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1930 Season Continental Association Wrap-Up
When we last checked in, the Philadelphia Sailors were comfortably in the lead. I will say that the Sailors did in fact win the division title once again, but it was anything but comfortably. Cracks began to show some vulnerability in the Sailors and the young guns of the CA were ready to step up and give them a run for their money. The Baltimore Cannons and the surprising Montreal Saints both finished with 86-68, just 2 games behind the Sailors 88-66. The Chicago Cougars continued their impressive rebuild as well and closed with a record of 84-70, just 4 games out of 4th. After that we have the New York Stars who were staggering around 500 all season. I was really surprised the Stars weren't able to put together a run to get them in the upper division, but they did finish with an over 500 record at 78-76.
After those 5 teams things really dropped off, although the Brooklyn Kings and their horde of youngsters were showing signs of coming of age and finished 6th at 75-79.
6 teams mentioned in the CA and we have not gotten to our beloved Foresters. Shades of last season without the major trades in July, the Foresters 2nd half of the season again was terrible. At one point the team was 45-42 and in the top half of the division and then came the (2nd half of) July swoon the dog days of August and the September to forget. The Foresters limped to the 2nd worst record in all of baseball from that point going 24-43. Only the Toronto Wolves were worse down the stretch (18-50). So we hung on to 7th place at 69-85. Even though it was not a record to write home about, the showing gave the Foresters a plus 5 games in the win column over their previous season (64-90).
Will the Foresters climb back to 70 wins in 1931? Stay tuned.
Final CA Standings
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