I'll claim one of the cities. Don't care which, but either LA, San Fran, or N'awlins.
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I'll claim one of the cities. Don't care which, but either LA, San Fran, or N'awlins.
Is it cool if you get San Francisco? If not, let me know.
What exactly are we supposed to do in our "short writeups"?
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Originally Posted by PotatoOfCouch13
But what do you mean by that? :p
Nah, San Frans fine. When do you need it in by?
Whenever you get around to it. I can always postpone the meeting :p
Yep so PMed you. Hope it's right! :p
I'll get it into you by Thursday. Is that good?
As of right now, the following teams are available:
Los Angeles
Baltimore
Milwaukee
New Orleans
Minneapolis
1 "secret city"
Only 6 spots remain, who will lay claim to them?
FIRST TRIMESTER RECAP
STANDINGS (after games on May 30, 1944)
SEASON STATSCode:NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 33-20 -
Brooklyn 31-21 1.5
St. Louis 30-22 2.5
Chicago 26-25 6
New York 24-28 8.5
Pittsburgh 24-28 8.5
Cincinnati 20-31 12
Boston 20-33 13
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 34-18 -
Cleveland 32-19 1.5
New York 30-21 3.5
Chicago 26-27 8.5
Washington 23-28 10.5
Detroit 23-29 11
St. Louis 20-32 14
Philadelphia 19-33 15
BATTLE FOR THE LIBERTY BELL TROPHY
Phillies 33-20 -
Athletics 19-33 13.5
Red denotes League Leader
BATTING
PITCHINGCode:1944 Batting Team G AVG AB H 2B 3B HR BB K SB CS R RBI SLG OBP
Gerheauser, Al PHI 1 .500 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 .500 .667
Murtaugh, Danny PHI 34 .390 82 32 7 1 0 8 4 3 0 14 7 .500 .444
Blatnik, Johnny PHI 21 .320 25 8 3 0 1 2 3 0 1 4 7 .560 .370
Rizzuto, Phil PHI 49 .310 203 63 12 3 0 21 25 4 2 32 20 .399 .381
Marnie, Harry PHI 28 .282 39 11 2 0 0 1 3 0 0 6 3 .333 .300
Goulish, Nick PHI 53 .281 196 55 13 3 4 25 26 2 0 31 33 .439 .365
Stephens, Vern PHI 53 .275 193 53 14 3 7 28 24 0 0 28 38 .487 .375
Hodges, Gil PHI 52 .275 200 55 8 3 8 25 21 0 1 30 32 .465 .356
Klein, Chuck PHI 27 .268 56 15 1 0 1 3 4 0 1 5 11 .339 .317
Seminick, Andy PHI 52 .258 178 46 9 2 2 20 20 0 1 27 20 .365 .343
Hamrick, Ray PHI 40 .258 97 25 5 1 0 6 9 3 0 10 9 .330 .308
Northey, Ron PHI 50 .249 181 45 8 2 5 21 20 1 0 23 18 .398 .330
Doby, Larry PHI 53 .244 201 49 10 4 6 19 29 1 2 22 29 .423 .309
Ripple, Charlie PHI 13 .229 35 8 1 0 0 2 11 0 0 2 4 .257 .270
Murphy, Ed PHI 21 .217 23 5 2 0 0 3 4 0 0 2 1 .304 .308
Ruffing, Red PHI 12 .206 34 7 1 0 0 4 5 0 0 4 2 .235 .289
Lambert, Gene PHI 7 .188 16 3 2 0 0 1 3 0 0 2 1 .313 .235
Kraus, Jack PHI 11 .167 24 4 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 1 .167 .167
Hughes, Tommy PHI 11 .160 25 4 0 0 0 1 6 0 0 1 1 .160 .192
Mauney, Dick PHI 5 .143 14 2 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 .143 .143
Livingston, Mickey PHI 7 .000 14 0 0 0 0 2 4 0 0 2 0 .000 .125
Casey, Hugh PHI 16 .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000
Hanyzewski, Ed PHI 12 .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 .000
Page, Joe PHI 6 .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000
Russo, Marius PHI 1 .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000
LEAGUE LEADERSCode:1944 Pitching Team IP ERA G GS W L SV K BB R/9
Casey, Hugh PHI 23.0 0.78 16 0 3 0 1 4 8 9.00
Pearson, Ike PHI 9.2 0.93 9 0 2 0 5 3 4 9.31
Gerheauser, Al PHI 9.0 1.00 1 1 1 0 0 4 2 11.00
Ripple, Charlie PHI 95.2 3.10 13 13 7 3 0 60 37 12.79
Ruffing, Red PHI 96.2 3.26 12 12 5 5 0 52 27 10.52
Hughes, Tommy PHI 81.0 3.44 11 11 5 5 0 33 27 12.00
Hanyzewski, Ed PHI 22.1 3.63 12 0 2 2 1 9 9 12.90
Mauney, Dick PHI 36.1 3.72 5 5 3 1 0 11 11 11.64
Lambert, Gene PHI 49.1 4.01 7 6 3 2 0 46 21 12.41
Kraus, Jack PHI 78.1 4.37 11 11 4 5 0 38 31 13.10
Kush, Emil PHI 10.0 6.30 8 0 0 0 0 4 2 14.40
Russo, Marius PHI 7.0 6.43 1 1 0 1 0 5 3 18.00
Page, Joe PHI 8.0 6.75 6 0 0 0 0 4 10 21.38
Masterson, Paul PHI 3.2 7.36 2 0 0 0 1 1 2 17.18
***Code:MAY 30 LEAGUE LEADERS
NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS
AVG - Enos Slaughter (STL) .371
HR - Roy Campanella (BRO) 14
RBI - Roy Campanella (BRO) 47
SB - Sam Jethroe (BSN) 9
W - Harry Gumbert (STL) 8
ERA - Ed Bahr (PIT) 1.81
K - Charlie Ripple (PHI) 60
SV - Jim Hughes (BRO) 12
AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS
AVG - Ted Williams (BOS) .374
HR - Charlie Keller (NYY) 17
RBI - Charlie Keller (NYY) 52
SB - Thurman Tucker (CHW) 14
W - Yank Terry (BOS) 8
Jim Bagby (CLE)
ERA - Roger Wolff (PHA) 1.75
K - Bobo Newsom (WSH) 62
SV - Luis Aloma (CHW) 8
5 cities remain in the expansion shuffle:
Baltimore
Milwaukee
New Orleans
Minneapolis
1 "secret city"
Grrr. Hurry up other people! I want the Expansion post to happen!
5 cities still remain:
Baltimore
Milwaukee
New Orleans
Minneapolis
1 city of your choosing
It'll be fun...
***
MAY 30
Nick stopped by the office to present his report on the head of the draft class. It was obvious to me who the #1 pick should be: SP Robin Roberts. The kid was 7-2 during his senior season. I don’t know how the heck he could get 2 losses with the numbers he put up: 1.03 ERA, 97 K, .177 BAA. These stats are just ridiculous! If Cincinnati and St. Louis are dumb enough to pass on him, I’ll going to set a land-speed record getting to the podium to announce our pick.
Here is the best of the draft class of 1944:
SP Robin Roberts
CF Duke Snider
1B Roy Sievers
SP Carl Erskine
SP Lew Burdette
SP Ralph Branca
SP Don Newcombe
SP Chris Pfeffer
SP Nicholas Hides
SP Johnny Gray
***
I was busy at night as well. I had another proposal to present before the Philadelphia City Council, this one was sure to pass, because I told no one about it. After what happened last time, I was afraid that the plan might fall through.
As it turns out, Major League Baseball had been dragging its feet as far as buying the plot of land that housed the Baker Bowl was concerned. With the right offer, I would try and buy that plot, as well as one on the Schuylkill River, next to the Fairmount Park System.
It wasn’t going to be easy. There were quite a few board members that were against my buying of parkland. Their concerns were eased somewhat, however, when I told about the plan to rebuild the Baker Bowl into a recreation center, including a 1:2 scale replica of Shibe Park, and later, a replica of the Phillies’ new ballpark.
It was a close vote, but I think the $1 million offer that I presented to them was too much for them to turn down. (Thank you Nick for selling our brokerage firm!)
The Philadelphia Phillies now own the Baker Bowl and the plot of land south of the East Park Reservoir, east of the Schuylkill River, and west of N 33rd Street.
Big things are set to happen in Philadelphia...
It's kind of fun to watch draft picks end up with the same teams for which they played in real life. It's even better when its a player of the caliber of Robin Roberts.
--Pet
EDIT: SPOILER ALERT!
Well, to be honest, I had to play around with the settings to get Roberts. Let's just say I suffered a brief bout with "multiple personalities"... ;)
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By the way, the same 5 cities remain:
Baltimore
Milwaukee
New Orleans
Minneapolis
1 city of your choosing
If they're unclaimed by Sunday at 11:59PM, then I'll just do it myself, and YOU'LL FEEL BAD FOR MISSING OUT ON THE FUN!!!