selee moving around
Hollers something down at Radbourn
Old Hoss nods "UH HUH"

Dan Fouts is the next batter
this sunny afternoon
Ewing flashes the sign...
Radbourn waves it off...
Now he's happy
Righthander Radbourn's delivery
Drilled deep to right field
This one is deep!
BACK-BACK-BACK-BACK-BACK,
GONE!!!
That is Dan Fouts' 16th
home run of the year.

Tucker saunters to the plate...
He stretches out a little...
Taps the dirt from his spikes...
Now he steps into the batter's box
Tucker is hitting .284 against righties
Radbourn steps off the mound toward second
Gives the resin bag a good squeeze...

Now he toes the rubber...
He's ready to go
Here's the 1-1 offering
Slow ground ball
Anson is charging it
He fires it to first
He's OUT
That retires the side...
but not soon enough for Old Timers
They lose the lead after allowing 4 runs
The All Stars now are up by 3
We'll be right back...

Leading off the bottom of
the 4th is Ed Delahanty
Delahanty is 0 for 1 today
Ed grounded out last time up
The umpire says let's go
Delahanty is ready
Now Rob delivers
It's a routine fly into right
Pflaggstettler ranges over and reaches up
He grabs it for the out
That's one away

One out, nobody on base
FOFC on top 4 to 1 in the fourth
Here comes Sam Thompson to face Nielsen
Thompson a lefty in the batter's box
facing the lefthanded Nielsen
A battle of lefties...
Waiting for the pitch is Thompson
Nielsen fires
Good slider, inside part of the plate
Thompson gets the bat on it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Blade grabs it...
Throws to first...
OUT!
Two down

Anson finishes his practice swings
Now he strides to the batter's box
The righthander, Anson has
an average of .273
His success against lefties, like Nielsen
is better, however, at .306
Set now is Anson
The 3-0 delivery by the lefthander
He lays off the pitch
Ball four, he walks

George Kelly will make his
way to home plate
He's the second baseman for Old Timers
Kelly is trying to get comfortable
in the box
Digging that back foot in
Nielsen looks down at Bullock for the sign

Now he's ready...
Nielsen goes into his stretch...
Looks at Anson...
He fires one to Potpie...
Anson dives back in
That's his best move to first...
Potpie lobs it back
Now Nielsen comes home
Nielsen loses him
Kelly heads down to first

The tying run comes to the plate,
in the person of George Davis
Ancients with 2 runners on base
The All Stars lead, 4-1
Davis is 1 for 1 on the day
He looks around at the FOFC infield
Potpie is kicking the dirt at first
Fouts is even with the bag at third
Blade and Nights are ready
with hands on knees
at second and short
Rob peers in for the sign...

Shakes off the first one...
Likes the second one
Here's his delivery
Base hit to center for Davis
Charley Gould will send the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Anson scores!

While Old Hoss Radbourn heads
for the on deck circle
Buck Ewing makes his way to the plate
Ewing has hit 5 home runs this year
Nielsen likes the sign
The home town crowd is
yelling out to Kelly
telling him to watch out
as Blade sneaks in behind him
He shortens up his lead...
Now Nielsen delivers the 3-2 offering
Nielsen loses him
Ewing heads down to first
Davis and Kelly move up a base
Bases are waterlogged

Old Hoss Radbourn, the Old Timers pitcher,
steps into the batter's box
FOFC leads 4 to 2
He has a chance here to drive
home at least one
Radbourn digs in from the right side
of the plate against the southpaw Nielsen
Nielsen steps off the rubber...
Adjusts his cap...
Now he's ready
The southpaw's 3-1 delivery
Hit on the ground to short
Nights comes up with it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 6-3
And that's the final out of the inning
FOFC has 4 runs, 4 hits and no errors
While Old Timers has 2 runs,
3 hits and no errors
Old Timers has left 3 men on base today

Rob Nielsen, Barrett Blade, and
Jeff Nights are due up
And Old Hoss studies the
sign from Ewing...
Now he's got it
Old Hoss winds... kicks... and delivers
Curve, a beauty...
Strike three looking!
Radbourn punches him out!
One up, one down for FOFC

Barrett Blade makes his way to home plate
Blade is at .267 on the season
He is hitting .249 against righties
Radbourn mops his brow with
a big red bandanna
It's a hot, muggy summer day
Now the delivery, here is is...
Sharp breaking curveball...
Blade reaches for it...
Hits a two bouncer right to Ward...
Grabs it easily...
Fires a bullet to Anson at first!
Blade is out easily
That's two away

Up now for FOFC is Nights
Two away, nobody on
The outfield's shaded towards
left for Nights
He's 0 for 2 today
After getting set, Nights
waits on the pitch
The windup, the pitch
Nights hits a screamer at John Ward
Ward picks it up and fires to first
The throw pulls Anson off the bag
Anson swipes with the glove

Nights is out!
Nice play by Anson
Radbourn sets them down in order
Here in the top of the 5th

The center fielder Hamilton will
start things off for the Ancients
Nielsen shakes off two signs
Now he's ready
Nielsen kicks and fires
Sinker, at the knees...
Swung on...
Hamilton hits it into the
hole on the right side
Blade ranging to his left...
Scoops it up...
Throws on the run...
And Hamilton is out by a step at first
With one down, up next is John Ward
To be followed by Ed Delahanty

The shortstop, John Ward
will be up next for Old Timers
Nielsen studies his sign
The pitch is on the way
He lays off the pitch
Ball four, he walks

Ward watches Nielsen move...
He's moving away from the bag
Fastball in the dirt
Blocked nicely by Bullock
And Ward is off and running!
Bullock handles the pitch...
Comes up firing with a lot
of mustard on the throw
Great job by Bullock!...
Ward slides...
OUT at second...
As Ward slides directly into the tag
Good throw by Bullock

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

The infield shifts slightly to the left
for the right hand hitting Delahanty
FOFC ahead 4 to 2
Nielsen is ready quickly
It's a full count...
Nielsen winds and fires...
It's wide... he missed with a slider
Delahanty will stroll down to first
He continues to get on
base with regularity
He has a .418 OBP this year

Delahanty a few feet off the bag at first
Delahanty is not working very
hard to get a lead

Sam Thompson steps into the box
Nielsen has the sign from Bullock
Nielsen's into the stretch...

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

SAFE!...

Potpie tosses it back to Nielsen
Now here's the pitch
The pitch is low
It bounces away from Bullock!
He's got it
But there's no throw.
It's scored a wild pitch.
Delahanty takes second

Sam Thompson steps into the box
Thompson digs in
Thompson cocks the bat
He rocks and fires
WATCH OUT!
Nielsen has hit Thompson!
Now Thompson gets up
and brushes himself off
He's not a big fan of "chin music"
and he's letting Nielsen know about it!
The ump tells Thompson to take his base
Kelly will be the pinch runner

Anson is up next
FOFC on top 4 to 2
Kelly on first, Delahanty
is down at second
Two outs in the bottom of the 5th
Infield playing back
Bullock flashes the sign to Nielsen
A quick check of the runners...
And the pitch
Ground ball to second
Taken by Blade
Over to Potpie
Got him!
Score It: 4-3
That retires the side...
Cap Anson fails to come
Through in the clutch
That's something you won't see very often
Old Timers' defensive changes are...
Kelly will bat 4th and play RF

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7/24 Radio Broadcast Continued



Pflaggstettler 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
Radbourn eyes Pflaggstettler intently
Radbourn's behind on the count
Here's the 2-0 offering
There's a towering fly ball
hit by Pflaggstettler
Kelly sprints over, and makes the catch
One down for FOFC
Jeeberoni Potpie is still
in the on-deck circle
and Stan Gunner is looking
for a bat in the dugout

One away, nobody on base
Potpie stands ready at the plate
Potpie is 0 for 1 today
He is currently batting .291
Delahanty, Hamilton and Kelly
are playing him deep
Potpie looks very intent...
He stares down at Radbourn...
Cocks his bat
Radbourn rocks and fires
Potpie hits a long drive
It's hooking down the left field line
If it's fair, it's out of here...
It goes FOUL!
. . . Potpie back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Change up...
Fools Potpie...
He still manages to hit
a grounder to first
Anson BOOTS THE BALL!!!
Potpie is safe at first on the error
Score It: E3
Potpie to first

Gunner, FOFC's left fielder,
is coming to the plate
He is finished with his pre-bat warmup
Billy Bullock waits on deck
Looking to Dick Howser for a sign
Time is called...
Don't know what for...

Now we appear ready
And the delivery by Radbourn
It's a rocket over second
Kelly leaps
He's got it!
Quickly over to first
Double play!
That's all for FOFC
After 5 and a half innings in
Old Timers this afternoon,
FOFC on top 4 to 2

To lead off this inning is George Kelly
Old Timers needs a pair to tie this game
The left-hander Nielsen is now ready
Here's the 3-2 offering
Kelly is gone on strikes
Left with the bat still in
the cocked position
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

Caribbean with the lead over
Japanese League 5 to 2
Tiant Jr. comfortably ahead for Caribbean
AL Post WWII is giving it to
Negro League II 12 to 7
Negro League I is embarrassing
Left Outs 13 to 2
Day and Negro League I are
on cruise control
NL Post WWII slipping by
AL Pre WWII 8 to 6
Aaron has hit his 37th homerun
for NL Post WWII
Dead Ball Era with the lead over
Turn of Century 3 to 0
NL Pre WWII is on top of Late 20th 3 to 1
Alexander and Maddux currently dueling

The Ancients will send
George Davis up to the plate
Davis is looking for another hit
He has 2 hits so far today
He is hitting .252 on the year
Davis waits for the pitch
His bat is coiled
Nielsen winds and delivers
The 2-0 pitch
Fastball up at the shoulders...
Davis still goes after it...
Rips one down the right field line
Chasing after it is Pflaggstettler...
He won't get it!...
Davis is digging for third...
Pflaggstettler has it, makes
the hurried throw
Fouts takes it on the short hop
The slide...
SAFE! at third

That'll bring up catcher, Buck Ewing...
FOFC leads by 2
We're in the bottom of the 6th
The outfield shades towards left for Ewing
Ewing tells the umpire he's ready
The southpaw Nielsen's delivery
Ewing flies out to center
Charley Gould is giving the green light...
Here's the play at the plate...
Davis scores!

Radbourn leaves the on-deck circle
He saunters to the plate on
this muggy summer day
Radbourn steps out of the box...
Looks towards Charley Gould for a sign
Old Hoss waits...
He steps out as Nielsen takes too long
Now he's back in the box
Here's his delivery
Curveball in the dirt
Swung on and missed...Strike three
Bullock fumbles it,
but quickly recovers to tag Radbourn
That's it for Old Timers
Here at Cow Pasture Field,
After 6 innings,
FOFC has 4 runs, 4 hits and no errors
While Old Timers has 3 runs,
4 hits and one error
Old Timers has left 4 on base
FOFC has stranded 1

Here's the catcher Bullock
To lead off the inning
He'll be followed by Dan Fouts
And then A. J. Tucker
Right-hander Radbourn eyes
the righty Bullock
Here's the windup... and the pitch
Sinking fastball...
Bullock swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Ward...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
With one gone
FOFC will have Dan Fouts coming up
A dangerous hitter, no doubt about it

Fouts heads to the plate for FOFC
The infield is at regular depth
Fouts is batting .274 with
16 homers this year
Fouts awaits the delivery
Radbourn brings it to the plate
Sinking fastball...
Fouts goes down after it...
And slaps a hard grounder
right at Davis...
He scoops it up, over to first...
And Fouts is out by a step
That's the second out of the inning

Walking up to the plate now is Tucker
Rob Nielsen waits on deck
Tucker is at .290 on the season
Set now is Tucker
Righthander Radbourn's delivery
It's a Texas Leaguer to right
Here comes Kelly...
He is really motoring...
He reaches down...
But catches it on one hop!
Tucker is on with a bloop single to right

Tucker a few feet off the bag at first
Tucker is held closely by Radbourn

With a runner at first and two outs
Gonzalez walks to the plate
FOFC leads 4 to 3
Radbourn is saying a few words to Kelly...
So far in 1900,
Old Hoss has a 7 and 7 record
with 8 complete games
OK, now he looks in for the sign
And the cripple pitch...
Smashed into left field
It's a single for Gonzalez
(Ballpark Double Effect)
Tucker takes third

Two on, two outs...
Blade steps to the plate
Blade is hitting .248
against righthanders
Blade is set for the 1-0 pitch
Old Hoss rocks and fires
Blade swings and lifts one toward center
Hamilton drifts over slowly...
He is under it now...
And makes the easy catch...
That does it for FOFC in
the top of the 7th

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

Billy Hamilton up first for Old Timers
He is a threat to steal if he gets on
Billy is 0 for 3 this summer afternoon
He's batting .299 on the season
Billy steadies his bat
And waits patiently for Mighty's pitch
The pitch is on the way
Mighty comes with his best heat...
And this time it's too much for Hamilton
As he swings right through
it for strike three
So one up and one gone

Coming up for Old Timers is John Ward
Nobody on base, one out
Ward is 0 for 2 today, with 1 walk
Ward is set for the pitch
Now Al delivers
Ward drives one into center
A. J. Tucker sprints over to make the play
Two gone for Old Timers

Delahanty coming up for Old Timers
Nobody on, two away
So far this year Delahanty
is batting .348
He has 34 doubles, 4 triples
9 homeruns with 77 RBI's
and 19 stolen bases
Mighty looks down at Bullock for the sign
Now he's ready
Mighty leans back and fires
It's popped behind home plate
Bullock throws down his mask
He's running back
At the screen...
The wind blows it...
Right back to him
Ed Delahanty is out
That wraps up the inning for Old Timers
So After 7 innings
FOFC has 4 runs, 6 hits and no errors
While Old Timers has 3 runs,
4 hits and one error
Old Timers has left 6 stranded
FOFC has failed to bring home 3

Nights is coming to the plate
He stops to towel off his face
It's very humid today...
He's looking to get something going
FOFC on top 4 to 3
Radbourn steps on the rubber
Now Old Hoss delivers
Fastball... Nights swings...
Bangs a deep drive...
This one is really hit!...
There's not much doubt about this one
Over the fence... HOME RUN!!
Another homer for Nights, number 12

Now at the plate will be Pflaggstettler
right fielder for FOFC today
Pflaggstettler is trying to get
comfortable in the box
Digging that back foot in
Old Hoss gets the sign from Ewing
Radbourn brings it to the plate
Slider, down at the knees...
Cut on by Pflaggstettler...
He smashes a hard shot...
It's through into left field...
Ward made a great effort
But the ball was just out of his reach

Pflaggstettler watches Radbourn carefully
As he stretches out his lead
Potpie takes the low fastball
Pflaggstettler breaks for second!
The peg down...
A hard rolling slide...
Pflaggstettler knocks Ward off the bag...
It's a stolen base with a nasty slide
You know that wasn't necessary
He went in with his spikes up
Someone could have been seriously injured
The fans here in Old Timers are unhappy

If this was hockey that might have been
called a boarding penalty!

Jeeberoni Potpie steps into the box
Potpie is at .290 on the season
He is hitting .292 against righties
Potpie waits for the pitch
His bat is coiled
Radbourn fires
Low and inside
It hit him on the foot!
Potpie tried to dance out of the way
But it got him

Stan Gunner is up next
He'll be hitting with 2 men on board
Gunner is batting .266 with
12 HR's this year
Ewing flashes the sign...
Radbourn shakes it off,
he wants another...

Now he's happy
Now to the belt, here it is...
Popped up to the right side...
Anson is all by himself
He handles it in fair ground
One out
Due up next is Billy Bullock

Now batting will be Billy Bullock
The catcher is walking to the plate
Two on... one out
FOFC up by 2
Bullock is 0 for 3 today,
with no strike outs
Radbourn is ready quickly
After checking the runners
Here comes the pitch
STRIKE THREE!
He swung on a ball that was in the dirt
Bullock was overanxious up there
That was almost a wild pitch
That's two away

Walking slowly up for FOFC is Fouts

The outfield is playing him deep
And shaded to the right
They are showing respect for his power
Fouts is at .272 on the season
Old Hoss Radbourn on the mound
for the Ancients...
Radbourn has gone the distance so far
He's given up 8 hits and 5 runs
Radbourn looks over at Potpie...
Now back at Pflaggstettler...

He's coming home with it
Hard line drive to second
Kelly grabs it for the out
Score It: 4
That's it here in the top of the 8th
It's 5-3 in favor of
the visitors from FOFC
We'll be back in just a moment

Kelly leading off
Old Timers would like to get
some runners on base
The outfield shades towards left for Kelly
Kelly waits for the pitch
His bat is coiled
Knowles kicks and fires
Fastball, swung on and missed
Take a seat Mr. Kelly!
That's one away

And the batter is Cap Anson
George Kelly is on-deck
Anson is hitless today, 0 for 2
Cap grounded out in his last at bat
Anson waits for the pitch
Knowles brings it to the plate
A slider by Knowles
Anson gets good wood on it...
Gazelle back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
FOFC ahead 5 to 3 with two away
Let's check some other scores as well

Caribbean is beating Japanese
League 6 to 2
Concepcion has hit his 4th
homerun for Caribbean
AL Post WWII is pounding Negro
League II 15 to 8
Negro League I is crushing
Left Outs 13 to 3
AL Pre WWII leads NL Post WWII 10 to 9
Ruth has hit his 42nd homerun
for AL Pre WWII
Quite a year for the slugger
Dead Ball Era is edging Turn
of Century 3 to 2
Chesbro battling Rusie
NL Pre WWII leads Late 20th 3 to 2

Kelly finishes his practice swings
Now he strides to the batter's box
Kelly grips the bat handle
The righthander pitching to Kelly...
A righthanded batter
Righties have a .234 average
against Sammy
Into the windup... here's the pitch
Fly ball to right
Pflaggstettler is under it
This should do it...
He grabs it for the out
The Ancients are retired
It's 5-3 as we come to the 9th

Tucker will come up to lead off
the top of the 9th for FOFC
Tucker will be batting lefty
versus Radbourn
The switch hitter is 1 for 3 today
.292 average on the year
Last time up he singled
Radbourn has the sign from Ewing
Radbourn rocks and fires
Fastball, down and in...
Tucker laces a hit into the outfield...
Kelly picks it up
Fires it quickly into the infield
Tucker holds with a single
Good start to the inning for FOFC

Stretching to his lead is Tucker
He has this down to a science
He is an outstanding base stealer
He gives opposing teams fits
Tucker is not working very
hard to get a lead

Gerald Gazelle will face Radbourn
Righty against righty
Old Hoss looks for the sign he wants...
Shakes off the first one
But he likes the next
It's coming down the pike
Dribbler in front of home
Ewing grabs it
Throws to second
He's out
Could be two . . .
Not in time!
Score It: 2-6
The runner on first, Tucker, is out
With one down

Anson yells something out to Radbourn
Old Hoss nods his head

Gazelle stretches his lead
Radbourn snaps a throw to Anson...
It's close...
SAFE

Blade is the batter
Gazelle's the runner on first
He's doing a little jig off first
to rattle the pitcher
Blade goes through his routine
of settling in
Blade readies himself for the pitch
Gazelle takes a walking lead
Radbourn looks at the runner
The pitch
Blade is gone on strikes
Left with the bat still in
the cocked position
Two down
Ewing asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Ewing and Radbourn

Nights is up next
Two out with Gazelle at first
Nights is 1 for 4 on the day
He looks around at the Old Timers infield
Anson is kicking the dirt at first
Davis is even with the bag at third
Kelly and Ward are ready
with hands on knees
at second and short
The umpire says let's go
The pitch to Nights...
Grounded down the line
Davis comes up with it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 5-3
The All Stars are gone in
the 9th... they get
No runs, one hit, no errors and
one man left on base...
We head to the bottom of the 9th...
FOFC ahead 5 to 3

George Davis will step into the
box to start the inning
Old Timers would like to get
some runners on board
The outfield's shaded towards right
With Davis at the plate
He's ready for the delivery
Here's the righthander's delivery
Sinker, down at the knees...
Swung on...
Davis hits a Baltimore chop...
Past the infield into center for a single!
That was a difficult ball to handle

One on, no outs
Coming up for Old Timers is Ewing
Buck is batting at .312 with 5 home runs
He is 1 for 1 so far today
Knowles likes the sign
Knowles checks Davis on first
Now the 2 strike pitch
Here's a big breaking curve, inside...
Ewing takes a cut at it...
Hits a grounder to third
Fouts comes up with the smooth pickup...
He tosses it to second...
That's one out
The relay to first...
Not in time
Ewing beats the throw by a step
One down for Old Timers
Old Hoss Radbourn is still
in the on-deck circle
and Billy Hamilton is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Old Hoss Radbourn is scheduled
to bat next, but...
Looks like we'll be seeing a pinch hitter
Yes Dan Brouthers is stepping
out to the on-deck circle
Frank Selee will send Dan
up to face Knowles
Brouthers has a knack for getting on base
His .470 OBP proves that
He is hitting righties at a .402 pace

Dan Brouthers is coming to the plate
FOFC leads by 2
We're in the bottom of the 9th
Brouthers is batting .403 with
5 round trippers in 1900
Waiting for the pitch is Brouthers
Now ready, here it is...
The hit and run is on!
A low curveball to Brouthers
He swings a bit late
but hits it right up the middle
Ewing is going to try for third
Tucker is over, picks it
up and fires to Fouts
One bounce...
The slide by Ewing...
SAFE!
Quick throw to second to hold
Brouthers at first
Now Blade fires it to first...
Brouthers just dives back safely!
Smart call by Frank Selee!

Frank Selee will send in a pinch
runner for Dan Brouthers
Charlie Comiskey is trotting
out to first base

Billy Hamilton is up next for Old Timers
One out, bottom of the 9th
FOFC on top 5 to 3
John Ward is on deck
Men on 1st and 3rd
Kronside steps on the rubber...
Looks in for the sign
The righthander delivers
A high fastball...
Hamilton swings late...
He hits a routine pop just left of Bullock
Billy is under it...
And takes it in for the easy out
Hamilton was looking for the breaking ball
Two down
Due up next is John Ward
Let's see what happens now

Frank Selee will pinch it for John Ward
He wants Roger Connor to
hit against Kronside
Time to score some runs
Connor has the runners on board
He just needs to move them along
Roger is batting .333;
.317 as a pinch hitter
Ed Delahanty will follow

Coming up to the plate is Connor
Ancients have runners at first and third
Comiskey on first represents the tying run
Connor has a .313 average against
righthanders this season
The bat is cocked
Here's the 2-1 offering
A high fastball...
Connor swings late...
He hits a routine pop just left of Blade
Barrett is under it...
And takes it in for the easy out
Connor was looking for the breaking ball
Connor chokes in the clutch!
And that will do it for Old Timers
FOFC wins 5 to 3
Nielsen gets credit for the win
Kronside notches the save
Radbourn takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Stan Gunner
He was 2 for 4 with a homerun
He also knocked in 3 runs
And that wraps things up
So long from Old Timers.
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Old 05-24-2013, 11:00 PM   #688
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7/24 Boxscore
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BOXSCORE: 1000 FOFC All Stars At 2001 Old Timers Ancients 7/24/1900 All Stars AB R H RBI AVG Ancients AB R H RBI AVG B.Blade 2B 5 0 0 0 .264 B.Hamilton CF 5 0 0 0 .298 J.Nights SS 5 1 1 1 .280 J.Ward SS 3 0 0 0 .217 P.Pflaggstettler RF 4 1 2 0 .303 F-R.Connor PH 1 0 0 0 .326 J.Potpie 1B 2 1 0 0 .290 E.Delahanty LF 3 0 0 0 .347 S.Gunner LF 4 1 2 3 .264 S.Thompson RF 2 0 0 0 .297 S.Knowles P 0 0 0 0 ---- A-K.Kelly PR,RF 1 0 0 0 .299 J.Kronside P 0 0 0 0 .000 C.Anson 1B 3 1 0 0 .271 B.Bullock C 4 0 0 0 .257 G.Kelly 2B 3 0 0 0 .278 D.Fouts 3B 4 1 1 1 .270 G.Davis 3B 4 2 4 1 .257 A.Tucker CF 4 0 2 0 .293 B.Ewing C 2 0 1 2 .311 R.Nielsen P 2 0 0 0 .107 O.Radbourn P 3 0 0 0 .220 B-D.Gonzalez PH 1 0 1 0 .303 D-D.Brouthers PH 1 0 1 0 .405 A.Mighty P 0 0 0 0 .102 E-C.Comiskey PR 0 0 0 0 .417 C-G.Gazelle LF 1 0 0 0 .272 -- -- -- --- -- -- -- --- Totals 36 5 9 5 Totals 31 3 6 3 A-Pinch Ran For Thompson In 5th Inning B-Pinch Hit For Nielsen In 7th Inning C-Subbed Defensively (LF) For Mighty In 8th Inning D-Pinch Hit For Radbourn In 9th Inning E-Pinch Ran For Brouthers In 9th Inning F-Pinch Hit For Ward In 9th Inning INJURY: Sam Thompson INJURED (for 0 more games) in 5th inning All Stars....... 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 1 0 - 5 9 0 Ancients........ 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 - 3 6 1 All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA R.Nielsen WIN(15-5) 6 4 3 3 5 5 0 107 3.13 A.Mighty HOLD(2nd) 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 11 3.79 S.Knowles HOLD(3rd) 1 1/3 1 0 0 0 1 0 17 1.60 J.Kronside SAVE(11th) 0 2/3 1 0 0 0 0 0 9 2.60 Totals 9 6 3 3 5 7 0 Ancients IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA O.Radbourn LOSS(7-8) 9 9 5 5 1 3 3 124 3.72 Totals 9 9 5 5 1 3 3 ATTENDANCE- 46,569 DATE- Tuesday, July 24th 1900 TIME- Day WEATHER- Good T- 3:10 LEFT ON BASE- All Stars: 6 Ancients: 8 DOUBLE PLAYS- All Stars: 0 Ancients: 1 ERRORS- C.Anson DOUBLES- B.Ewing(17th) TRIPLES- G.Davis(9th) HOME RUNS- J.Nights(12th), S.Gunner(12th), D.Fouts(16th) STOLEN BASES- P.Pflaggstettler(8th) CAUGHT STEALING- J.Ward SACRIFICE FLIES- B.Ewing WALKS- J.Potpie, J.Ward, E.Delahanty, C.Anson, G.Kelly, B.Ewing HIT BY PITCH- J.Potpie, S.Thompson STRIKE OUTS- B.Blade, B.Bullock, R.Nielsen, B.Hamilton, J.Ward, K.Kelly, G.Kelly-2, O.Radbourn-2 WILD PITCHES- R.Nielsen
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7/25 Radio Broadcast - Game 109

Welcome to FOFC Stadium!
And in a moment we'll be ready
for the game between
FOFC and Caribbean
So folks, pull up a chair
and spend part of your evening with us
The ump shouts "PLAY BALL!"
We're ready to go here in FOFC
Minnie Minoso to lead it off for Caribbean
Babson winds and delivers
Fastball, a beauty...
Steee Rike THREE!
And there's one away

Pacheco is up now for Caribbean
Pacheco swinging from the left side
of the plate against the righty Babson
Babson is slow to get ready

He has a 3.63 ERA this year
Now he's ready
Here's the windup... and the pitch
Fly ball to right
Pflaggstettler is under it
He makes the grab
One more chance for Caribbean
in the top of the 1st

Up next for the visiting Estrellas
Pancho Coimbre, their left fielder
Coimbre is batting .305 with
14 HR's this year
Babson has the sign he wants
Babson brings it to the plate
Just off the plate
Ball four

Walking up to the plate now is Cepeda
Tony Oliva waits on deck
Cepeda swinging from the right side
facing the righty Babson
Hays flashes the sign...
Babson waves it off...
Now he's happy
Here's the 3-2 offering
Babson just misses outside
Ball four to Cepeda

Runners at first and second
Tony Oliva is due up
He's a dangerous homerun hitter
as evidenced by his being
2nd in the league
in the long ball
11 to his credit
Tony Oliva is hitting .308 this year
against righthanded pitchers
Oliva awaits the delivery
Babson's righthanded delivery...
A slider by Babson
Oliva gets good wood on it...
Tucker back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
After one-half inning
It's Caribbean nothing, the
All Stars coming up

Here's the second baseman Blade
To lead off the inning
He'll be followed by Jeff Nights
And then Persimmon Pflaggstettler
Blade is one of the best hitters around
Mendez steps off the rubber...
Adjusts his cap...
Now he's ready
Here's the righthander's delivery
Sinking fastball...
Blade swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Concepcion...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
And there's one away

Making his way up is Nights
Jeff takes a couple of practice cuts
Mendez wastes no time
He has the sign from Gonzalez
Now to the belt, here it is...
Nights hits a screamer at Dave Concepcion
Concepcion takes it with the backhand...
The throw is short...
Cepeda scoops it on one hop

Nights is out!
Nice play by Cepeda
That's the second out of the inning

Persimmon Pflaggstettler is
advancing to the plate
No score as yet in the early going
Pflaggstettler has 18 doubles this year
Pflaggstettler is set
The initial offering to Pflaggstettler
is on its way...
Pflaggstettler hits one on the
ground to the left side
Persimmon, who moves well,
is motoring to first
Concepcion wings it quickly to Cepeda...
OUT by a step
Three up, three down for FOFC

Gonzalez will come up to lead off the
top of the 2nd for Caribbean
Scoreless game
Gonzalez is hitting .307 against righties
Gonzalez, batting righthanded
is in his crouch
Ready to face the righthanded Babson
Babson will try to get Gonzalez
to go fishing
as the 0-2 pitch heads towards the plate
It's a duck snort headed
towards the outfield
Nights is after it...
Running hard...
He snares it for the out
Excellent range shown on that play!
One down for Caribbean
Omar Linares is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to the
plate for Caribbean

Linares, Caribbean's third baseman,
is coming to the plate
He is finished with his pre-bat warmup
Dave Concepcion waits on deck
We'll see how they pitch to Linares
Waiting for the pitch is Linares
And the righthander starts
to work on Linares
Here comes the pitch
Linares rips one to center
He hit it right on the nose...
Tucker is off to the races...
He is coming fast...
He dives...

OUT!
Nice play by A. J. Tucker
Two down
Brian Babson retires
the first two batters in order

Up now for Caribbean is Concepcion
Two away, nobody on
Watching Babson, Concepcion
wiggles the bat
He's ready for the pitch
Dave steadies his bat
Waits patiently for Babson's pitch
Babson goes into his windup
And here's the 3-1 offering
Concepcion hits a fly ball to left
Stan Gunner camps under it
He's got it
1-2-3, nothing across...

Jeeberoni Potpie, Stan Gunner, and
Harry Hays are due up
Mendez has the sign from Gonzalez
Mendez brings it to the plate
Potpie hits a screamer at Omar Linares
Linares picks it up and fires to first
The throw pulls Cepeda off the bag
Cepeda swipes with the glove

Potpie is out!
Nice play by Cepeda
With one gone
FOFC will have Stan Gunner coming up
A dangerous hitter, no doubt about it

One out, nobody on base
Stan Gunner is the batter
Against righthanders
Gunner is hitting .259
Jose Mendez steps off the
mound toward second
Gives the resin bag a toss
Now he toes the rubber...
He's ready to go
With a 3-2 count, the pitch
There's a shot off the bat of Stan Gunner
But it's right at Pacheco
who makes the catch of the line drive
Gunner throws his bat into
the dirt in disgust
Scoreless game with two away this inning

Next up is Harry Hays, the FOFC catcher...
If he gets on, Deacon Palmer
would bat next
Mendez likes the sign
Mendez fires
Fly ball to right
Oliva is under it
This should do it...
He grabs it for the out
That's three up, three down
FOFC has no runs, no hits and no errors
While Caribbean has no runs,
no hits and no errors

Jose Mendez is coming to the plate
He loves to hit
and is quite good at it too
Babson will have to be careful
Babson wastes no time
He has the sign from Hays
Brian rocks and fires
Letterhigh, hard slider...
Swung on...
It's a line drive belted toward Nights
It's by him...
Gunner comes in...
Plays it off his chest
Recovers quickly, throwing into second
Good defensive recovery
Keeping Mendez to a single

The 5'10", 175 pound Havana-born
Minnie Minoso is coming up to bat
Minnie steps out to check for his sign
Now he steps back in
Matty Alou relays the sign
from Felipe Alou
Minoso struck out last time up
and now is 0 for 1
The umpire says let's go
He brings it home
Curve painting the inside corner
Swung on...
Bounced right to short
Fielded, the throw to 2nd...
They get the force for the out
That's one away

Now up for Caribbean, Pacheco
A real speedster Minoso is on first
They'll need to keep an eagle-eye on him
Pacheco can't seem to get
settled at the plate
Pacheco waits patiently for the pitch
His bat is coiled
Babson brings it home
Pacheco sits on the change up
He lofts a fly ball towards Tucker
Tucker gliding under it...
Appears to lose sight of it
Has it again...
And makes the catch in medium center
Two gone for Caribbean

Coimbre digs in at the plate
Ready now for Babson to come set
Pancho is hitting at .305 on the year
He has 129 hits in 423 at bats
This includes 22 doubles, 4 triples
14 home runs and 55 RBI's
Coimbre tells the umpire he's ready
Babson goes into his stretch
Looks over at the fidgety Minoso
He lobs one to Potpie...
Minoso is back easily
We're ready again
Now Babson comes home
Coimbre watches a roundhouse
curve all the way in
Strike Three called!
That one started out right at Pancho,
In fact, he started to bend back
out of the way
Babson just delivered a sweeping curve
that just caught
the inside corner of the plate
So ends the top of the 3rd
For Caribbean
No runs, one hit, no errors
and one man left on base
After 2 and a half innings, Scoreless game

Deacon Palmer is up to lead off the inning
The crowd is chanting for FOFC
to get things going
Palmer is batting .332 with
5 HR's this year
Jose peers in for the sign...

Shakes off the first one...
Likes the second one
The pitch is on the way
Change up...
Palmer hits a fly ball to right
Oliva is under it...
He's got it
One up, one down

The center fielder, A. J. Tucker
will be up next for FOFC
Mendez steps off the mound toward second
Gives the resin bag a good squeeze...

Now he toes the rubber...
He's ready to go
Now Jose delivers
Tucker swings and lines it
on the nose to right
Oliva picks it up on one bounce
Flips it in to second
Tucker rounds first and holds
with a sharply hit single
He hit a curve ball
that he was just "sitting" on

Tucker takes a walking lead
Tucker is held closely by Mendez

Babson fouls off the bunt attempt
The count goes to 1 and 2, we'll have
to see if they keep the bunt play on

Babson is up next
FOFC has a runner at first and one out
Mendez looks down at Gonzalez
for the sign...
Shakes him off once... twice
Now he has the pitch he wants
The pitch to Babson...
Babson hits one toward third
Linares fronts it...
Oops, he bobbles it...
Now he has the handle...
Long throw to first
Babson is safe by two steps!
Error on the play

Barrett Blade is up next
He'll be hitting with 2 men on board
Barrett is 0 for 1 this summer evening
He grounded out in his last
plate appearance
Mendez is ready quickly
The pitch is on the way
Base hit to right for Blade
Dick Howser is giving the green light...
The throw is coming home...
Tucker is out!

Now batting will be Jeff Nights
Two men on, two men out
Mendez adjusts his belt...
Looks in for the sign from Gonzalez
Jose comes home quickly
with the 0-2 offering
Nights pops it straight up
over the infield...
And it will be Concepcion making the play
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
Time to check out the rest of the scores

Japanese League is edging
Dead Ball Era 1 to 0
Oh has hit his 38th homerun
for Japanese League
Negro League I leads Negro
League II 1 to 0
Rogan and Redding currently dueling
NL Post WWII is edging AL Post WWII 1 to 0
Morgan has hit his 18th homerun
for NL Post WWII
AL Pre WWII and NL Pre WWII
have yet to score
Left Outs leads Old Timers 1 to 0
Late 20th is comfortably ahead
of Turn of Century 11 to 5
Johnson enjoying the big Late 20th lead
And in our contest We're scoreless

It's the Estrellas' turn at bat
here in the top of the 4th
Perucho Cepeda, Tony Oliva,
and Miguel Gonzalez
are due up to face righthander
Brian Babson
Babson adjusts his cap...
Now he's set
The kick and the pitch
He rips a grounder to the mound
Babson comes up with it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 1-3
With one down, up next is Tony Oliva
To be followed by Miguel Gonzalez

So that brings up Tony Oliva
the Caribbean right fielder
Oliva is trying to get comfortable
in the box
Digging that back foot in
He's ready
Here comes the 3-1 "cripple pitch"
The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
Oliva held up, and draws a walk
Babson isn't happy at all with that call

One away, Oliva at first
Gonzalez is coming to the plate
Gonzalez is at .283 on the season
Babson likes the sign
Babson goes into his stretch
Looks over at the fidgety Oliva
He lobs one to Potpie...
Oliva is back easily...

We're ready again
Now Babson comes home
Fastball, a dandy...
Steee Rike THREE swinging!
Miguel looked like Casey on that pitch
Went for the HIGH CHEESE!
Two down

With a runner at first and two outs
Linares walks to the plate
Linares is batting .240 with
14 homers this year
Babson steps on the rubber...
Looks in for the sign
Now ready, here it is...
Linares goes after Babson's fastball...
He gets under it a little...
But it is going way back in left-center
Gunner is retreating after it quickly
He is right at the fence...
It's out of here!
Omar just hit home run number 15
of this 1900 season

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

The infield shifts slightly to the left
for the right hand hitting Concepcion
Brian Babson has struck out 3 and walked 3
He's rubbing up the ball as he
looks over at Benton Breeze
Babson's 1-0 pitch...
Concepcion pulls one into left field
Hooking away from Gunner
Stan is there
He's got it for the out
That's it for Caribbean
Here at FOFC Stadium, After
3 and a half innings,
Caribbean has 2 runs, 2 hits and one error
While FOFC has no runs,
2 hits and no errors
Caribbean has left 3 on base
FOFC has stranded 2

Although behind by 2 runs
FOFC does have the heart of their line-up
coming up to face Jose Mendez
Mendez's shut the door on FOFC so far
Beautifully pitched game by Jose
FOFC has only 2 hits
Pflaggstettler is 0 for 1 today
Mendez is happy with the sign
Righthander Mendez's delivery
Fastball...
Pflaggstettler jumps all over it...
It's juiced to deep left
There goes Coimbre after it
Racing hard...
He dives...
And he's got it!!!
Beautiful play by Pancho Coimbre!
One gone for FOFC

One out, nobody on base
Caribbean leads 2 to 0 in the fourth
Here comes Jeeberoni Potpie to face Mendez
And Jose studies the sign from Gonzalez...
Now he's got it
Here is the 0-1 pitch
Drilled on the ground to short
Concepcion grabs it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 6-3
Two up, two down

Gunner waltzes up to the batter's box
FOFC trails by 2 runs
We're in the bottom of the 4th
Mendez steps on the rubber
Pacheco comes in a couple steps
Yells something to Mendez
The delivery
Hard ground ball to short
Taken by Concepcion
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 6-3
The All Stars go down in order...
After 4 full innings,
it's 2-0 Estrellas

Jose Mendez, Minnie Minoso,
and Antonio Pacheco are due
up for the Estrellas
Caribbean leads, 2-0
Babson looks down at Hays for the sign
Shakes him off once... twice...

Now he has the pitch he wants
Babson brings it to the plate
Grounded towards the bag
Palmer comes up with it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 5-3
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

Dead Ball Era with the lead over
Japanese League 4 to 1
Schalk has hit his 2nd homerun
for Dead Ball Era
Negro League II and Negro League
I are all knotted at 1
Redding battling Rogan
NL Post WWII is on top of
AL Post WWII 2 to 0
Bench has hit his 17th homerun
for NL Post WWII
NL Pre WWII leads AL Pre WWII 1 to 0
Left Outs and Old Timers
are deadlocked at 1
Late 20th toppling Turn of Century 12 to 5
Johnson enjoying the big Late 20th lead

Minoso settles in at the plate
Minnie is 0 for 2 this summer evening
He's batting .265 on the season
Minoso cocks his bat
Now Brian delivers
Let up pitch, inside and low
Swung on...
High hopping ball towards left...
Into the hole...
Stopped there by Nights before
it gets through...
He starts to throw but stops
Minoso has the infield single

Minoso watches Babson move...
He's moving away from the bag
Babson holds the runner close to the bag

Antonio Pacheco strides to the plate
Caribbean ahead 2 to 0
Antonio is hitting at .285 on the year
He has 119 hits in 418 at bats
Today, he is 0 for 2
Pacheco flied out his last time up
Now set, Pacheco waits for the pitch
Now the delivery, here is is...
Pacheco is gone on strikes
Left with the bat still in
the cocked position
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

Next up is Pancho Coimbre, the
Caribbean left fielder
Coimbre gets set
He's 0 for 1 so far
Coimbre waiting on the delivery
Here's his delivery
Routine grounder to second
Blade comes up with it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 4-3
That wraps up the inning for Caribbean
So After 4 and a half innings
Caribbean has 2 runs, 3 hits and one error
While FOFC has no runs,
2 hits and no errors
Caribbean has left 4 stranded
FOFC has failed to bring home 2
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Hays is walking to the plate
Now he steps into the batter's box
Mendez looks down at Gonzalez for the sign

Now he's ready...
Mendez brings it to the plate
He rips a grounder to short
Taken by Concepcion
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 6-3
So one up and one gone

Deacon Palmer is coming to the plate
Caribbean leads by 2
We're in the bottom of the 5th
Palmer is a tough man up
there at the plate
He's hard to get past in the lineup
Deacon certainly knows how to get on base
He'll make Mendez earn his salary
He's ready for the delivery
The pitch on the way, here it is...
Smash to short
Dave Concepcion boots the ball
He's charged with an error
That's 2 miscues for Caribbean
this evening

And it brings up A. J. Tucker
On deck is Brian Babson
Barrett Blade in the hole
Tucker is 1 for 1 today
Mendez is on the first-base
side of the rubber...
And the delivery by Mendez
Tucker hits a screamer at Antonio Pacheco
Pacheco picks it up and fires to second
Out there...
And the throw to first
A tailor made double play
That's all for the All Stars
No runs, no hits and one error...
After five complete...
Caribbean leads 2 to 0

Cepeda saunters to the plate
He does some stretching...
Knocks the dirt from his spikes...
Now he steps into the batter's box
Cepeda looks down toward
the third base coach
Brian is set to go... a quick
look toward Hays again
Now he steps back to get
a squeeze of the resin bag
Caribbean's clean-up hitter is waiting
Babson has allowed 8 taters
to righties this year
And 16 when facing lefties
Here's the 2 strike offering
Swing and a miss
Struck him out
Number 139 on the season for Babson
One out
Due up next is Tony Oliva

Tony Oliva steps up to the plate
Oliva is one of the best hitters around
Babson looking in
Here's the pitch
WATCH OUT!
Babson has hit Oliva!

Miguel Gonzalez is at the plate
Gonzalez digs into the box
Gonzalez is ready for the pitch
Here comes the pitch
Base hit to center for Gonzalez
Oliva is racing towards third...
The throw is going to third...
Oliva is safe at third!
And Gonzalez advances to
second on the throw

Dave Concepcion gets the weighted
donut from Linares
Now Omar saunters to the plate
1 out and 2 on base
Linares bats in the seventh slot
in the order for Caribbean
Caribbean ahead 2 to 0
Linares is 1 for 2 today
Hays flashes the sign...
Babson shakes it off, he wants another...

Now he's happy
Babson kicks and fires
This one is fogged right through!
Swung on late by Linares
Strike Three swinging!
Babson gives him his Sunday Pitch
to register strikeout number
6 this evening
And there's two away

Dave Concepcion will face Babson
Righty against righty
The outfield shades towards
left for Concepcion
He'll try to get the runners in
He awaits the pitch
Babson checks the runners
Here's the 2 strike offering
Swung on and missed...
Concepcion is down on strikes
That's it for Caribbean
Caribbean has 2 runs, 4 hits and 2 errors
While FOFC has no runs,
2 hits and no errors
Caribbean has now left 6 runners stranded

Fouts steps up to the plate for FOFC
It's the bottom of the 6th at FOFC Stadium
Time is called...
Fouts has asked the ump to clean the plate
We'll be ready in a second...
OK, now we are ready again
Fouts waits on Mendez
It's coming down the pike
Fastball... down and away...
NO! It's called a strike
And Fouts is outta there
Caribbean gets the first out of the inning

Coming up for FOFC is Barrett Blade
Nobody on base, one out
Blade has hit 3 home runs this year
Jose gets the sign from Gonzalez
Way ahead in the count
Mendez turns the 0-2 pitch loose
Blade lifts a medium foul ball
towards the first base dugout
Gonzalez gives chase as does Cepeda
They both dive but can't come up with it
Blade gets a reprieve
. . . Blade back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Breaking ball...
It darts down and out
as Blade swings way over it
He was fooled completely
Gonzalez loses it momentarily,
but now finds the handle and tags
Barrett as he was heading for the dugout
Two down in the 6th
Time for a station break
This is the Strat-O-Matic Broadcast System
your 4 Sports Network...
OK, we're back and ready to go...

Two away, nobody on
Nights comes to the plate for FOFC
Mendez is asking for a new ball...
The ump throws him a new one...
Mendez looks in...
Now he's ready
The righthander Mendez delivers
Hot shot grounded to short
Taken by Concepcion
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 6-3
That ends the inning
After 6 innings, Caribbean leads by 2

Here's Mendez to lead off the inning
Before he does...
lets take a look at the scoreboard

Dead Ball Era leads Japanese League 5 to 4
Negro League II and Negro
League I are tied at 2
Wilson has hit his 21st homerun
for Negro League II
AL Post WWII is on top of
NL Post WWII 4 to 2
Doby has hit his 6th homerun
for AL Post WWII
AL Pre WWII slipping by NL Pre WWII 7 to 5
Ruth has hit his 43rd homerun
for AL Pre WWII
Left Outs and Old Timers are tied at 1
Late 20th winning over Turn
of Century 12 to 6
Piazza has hit his 18th
homerun for Late 20th
And in our matchup Caribbean on top 2 to 0
Mendez scuffs up the lines around the box
Mendez waits for the pitch
His bat is coiled
Rodney winds and delivers
The 3-2 pitch
It's a wicked breaking ball
Out of the strike zone
Mendez checks his swing
Hays appeals to the first base umpire
He held up, ball four
Never a good time for a lead-off walk
But especially not late in the game

Mendez takes his lead
Rodney looks Mendez back...
He's taking a shorter lead now

Minoso fouls off the bunt attempt
The count goes to 1 and 2, we'll have
to see if they keep the bunt play on
Minoso looks to lay one down
He bunts it . . .
A quick glance at the lead runner...
Fielded by J.Potpie
the throw to first...
Out
Minoso gets the job done.
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's take a ten second station break
This is your Strat-O-Matic
Broadcast System
Your four sports network!

So with 1 on and 1 out
the Estrellas send their second baseman,
Antonio Pacheco, up to face Rodney
Good-hitting Pancho Coimbre is waiting
in the on-deck circle
Pacheco is hitting .287
against righthanders
Rodney has the sign from Hays
The 0-2 pitch...
Rodney lets it fly...
Curveball, in and low
Pacheco hits it to Potpie 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
Mendez is now perched over at third
That's out number two
Benton Breeze moving around
Hollers something down at Rodney
James nods "UH HUH"

Pancho Coimbre, the left fielder,
strides to the plate
Coimbre wiggles the bat above his head
Coimbre is set for the 3-2 pitch
Mendez is dancing off third
Rodney is ignoring him
Here's the pitch
Coimbre swings hard...
Nobody is going to get this one...
Yes sir! Coimbre will have
himself a single
And he extends his hitting streak
to 12 games!
1 for 3 on the evening
Mendez scores from third!

A big bopper coming to the plate...
Batting clean-up, Perucho Cepeda
Perucho is batting .268 with
16 home runs on the season
He is 0 for 2 today
James Rodney on in relief
for the All Stars
We're in the top of the 7th
Rodney goes into his stretch...
Looks over at Coimbre
Fires to Potpie...
Coimbre is back easily...

We're ready again
Now Rodney comes home
Big slow curve...
And it's in there, strike three
That retires the side...
After 6 and a half innings at FOFC Stadium
here in FOFC,
Caribbean has 3 runs, 5 hits and 2 errors
While FOFC has no runs,
2 hits and no errors
Caribbean has left 7 men on base
FOFC has stranded only 2

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

Persimmon Pflaggstettler stops
at the on deck circle
Takes a couple more practice swings
Now heads for the plate
Pflaggstettler is hitting
.301 with 15 homeruns
Persimmon also has 18 doubles
and 8 triples
And has driven in a total of 57 runs
Persimmon seems to be relaxed
and ready for the pitch
He steadies his bat now
Mendez leans back and fires
Pflaggstettler gets wood
on the hard slider
It's a bouncer hit past the mound...
And PAST Concepcion into the outfield...
Base hit for Pflaggstettler

Jeeberoni Potpie, the first baseman,
strides to the plate
Mendez looks down at Gonzalez for the sign
Now he's ready
Now Jose delivers
Fastball down low...
Potpie swings and hits one out to center
Minnie Minoso is drifting over...
Now he's under it...
Easy out for Mendez
Pflaggstettler trots back to first

Now batting will be Stan Gunner
The left fielder is walking to the plate
One on... one out
Caribbean leads FOFC by 3 runs
Caribbean has the outfield
shaded towards right
Gunner is 0 for 2 today
Mendez tosses the resin bag aside
He steps on the rubber...
Mendez fires
Base hit to center for Gunner
Dick Howser puts up the stop sign...
Pflaggstettler will stay at second

Hays is up now for FOFC
Time is called...
The umpire asks for some new balls
from the All Stars ballboy
Gonzalez flashes the sign...
Mendez shakes it off, he wants another...

Now he's happy
Mendez checks the runners
Base hit to right for Hays
Dick Howser is windmilling
the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Aggressive baserunning by FOFC...
Not cut-off...
Gonzalez is trying to block the plate
(Ability to block: Great,)...
Pflaggstettler is out at home!
Trailing runners advance.

Defensive manager has decided to
pitch around Deacon Palmer
The All Stars' third baseman is up next
FOFC has 2 on board with 2 outs
Palmer steps out of the batter's
box to get the sign
Deacon is 0 for 2 today
Mendez looks down at Gonzalez
for the sign...
Shakes him off once... twice
Now he has the pitch he wants
The stretch... the pitch
Palmer rips a scorcher towards
the third base side
Linares dives to his right
Takes it on one hop
He's up...
Fires to first
Cepeda scoops it out of the dirt
OUT!
Nice play
That is the third out for FOFC here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 49220

Oliva is walking to the plate
Now he steps into the batter's box
Oliva is batting .307 with
11 HR's this year
Rodney has the sign from Hays
James rocks and fires
It's a dying quail headed
towards the outfield
OHHHHH, snagged by a retreating
Blade for the out
Outstanding range shown on that play!
FOFC gets the first out
here late in this contest

Walking up to the plate now is Gonzalez
Caribbean leading in the game
Miguel is batting .284 with
22 home runs on the season
He is 1 for 3 today
Rodney wastes no time
He has the sign from Hays
Rodney brings it to the plate
Sinking line drive
Caught by Deacon Palmer
That's two away

Slowly coming up is Linares for Caribbean
He is finally in the batter's box
Caribbean on top 3 to 0
Looking to Matty Alou for a sign
Linares is set for the pitch
And the cripple pitch...
Base hit to center for Linares
A. J. Tucker is trying to get to it
This might be stretched into a double!
He's going to try for it!
Here's the play...
He's out!
Exciting play, Linares will
get credit for a single.

A. J. Tucker, James Rodney and Barrett
Blade will be the first three men
to face the pitcher Jose Mendez
We are in the bottom of the 8th
So far this year Tucker is batting .294
He has 16 doubles, 6 triples
5 homeruns with 44 RBI's
and 16 stolen bases
Mendez is still mowing them down
He brought his "A" game to FOFC
Stadium this evening
Mendez brings it home
Grounded to the right side
Cepeda comes up with it
Waves off Mendez...
Runs to the bag
Out!
And there's one away

Nobody on base, one away
Treacy steps into the batter's box
Treacy, a switch-hitter, facing
the right-handed Mendez
Treacy waits patiently
We've got a full count...
Mendez winds and fires...
Treacy pounds a grounder toward
Pacheco at second
Antonio moves in front of it...
Whoops... a bad bounce
But Pacheco stayed with it
Over to first and Treacy is retired
Nice play by the Caribbean second baseman
Two down

Blade walks to the plate
Blade is at .265 on the season
Mendez looks down at Gonzalez for the sign

Now he's ready...
And the delivery by Mendez
Mendez misses low on that one
Blade draws the walk
Number 1 today by Mendez

Now here's Nights
Nights has hit 12 home runs this year
The right-hander Mendez is
set to deliver to Nights
Here's the 3-2 offering
Fastball, just inside to Nights
So Nights walks
A rare walk today by Mendez
Only 2 issued in the game
That is certainly part of the reason
he now enjoys a 3 run lead

Persimmon Pflaggstettler, the All
Stars' right fielder is up next
FOFC has 2 men on with 2 outs
Two men on, two men out
Right-hander Mendez prepares for the pitch
to the right-handed swinging
Pflaggstettler
It's a 3-2 count
Here comes the pay-off pitch...
A slider by Mendez
Pflaggstettler gets good wood on it...
Coimbre back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
That's it for FOFC
Caribbean has 3 runs, 6 hits and 2 errors
While FOFC has no runs,
5 hits and no errors
FOFC has now left 4 runners stranded

Concepcion steps up to the
plate for Caribbean
It's the top of the 9th
here at FOFC Stadium
Caribbean on top 3 to 0
Concepcion is batting .272 with
4 round trippers in 1900
Hunter eyes Concepcion intently
Here's the righthander's delivery
Concepcion sends a wicked
smash in the hole
Palmer can't cut it off
Nights makes a great backhand stab
Leaps and fires to Potpie
Dave is out on a bang-bang play!
Great play by Jeff Nights!
One down for Caribbean
Jose Mendez is still in the on-deck circle
and Minnie Minoso is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Nobody on, one away for Caribbean
Up now is Mendez
Hunter shakes off two signs
Now he's ready
Hunter brings it to the plate
Looping fly to left
Stan Gunner charges the ball
It falls in front of him
A hit for Jose Mendez
the Caribbean pitcher

Mendez watches Hunter as he
inches away from the base
Hunter steps away from the mound
Now Mendez moves back to first

Minoso is ready to face Hunter
Minnie looks at the sign from
the coach at third
Matty Alou flashes a series of them...
Now Minoso taps the bat on home plate
Minnie waits...
He steps out as Hunter takes too long
Now he's back in the box
The stretch... the 2 strike delivery
Look out...
Down he goes!
It hit him!
Minoso will be awarded first
Doesn't appear to be hurt
Mendez will advance to second

Pacheco now at the plate
Pancho Coimbre waits on deck
Antonio is hitting at .283 on the year
He has 119 hits in 420 at bats
Today, he is 0 for 4
Pacheco grounded out his last time up
Pacheco is set for the 0-2 pitch
Here's his delivery
Base hit to left for Pacheco
Matty Alou is giving the green light...
The throw is coming home...
Aggressive baserunning by Caribbean...
Not cut-off...
Mendez scores!
Trailing runners advance.

Pancho Coimbre steps into the box
Coimbre is batting .305 with
14 HR's this year
Owen looks for the sign he wants...
Shakes off the first one
But he likes the next
The righthander Hunter's delivery
The pitch is low
It bounces away from Hays!
He's got it
But there's no throw.
It's scored a wild pitch.
Minoso scores from third!
Pacheco takes third

Pancho Coimbre steps into the box
Coimbre is 1 for 3 today
For the season, Pancho has 14 homers
22 doubles, and 4 triples
He has scored 61 runs
while driving in 56
Right-hander Hunter eyes
the righty Coimbre
Now Owen delivers
There's a long drive...
Its' way back there...
A. J. Tucker is at the wall...
(Possible HR or Out
Fielding ability: Great,)
He's jumping for it...
He's got it!!!
What a great play by Tucker!

Cepeda gets set at the plate
Cepeda is taking his practice swings
Perucho is 0 for 3 this evening
He struck out last time at bat
Hunter adjusts his belt...
Looks in for the sign from Hays
Hunter's righthanded delivery...
Cepeda cuts on a curve that
misses in the dirt
That ball is trapped nicely by Hays
Cepeda was badly fooled by Hunter's
big breaking curve
STRIKE THREE!
Perucho was a little overanxious
That retires the side...
3 runs cross the plate for Caribbean
After 8 and a half innings,
Caribbean on top 6 to 0

The All Stars will get their licks
here in the bottom of the 9th
Jeeberoni Potpie, Stan Gunner,
and Harry Hays
are scheduled to face Caribbean
righthander Jose Mendez
Here's Potpie stepping in...
Jeeberoni is hitting at .287 on the year
FOFC's cleanup hitter has
knocked in 76 runs
He has a fine .569 slugging average
Potpie waiting on the delivery
Mendez kicks and fires
Fastball, swung on and missed
Take a seat Mr. Potpie!
FOFC with one away
Mendez steps off the mound as
he waits for Stan Gunner to
come to the plate

Walking up to the plate now is Gunner
Harry Hays waits on deck
Gunner is taking his practice swings
Stan is 1 for 3 this evening
Jose is ready
He brings it home
Hard slider, paints the inside corner
Gunner gets a piece of it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Cepeda grabs it...
Races to first...
Beats Gunner for the out
Two down
All's quiet in the All Stars' dugout
Some grim faces in there, right now

Hays coming up for FOFC
Nobody on, two away
Mendez is pitching a beauty
here this evening
He has hung a 'horse collar'
on the FOFC offense so far
0 runs on the scoreboard for FOFC...
And Caribbean with a 6 run lead
The righthander delivers
Hays really smacks this one
He was waiting on the change
It's a gapper...
But hit high...
Minoso was positioned well
and has a shot at it
He is still running...
He dives for it...
It gets past him!
Minnie gets up in a hurry
Fires it in to Linares on a line
but Hays has himself a stand-up double

That'll bring up All Stars' third
baseman Deacon Palmer...
All Stars with a runner in scoring
position at second
Palmer is hitting .299
against righthanders
Mendez is one out away
from a 6-hit shutout
The pitch is on the way
Struck him out on a terrible pitch
That was right over the
heart of the plate
with no movement on it...
and Palmer swung right over the top of it!
Lucky Mr. Mendez!
And that will do it for FOFC
Caribbean wins 6 to 0
Mendez gets credit for the win
He threw a shut-out at them
Babson takes the loss
The hitting star for Caribbean
was Omar Linares
He was 2 for 4 with a homerun
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.
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7/25 Boxscore

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BOXSCORE: 2001 Caribbean Estrellas At 1000 FOFC All Stars 7/25/1900 Estrellas AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG M.Minoso CF 3 1 1 0 .270 B.Blade 2B 3 0 1 0 .265 A.Pacheco 2B 5 1 1 1 .285 J.Nights SS 3 0 0 0 .278 P.Coimbre LF 3 0 1 2 .305 P.Pflaggstettler RF 4 0 1 0 .302 P.Cepeda 1B 4 0 0 0 .267 J.Potpie 1B 4 0 0 0 .287 T.Oliva RF 2 1 0 0 .306 S.Gunner LF 4 0 1 0 .264 M.Gonzalez C 4 0 1 0 .283 H.Hays C 4 0 2 0 .336 O.Linares 3B 4 1 2 2 .244 D.Palmer 3B 4 0 0 0 .327 D.Concepcion SS 4 0 0 0 .271 A.Tucker CF 3 0 1 0 .293 J.Mendez P 3 2 2 0 .262 B.Babson P 1 0 0 0 .091 A-D.Fouts PH 1 0 0 0 .269 J.Rodney P 0 0 0 0 ---- B-S.Treacy PH 1 0 0 0 .267 O.Hunter P 0 0 0 0 .071 -- -- -- --- -- -- -- --- Totals 32 6 8 5 Totals 32 0 6 0 A-Pinch Hit For Babson In 6th Inning B-Pinch Hit For Rodney In 8th Inning Estrellas....... 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 3 - 6 8 2 All Stars....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 6 0 Estrellas IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA J.Mendez WIN(10-9) 9 6 0 0 2 4 0 136 3.62 Totals 9 6 0 0 2 4 0 All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA B.Babson LOSS(8-10) 6 4 2 2 3 7 1 89 3.62 J.Rodney 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 32 2.93 O.Hunter 1 2 3 3 0 1 0 21 5.45 Totals 9 8 6 6 4 9 1 ATTENDANCE- 49,220 DATE- Wednesday, July 25th 1900 TIME- Night T- 1:51 LEFT ON BASE- Estrellas: 7 All Stars: 7 DOUBLE PLAYS- Estrellas: 1 All Stars: 0 ERRORS- O.Linares, D.Concepcion DOUBLES- H.Hays(4th) HOME RUNS- O.Linares(15th) SACRIFICE HITS- M.Minoso SACRIFICE FLIES- P.Coimbre WALKS- P.Coimbre, P.Cepeda, T.Oliva, J.Mendez, B.Blade, J.Nights HIT BY PITCH- M.Minoso, T.Oliva STRIKE OUTS- M.Minoso, A.Pacheco, P.Coimbre, P.Cepeda-3, M.Gonzalez, O.Linares, D.Concepcion, B.Blade, J.Potpie, D.Palmer, D.Fouts GIDP- A.Tucker WILD PITCHES- O.Hunter WEB GEMS- Bot 7th: Miguel Gonzalez blocked the plate, saving a run! Top 9th: A. J. Tucker robbed Pancho Coimbre of a Homerun!
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7/26 Radio Broadcast - Game 110

The pre-game ceremonies are over
and we're ready to get this one going

Minnie Minoso strides to the plate
and here I think we're ready...

Williams' finishing his warm-up tosses
It will be lefty versus righty
Minoso is hitting .360 against southpaws
Here's his delivery
Minoso rips a whistling
liner down the line
Bingo! Fouts spears it!
A shot hit right on the screws
but right at the FOFC third baseman
One down for Caribbean
Antonio Pacheco is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to the
plate for Caribbean

Now batting will be the second
baseman, Antonio Pacheco
Pacheco is batting .285 with
11 HR's this year
John Williams steps off the
mound toward second
Gives the resin bag a toss
Now he toes the rubber...
He's ready to go
Williams brings it to the plate
Pacheco hits a screamer at Dan Fouts
Fouts picks it up and fires to first
The throw pulls Potpie off the bag
Potpie swipes with the glove

Pacheco is out!
Nice play by Potpie

Two out, nobody on
Up now is Linares
Hays flashes the sign...
Williams shakes it off,
he wants another...

Now he's happy
Now John delivers
Here's a curveball, up in the zone...
It's juiced to deep center
There goes Tucker after it
Racing hard...
Reaching...
Can't get it...
It was just out of his reach!
He chases it to the fence
Linares around first, coasts into second
As the throw comes in late
Score that a two bagger

Cepeda gets set at the plate
Cepeda has hit 16 home runs this year
John gets the sign from Hays
The pitch to Cepeda...
It's in on the wrists
Perucho tried to hold up
Now it appears he will be awarded first...
Yes, Williams walks him

Miguel Gonzalez is up next
Caribbean's catcher finds 2 on with 2 outs
Williams is slow to get ready

He has a 3.70 ERA this year
Now he's ready
Williams brings it to the plate
Gonzalez swings awkwardly... strike three
Williams took something off
of that breaking ball
He had Gonzalez way out in front
That ends the inning
Caribbean threatens but does not score
here in the top of the 1st

Blade saunters to the plate
He does some stretching...
Knocks the dirt from his spikes...
Now he steps into the batter's box
Blade is batting .265 with
3 HR's this year
Tiant Sr. is asking for a new ball...
The ump throws him a new one...
Tiant Sr. looks in...
Now he's ready
The southpaw Tiant Sr.'s delivery
Slow ground ball
Concepcion is charging it
He fires it to first
He's OUT
One down for FOFC
A. J. Tucker is still in
the on-deck circle
and Gerald Gazelle is looking
for a bat in the dugout

FOFC center fielder, A.
J. Tucker, is up next
Tiant Sr. steps off the rubber...
Adjusts his cap...
Now he's ready
The pitch is on the way
Struck him out on a fastball
Tucker goes down swinging
That's the second out of the inning

Gazelle walks to the plate
He taps his cleats with the bat
Gazelle is batting .272 with
20 round trippers in 1900
Gazelle readies himself for the pitch
Tiant Sr. brings it to the plate
The pitch is just inside
and Gazelle holds up
Gonzalez points down at
the first base umpire
He gives the "safe" sign
Gerald trots down to first... ball four

Jeeberoni Potpie steps up to the plate
Gazelle, with excellent speed, is at first
Potpie is trying to get comfortable
in the box
Digging that back foot in
Tiant Sr. looks down at Gonzalez
for the sign...
Shakes him off once... twice
Now he has the pitch he wants
Tiant Sr.'s into the stretch...

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

SAFE!...

Espino tosses it back to Tiant Sr.
Now here's the pitch
Low inside fastball, at the knees...
Cut on...
Potpie rips a single to right field...
Oliva takes it on one bounce...
With his afterburners on,
Gazelle heads into third
ahead of the throw

K. A. Ton steps in
Ton digs in
O.K. Ton is ready
He deals
WATCH OUT!
Tiant Sr. has hit Ton!
Now Ton gets up
and brushes himself off
He's not thrilled with being drilled!
The ump tells Ton to take his base

Fouts is up near the batter's box
He is going through his obligatory ritual
Finally, he steps in
Fouts is one of the most feared sluggers
Luis is ready
It's a 3-2 count
Here comes the pay-off pitch...
Ground ball to short
Concepcion grabs it
Over to second for the force
Score It: 6-4
The runner on first, Ton, is out
That's it for FOFC
Here at FOFC Stadium, After 1 inning,
FOFC has no runs, one hit and no errors
While Caribbean has no runs,
one hit and no errors
FOFC has left 3 on base
Caribbean has stranded 2

As we get ready to start
the top of the 2nd
Espino is talking to Hays
Espino grips the bat handle
After getting set, Espino
waits on the pitch
The lefthander Williams delivers
Did he hold up his swing?
YES!
He walks

Tony Oliva plants his left foot
The lefthanded right fielder
for Caribbean appears set
Oliva looks down at Matty
Alou to get the sign
The third base coach glances
over at Felipe Alou
Now he relays the signal to Oliva
Tony is eagerly awaiting Williams' pitch
The southpaw delivers
Base hit to right for Oliva
Matty Alou puts up the stop sign...
Espino will stay at second

Next up is Dave Concepcion,
the Caribbean shortstop
On-deck is Luis Tiant Sr....
He'll be followed by Minnie Minoso
Williams is rubbing the ball up
Now the umpire wants to take a look
No problems found...
Now Williams gets the sign from Hays
The pitch is on the way
Concepcion rips a solid shot to center
Tucker ranges to his right...
He is juggling it!...
Finally finds the handle
Whew!
Runners can't advance
With one down, up next is Luis Tiant Sr.
To be followed by Minnie Minoso

Tiant Sr. finishes his practice swings
Now he strides to the batter's box
Luis takes a couple of practice cuts
Tiant Sr. is set in the batter's box
He's staring intently out at Williams
He's waiting for the pitch
And the delivery by Williams
Pounded on the ground to short
Taken by Nights
Throws to second
He's out
To first
Double Play!
Score It: 6-4-3
That wraps up the inning for Caribbean
By the way, Caribbean is 7 and
3 in their last ten games

Bottom of the All Stars' order coming up
The catcher, Harry Hays will lead off
Tiant Sr. looks down at
Gonzalez for the sign
Now he's ready
Now Luis delivers
Hays hits it sharply on the ground...
into the hole at third
Linares dives...
It's through for a base hit!
He almost got his glove on it...
Hays reaches on a sizzling single to left
A nice try by the third
baseman, Omar Linares

Nights, FOFC's shortstop,
is coming to the plate
He is finished with his pre-bat warmup
John Williams waits on deck
Nights is batting .278 with
12 homers this year
Tiant Sr. adjusts his cap...
Now he's set
The stretch... the delivery
Nights rolls one toward Omar Linares
He scoops it and fires to
second... close play
OUT
The relay to first
OUT there too, it's a twin-killing
Two down
Gonzalez asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Gonzalez and Tiant Sr.

Williams coming up for FOFC
Nobody on, two away
Tiant Sr. steps on the rubber...
Looks in for the sign
Tiant Sr. kicks and fires
Sinker, at the knees...
Swung on...
Williams hits it into the
hole on the right side
Pacheco ranging to his left...
Scoops it up...
Throws on the run...
And Williams is out by a step at first
That's all for the All Stars
in the 2nd inning
No runs, one hit and no errors...
We head to the 3rd...
We're scoreless

Minnie Minoso stops at the on deck circle
Takes a couple more practice swings
Now heads for the plate
Watching Williams, Minoso wiggles the bat
He's ready for the pitch
Minoso is set for the 0-2 pitch
John rocks and fires
Minoso hits one on the ground
to the left side
Minnie, who moves well,
is motoring to first
Fouts wings it quickly to Potpie...
OUT by a step
Caribbean with one away
Williams steps off the mound as
he waits for Antonio Pacheco to
come to the plate

Facing Williams now is Pacheco
Omar Linares heads to the on deck circle
Perucho Cepeda waits in the hole
Pacheco is batting .284 with
11 HR's this year
Williams squeezes the resin bag...
Peers in
Now to the belt, here it is...
Pacheco taps one on the ground
Jeff Nights charges in
He boots it!
He can't make the throw
It'll be an error on Nights
Nights has committed 1 error this evening

Pacheco sneaks away from the base
Williams' move keeps Pacheco guessing
He's not getting a very good lead

Linares comes to the plate
One out, Pacheco at first
Linares goes through his
routine of settling in
Set now is Linares
Williams goes into his stretch...
Looks over at Pacheco
Fires to Potpie...
Pacheco is back easily...

We're ready again
Now Williams comes home
Grounded down the line
Potpie will take it himself
Score It: 3
Two away

Two outs, Pacheco at second
Cepeda is ready
Cepeda has 24 doubles this year
Cepeda is ready
The southpaw Williams delivers
the 3-1 pitch
Hot shot grounded to short
Nights grabs it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 6-3
That wraps up the inning for Caribbean
Time to check out the rest of the scores

Dead Ball Era is on top of
Japanese League 3 to 1
McGinnity battling Sugishita
Negro League I leads Negro
League II 2 to 1
AL Post WWII and NL Post WWII
are deadlocked at 4
Hunter battling Marichal
AL Pre WWII is on top of
NL Pre WWII 6 to 4
Old Timers is running roughshod
over Left Outs 10 to 0
Turn of Century is on top
of Late 20th 2 to 0
And here in FOFC No score

Barrett Blade, A. J. Tucker and Gerald
Gazelle will be the first three men
to face the pitcher Luis Tiant Sr.
We are in the bottom of the 3rd
The outfield shades towards left for Blade
Tiant Sr. likes the sign
Here's the 2 strike offering
Curve in the dirt... and Blade holds up
Looked like he went around from here
But the plate umpire says no
Gonzalez asks the first base ump's opinion
He says Blade went around
Strike three, swinging
One down for FOFC
A. J. Tucker is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to
the plate for FOFC

FOFC sends the center fielder,
A. J. Tucker, up to the plate
Tucker has hit 5 home runs this year
Tiant Sr. eyes Tucker intently
Tiant Sr. brings it to the plate
Change-up, Tucker is looking for it...
He smacks a deep fly to left-center...
Minoso is racing back...
HE STUMBLES on the warning track!!!...
He can't make the catch...
The ball rolls to the fence...
Tucker coasts into second...
As the throw is way too late
Tucker will get a double from
the official scorer

That'll bring up All Stars' right
fielder Gerald Gazelle...
All Stars with a runner in scoring
position at second
Gazelle steps out of the box...
Looks towards Dick Howser for a sign
Tiant Sr. wastes no time
He has the sign from Gonzalez
The lefthander Tiant Sr.
comes home with it
Routine fly to left
Cepeda starts in
Now he starts backpedaling...
Faster...
Just does catch up to it!
Tucker scampers back to second

Now batting will be Jeeberoni Potpie
Tiant Sr. gets the sign, it's one he likes
He brings it home
It's a high pop behind the plate
Gonzalez, Espino, and Linares
all converge on the ball
THEY COLLIDE!!
OH!, Gonzalez makes a one-handed
grab of the foul pop
That's all for the All Stars
No runs, one hit, no errors and
one man left on base...
We've played three, here...
We're scoreless

Leading off now for Caribbean is Gonzalez
Hays flashes the sign...
Williams waves it off...
Now he's happy
The southpaw's 3-2 delivery
Gonzalez starts... but lays
off the pitch upstairs
Ball four, Williams walks him

And it brings up Hector Espino
On deck is Tony Oliva
Dave Concepcion in the hole
Hector checks with the third base coach
Takes a few practice swings
Now he steps into the box
Waiting for the pitch is Espino
The stretch... the 3-1 delivery
Espino sends a scorcher to short
Nights takes it on one hop
Fires to Blade for one
Back to Potpie for the double play!
Two gone for Caribbean

Tony Oliva, the right fielder,
strides to the plate
Oliva is at .308 on the season
Williams adjusts his belt...
Looks in for the sign from Hays
Here's the southpaw's delivery
There's a ground ball
between first and second
OH, Potpie snags it in short right field
He throws it to the pitcher
covering the bag
OUT is the call
What a play by Potpie
That wraps up the inning for Caribbean
So After 3 and a half innings
FOFC has no runs, 3 hits and one error
While Caribbean has no runs,
2 hits and no errors
Caribbean has left 4 stranded
FOFC has failed to bring home 4

The left fielder Ton will
start things off for the All Stars
Against lefthanders
Ton is hitting .308 this season
Left-hander Luis Tiant Sr.
prepares for the pitch
to the right-handed swinging Ton
Luis winds
Kicks... and delivers
In the dirt
And Ton holds up
He draws the walk
Nice way to start out the inning

Fouts pounds the plate
Now he stares out at Tiant Sr.
He checks third for the sign
I'd be shocked if he bunts however
Fouts is poised and ready for the pitch
It's coming down the pike
Fouts gets good wood on it!
Right at Dave Concepcion...
He leaps up high...
It's past him!
Ton had to wait on that
to see if it would be caught
He'll have to stop at second
on that wicked line single by Fouts

Hays fouls off the bunt attempt
The count goes to 1 and 2, we'll have
to see if they keep the bunt play on

Harry Hays will make his way to home plate
He's the catcher for FOFC
Hays is hitting .339 with 10 homeruns
Harry also has 4 doubles and 2 triples
And has driven in a total of 31 runs
He's ready
And here is the 1-2 delivery
Grounded towards the middle
Outstanding play by Pacheco!
Throw to second for one
They might turn it . . .
Double Play!
Score It: 4-6-3
Two gone here in the bottom of the 4th
We want to welcome the FOFC
"Sportsman Club"
to the game today
We hope you enjoy your
trip to the ballpark

Nights leaves the on-deck circle...
He's going back to get a new bat...
Now he jogs to the plate
Nights is 0 for 1 today
Tiant Sr. tosses the resin bag aside
He steps on the rubber...
Tiant Sr.'s 1-1 pitch...
Grounded towards the hole
Nice play by Pacheco
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 4-3
That's all for the All Stars
After 4 innings in FOFC this evening,
No score

Here's the shortstop Concepcion
To lead off the inning
He'll be followed by Luis Tiant Sr.
And then Minnie Minoso
Dave is taking his sweet
time getting ready

The umpire says a few words to Dave...
Now we're set to go
Concepcion is set
Here's the 3-2 pitch
The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
Concepcion held up, and draws a walk
Williams isn't happy at all with that call

Luis Tiant Sr. makes his way to home plate
Williams shakes off two signs
Now he's ready
The lefty Williams delivers
Tiant Sr. hits a three hopper
towards Jeff Nights
Nights scoops it and fires it to second...
Out
The throw to first...
Out at first, it's a double play
That's the second out of the inning
Time to check the scoreboard

Dead Ball Era is edging Japanese
League 3 to 2
McGinnity battling Sugishita
Negro League I leads Negro
League II 2 to 1
NL Post WWII is on top of
AL Post WWII 7 to 5
AL Pre WWII leads NL Pre WWII 6 to 5
Old Timers besting Left Outs 10 to 5
Turn of Century slipping
by Late 20th 3 to 1
Joss and Martinez currently dueling

Settling in at the plate is Minoso
Looking to Matty Alou for a sign
Williams studies his sign
Williams winds his left arm
Lets it go
Letterhigh, hard slider...
Swung on...
It's a line drive belted toward Fouts
It's by him...
Ton comes in...
Plays it off his chest
Recovers quickly, throwing into second
Good defensive recovery
Keeping Minoso to a single

Coming to the plate is Pacheco
Minoso's the runner on first
He's doing his best to unnerve Williams
Minoso will be running if it's hit
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
Williams goes into his stretch...
Looks at Minoso...
He fires one to Potpie...
Minoso dives back in
That's his best move to first...
Potpie lobs it back
Now Williams comes home
Pacheco goes after Williams' fastball...
He gets under it a little...
But it is going way back in left-center
Tucker is retreating after it quickly
He is right at the fence...
He goes up after it...
And brings it down in the webbing!
Antonio just missed a homer on that one
Only a long out for the Caribbean
second baseman
That's all for Caribbean
After 4 and a half innings
in FOFC this evening,
Scoreless game
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7/26 Radio Broadcast Continued

John Williams to lead it off for FOFC
Williams can't seem to get
settled at the plate
Williams gets set for the pitch
The southpaw Tiant Sr.'s delivery
on the 0-2 pitch
Good slider, inside part of the plate
Williams gets the bat on it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Pacheco grabs it...
Throws to first...
OUT!
That's one away

The second baseman, Barrett Blade
will be up next for FOFC
Barrett is hitting at .263 on the year
He has 76 hits in 289 at bats
FOFC's leadoff hitter has scored
42 runs this year
Luis looks for the sign he wants...
Shakes off the first one
But he likes the next
Here's the pitch
Blade rips the curve to left-center...
Minoso racing back to the fence...
He reaches for the drive...
Can't quite reach it!!...
Blade makes it easily into second
That's a double for Blade

Now here's Tucker
A. J. is hitting at .294 on the year
He has 136 hits in 462 at bats
Today, he is 1 for 2
Tucker doubled his last time up
He's ready
Here's his delivery
Slider...
Swung on and pounded to right-center...
It'll be over Oliva's head!...
He's chasing after it...
Tucker rounds second...
Here's the peg in to Linares at third...
Tucker slides hard...
A bad bounce, but Linares
knocks it down...
The ball rolls just a few feet...
Tucker jumps to his feet, but
isn't going anywhere
He'll get a triple from the
scorer on that hit!
Blade scored easily from second

Gazelle steps in...
He pounds the bat on the plate
Now he is ready
Tiant Sr. steps on the rubber
Tucker is dancing off third
Tiant Sr. is ignoring him
Here's the pitch
Gazelle swats a major league fly to left
Cepeda drifts back
He lurches forward...
He makes the grab
This is plenty deep enough to score Tucker
Sacrifice fly and an RBI for Gazelle
He has 37 RBI's now, this year
One more chance for FOFC in
the bottom of the 5th

Jeeberoni Potpie will step in
to face Tiant Sr. next
If he gets on, K. A. Ton will follow
Time is called...
Potpie has asked the ump
to clean the plate
We'll be ready in a second...
OK, now we are ready again
Potpie, a righthand hitter
Waits patiently for the
pitch from Tiant Sr.
Now ready, here it is...
Low slider...
Potpie takes a big rip at it...
Lofts a deep fly ball...
It could be going...
IT IS!!...
HOME RUN FOR FOFC!

Ton is up now for FOFC
Ton digs in from the right side
of the plate against the
southpaw Tiant Sr.
Ton tells the umpire he's ready
Pacheco comes in a couple steps
Yells something to Tiant Sr.
The delivery
It's grounded past the mound
Pacheco races to his right
Concepcion to his left
Concepcion scoops it up
Throws on one bounce to Espino...
K. A. beats it out!

Dan Fouts is up next
The All Stars' third baseman
finds 1 on with 2 outs
Fouts has hit 16 home runs this year
Tiant Sr. is on the third-base
side of the rubber...
He's into the stretch
Looks over at first
Quick throw!...
Ton dives back in!...
SAFE!
Espino tosses it back to Tiant Sr.
Now here's the pitch
Bouncer to second
Taken by Pacheco
Over to Espino
Got him!
Score It: 4-3
The side is retired
3 runs, 4 hits, 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

Linares is walking to the plate
Now he steps into the batter's box
Linares is batting .246 with
15 HR's this year
Williams steps off the mound toward second
Gives the resin bag a good squeeze...

Now he toes the rubber...
He's ready to go
John winds... kicks... and delivers
It's a quail shot headed
towards the outfield
Fouts takes off after it...
Leaps...
And Linares is OUT!
Very impressive range shown on that play!
Dan is very fine fielder!
One up, one down

Here's the Caribbean clean-up
hitter, Perucho Cepeda
Cepeda has hit 16 home runs this year
John is set to go... a quick
look toward Hays again
Now he steps back to get
a squeeze of the resin bag
Caribbean's clean-up hitter is waiting
Williams has allowed 11 taters
to righties this year
And 3 when facing lefties
The 3-1 delivery by the lefthander
Williams loses him
Cepeda heads down to first
2 walks today for Cepeda

Gonzalez coming to bat
Walking slowly from the on deck circle
Cepeda on first, with one away
Gonzalez is at .283 on the season
Williams is ready quickly
Williams rocks and fires
Base hit to left for Gonzalez
Matty Alou puts up the stop sign...
Cepeda will stay at second

Here comes Espino to the plate
Look in the Caribbean dugout
The players have their caps turned around!
They want Espino to get on
They're looking to close
the 3 run gap on FOFC
Williams is working on a shutout
He's yielded 4 hits so far
Checks the runners
Here's his delivery
Change up...
Espino was way out in front...
Strike Three
Two down in the 6th
Time for a station break
This is the Strat-O-Matic Broadcast System
your 4 Sports Network...
OK, we're back and ready to go...

Dave Concepcion gets the weighted
donut from Oliva
Now Tony saunters to the plate
2 outs and 2 on base
Oliva bats in the seventh slot
in the order for Caribbean
FOFC ahead 3 to 0
Tony is 1 for 2 this summer evening
He grounded out in his last
plate appearance
All set, Oliva is ready for the pitch
Williams checks the runners
Grounded down the line
Potpie to Williams covering first
Score It: 3-1
That does it for Caribbean
in the top of the 6th

Harry Hays will get things
started for FOFC
He'll be followed by Jeff Nights
and John Williams
If any of them get on,
lead-off hitter, Barrett
Blade, will step in
Now Hays approaches home plate
Hays is at .338 on the season
The left-hander Tiant Sr. is now ready
Here's the 0-1 offering
Hays pulls one to the left side
It's going to scoot on through the infield
Cepeda will retrieve it without difficulty
He tosses it back in to second
as Hays retreats to first
after a wide turn

One on, no outs
Coming up for FOFC is Nights
Expect a bunt here with Nights up
He is one of the better bunters
Nights looks very intent...
He stares down at Tiant Sr....
Cocks his bat
He's into the stretch
Takes a look over to first
Quick throw!
Hays dives back in!...

SAFE!
Espino tosses it back to Tiant Sr.
Now here's the pitch
The runner goes with the pitch!
It's the hit and run!
It's a rainbow shot toward right
Oliva reaches up
Makes the catch!
Didn't have to move an inch
One out
The All Stars have a 3 run lead


Williams squares as Tiant
Sr. delivers the pitch
Omar Linares charges and picks up the bunt
He fires to first in time
Credit a sacrifice to Williams
And there's two away

Blade is ready to face Tiant Sr.
Blade has hit 5 triples this year
Blade awaits the delivery
Concepcion trying to slip in behind Hays
Now he slips away
Here's the 2 strike offering
It's a blooper hit by Blade down the line
Linares dives across the foul line
But it looks like he short-hops it...
Wait, the umpire rules Linares
caught the ball
He's calling Blade out!!
Somehow he caught it!
That's all for the All Stars...
After 6 innings here at
FOFC Stadium in FOFC,
FOFC leads 3 to 0

The Caribbean shortstop, Concepcion,
will lead off
He'll be followed by Luis Tiant Sr.
And then Minnie Minoso
Concepcion is 0 for 1 today
Williams has the sign from Hays
Williams leans back and fires
Dribbler in front of home
Hays grabs it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 2-3
And there's one away

Felipe Alou will send up a pinch hitter
Yes, Keith Hernandez steps
out of the dugout
He will be up there against Williams
Hernandez is batting .244 on the year
He has 2 homers and 9 RBI's in 1900

Making his way up is Hernandez
Left-hander John Williams
prepares for the pitch
to the left-handed swinging Hernandez
Williams brings it to the plate
Ripped to third, but right
at Fouts...easy out
Williams gets another one
We're in the top of the 7th and Williams
has allowed only 4 hits

And the batter is Minnie Minoso
Antonio Pacheco is on-deck
Watching Williams, Minoso wiggles the bat
He's ready for the pitch
Minnie waits...
He steps out as Williams takes too long
Now he's back in the box
It's coming down the pike
Letterhigh, hard slider...
Swung on...
It's a line drive belted toward Fouts
It's by him...
Ton comes in...
Plays it off his chest
Recovers quickly, throwing into second
Good defensive recovery
Keeping Minoso to a single

Here's Antonio Pacheco
Antonio seems to always make contact
He rarely strikes out
Today he is 0 for 3...
Naturally with no strike outs
Hays flashes the sign...
Williams shakes it off,
he wants another...

Now he's happy
Williams rocks and fires
Pacheco drives the ball to
left for extra bases
Matty Alou will send the runner home...
The throw is cut off...
And that allows the run to score
Double for Pacheco

Slowly coming up is Linares for Caribbean
He is finally in the batter's box
FOFC leads 3 to 1
A base hit should score Pacheco
2 down, Williams ahead in the count...
One ball, two strikes
The lefthander Williams delivers
Off speed pitch on the way...
And Linares watches it go
by for the third strike
That wraps up the inning for Caribbean
After 6 and a half innings, FOFC has
3 runs, 9 hits and one error
While Caribbean has one run,
6 hits and no errors
Caribbean has stranded 8 so far
If they could have driven across
only a couple of those runners
they might be in the lead right now
instead of trailing by 2

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!
Fernando Valenzuela will be coming
on to pitch for Caribbean
Fernando has appeared in
39 games this season
with a record of 5-7
In 104 innings, he has an 5.63 ERA
Luis Tiant Sr. has finished his work
here this evening

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

Now he steps into the batter's box
Tucker is 2 for 3 on the day
He looks around at the Caribbean infield
Espino is kicking the dirt at first
Linares is even with the bag at third
Pacheco and Concepcion are ready
with hands on knees
at second and short
Tucker waits patiently
Fernando rocks and fires
Change up...
Fools Tucker...
He still manages to hit
a grounder to first
Espino BOOTS THE BALL!!!
Tucker is safe at first on the error
Score It: E3
Tucker to first

Tucker at first, nobody out
Gazelle comes to the plate
Gerald checks with the third base coach
Takes a few practice swings
Now he steps into the box
Gazelle waits patiently for the pitch
His bat is coiled
The southpaw Valenzuela delivers
the 3-1 pitch
Fastball, at the letters...
Gazelle crunches it...
There's a high belt...
Driven deep into left-centerfield...
Minoso running to the fence...
It's outta here
HOME RUN 21 for Gazelle this year!

Jeeberoni Potpie, the first baseman,
strides to the plate
Potpie is batting .290 with
29 round trippers in 1900
Fernando Valenzuela on in relief
for the Estrellas
We're in the bottom of the 7th
The pitch is on the way
Base hit to center for Potpie
Minnie Minoso is trying to get to it
This might be stretched into a double!
No... he decides to hold up

Felipe Alou is visiting the mound...
He decides to stick with
Fernando Valenzuela
FOFC left fielder, K. A.
Ton, will be up next
He will be followed by Dan Fouts
One on... no one out
FOFC up by 4
FOFC ahead 5 to 1
Fernando is ready
Valenzuela goes into his stretch...
Looks over at Potpie
Fires to Espino...
Potpie is back easily...

We're ready again
Now Valenzuela comes home
Curve, at the belt...
Ton times his swing...
Hammers a long fly ball...
Tony Oliva retreats toward the fence
He leaps...

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

Fouts is up now for FOFC
Fouts is batting .270 with
16 HR's this year
Valenzuela looks down at Gonzalez
for the sign...
Shakes him off once... twice
Now he has the pitch he wants
Valenzuela brings it to the plate
Fouts really smacks this one
He was waiting on the change
It's a gapper...
But hit high...
Minoso was positioned well
and has a shot at it
He is still running...
At the fence...
He dives for it...
OUT!!!
Caribbean gets the first out of the inning

Now up in the FOFC seventh
will be Harry Hays
Hays is batting .340 with
10 HR's this year
Valenzuela has the sign from Gonzalez
Here's the 2 strike pitch
Curveball in the dirt
Swung on and missed...Strike three
Gonzalez fumbles it,
but quickly recovers to tag Hays
Two away now for FOFC
They're ahead by 6 runs
FOFC has 12 hits on the evening

Walking up to the plate now is Nights
John Williams waits on deck
Valenzuela steps off the rubber...
Adjusts his cap...
Now he slides his foot back into position
He's ready
Now Fernando delivers
A hanging curve...
Nights laces it hard just to
the right of Concepcion
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 John Williams
We'll see how they pitch to Williams
Williams is waiting
His bat is wiggling slightly
The southpaw's 1-2 delivery
Swing and a miss
Strike three
Williams goes down on strikes
That's it for FOFC
Here at FOFC Stadium, After 7 innings,
FOFC has 7 runs, 13 hits and one error
While Caribbean has one run,
6 hits and one error
FOFC has left 7 on base
Caribbean has stranded 8

The Caribbean left fielder, Cepeda,
will lead off
He'll be followed by Miguel Gonzalez
And then Hector Espino
FOFC ahead 7 to 1
John looks for the sign he wants...
Shakes off the first one
But he likes the next
The pitch to Cepeda...
Sinking line drive
Caught by Jeff Nights
And there's one away

Gonzalez is up next
One gone, top of the 8th
Hector Espino moves out on deck
Miguel is batting .285 with
22 home runs on the season
He is 1 for 2 today
Gonzalez tells the umpire he's ready
He brings it home
Williams loses him
Gonzalez heads down to first
2 walks today for Gonzalez

Now batting will be Hector Espino
The first baseman is walking to the plate
One on... one out
FOFC leads Caribbean by 6 runs
Hector is hitting at .239 on the year
He has 27 hits in 113 at bats
Today, he is 0 for 2
Espino struck out his last time up
Hector is ready for the delivery
The pitch on the way, here it is...
Belted right back at Blade
He snares it just before
it hits the ground
That's the second out of the inning

Tony Oliva steps into the box
Oliva is looking for another hit
He has 1 hit so far today
He is hitting .307 on the year
Tony steadies his bat
And waits patiently for Williams' pitch
Now the delivery, here is is...
Fastball off the catcher's mitt
Rolls all the way to the backstop
Hays is after it... as Gonzalez
moves on to second
No throw...
Looked like Hays was crossed-up
on the pitch
Score it a passed ball on Hays

Tony Oliva steps into the box
A base hit should score Gonzalez
Williams wastes no time
He has the sign from Hays
The lefty Williams delivers
Hanging curve...
Swung on...
Oliva turned that one around
in a BIG WAY...
Forget it, that one is long
gone... a home run
Ton didn't even move

Concepcion coming up for Caribbean
Nobody on, two away
Williams looks down at Hays for the sign
Shakes him off once... twice...

Now he has the pitch he wants
The pitch is on the way
It's a dying quail headed
towards the outfield
OHHHHH, snagged by a retreating
Nights for the out
Outstanding range shown on that play!
That ends the inning
After 7 and a half innings,
FOFC leads by 4

Here's Blade to lead off the inning
Before he does...
lets take a look at the scoreboard

Dead Ball Era leads Japanese League 3 to 2
McGinnity battling Fujimoto
Negro League II is in front
of Negro League I 6 to 3
NL Post WWII clipping AL Post WWII 9 to 5
Marichal comfortably ahead
for NL Post WWII
AL Pre WWII is in front
of NL Pre WWII 8 to 5
Old Timers is beating Left Outs 11 to 7
Turn of Century leads Late 20th 3 to 2
And in our matchup FOFC leads 7 to 3
Blade is 1 for 4 today
Barrett fouled out last time up
After getting set, Blade
waits on the pitch
And the delivery by Valenzuela
Curve ball...
Blade swings and misses by a mile
The bottom dropped out of that one!
A wicked pitch!

Tucker digs in at the plate
Ready now for Valenzuela to come set
The outfield's shaded towards
left for Tucker
He's 2 for 4 today
Tucker gets set for the pitch
Valenzuela brings it home
Tucker swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Valenzuela strikes out A. J. Tucker
Two up, two down for FOFC

Here comes Gerald Gazelle to the plate
What a year this man is having
It is a baseball axiom that there are
only five things you can do in baseball
Run, throw, catch, hit, and hit with power
So far this season, Gazelle
is doing it all!
The All Stars' right fielder
is quite a crowd favorite
Gerald takes a couple of practice cuts
Valenzuela adjusts his belt...
Looks in for the sign from Gonzalez
Valenzuela kicks and fires
Gazelle cuts on a curve that
misses in the dirt
That ball is trapped nicely by Gonzalez
Gazelle was badly fooled by Valenzuela's
big breaking curve
STRIKE THREE!
Gerald was a little overanxious
That's three down in the bottom of the 8th
FOFC goes into the ninth with a 4 run lead
They are 38 and 15 at home in 1900
This can be compared to their
70 and 40 record overall
Three more outs, and they can put
another one in the win column!

Felipe Alou is bringing on Pablo Mesa
to hit for Fernando Valenzuela
Mesa will be facing Williams
Mesa knows how to bunt very well...
And he can run like a deer
FOFC would be wise not to forget
He might bunt for a hit

Mesa saunters to the plate
He does some stretching...
Knocks the dirt from his spikes...
Now he steps into the batter's box
Mesa has hit 2 home runs this year
Williams looks down at Hays for the sign
Now he's ready
The lefty winds and delivers
High heater...
Mesa goes after it...
Rips a line drive into the gap
That looks like an easy two-bagger
A. J. Tucker races to the ball
Cuts it off, spins and fires it in
Blade takes the relay
Fires to Nights...
The slide...
Safe at second
Mesa has himself a double

Minoso saunters to the plate...
He stretches out a little...
Taps the dirt from his spikes...
Now he steps into the batter's box
Minoso a righty in the batter's box
facing the righthanded Knowles
Minnie is set for the pitch
The righthander delivers
Minoso swings and misses, strike three!
Minnie chased a curve ball in the dirt
One gone for Caribbean

Antonio Pacheco steps into the box
Pacheco is at .285 on the season
Hays flashes the sign...
Knowles waves it off...
Now he's happy
Here's the righthander's delivery
Knowles loses hit footing!
and the pitch sails to the backstop!
Hays retrieves it quickly.
Score that as a REALLY wild pitch!
Mesa takes third

Antonio Pacheco steps into the box
Pacheco is hitting .288 against righties
Sammy gets the sign from Hays
The righthander Knowles delivers
Pacheco reaches out and pokes it
on the ground to center
Base hit for Pacheco
FOFC's lead narrows by a run
FOFC ahead 7 to 4

Omar Linares up
All Stars out in front by three
We're in the top of the 9th
Linares has hit 15 home runs this year
Knowles is asking for a new ball...
And now gets one...
He's set now
He's into the stretch
Takes a look over to first
Quick throw!
Pacheco dives back in!...

SAFE!
Potpie tosses it back to Knowles
Now here's the pitch
And Linares will sit down...
strike three called
That's two away

At the plate now for Caribbean is Cepeda
Cepeda has a .257 average against
righthanders this season
The righthander pitching to Cepeda...
A righthanded batter
Righties have a .222 average
against Sammy
Knowles' righthanded delivery...
Pounded on the ground to short
Taken by Nights
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 6-3
And that will do it for Caribbean
FOFC wins 7 to 4
Williams gets credit for the win
Tiant Sr. takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Gerald Gazelle
He was 1 for 3 with a homerun
He also knocked in 3 runs
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.
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Old 05-26-2013, 07:31 PM   #694
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7/26 Boxscore

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BOXSCORE: 2001 Caribbean Estrellas At 1000 FOFC All Stars 7/26/1900 Estrellas AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG M.Minoso CF 5 1 2 0 .274 B.Blade 2B 5 1 1 0 .264 A.Pacheco 2B 5 0 2 2 .286 A.Tucker CF 5 2 2 1 .295 O.Linares 3B 5 0 1 0 .243 G.Gazelle RF 3 1 1 3 .273 P.Cepeda LF 3 0 0 0 .264 J.Potpie 1B 4 2 3 1 .292 M.Gonzalez C 2 1 1 0 .285 K.Ton LF 2 1 2 2 .281 H.Espino 1B 3 0 0 0 .237 D.Fouts 3B 4 0 1 0 .268 T.Oliva RF 4 1 2 2 .309 H.Hays C 4 0 2 0 .339 D.Concepcion SS 3 0 0 0 .269 J.Nights SS 4 0 1 0 .277 L.Tiant Sr. P 2 0 0 0 .106 J.Williams P 3 0 0 0 .143 A-K.Hernandez PH 1 0 0 0 .242 S.Knowles P 0 0 0 0 ---- F.Valenzuela P 0 0 0 0 .267 B-P.Mesa PH 1 1 1 0 .226 -- -- -- --- -- -- -- --- Totals 34 4 9 4 Totals 34 7 13 7 A-Pinch Hit For Tiant Sr. In 7th Inning B-Pinch Hit For Valenzuela In 9th Inning Estrellas....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 - 4 9 1 All Stars....... 0 0 0 0 3 0 4 0 - 7 13 1 Estrellas IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA L.Tiant Sr. LOSS(9-9) 6 9 3 3 2 2 1 106 4.80 F.Valenzuela 2 4 4 3 0 5 2 40 5.77 Totals 8 13 7 6 2 7 3 All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA J.Williams WIN(11-2) 8 8 4 4 6 3 1 143 3.77 S.Knowles 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 16 1.56 Totals 9 9 4 4 6 5 1 ATTENDANCE- 48,121 DATE- Thursday, July 26th 1900 TIME- Night T- 2:22 LEFT ON BASE- Estrellas: 9 All Stars: 8 DOUBLE PLAYS- Estrellas: 2 All Stars: 3 ERRORS- H.Espino, J.Nights DOUBLES- A.Pacheco(29th), O.Linares(25th), P.Mesa(22nd), B.Blade(16th), A.Tucker(17th) TRIPLES- A.Tucker(7th) HOME RUNS- T.Oliva(12th), G.Gazelle(21st), J.Potpie(29th), K.Ton(11th) SACRIFICE HITS- J.Williams SACRIFICE FLIES- G.Gazelle WALKS- P.Cepeda-2, M.Gonzalez-2, H.Espino, D.Concepcion, G.Gazelle, K.Ton HIT BY PITCH- K.Ton STRIKE OUTS- M.Minoso, O.Linares-2, M.Gonzalez, H.Espino, B.Blade-2, A.Tucker-2, G.Gazelle, H.Hays, J.Williams GIDP- H.Espino, L.Tiant Sr.-2, H.Hays, J.Nights WILD PITCHES- S.Knowles PASSED BALLS- H.Hays
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Old 05-27-2013, 09:50 PM   #695
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7/27 Radio Broadcast - Game 111

Welcome to FOFC Stadium!
And in a moment we'll be ready
for the game between
FOFC and Caribbean
So folks, pull up a chair
and spend part of your evening with us
The ump shouts "PLAY BALL!"
We're ready to go here in FOFC
Minnie Minoso to lead it off for Caribbean
Fozborg brings it to the plate
Minoso slaps a hard grounder past short
Ton is over to pick it up
He tosses it back to second
Minoso will hold with a clean single

Roberto Avila steps up to the plate
Fleet-footed Minoso is at first
Roberto checks with the third base coach
Takes a few practice swings...

Now he steps into the box
Set now is Avila
Fozborg goes into his stretch
Looks over at the fidgety Minoso
He lobs one to Potpie...
Minoso is back easily...

We're ready again
Now Fozborg comes home
The Estrellas try the hit and run!
Avila misses the pitch!
The steal attempt...
Hays comes up firing...
Hook slide...
Out!
Nice throw

Roberto Avila will make
his way to home plate
He's the second baseman for Caribbean
Avila is batting .195 with
no HR's this year
Fozborg steps off the mound toward second
Gives the resin bag a good squeeze...

Now he toes the rubber...
He's ready to go
Sirr will have to come in
with this 3-0 delivery
It's on its way...
Curve in the dirt
That's ball four
Fozborg can't get the 3-0
pitch over the plate

While Perucho Cepeda heads
for the on deck circle
Pancho Coimbre makes his way to the plate
Watching Fozborg, Coimbre wiggles the bat
He's ready for the pitch
Coimbre awaits the delivery
Fozborg's 3-0 pitch...
Base hit to left for Coimbre
Avila is racing towards third...
The throw is going to third...
Avila is safe at third!
And Coimbre advances to
second on the throw

Perucho Cepeda will face Fozborg
Righty against righty
2nd and 3rd, 1 man down
Fozborg is taking his time out there
Perucho could write a letter
while he's waiting
Now Fozborg's finished fiddling around
He is in quite a jam
He gets the sign from Hays
Fozborg checks the runners
Cepeda sends one way high in the air
It is drifting toward the
first base dugout
Hays is over...
Ouch!...
That ball got a fan right
in the breadbasket
He even lost the souvenir
After stopping it with his abdomen
It bounced to a kid a couple seats away
. . . Cepeda back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Outside slider...
He goes after it...
Cepeda smashes a very high
fly into deep left
Ton and Tucker converge on it
Tucker pulls up..
So does Ton!!...
They both can only look up...
That ball is outta here!

One away, nobody on...
top of the 1st
The first base coach exhorting
Oliva to get on base...

One of those perennial war cries
Oliva is hitting .309 with 12 homeruns
Tony also has 25 doubles and 6 triples
And has driven in a total of 52 runs
Oliva waits for the pitch
His bat is coiled
Here's the righthander's delivery
Over the outside corner
Oliva hits the curve right to third...
Palmer takes it on the second hop
Fires to 1st...
Oliva is out by a couple of steps
Two down

Settling in at the plate is Gonzalez
Gonzalez can't seem to get
settled at the plate
Fozborg adjusts his cap...
Now he's set
Way ahead in the count
Fozborg turns the 0-2 pitch loose
Curve, a beauty...
Strike three looking!
Fozborg punches him out!
That retires the side... but not before
3 runs cross the plate for Caribbean
After one half inning, Caribbean
ahead 3 to 0

Barrett Blade makes his way to the plate
He will get things started
in the All Stars half of the first
FOFC is 4 and 6 in their last ten games
Already behind by 3 runs
they need some baserunners
Blade has hit 3 home runs this year
Cuellar shakes off two signs
Now he's ready
With a 3-2 count, the pitch
Ball four is the call
Cuellar can't believe the call
And barks at the home plate umpire
The ump points out at Cuellar
Blade takes first base

Tucker settles in at the plate
Tucker is trying to get comfortable
in the box
Digging that back foot in
A. J. seems to be relaxed
and ready for the pitch
He steadies his bat now
Cuellar checks Blade on first...
The 3-2 delivery
It's in on the hands
Inside... ball four
Tucker trots to first as
Blade takes second

Potpie walks to the plate
Cuellar peers in for the sign
Potpie is a formidable opponent
Mike has allowed 20 home runs
versus righties this year
And Jeeberoni is no ordinary hitter
The southpaw's 1-2 delivery
Change up...
Potpie was way out in front...
Strike Three
One down for FOFC
Gerald Gazelle is still
in the on-deck circle
and Deacon Palmer is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Gazelle gets set at the plate
The righthander, Gazelle has
an average of .273
His success against lefties, like Cuellar
is better, however, at .316
Gazelle gets set for the pitch
The pitch is on the way
Base hit to center for Gazelle
Dick Howser is waving the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Aggressive baserunning by FOFC...
Not cut-off...
Blade scores!
Trailing runners advance.

That brings up Deacon Palmer,
the third baseman
Palmer wiggles the bat above his head
Palmer is waiting
His bat is wiggling slightly
Cuellar checks the runners
Here's the 0-1 offering
Base hit to left for Palmer
Tucker scores
Dick Howser is waving the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Gazelle scores!

Ton comes to the plate
One out, Palmer at first
Before getting ready
Ton checks out the defensive alignment
K. A. steadies his bat
And waits patiently for Cuellar's pitch
The southpaw delivers
Ton sends a scorcher to third
Linares takes it on one hop
Fires to Avila for one
Back to Cepeda for the double play!
That's all for the All Stars...
As we head to the top of
the second inning...
The score is tied at 3

Omar Linares up first for Caribbean
He is a threat to steal if he gets on
Against righthanders
Linares is hitting .266
Fozborg adjusts his belt...
Looks in for the sign from Hays
The windup, the pitch
Fastball, STRIKE THREE!
Linares was frozen on that
fastball by Fozborg
High and on the outside corner
He was looking for an off-speed pitch
One away in the top of the 2nd

Coming up for Caribbean is Dave Concepcion
Nobody on base, one out
Concepcion needs to get on...
He has a .300 on base percentage
Concepcion is set in the batter's box
He's staring intently out at Fozborg
He's waiting for the pitch
Here's the 3-2 offering
Sinking fastball...
Concepcion swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Palmer...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
Two down
Fozborg retires the first
two Caribbean batters

Now here's Cuellar
The outfield's shaded towards right
With Cuellar at the plate
Cuellar is set for the pitch
The righthander Fozborg's delivery
Cuellar swings...
He rips a ground ball towards Palmer
It's by him!
It's twisting into the left field corner
Cuellar rounds first...
He will return quickly to first
as Ton gets a nice throw in to Blade

Walking up to the plate now is Minoso
Roberto Avila waits on deck
Minoso is batting .278 with
4 homers this year
Fozborg looks a bit nervous right now
Understandably, with Cuellar
bopping around down at first
The Caribbean basestealing terror
has 48 stolen bases in 1900
In one quick moment
the go-ahead run could be at second
But only one more chance
for Caribbean this inning
The pitch is on the way
Base hit to center for Minoso
Matty Alou puts up the stop sign...
Cuellar will stay at second

Avila digs in at the plate
Ready now for Fozborg to come set
Avila has a .200 average against
righthanders this season
Avila is set in the batter's box
He's staring intently out at Fozborg
He's waiting for the pitch
A check on the runners... the pitch
STRIKE THREE!
He swung on a ball that was in the dirt
Avila was overanxious up there
That was almost a wild pitch
That's all for the Estrellas
No runs, 2 hits, no errors and
2 men left on base...
We go to the bottom of the 2nd...
The score is tied at 3

Hays 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
The right-handed Hays will
be facing the southpaw
6 of his 10 home runs come via this route
Harry is ready for the delivery
Cuellar brings it to the plate
Change-up, Hays is looking for it...
He smacks a deep fly to left-center...
Minoso is at the warning track...
Waits...
Hauls it in
One gone for FOFC

The shortstop, Jeff Nights
will be up next for FOFC
Jeff is taking his sweet
time getting ready

The umpire says a few words to Jeff...
Now we're set to go
Nights tells the umpire he's ready
Mike Cuellar, with 27 appearances
before today's game
looks down for the sign from Gonzalez
Cuellar has great control
He's looking for win number 9
He's into the windup
Fastball...
Swung on...
Lined to left... Single for Nights
HE TRIPS OVER THE BAG AT FIRST!!
The throw to first...
He manages to scramble back safely...
Nights' not getting up
Joe Adcock, the first base coach
is calling for help
Here comes the trainer, Tay Pemup...
They are looking at his ankle...

Now he's on his feet, walking a bit
Looks like he'll be OK, at least for now
Give him a single on the play

Fozborg squares, and bunts
it down the line
Cuellar picks it up and fires to first
OUT by a step
Had Fozborg been a left-handed hitter
He might have had a hit
Instead, credit Sirr Fozborg
with a sacrifice
One more chance for FOFC this inning

That will bring up second
baseman, Barrett Blade
Cuellar tosses the resin bag aside
He steps on the rubber...
The southpaw delivers the 2 strike pitch
Base hit to center for Blade
Dick Howser is giving the green light...
The throw is cut off...
And that allows the run to score

Tucker is up now for FOFC
Tucker scuffs up the lines around the box
Tucker is poised and ready for the pitch
Cuellar brings it home
Hard slider...
And Tucker takes it right down the middle
Strike three called
FOFC is out of here in the
bottom of the 2nd
This game is coming to you from
FOFC Stadium in FOFC
After 2 innings
FOFC has 4 runs, 4 hits and no errors
While Caribbean has 3 runs,
5 hits and no errors

The big guns are due up for Caribbean
Coimbre will lead it off
He will be followed by Perucho
Cepeda and Tony Oliva
Pancho is 1 for 1 today
He precedes Perucho Cepeda in the order
as the first of the Caribbean
"run producers"
He has 22 doubles with 14 home runs
so far in 1900
Coimbre gets ready for Fozborg's pitch
His bat is cocked
Fozborg kicks and fires
Slow ground ball
Nights is charging it
He fires it to first
He's OUT
One down for Caribbean
Perucho Cepeda is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to the
plate for Caribbean

One out, nobody on base
Perucho Cepeda is the batter
Cepeda has hit 17 home runs this year
Fozborg gets the sign, it's one he likes
Now to the belt, here it is...
It's a high fly ball into shallow right
Gazelle runs in...
He calls for it...
Blade yells "take it"
And Gazelle puts it away
Cepeda is retired on a lazy fly to right
FOFC on top 4 to 3 with
two away this inning

Up now for Caribbean is Oliva
Two away, nobody on
Oliva is a lefthanded batter
A dangerous long ball threat
2nd in the league in home runs
He has smacked 12 so far in 1900
Tony waits...
He steps out as Fozborg takes too long
Now he's back in the box
Fozborg brings it to the plate
Grounded towards the sack
Palmer comes up with it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 5-3
We head to the bottom of the 3rd
here in FOFC...
Still 4-3, FOFC

The first baseman Potpie
will lead off for the All Stars
He'll be followed by Gerald Gazelle
And then Deacon Palmer
Potpie is 0 for 1 today
He is currently batting .291
Coimbre, Minoso and Oliva
are playing him deep
Jeeberoni is eagerly awaiting
Cuellar's pitch
Cuellar winds and delivers
The 3-1 pitch
Let up pitch, inside and low
Swung on...
High hopping ball towards left...
Into the hole...
Stopped there by Concepcion
before it gets through...
He starts to throw but stops
Potpie has the infield single

And it brings up Gerald Gazelle
On deck is Deacon Palmer
K. A. Ton in the hole
Gazelle grips the bat handle
The umpire says let's go
Gazelle is ready
Now the delivery, here is is...
Swing and a miss
Strike three
Gazelle goes down on strikes
One out
The All Stars have a 1 run lead


Palmer coming to bat
Walking slowly from the on deck circle
Potpie on first, with one away
Palmer is 1 for 1 today
Deacon singled last time up
Mike gets the sign from Gonzalez
The stretch... the delivery
Base hit to left for Palmer
Potpie is being held at
second by Dick Howser
Potpie will stay at second

And the batter is K. A. Ton
One down here in the bottom of the 3rd
Potpie is down at second
Palmer is kicking the dirt up at first
He's ready to set sail
If Ton can get a hit
FOFC ahead 4 to 3
Ton looks for a sign from third
Dick Howser delivers it to K. A.
K. A. is 0 for 1 today
grounded out his last at bat
Ton, a righthand hitter
Waits patiently for the pitch from Cuellar
Here's the southpaw's delivery
Fastball... just outside
And Ton will take first on the walk
Everybody will move up a base...
Bases are loaded, with Harry Hays due up

Harry Hays, the All Stars'
catcher is up next
FOFC has 3 men on with 1 out
Hays is at .338 on the season
Cuellar looks down at Gonzalez
for the sign...
Shakes him off once... twice
Now he has the pitch he wants
The 0-2 pitch...
Cuellar lets it fly...
LINE DRIVE
Linares grabs it for the out
Now he races to the bag . . .
OUT!
Double Play!
Score It: 5
That's it for FOFC
Here at FOFC Stadium, After 3 innings,
FOFC has 4 runs, 6 hits and no errors
While Caribbean has 3 runs,
5 hits and no errors
FOFC has left 2 on base
Caribbean has stranded 2

Here's the catcher Gonzalez
To lead off the inning
He'll be followed by Omar Linares
And then Dave Concepcion
Fozborg is slow to get ready

He has a 4.01 ERA this year
Now he's ready
Fozborg's righthanded delivery...
Swung on and hit sharply to second
Blade plays it on one bounce
Over to Potpie...
Out of there!
So one up and one gone

Omar Linares is at the plate
Linares stares out at the mound
Linares is ready for the pitch
Here's the 1-1 delivery
WATCH OUT!
Fozborg has hit Linares!

Coming to the plate is Concepcion
One down and runner at first
Concepcion has hit 4 home runs this year
Sirr peers in for the sign...

Shakes off the first one...
Likes the second one
Righthander Fozborg's delivery
There's a fly ball into straight-away left
Ton one hands it...
OUT!
That's the second out of the inning
Time to check the scoreboard

Dead Ball Era bombing Japanese
League 13 to 2
Johnson and Dead Ball Era
are on cruise control
Negro League II and Negro League
I have yet to score
NL Post WWII is beating
AL Post WWII 10 to 6
NL Pre WWII is edging AL Pre WWII 4 to 3
Old Timers leads Left Outs 2 to 1
Turn of Century leads Late 20th 2 to 1
Lajoie has hit his 14th homerun
for Turn of Century
And in our matchup FOFC on top 4 to 3

Stepping in the batter's box, Cuellar
Linares at first, two away
Cuellar digs in from the left side
of the plate against the righty Fozborg
Fozborg is ready quickly
The stretch... the 2 strike delivery
Grounded towards the sack
Taken by Palmer
Over to Potpie
Got him!
Score It: 5-3

Jeff Nights, Sirr Fozborg, and
Barrett Blade are due up
Nights is 1 for 1 today
Jeff singled last time around
All set, Nights is ready for the pitch
Now ready, here it is...
Slider, down and away...
Nights reaches for the pitch...
It's a grounder to the third base side...
Linares is there
IT BOUNCES OVER HIS HEAD!...
Coimbre is hustling after it...
Nights with the big turn...
The throw from Coimbre goes into second
And Nights holds at first

Fozborg fouls off the bunt attempt
The count goes to 1 and 2, we'll have
to see if they keep the bunt play on
Fozborg shows bunt
It's a beauty!
Mike Cuellar has no chance at second
So Fozborg gets the sacrifice
Cuellar has the first out in
the bottom of the 4th
Gonzalez trots out to the mound
Says a few words to Mike...
With the runner on second...
Probably making sure of the signs

Blade strides to the plate
Runner at second, and one out
Against lefthanders
Blade is hitting .321 this season
He's ready for the delivery
Avila comes in a couple steps
Yells something to Cuellar
The delivery
Blade watches strike three glide by
For that matter, he watched them all
That won't get it done

All Stars' center fielder Tucker
is up next
Tucker digs in from the right side
of the plate against the southpaw Cuellar
Cuellar looks down at Gonzalez
for the sign

Now he's ready...
The southpaw Cuellar's delivery
on the 2-2 pitch
Tucker goes after the low slider...
Lofts a shallow fly towards Minoso
He's racing in for it...
Catches it at his knees
HE KICKS IT LOOSE!!!
He's chasing it down
Tucker walks into second on the error
Minoso should've had that one
Score It: E8
Nights scores from second!
Tucker to second

The All Stars' first baseman is up next
FOFC has 1 on board with 2 outs
A base hit should score Tucker
The left-hander Cuellar is now ready
Mike rocks and fires
Smashed to short
Concepcion comes up with it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 6-3
That's all for the All Stars
After 4 innings in FOFC this evening,
FOFC on top 5 to 3

Minoso saunters to the plate
He does some stretching...
Knocks the dirt from his spikes...
Now he steps into the batter's box
Sirr Fozborg steps off the
mound toward second
Gives the resin bag a toss
Now he toes the rubber...
He's ready to go
Fozborg brings it to the plate
Curveball, inside corner, low...
Swung on...
And lined to center for a base hit
No chance to get that one

Now batting will be the second
baseman, Roberto Avila
Minoso takes his lead
Fozborg studies his sign
Here's the 3-1 offering
Avila will try the hit and run!
Avila hits a screamer at Jeff Nights
Nights picks it up and fires to second
Out there...
And the throw to first
A tailor made double play
Two gone for Caribbean

Pancho Coimbre, the left fielder,
strides to the plate
Fozborg looks down at Hays for the sign
Shakes him off once... twice...

Now he has the pitch he wants
He brings it home
Grounded towards the bag
Taken by Palmer
Over to Potpie
Got him!
Score It: 5-3
That wraps up the inning for Caribbean
So After 4 and a half innings
FOFC has 5 runs, 7 hits and no errors
While Caribbean has 3 runs,
6 hits and one error
Caribbean has left 3 stranded
FOFC has failed to bring home 4

It is the bottom of the 5th,
FOFC ahead 5 to 3
Here come the "big guns" for FOFC
Gerald Gazelle will start things off
Deacon Palmer will follow
Gazelle, FOFC's right fielder,
has chosen his weapon
The All Stars' cleanup hitter
glares down at Cuellar
Cuellar is saying a few words to Avila...
So far in 1900,
Mike has a 8 and 11 record
with 4 complete games
OK, now he looks in for the sign
The lefty Cuellar delivers
Strike three called
A curve that broke over
Number 5 for Mike Cuellar today
133 on the year
With one down, up next is Deacon Palmer
To be followed by K. A. Ton

Nobody on base, one away
Palmer steps into the batter's box
Palmer is a tough man up
there at the plate
He's hard to get past in the lineup
Deacon certainly knows how to get on base
He'll make Cuellar earn his salary
Deacon stands with bat ready
Cuellar rocks and fires
What a pitch... strike three
Cuellar put that one on the
black, a perfect pitch
Two away now for FOFC
They're ahead by 2
The All Stars have 7 hits on the evening

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

The infield shifts slightly to the left
for the right hand hitting Ton
Stepping out, Ton looks into the dugout
Steps back in
Mike is ready
Cuellar fires
Cuellar loses him
Ton heads down to first
2 walks today for Ton

First base coach Joe Adcock
wants a word with Ton...
Now we're all set to go...
Harry Hays steps in
Mike Cuellar still on the mound
for the Estrellas...
Cuellar has gone the distance so far
He's given up 7 hits in 4 2/3 innings
Here's his delivery
Cuellar's fastball is ripped toward first
Cepeda can't get to it!
It is into the outfield...
Ton was off and running with
the crack of the bat
He is on his way to third...
They'll have a chance to get him...
Here's the throw...
SAFE!
A nice shot by Hays
and a nice piece of baserunning as well
So there are runners on the
corners for Jeff Nights

Nights stands ready at the plate
Two outs, Hays at first, Ton at third
2 men out, runners 1st and 3rd
Mike looks for the sign he wants...
Shakes off the first one
But he likes the next
The 0-2 delivery by the lefthander
In there, called strike three
Nights didn't like it
That does it for FOFC in the 5th
They leave 2 on base
5 stranded so far today

Power hitting Perucho Cepeda will lead off
Caribbean's clean-up hitter
will see what he can do
against FOFC's Sirr Fozborg
Cepeda is at .266 on the season
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 pitch on the way, here it is...
It's a quail shot headed
towards the outfield
Nights takes off after it...
Leaps...
And Cepeda is OUT!
Very impressive range shown on that play!
Jeff is very fine fielder!
One out
Due up next is Tony Oliva

Caribbean right fielder,
Tony Oliva, is up next
Fozborg ready quickly, looks
in for the sign
The righthander Fozborg delivers
There's a checked swing...
But Oliva gets a piece of it anyway
It's a pop fly into left
Ton comes in on it...
Easy out
Oliva couldn't get his bat out of the way
Two out, nobody on
FOFC leads 5 to 3

Nobody on, two away
Gonzalez steps in for Caribbean
Gonzalez has 12 doubles this year
Gonzalez looks very intent...
He stares down at Fozborg...
Cocks his bat
Here's the 3-1 pitch
Routine grounder to short
Nights scoops it up
Over to first for the out
1-2-3, nothing across...

Leading off for the All Stars
is the pitcher Fozborg
He'll be followed by Barrett Blade
And then A. J. Tucker
Time is called...
Fozborg has asked the ump
to clean the plate
We'll be ready in a second...
OK, now we are ready again
Cuellar has the sign from Gonzalez
And the cripple pitch...
Fozborg chases the change up
Hits a slow grounder right past Cuellar
Avila snares it behind the bag...
Plants...
Throws to first...
Beats him by a step for the out!
One away for FOFC here in
the bottom of the 6th

So that brings up Barrett Blade
the FOFC second baseman
Blade steps out of the batter's
box to get the sign
Barrett is 1 for 2 today
Blade awaits the delivery
The southpaw Cuellar delivers
the 1-2 pitch
Fly ball to right
Oliva is under it
He grabs it for the out
Two up, two down for the All Stars

Up now for FOFC is Tucker
Two away, nobody on
Tucker steps out of the box...
Looks towards Dick Howser for a sign
He's ready
Cuellar kicks and delivers
Slider, inside...
Swung on...
Tucker rocks this one...
He got all of it...
It's going... Going...
GONE!
Man, he really crunched it!
Cuellar looks dejected on the mound

Jeeberoni Potpie, will be up next
Gerald Gazelle hopes to
get a chance as well
Bases empty... one more
chance for FOFC here
FOFC up by 3
Potpie is looking for another hit
He has 1 hit so far today
He is hitting .292 on the year
Potpie awaits the delivery
Cuellar brings it home
Potpie gets around on a fastball
He sends one deep to left
This could be big trouble...
There goes Coimbre after it
He is really moving...
At the warning track...
Jumps...
WHAT A CATCH!
Holy Cow... Potpie is outta there!
My Word!... very nice...
Potpie can't believe it
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
So After 6 innings
FOFC has 6 runs, 9 hits and no errors
While Caribbean has 3 runs,
6 hits and one error
FOFC has left 4 stranded
Caribbean has failed to bring home 3
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7/27 Radio Broadcast Continued

Caribbean will send Linares,
Dave Concepcion, and Mike Cuellar to face
Sirr Fozborg this inning
Fozborg is ready quickly
Fozborg brings it to the plate
Base hit to center for Linares
A. J. Tucker is trying to get to it
This might be stretched into a double!
No... he decides to hold up

Here comes Concepcion to the plate
The players in Caribbean's dugout
have their caps turned around
It's for good luck
They're looking to close the gap on FOFC
The trail by 3
Concepcion is 0 for 2 today
Fozborg likes the sign
And the delivery by Fozborg
Concepcion raps a hard grass-cutter
toward third
Palmer takes two steps to his left
Scoops it up...
Over to second for one
Back to first...
Not in time!
Speed on the bases helped Caribbean there
That's one away

Felipe Alou will send up a pinch hitter
Yes, Pablo Mesa steps out of the dugout
He will be up there against Fozborg
Mesa is batting .226 on the year
He has 2 round trippers and 24 RBI's

Now up in the Caribbean seventh
will be Pablo Mesa
Stepping in and then stepping out again
Mesa looks to third for a sign
Hays flashes the sign...
Fozborg shakes it off, he wants another...

Now he's happy
Sirr rocks and fires
Mesa drives the ball to center
for extra bases
Matty Alou is giving the green light...
The throw is cut off...
And that allows the run to score
Double for Mesa

Minoso waltzes up to the batter's box
Caribbean trails by 2 runs
We're in the top of the 7th
Minoso is taking his practice swings
Minnie is 3 for 3 this evening
He singled last time at bat
Minoso cocks his bat
Now Sirr delivers
WATCH OUT!
Fozborg has hit Minoso!
Now Minoso gets up
and brushes himself off
He's not a big fan of "chin music"
and he's letting Fozborg know about it!
The ump tells Minoso to take his base

Avila saunters up to the batter's box
All Stars have runners at first and second
Minoso on first represents the tying run
Avila is 0 for 2 today, with 1 walk
Roberto grounded out in his last at bat
Avila is poised and ready for the pitch
The runners take their leads
Fozborg brings it to the plate
Flyball to right
it's caught
Mesa might have a chance to move up...
Gazelle makes the catch...
Mesa is tagging up at second...
He'll move up to third as the
throw comes into second

The tying runs are on base...
And up comes the left fielder,
Pancho Coimbre
Caribbean needs 2 runs
They trail 6-4
Coimbre goes through his
routine of settling in
Waiting for the pitch is Coimbre
Righthander Fozborg's delivery
Hit towards the middle
Smooth pickup by Blade
Over to Potpie
Got him!
Score It: 4-3
That retires the side
The Estrellas score 1 run in the inning
After 6 and a half innings,
FOFC on top 6 to 4

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!
Fernando Valenzuela will be coming
on to pitch for Caribbean
Fernando has appeared in
40 games this season
He has a record of 5-7
in 106 innings
His ERA stands at 5.77

Gerald Gazelle, Deacon Palmer,
and K. A. Ton are the first three
All Stars batters due up
FOFC leads, 6-4
Gonzalez flashes the sign...
Valenzuela waves it off...
Now he's happy
Here's the southpaw's delivery
Gazelle swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Valenzuela strikes out Gerald Gazelle
And there's one away

One away, nobody on base
Palmer stands ready at the plate
Palmer is trying to get comfortable
in the box
Digging that back foot in
Valenzuela steps off the rubber...
Adjusts his cap...
Now he slides his foot back into position
He's ready
He brings it home
Palmer really smacks this one
He was waiting on the change
It's a gapper...
But hit high...
Minoso was positioned well
and has a shot at it
He is still running...
He dives for it...
It gets past him!
Minnie gets up in a hurry
Fires it in to Linares on a line
but Palmer has himself a stand-up double

The All Stars' left fielder is up next
FOFC has 1 on board with 1 out
Ton swinging from the right side
of the plate against the lefty Valenzuela
The bat is cocked
"El Toro" lets loose with the 1-2 pitch
It's a slow ground ball
to the left of short
Concepcion makes the easy pick up
Over to first...
Ton is safe!
The throw pulled Cepeda off the bag
Concepcion may have had too
much time on that one
Caribbean has 2 errors in the game so far

Harry Hays is up next
FOFC's catcher finds 2 on with 1 out
Hays is at .339 on the season
Valenzuela is on the third-base
side of the rubber...
The lefty Valenzuela delivers
Hays flies out to center
Dick Howser wisely holds
the runner at third...
Runner holds.

Jeff Nights will get a crack
at Valenzuela next
Sirr Fozborg would be up next...
But only if Nights can reach safely
Jeff is batting .280 with 12
home runs on the season
He is 2 for 3 today
Nights, a righthand hitter
Waits patiently for the
pitch from Valenzuela
The pitch to Nights...
Nights swings on a ball in on his fists
It results in a pop up to short
Concepcion is under it...
A few steps to his right...
One hands it for the out
Nights looked bad on that pitch
Nights chokes in the clutch!
Three away here in the bottom of the 7th
After 7 innings FOFC ahead 6 to 4
The official attendance has
just been announced
50011 fans here at FOFC
Stadium this evening

Cepeda leading off
Caribbean would like to get
some runners on base
Perucho looks at the sign
from the coach at third
Matty Alou flashes a series of them...
Now Cepeda taps the bat on home plate
Perucho is set for the pitch
Here's his delivery
It's a high pop just behind the plate
Hays, Potpie, and Palmer all
converge on the ball
THEY COLLIDE!!
And the ball drops untouched
No error charged
. . . Cepeda back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Swung on and hit sharply to third
Palmer plays it on one hop
Over to Potpie...
Out of there!
FOFC gets the first out of the inning

Tony Oliva plants his left foot
The lefthanded right fielder
for Caribbean appears set
Oliva, a lefthand hitter stands ready
He's hitting .306 currently
He was practicing hitting to leftfield
earlier today in batting practice
Hays flashes the sign to Kronside
The pitch is on the way
Curve, down and in...
Oliva swings at it...
It's pulled down the line
Past Palmer...
Pflaggstettler racing to the corner...
He takes it nicely off the fence...
Oliva steams into second...
There will be no play on him
It's a double

Miguel Gonzalez makes his
way to home plate
Gonzalez has hit 22 home runs this year
And Jace studies the sign from Hays...
Now he's got it
Kronside fires
Struck him out on a terrible pitch
That bounced in front of the plate!
and Gonzalez couldn't hold up his swing!
Almost broke his back trying though...
That's two away

That'll bring up Estrellas' third
baseman Omar Linares...
Caribbean with a man in scoring
position at second
Linares grips the bat handle
Linares waiting on the delivery
It's a full count...
Kronside winds and fires...
Slider...
Swung on and pounded to right-center...
It'll be over Pflaggstettler's head!...
He's chasing after it...
Linares rounds second...
Here's the peg in to Palmer at third...
Linares slides hard...
A bad bounce, but Palmer knocks it down...
The ball rolls just a few feet...
Linares jumps to his feet,
but isn't going anywhere
He'll get a triple from the
scorer on that hit!
Oliva scored easily from second

Concepcion finishes his practice swings
Now he strides to the batter's box
Concepcion a righty in the batter's box
facing the righthanded Kronside
Concepcion waits for the pitch
His bat is coiled
Kronside rocks and fires
A high hopper to third
Palmer comes up with it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 5-3
That's it for Caribbean
Here at FOFC Stadium, After
7 and a half innings,
FOFC has 6 runs, 10 hits and no errors
While Caribbean has 5 runs,
10 hits and 2 errors
Caribbean has left 6 on base
FOFC has stranded 8

Pflaggstettler saunters to the plate
He does some stretching...
Knocks the dirt from his spikes...
Now he steps into the batter's box
Valenzuela steps on the rubber
And now the pitch...
Shallow fly ball
Coimbre charging
HE DIVES...
HE CAN'T GET IT!
Pflaggstettler stops at first
That's a single

The second baseman, Barrett
Blade, is up next
Fernando Valenzuela on in relief
for the Estrellas
We're in the bottom of the 8th
The stretch... the 3-1 delivery
Blade laces a hit into the outfield
Pancho Coimbre picks it up
Fires it to the infield
Blade holds with a single

Felipe Alou is visiting the umpire...
He'll be making a double switch
Adolfo Luque has been called
from the bullpen
And Rodolfo Puente will come
in as the shortstop

A. J. Tucker, the center fielder,
strides to the plate
Tucker has hit 6 home runs this year
Adolfo gets the sign from Gonzalez
Here's the righthander's delivery
The All Stars try the hit and run!
Tucker rolls one toward Roberto Avila
He scoops it and fires to first...
Close play
OUT, says the first base umpire
A. J. Tucker is turning red with rage
As he glares at the umpire
Better be careful
Caribbean gets the first out
here late in this contest

It looks as though they'll put him on...
Yes, Gonzalez is calling for the free pass
And there's ball four
That fills the bases for FOFC

Gazelle is up now for FOFC
Gerald comes to the plate batting .273
with 21 home runs

He is 1 for 4 so far today
Potpie on first, Blade on second,
Pflaggstettler on third
Luque adjusts his cap...
Now he's set
The righthander Luque's delivery
Srike three!
Well that is 4 on the evening for Gazelle
He earns himself a silver sombrero!
Two away now for FOFC
They're ahead by 1
The All Stars have 12 hits on the evening

Walking up to the plate now is Palmer
Jace Kronside waits on deck
With 2 RBI's in the game
Palmer has 37 on the season
All set, Palmer is ready for the pitch
Here's the 1-2 offering
Hit in the air to left
Camped under it is Coimbre
And he has it
That retires the side...
Deacon Palmer fails to come
Through in the clutch
That's something you won't see very often

Here's Puente to lead off the inning
Before he does...
lets take a look at the scoreboard
These scores are final...
Dead Ball Era beat up on Japanese
League 15 to 4
Inao takes the loss, his
record drops to 5-11
Johnson the winner, he's now 15-7
Negro League I spanked Negro
League II 6 to 1
NL Post WWII nipped AL Post WWII 11 to 10
NL Pre WWII edged out AL Pre WWII 8 to 7
Dean the winner, he's now 7-4
Coveleski takes the loss,
his record drops to 6-7
Old Timers is the winner
over Left Outs 6 to 2
Turn of Century edged out Late 20th 6 to 5
And right here in FOFC FOFC ahead 6 to 5
Before getting ready
Puente checks out the defensive alignment
Kronside looks down at Hays for the sign

Now he's ready...
Kronside kicks, delivers
He rips a grounder to the mound
Kronside comes up with it
Over to Potpie
Got him!
Score It: 1-3
One away, two to go in the top of the 9th

Minoso pounds the plate
Now he stares out at Kronside
Kronside is happy with the sign
It's a 3-2 count
Here comes the pay-off pitch...
Minnie raps a high bouncer toward third
Palmer snatches it on the third hop
Overhands one to first
Easy out
Two down
Kronside retires two in a row

Felipe Alou is bringing on Alejandro
Ohms to hit for Roberto Avila
Ohms will be facing Kronside
Ohms knows how to bunt very well...
And he can run like a deer
FOFC would be wise not to forget
He might bunt for a hit

Ohms gets set at the plate
Ohms wiggles the bat above his head
Kronside is asking for a new ball...
The ump throws him a new one...
Kronside looks in...
Now he's ready
Kronside winds and delivers
The 1-1 pitch
Comebacker, right to Kronside
Over to Potpie for the easy out
And that will do it for Caribbean
FOFC wins 6 to 5
Fozborg gets credit for the win
Kronside notches the save
Cuellar takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Deacon Palmer
He was 3 for 5
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.
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Old 05-27-2013, 09:52 PM   #697
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7/27 Boxscore

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BOXSCORE: 2001 Caribbean Estrellas At 1000 FOFC All Stars 7/27/1900 Estrellas AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG M.Minoso CF 4 0 3 0 .286 B.Blade 2B 4 1 2 1 .267 R.Avila 2B 3 1 0 0 .182 A.Tucker CF 4 2 1 1 .294 D-A.Ohms PH 1 0 0 0 .250 J.Potpie 1B 4 0 1 0 .291 P.Coimbre LF 4 1 1 0 .305 G.Gazelle RF,LF 5 1 1 1 .271 P.Cepeda 1B 4 1 1 3 .264 D.Palmer 3B 5 0 3 2 .332 T.Oliva RF 4 1 1 0 .308 K.Ton LF 2 0 0 0 .277 M.Gonzalez C 4 0 0 0 .282 J.Kronside P 0 0 0 0 .000 O.Linares 3B 3 0 2 1 .247 H.Hays C 4 0 1 0 .338 D.Concepcion SS 4 1 0 0 .266 J.Nights SS 4 2 2 0 .280 A.Luque P 0 0 0 0 .200 S.Fozborg P 1 0 0 0 .000 M.Cuellar P 2 0 1 0 .127 B-P.Pflaggstettler RF 1 0 1 0 .304 A-P.Mesa PH 1 0 1 1 .227 F.Valenzuela P 0 0 0 0 .267 C-R.Puente SS 1 0 0 0 .210 -- -- -- --- -- -- -- --- Totals 35 5 10 5 Totals 34 6 12 5 A-Pinch Hit For Cuellar In 7th Inning B-Subbed Defensively (RF) For Fozborg In 8th Inning C-Subbed Defensively (SS) For Valenzuela In 8th Inning D-Pinch Hit For Avila In 9th Inning Estrellas....... 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 - 5 10 2 All Stars....... 3 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 - 6 12 0 Estrellas IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA M.Cuellar LOSS(8-12) 6 9 6 5 4 7 1 116 4.51 F.Valenzuela 1 3 0 0 0 1 0 32 5.72 A.Luque 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 8 6.00 Totals 8 12 6 5 5 9 1 All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA S.Fozborg WIN(6-1) 7 8 4 4 1 3 1 118 3.94 J.Kronside SAVE(12th) 2 2 1 1 0 1 0 29 2.66 Totals 9 10 5 5 1 4 1
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Old 05-28-2013, 09:42 PM   #698
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7/28 Radio Broadcast - Game 112

Are you ready for some baseball?...

All right then, let's get
the show on the road
Rob Nielsen with his 15 and 5 record
Will be facing Jackie Robinson

Here we go, well almost...
Here comes Bullock out to the mound...
Looks like they are checking their signs

Now we are ready to start
Here's the windup... and the pitch
Sinking line drive
Caught by Jeff Nights
One away in the top of the
1st for Left Outs

Billy Herman, the third baseman,
strides to the plate
Herman has a .304 average
against lefthanders
He is .255 overall
He should get a good one to hit
The count at 3 and 1
Billy brings the bat back...
Now Rob delivers
Fastball... and it hits
Herman... or did it?
No, it didn't!!!
It's ball four...
Herman will take first base on a walk

One on, one out
Heilmann walks to the batter's box
FOFC is set up for two
Nielsen adjusts his belt...
Looks in for the sign from Bullock
Here's the 0-2 pitch
Heilmann pulls this one down the line
Gunner is at the warning track
The ball is hooking...
Just foul!
. . . Heilmann back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Changeup...
Ties Heilmann up in knots
An awkward swinging strike three!
That's two away

Foxx digs in at the plate
Ready now for Nielsen to come set
Jimmie is hitting at .311 on the year
Left Outs' cleanup hitter
has knocked in 89 runs
He has a fine .575 slugging average
Foxx concentrates
He holds the bat down on the end
The pitch on the way, here it is...
Base hit to left for Foxx
Herman is being held at second
by Tony LaRussa
Herman will stay at second

Now here's Wilson
Wilson has 9 doubles this year
Wilson waits
Here's the southpaw's delivery
Off speed pitch on the way...
And Wilson watches it go by
for the third strike
That's three outs, side retired

The second baseman Blade will
start things off for the All Stars
Blade is at .267 on the season
The former Michigan State player
has a smooth throwing delivery
Roberts kicks and fires
Sinking line drive
Caught by Arky Vaughan
And there's one away

Tucker settles in at the plate
Roberts wastes no time
He has the sign from Foxx
Here's the 1-0 offering
Ground ball to the left side...
Vaughan scoops it up
Over to first for the putout
And there's two away

And now here's Jeeberoni Potpie
Persimmon Pflaggstettler on deck...
Two outs here in the bottom of the 1st
Potpie digs in on the right side
of the plate facing the righty Roberts
Jeeberoni is set for the pitch
Now the delivery, here is is...
Swung on...
And there's a high fly ball into right
Heilmann is under it, waits...
He's got it
That wraps up the inning for FOFC
By the way, FOFC is 4 and 6
in their last ten games

Robinson saunters to the plate
He does some stretching...
Knocks the dirt from his spikes...
Now he steps into the batter's box
Robinson is batting .257 with
13 round trippers in 1900
Robinson looks very intent...
He stares down at Nielsen...
Cocks his bat
The southpaw Nielsen's delivery
Extra base hit to center for Robinson
A. J. Tucker is trying to get to it
This might be stretched into a triple!
He's going to try for it!
Here's the play...
He's safe! Triple for Robinson

Nobody out, Robinson at third
Goslin steps up to the plate
Goslin a lefty in the batter's box
facing the lefthanded Nielsen
A battle of lefties...
Nielsen has the sign he wants
Now Rob delivers
Goslin works the walk...
Passes the baton to Arky Vaughan
who will see if he can get
Robinson in from third

Arky Vaughan steps into the box
Vaughan is batting .314 with
10 HR's this year
Rob gets the sign from Bullock
He brings it home
The pitch is way inside
It gets away from Bullock
Robinson is coming hard
Bullock fires to Nielsen
And Robinson barrels Rob over
He dropped the ball!
Both runners advanced on that wild pitch
Now, Left Outs ahead 1 to 0

Arky Vaughan steps into the box
Vaughan has a .351 average
against lefties
Nielsen wastes no time
He has the sign from Bullock
Rob rocks and fires
Big slow curve...
And it's in there, strike three
One down for Left Outs
Robin Roberts is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to the
plate for Left Outs

Nielsen glares in at Roberts
as he steps in
Now he's ready to go
Rob looks for the sign he wants...
Shakes off the first one
But he likes the next
The southpaw delivers the 0-1 pitch
He rips a grounder to short
Nights grabs it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 6-3
That's out number two
Benton Breeze moving around
Hollers something down at Nielsen
Rob nods "UH HUH"

Robinson is up now for Left Outs
A base hit should score Goslin
Nielsen adjusts his belt...
Looks in for the sign from Bullock
The southpaw delivers
Robinson hits a high pop
into short left field
Palmer and Nights sprint
towards the outfield
Here comes Gunner
Nights puts his glove out...
Makes a lucky catch in front of Gunner!!
That wraps up the inning for Left Outs
Time to check out the rest of the scores

AL Post WWII and Japanese
League are scoreless
Old Timers slipping by Caribbean 2 to 0
Turn of Century and Negro League
I have yet to score
AL Pre WWII is edging Dead Ball Era 1 to 0
Negro League II is on top
of NL Post WWII 2 to 0
Brewer battling Koufax
Late 20th is on top of NL Pre WWII 2 to 0

Pflaggstettler 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
Pflaggstettler a righty
in the batter's box
facing the righthanded Roberts
Pflaggstettler gets ready
for Roberts' pitch
His bat is cocked
Here's the righthander's delivery
It's a routine fly into left
Goslin ranges over and reaches up
He grabs it for the out

Facing Roberts now is Gunner
Deacon Palmer heads to the on deck circle
Billy Bullock waits in the hole
Against righthanders
Gunner is hitting .259
Roberts is happy with the sign
The pitch is on the way
Hit in the air to right
This one has distance...
Harry Heilmann turns and races
back to the fence
He measures it carefully...
Jumps and...
It's gone! Just over the wall
With one swing of the bat...
FOFC is back in this ball game
The game is tied, 1-all

Roberts glares in at Palmer
Deacon Palmer just calmly
stares right back
Infield at regular depth
Palmer grips the bat handle
Palmer awaits the pitch
The pitch to Palmer...
Hit right back to Roberts
On to first and Palmer is gone
That's two away
Vaughan comes over from his shortstop
position to say a few words to Roberts
Billy Bullock will be next up...

Next up is Billy Bullock,
the FOFC catcher...
If he gets on, Jeff Nights would bat next
Bullock is batting seventh
in the order today
He is hitting a respectable .257 for FOFC

Billy steadies his bat
Waits patiently for Roberts' pitch
Roberts brings it to the plate
Sinking fastball...
Bullock swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Vaughan...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
That's all for the All Stars...
After 2 innings here at
FOFC Stadium in FOFC,
The score is tied at 1

Left Outs will send Herman,
Harry Heilmann, and Jimmie Foxx to face
Rob Nielsen this inning
Against lefthanders
Herman is hitting .304 this season
Herman awaits the delivery
Nielsen rocks and fires
Drilled on the ground to short
Nights comes up with it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 6-3
One away in the top of the
3rd for Left Outs

One out, nobody on base
Harry Heilmann is the batter
We'll see how they pitch to Heilmann
Heilmann waits for the delivery
The lefthander delivers
Over the outside corner
Heilmann hits the curve right to second...
Blade takes it on the second hop
Fires to 1st...
Heilmann is out by a couple of steps
Two down
Rob Nielsen retires
the first two batters in order

The muscular Jimmie Foxx is up next
"Double X" stands deep in the box
has a wide stance and full stride
no doubt an intimidating
sight for any pitcher
Rob is set to go... a quick
look toward Bullock again
Now he steps back to get
a squeeze of the resin bag
Left Outs' clean-up hitter is waiting
Nielsen has allowed 10 taters
to righties this year
And 6 when facing lefties
It's a full count...
Nielsen winds and fires...
The pitch is just inside and Foxx holds up
Bullock points down at the
first base umpire
He gives the "safe" sign
Jimmie trots down to first... ball four

Two out, Foxx at first
Coming up is Hack Wilson
Foxx will be running if it's hit
Nielsen looks down at Bullock for the sign
Shakes him off once... twice...

Now he has the pitch he wants
Nielsen goes into his stretch...
Looks over at Foxx
Fires to Potpie...
Foxx is back easily...

We're ready again
Now Nielsen comes home
Wilson swings...
Bounced to the right side of first...
It's by Potpie and through...
For a single...
Pflaggstettler charging fast...
Fields it smoothly...throws to third...
Cut off by Nights...
Foxx slides safely into third

"Robbie" is sauntering up to the plate
Home plate is covered with dirt
The ump cleans it off
Robinson waits for the pitch
The southpaw Nielsen delivers
the 0-2 pitch
He is way out in front
STRIKE THREE swinging
Nielsen had him fishing
as he pulled the string on that pitch
That ends the inning for Left Outs
FOFC has one run, one hit and no errors
While Left Outs has one run,
3 hits and no errors
They have now stranded 5 baserunners

Jeff Nights is up to lead off the inning
The crowd is chanting for FOFC
to get things going
Jeff takes a couple of practice cuts
Now set, Nights waits for the pitch
Roberts brings it to the plate
Good slider, inside part of the plate
Nights gets the bat on it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Robinson grabs it...
Throws to first...
OUT!
Roberts gets the first out in the inning

FOFC pitcher, Rob Nielsen, is up next
The right-hander Roberts is
set to deliver to Nielsen
Into the windup... here's the pitch
Hard ground ball to first
Robinson to Roberts covering first
Score It: 3-1

Next up is Barrett Blade,
the FOFC second baseman
Blade is 0 for 1 today
Roberts rubs down the ball...
Now he's asking for a new one
After he rubs this one down
He looks in for the sign
Roberts is behind in the count
Here's the 2-0 offering
There's a line drive in the gap by Blade
That looks like an easy two-bagger
Hack Wilson dives to get the ball
And fires it in to second
Blade has himself a double

Foxx heads out to the mound . . .
They want to talk strategy.
They might be discussing walking Tucker.
Now the ump comes out to break it up . . .
And we're ready to go . . .
A. J. Tucker will get a
crack at Roberts next
Jeeberoni Potpie would be up next...
But only if Tucker can reach safely
A base hit should score Blade
Roberts is on the first-base
side of the rubber...
Roberts brings it to the plate
Base hit to right for Tucker
Dick Howser is waving the runner home...
The throw is cut off...
And that allows the run to score

Tucker watches Roberts move...
He's moving away from the bag
Tucker is unable to take the lead he wants
There he goes!
The throw from Foxx...
Robinson picks the bad throw
out of the dirt
Applies the tag...
Tucker is out
Fine play by Robinson
On a bad throw by Foxx

Goslin is walking to the plate
Now he steps into the batter's box
Nielsen likes the sign
Now ready, here it is...
He rips a grounder to second
Taken by Blade
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 4-3
Nielsen retires the first batter to
face him in the top of the 4th

Vaughan pounds the plate
Now he stares out at Nielsen
Nielsen tosses the resin bag aside
He steps on the rubber...
The lefty Nielsen delivers
Arky Vaughan swings at a breaking ball
There it goes, way back
towards right-center
Tucker looks up
Kiss that one good bye!!
Vaughan takes Nielsen deep
to tie it, 2-all!
That one had some distance

Walking up to the plate now is Roberts
Jackie Robinson waits on deck
Roberts wiggles the bat above his head
Rob Nielsen steps off the
mound toward second
Gives the resin bag a toss
Now he toes the rubber...
He's ready to go
Nielsen brings it home
Roberts hits a three hopper
towards Jeff Nights
Nights scoops it and fires
it to first for the out
Two down
Bullock asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Bullock and Nielsen

Jackie Robinson makes his
way to home plate
Nielsen is slow to get ready

He has a 3.17 ERA this year
Now he's ready
Here's the 2-2 pitch
Slow ground ball
Blade is charging it
He fires it to first
He's OUT
That's all for Left Outs
After 3 and a half innings
in FOFC this evening,
We're all tied up at 2

Jeeberoni Potpie, Persimmon
Pflaggstettler, and
Stan Gunner are due up
Roberts studies his sign
The pitch is on the way
Slider, outside...
Potpie reaches for it...
Gets some wood on it
It's rolling towards Vaughan...
He scoops it up smoothly
Firing to Robinson in one motion...
Close play...
SAFE!... by a whisker
Robinson is arguing the call
But to no avail
That's a single for Potpie

Pflaggstettler finishes
his practice swings
Now he strides to the batter's box
Pflaggstettler is trying to get
comfortable in the box
Digging that back foot in
Pflaggstettler waits patiently
He's into the stretch
Takes a look over to first
Quick throw!
Potpie dives back in!...

SAFE!
Robinson tosses it back to Roberts
Now here's the pitch
Curve, at the belt...
Pflaggstettler times his swing...
Hammers a long fly ball...
Goose Goslin retreats toward the fence
He leaps...

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

And the batter is Stan Gunner
Deacon Palmer is on-deck
Gunner can't seem to get
settled at the plate
Right-hander Roberts prepares
for the pitch
to the left-handed swinging Gunner
Robin comes home quickly
with the 0-2 offering
What a pitch... strike three
Roberts put that one on the
black, a perfect pitch
With one down, up next is Deacon Palmer
To be followed by Billy Bullock

Coming up for FOFC is Deacon Palmer
Nobody on base, one out
The righty shakes off the sign
Now Roberts shakes off another one
FOFC leads 4 to 2he ex-Michigan
State two sport star
has a smooth flowing delivery
and is a power pitcher with
excellent control
The righthander Roberts' delivery
Palmer takes a cut at the slider...
There's a line drive...
Going over the head of Hack Wilson
My word! Look at that ball go!!

That's a home run!!

And that left the yard in a hurry
Roberts can't believe it
Homer number 6 for Deacon Palmer this year
To go with his 38 RBI's

Next up for FOFC is Billy Bullock
Bullock is batting .256 with
16 HR's this year
Roberts steps on the rubber
Roberts brings it to the plate
Right down the middle... strike three
Bullock must have been looking
for something else
He just froze on that pitch
One more chance for FOFC in
the bottom of the 4th

Nights, FOFC's shortstop,
is coming to the plate
He is finished with his pre-bat warmup
Rob Nielsen waits on deck
Nights is 0 for 1 on the day
He looks around at the Left Outs infield
Robinson is kicking the dirt at first
Herman is even with the bag at third
Robinson and Vaughan are ready
with hands on knees
at second and short
All set, Nights is ready for the pitch
It's coming down the pike
Curve in the dirt... and Nights holds up
Looked like he went around from here
But the man in blue says no
Foxx appeals to first
Appeal fails
Nights will take first on the walk
That's 1 walk today for Nights

Rob Nielsen steps in
He's not much with the bat
Roberts looking in
Here's the 3-2 pitch
Smashed to the mound
Roberts boots the ball!
Score It: E1
Nights takes second
Nielsen to first
Sparky Anderson will be bringing
in a relief pitcher
Herb Pennock has been called
from the bullpen
A few warm up tosses and
we'll be set to go

The All Stars' second baseman is up next
FOFC has 2 on board with 2 outs
Blade has hit 3 home runs this year
The left-hander Pennock is now ready
A check on the runners... the pitch
A high foul, straight back
Foxx doesn't know where the ball is
Pennock is pointing him to it
Now Foxx sees it... near the screen
Nope, he can't make the catch...
The ball is on the screen
. . . Blade back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Looped to short
Arky Vaughan waiting for it
He puts it away
Blade chokes in the clutch!
Score It: 6
That's it for FOFC
FOFC has 5 runs, 6 hits and no errors
While Left Outs has 2 runs,
4 hits and one error
FOFC has now left 2 runners stranded

Here's Billy Herman leading off
Harry Heilmann is on deck
And Jimmie Foxx is in the hole
Billy is 0 for 1 this summer evening
He grounded out in his last
plate appearance
Herman waits for the pitch
His bat is coiled
The 1-1 delivery by the lefthander
Herman rips a whistling
liner down the line
Bingo! Palmer spears it!
A shot right at the FOFC third baseman
Piece of cake!
One out
Due up next is Harry Heilmann

Heilmann gets set at the plate
Heilmann is hitless today, 0 for 2
Harry grounded out in his last at bat
Nielsen adjusts his cap...
Now he's set
Nielsen leans back and fires
Swung on and popped up back of first
Blade is running after it...
Potpie is backpedaling...
Watch out!...
They almost collided!
And the ball drops free just
beyond the dugout
A lack of communication cost FOFC there
. . . Heilmann back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Slider, over the inside corner...
Lashed hard out into right
It's in for a base hit...
Pflaggstettler quickly racing over...
Fields it smoothly, fires it
in behind the runner...
Heilmann dives back into the bag...
SAFE!!
Credit Heilmann with a single

Jimmie Foxx is up next for Left Outs
One out, top of the 5th
FOFC leads 5 to 2
Hack Wilson is on deck
Jimmie, a right-handed hitter,
will face the lefty Nielsen
Of his 25 home runs, 7 are
against southpaws
Rob peers in for the sign...

Shakes off the first one...
Likes the second one
Nielsen checks Heilmann on first
Now the 3-2 pitch
Curve in the dirt... and Foxx holds up
Looked like he went around from here
But the plate ump says no
Bullock loses on his appeal to first
Foxx will take first on the walk

Wilson moseys up to the plate
Frank Robinson is heading
for the on-deck circle
The outfield's shaded towards
left for Wilson
He's 1 for 2 today
Rob is ready
Nielsen looks over at Foxx...
Now back at Heilmann...

He's coming home with it
Big slow curve... and it's in there
Strike three
FOFC gets the second out of the inning

So with 2 on and 2 outs
Left Outs sends their first baseman,
Frank Robinson, up to face Nielsen
Hard-hitting Goose Goslin is walking
towards the on-deck circle
The outfield shades towards
left for Robinson
The umpire says let's go
Checks the runners
Here's his delivery
Pounded on the ground to the mound
Taken by Nielsen
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 1-3
That's the third out of the inning
Left Outs leaves even more
ducks on the pond
They have stranded 7 so far today
Hence, their 3 run deficit

The All Stars will send
Tucker, Jeeberoni Potpie, and
Persimmon Pflaggstettler up
to the plate this inning
A. J. is batting .295 in
471 at bats in 1900
He will be followed by Jeeberoni Potpie
Pennock is asking for a new ball...
The ump throws him a new one...
Pennock looks in...
Now he's ready
Pennock goes into his windup
And here's the 2 strike offering
Fastball...
Tucker jumps all over it...
It's juiced to deep right
There goes Heilmann after it
Racing hard...
He dives...
And he's got it!!!
Beautiful play by Harry Heilmann!
One up, one down

Slowly coming up is Potpie for FOFC
He is finally in the batter's box
FOFC on top 5 to 2
Potpie is 1 for 2 today
Jeeberoni singled last time up
Herb Pennock on in relief of Robin Roberts
The lefthander Pennock delivers
It's a routine fly into left
Goslin ranges over and reaches up
He drops it!!
Potpie stops at first on the error

Persimmon Pflaggstettler is up next
FOFC's right fielder finds 1 on with 1 out
Persimmon is hitting at .305 on the year
He has 111 hits in 364 at bats
Today, he is 1 for 2
Pflaggstettler hit a two-run
homer his last time up
Pflaggstettler is poised and
ready for the pitch
Pennock looks at the runner
The pitch
Pflaggstettler connects on
the Pennock fastball...
This one is really smoked...
Wilson starts back...
Now he just stops to look
Pflaggstettler got all of this one....
HOME RUN!
Potpie scores in front of him and
waits to give Persimmon congratulations

Making his way up is Gunner
Gunner is looking for lightning
to strike again
He's boomed 1 homerun earlier today
Stan is 1 for 2...
Batting .266 on the season
Pennock steps off the mound toward second
Gives the resin bag a good squeeze...

Now he toes the rubber...
He's ready to go
The lefthander Pennock comes home with it
There's a fly ball to Hack Wilson
Wilson circles under it...
He makes the play
Two gone for FOFC

Palmer coming up for FOFC
Nobody on, two away
Pennock is rubbing the ball up
Now the umpire wants to take a look
No problems found...
Now Pennock gets the sign from Foxx
Here's the pitch
Routine grounder to short
Vaughan scoops it up
Over to first for the out
That ends the bottom of the 5th
After 5 innings, the All Stars lead by 5
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Goose Goslin up first for Left Outs
He is a threat to steal if he gets on
Goslin is hitting .293 with 22 homeruns
Goose also has 19 doubles and 7 triples
And has driven in a total of 67 runs
Nielsen rubs down the ball...
Now he's asking for a new one
After he rubs this one down
He looks in for the sign
And the cripple pitch...
He hits a tough grounder to second
Blade comes up with it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 4-3
One down for Left Outs
Arky Vaughan is still in
the on-deck circle
and Herb Pennock is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Settling in at the plate is Vaughan
Arky steps out of the batter's
box to get the sign
Arky is 1 for 2 today with 1 home run
Arky waits...
He steps out as Nielsen takes too long
Now he's back in the box
Here's the 1-1 offering
The swing at the sharp curveball...
It's a fly ball towards short center...
Coming in quickly is the centerfielder
Tucker...
Still coming...
Diving...
NOT IT TIME!
He blocks it with his body...
And Vaughan has a single
Great effort by Tucker
But the block kept Vaughan at first
Shows why he is considered
great defensively

We are going to have a pinch hitter
Chick Hafey will bat for Herb Pennock
It will be the righthand hitting, Hafey
against the lefty Nielsen
Hafey is hitting southpaws
for a .167 average

Vaughan at first, one out
Chick Hafey is ready at the plate
Left-hander Rob Nielsen prepares
for the pitch
to the right-handed swinging Hafey
Here's his delivery
Hafey rolls one toward Barrett Blade
He scoops it and fires to first...
Close play
OUT, says the first base umpire
The first base coach throws his hands up
in disbelief
That's two away

So that brings up the top of the order
Jackie Robinson will step in
Robinson is one of the best hitters around
Nielsen tosses the resin bag aside
He steps on the rubber...
Nielsen's 3-1 pitch...
Swung on and popped up
That's Nights' ball
He's got it
Robinson chokes in the clutch!
Score It: 6
That wraps up the inning for Left Outs
So After 5 and a half innings
FOFC has 7 runs, 7 hits and no errors
While Left Outs has 2 runs,
6 hits and 2 errors
Left Outs has left 8 stranded
FOFC has failed to bring home 2
Bob Lemon will be coming on
to pitch for Left Outs
Bob has appeared in 36 games this season
with a record of 2-7
In 55 innings, he has an 9.38 ERA
Herb Pennock has finished his work
here this evening

Billy Bullock stepping in
He will be the first batter for FOFC
We are in the bottom of the 6th
FOFC on top 7 to 2
Billy comes to the plate batting .255
with 16 home runs

He is 0 for 2 so far today
Bullock waits for the delivery
Windup by Lemon
And the pitch
Bullock gets wood on the hard slider
It's a bouncer hit past the mound...
And PAST Vaughan into the outfield...
Base hit for Bullock

Jeff Nights will make his
way to home plate
He's the shortstop for FOFC
Nights has hit 12 home runs this year
And Bob studies the sign from Foxx...
Now he's got it
Here's the 0-1 offering
Fastball down low...
Nights swings and hits one out to left
Goose Goslin is drifting over...
Now he's under it...
Easy out for Lemon
Bullock trots back to first
That's one away

Nielsen heads to the plate for FOFC
The infield is at regular depth
We'll see how they pitch to Nielsen
Set now is Nielsen
Here comes the cripple pitch
Lemon's pitch is a sinking fastball
Nielsen tries to hold up
Ball four
Foxx points down to third
He did not go around

Barrett Blade, the All Stars'
second baseman is up next
FOFC has 2 men on with 1 out
So far this year Blade is batting .268
He has 17 doubles, 5 triples
3 homeruns with 22 RBI's
and 7 stolen bases
Blade waiting on the delivery
The righthander Lemon's delivery
Big slow curve... and it's in there
Strike three
That's the second out of the inning

Now batting will be the center
fielder, A. J. Tucker
Tucker is 1 for 3 today
For the season, A. J. has 6 homers
17 doubles, and 7 triples
He has scored 75 runs
while driving in 47
Right-hander Lemon prepares for the pitch
to the left-handed swinging Tucker
It's coming down the pike
Tucker hits a pop into short right field
Out goes Robinson and Robinson
In comes Heilmann
Robinson waves his hands in the air
He makes the catch over his shoulder
Pretty play by Robinson
Tucker chokes in the clutch!
That's all for the All Stars
After 6 full innings,
they lead by 5

Left Outs will send Herman,
Harry Heilmann, and Jimmie Foxx to face
Rob Nielsen this inning
Billy steps out to check for his sign
Now he steps back in
Tony LaRussa relays the sign
from Sparky Anderson
Herman lined out last time up
and now is 0 for 2
The umpire says let's go
Herman is ready
The 0-2 pitch...
Nielsen lets it fly...
Herman pulls one to the left side
It's going to scoot on through the infield
Gunner will retrieve it without difficulty
He tosses it back in to second
as Herman retreats to first
after a wide turn

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

The infield shifts slightly to the left
for the right hand hitting Heilmann
Here's the look to third
I expect Heilmann to swing away...
He is 1 for 3 today
With a .329 average for the year
Heilmann waits on Nielsen
Nielsen goes into his stretch...
Looks at Herman...
He fires one to Potpie...
Herman dives back in
That's his best move to first...
Potpie lobs it back
Now Nielsen comes home
Curveball, down in the dirt...
Good stop by Bullock keeping
it in front of him
That's a walk for Heilmann
Benton Breeze is talking to Chuck
Tanner, the bench coach
and Sal Maglie, the pitching coach
That was a poor series of
pitches by Nielsen
They may be concerned he's
starting to lose it
It doesn't look like they
are too worried, however

That'll bring up catcher
Jimmie Foxx...
FOFC out in front by 5
We're in the top of the 7th
Foxx has hit 25 home runs this year
Rob Nielsen is shooting
for victory number 16
Rob checks the runners
Steps off the rubber...

Again he's into the stretch...
The pitch
Change of pace
Foxx is way out in front
STRIKE THREE swinging
Number 6 so far today for Nielsen
While we wait for Hack Wilson
to get a new bat
Let's check the scoreboard

Japanese League clipping
AL Post WWII 5 to 1
Old Timers winning over Caribbean 6 to 0
Radbourn enjoying the big Old Timers lead
Negro League I slipping by
Turn of Century 2 to 0
AL Pre WWII is on top of
Dead Ball Era 3 to 1
Gehrig has hit his 29th homerun
for AL Pre WWII
Negro League II besting
NL Post WWII 8 to 3
NL Pre WWII is on top of Late 20th 5 to 3
Waner has hit his 10th homerun
for NL Pre WWII
And in our contest FOFC on top 7 to 2
OK, let's see if Left Outs can
get back in this ballgame
Currently down by 5

Walking up to the plate now is Wilson
Frank Robinson waits on deck
Wilson has hit 11 home runs this year
Rob is ready
The lefthander delivers
Base hit to left for Wilson
Tony LaRussa won't risk sending
the runner home...
Runners hold.

Frank Robinson steps into the box
As Nielsen prepares to throw...
I notice Benton Breeze conversing
with Chuck Tanner in the dugout
They have got to be pleased
with Nielsen's performance today
A check on the runners... the pitch
The pitch is low
It bounces away from Bullock!
He's got it
But there's no throw.
It's scored a wild pitch.
Herman scores from third!
Heilmann takes third
Wilson takes second

Frank Robinson steps into the box
Nielsen studies his sign
Blade comes in a couple steps
Yells something to Nielsen
The delivery
Sinker over the inside corner
Ripped at...
Robinson manages a grounder to Palmer...
No problem with the hop...
The throw...
Wide of the bag at first
The ball caroms into right field
Pflaggstettler runs it down
Robinson jogs into second
Give Palmer a a two base throwing error
Score It: E5
Heilmann scores from third!
Wilson scores from second!
Robinson to second

Here's Goose Goslin
Goslin scuffs up the lines around the box
After getting set, Goslin
waits on the pitch
The southpaw's 2-0 delivery
Groundball to back to the mound
Robinson will hold at second base
Goslin is retired on the groundout

Vaughan is up now for Left Outs
Vaughan has been poison for FOFC today
He is 2 for 3 on the evening
Vaughan gets set for the pitch
The lefty Nielsen delivers
A slider by Nielsen
Vaughan gets good wood on it...
Pflaggstettler back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
That's all for Left Outs
After 6 and a half innings
in FOFC this evening,
FOFC on top 7 to 5

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

The big guns are due up for FOFC
Potpie will lead it off
He will be followed by Persimmon
Pflaggstettler and Stan Gunner
Potpie is 1 for 3 today
Jeeberoni reached base on
an error last time up
Lemon asks for a new ball
Rubs it down...

Now he steps on the rubber
Lemon kicks and fires
Potpie pounds it on the ground
toward the pitcher Lemon
Lemon swipes at it...
He only succeeds at knocking
it in front of him
That will be an error on Bob Lemon

Persimmon Pflaggstettler is
up to face Bob Lemon
Persimmon Pflaggstettler will
step in to face Lemon
He is 2 for 3 on the evening
with 2 home runs!
That impressive display of power has
been good for 4 RBI's
Time is called...
Don't know what for...

Now we appear ready
Here's the 1-0 offering
Persimmon Pflaggstettler swings
He rips it hard...
WOW!...
Stabbed by Arky Vaughan
Great play; superb reaction time
One down for FOFC
Stan Gunner is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to
the plate for FOFC

Stan Gunner, the left fielder,
strides to the plate
Gunner taps home plate
Looks into the dugout
Now he's ready
Lemon steps on the rubber
Lemon fires
Gunner connects on the curve...
This one is really smoked...
Heilmann starts back...
Now he just stops to look
Gunner got all of this one....
See ya, It's a home run!
Potpie scores in front of him

Palmer, the third baseman, moves
into the batter's box

FOFC ahead 9 to 5
Palmer is hitting .332 with 6 homeruns
Deacon also has 16 doubles and 2 triples
And has driven in a total of 38 runs
The count is nothing and 2
Palmer has to protect the plate
The righthander delivers
There's a drive to left by Palmer
Goslin picks the ball up on one bounce
Fires it to second
Palmer turns back and settles for a single
Terrific play by Goslin

Bullock gets set at the plate
Left Outs is set up for two
Lemon wastes no time
He has the sign from Foxx
Lemon checks Palmer on first
Now the 3-2 pitch
Bullock hits a screamer at Bob Lemon
Lemon picks it up and fires to second
Out there...
And the throw to first
A tailor made double play
That is the third out for FOFC here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 48293

Sparky Anderson will send
up a pinch hitter
Yes, Willie Stargell steps
out of the dugout
He will be up there against Rodney
Stargell is batting .321 on the year
He has 7 homers and 25 RBI's in 1900

Willie Stargell stops at
the on deck circle
Takes a couple more practice swings
Now heads for the plate
Stargell looks down toward
the third base coach
Right-hander Rodney eyes
the lefty Stargell
Rodney's righthanded delivery...
Stargell swings and hits one down the line
It'll be in there for extra bases
Pflaggstettler plays it
off the wall on a hop
Stargell is heading for second
Pflaggstettler turns and fires
Stargell slides head first...
and beats the throw
A whistling two-bagger for Willie Stargell

One on, nobody out
Robinson strides up to the plate
Jackie is batting .275 with
5 home runs on the season
He is 0 for 4 today
Robinson is ready
Here's the 2 strike pitch
Struck him out on a terrible pitch
That was right over the
heart of the plate
with no movement on it...
and Robinson swung right
over the top of it!
Lucky Mr. Rodney!

Herman finishes his practice swings
Now he strides to the batter's box
We're in the top of the 8th
Rodney squeezes the resin bag...
Peers in
Rodney rocks and fires
A curve is wide...
But swung on and missed!
Strike three!
That is 2 on the evening for Rodney
One more chance for Left Outs this inning

Harry Heilmann will get a
crack at Rodney next
Jimmie Foxx would be up next...
But only if Heilmann can reach safely
Harry is taking his sweet
time getting ready

The umpire says a few words to Harry...
Now we're set to go
Heilmann, batting righthanded
is in his crouch
Ready to face the righthanded Rodney
The pitch is on the way
Change-up, Heilmann is looking for it
He takes a big rip at the pitch
It's towards the big gap in left center
and it's in there for a base hit...
Stargell scores easily from second

Next up is Jimmie Foxx, the
Left Outs catcher...
If he gets on, Hack Wilson would bat next
James Rodney on in relief of Rob Nielsen
And the delivery by Rodney
Fastball, at the letters...
Foxx crunches it...
There's a high belt...
Driven deep into left-centerfield...
Tucker running to the fence...
It's outta here
HOME RUN 26 for Foxx this year!

Hack Wilson will face Rodney
Righty against righty
Wilson grips the bat handle
The bat is cocked
Righthander Rodney's delivery
Strike three called
A curve that broke over
Number 3 for James Rodney today
65 on the year
Three down for Left Outs
Now the All Stars will be coming up
for what they hope will be their
last at bat of the evening
They lead by 1, 9-8
Don Drysdale will be coming
on to pitch for Left Outs
Don has appeared in 48 games this season
with a record of 7-4
In 65 innings, he has an 7.06 ERA
Bob Lemon has finished his work
here this evening

The shortstop Nights will
start things off for the All Stars
Nights gets set
He's 0 for 2 so far
Drysdale shakes off the sign from Foxx
And another...
Still another...
Looks like Drysdale doesn't
want to pitch to Nights
Maybe hoping he'll get tired of waiting
Now he's finally ready
Here's the windup... and the pitch
High heater, at the letters...
Nights swings from his heels...
Drives one long and deep...
Wilson backpedaling to
the warning track...
It's going, going, GONE!
A deep blast to left-center
That's homer number 13
for Nights this year
FOFC ahead 10 to 8

Fouts saunters to the plate
Does some stretching...
Kicks the imaginary dirt from his spikes
Now he steps into the batter's box
Fouts, a switch-hitter, facing
the right-handed Drysdale
Fouts tells the umpire he's ready
Now to the belt, here it is...
Grounded towards first
Robinson grabs it
IT'S A RACE TO THE BAG
SAFE!

Coming up for FOFC is Blade
A. J. Tucker waits on deck
The All Stars leading by 2
Drysdale is rubbing the ball up
Pitchers develop very calloused hands
over the course of a season
They want to get the ball
as rough as they can
Now Don delivers
Blade just gets a piece of it
He 'nubs' it to second
Robinson races in quickly...
Barehands it...
Over to first
Just in time!
The runner moves up easily...
Left Outs gets the first out of the inning

Pounding the plate with his bat
Tucker awaits the pitch
Tucker swinging from the left side
of the plate against the righty Drysdale
A. J. is eagerly awaiting Drysdale's pitch
And "Big D" wings it home...
Base hit to center for Tucker
Dick Howser is waving the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Aggressive baserunning by FOFC...
Not cut-off...
Fouts scores!
Trailing runner advances.

So that brings up Jeeberoni Potpie
the FOFC first baseman
Potpie is taking his practice swings
Jeeberoni is 1 for 4 this evening
Potpie awaits the delivery
The home town crowd is yelling
out to Tucker
telling him to watch out
as Robinson sneaks in behind him
He shortens up his lead...
Now Drysdale delivers the 2-2 offering
Flyball to right
it's caught
Tucker might have a chance to move up...
Heilmann makes the catch...
Tucker is tagging up at second...
He makes it to third easily

Persimmon Pflaggstettler moves
in to face Drysdale
1 on, 2 outs here in the bottom of the 8th
Pflaggstettler is batting .306
with 17 HR's this year
Drysdale looks down at Foxx
He shakes him off once...
Again...
Don has got to be a little concerned
with Pflaggstettler up there as the
FOFC right fielder has already hit
2 balls out of the park this evening
The pitch is on the way
Bounced past the mound
Nice play by Vaughan
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 6-3
That's all for the All Stars
After 8 innings in FOFC this evening,
FOFC ahead 11 to 8

Left Outs will send Robinson,
Goose Goslin, and Arky Vaughan to face
James Rodney this inning
Rodney has the sign from Bullock
Rodney is way ahead in the count...
He winds and delivers...
Robinson takes the pitch...
That one is low for a ball... WAIT
The umpire says that one caught the knees
Robinson is out on strikes
Left Outs with one away
Rodney steps off the mound as
he waits for Goose Goslin to
come to the plate

Goslin steps in...
He pounds the bat on the plate
Now he is ready
Goslin is no push-over
in the number 7 slot
He is batting .292 in 411 at bats
Arky Vaughan makes his way to
the on-deck circle
Goslin is set in the batter's box
He's staring intently out at Mighty
He's waiting for the pitch
The lefthander winds and delivers
Swung on and popped up
Blade is waiting...
And that's an easy out
Here's the ump coming out
To brush the plate clean
There's two away

That brings up Arky Vaughan, the shortstop
Bullock flashes the sign...
Mighty shakes it off, he wants another...

Now he's happy
Mighty brings it to the plate
The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
Vaughan held up, and draws a walk
Mighty isn't happy at all with that call

Ralph Kiner is swinging a bat
He'll come up to hit for Don Drysdale

Ralph Kiner is up for Left Outs
The tying run is on deck
In the person of Jackie Robinson
Benton Breeze is walking down
to the water cooler
Mighty ready quickly, looks
in for the sign
Mighty goes into his stretch
Looks over at the fidgety Vaughan
He lobs one to Potpie...
Vaughan is back easily...

We're ready again
Now Mighty comes home
Kiner drives the ball to
center for extra bases
Tony LaRussa is waving the runner home...
The throw is cut off...
And that allows the run to score
Double for Kiner

Sparky Anderson will send
up a pinch hitter
Yes, Duke Snider steps out of the dugout
He will be up there against Knowles
Snider is batting .287 on the year
He has 32 round trippers and 87 RBI's

The "Duke of Flatbush" will step in
A base hit should score Kiner
Sammy looks for the sign he wants...
Shakes off the first one
But he likes the next
Knowles brings it to the plate
Snider pulls this one down the line
Pflaggstettler is at the warning track
The ball is hooking...
Just foul!
. . . Snider back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
Slider...
Swung on and pounded to right-center...
It'll be over Pflaggstettler's head!...
He's chasing after it...
Snider rounds second...
Here's the peg in to Fouts at third...
Snider slides hard...
A bad bounce, but Fouts knocks it down...
The ball rolls just a few feet...
Snider jumps to his feet, but
isn't going anywhere
He'll get a triple from the
scorer on that hit!
Kiner scored easily from second

Billy Herman, will be up next
Harry Heilmann hopes to
get a chance as well
Snider on third... two gone
in the top of the 9th
FOFC leads Left Outs by 1 run
Herman digs in on the right side
of the plate facing the righty Knowles
Billy is ready for the delivery
Knowles brings it to the plate
Herman swings and lifts one toward right
Pflaggstettler drifts over slowly...
He is under it now...
And makes the easy catch...
And that will do it for Left Outs
FOFC wins 11 to 10
Nielsen gets credit for the win
Knowles notches the save
Roberts takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Persimmon Pflaggstettler
He was 2 for 5 with 2 homeruns!
He also knocked in 4 runs
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.
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BOXSCORE: 2001 Left Outs Leftovers At 1000 FOFC All Stars 7/28/1900 Leftovers AB R H RBI AVG All Stars AB R H RBI AVG J.Robinson 2B 5 0 0 0 .275 B.Blade 2B 5 1 1 0 .266 E-D.Snider PH 1 0 1 1 .289 A.Tucker CF 5 0 2 2 .295 B.Herman 3B 5 1 1 0 .254 J.Potpie 1B 5 3 1 0 .290 H.Heilmann RF 4 2 2 1 .331 P.Pflaggstettler RF 5 2 2 4 .305 J.Foxx C 3 1 2 2 .314 S.Gunner LF 4 2 2 3 .269 H.Wilson CF 5 1 2 0 .288 D.Palmer 3B 4 1 2 1 .334 F.Robinson 1B 5 1 1 1 .256 J.Rodney P 0 0 0 0 ---- G.Goslin LF 4 0 0 0 .291 A.Mighty P 0 0 0 0 .102 A.Vaughan SS 4 2 2 1 .316 S.Knowles P 0 0 0 0 ---- R.Roberts P 2 0 0 0 .146 B.Bullock C 4 0 1 0 .257 H.Pennock P 0 0 0 0 .200 J.Nights SS 3 1 1 1 .280 A-C.Hafey PH 1 0 0 0 .222 R.Nielsen P 2 0 0 0 .103 B.Lemon P 0 0 0 0 .400 B-D.Fouts 3B 1 1 1 0 .273 C-W.Stargell PH 1 1 1 0 .329 D.Drysdale P 0 0 0 0 .000 D-R.Kiner PH 1 1 1 1 .333 -- -- -- --- -- -- -- --- Totals 41 10 13 7 Totals 38 11 13 11 A-Pinch Hit For Pennock In 6th Inning B-Subbed Defensively (3B) For Nielsen In 8th Inning C-Pinch Hit For Lemon In 8th Inning D-Pinch Hit For Drysdale In 9th Inning E-Pinch Hit For Robinson In 9th Inning INJURY: Robin Roberts INJURED (for 15 more games) in 4th inning Leftovers....... 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 3 2 - 10 13 3 All Stars....... 0 1 1 3 2 0 2 2 - 11 13 1 Leftovers IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA R.Roberts LOSS(7-15) 3 2/3 6 5 5 1 2 3 75 6.37 H.Pennock 1 1/3 1 2 1 0 0 1 22 6.30 B.Lemon 2 3 2 1 1 1 1 39 9.21 D.Drysdale 1 3 2 2 0 0 1 17 7.23 Totals 8 13 11 9 2 3 6 All Stars IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA R.Nielsen WIN(16-5) 7 8 5 3 5 6 1 147 3.16 J.Rodney 1 1/3 3 3 3 0 4 1 27 3.32 A.Mighty 0 1/3 1 2 2 1 0 0 14 3.90 S.Knowles SAVE(20th) 0 1/3 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 1.55 Totals 9 13 10 8 6 10 2 ATTENDANCE- 48,293 DATE- Saturday, July 28th 1900 TIME- Night T- 2:37 LEFT ON BASE- Leftovers:10 All Stars: 5 DOUBLE PLAYS- Leftovers: 1 All Stars: 0 ERRORS- G.Goslin, R.Roberts, B.Lemon, D.Palmer DOUBLES- W.Stargell(5th), R.Kiner(1st), B.Blade(17th) TRIPLES- D.Snider(4th), F.Robinson(5th) HOME RUNS- J.Foxx(26th), A.Vaughan(11th), P.Pflaggstettler-2(17th), S.Gunner-2(14th), D.Palmer(6th), J.Nights(13th) CAUGHT STEALING- A.Tucker WALKS- B.Herman, H.Heilmann, J.Foxx-2, G.Goslin, A.Vaughan, J.Nights, R.Nielsen STRIKE OUTS- J.Robinson, B.Herman, H.Heilmann, J.Foxx, H.Wilson-3, F.Robinson-2, A.Vaughan, B.Blade, S.Gunner, B.Bullock GIDP- B.Bullock WILD PITCHES- R.Nielsen-2
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