EC's South Island League

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Supreme League Stars of the Week

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[jg2977]

That Delta - Braxton game must have been fun to watch. 14 innings with a blown save in the 9th by a still winless team!

Looks like the Bruins will be demoted.

[Eugene Church]

Originally Posted by jg2977

That Delta - Braxton game must have been fun to watch. 14 innings with a blown save in the 9th by a still winless team!

Looks like the Bruins will be demoted.

Yep, this was an interesting game to play out.
I really enjoy this league because I play out each and every at bat in the one-pitch mode, of course... it would take too long to play out pitch-by-pitch.

But I think I will do this at least one game just to see where the foul balls go.

Yep, think you are right... the Bruins are headed to the South Island Secondary League.

I am leaning toward make each league a 12-team league... I've got a bunch of good teams with good graphics that I miss seeing from the North Island League... I also have found some new teams with really good logos, jerseys and caps, created on the OOTP Mods Forum in recent months... I have also created some new teams myself... the graphics came out pretty good... but not as good as txranger, knuckler, low, Iseldelyod, Lawn Loaf and those type of talented designers.

[jg2977]

Originally Posted by Eugene Church

Yep, this was an interesting game to play out.
I really enjoy this league because I play out each and every at bat in the one-pitch mode, of course... it would take too long to play out pitch-by-pitch.

But I think I will do this at least one game just to see where the foul balls go.

Yep, think you are right... the Bruins are headed to the South Island Secondary League.

I am leaning toward make each league a 12-team league... I've got a bunch of good teams with good graphics that I miss seeing from the North Island League... I also have found some new teams with really good logos, jerseys and caps, created on the OOTP Mods Forum in recent months... I have also created some new teams myself... the graphics came out pretty good... but not as good as txranger, knuckler, low, Iseldelyod, Lawn Loaf and those type of talented designers.

I'd like to see some of the teams that you've created as examples. That would be interesting.

How do you set up your schedule so that there's only one game a week? Do you create your own custom schedule, or is there a setting? I think it would be a lot of fun to have a league like this, alongside the IPA. You're right, I think I could get really immersed in a smaller league like this.

[Eugene Church]

Originally Posted by jg2977

I'd like to see some of the teams that you've created as examples. That would be interesting.

How do you set up your schedule so that there's only one game a week? Do you create your own custom schedule, or is there a setting? I think it would be a lot of fun to have a league like this, alongside the IPA. You're right, I think I could get really immersed in a smaller league like this.

I have to do the schedule manually... I get a schedule for a 6-team league on the internet and put it in... it takes a little work... but not a lot.

I may see if I can get one of the guys on the Schedules Forum to create me one, so all I have to do is load it up each season.

Here is a team I created... the logo is just fair and plain... wish I could add all the little touches knuckler and txranger do that makes their work so great... the jerseys and cap came out well... thanks to low for the wordmark "Terrapins" and the mascot image.

[Eugene Church]

Here is the home and away jersey for the Cedar Falls Terrapins.

Added an alternate jersey with piping... I will use it if I choose Cedar Falls to be in the league expansion... the piping gives it a fuller touch in my opinion.

[Eugene Church]

Here is one of txranger's recent creations for the Cherrywood Stouts.

The back story on this team is that a micro brewery is the main industry in the town of Cherrywood... all of the towns in my league may eventually have town histories.

The town is known for a stout beer and a stout bunch of ballplayers, too.

Primary and Secondary Logos shown below... I will use one cap for both home and away... txranger also made a Golden Yellow cap... see page 568 in the Retro thread sticky at the top of the Mods Forum.

[Eugene Church]

Home and Away Jerseys done beautifully by txranger.

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Both sets look good on the game screens... that is a must for me to use a set of graphics.

Many times a set looks good here on the forum, but in-game they don't have good contrast... both of these show up well on all screens.

[Eugene Church]

Monday, May 7, 1956

DREAMERS AND SAILORS RIDING HIGH IN SECONDARY LEAGUE, BLACK CATS FALTER
Every weekend is a big weekend in the South Island Secondary League... because of the short 10-game season, every win, every loss is crucial and critical to a team's success... 2 of last week's 3 co-leaders won this weekend... in a battle of co-leaders Gull Lake won an important showdown with the Columbia Black Cats 7-2... co-leader Moon Valley nicked the Billings Rams 8-6 in a 12-inning nail-biter to also stay atop of the standings... in the other contest it was Grin Hill getting by the Littleville Supermen 7-2.

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[jg2977]

Really like the logo for the Cherrywood Stouts - the alternate looks a little like an upside down M - could be a minor league team for the Milwaukee Brewers.

All right, now it’s time for a beer I wonder if Cherrywood makes a cherry flavored stout.

[Eugene Church]

MY LIFE IN 1956
EC's in a Fix in '56

Sad to say, EC has grown up... I guess you have to... it's a part of life... no more Saturday morning matinees sitting right up front in the very first row with all the gang rootin', tootin' and shootin' at the Majestic, Princess, Fox, Empire or Century Theatres... EC is 16 now... big boys don't root and toot and shoot anymore... it's May and EC is no longer King of May Festival like he was in '53 in the 8th grade at Lee Elementary... EC is just a lonely nobody in the sophomore class at Murphy High School in Mobile... still listen to the radio for my music... I listen to the top 20 every Saturday morning on WABB radio... I watch The Lucky Strike Hit Parade religiously every Saturday evening on TV... that's the top 7 songs in the whole wide USA acted out in musical style on TV... don't know what happened to my record player and the dozen 45 RPM records we played over and over and over... it didn't take much to entertain us in the 50s... a few records, listening to radio programs like The Shadow, The Fat Man, Inner Sanctum, Tales from the Crypt, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Jack Benny and the Grand Old Opry from WSM in Nashville... and St. Louis Cardinals baseball on KMOX at night... yes, indeed, EC "watched the game" on the radio with Harry Caray telling me all about Stan "the Man" Musial and the Redbirds... just 3 television networks, only ABC, CBS and NBC... and we didn't even get ABC unless you had an outside antenna to pick up the Pensacola station... we only had two TV stations in Mobile... WALA (NBC) and WKRG (CBS)... and some good movies... it's '56 and that record player and records are gone now... it will '65 before I get another record player and begin playing those long-playing 33 RPM albums.

Since I was lonesome, I took myself to lots and lots of movies... only watched 3 of the top 10 movies that year... "Giant" with Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson was the best one... I really like that one... it was an epic movie... about 4 hours long... they had an intermission so they could change the reels... "High Society" was an excellent musical with two all-time great entertainers, Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra... in "The Ten Commandments" everybody like Cecil B. DeMille's parting of the Red Sea and Charleston Heston as Moses... EC never was a fan of musicals until much later in life... I should have gone to "The King and I"... I really enjoyed it when I watched on Netflix 50 years later... none of the other top 10 films interested me... never have seen any of them.

Sorry, I did see "Trapeze" with Burt Lancaster on the high wire... it was a fair movie at best... Lancaster really was a trapeze artist... he used the skills in all of his swashbuckling movies... Lancaster was actually a better swashbuckler than the the King of the Swashbucklers, Errol Flynn.. EC liked Errol, too... remember "Captain Blood"... Lancaster, a former circus acrobat, performed many of his own stunts, though the most dangerous (including the climactic triple somersault) were done by technical consultant Eddie Ward from the Ringling Brothers Circus.

EC should have been a movie critic or a record producer or record company executive or a sportswriter... I know I am prejudiced, but I think I had the talent to do well in all of those professions... sadly, for whatever reasons, EC was not ambitious... EC just drifted through life without direction most of my life... but I did succeed fairly well as a disc jockey for 32 years in spite of my low self-esteem tendencies and lack of motivation... SOMEBODY UP THERE must like me... SOMEBODY UP THERE has certainly taken care of EC for over 81 years now... that's for sure... yep, that for darn sure.

Sorry for the digression... EC likes to chase rabbits and go off on tangents and tirades.

"Mr. Roberts" was the best movie of the year with Henry Fonda, Jack Lemmon and a fine cast... Lemmon deservedly won the Oscar for best supporting actor... I say this, but I didn't see the other nominated actors and their movies... some critic, I am.

EC never saw and has never wanted to see "Rebel Without a Cause" even though one of my favorites, Natalie Wood, was in it... never was impressed with James Dean... I was not especially impressed with his Jett Rink character in "Giant".

EC is glad to see William Holden as the number one box office star... I always liked him because he was the spitin' image of my wonderful stepfather Johnny Church, who passed away suddenly in 1952 at the age of 29... they both had the same identical dimple in their chins.

My, Oh, My... look at all the great stars we had in 1956... Wayne, Stewart, Lancaster, Ford, Cooper, Sinatra... and look a there... Kim Novak... wow, she was so beautiful in the one of the greatest films ever "Vertigo" with Jimmy Stewart... if you have never seen "Vertigo", rent it... It had a great plot and a great ending...and you will fall in love with Carlotta Valdez, I guarantee

In the movie, Jimmy Stewart's character fell "head over heels" in love with the Kim Novak character... watch the movie and you will understand what I mean.

1956 Movies and Awards

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1956 Academy Award Winners

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Here are the movie posters from "Giant" and "High Society".

and for all you guys and gals, little darlin's and you buckaroos, too, here is one of the most beatiful love songs ever.

"True Love" by the great Bing Crosby and beautiful Princess Grace Kelly... she surprised me with her singing... wasn't bad at all.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...C4F74A71C860B2

[Eugene Church]

Monday, May 14, 1956

JACKS ALL ALONE ON TOP OF SI SUPREME LEAGUE, CAJUNS AND OAKS JUST A GAME BEHIND
Jackson got a lift and a gift from one of its ardent persuer and gained undisputed possession of first place in the Supreme League... Bar Harbor nosed out the Pelham Oaks 3-2 yesterday afternoon and knocked them out of tie for the top spot with the Jackalopes... the Acadians are now tied for second place with Pelham... Jackson beat the Delta Stars 6-4... and St. Pete pounded the winless Braxton Bruins 9-4.