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Originally Posted by William Foster
My god Shelby sounds as awful as the Spiders were IRL. Three fifteen+ game losers? No excuses for futility on that level...
I hope they have SOME hope for their future..
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To Shelby's credit, the deck was pretty stacked against them in 1920. The yearly new player draft comes in November. The two new franchises didn't come into existence until January, so they both got sloppy seconds (or fifths). The best of the sloppy seconds were up on the big clubs in Wilmington and Fayetteville, so Shelby and Marion had to make do with the bottom of the barrel. It will be interesting to see how long, if at all, it will take for these teams to pull themselves up to respectability.
Thanks for reading and following along...