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05-07-2020, 11:35 PM
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COLLEGE BASKETBALL During the off-season, just to keep the winter sports in mind I will touch on various players or accomplishments in hockey and basketball. So with 37 years of college basketball history built up in this league here is a look at the single season points leaders in NCAA hoops. Code:
NCAA SINGLE SEASON POINTS LEADERS # Player Team Year Points 1 Bob Zahn Yale 1936 585 2 Frank Irwin Mississippi State 1936 571 3 Ray Kubiak Wake Forest 1936 539 4 Ralph Dinkins Davidson 1934 537 5 Marshall Dunn Southern California 1932 533 6 Dal Williams Columbia 1936 532 7 John *Issacs UCLA 1930 530 8 Harry Fitzwater Wisconsin 1936 517 9 Marshall Dunn Southern California 1931 510 10 Gordon Nagel Texas Christian 1936 504 11 Russell *Ochsenhirt Illinois 1937 488 12 Major LeBlanc Southern California 1936 486 13 Chuck Willems South Carolina 1936 483 14 Bob Zahn Yale 1935 482 15 Russell *Ochsenhirt Illinois 1936 477 16 Donn Clutter Iowa 1936 475 17 Taffy Malcom Georgia Tech 1934 474 18 Dal Williams Columbia 1935 474 19 Paul Radcliffe Texas Agri and Mechanic 1936 471 20 Haddie Wight California 1933 469 21 Jim Watson Washington 1937 469 22 Virgil Lacy Mississippi 1937 463 23 Sal Miller Davidson 1936 462 24 Ken *Lilge Iowa State 1936 459 25 Archibald Conover Georgia Tech 1931 457 The other player on the list twice is a real player (*before last name identifies them) by the name of Russ Ochsenhirt. He has been mentioned a couple of times in this report already as he just completed his senior season at Illinois and is a possible selection in next months MBA draft. RUSS OCHSENHIRT PLAYER PROFILE AND HOW I RATED THESE EARLY PLAYERS I thought I would spotlight Ochsenhirt. He helped lead Illinois to the National Title game this season and it seemed in every Illini game I watched (well, technically just read the game play-by-play) he would come up with the key play when it was needed so Ochsenhirt has become one of my favourite players in the league and a guy I will follow as he hopefully moves to the professional Midwest Basketball Association. Ochsenhirt is one of the players based on a real-life athletes. I say 'based on' because it is all but impossible for me to make accurate ratings for these early guys. Instead what I have been doing is renaming the top 20-50 (depending on the year) recruits the game generates each season to real life players and tweaking their ratings slightly based on what little I have been able to learn about them. It will get much easier in the next decade when I have the NBA draft to go by for creating my high school freshman class but where I get many of the players for this era is from a list I found of the top 5000 or so basketball players of all-time (Ochsenhirt was #2842 by the way) and used that as a starting point for the recruits I added each year. Doing the ratings will also be much easier as I will use the NBA historical Mod from FBPB and the NFL historical mod for DDSPF as the basis for creating current and potential ratings for the players as college recruits. I just want to try to get things as close to realistic as I can knowing there will be a huge change in development anyways as all these players go through 4 years of college and ratings development changes before even starting in my NFL of NBA portion of the sim. I have mentioned it before that with OOTP and FHM how I love to use the development engine to see different players suddenly become much better then they were in real life instead of the recalculate ratings option. I find this sort of historical/fictional approach to be my preferred way of playing. I think it translates well for what I am trying with the basketball and football as well, although with much more legwork on my part. I do enjoy doing that as it gives me - as a sports history junkie - the opportunity to learn about a lot of different players in the same way adding the historical minor leagues to OOTP did for baseball. Back to Ochsenhirt. In researching him to add as a high school recruit I learned he is a Sharsburg, Pa. native that played his college ball at the University of Pittsburgh. It is interesting how such a huge percentage of guys came from NY, PA and the upper Midwest. I was editing their real hometowns for recruits but stopped recently as with all the star recruits from the one area it made the Western Conference teams too dominant so I stopped that practice and just leave the hometown random now. A 6'3" forward the real-life Ochsenhirt was an All-American in 1934 (I obviously had the college debut year wrong on him) and after school would take a job in management with Goodyear, while also playing a number of seasons for the Akron Goodyear Wingfoots of the National Basketball League. He was a team captain both at Pitt and with the Wingfoots. In the sim, Ochsenhirt missed almost all of his freshman season after being injured just prior to the start of the year. He returned only for the Illini's final game, a 42-33 loss to Tulsa in the opener of the 1935 NCAA tournament. Clearly rusty, he shot just 2 for 8 from the field with 3 rebounds as #2 seeded Illinois was upset in the East Region's opening round. Healthy for his sophomore season, Ochsenhirt would lead the team in scoring and help Illinois to the Western Conference title. As the top seed in the Midwest Region in the 1936 NCAA tournament, Illinois would beat Texas Western 65-24 in the opening round with Ochsenhirt scoring 13 points. Their tournament run would end in the second round with a 27-25 loss to New York University, who's stifling defense held Ochsenhirt to just 4 points. 1936-37, his junior year, would see Illinois tie with Wisconsin for the Western Conference title, and claim their second straight championship by virtue of a win over the Badgers during the season. Averaging 14.9 PPG, Russ would again lead Illinois in scoring and they would get the number one seed in the East Region. Ochsenhirt had 14 points in the tournament opening 55-45 win over Georgetown and would score 19, including 6 of their 9 points in overtime as they outlasted Mississippi 56-54 to reach the Elite Eight. There they would run into Mississippi State, and despite Ochsenhirt's game high 21 points, they would fall 71-64 to the Bulldogs and finish the season with a 27-5 record. This past season, as you may have read earlier, Illinois finished just 5-4 in conference play but went on to reach the National Title Game before falling to Washington. Ochsenhirt once again led the team in scoring and earned second team All-America honours. I expect he will be drafted to the MBA but with 6 teams there are only 12 selections made in the league draft so we will have to wait and see if there is another chaprter in the career of Russell Ochsenhirt. Code:
RUSS OCHSENHIRT CAREER STATS AT ILLINOIS Season G GS MIN PTS ORB DRB AST STL BLK PF FG% FT% *1934 1 1 24.0 4.0 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.0 .250 .000 *1935 30 29 31.5 10.7 1.2 1.6 1.5 0.5 0.1 1.7 .449 .637 *1936 32 32 28.6 14.9 0.9 2.1 2.3 0.4 0.1 1.6 .501 .675 *1937 34 34 28.6 14.4 1.3 2.2 2.1 0.7 0.2 1.7 .533 .703 *Career 97 96 29.4 13.3 1.1 2.0 2.0 0.5 0.2 1.7 .496 .677
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05-08-2020, 09:56 AM
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Player Profile: Ted Kleinhans
THE ARM THAT TURNED AROUND A FRANCHISE Years from now he will be remembered as the man that turned around the Kansas City Blues. For now it is all still very fresh in the minds of baseball fans but still very much a story that warrants telling. It seems like something otherworldly. Magic maybe, or perhaps Ted Kleinhans sold his soul to the devil for a chance at baseball immortality? Whatever the reason Kleinhans incredible 1937 season at the age of 38 is the stuff of legend, certainly for what he accomplished that season but even more so because of how he got to that point. A performance that really can only be compared to the early days of OOTP, before league and player development modifiers were fine tuned. The only thing I have seen without greatly tinkering with player development traces back to the early days of my History of Baseball replays - annual sims I did each year starting with OOTP2 recreating the entire history of baseball. There was a legendary player by the name of Cliff Markle (his image is my avatar) who was 12-17 over 5 real-life seasons with the Yankees and Reds from 1915-24, that somehow developed into the greatest pitcher in league history in one of my sims - posting a 360-160 career record, winning 9 pitcher of the year awards and 11 World Series titles. Kleinhans was far too old to hit that level of sustained excellence but for the 1937 season and perhaps beyond as the 1938 campaign is just underway, his incredible performance yielded comparisions, at least for me, only to the legend that was Markle in my original History of Baseball replay. In 1936 the Blues were a bad team. In fact going back prior to the conversion of the American Association to a major league the Blues were bad. They did finish third in 1936 in real life but were coming off 3 straight second division finishes including back to back last place showings in 1934 and 1935. But that is prior to the history of our online league. In the online league the history began in 1936, and the Blues were still bad, going 63-91 despite the efforts of a 28 year old pitcher named Al Hollingsworth, who would win 18 of those 63 games and post a very respectable 3.97 era. Sure the Blues had a couple of bats in ex-major leaguers Dale Alexander (.344,14,114) and Billy Herman (.328,6,82) and what looks like a one year wonder in then 24 year old outfielder Malin McCulloch, who hit .314 with a team high 122 rbi's but did little the following season and two teams later is now a reserve outfielder for the St Paul Saints. Regardless, it was 1936 in a new pitching starved league so everyone had at least a few players that could hit. What the Blues lacked, even more so then most of the other seven teams was pitching. That changed in 1937 when Kansas City suddenly had the best pitching in the league and went from the outhouse of the American Association to the penthouse with a league best 92-62 record, an improvement of 29 victories over the previous season. The 28 year old Hollingsworth performed much the same as a year ago, going 19-17 to follow up his 18-16 season a year ago. 33 year old Johnny Niggeling, who in real life would not make the big leagues until age 34 but go on to pitch for 9 seasons in the majors, would improve from 8-11 in 1936 to 16-15 in the championship season but far and away the biggest story was the emergence of Ted Kleinhans- a 38 year old journeyman with an unlikely real life story but an even more increbile sim performance. Kleinhans, having went just 1-1 for the 1936 New York Yankees, was merely a minor notation in the transaction pages when the Blues added him for the 1937 season but when the year ended he led the league in all three pitching triple crown categories at 30-9, with a 2.73 era and 256 strikeouts. His 30 wins at age 38 were 6 times what he had accumulated in his major league career in the first 37 years of his life and he led the Blues to the top of the American Association standings. Kleinhans would make 3 more starts in an epic 7 game American Series that season and while he would win just 1 of those starts his 2.16 era was still the best on the club even though he was overshadowed by teammate Al Hollingsworth going 3-0, 2.70 in his 3 Series outings. Kleinhans was a clear choice for top pitcher in the Association, capping an unlikely rise for a man who did not pitch in his first professional game until age 29 (although it should be noted the Cleveland Indians, the time that signed him, was under the impression he was 5 years younger at the time.) Kleinhans, the story goes, was working as a sales clerk while pitching in semi-pro leagues in Cleveland until, at the age of 29, Indians scout Frank Novario persuaded him to sign with the club. He would start the 1928 season, but listed as age 24, in Class C with the Johnstown Johnnies where he turned in a 4-6 record with a 3.69 era. He repeated in that leaue the following season, going 13-8 for two teams before moving up to the Class B Three-I League in 1930 where he went 14-15 in 37 games. Now 33, he finally made it as high as AAA late in the 1932 season, although for just 3 game with Columbus as he became St Louis Cardinals property. In 1933 he was optioned to the Atlanta Crackers of the Southern Association and had his best season as a pro, winning 19 games. That winter he was dealt to the Cubs, who then quickly flipped him to the Phillies with a package of players and cash to acquire Chuck Klein. Twelve days after his 35th birthday, Kleinhans made his MLB debut for the Phillies. He came on in the bottom of the 8th inning with a 2-0 lead but promptly surrendered 3 earned runs on three hits including a 2-run homer be Len Koenecke. He would pitch four more times out of the pen but in mid-May was dealt to Cincinnati. He would not have much more success with the Reds but did his first career start and first big league victory but finished the year with a 2-6 record. He was back to the minors in 1936 when his contract was sold to the Yankees organization. It is at this point the two careers of Ted Kleinhans (real and OOTP sim) diverge drastically. The real-life Kleinhans went 1-1 for the '36 Yankees and would pitch briefly for Cincinnati in both 1937 and 1938 going 1-2 in 8 appearances to finish with a lifetime 4-9 major league record. In real life Kleinhans spent most of 1937 in Kansas City and posted decent numbers (15-9, 4.03) but nothing like the sim Kleinhans, who would become a legend in Kansas City with his 30 victory performance. The real life Kleinhans would be back in the minors for good in 1938 and would pitch 4 seasons for Syracuse of the International League before retiring at the age of 42. Kleinhans would end up coaching baseball at Syracuse University for 20 years (replacing Forest Evaskevski who was the QB of the National Champion Michigan Wolverines in 1938 in my sim). The sim Kleinhans final chapters are yet to be written but his historic 1937 campaign in the now major league American Association have become the stuff of legend. The question remains is will that legend continue to grow? It is early in the 1938 season but the Blues and Kleinhans, while not quite as dominant as they weres a year ago, still seem be a solid contender for an opportunity to defend their title in the playoffs. Kleinhans is off to a 2-2 start with a 3.19 era in his 4 appearances in April. To learn if there are more legendary moments in the life of a now 39 year old Ted Kleinhans you will need to keep following the AAreplay online League. Regardless of the outcome, his 1938 season will be remembered in Kansas City for quite some time.
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MAY 9, 1938 RED SOX ON A ROLL After starting the season with just 2 wins in their first 9 games the Boston Red Sox have been the hottest team in the American League of late, winning 10 of their last 13 including 6 in a row. Jimmie Foxx (.265,6,26) has led the way offensively and was named the American League player of the week. It was actually the last week of April when Boston got things going, by winning 4 straight before having a tough time in New York at the tail end of last week, being shut out twice in a row by the Yankees on the weekend. The streaky Red Sox dropped a third straight game on Monday with a 7-4 loss to the Browns, but since then they reeled off the 6 straight wins including a walk-off 7-6 extra innings victory over the Browns on Wednesday when Foxx hit a game ending rbi double. Despite dropping two of three to the Yankees to start the week, the Cleveland Indians are the other hot team in the AL. The Tribe find themselves atop the American League standings, 1 game up on New York after finishing the week with 4 straight wins over struggling Chicago and lowly Washington. The Indians offense has been key as they lead the major leagues in runs scored by a wide margin with the trio of Odell Harris (.356,5,16), Roy Weatherly (.489,1,16) and Hal Trosky (.310,4,16) carrying the mail. 11 wins in their last 12 games has allowed the New York Giants to open up a 2.5 game lead on second place Cincinnati in the National League. The Giants have been winning despite star outfielder Mel Ott's (.232,2,11) struggles at the plate in the early going. The pitching staff has been key for New York with Harry Gumbert (3-0, 2.70), Slick Castleman (3-1, 2.38), Al Smith (2-1, 2.22) and Fred Frankhouse (2-1, 2.92) performing well in the starting rotation. Code:
MLB STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE W L GB NATIONAL LEAGUE vW L GB
Cleveland 14 7 - New York 13 5 -
New York 13 8 1.0 Cincinnati 13 8 2.5
Philadelphia 12 8 1.5 Philadelphia 11 10 4.5
Boston 12 10 2.5 St Louis 10 10 5.0
Chicago 11 11 3.5 Pittsburgh 10 11 5.5
Detroit 10 11 4.0 Brooklyn 8 13 7.5
St Louis 6 14 7.5 Boston 8 13 7.5
Washington 6 15 8.0 Chicago 8 13 7.5
HITTING LEADERS
AVERGAE AVERAGE
Weatherly CLE .489 Phelps BKN .431
Moses PHA .400 Mize STL .408
Greenberg DET .397 Demaree CHN .388
Appling CHA .395 Leslie BKN .377
Hayes PHA .386 Davis STL .368
HOME RUNS HOME RUNS
Greenberg DET 8 Mize STL 10
Hayes PHA 7 Medwick STL 5
Gordon SLA 6 Berger BSN 5
Foxx BOS 6 Kress PHI 5
Solters BKN 5
RBIs RBIs
Foxx BOS 26 Mize STL 26
Gordon SLA 23 Medwick STL 21
Greenberg DET 23 Leslie BKN 20
Dickey NYY 21 Camilli PHI 19
Hayes PHA 21
PITCHING LEADERS
WINS WINS
Mills CHA 5-0 Tobin BSN 4-1
Gomez NYY 4-0 8 tied with 3 wins
Rowe DET 4-1
Ruffing NYY 4-2
STRIKE OUTS STRIKE OUTS
Mills CHA 32 Mungo BKN 27
Feller CLE 25 Blanton PIT 24
Gomez NYY 25 Carleton CHN 22
Allen NYY 23 P Dean STL 22
ERA ERA
Harder CLE 1.54 Hallahan CIN 1.91
Mills CHA 2.08 Krakauskas CIN 2.02
Gomez NYY 2.25 Smith NYG 2.22
Dietrich PHA 2.62 French CHN 2.31
Brandt BOS 2.64 Mungo BKN 2.32
Despite an outstanding start to the season from 25 year old first baseman Johnny Mize (.408,10,26) the defending champion St Louis Cardinals are only at .500 after 20 games. Mize leads the NL in homers and rbi's and is second only behind Brooklyn's Babe Phelps in batting average. Cincinnati reliever Whitey Moore led the NL in saves last season with 16. This season he already has 4 in 4 opportunities and maybe the MLB record of 22 set by Firpo Mayberry in 1926 is in sight. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION The Minneapolis Millers, Kansas City Blues and Toledo Mud Hens rank 1-2-3 in fewest runs allowed and sit atop the American Association standings. The Millers have a half game lead on the other two despite dropping two of three in a series with the Mud Hens this past week. Minneapolis has a powerful offense to go with their pitching and, at +48, enjoy the largest run differential in the league. Rookie Ted Williams (.362,5,17) has been outstanding as have veterans Earl Browne (.353,5,13), Buzz Arlett (.353,6,16) and Chuck Klein (.370,3,19). Toledo has also been scoring runs in bunches with Benny McCoy (.269,6,16), Phil Weintraub (.267,4,17) and Roy Cullenbine (.313,2,17) leading the way while Gene Schott (4-1, 2.30) continues to dominate on the mound. Kansas City's strength has been it's pitching staff with a rotation of Al Hollingsworth (3-0, 4.56), Ted Kleinhans (3-2, 2.97). Tiny Bonham (3-3, 3.56) and Fred Gay (2-3, 3.19) looking solid while reliever Marv Breuer has yet to surrender a run in 7 appearances. Code:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDINS W L GB Minneapolis 13 8 - Kansas City 13 9 0.5 Toledo 13 9 0.5 Columbus 11 11 2.5 Milwaukee 10 11 3.0 Louisville 10 12 3.5 Indianapolis 9 12 4.0 St Paul 7 14 6.0 LEADERS AVG Cool Papa Bell KC .418 Enos Slaughter COL .379 Pee Wee Reese LOU .374 Chuck Klein MIN .370 Babe Herman KC .370 Jimmy Wasdell IND .368 HOME RUNS Buzz Arlett MIN 6 Benny McCoy TOL 6 Earl Browne MIN 5 Ted Williams MIN 5 several tied with 4 RBI's Buck Leonard LOU 20 Chuck Klein MIN 19 Pat Ankenman COL 17 Roy Cullenbine TOL 17 Phil Weintraub TOL 17 Ted Williams MIN 17 PITCHING WINS Max Macon COL 5-1 Ken Heintzelman LOU 4-1 Carl Hubbell MIN 4-1 Gene Schott TOL 4-1 STRIKEOUTS Dizzy Trout IND 33 Carl Hubbell MIN 31 Ted Kleinhans KC 30 Wayne LeMaster LOU 29 Max Macon COL 28 Lefty Smoll TOL 26 ERA Don French IND 1.71 Archie McKain TOL 1.84 Gene Schott TOL 2.30 Denny Galehouse MIN 2.32 Tot Pressnell MIL 2.66
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May 16, 1938
MAY 16, 1938 A GIANT LEAD The New York Giants continue to be the hottest team in baseball,extending their winning streak to 11 games with all of them coming on the road including a 3 game sweep of Pittsburgh over the weekend. New York, winners of 17 of their last 18 games, has extended it's lead atop the National League to 6.5 games on second place Philadelphia. Pitching continues to be the main reason for the Giants success with Harry Gumbert (5-0, 2.25) and Slick Castleman (5-1, 2.25) leading the way. What makes New York's success even more impressive is that Mel Ott (.225,3,14), the NL MVP each of the last two seasons, continues to struggle at the plate. Questions abound about whether or not Ott's switch from right field to third base this season has been what has thrown him off in the batter's box. Ott was moved from the outfield to make room for 21 year old second year player George Case (.224,0,7) but Case has also had his difficulities in the early going. Regardless, the move of Ott to the infield appears permanent as the Giants completed a trade last week sending their former third baseman Eddie Mayo to Detroit in exchange for right fielder Pete Fox. The 29 year old Fox hit .273 a year ago for Detroit. Mayo hit .284 last season as the Giants everyday third baseman but played in just 3 games this season. Code:
MLB STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE W L GB NATIONAL LEAGUE vW L GB
New York 19 9 - New York 21 5 -
Cleveland 18 10 1.0 Philadelphia 15 12 6.5
Philadelphia 16 10 2.0 St Louis 14 12 7.0
Boston 16 12 3.0 Cincinnati 14 13 7.5
Detroit 13 15 6.0 Boston 12 15 9.5
Chicago 12 16 7.0 Pittsburgh 11 16 10.5
St Louis 9 17 9.0 Chicago 10 17 11.5
Washington 7 21 12.0 Brooklyn 10 17 11.5
HITTING LEADERS
AVERGAE AVERAGE
Weatherly CLE .422 Phelps BKN .442
Almada BOS .387 Leslie BKN .389
Hayes PHA .386 Wright PHI .385
Gehringer DET .380 Davis STL .381
Radcliff CHA .376 Mize STL .380
HOME RUNS HOME RUNS
Gordon SLA 8 Mize STL 11
Greenberg DET 8 Medwick STL 7
Hayes PHA 7 Berger BSN 7
Greenberg DET 8 Johnson CIN 6
RBIs RBIs
Gordon SLA 29 Mize STL 31
Foxx BOS 28 Leslie BKN 26
Hayes PHA 26 Medwick STL 25
Greenberg DET 25 Camilli PHI 23
Dickey NYY 24 Waner PIT 21
PITCHING LEADERS
WINS WINS
Gomez NYY 5-0 Gumbert NYG 5-0
Mills CHA 5-1 Tobin BSN 5-1
Ruffing NYY 5-2 Castleman NYG 5-1
several tied with 4 P Dean STL 5-1
STRIKE OUTS STRIKE OUTS
Feller CLE 37 P Dean STL 33
Mills CHA 36 Mungo BKN 31
Grove BOS 29 Blanton PIT 29
Gomez NYY 28 Carleton CHN 28
ERA ERA
Mills CHA 2.02 Castleman NYG 2.25
Brandt BOS 2.04 Gumbert NYG 2.25
T Lee CLE 2.09 D Dean STL 2.39
Gomez NYY 2.55 French CHN 2.45
Dietrich PHA 2.63 Krakauskas CIN 2.53
Grove BOS 2.70 Bowman CIN 2.53
Detroit Tiger outfielder Al Simmons homered early in the week. It was his 6th round tripper of the season and 296th of his career, leaving the 35 year old 4 shy of the 300 mark and just 5 short of tying Rogers Hornsby for 5th most all-time. Brooklyn's Jim Bottomley has confirmed this will be his final season. The 38 year old spent most of his career with the Cardinals but has also played for Cincinnati, the St Louis Browns as well as the Dodgers. He is batting just .140 so far this season, a far cry from his .309 career batting average. Cardinals pitcher Paul Dean struggled early but seems to be getting back to the form that helped him go 25-8 last season. Dizzy's younger brother has won his last 3 starts to improve to 5-1 and is coming off a complete game shutout in a 4-0 win over the Cubs. Dizzy Dean has also pitched well, with a 2.39 era but has not received a lot of run support which is reflected in his 3-3 record. Joe DiMaggio (.250,6,18) is showing signs of getting going for the Yankees. The 23 year old center fielder hit 4 homers and drove in 11 runs in the past two weeks. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION The St Paul Saints have not experienced much success in recent seasons but the Saints enjoyed a winning week thanks in no small part to the play of Bill Norman. The 27 year old went 12-for-26 (.462) with 4 homers and 8 rbi's as the Saints won four of six games this week. The performance earned player of the week honours for the veteran outfielder. The big series this week saw the Toledo Mud Hens take two of three games from Kansas City in a rematch of last season's American Series. Kansas City took the opener 5-2 as Al Hollingsworth (4-0, 3.99) outduelled Gene Schott (4-2, 2.62) before the Mud Hens took the next two. Babe Herman (.294,1,4) delivered a sacrifice fly in the top of the ninth of a 6-5 victory before new Mud Hen Archie McKain (3-2, 1.70) stopped the Blues and Ted Kleinhans (4-3, 3.00) 6-1 in the series finale. For Kleinhans the loss came one start after an outstanding effort from the reigning pitcher of the year. Kleinhans threw a 2-hitter to lead the Blues past Minneapolis 8-1 to start the week. Code:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDINS W L GB Toledo 17 11 - Kansas City 16 12 1.0 Minneapolis 15 12 1.5 Columbus 14 14 3.0 Louisville 14 14 3.0 Milwaukee 12 15 4.5 Indianapolis 11 16 5.5 St Paul 11 16 5.5 LEADERS AVG Jimmy Wasdell IND .394 Cool Papa Bell KC .371 Enos Slaughter COL .363 Buzz Arlett MIN .360 Billy Herman KC .355 Chuck Klein MIN .354 F Thompson MIN .353 Pee Wee Reese LOU .351 HOME RUNS Buzz Arlett MIN 8 Benny McCoy TOL 6 Jimmy Wasdell IND 6 Phil Weintraub TOL 6 several tied with 5 RBI's Buck Leonard LOU 28 Buzz Arlett MIN 24 Roy Cullenbine TOL 20 Phil Weintraub TOL 20 Enos Slaughter COL 20 PITCHING WINS Ken Heintzelman LOU 5-1 Max Macon COL 5-2 Al Hollingsworth KC 4-0 F Fitzsimmons COL 4-1 Paul Derringer TOL 4-2 Gene Schott TOL 4-2 STRIKEOUTS Dizzy Trout IND 42 Ted Kleinhans KC 39 Carl Hubbell MIN 37 Lefty Smoll TOL 35 Wayne LeMaster LOU 31 Max Macon COL 30 Johnny Rigney StP 30 Yank Terry LOU 30 ERA Archie McKain TOL 1.70 Gene Schott TOL 2.62 Fred Gay KC 2.72 Tot Pressnell MIL 2.89 Ted Kleinhans KC 3.00 NHL NEWS IS SYL APPS ON HIS WAY TO BECOMING THE GREATEST PRE-1967 PLAYER IN NHL HISTORY? Syl Apps is only 23 years old and recently completed just his second NHL season but there is already talk the two-time Hart Trophy winner may be on his way to the greatest career in hockey history. Ever since he made his NHL debut in October of 1936, Apps has looked dominant, leading the league in scoring both years and being named the NHL's Most Valuable Player on each occasion. Apps' 37 goals this past season established a new standard, breaking by one the mark set by his Toronto teammate Charlie Conacher in 1935-36. Prior to Conacher, the record had stood since the NHL's inaugural season of 1917-18 when Newsy Lalonde lit the lamp 35 times that year. Only Joe Malone's 78 points in 1917-18 is more than the 76 that Apps accumulated in each of his two NHL seasons so it's seems just a matter of time before he sets a new single season point mark to go with his goal scoring standard and the assists record he set with 50 as a rookie two seasons ago. No one has come close to putting up the numbers that Apps has had in his first two seasons.Code:
SYL APPS CAREER STATS
REGULAR SEASON PLAYOFFS
YEAR TEAM GP G A PTS PIM GP G A PTS PIM
36-37 TOR 48 26 50 76 30 5 5 2 7 8 MVP,ROY, Scoring champ
37-38 TOR 46 37 39 76 42 5 3 6 9 2 MVP, Playoff MVP, Scoring champ
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TOTALS 94 63 89 152 72 10 8 8 16 10
REALLIFE 95 37 58 95 19 9 1 5 6 0 (first two years)
CAREER RL 423 201 231 432 56 69 25 28 53 6 (entire career)
MAY 16, 1938 CALIFORNIA HEADS COLLEGE HOOPS RECRUITING CLASS College basketball recruiting has finished for the upcoming season and the top class belongs to the University of California. The Bears landed a pair of top ten recruits in #3 overall Robert Dro and #7 Dode Heilman. Both are guards with Dro being a historical player who starred at Indiana before playing briefly as a pro with the Indianapolis Kautskys. He was also an accomplished baseball player and spent some time in the minors in the Dodgers organization. Washington, Michigan, Mississippi State, Wisconsin, Illinois, New York University, Columbia, Alabama Poly and Mississippi round out the top ten recruiting classes. The defending National Champion Huskies class is highlighted by Elwood Norris and Warner Engdahl, both ranked in the top twenty nationally. Elwood "Woody" Norris was a forward who played for Butler in real life before spending several seasons in the NBL. Warner 'Bud' Engdahl also played in the NBL for several seasons after concluding his college career at Wisconsin. The number one recruit was Abe Yourist, who signed with Columbia. Yourist would play in the National Basketball League briefly in real life before going on to have a long professional wrestling career.
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May 17-23, 1938
May 22, 1938 RANGERS GOALTENDER CHABOT RETIRES After 12 years tending the New York Rangers net, goaltender Lorne Chabot has decided to retire. Chabot spent his entire 493 game career as a Blueshirt, winning 230 games and helping backstop the Rangers to their only Stanley Cup win in 1935. He won the Vezina Trophy as the league's top goaltender in 1929-30 and was a first team all-star once and second team all-star twice in his career. Code:
LORNE CHABOT CAREER STATS
REGULAR SEASON PLAYOFFS
YEAR TEAM GP W L T SO GAA GP W L SO GAA
26-27 NYR 44 21 15 8 10 1.67 4 2 2 2 2.25
27-28 NYR 44 16 26 2 6 2.46 2 0 2 0 2.01
28-29 NYR 44 19 20 4 10 1.47 2 0 2 0 3.02
29-30 NYR 39 15 17 7 5 2.14 2 0 2 0 3.60
30-31 NYR 44 12 25 5 5 3.01 Did not play
31-32 NYR 47 28 18 1 3 2.09 4 1 3 0 2.01
32-33 NYR 48 23 18 6 3 1.79 2 0 2 0 4.60
33-34 NYR 40 18 18 3 3 2.44 10 6 4 2 1.77
34-35 NYR 38 21 11 5 6 2.13 8 6 2 1 1.53
35-36 NYR 38 19 12 7 5 2.14 12 7 5 1 1.93
36-37 NYR 28 10 14 3 3 2.36 3 1 2 0 2.31
37-38 NYR 39 28 8 3 5 2.01 2 0 2 0 2.84
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Totals 493 230 202 54 64 2.12 51 23 28 6 2.13
REAL LIFE 412 200 146 62 71 2.03
May 23, 1938 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL The New York Yankees have spent most of the past two seasons at the top of the American League standings so they are no stranger to the position they presently hold by 5 games. The Yankees have won 14 of their past 16 contests including a pair of weekend victories in Philadelphia over the Athletics, who are one of three teams tied for second. Lefty Gomez (7-0,2.97), Red Ruffing (6-2, 3.94) and Johnny Broaca (5-2, 3.18) have headlined the Yankee rotation together for the past 5 years and since the sim portion began in 1936 are a combined 161-53 over that span including 18-4 this season. Joe DiMaggio (.271,6,25) and Lou Gehrig (.278,5,25) both are coming around lately after slow starts but while they struggled catcher Bill Dickey (.340,7,32), outfielder George Selkirk (.312,7,27) and third baseman Red Rolfe (.387,0,19) carried the offense. It is only mid-May but it is already starting to look like a third straight American League Pennant for the Yankees is a foregone conclusion. The New York Giants slipped up a big last week dropping 3 of their last 4 games including suffering a 2-game sweep at the hands of Boston at the Polo Grounds over the weekend. Prior to a 2-1 loss to Philadelphia on Thursday the Giants had won 14 straight games but even after the rough weekend they still enjoy a 6 game lead on St Louis atop the National League. Code:
MLB STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE W L GB NATIONAL LEAGUE vW L GB
New York 25 10 - New York 25 8 -
Philadelphia 19 14 5.0 St Louis 19 14 6.0
Boston 20 15 5.0 Philadelphia 18 16 7.5
Cleveland 20 15 5.0 Chicago 16 18 9.5
Detroit 16 19 9.0 Cincinnati 16 18 9.5
Chicago 15 20 10.0 Pittsburgh 16 18 9.5
St Louis 13 20 11.0 Boston 14 20 11.5
Washington 10 25 15.0 Brooklyn 11 23 14.5
HITTING LEADERS
AVERGAE AVERAGE
Gehringer DET .424 Phelps BKN .420
Weatherly CLE .400 Davis STL .400
Rolfe NYY .387 Mize STL .392
Travis WSH .382 Demaree CHN .377
Almada BOS .381 Hack CHN .348
HOME RUNS HOME RUNS
Gordon SLA 11 Mize STL 14
Greenberg DET 8 Medwick STL 9
Hayes PHA 8 Berger BSN 9
Trosky CLE 8 Johnson CIN 8
RBIs RBIs
Gordon SLA 39 Mize STL 39
Dickey NYY 32 Medwick STL 29
Foxx BOS 30 Leslie BKN 27
Hayes PHA 29 Camilli PHI 26
Simmons DET 29 Waner PIT 25
PITCHING LEADERS
WINS WINS
Gomez NYY 7-0 Castleman NYG 6-1
Mills CHA 6-2 P Dean STL 6-1
Ruffing NYY 6-2 Caldwell PHI 5-1
Grove BOS 6-2 Gumbert NYG 5-1
Broaca NYY 5-2 Lee CHN 5-2
Harder CLE 5-2 Tobin BSN 5-2
STRIKE OUTS STRIKE OUTS
Feller CLE 45 P Dean STL 38
Mills CHA 45 Carleton CHN 38
Gomez NYY 44 Mungo BKN 33
Grove BOS 36 Castleman NYG 31
ERA ERA
Brandt BOS 2.50 Castleman NYG 1.92
Grove BOS 2.57 Henshaw NYG 1.98
Mills CHA 2.69 Gumbert NYG 2.21
Gomez NYY 2.97 Krakauskas CIN 2.31
Broaca NYY 3.18 Mungo BKN 2.54
Posedel SLB 3.21 Passeau PHI 2.58
Chicago Cubs catcher Gabby Hartnett became the first player this season to hit for the cycle when we went 4-for-4 with 3 rbi's in a 7-0 Cubs win over Boston this week. Ethan Allen of the White Sox and the Wally Moses of the Athletics were the only MLB players to hit for the cycle last year. Detroit's Charlie Gehringer had a 21 game hitting streak snapped on Saturday in a 7-2 loss to the White Sox. It also ended a 4-game streak in which Gehringer had 3 hits in each game. The 35 year old second baseman leads the major leagues with a .424 batting average and was named American League player of the week. Johnny Mize of the Cardinals continues his torrid play. Mize (.392,14,39) hit 3 homers last week and drove in 8 runs to capture NL player of the week honours. He leads the NL in homers and rbi's on the season and is third in batting average. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION The Toledo Mud Hens have scored the most runs in the American Association while allowing the fewest against so it is easy to figure out how the team has won 8 of it's last 9 games and twelve of 15 to extend their lead to 3 games over second place Kansas City. Gene Schott (6-2, 2.71), Paul Derringer (6-2, 4.66) and Al Benton (4-0, 5.59) have been getting the job done on the mound while at the plate it has been Benny McCoy (.306,7,21), Roy Cullenbune (.325,4,31), Phil Weintraub (.261,6,24) and Chet Laabs (.246,5,27) who have been driving in runs while lead-off man Lonny Frey (.395,3,21) has set the table. Frey, who had 16 hits in 29 at bats last week to capture player of the week honours, now finds himself sitting atop the American Association batting average leaderboard. The Mud Hens enjoyed a big weekend series, taking two of three from the Millers in Minneapolis and outscoring the home side 28-11 in the process. The Millers had a rough week as they also dropped two of three to second place Kansas City but did sweep a 2-game set from St Paul with a pair of comeback victories. The big series coming up this week takes place in Toledo when the Mud Hens welcome Kansas City to town for a 3 game weekend set. The Blues, who beat the Mud Hens in last year's American Series, are 4-3 this season against Toledo. The other highlight will be the annual game in Indianapolis before the 26th running of auto racing's Indy 500. The seventh place Indians will host Minneapolis. Code:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDINS W L GB Toledo 23 12 - Kansas City 20 15 3.0 Minneapolis 18 16 4.5 Milwaukee 18 16 4.5 Columbus 16 19 7.0 Louisville 15 20 8.0 Indianapolis 14 20 8.5 St Paul 14 20 8.5 LEADERS AVG Lonny Frey TOL .395 Jimmy Wasdell IND .368 Jeff Heath MIL .353 Enos Slaughter COL .353 Ted Williams MIN .352 Julian Foster LOU .352 Cool Papa Bell KC .342 Buzz Arlett MIN .342 HOME RUNS Buzz Arlett MIN 10 Ted Williams MIN 8 Benny McCoy TOL 7 Jimmy Wasdell IND 6 Phil Weintraub TOL 6 Tommy Henrich StP 6 Rudy York MIL 6 RBI's Buzz Arlett MIN 31 Roy Cullenbine TOL 31 Buck Leonard LOU 30 Ted Williams MIN 28 Martin Dihigo MIL 27 Chet Laabs TOL 27 PITCHING WINS Paul Derringer TOL 6-2 Gene Schott TOL 6-2 Max Macon COL 6-4 Al Hollingsworth KC 5-1 Ken Heintzelman LOU 5-3 Denny Galehouse MIN 5-3 Tot Pressnell MIL 5-3 Dizzy Trout IND 5-3 Carl Hubbell MIN 5-4 STRIKEOUTS Ted Kleinhans KC 47 Carl Hubbell MIN 46 Dizzy Trout IND 45 Max Macon COL 42 Lefty Smoll TOL 42 Wayne LeMaster LOU 40 Johnny Rigney StP 38 Yank Terry LOU 37 ERA Archie McKain TOL 2.48 Gene Schott TOL 2.71 Tot Pressnell MIL 2.93 Ted Kleinhans KC 3.13 Vern Kennedy MIN 3.13 Rip Schroeder COL 3.14 Fred Gay KC 3.15 May 23, 1938 College Football DEFENDING NATIONAL CHAMPS UNVIEL 1938 SCHEDULE The Michigan Wolverines look to follow up their National Title winning 11-1 1937 season with another trip to the Rose Bowl. While quarterback Forest Evashevski and running back Tom Harmon return and look to follow up on outstanding freshman seasons, the rest of the offense will be quite different as 7 starters have graduated. Evashevski, who threw 14 touchdown passes and as Western Conference Offensive Player of the Year as a freshman, will be counted on once again to lead the Wolverines. Here is the 1938 Michigan football schedule. Code:
MICHIGAN FOOTBALL SCHEDULE 1938 WK 1 at Northwestern WK 2 VIRGINIA WK 3 UCLA Wk 4 at Notre Dame WK 5 at Michigan State WK 6 ILLINOIS WK 7 at Minnesota WK 8 INDIANA WK 9 IOWA WK 10 at Purdue WK 11 OHIO STATE In conference, the Wolverines will be looking to avenge their only loss last season, which came in an upset at Indiana. The annual season-ending game against Ohio State will be at home this season, with the Buckeyes out for revenge after the Wolverines won in Columbus.
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May 29, 1938 ROBERTS WINS INDY 500 Floyd Roberts led for 185 of the 200 laps to emerge as the winner of the 1938 Indianapolis 500. The 38 year old North Dakota native started on the pole and despite giving up the lead for a brief period, regained it on lap 25 and never looked back, winning by a 3 lap margin over second place Wilbur Shaw, who was the winner of last year's event. Roberts jumped out to a lead right away but was being pressured early by Tony Gulotta and Chet Miller, who had started fourth and fifth on the grid. On the tenth lap Miller took over the lead as he moved from third to first by passing both Gulotta and Miller on that lap. Miller was increasing his lead but it would be short-lived as his oil pump gave out on lap 25 and he was forced to retire. Roberts took over the top spot at that point and never looked back, finishing in a time of 4:07:49 with an average speed of 121.13 miles per hour, or just under 1 mph faster than Shaw's winning time a year ago. A year ago, in the race won by Shaw, Roberts lasted just one lap before electical issues ended his day. He finished 32nd in the 33 car field. In real life Roberts won the 1938 Indy 500 with a then record speed of 117.2 MPH, leading for 95 laps. It was his fourth Indy 500 and first victory. Tragically, he would die at the Indy track a year later when he was caught up in wreck that also included Chet Miller midway through the event. Shaw would finish second in the real 1938 event after winning the previous season while Miller would place third. Jimmy Snyder, who finished third in the sim race, was 15th in real life after lasting just 149 of the 200 laps before retiring with engine issues. Amazing how dangerous the race was back then and yet drivers continued to compete. The 1938 real event had a crash that seriously injured drive Emil Andres and killed a spectator. The 1939 event, as mentioned killed defending champ Roberts and a driver named Bill Swanson, who was involved in the crash that killed Roberts would he himself be killed in a midgit car race a year later. Code:
FINAL RESULTS: 1938 Indianapolis 500
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1 1 23 Floyd Roberts 200 Winner 3
7 2 1 Wilbur Shaw 197 Flagged 3
15 3 6 Jimmy Snyder 196 Flagged 3
14 4 54 Herb Ardinger 195 Flagged 3
17 5 29 Frank Wearne 195 Flagged 3
6 6 2 Ted Horn 193 Flagged 3
10 7 16 Ronney Householder 193 Flagged 3
22 8 55 Al Miller 193 Flagged 3
18 9 38 Chet Gardner 193 Flagged 3
9 10 27 Mauri Rose 193 Flagged 4
11 11 26 Frank Brisko 193 Flagged 3
24 12 21 Louis Tomei 192 Flagged 3
30 13 58 Billy DeVore 191 Flagged 3
32 14 9 Cliff Bergere 189 Flagged 4
31 15 33 Henry Banks 189 Flagged 4
12 16 5 Louie Meyer 188 Flagged 4
29 17 12 George Bailey 187 Flagged 3
3 18 8 Rex Mays 187 Flagged 5
26 19 10 Tony Willman 185 Flagged 4
4 20 17 Tony Gulotta 184 Flagged 4
8 21 34 Babe Stapp 172 Engine failure 5
13 22 22 Joel Thorne 171 Pump 3
25 23 45 Harry McQuinn 164 Pump 3
19 24 15 George Conner 126 Crash 1 3
28 25 42 Emil Andres 123 Crash 1 3
16 26 7 Bill Cummings 79 Lost power 2
33 27 43 Duke Nalon 79 Hit wall 2
20 28 47 Shorty Cantlon 51 Engine failure 2
21 29 35 Kelly Petillo 43 Manifold 1
5 30 3 Chet Miller 25 Oil Pressure 1
2 31 14 Russ Snowberger 19 Electrical 2
23 32 36 Al Putnam 9 Lost power 1
27 33 37 Ira Hall 3 Clutch 1
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WINNING TIME: 04:07:49
WINNING SPEED: 121.130 mph
MARGIN OF VICTORY: 268.09 sec
YELLOW FLAGS: 4 for 23 laps
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL MAY 30, 1938 YANKEES, GIANTS LEAD WAY WITH PITCHING The New York Yankees and New York Giants continue to hold solid leads in their respective leagues thanks to possessing the most dominant pitching in baseball. In the Bronx, the Yankees team ERA of 3.38 is well over half a run better than any of the other seven American League teams while the Giants 2.76 ERA is equally as dominant in the National League. The Yankees rotation consists of Lefty Gomez (7-1, 2.91), Red Ruffing (8-2, 3.50), Danny McFayden (5-3, 3.93), Johnny Broaca (6-2, 2.88) and Bob Weiland (3-4, 3.62) while the Giants rely on Slick Castleman (7-2, 2.28), Harry Gumbert (6-2, 2.61), Hal Schumacher (4-4, 3.57), Al Smith (5-2, 3.30) and Fred Frankhouse (3-0, 3.64). Second place Cleveland suffered a serious blow to their American League pennant hopes when it was learned this week that Thornton Lee (5-3, 3.10) is done for the season after an arm injury. It is the second straight season the Indians have been without a key starting pitcher for an extended amount of time. 19 year old Bob Feller, who was the American League rookie of the year in 1936, missed three months last season with elbow troubles. The fireballing righthander seems no worse for wear this season as he is off to a 5-3 start with an MLB leading 63 strikeouts. Code:
MLB STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE W L GB NATIONAL LEAGUE vW L GB
New York 30 12 - New York 30 11 -
Cleveland 26 17 4.5 St Louis 23 18 7.0
Boston 24 18 6.0 Chicago 21 21 9.5
Philadelphia 21 20 8.5 Philadelphia 20 21 10.0
Detroit 21 22 9.5 Pittsburgh 20 22 10.5
St Louis 17 24 12.5 Cincinnati 19 22 11.0
Chicago 16 26 14.0 Boston 19 23 11.5
Washington 13 29 17.0 Brooklyn 14 28 16.5
HITTING LEADERS
AVERGAE AVERAGE
Gehringer DET .407 Phelps BKN .410
Weatherly CLE .399 Mize STL .388
Almada BOS .384 Medwick STL .359
Rolfe NYY .377 Davis STL .357
Radcliff CHA .364 Hack CHN .356
HOME RUNS HOME RUNS
Gordon SLA 13 Mize STL 16
Foxx BOS 12 Medwick STL 11
Trosky CLE 10 Berger BSN 10
Dickey NYY 9 Johnson CIN 9
Greenberg DET 9 V DiMaggio BSN 9
RBIs RBIs
Gordon SLA 46 Mize STL 44
Dickey NYY 40 Medwick STL 39
Foxx BOS 39 Leslie BKN 32
Greenberg DET 37 Camilli PHI 31
Gehrig NYY 36 Waner PIT 28
PITCHING LEADERS
WINS WINS
Ruffing NYY 8-2 Castleman NYG 7-2
Gomez NYY 7-1 P Dean STL 7-2
Mills CHA 7-2 Tobin BSN 7-2
Grove BOS 7-2 Gumbert NYG 6-2
Broaca NYY 6-2 Lee CHN 6-2
Harder CLE 6-2
STRIKE OUTS STRIKE OUTS
Feller CLE 63 P Dean STL 48
Mills CHA 49 Carleton CHN 48
Gomez NYY 47 Castleman NYG 41
Grove BOS 40 Mungo BKN 40
Rowe DET 40 Blanton PIT 38
Allen CLE 39 Melton BKN 38
ERA ERA
Grove BOS 2.40 Henshaw NYG 1.74
Brandt BOS 2.43 Krakauskas CIN 2.18
Mills CHA 2.61 Castleman NYG 2.28
Broaca NYY 2.88 Passeau PHI 2.36
Gomez NYY 2.91 Mungo BKN 2.52
Lee CLE 3.10 Bowman CIN 2.53
Buddy Myer joined the 2000 hit club with a triple in Washington's 11-4 win over the Philadelphia Athletics this week. The 34 year old second baseman has played 1727 career MLB games. However, Myer sprained his ankle later in the same game and is sidelined for a week. While Dizzy Dean (3-5, 2.83) has been hit with some hard luck, his younger brother Paul is enjoying another outstanding season. The younger Dean is 7-2 with a 2.61 era after throwing a 6-hit shutout at Brooklyn this week. Dean led the National League in wins last season with a 25-8 record. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION The big showdown last week between Kansas City and Toledo provided plenty of excitement as the league's top two teams hooked up. The Blues took two of the three game set and trail the Mud Hens by two games as the month of May nears it's end. Game one of the series was a duel between Tiny Bonham and Paul Derringer with the Blues Bonham (5-3, 3.07) emerging on top with a 2-1 victory thanks to a pair of rbi's from catcher Clyde McCullough (.281,3,15) including the winner in the top of the 8th inning. The next night was also a 2-1 final with the Mud Hens winning on a walk-off sacrifice fly off the bat of Willie Wells (.267,2,25) made a winner out of Gene Schott (7-2, 2.52) over Ted Kleinhans (4-6,3.02) in a game that saw both starters go the distance with Kleinhans allowing just 4 hits while Schott surrendered 5. The bats got going in the series finale, won 9-7 by the visitors as Joe Gallagher (.311,4,19) had two hits including a homer and drove in 4 runs to pace the Kansas City attack. Dale Alexander (.259,4,18) also had a big game for the Blues, with a pair of hits and 3 rbi's. Meanwhile, the Minneapolis Millers went 4-2 on the week to move to within 3 games of top spot. Millers righthander Denny Galehouse (8-3, 2.87) made three starts in the last 8 days and won them all with complete games, including a 2-1 gem over Columbus on Wednesday. Galehouse's final win of the week game in festivities leading up to the running of the Indy 500 as he and his Millers teammates won in Indianapolis by a 10-2 score. St Paul's Bill Norman became the first American Association player in a year and a half to hit 3 homeruns in game. The 27 year old outfielder, who is batting .336 with 8 homers on the season, accomplished the feat in a 9-1 win over Indianapolis on Monday. It came in the midst of a rare 5 game winning streak for the Saints. Code:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDINS W L GB Toledo 26 15 - Kansas City 24 17 2.0 Minneapolis 22 18 3.5 Milwaukee 19 21 6.5 Columbus 19 22 7.0 Louisville 19 22 7.0 St Paul 18 22 7.5 Indianapolis 15 25 10.5 LEADERS AVG Lonny Frey TOL .406 Cool Papa Bell KC .360 Chuck Klein MIN .357 Jimmy Wasdell IND .353 Enos Slaughter COL .350 Martin Dihigo MIL .342 Billy Herman KC .341 Pee Wee Reese LOU .341 HOME RUNS Buzz Arlett MIN 11 Ted Williams MIN 8 Benny McCoy TOL 8 Bill Norman StP 8 Phil Weintraub TOL 7 Rudy York MIL 7 RBI's Roy Cullenbine TOL 34 Buck Leonard LOU 34 Buzz Arlett MIN 33 Chet Laabs TOL 31 Ted Williams MIN 31 Phil Weintraub TOL 30 PITCHING WINS Denny Galehouse MIN 8-3 Al Hollingsworth KC 7-1 Gene Schott TOL 7-2 Paul Derringer TOL 6-3 Ken Heintzelman LOU 6-4 Dizzy Trout IND 6-4 Carl Hubbell MIN 6-5 Max Macon COL 6-6 STRIKEOUTS Dizzy Trout IND 55 Carl Hubbell MIN 53 Ted Kleinhans KC 52 Max Macon COL 51 Lefty Smoll TOL 50 Johnny Rigney StP 47 Wayne LeMaster LOU 45 Denny Galehouse MIN 45 Yank Terry LOU 41 ERA Joseph Shaffer LOU 2.44 Gene Schott TOL 2.52 Denny Galehouse MIN 2.87 Tot Pressnell MIL 2.92 Ted Kleinhans KC 3.02 Archie McKain TOL 3.04 Tiny Bonham KC 3.07 Fred Gay KC 3.28
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JUNE 1, 1938 MAROONS FOLD, NHL DOWN TO SEVEN TEAMS The Montreal Maroons have elected to cease operation, dropping the National Hockey League down to seven teams for the 1938-39 season. The change will see the league eliminate the two division format and each of the seven clubs will play 48 games. The playoffs will have six teams qualify with the top two getting a bye for the best of three opening round. The semi-finals and finals will now each be a best of seven series. The Maroons players are all declared free agents and the seven remaining teams quickly got to work signing players including: The New York Rangers signed 25 year old winger Toe Blake. The injury plagued former Maroon appeared in just 17 games last season, scoring 7 goals and adding 4 assists. The Detroit Red Wings signed 34 year old defenseman Babe Siebert. Siebert had 8 goals and 12 assists in 48 games last year. In his 575 game NHL career, spent entirely with the Maroons, Siebert tallied 122 goals and 405 points. The Stanley Cup champion Toronto Maple Leafs signed former Maroons goaltender Davey Kerr. The 8 year vet, who is 28 years old, posted a 2.66 goals against average last season while going 10-23-9. JUNE 1, 1938 COLLEGE FOOTBALL - UCLA, USC LOOK TO REBOUND After very disappointing seasons the two Los Angeles based college football teams are each looking ahead to a much improved 1938 campaign. That both UCLA and USC are expected to be in the top ten in the initial rankings certainly must come as a surprise if one only takes into account their respective 1937 records but each school certainly has it's strengths. The Bruins finished last year with a 5-6 mark despite a nation's best 2,120 passing yards from quarterback Roy Zimmerman. Zimmerman returns for his junior season but will be pressed for playing time at quarterback from sophomore Jackie Robinson, who is also a member of the Bruins basketball squad. When Zimmerman, who in real life played 9 NFL seasons, was outstanding at times such as a 249 yard passing day in 34-0 shutout of Arizona or 176 yards and 3 touchdown passes in a 41-38 win over Cal. However, when Zimmerman was bad he was very bad including the season ending 94 passing yard, 2 interception performance in a 17-0 loss to USC. If Zimmerman can be more consistent, or if Robinson can establish himself, the Bruins offense can take them a long way. Zimmerman has a solid running game at his disposal led by sophomore Tony Canadeo and junior Dante Magnani. Canadeo, who in real life played a decade in the NFL with Green Bay, gained 832 yards rushing last season. Magnani also played a decade in the NFL in real life but missed all of last season with an injury. Joe Aguirre was Zimmerman's favourite receiving target last year as a freshman when he led the Pacific Coast Conference with 52 catches. Highly touted incoming freshman tight end R.C. Pitts is also expected to contribute. Aguirre spent over a decade as an end in the NFL and CFL in real life while Pitts, who will also play on the Bruins basketball team, was a 2-sport star in college at Arkansas in real life before winning a gold medal as part of the US basketball team in the 1948 Olympics. USC, who finished last season with a 4-7 record, had a strong defense but the offense could not get untracked as they failed to score more than 20 points in each of their final 9 games and were held to 10 or fewer points in 6 of them. The Trojans defense will be strong once again but they will need a much better season out of junior QB Granny Lansdell, who missed two games with injury last season and when he was healthy struggled with turnovers. In real life Lansdell played one season with the New York Giants after being selected in the first round of the 1940 NFL draft. The strength of the USC defense will be it's linebacker trio of juniors Bill Fisk and Ambrose Schindler along with senior Boyd Morgan. In real life Fisk would play several years in the NFL and his son Bill Fisk Jr. would be an All-American offensive lineman and played on USC's 1962 national title team. Schindler was Rose Bowl MVP in 1940 and was drafted but never played in the NFL. He worked as a football official and coach as well as a Hollywood stuntman, appearing as the stunt double for the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz. Boyd Morgan played one year in the NFL and then, like Schindler, worked as a movie stuntman. JUNE 1,1938 COLLEGE BASKETBALL :PROFILE OF JOHN ISAACS In my college basketball sim, which began with the 1901 season, John Isaacs is college basketball's all-time leading scorer, amassing 1834 points over his four seasons with UCLA. In real life Isaacs did not play college basketball. He was born in Panama but raised in New York City. After leading his team to a New York High School basketball title he turned pro and played for several teams over the next 15 years before turning to coaching. Former NBAer Chris Mullin was one of his disciples. Isaacs was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015. The sim Isaacs joined the Bruins in 1930-31 and after averaging 16.1 ppg that season he was named the National Freshman of the Year. He would go on to be a 2-time first team All-American shooting guard and average 15.5 ppg over his 118 game college career. As a freshman in a game against Santa Clara, Isaacs scored 36 of his team's 57 points establishing a new single game points record (later eclipsed by Dal Williams of Columbia who had 38 points in a 1936 game). Isaacs still holds spots 1 to 10, and 26 of the top 28 individual game scoring performances by a Bruin player and his 4 regular season points totals are the four highest single season scoring marks among UCLA players. Code:
JOHN ISAACS CAREER STATS AT UCLA
YEAR G MPG PPG RPG APG FG% FT% PTS
30-31 33 28.9 16.1 3.2 1.3 .475 .738 530
31-32 30 31.0 14.3 3.2 1.3 .411 .760 430
32-33 29 31.4 15.7 4.7 2.3 .470 .720 455
33-34 26 31.0 16.1 4.5 1.8 .436 .780 419
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Total 118 30.5 15.5 3.8 1.7 .448 .751 1834
Isaacs would go on to be selected 3rd overall by the Minneapolis Lakers in the 1934 Midwest Basketball Association draft. He would play four seasons with the Lakers and is presently a free agent after losing his starting job in 1937-38. The previous year his 16.9 ppg ranked him among the league leaders but he lost his starting job last year and his contract was not renewed by the Lakers after a last place finish this past season. He was All-League twice in his pro career. There is a good chance his career is not over as he is almost certain to get a training camp invite from someone. Code:
JOHN ISAACS PRO BASKETBALL CAREER STATS
YEAR TEAM G GS MIN PTS ORE REB AST TO A/T STL BLK PF
37-38 MIN 60 1 15.6 6.1 0.6 1.5 0.9 1.1 0.83 0.5 0.1 0.4
36-37 MIN 57 56 41.4 16.9 1.7 4.5 1.6 1.9 0.84 1.0 0.4 1.4
35-36 MIN 60 60 41.8 15.3 1.6 4.2 1.9 2.2 0.89 1.1 0.4 1.6
34-35 MIN 58 58 42.6 12.1 1.4 3.8 2.1 2.4 0.88 1.1 0.2 1.4
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Career 235 175 35.2 12.5 1.3 3.5 1.6 1.9 0.88 0.9 0.3 1.2
1936-37 All-League First Team
1935-36 All-League First Team
1934-35 NBA All-Rookie Second Team
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JUNE 6, 1938 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL MIZE FLYS HIGH FOR REDBIRDS St Louis Cardinals first baseman Johnny Mize hit 3 more homeruns last week and with 19 after 47 games he is on pace for 62, which would be a new Major League record. It will be hard for Mize to keep it up all season, just ask Giants outfielder Mel Ott who was on track to match Babe Ruth's 1927 record of 60 homers for much of the summer last year before slumping in August and eventually finishing with 46. Mize also has 51 rbi's, which puts him on a pace to finish with 167. That is a far cry from Hack Wilson's 1930 mark of 191 but would place him in the top ten all time for single season rbi's. Mize(.369,19,51) and teammate Joe Medwick (.358,12,40) helped the Cardinals win 4 of 6 games last week to gain a little ground on the slumping New York Giants in the National League pennant race. The Giants were swept in a 3 game series midweek by the Boston Braves and there lead on defending champion St Louis is down to 5 games. In the American League it is looking like the New York Yankees might clinch their third straight pennant by the all-star break. The Yankees have won 10 in a row to improve to 37-12 on the season and enjoy a 10 game lead on both Boston and Cleveland. After slow starts to the season both Lou Gehrig (.345,9,41) and Joe DiMaggio (.286,9,40) have both been hitting up while catcher Bill Dickey (.345,11,46) continues on what is shaping up to be the best season of his career. Code:
MLB STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE W L GB NATIONAL LEAGUE W L GB
New York 37 12 - New York 32 15 -
Cleveland 27 22 10.0 St Louis 27 20 5.0
Boston 27 22 10.0 Chicago 25 23 7.5
Philadelphia 24 23 12.0 Boston 23 25 9.5
Detroit 24 25 13.0 Pittsburgh 23 25 9.5
Chicago 22 27 15.0 Philadelphia 22 25 10.0
St Louis 18 29 18.0 Cincinnati 20 27 12.0
Washington 15 34 22.0 Brooklyn 18 30 14.5
HITTING LEADERS
AVERGAE AVERAGE
Weatherly CLE .391 Phelps BKN .400
Gehringer DET .381 Mize STL .369
Rolfe NYY .376 Medwick STL .358
Almada BOS .374 Jurges CHN .354
Moses PHA .367 Wright PHI .342
HOME RUNS HOME RUNS
Trosky CLE 14 Mize STL 19
Foxx BOS 14 Medwick STL 12
Gordon SLA 13 Berger BSN 11
Dickey NYY 11 Johnson CIN 11
Greenberg DET 11 V DiMaggio BSN 10
RBIs RBIs
Gordon SLA 49 Mize STL 51
Dickey NYY 46 Medwick STL 40
Foxx BOS 45 P.Waner PIT 37
Greenberg DET 43 Leslie BKN 36
Gehrig NYY 41 Owen PIT 36
J DiMaggio NY 40 Camilli PHI 32
PITCHING LEADERS
WINS WINS
Gomez NYY 9-1 Tobin BSN 8-2
Grove BOS 9-2 P Dean STL 7-2
Mills CHA 8-2 Gumbert NYG 7-2
Ruffing NYY 8-2 Castleman NYG 7-3
Broaca NYY 7-2 Lee CHN 7-3
McFayden NY 6-3
STRIKE OUTS STRIKE OUTS
Feller CLE 68 Carleton CHN 54
Gomez NYY 61 P Dean STL 51
Mills CHA 60 Mungo BKN 48
Grove BOS 50 D Dean STL 46
Weiland NYY 45 Blanton PIT 43
Allen CLE 44 Castleman NYG 42
ERA ERA
Grove BOS 2.50 Henshaw NYG 1.43
Gomez NYY 2.55 Krakauskas CIN 2.27
Mills CHA 2.55 Castleman NYG 2.38
Brandt BOS 2.57 French CHN 2.40
Broaca NYY 2.65 Bowman CIN 2.45
Lee CLE 3.10 Mungo BKN 2.46
Weiland NYY 3.10 Gumbert NYG 2.54
Hal Trosky (.332,14,38) had a big game early in the week for Cleveland. The 25 year old first baseman drilled 3 homeruns in a game against Washington, but his Indians team still lost 9-7 to the Senators. It was the second 3 homer game of the season as St Louis Cardinals first baseman Johnny Mize turned the trick in April. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION The American Association's top two clubs each had another strong week as both Toledo and Kansas City went 5-1. The Mud Hens remain two games ahead of the Blues in the race for first place. Toledo continues to lead the Association in both most runs scored and fewest runs allowed. The offense features plenty of balance with the only weak link being catcher Frank Reiber. Here is the Mud Hens batting order: Code:
1 Lonny Frey 2B .397 3 24 2 Benny McCoy RF .317 9 31 3 Phil Weintraub 1B .270 7 34 4 Roy Cullenbine LF .306 6 40 5 Chet Laabs 3B .233 7 34 6 Willie Wells SS .307 2 31 7 Lennie Pearson CF .282 6 26 8 Frank Reiber C .217 0 5 Code:
KANSAS CITY ROTATION TOLEDO ROTATION Al Hollingsworth 8-1 3.84 Gene Schott 8-2 2.91 Tiny Bonham 6-4 3.52 Archie McKain 5-3 3.04 Ted Kleinhans 5-6 3.21 Paul Derringer 8-3 3.94 Fred Gay 5-5 3.64 Lefty Smoll 3-6 4.46 Code:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDINS W L GB Toledo 31 16 - Kansas City 29 18 2.0 Minneapolis 27 20 4.0 Milwaukee 22 24 8.5 Columbus 21 26 10.0 Louisville 21 26 10.0 St Paul 19 27 11.5 Indianapolis 17 30 14.0 LEADERS AVG Lonny Frey TOL .397 Chuck Klein MIN .366 Cool Papa Bell KC .361 Jimmy Wasdell IND .360 Billy Herman KC .351 Pee Wee Reese LOU .349 Martin Dihigo MIL .345 Bill Norman StP .340 HOME RUNS Buzz Arlett MIN 11 Ted Williams MIN 9 Benny McCoy TOL 9 Bill Norman StP 9 Stan Spence MIN 8 Jimmy Wasdell IND 8 RBI's Roy Cullenbine TOL 40 Buzz Arlett MIN 36 Ted Williams MIN 36 Buck Leonard LOU 35 Chet Laabs TOL 34 Phil Weintraub TOL 34 Martin Dihigo MIL 33 Tommy Henrich StP 33 PITCHING WINS Denny Galehouse MIN 9-4 Al Hollingsworth KC 8-1 Gene Schott TOL 8-2 Paul Derringer TOL 8-3 Carl Hubbell MIN 8-5 Max Macon COL 7-6 STRIKEOUTS Dizzy Trout IND 65 Ted Kleinhans KC 65 Carl Hubbell MIN 59 Max Macon COL 57 Johnny Rigney StP 54 Wayne LeMaster LOU 53 Lefty Smoll TOL 53 Denny Galehouse MIN 52 ERA Gene Schott TOL 2.91 Archie McKain TOL 3.04 Tot Pressnell MIL 3.10 Ted Kleinhans KC 3.21 Joseph Shaffer LOU 3.28 Lloyd Johnson IND 3.34 Denny Galehouse MIN 3.38 Tiny Bonham KC 3.52 St Paul has not had a lot to cheer about but Saints fans learned that 27 year old second baseman Bill Norman was named the Association's Batter of the month for May. Norman (.340,9,28) hit all 9 of his homers this season in May, including 3 in one game against Indianapolis. The pitcher of the month was Toledo ace Gene Schott as the 24 year old went 6-1 in May to improve his season mark to 8-2 while Louisville's 19 year old shortstop Pee Wee Reese (.349,3,20) was named rookie of the month.
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June 9, 1938
1938 US OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP TURNESA TAKES OPENING ROUND LEAD Joe Turnesa shot an 8 under par 64 to take the lead after the opening round of the US Open. The 37 year old New York City native, who has two brothers also entered in the event, has a one shot lead on Gene Sarazen with 4 other golfers including Byron Nelson are 2 strokes off the pace. Code:
OPENING DAY US OPEN LEADERBOARD Joe Turnesa 64 Gene Sarazen 65 Byron Nelson 66 Tony Manero 66 Al Zimmerman 66 Willie Goggin 66 Ben Hogan 68 Ed Dudley 68 Al Watrous 68 Tommy Armour 68 Bobby Jones 68 Felix Serafin 68 EDIT - Note I did not have the actual course they played this event at so I just picked one I did have at random. It was The Woodlands and for some reason this course played terribly easy. In the real US Open the winning score for Guldahl was just even par so all of these negative numbers are not very realistic. But I decided from the beginning I would just sim each of these events (golf, Indy 500, Boxing title matches) once and live with the results.
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US OPEN DAY TWO HINES SETS COURSE RECORD AT US OPEN Jimmy Hines shot a course record 61 to take over top spot in the United States Open after two rounds of play. The 35 year old Long Island native had 6 birdies on the back nine including 5 of the final six holes to take a one shot lead over Byron Nelson at the midway point of the event. In real life Hines won 9 PGA tour events but never won a major. In my sim he finished tied for 20th in this year's Masters Tournament. He also finished in a tie for 20th in last year's US Open in my sim. Opening round leader Joe Turnesa carded a one under par 71 for Friday's round and is tied for third place, 5 strokes off the pace. The course has been playing exceptionally easy with 31 golfers at or below par through two rounds. Code:
DAY TWO US OPEN LEADERBOARD Jimmy Hines 69 61 130 Byron Nelson 66 65 131 Joe Turnesa 64 71 135 Willie Goggin 66 69 135 Bill Branch 69 66 135 Tony Manero 66 70 136 Gene Sarazen 65 71 136 Ed Dudley 68 69 137 Olin Dutra 73 64 137 Ben Hogan 68 69 137 Bobby Jones 68 69 137 Al Zimmerman 66 71 137
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JUNE 11, 1938 1938 US OPEN - SATURDAY'S RESULTS NELSON TAKES HUGE LEAD INTO FINAL ROUND Byron Nelson has been the model of consistency through three rounds of the US Open, carding rounds of 66,65 and in today's action a 64 which tied Bobby Cruikshank for the lowest round of the day. Nelson, who earlier this year won The Masters Championship in a playoff over Johnny Revolta, takes a 5 shot lead in to tomorrow's final round. Jimmy Hines, who entered the day with a one stroke lead on Nelson, shot a two under par 70 and remains the only golfer seemingly with any chance of catching Nelson. Code:
US OPEN LEADERBOARD AFTER 3 ROUNDS Byron Nelson 66 65 64 195 Jimmy Hines 69 61 70 200 Billy Burke 69 69 65 203 Bobby Cruickshank 70 69 64 203 Willie Goggin 66 69 68 203 Leonard Dodson 72 66 67 205 Bobby Jones 68 69 68 205 Tony Manero 66 70 69 205 Jimmy Demaret 69 70 67 206 Al Watrous 68 70 68 206 Al Zimmerman 66 71 69 206
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JUNE 12, 1938 1938 US OPEN NELSON WINS SECOND STRAIGHT MAJOR Byron Nelson coasted through his final round en route to victory in the US Open giving the 26 year old Texan his second straight major championship win. Nelson, who won The Masters in April, entered the final round with a 5 stroke lead on Jimmy Hines and when they day ended he had extended his bulge to 7 shots on Hines, who claimed second place. For Nelson, who would win 5 majors in real life, it puts him right on his real life pace. The real world Byron Nelson won the Masters and British Open in 1937 and his third major championship would come in the 1939 US Open. In my sim Nelson came up short of winning a major last year. He did finish second to Gene Sarazen in the 1937 Masters and, after failing to reach the match play portion of the PGA Championship, would finish in a tie for 8th in both the US and British Opens of 1937. Hines finished second in my US Open this year, with amateur Bobby Jones coming in third, 8 strokes back of the winner Nelson. Code:
US OPEN LEADERBOARD FINAL RESULTS Byron Nelson Waxahachie, Texas 66 65 64 67 262 Jimmy Hines Mineola, New York 69 61 70 69 269 Bobby Jones Atlanta, Georgia 68 69 68 65 270 Jimmy Demaret Houston, Texas 69 70 67 67 273 Bobby Cruickshank Scotland 70 69 64 71 274 Willie Goggin San Jose, Cal 66 69 68 71 274 Ed Dudley Brunswick, Georgia 68 69 70 68 275 Billy Burke Naugattuck, Conn 69 69 65 73 276 Olin Dutra Monterey, Cal 73 64 70 70 277 Johnny Revolta St Louis, Missouri 69 69 69 70 277 Al Watrous Yonkers, New York 68 70 68 71 277 Henry Cotton England 71 69 69 69 278 Leonard Dodson Mumford, Missouri 72 66 67 73 278 Vic Ghezzi Rumson, New Jersey 70 68 72 69 279 Tony Manero New York, New York 66 70 69 74 279 Jug McSpaden Monticello, Kansas 71 71 72 65 279 Code:
MAJOR TOURNAMENT WINNERS IN MY SIM YEAR MASTERS PGA US OPEN BRITISH OPEN 1937 Gene Sarazen Sam Snead Jug McSpaden Sam King 1938 Byron Nelson Byron Nelson June 13, 1938 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL CARDINALS PULL EVEN WITH GIANTS ATOP NL After enjoying a 14 game winning streak in May, a month that saw them go 21-8, the New York Giants have found June much less to their liking. The Giants have dropped 10 of their last 12 games including seven in a row and suddenly find themselves in a tie with the surging St Louis Cardinals atop the National League. New York's pitching staff, which had been so good in April and May, suddenly hit rock bottom as the club allowed 51 runs in their last 7 games - a span that saw Slick Castleman (7-5, 2.80) give up 12 runs in two losses while Roy Henshaw (4-1, 2.29) and Harry Gumbert (7-3, 2.98) were each knocked out of their starts very early in losses to Cincinnati and Brooklyn respectively. Meanwhile the St Louis Cardinals reeled off seven straight victories before finally losing to Brooklyn on Saturday. During that stretch each of the Dean brothers came up with complete game wins over Cincinnati. Dizzy evened his record at 5-5 with a 2.56 era while Paul upped his to 8-2 with a 2.43 era. The Cardinals strength continues to be their offense with the top four hitters in the line-up all off to excellent starts. They are lead-off man Terry Moore (.308,6,33), Pepper Martin (.335,4,28), Johnny Mize (.368,21,54) and clean-up hitter Joe Medwick (.357,12,44). The third place Chicago Cubs are also on a tear, moving to within a game and a half of the co-leaders thanks to an active 10 game winning streak. Chicago is led by a trio of veteran arms in Larry French (7-4, 2.42), Tex Carleton (7-4, 2.75) and Bill Lee (8-3, 3.99) and a balanced offense keyed by Stan Hack (.346,3,26), Frank Demaree (.332,8,32) and Phil Cavarretta (286,5,29). The big story in the American League is the New York Yankees finally lost a game. It was quite a loss, getting shelled 10-1 by the lowly Browns on Tuesday but New York followed that up with 4 more wins and the Yankees have won 15 of their last 16 and are 31-4 since May 7th. Their lead atop the American League is already up to 12 games over both Boston and Cleveland. Code:
MLB STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE W L GB NATIONAL LEAGUE vW L GB
New York 42 13 - New York 32 21 -
Cleveland 30 25 12.0 St Louis 32 21 -
Boston 30 25 12.0 Chicago 31 23 1.5
Philadelphia 26 27 15.0 Boston 25 29 7.5
Chicago 26 29 16.0 Pittsburgh 25 29 7.5
Detroit 24 31 18.0 Philadelphia 24 29 8.0
St Louis 20 33 21.0 Cincinnati 23 30 9.0
Washington 20 35 22.0 Brooklyn 22 32 10.5
HITTING LEADERS
AVERGAE AVERAGE
Weatherly CLE .388 Phelps BKN .413
Almada BOS .378 Mize STL .368
Rolfe NYY .372 Medwick STL .357
Moses PHA .369 Jurges CHN .350
Stone PHA .367 Wright PHI .349
HOME RUNS HOME RUNS
Trosky CLE 17 Mize STL 21
Gordon SLA 15 Medwick STL 12
Foxx BOS 14 Berger BSN 12
Dickey NYY 12 Johnson CIN 12
Gehrig NYY 12 V DiMaggio BSN 10
RBIs RBIs
Gordon SLA 56 Mize STL 54
Dickey NYY 49 Medwick STL 44
Foxx BOS 47 Leslie BKN 40
Gehrig NYY 46 Camilli PHI 38
Trosky CLE 44 P.Waner PIT 37
J DiMaggio NY 42 Owen PIT 36
PITCHING LEADERS
WINS WINS
Gomez NYY 10-1 P Dean STL 8-2
Ruffing NYY 10-2 Tobin BSN 8-3
Mills CHA 9-2 Lee CHN 8-3
Grove BOS 9-2 Gumbert NYG 7-3
Broaca NYY 8-2 Winford STL 7-3
McFayden NY 7-3 Carleton STL 7-4
STRIKE OUTS STRIKE OUTS
Feller CLE 73 Carleton CHN 59
Gomez NYY 69 P Dean STL 58
Mills CHA 67 Castleman NYG 51
Grove BOS 54 D Dean STL 51
Ruffing NYY 51 Blanton PIT 51
Allen CLE 50 Mungo BKN 50
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Mills CHA 2.32 Henshaw NYG 2.29
Broaca NYY 2.37 Krakauskas CIN 2.35
Gomez NYY 2.42 French CHN 2.42
Grove BOS 2.72 P Dean STL 2.43
Lee CLE 3.10 D Dean STL 2.56
Brandt BOS 3.13 Mungo BKN 2.62
Posedel SLA 3.20 Lohrman CHN 2.66
Cardinals outfielder Terry Moore was the National League player of the week after batting .333 with 3 homers and 9 rbi's in 5 games. Lou Gehrig of the Yankees, who enjoyed a 5-hit game and hit .529 last week with 3 homers, 5 rbi's and 9 runs scored captured American League honours. One of the few stories worth watching with the St Louis Browns is the play of rookie infielder Joe Gordon. The first overall pick in the draft, the 22 year old has hit 15 homers in his first 52 MLB games and leads the American League with 56 rbi's while slashing .301/.388/.633 so far. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION In each of it's first two seasons as a "Major League" the American Association enjoyed a terrific race to the playoffs. In 1936 Minneapolis joined first place Milwaukee in the playoffs by finishing just 1 game ahead of Louisville and two up on Toledo for second place. Last year was just as exciting as it took until the final day of the season for Toledo to clinch second place and the right to play Kansas City in the American Series with the Mud Hens finishing just one game ahead of defending series champion Minneapolis. Columbus was also in the mix last year with the Red Birds ending up 4 games out of a playoff berth. This season it is starting to look like there will be no such drama to end the campaign as the Toledo Mud Hens and Kansas City Blues are beginning to distance themselves from the pack. The Mud Hens swept a key 3 game series at home from third place Minneapolis and sending the Millers spiralling into a 5 game losing streak. While Toledo was winning 5 of 7 games last week the second place Kansas City Blues did one better, going 6-1 to creep to within a game of first place. Kansas City hosts Minneapolis in a key 4 game series this week while the Mud Hens have 4 against 5th place Columbus before embarking on a 17 game road trip that begins with 3 more against the Millers. Not much went right for the Millers last week with one exception. 19 year old rookie outfielder Ted Williams enjoyed the most productive week of his young career, drilling 5 homers and driving in 11 runs. On the season the San Diego native is hitting .330 with a league high 14 homers and 47 rbi's. Code:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDINS W L GB Toledo 36 18 - Kansas City 35 19 1.0 Minneapolis 29 25 7.0 Milwaukee 25 28 10.5 Columbus 25 29 11.0 St Paul 23 30 12.5 Louisville 22 32 14.0 Indianapolis 20 34 16.0 LEADERS AVG Lonny Frey TOL .378 Chuck Klein MIN .366 Jimmy Wasdell IND .360 Martin Dihigo MIL .359 Cool Papa Bell KC .357 Pee Wee Reese LOU .341 Len Schulte LOU .335 Enos Slaughter COL .332 HOME RUNS Ted Williams MIN 14 Buzz Arlett MIN 11 Stan Spence MIN 11 Benny McCoy TOL 11 Bill Norman StP 10 Phil Weintraub TOL 10 Tommy Henrich StP 9 RBI's Ted Williams MIN 47 Roy Cullenbine TOL 44 Martin Dihigo MIL 43 Chet Laabs TOL 43 Phil Weintraub TOL 41 Willie Wells TOL 40 Buzz Arlett MIN 37 Tommy Henrich StP 37 PITCHING WINS Paul Derringer TOL 10-3 Al Hollingsworth KC 9-1 Denny Galehouse MIN 9-5 Carl Hubbell MIN 9-6 Gene Schott TOL 8-2 Tiny Bonham KC 7-4 Fred Gay KC 7-5 Ken Heintzelman LOU 7-6 Max Macon COL 7-7 STRIKEOUTS Max Macon COL 71 Ted Kleinhans KC 66 Dizzy Trout IND 66 Carl Hubbell MIN 65 Lefty Smoll TOL 64 Johnny Rigney StP 62 Wayne LeMaster LOU 59 Denny Galehouse MIN 56 ERA Gene Schott TOL 2.91 Ted Kleinhans KC 3.09 Lloyd Johnson IND 3.09 Tot Pressnell MIL 3.17 Tiny Bonham KC 3.26 Fred Gay KC 3.49 Denny Galehouse MIN 3.53 Al Hollingsworth KC 3.54 JUNE 13, 1938 BOXING (The following is take from a 1938 news article I found. It was written by Braddock, who lost the heavyweight title to Louis in 1937, making his predictions for Louis' title defense.) JIM BRADDOCK PICKS LOUIS TO TAKE SCHMELING Former World Heavyweight champion James J Braddock says "Joe is too good, and not too old," and sees Joe Louis knocking out Max Schmeling in the sixth round of their World Heavyweight Title Fight in Yankee Stadium next week. "Without any beating around the bush, Joe Louis will knock out Max Schmeling. I don't think it will take Joe any longer than six rounds to finish Max. Louis is a vastly improved fighter since his knockout by Schmeling in June, 1936. Schmeling cannot possibly be as good as he was that night. He won because of Joe's mistakes. Joe knows where he miscued, and he will not be guilty of the same mistakes again." Braddock also says, regardless of the outcome, it will be the final heavyweight title fight of the year. "If Schmeling should happen to make me out a chump and win, he'll go right back to Germany with that title and it would take Uncle Sam's mint to entice him to risk it again in September. And Louis wouldn't have a thing to gain by fighting before the year is up. His movie, tune-ups earlier this year and the champion's share of the June fight have his income up so high, anything else he'd earn would go for income taxes. You can forget this talk about the winner meeting Maxie Baer in September. If Baer fights anyone it will be a return match with Tommy Farr." Louis and Schmeling are set to fight June 22 at Yankee Stadium. Schmeling is the only fighter to have beaten the current World Champion.
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June 20, 1938 CUBS ARE HOTTEST TEAM IN BASEBALL The Chicago Cubs have reeled off 16 straight victories and find themselves just a game out of first place in the National League pennant race. It is not an unusual position for the Cubs, who challenged for the title each of the past two years only to fall just short on both occasions. What is impressive about the current streak is the first 10 wins came on the road before returning home to earn 3 game sweeps of both Brooklyn and Philadelphia at Wrigley Field last week. Starting pitchers Larry French (9-4, 2.45), Tex Carleton (8-4, 2.68), Bill Lee (9-3, 4.08) and Bill Lohrman (4-2, 2.45) have been outstanding for the Cubs who have allowed the second fewest runs in the senior circuit. The St Louis Cardinals have been nearly as good, winning 15 of their last 19 games and they sit in second place, a half game ahead of the Cubs and a half game back of first place New York. The Giants got back on track, going 6-1 against Boston and Cincinnati last week to erase the memory of the previous week's 7 game losing skid. Two-time reigning MVP Mel Ott (.258,13,45) is showing signs of coming out of his season long funk. In a 3 game stretch last week, the 29 year old outfielder belted 4 homers and drove in 9 runs. Code:
MLB STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE W L GB NATIONAL LEAGUE W L GB
New York 46 15 - New York 38 22 -
Boston 34 27 12.0 St Louis 37 22 0.5
Cleveland 32 28 14.0 Chicago 37 23 1.0
Chicago 29 32 17.0 Pittsburgh 29 32 9.5
Philadelphia 28 31 17.0 Cincinnati 26 34 12.0
Washington 26 35 20.0 Boston 26 35 12.5
Detroit 24 37 22.0 Philadelphia 24 35 13.5
St Louis 23 36 22.0 Brooklyn 23 37 15.0
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Moses PHA .379 Phelps BKN .409
Weatherly CLE .378 Medwick STL .363
Rolfe NYY .374 Mize STL .360
Stone PHA .366 Hack CHN .343
Dickey NYY .365 Leslie BKN .341
HOME RUNS HOME RUNS
Trosky CLE 17 Mize STL 22
Gordon SLA 17 Medwick STL 14
Foxx BOS 16 Johnson CIN 14
DiMaggio NYY 13 Ott NYG 13
Gehrig NYY 13 Berger BSN 12
RBIs RBIs
Gordon SLA 63 Mize STL 56
Gehrig NYY 55 Medwick STL 47
Dickey NYY 53 Ott NYG 45
DiMaggio NYY 49 Leslie BKN 43
Foxx BOS 49 P.Waner PIT 40
Greenberg DET 47 Camilli PHI 39
PITCHING LEADERS
WINS WINS
Ruffing NYY 11-2 P Dean STL 9-2
Gomez NYY 10-2 Lee CHN 9-3
Grove BOS 10-2 French CHN 9-4
Mills CHA 10-3 Gumbert NYG 8-4
Broaca NYY 8-3 Carleton STL 8-4
McFayden NYY 8-3 Castleman NYG 8-5
Ostermeuller BOS 8-3 Tobin BSN 8-5
STRIKE OUTS STRIKE OUTS
Feller CLE 85 P Dean STL 71
Mills CHA 79 D Dean STL 66
Gomez NYY 72 Carleton CHN 63
Grove BOS 62 Blanton PIT 62
Rowe DET 60 Mungo BKN 57
Ruffing NYY 55 Castleman NYG 54
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Gomez NYY 2.41 P Dean STL 2.20
Broaca NYY 2.55 Lohrman CHN 2.45
Mills CHA 2.64 French CHN 2.45
Grove BOS 2.66 Henshaw NYG 2.54
Brandt BOS 3.04 D Dean STL 2.55
Lee CLE 3.10 Krakauskas CIN 2.56
Ruffing NYY 3.31 Carleton CHN 2.68
Don't look now but the New York Yankees have more firepower in their domination of the American League. After a slow start, 23 year old Joe DiMaggio is heating up. DiMaggio hit .577 last week (15-for-26) with 2 homers, 7 rbi's and 9 runs scored to earn the nod as American League player of the week. DiMaggio (.313,13,49) is hitting .444 in June with 5 homers and 16 rbi's in 15 games. NL honours went to 26 year old Pittsburgh shortstop Arky Vaughan (.324,4,26) who went 15-for-29 last week. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION The Toledo Mud Hens and Kansas City Blues are both on pace to break the previous record for wins in an American Association season. The 1936 Milwaukee Brewers finished with a .617 winning percentage but the top two teams this year are playing at a .667 (Toledo) and .633 (Kansas City) mark. They are also the only teams in the Association playing greater than .500 ball after the Minneapolis Millers continued to struggle. The Millers have just 1 victory in their last 11 games including dropping 3 of 4 in Kansas City last week. That performance has dropped the Millers to 10 games behind the pace the Mud Hens are setting. Despite a slight hiccup in dropping a pair at home to last place Indianapolis last week, Toledo has been terrific in June, winning 11 of their last 15 games while the Blues have been almost as good, posting a 12-5 record for the month of June. Code:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDINS W L GB Toledo 40 20 - Kansas City 38 22 2.0 Minneapolis 30 30 10.0 Milwaukee 29 30 10.5 Columbus 28 32 12.0 St Paul 26 33 13.5 Louisville 25 35 15.0 Indianapolis 23 37 17.0 LEADERS AVG Lonny Frey TOL .371 Martin Dihigo MIL .363 Chuck Klein MIN .359 Cool Papa Bell KC .344 Jimmy Wasdell IND .337 Billy Herman KC .336 Len Schulte LOU .332 Tommy Henrich StP .327 HOME RUNS Ted Williams MIN 16 Buzz Arlett MIN 11 Stan Spence MIN 11 Benny McCoy TOL 11 Bill Norman StP 11 Phil Weintraub TOL 11 RBI's Martin Dihigo MIL 51 Ted Williams MIN 51 Roy Cullenbine TOL 48 Chet Laabs TOL 48 Phil Weintraub TOL 46 Tommy Henrich StP 43 Buck Leonard LOU 43 Willie Wells TOL 42 PITCHING WINS Al Hollingsworth KC 10-1 Paul Derringer TOL 10-3 Denny Galehouse MIN 10-6 Gene Schott TOL 9-2 Carl Hubbell MIN 9-9 Tiny Bonham KC 8-4 Fred Gay KC 8-6 Ken Heintzelman LOU 8-6 Max Macon COL 8-7 STRIKEOUTS Max Macon COL 80 Johnny Rigney StP 80 Dizzy Trout IND 78 Carl Hubbell MIN 75 Ted Kleinhans KC 73 Lefty Smoll TOL 73 Wayne LeMaster LOU 63 Denny Galehouse MIN 58 ERA Gene Schott TOL 2.66 Tiny Bonham KC 3.11 Lloyd Johnson IND 3.12 Al Hollingsworth KC 3.27 Ted Kleinhans KC 3.46 Tot Pressnell MIL 3.52 Ralph Winegarner MIL 3.58 Dizzy Trout IND 3.87 The Blues Al Hollingsworth narrowly missed the first no-hitter in AA history (as a major league) when he allowed just 1 hit in a 6-0 win over Minneapolis. Hank Camelli's second inning single was the only hit surrendered by Hollingsworth, and he was erased by a double play so Hollingsworth, who is 10-1 on the season, faced just the minimum 27 batters. MIDWEST BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION DRAFT The Midwest Basketball Association conducted it's college draft this week and as usual there was an emphasis on players from the Western Conference with 6 of the 12 selections coming from those schools including two each from Wisconsin and Michigan. For the first time in draft history all 12 of the selections were "real" players with no fictional game generated collegians being selected. The first pick went to the Milwaukee All-Stars and they tabbed Dartmouth guard Hyman Ginsburg with their first selection and went with another guard in the second round as well by drafting Jack Ozburn from Purdue. Ginsburg is a Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania native who played briefly in the National Basketball League in the late 1930s before serving in WWII. In the sim he was a three year starter at Dartmouth, averaging 8.2 ppg and 3.7 apg as a senior and helped lead the 23-10 Indians to the NCAA Final Four. His best game in the tournament was a 17 point effort in an opening round 48-40 win over Mississippi. The National Champion Washington Huskies had 3 players selected led by 6th overall Paul Tobin to Fort Wayne. The Zollner Pistons also selected Tobin's teammate Edward Wisbar with the final pick of the draft while Indianapolis grabbed Talmadge Bennett from the Huskies with the 9th pick. Illinois forward Russell Ochsenhirt, who helped lead the Illini to the title game was selected 3rd overall by Columbus. Code:
1938 MIDWEST BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION DRAFT
TEAM PLAYER POS SCHOOL
1 Milwaukee AllStars Hyman *Ginsburg PG Dartmouth
2 Minneapolis Lakers Fred *Graft PG Wisconsin
3 Columbus Athletic Supply Russell *Ochsenhirt SF Illinois
4 Indianapolis Kautskys Alfred *Bonniwell SG Cal
5 Toledo Chevrolets Kenneth *Gunning PG Michigan
6 Ft. Wayne Zollner Pistons Paul *Tobin PG Washington
7 Minneapolis Lakers Ed *Champion SG Wisconsin
8 Milwaukee AllStars Jack *Ozburn SG Purdue
9 Indianapolis Kautskys Talmadge *Bennett SF Washington
10 Columbus Athletic Supply Hank *Luisetti PF/C USC
11 Toledo Chevrolets Frank *Baird SG Michigan
12 Ft. Wayne Zollner Pistons Edward *Wisbar C Washington
Luisetti did not enjoy as prolific a college career in my sim. A San Francisco native, he elected to head south for his college ball in the sim by playing for USC. He was a part of the Trojans National Championship winner as a freshman in 1934-35 but he played sparingly that season. He started the next 3 years, helped USC to the elite eight as a junior and was a first team all-Pacific Coast Conference selection as a senior, averaging 8.5 ppg and 8.2 rpg that season.
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June 22, 1938 World Heavyweight Title Fight : Joe Louis vs Max Schmeling
June 22, 1938 BOXING LOUIS STOPS SCHMELING WITH TKO IN THE FIFTH Joe Louis retained his World Heavyweight Championship by stopping the only man ever to beat him as a professional boxer, earning a TKO victory over Max Schmeling. The bout was not without some controversy as Schmeling's handlers were incensed at the referee's decision to stop the fight with just 2 seconds remaining in the fifth round. Louis controlled most of the fight and won all but the third round according to the scorecards. It took just over a minute of the opening round for Louis to go on the offensive as he peppered Schmeling with blows after the initial feeling out period. Midway through the second round Schmeling was obviously hurt after absorbing an uppercut that caught him flush on the chin, but he remained on his feet and survived the round. Louis trapped Schmeling in a corner early in the third round and scored with several combinations but Schmeling, after landing a strong counter controlled the final two minutes of round three. However, after starting round four quite aggressively, Schmeling got stopped in his tracks with a big right hand from the champion. From that point on Schmeling barely laid a glove on Louis as the champ dominated the fourth round and carried that momentum into round five where he sent Schmeling to the canvas with a blow in the opening minute. Schmeling regained his feet but absorbed blow after blow until referee Art Donovan stepped in and put an end to the bout with just 2 seconds remaining in the round. With the victory, Louis' 4th since claiming the title a year ago from James J Braddock, the champion improves his record to 35-1. The real-life Louis-Schmeling rematch attracted over 70,000 fans to a sold out Yankee Stadium including Clark Gable, Douglas Fairbanks, Gary Cooper and J. Edgar Hoover. Louis would win by TKO when Schmeling's corner would throw in the towel in the first round, after Schmeling had been knocked down twice. It was learned afterwards an early body blow from Louis had cracked several vertebrae in Schmeling's back. In real life the next fight for Louis will not occur until January 25, 1939 when he faced Lightheavyweight champion John Henry Lewis in Madison Square Garden. It would be a first round knockout victory for the champ and the only time the veteran John Henry Lewis had been knocked out in his long career. In the sim I am debating whether or not to give Schmeling another rematch consider the moderately questionable decision to stop the bout with just seconds remaining in the round. Code:
JOE LOUIS TITLE DEFENSES
DATE OPPONENT RESULT
08/30/37 Tommy Farr 3rd round KO
02/23/38 Nathan Mann 3rd round KO
04/01/38 Harry Thomas 1st round KO
06/22/38 Max Schmeling 5th round TKO
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June 27, 1938
June 27, 1938 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL CUBS WIN 22ND CONSECUTIVE GAME The Chicago Cubs keep on rolling and are now just 4 wins from matching the longest winning streak in major league history. The 1916 New York Giants won 26 in a row and the Cubs have a chance to equal or surpass that mark next week. Chicago has won 22 straight games starting with a 2-0 shutout of Brooklyn on June 2 and continued with 3 game sweeps of both Cincinnati and Boston last week. Those 22 wins have allowed the Cubs to climb from 9.5 games out of first place the day before the streak began to now having a 1.5 game bulge on second place St Louis atop the National League. The Cubs did have the benefit of feasting on second division clubs throughout the streak but they will face a challenge beginning today when they open a 3-game series in St Louis against the Cardinals. If all goes well the Cubs will look to equal the 1916 Giants record on Thursday in Pittsburgh. We do have a 3-team race in the National League with the Giants also trying to stay in the picture but it is a much different story in the American League where you might as well give the New York Yankees their third straight pennant and call it day after the Yankees improved to 50-17 on the year and lead second place Boston by 12 games. This version of the Yankees is winning at a .746 clip, a better pace then even the 1927 squad that won an American League record 110 games. Code:
MLB STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE W L GB NATIONAL LEAGUE vW L GB
New York 50 17 - Chicago 43 23 -
Boston 38 29 12.0 St Louis 41 24 1.5
Cleveland 35 32 15.0 New York 40 26 3.0
Philadelphia 31 35 18.5 Pittsburgh 32 35 11.5
Chicago 30 37 20.0 Brooklyn 28 38 15.0
St Louis 28 38 21.5 Cincinnati 27 39 16.0
Detroit 28 39 22.0 Boston 27 40 16.5
Washington 27 40 23.0 Philadelphia 26 39 16.5
HITTING LEADERS
AVERGAE AVERAGE
Weatherly CLE .386 Phelps BKN .409
Rolfe NYY .373 Mize STL .367
Almada BOS .369 Medwick STL .361
Moses PHA .367 Leslie BKN .353
Stone PHA .363 Wright PHI .337
HOME RUNS HOME RUNS
Gordon SLA 20 Mize STL 23
Trosky CLE 19 Medwick STL 16
Foxx BOS 17 Ott NYG 16
DiMaggio NYY 14 Johnson CIN 14
Gehrig NYY 13 Berger BSN 12
Greenberg DET 13
RBIs RBIs
Gordon SLA 69 Mize STL 59
Gehrig NYY 60 Medwick STL 53
DiMaggio NYY 57 Ott NYG 52
Dickey NYY 55 Leslie BKN 49
Greenberg DET 53 McCormick CHN 45
Foxx BOS 52 Camilli PHI 44
PITCHING LEADERS
WINS WINS
Ruffing NYY 12-2 Lee CHN 10-3
Grove BOS 12-2 Carleton STL 10-4
Gomez NYY 11-3 French CHN 10-4
Mills CHA 10-4 P Dean STL 9-3
Broaca NYY 9-3 Castleman NYG 9-6
McFayden NYY 9-3 Winford STL 8-4
Ostermeuller BOS 8-4 Tobin BSN 8-5
Gunmbert NYG 8-5
STRIKE OUTS STRIKE OUTS
Feller CLE 85 P Dean STL 78
Gomez NYY 84 D Dean STL 76
Mills CHA 82 Carleton CHN 71
Grove BOS 74 Blanton PIT 69
Rowe DET 65 Mungo BKN 61
Ruffing NYY 58 Castleman NYG 58
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Gomez NYY 2.31 P Dean STL 2.03
Broaca NYY 2.42 D Dean STL 2.35
Grove BOS 2.64 Lohrman CHN 2.43
Mills CHA 3.08 French CHN 2.49
Ruffing NYY 3.14 Carleton CHN 2.50
McFayden NYY 3.15 Krakauskas CIN 2.54
Weiland NYY 3.36 Henshaw NYG 2.61
The Brooklyn Dodgers have had little to cheer about the last few years but 30 year old catcher Babe Phelps is raising eyebrows. Phelps (.409,3,31) had 8 hits in the last four games to keep his season average comfortably above .400. No one has hit at least .400 since the Giants Bill Terry batted .401 in 1930. Phelps does have a long ways to go however and in each of the past two seasons players (John Stone in 1936 and Mel Ott last year) flirted with .400 much of the year only to both fade in August. Detroit outfielder Al Simmons hit his 300th career homer last week. Simmons, a lifetime .338 hitter, got his milestone moonshot off of White Sox starter Monte Stratton. The 36 year old, who is in his third season with Detroit after stops with the Athletics and White Sox, became just the sixth player to reach the 300 plateau and has hit ten of them so far this season. Code:
CAREER HOME RUN LEADERS Babe Ruth 714 Lou Gehrig* 472 Jimmie Foxx* 394 Mel Ott* 345 Rogers Hornsby 301 Al Simmons* 300 Cy Williams 251 *denotes active player AMERICAN ASSOCIATION The Toledo Mud Hens and Kansas City Blues each went 5-2 last week as they continue to stretch their lead atop the American Association standings. Only the third place Minneapolis Millers, who recovered from a 9 game losing streak to also win five of seven games last week, managed to hold their distance behind the front-runners. However, the third place Millers sit a full 10 games back of front-running Toledo and 8 back of Kansas City for the second playoff berth. The Mud Hens only losses this week each came in extra innings as they fell 2-1 in 10 to Minneapolis and 15-14 in 11 innings to Columbus. The Hens did take two of three from each of those opponents before finishing the week with a pair of wins over last place Indianapolis including yesterday when they exploded for 7 runs in the 10th inning to beat the Indians 10-3. Code:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDINS W L GB Toledo 45 22 - Kansas City 42 24 2.0 Minneapolis 35 32 10.0 Milwaukee 32 34 12.5 Columbus 30 37 15.0 St Paul 29 37 15.5 Louisville 28 39 17.0 Indianapolis 25 42 20.0 LEADERS AVG Lonny Frey TOL .372 Chuck Klein MIN .370 Martin Dihigo MIL .360 Roy Hughes MIL .344 Len Schulte LOU .344 Benny McCoy TOL .337 Cool Papa Bell KC .327 Billy Herman KC .326 HOME RUNS Ted Williams MIN 16 Benny McCoy TOL 12 Buzz Arlett MIN 11 Stan Spence MIN 11 Chet Laabs TOL 11 Bill Norman StP 11 Phil Weintraub TOL 11 Rudy York MIL 11 RBI's Martin Dihigo MIL 60 Ted Williams MIN 52 Roy Cullenbine TOL 51 Chet Laabs TOL 50 Buck Leonard LOU 50 Benny McCoy TOL 50 Phil Weintraub TOL 49 Tommy Henrich StP 45 Dick Siebert COL 45 Rudy York MIL 45 PITCHING WINS Denny Galehouse MIN 12-6 Gene Schott TOL 11-2 Paul Derringer TOL 11-3 Al Hollingsworth KC 10-2 Carl Hubbell MIN 10-9 Tiny Bonham KC 9-5 Fred Gay KC 9-6 Ken Heintzelman LOU 8-7 Max Macon COL 8-10 STRIKEOUTS Max Macon COL 96 Dizzy Trout IND 88 Johnny Rigney StP 81 Ted Kleinhans KC 80 Carl Hubbell MIN 76 Wayne LeMaster LOU 75 Lefty Smoll TOL 74 Denny Galehouse MIN 70 ERA Gene Schott TOL 2.63 Lloyd Johnson IND 3.18 Tiny Bonham KC 3.32 Ted Kleinhans KC 3.36 Al Hollingsworth KC 3.49 Vern Kennedy MIN 3.59 Italo Chelini StP 3.64 Tot Pressnell MIL 3.69 A pair of players enjoyed 5 hit games last week as veteran Kansas City first baseman Dale Alexander (.300,5,32) and Minneapolis second sacker John Mihalic (.252,2,24) each turned the trick. Minneapolis suffered a scare when 19 year old outfielder Ted Williams (.322,16,52) left a game against St Paul on the weekend with a shoulder injury. The Millers are already hobbling with catcher Otto Denning and outfielders Fabien Gaffke and Buzz Arlett already hurt. Fortunately the news on Williams was good and he is listed as day-to-day. Kansas City has a big concern on the injury front as well. 39 year old Ted Kleinhans, who was MVP and pitcher of the year last season after a 30-9 campaign, came out for the sixth inning of a game against Columbus yesterday but left with an as yet undiagnosed injury before facing a batter that inning. It is not known if he tweaked something after throwing a warm up pitch or had been trying to tough it through an injury suffered earlier in the contest. Kleinhans is not the pitcher he was a year ago, but at 6-8, 3.36 after 17 starts still a key piece of the Blues staff. COLLEGE FOOTBALL RECRUITING Here is a look at this year's top college football recruits. The top of the class is dominated by offensive players as each of the top 5 recruits and 8 of the top ten are on the offensive side of the ball led by quarterback Harry Connolly at number one. In real life Connolly's high school coach was Frank Leahy, later of Notre Dame fame, and Connolly would follow Leahy to Boston College where he would play his college ball. Connolly was selected in the 1943 NFL draft but served in the Navy during WWII and would play just one season of pro ball after the war. The number 2 ranked recruit if Frank Sinkwich, who in real life was the winner of the 1942 Heisman Trophy and a National Champion at Georgia. He would be the first overall pick of the 1943 NFL draft by Detroit and was NFL MVP two years later. Third is another quarterback in George Ceithaml, who would be a first team All Big Ten selection during his career at Michigan. He was drafted to the NFL but like many others joined the war effort instead and was part of the D-Day landing at Normandy. He would go on to coach college football but never played in the NFL. Number 4 and 5 are both receivers. Steve Pritko, an end who played college ball at Villanova before spending 8 seasons in the NFL primarily with the Cleveland Rams while Nick Susoeff played four seasons with the San Francisco 49ers after a college career at Washington State. The first defensive player in the top ten is DB Walt McDoanld, who played 4 seasons in the All American Football Conference after playing both College Football and Basketball at Tulane. He will also be a basketball recruit in this sim. Number seven is Hal Prescott, a product of Abilene, Texas who was an end at Hardin-Simmons University and with 4 NFL teams. He will be a tight end in this sim. The third quarterback in our top ten is Glenn Dobbs, who also acted as a punter but will be strictly a QB in this sim. Dobbs played college ball at Tulsa and was a first round pick of the Chicago Cardinals but ended up playing in the AAFC and CFL instead. He is a member of the college football Hall of Fame. Number nine is Tony Compagno, who played three seasons as a fullback (both offensive and defensive) for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He will be a CB in this sim. Rocco Canale is a lineman who makes the top ten recruit list. He was nicknamed the "Walking Billboard" because of his size and played 4 years in the NFL after playing college ball with top ranked recruit Connolly at Boston College. Code:
TOP TEN COLLEGE FOOTBALL RECRUITS # NAME POS HOMETOWN 1 Harry Connolly QB Norwalk, Ct. 2 Frankie Sinkwich RB Youngstown, Oh. 3 George Ceithaml QB Chicago, Ill. 4 Steve Pritko WR Northampton, Pa. 5 Nick Susoeff WR Umapine, Or. 6 Walt McDonald FS Lowellville, Oh 7 Hal Prescott TE Abilene, Tx 8 Glenn Dobbs QB McKinney, Tx 9 Tony Compagno CB Daly City, Cal. 10 Rocco Canale T Watertown, NY NFL TRAINING CAMPS UNDERWAY The defending NFL champion Baltimore Colts were one of 4 teams that opened training camp for the 1938 season over the weekend. The remaining 8 clubs will get underway this week. The preseason contests will begin two weeks time. The experts predict both the Colts and their opponents in last season's title game to repeat as division winners. Baltimore defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 20-10 in the 1937 NFL Championship Game. San Francisco is picked to the runner up to Baltimore in the West with Washington getting the nod for second place in the East Division behind the Eagles. The champion Colts, who open the preseason with a rematch against the Eagles, will once again be led by quarterback Ace Parker. Parker, who threw for 1246 yards last season -3rd most in the league - is a two-sport athlete as he also plays baseball. He appeared in 37 games (in our sim) for the 1937 Pittsburgh Pirates but after hitting just .122 he was released and is a free agent this year so his focus will be 100% on football. Parker may be pressured for his starting job by 7th round pick Bill Hartman. Hartman quarterbacked Georgia to a 10-2 season and a Sugar Bowl win over North Carolina State. In real life Parker was a First Team All-American in 1936 at Duke before being selected by football's Brooklyn Dodgers in the second round of the 1937 draft. He had planned on playing baseball instead, a sport he also excelled in at Duke, and signed with the Philadelphia Athletics. However, after hitting just .179 over parts of two seasons in the American League Parker turned his attention fully to football. He joined the football Dodgers in 1937 and was a first team all pro the following year. His NFL career, which was interrupted for 3 years by WWII, lasted until 1946 and was the league MVP in leading the Dodgers to the 1940 NFL title. (Note- In order to keep pace with our online baseball league and a short off-season I start the fall sports early. As a result the NFL's first of two preseason games will take place next week and then it is on to the regular season. College Football will also start it's season in late July, in conjunction with week one of the NFL.)
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Wow! A 22-games streak is beyond luck. It's more like divine intervention!
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A closer look at the Cubs streak
JUNE 27, 1938 A LOOK AT THE CUBS STREAK One nice thing I have found in tying this multi-sport dynasty into an online OOTP league instead of making it fully solo like others I have done in the past is the online pace forces me to slow down my sim speed which in turn let's me look much deeper into the league. The Cubs amazing 22 game (and possibly counting) win streak is one worth exploring more as I never recall seeing a streak of such length in any past OOTP leagues I have ever been involved in - online or otherwise. Now it should be noted the Cubs, like all of MLB are computer controlled as the 8 human GM's in our league run American Association clubs but that makes the streak no less impressive. Let's begin by taking a look at the National League standings on June 1.  The Cubs had just finished a few days in New York, splitting a doubleheader with the Giants before dropping two games in Brooklyn. The June 1 loss to the Dodgers, a 4-3 Brooklyn walk-off win on an rbi single from Jimmy Jordan, dropped the Cubs record to two games below .500 and they were now 9.5 games back of the front-running Giants who had enjoyed a 13 game winning streak of their own in mid-May. The start of the Cubs winning streak would coincide with a terrible stretch for the Giants- as New York, after splitting a Sunday doubleheader with the Cubs, would proceed to lose 7 of their next 9 games. As for the Cubs, the streak began during a long road trip, one that started with the doubleheader vs the Giants and then 3 games at Ebbetts Field. Brooklyn took the first two before Chicago salvaged a game from the series on June 2 with Larry French tossing a 5-hitter to improve to 6-4 on the season. French went the distance in a 2-0 shutout victory with Frank Demaree 2-run first inning homer off the Dodgers Van Mungo accounting for all of the offense as Mungo was extremely sharp, limiting Chicago to 4-hits. The Cubs did not know it at the time, of course, but they would not lose again on the remaining 9 games of the road trip and even longer after returning home. JUNE 3 - The Cubs began a 3-game series in Cincinnati with a 9-0 pasting of the Reds. Tex Carleton (6-4) was outstanding in throwing a 2-hit complete game shut out while Stan Hack, with his third homer of the season, and 2B Billy Rhiel, with a pair of doubles and 3 rbi's, led the offense. JUNE 4- Chicago needed a run in their final at bat to earn a 3-2 victory over the Reds. Pinch-hitter Hersh Martin, with his first career MLB homer in 288 plate appearances, was the hero hitting a solo shot to snap the tie with one out in the top of the ninth inning. Reliever Clay Bryant, taking over for Bill Lohrman (3-2) who had pitched 8 strong innings before being pinch-hit for by Martin, got in to trouble in the bottom of the ninth allowing a pair of singles but he got Johnny Dickshot to end the game with a lazy flyball. JUNE 5 - Stan Hack hit a 2-out, 2-run single in the top of the fourth inning to put the Cubs ahead 4-2 in a game that would end with that score. Bill Lee went the distance to improve his record to 7-3 on the season. A huge play in the 5th inning aided the Cubs as leftfielder Augie Galan threw a runner out at home to keep the Cubs lead at 2 runs. JUNE 6 - Off to Boston and the streak reaches five games with a come from behind 4-3 win over the Braves. The Cubs plate a single run in each of the 7th and 8th innings to turn a 1-run deficit into a lead that would stand for the remainder of the game. Five different Cubs had 2 hits in the contest include Justin Stein, a seldom-used reserve who was spelling Stan Hack at third base for the game. Stein hit a 2-run double in the fourth inning to get Chicago on the scoreboard. Lon Warneke (3-6) went the distance for the win, scattering 11 hits in his best outing of the season. The 29 year old Warneke had struggled early in the season including his previous start against the Braves when he gave up 9 earned runs in 5 innings. JUNE 7 - This one took 11 innings before Augie Galan broke a 3-3 tie with a single to score pitcher Larry French, who had hit a 1-out double. French was outstanding for 10 1/3 innings but after allowing a 1-out single was replaced by Clay Bryant who got the final two outs to preserve the 4-3 victory and give the Cubs their sixth straight win. JUNE 8 - No drama in this one as the Cubs romp to a 9-0 victory. Tex Carleton (7-4) throws his second straight shutout and gets more than enough run support for the second start in a row. Another day of the reserves helping out as backup catcher Ken O'Dea enjoys a 4-hit, 2 rbi day while outfielder Phil Cavarretta also delivers four hits. JUNE 9 - Next stop is Philadelphia and the streak reaches 8 games with a 4-1 victory. Bill Lohrman goes 8 and two thirds to improve to 4-2 with Bryant getting the final out to earn his second save in 3 days. Stan Hack had the big bat with 3 hits including a double and a triple. He also scored 3 runs. JUNE 10 - The Cubs break a scoreless tie with 3 runs in the fourth inning and then cruise to a 9-1 victory over the Phillies. Every Cubs batter gets at least one hit including pitcher Bill Lee, led by Frank Demaree's 3 hit, 3 run performance. Lee scattered 9 Philadelphia hits to improve his record to 8-3. JUNE 11 - More final at bat drama as the Cubs snap a 4-4 tie in the top of the ninth inning when Augie Galan doubles in pinch-hitter Hank Leiber, who had led off the inning with a single. Galan would have 3 hits and 3 rbi's in the 5-4 victory over Philadelphia with Lon Warneke going the distance for the victory - the Cubs 10th in a row. With the Giants struggles the Cubs now find themselves in third place, just a game and a half back of both St Louis and New York. JUNE 13 - Following an off-day for the long train ride from Philadelphia, the Cubs return to Wrigley to open a 12 game homestand with 3 against the Brooklyn Dodgers. The winning streak hits 10 with a 9-6 victory. Larry French gets the win to improve to 8-4 while Clay Bryant gets the final 2 outs for his 5th save of the season. JUNE 14 - Stan Hack's 2-run double keys a 3-run 7th inning as the Cubs snap a tie and go on to win their 12th in a row, beating the Dodgers 5-2. Tex Carleton failed to get his third straight shutout, but did go the distance allowing 10 hits to run his record to 8-4. JUNE 15 - The Cubs complete their 4th straight series sweep and get their 13th victory in a row with a 6-5 win over Brooklyn. The Dodgers made it closer than it should have been by scoring 3 times in the top of the 8th but Bill Lee hangs in there and goes the distance to improve to 9-3 on the year. Augie Galan and catcher Gabby Hartnett lead the Cubs with 2 rbi's each. JUNE 16 - The game that sees the streak come closest to ending. Tied at 2 after 9 innings with Philadelphia, the visitors score a run in the top of the tenth to take the lead but an error and 3 singles in the bottom half allow the Cubs to plate 2 runs and take a 4-3 victory. Frank McCormick is the hero with the game-winning rbi on a single with 1 out. JUNE 17 - Lon Warneke improved to 5-6 with a very strong, complete game 5-hitter. The contest was a real pitcher's duel with Chicago clinging to a 2-1 lead thanks to a pair of solo homeruns from Gabby Hartnett, before the Cubs added some insurance with 2 runs in the bottom of the 8th inning to make the final 4-1 over the Phillies. The winning streak is now 15 games. JUNE 18 - The streak hits 16 as Larry French (9-4) tosses a 5-hit shutout in a 5-0 victory to sweep the Phillies. Augie Galan tripled and scored twice while Gabby Hartnett continued his strong week with 2 hits and 2 rbi's. JUNE 20 - After an off day the Cubs welcome the Reds to Wrigley Field and begin the 3 game set with a 6-2 victory. Cincinnati led 2-1 until the Cubs got a pair in the sixth thanks to a 2-run single from Chicago pitcher Tex Carleton. Chicago added 3 more in the bottom of the 8th to make closing out the game easier for Carleton, who improved to 9-4 on the year by going the distance and allowing just 4 Cincinnati hits. JUNE 21 - The wind was blowing out at Wrigley as the Cubs took a 5-1 lead in the second inning and went out to beat the Reds 14-5. No homers for Chicago but plenty of hits as all 9 starters got at least one, led by SS Billy Jurges going 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles and 4 rbi's. Not Bill Lee's best effort, but he went all the way to earn his 10th victory of the season and the 18th in a row for the Cubs. JUNE 22 - The bats get going again against the Reds as Chicago pounds out 16 hits in a 13-2 victory. Frank McCormick with 4 hits including a double and a triple, plus 3 rbi's leads the way, with Phil Cavarretta also driving in 3. Gabby Hartnett had 3 hits, drove in 2 and scored twice. JUNE 23 - A new opponent as Boston comes to town, but a third straight double digit run output for the Cubs, who blast Braves pitching for 19 hits in a 15-3 laugher. McCormick has a second straight 4 hit game and drives in 5 runs, while reserve catcher Ken O'Dea also chips in 4 hits. The Cubs don't homer a lot but Augie Galan and O'Dea each get one on this day. Larry French (10-4) joins Bill Lee as Cub pitchers with 10 wins. The Cubs 3 straight games of 10 or more runs is unusual for the club, which only reached double digits once before this season - May 10th when they beat the Phillies 13-12. JUNE 24 - The offense was not as plentiful on this day, but it did not need to be as Lon Warneke was outstanding, holding the Braves to just 2 hits in a complete game 4-0 shutout victory. It was Warneke's 4th straight victory after starting the season 2-6. JUNE 25 - The streak reaches 22 as the Cubs sweep their 7th consecutive series with a 3-2 win over the Bees. Boston took a 2-1 lead in the top of the 7th off of Tex Carleton but the Cubs tied the game in the bottom half on a Hersh Martin pinch-hit rbi single and took the lead in the bottom of the 8th when Carleton led off the inning with his first homerun since 1936. A double-play ball in the bottom half allowed Carleton to get his 10th win of the season as the Cubs prevailed 3-2. Here is the Cubs June Schedule:  And here are the current standings after 22 straight Chicago wins. The Cubs have gone from a 9.5 game deficit to a game and a half lead atop the National League. Things will get much tougher next week as the Cubs try to prolong their streak and hold off the second place St Louis Cardinals. The St Louis series will be the first game for the Cubs during the streak that did not see them face a team that was in the bottom half of the standings.  And finally, here is the Cubs lineup and stats as of today, June 27, 1938. 
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Just a little bit more on the Chicago Cubs. I find it interesting that none of their everyday position players posted exceptional numbers during the streak and in fact many of them underperformed during that time compared to their recent numbers. I cannot get the 22 games of the streak only but can sort for the month of June which includes the one loss to Brooklyn before the streak began and you can see none of the totals really stand out.
Here are the slash lines for the 8 everyday players showing their totals during the streak (JUNE), for the season as a whole (opening day to June 27), and for last season. Code:
CHICAGO CUBS JUNE ENTIRE SEASON LAST YEAR NAME AVG/OBP/SLG AVG/OBP/SLG AVG/OBP/SLG C Gabby Hartnett .311/.393/.554 .300/.400/.505 .325/.367/.502 1b Frank McCormick .333/.347/.441 .304/.319/.385 .327/.338/.428 2b Billy Rhiel .227/.288/.364 .251/.350/.400 .270/.351/.359 SS Billy Jurges .298/.352/.381 .330/.384/.405 .260/.320/.346 3b Stan Hack .298/.422/.440 .333/.420/.456 .353/.455/.485 OF Phil Cavarretta .366/.449/.488 .289/.367/.427 .271/.304/.382 OF Frank Demaree .269/.303/.376 .315/.354/.475 .308/.354/.418 OF Augie Galan .278/.406/.354 .284/.395/.407 .319/.421/.470 Pitching was a different story as the Cubs starters all were outstanding during the sim. Tex Carleton went 5-0 with a 1.00 era and a 0.82 WHIP and threw a pair of shutouts while allowing more than 6 hits in just one start. This after starting the season 5-4, 3.42. He completed all 5 of his starts during the streak. Larry French also made 5 starts, completing 4 of them and posting a 2.17 era but he was pretty good before the streak, going 5-4 with a 2.67 era. Bill Lee completed all 4 of his starts with a 3.25 era after going 6-3, 4.63 in April and May. Bill Lohrman made 4 starts and had a 1.62 era while going 3-0 after starting the season with a 2-2 record and a 3.05 era. He did not complete any of his starts during the streak but did get into the 8th inning in each of them. While he cut down on the earned runs his 1.08 WHIP was the exact same in May as what he posted during the streak. The big improvement was from Lon Warneke. A 19 game winner a year ago, the 29 year old had a rough start to the season at 2-6, 6.83. However, he turned it around during the streak with 4 starts ranging from good (4 runs on 9 hits in a 5-4 win June 11th to outstanding in a 4-0, 2 hit shutout of Boston on the 24th). Warneke was 4-0 with a 2.00 era during the streak. With all of those complete games the bullpen was hardly used with Charlie Root pitching just 2 innings (and getting credited with one of the wins) while Clay Bryant made 5 appearances totalling 3 innings and earned 4 saves without surrendering a walk or an earned run.
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June 27, 1938
June 27, 1938 CUBS STREAK SNAPPED AT 22 GAMES The Chicago Cubs improbable winning streak ends at 22 games after the Cubs suffered a 4-3 loss in extra innings to the St Louis Cardinals. The hometown Cardinals jumped on Chicago starter Bill Lee early as Johnny Mize worked the 28 year old for a walk with two out in the first inning and then Joe Medwick followed with his 17th homerun of the season to give the Redbirds an quick 2-0 lead. Chicago would scratch back with a run in each of the fourth and fifth innings off of St Louis starter Dizzy Dean to tie the game. Billy Jurges singled in Gabby Hartnett, who had led off the fourth inning with a double, to score the first Chicago run and an inning later Stan Hack scored on a wild pitch to tie the game after he had doubled and moved over to third base on a ground out. St Louis pitcher Dizzy Dean atoned for his wild pitch quickly, by hitting a solo homer in the bottom of the fifth to put St Louis ahead 3-2 but Chicago would pull even again in the 8th when a Hartnett sacrifice fly plated Augie Galan. Dean set the Cubs down in order in the top of the tenth. The Cardinals won it in the home half after Terry Moore and Pepper Martin hit back to back one out singles to chase Lee from the game. Reliever Clay Bryant, who had come up with 4 saves during the winning streak, got Mize to pop out for the second out of the inning and then induced a ground ball from Medwick but Chicago shortstop Ben Geraghty booted it to load the bases. Unnerved, Bryant then walked George Meyer on 4 pitches to bring in the winning run and put an end to both the game and the Cubs winning streak. Geraghty, a backup infielder who rarely plays, was only in the game because starting shortstop Billy Jurges had been pinch-hit for in the 9th inning.
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July 4, 1938 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL ALL STAR ROSTERS ANNOUNCED The rosters have been announced for Tuesday's All-Star game at Sportsman's Park in St Louis. The American League will be the host club and their roster will be dominated by the first place New York Yankees who placed 7 players on the team. However, young outfielder Joe DiMaggio was omitted from the list. Code:
AMERICAN LEAGUE ROSTER FOR ALL STAR GAME P Lefty Grove Boston 12-2, 2.72 P Lefty Gomez New York 12-3, 2.40 P Johnny Broaca New York 10-4, 2.33 P Red Ruffing New York 13-2, 3.07 P Danny McFayden New York 10-3, 3.22 P Ed Brandt Boston 7-8, 3.28 P Lefty Mills Chicago 12-4, 2.85 RP Ken Chase Washington 3-1, 2.61 RP Red Lynn Boston 3-2, 5.00 RP Buck Ross Philadelphia 3-1, 2.89 C Bill Dickey New York .365,12,59 C Frankie Hayes Philadelphia .318,13,44 1B Jimmie Foxx Boston .296,18,57 1B Lou Gehrig New York .351,13,67 1B Hal Trosky Cleveland .341,23,60 2B Charlie Gehringer Detroit .346,10,36 2B Joe Gordon St Louis .286,20,72 3B Red Rolfe New York .374,2,38 SS Cecil Travi Washington .354,3,29 OF John Stone Philadelphia .356,1,37 OF Roy Weatherly Cleveland .383,8,46 OF Earl Averill Cleveland .293,12,51 OF Sam West St Louis .349,10,49 OF Mel Almada Boston .352,1,32 OF Wally Moses Philadelphia .369,5,42 Code:
NATIONAL LEAGUE ROSTER FOR ALL STAR GAME P Slick Castleman New York 10-7,2.85 P Dizzy Dean St Louis 9-5, 2.42 P Paul Dean St Louis 11-3, 2.32 P Carl Fischer Boston 9-6, 2.84 P Larry French Chicago 10-6, 2.65 P Joe Krakauskas Cincinnati 5-10, 2.64 P Claude Passeau Philadelphia 4-11, 3.16 RP Fred Frankhouse New York 3-1, 3.92 RP Benny Frey Cincinnati 2-0, 2.70 C Babe Phelps Brooklyn .402,3,35 C Ernie Lombardi Cincinnati .303,9,30 1B Johnny Mize St Louis .359,25,65 1B Sam Leslie Brooklyn .348,7,51 1B Dolph Camelli Philadelphia .305,10,44 3B Stan Hack Chicago .339,5,34 3B Mel Ott New York .288,19,62 SS Billy Jurges Chicago .332,1,34 SS Arky Vaughan Pittsburgh .347,6,33 OF Joe Medwick St Louis .359,18,61 OF Joe Grace Pittsburgh .328,3,33 OF Terry Moore St Louis .278,7,39 OF Jimmy Ripple New York .288,5,33 OF Frank Demaree Chicago .315,9,40 OF Pepper Martin St Louis .304,5,33 OF Paul Waner Pittsburgh .323,3,52 No changes atop the American League as the New York Yankees remain 12 games up on second place Boston after winning 5 of 8 games this week including a split of 4 games with the Red Sox. Code:
MLB STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE W L GB NATIONAL LEAGUE vW L GB
New York 55 20 - St Louis 46 27 -
Boston 43 32 12.0 New York 45 29 1.5
Cleveland 38 37 17.0 Chicago 45 29 1.5
Philadelphia 35 39 19.5 Pittsburgh 36 39 11.0
Detroit 34 41 21.0 Boston 33 42 14.0
Chicago 34 41 21.0 Brooklyn 32 42 14.5
St Louis 31 43 23.5 Cincinnati 31 43 15.5
Washington 29 46 26.0 Philadelphia 28 45 18.0
HITTING LEADERS
AVERGAE AVERAGE
Weatherly CLE .383 Phelps BKN .402
Rolfe NYY .374 Mize STL .359
Moses PHA .369 Medwick STL .359
Dickey NYY .365 Leslie BKN .348
Stone PHA .356 Vaughan PIT .347
HOME RUNS HOME RUNS
Trosky CLE 23 Mize STL 25
Gordon SLA 20 Ott NYG 19
Foxx BOS 18 Medwick STL 18
Greenberg DET 15 Johnson CIN 15
DiMaggio NYY 14 Berger BSN 12
RBIs RBIs
Gordon SLA 72 Mize STL 65
Gehrig NYY 67 Ott NYG 62
DiMaggio NYY 63 Medwick STL 61
Greenberg DET 61 P Waner PIT 52
Trosky CLE 60 Leslie BKN 51
Dickey NYY 59 Suhr PIT 49
PITCHING LEADERS
WINS WINS
Ruffing NYY 13-2 P Dean STL 11-3
Grove BOS 12-2 Carleton STL 11-4
Gomez NYY 12-3 Lee CHN 10-4
Mills CHA 12-4 French CHN 10-6
McFayden NYY 10-3 Tobin BSN 10-6
Broaca NYY 10-4 Castleman NYG 10-7
Ostermeuller BOS 9-4
STRIKE OUTS STRIKE OUTS
Feller CLE 100 P Dean STL 86
Gomez NYY 94 D Dean STL 84
Mills CHA 87 Carleton CHN 82
Grove BOS 80 Blanton PIT 76
Rowe DET 72 Mungo BKN 74
Allen CLE 70 Castleman NYG 65
ERA ERA
Broaca NYY 2.33 P Dean STL 2.32
Gomez NYY 2.40 D Dean STL 2.42
Grove BOS 2.72 Lohrman CHN 2.50
Mills CHA 2.85 Krakauskas CIN 2.64
Ruffing NYY 3.07 French CHN 2.65
McFayden NYY 3.22 Fischer BSN 2.84
Brandt BOS 3.28 Henshaw NYG 2.85
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION LOSS OF KLEINHANS BIG BLOW TO BLUES Despite winning 9 of their last 11 games the mood in Kansas City was down after it was learned that veteran pitcher Ted Kleinhans is done for the season, and perhaps his career. The 39 year old, who pretty well came out of nowhere a year ago to win 30 games and lead the Blues to the American Association title, has suffered a torn rotator cuff and at his age there is concern it may be career ending. Kleinhans was not as dominant this season as he was a year ago, but still was a key piece of the Blues outstanding pitching staff. He posted a 6-8 record with a 3.36 era in 17 starts this season. The Blues will likely now rely on Al Piechota to fill Kleinhans spot in a rotation that also includes Al Hollingsowrth (11-2, 3.52), Tiny Bonham (9-6, 3.39) and Fred Gay (11-6, 3.73). The 24 year old Piechota was 1-2 with 4 saves out of the Kansas City pen as a rookie last season. This year he is 4-2 with a 6.20 era in 18 appearances and he allowed 7 earned runs in each of his two starts this season including yesterday when he was chased after just two innings in a 10-4 loss to Milwaukee. Kansas City still trails first place Toledo by 2 games but a more pressing concern for the Blues now that they have lost a key pitcher will be holding off Minneapolis for the final playoff spot, although the Blues presently enjoy an 8.5 game lead on the third place Millers. Code:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDINS W L GB Toledo 49 24 - Kansas City 47 26 2.0 Minneapolis 39 35 10.5 Milwaukee 33 39 15.5 Columbus 33 41 16.5 St Paul 31 41 17.5 Louisville 31 43 18.5 Indianapolis 30 44 19.5 LEADERS AVG Chuck Klein MIN .374 Lonny Frey TOL .362 Martin Dihigo MIL .359 Len Schulte LOU .348 Roy Hughes MIL .346 Billy Herman KC .336 Benny McCoy TOL .333 Buzz Arlett MIN .332 HOME RUNS Ted Williams MIN 17 Chet Laabs TOL 14 Benny McCoy TOL 13 Bill Norman StP 13 Rudy York MIL 13 Buzz Arlett MIN 12 Phil Weintraub TOL 12 RBI's Martin Dihigo MIL 63 Chet Laabs TOL 58 Benny McCoy TOL 57 Roy Cullenbine TOL 55 Ted Williams MIN 54 Buck Leonard LOU 52 Phil Weintraub TOL 51 Rudy York MIL 51 PITCHING WINS Paul Derringer TOL 13-3 Denny Galehouse MIN 13-6 Carl Hubbell MIN 12-10 Al Hollingsworth KC 11-2 Gene Schott TOL 11-3 Fred Gay KC 11-6 Tiny Bonham KC 9-6 Max Macon COL 9-11 STRIKEOUTS Max Macon COL 102 Dizzy Trout IND 96 Wayne LeMaster LOU 90 Johnny Rigney StP 88 Carl Hubbell MIN 84 Lefty Smoll TOL 81 Ted Kleinhans KC 80 Denny Galehouse MIN 76 Yank Terry LOU 69 ERA Gene Schott TOL 2.87 Lloyd Johnson IND 3.28 Ted Kleinhans KC 3.36 Tiny Bonham KC 3.39 Al Hollingsworth KC 3.52 Vern Kennedy MIN 3.64 Dizzy Trout IND 3.70 Fred Gay KC 3.73 JULY 1, 1938 NHL UPDATE -THE COACHES To help familiarize you with the National Hockey League portion of this sim here is a look at the 7 existing NHL coaches. BOSTON - The Bruins just recently handed the reigns to veteran Lester Patrick. A four time coach of the year, the 61 year old Patrick is 3rd all-time in career coaching victories and has had stops with the Ottawa Senators, Hamilton Tigers, New York Americans and Montreal Maroons before landing in Boston. 53 year old Art Ross has been the Bruins general manager since they entered the league. CHICAGO - Dick Irvin, the Montreal coaching legend in real life, has coached the Black Hawks each of the past three seasons after beginning his career with a year and a half in Boston and then moving to Ottawa for the Senators final season. Frank Patrick, one of Lester's brothers, has been the Chicago GM for over a decade after beginning his career with the Vancouver Millionaires of the old Western Hockey League and making a stop with the Quebec Bulldogs/Hamilton Tigers franchise. DETROIT - Herb Gardiner is the 47 year old coach of the Red Wings and has been at the helm since 1929-30. He previously spent two plus seasons with the Montreal Maroons and sits 4th all-time in career victories but has never won a Stanley Cup. The Red Wings GM is real life Toronto architect Conn Smythe, who has held the position since late in the 1926-27 season. MONTREAL- Eddie Powers took over the Montreal job 3 years ago with his previous NHL experience being 2 and a half seasons with Ottawa at the start of the decade. Powers was coach of the year in his first full season in Ottawa but, so far at least, has not been able to get the Canadiens to a Cup. Tommy Gorman, after over a decade and 3 Stanley Cups in Ottawa, took over as General Manager of the Habs three years ago. NEW YORK AMERICANS- Jack Adams presently holds the dual role of coach/GM with the Americans. He has been in charge of the club since 1928-29 and is one of just 6 coaches to amass at least 200 career victories. He coached the club to a Stanley Cup title in 1932. NEW YORK RANGERS - Unfortunately even with a large number of real staff available FHM still allows fictional head coaches and one of these is Shane Kulak, who has been the Rangers bench boss since 1931-32 and led them to their only Stanley Cup in 1935. The Rangers GM is Frederic McLaughlin, who in real life was the first owner of the Chicago Black Hawks. TORONTO- In real life Dick Carroll coached the Toronto Arenas to the Stanley Cup in 1917 but was fired after a disappointing season the next year. In this sim, Carroll is still going strong behind the Leafs bench and is the winningest coach in NHL history, guiding the team to 9 Cups while being named coach of the year 5 times. The original Toronto GM in real life was Charles Querrie, and he is still the General Manager of the club in this sim and has been since the league began in 1917. Code:
NHL COACHES CAREER VICTORIES NAME WINS CUPS TEAMS Years Dick Carroll 482 9 Toronto 17-present Newsy Lalonde 365 4 Mon Canadiens 1917-34 Lester Patrick 351 2 Ott,Ham,NYA,MM,BOS 1918-present Herb Gardiner 231 0 Maroons, Detroit 1926-present Barney Stanley 216 1 Chicago 1926-34 Jack Adams 203 1 NY Americans 1928-present Shane Kulak 188 1 NY Rangers 1931-present Eddie Powers 134 0 Ottawa, Candiens 1928-present Frank Selke 97 0 Pit, Phi, Bos 1928-36 Dick Irvin 95 0 Bos, Ott, Chi 1931-present Code:
NHL COACH OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNERS YEAR COACH TEAM 37-38 Shane Kulak New York Rangers 36-37 Dick Carroll Toronto 35-36 Dick Carroll Toronto 34-35 Shane Kulak New York Rangers 33-34 Lester Patrick Montreal Maroons 32-33 Lester Patrick Montreal Maroons 31-32 Shane Kulak New York Rangers 30-31 Jack Adams New York Americans 29-30 Eddie Powers Ottawa 28-29 Newsy Lalonde Montreal Canadiens 27-28 Dick Carroll Toronto 26-27 Newsy Lalonde Montreal Canadiens 25-26 Ken Randall Montreal Maroons 24-25 Lloyd Cook Ottawa 23-24 Paul Dagg Hamilton 22-23 Dick Carroll Toronto 21-22 Lester Patrick Ottawa 20-21 Newsy Lalonde Montreal Canadiens 19-20 Lester Patrick Ottawa 18-19 Dick Carroll Toronto 17-18 Art Ross Montreal Wanderers
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