P L A G U E !!!!!

[beltre13]

I was tempted to kill him off when he entered the draft, but now I'm glad I didn't

Im just glad u didnt kill him! now i hope u dont kill lou gerhig so we can see what he can do over a full carear!

[metsgeek]

NOTEWORTHY EVENTS - 1922

* italicized events actually happened

• January 24 - Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie
• February 8 - President of the United States, Patrick J. Kennedy introduces the first radio in the White House.
• February 27 - Led by the ailing Chief Justice Teddy Roosevelt, a challenge to the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is unanimously rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
• February 28 - The United Kingdom accepts the independence of Egypt.
• March 1 - Republican Senators Albert Fall of New Mexico and Tom Pendergast of Kansas introduce the National Resource Leasing Bill, also known as the Fall-Pendergast Bill. Identical legislation had narrowly passed in the House of Representatives by a count of 227-206. The bill authorizes that contracts to drill or mine on public lands be granted to private oil companies. The legislation is rumored to have been written by private energy interest, most notably Mammoth Oil of Utah. After a lengthy debate, the bill passes narrowly 52-47.
• March 4 - President Kennedy vetoes the Fall-Pendergast Bill.
• March 9 - C.C.P Premier Joseph Stalin sends Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinov on a good will tour to the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Bohemia and Austria-Hungary to form a closer relationship with the countires and to persuade them to officially recognize the C.C.P. government.
  
  C.C.P. Minister Litvinov graces the cover of TIME
  
  
• March 11 - Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay for sedition
• March 15 - Egypt having gained nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
• April 10 - The historic Genoa Conference commences in Genoa, Italy. The representatives of 34 countries convened to speak about monetary economics in the wake of The Great Global War. The purpose is mainly to formulate strategies to rebuild central and eastern Europe after the war, and also to negotiate a relationship between European capitalist economies, and the new C.C.P. Communist economy
• April 22 - Dietrich Eckart travels to Prussia to assist in the formation of the National Prussian Workers Party.
• May 5 - In The Bronx, construction begins on Highlander Stadium.
• May 12 - A 20-ton meteorite lands near Blackstone, Virginia, USA
• May 30 - In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated by President Patrick J. Kennedy on May 30, 1922. The ceremony is attended by the former President's only surviving child, Robert Todd Lincoln.
• June 2 - Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Ferdinand I and C.C.P. Premier Stalin sign the Pact of Uzhorod, recognizing the C.C.P government and pledging non-aggression between the two nations.
• June 24 - The American Professional Football Association adopts the name of the National Football League
• August 27 - Chief Justice Teddy Roosevelt collapses in his chambers after complaining of fatigue. He dies hours later in the hospital at the age of 63. It is later reported that the cause of death is a coronary embolism. Upon receiving word of his death, his son, Major Archie Roosevelt, telegraphed his siblings simply, "The old lion is dead."
• September 8 - In a controversial move, President Kennedy does not nominate Associate Justice Charles Culberson to replace Teddy Roosevelt as Chief Justice. Instead, he nominates Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. Vice President John Nance Garner, a Texan like Justice Culberson, is rumored to be "highly disturbed" by Kennedy's apparent Northern bias.
  
  Associate Justice Culberson & Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  
  
• October 3 - Despite resistance from some southern senators, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. is confirmed narrowly by a 63-37 vote to the post of Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
• October 28 - In Italy, with the March on Rome, Fascism obtains power and Benito Mussolini becomes prime minister
• October 31 - Benito Mussolini becomes the youngest Premier in the history of Italy.
• November 4 - In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
  
  Howard Carter painstakingly cleans the sarcophagus of Tutankhamen
  
  
• December 9 - Gabriel Narutowicz is elected by the Prussian Parliament to be President of the Republic of Prussia. His election, supported by the Left, Center, and Peasant members, rouses the ire of the Right-Wing, particularly the National Prussian Workers Party, who emphasize that the members who had supported Narutowicz had included Jews, and hence called the newly-elected head of state the "President of the Jews".
• December 16 - While attending the opening of an art exhibit at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw, Narutowicz, is shot by a member of the National Prussian Workers Party, an art professor and critic, Eligiusz Niewiadomski.

[metsgeek]

Originally Posted by beltre13

Im just glad u didnt kill him! now i hope u dont kill lou gerhig so we can see what he can do over a full carear!

Damn, you spell just like creed. Are you Canadian?

[canadiancreed]

ahh my favorite part of these

[canadiancreed]

Originally Posted by metsgeek

Damn, you spell just like creed. Are you Canadian?

no, that would be worse than I

[metsgeek]

Originally Posted by canadiancreed

no, that would be worse than I

:cough: worse than me :cough:

[canadiancreed]

Originally Posted by metsgeek

:cough: worse than me :cough:

hey if I didnt' make at least one error you would have been confused. Just trying to help ya out

[metsgeek]

IN MEMORIAM - 1923

JOCKO CONLON
DINK O'BRIEN
GEORGE KOPSHAW
CHARLIE HARGREAVES
JIMMY HUDGENS
JOHNNY SCHULTE
SPEED WALKER
BILL CONROY
JAKE FLOWERS
JESS CORTAZZO
JOHN HAPPENNY
AL HERRMANN
WILLIE KAMM
CARLTON LORD
JOE BENNETT
RAY MORGAN
HARRY RICE
WALLY SHANER
LENNY METZ
ERNIE PADGETT
BOB SMITH
FREDDY LEACH
MICKEY KELIHER
FRANK LUCE
TAYLOR DOUTHIT
GUS FELIX
HINKEY HAINES
TONY MURRAY
BILL MIZEUR
HERSCHEL BENNETT
JAKE PROPST
GROVER GILMORE
OSCAR HARSTAD
FRED HEIMACH
LEO DICKERMAN
LEFTY YORK
RUSTY PENCE
HADDIE GILL
JERRY CONWAY

[metsgeek]

THE NOT-SO-GRATEFUL DEAD
1923

In addition to the players listed above, the following individuals will never make their mark on the world. They would have been born in 1923, but Haemorrhagic Fever struck them down.

JEAN STAPLETON
PADDY CHAYEFSKY
NORMAN MAILER
CHUCK YEAGER
ED MCMAHON
AARON SPELLING
BEA ARTHUR
HENRY KISSINGER
ELROY "CRAZYLEGS" HIRSCH
BOB DOLE
HANK WILLIAMS
BOB BARKER
ADMIRAL JAMES STOCKDALE

[MikeSlugga]

No more price is right!?

[canadiancreed]

BOB DOLE

hmm....Bob Dole dont' like this.

[metsgeek]

1923 Prospect Watch: JAMES CONCANNON

Young Concannon is as Irish as they come, a tough streetwise brawler who attacks the ball as if it questioned the honor of his mother. In a normal draft, he might go first or second with his potential for power and average, but there are quite a lot of prospects coming up this season who are expected to go early. Concannon could easily drop into the second half of the first round if teams grow woried about his negligible defense or his impatience at the plate. Knowing this kid, though, he'll be certain to make any team that passes on him reget the day throughout his career. What he lacks in the field, he'll more than make up for with his constant drive to win.

Talents (Control/Gap/Power/Eye/Avoid K): 83/90/83/34/60
Current Ratings: 56/60/55/23/40

[metsgeek]

1923 DRAFT - Round 1

Boston (F) pick: CF Hack Wilson
New York (F) pick: 1B Mule Suttles
Boston (C) pick: LF Norman "Turkey" Stearnes
Buffalo pick: P Clay Roe
Louisville pick: 1B Lou Gehrig
New York (C) pick: 1B James Concannon
Chicago pick: 1B Bill Terry
Cleveland pick: P Bill Holland
Philadelphia pick: LF Harvey Hendrick
Detroit pick: P Slap Hensley
Milwaukee pick: LF Heinie Manush
St. Louis pick: SS Les Bell
Pittsburgh pick: 2B Newt Allen
Cincinnati pick: RF Showboat Fisher
Brooklyn pick: C Frank Duncan
Washington pick: RF Denver Grigsby

[metsgeek]

Before anyone says it, I couldn't believe Gehrig dropped to #5 either.

[canadiancreed]

Originally Posted by metsgeek

Before anyone says it, I couldn't believe Gehrig dropped to #5 either.

wow behind Hack Wilson and a bunch of no names?! WTF?!

[metsgeek]

Originally Posted by canadiancreed

wow behind Hack Wilson and a bunch of no names?! WTF?!

Um, Mule Suttles and Turkey Stearnes are NOT no-names. Click on their names.

Clay Roe is, though.

[Michael Xavier]

Lets say that the eldest Boone, Bell, or Alou bites the dust, does that automatically kill their descendents?

[MikeSlugga]

Well, if you think about it...how could there be a descendent of someone deceased?

[MikeSlugga]

I have a feeling mets will strike Bobby Bonds down when the time comes.

[beltre13]

Damn, you spell just like creed. Are you Canadian?

wow i know my spelling is bad, but to flat out accuse me of being canadian that is just low... jk lost of cool things came from canada like hockey and lacrosse and bret hart and chris benoit. but im definatly american, i just cant spell right cuz im a college student!