P L A G U E !!!!!

[blubbla]

yeah, since you're knocking off plenty of players, it might be a problem to get more than the 16 teams for a while.

[metsgeek]

1931 WORLD SERIES PREVIEW

CONTINENTAL LEAGUE CHAMPION: BOSTON SHAMROCKS (87-67)


Team Batting Average: .307 (2nd)
Team ERA: 4.65 (5th)

Top Batters:
Norman "Turkey" Stearnes - .317, 42 HR, 118 RBI, 28 SB
Babe Herman - .353, 25 HR, 115 RBI, 32 SB
Rap Dixon - .351, 28 HR, 122 RBI, 29 SB
Martin Dihigo - .317, 27 HR, 101 RBI, 34 SB

Top Pitchers:
Michael "Irish" Patrick - 24-10, 2.84 ERA, 306 K
Eddie Rommel - 15-13, 4.66 ERA, 158 K
Ray Roberts - 13-13, 4.49 ERA, 75 K


FEDERAL LEAGUE CHAMPION: BOSTON PILGRIMS (99-55)



Team Batting Average: .309 (1st)
Team ERA: 4.71 (6th)

Top Batters:
Joe Hauser - .381, 34 HR, 124 RBI
Jimmie Foxx - .344, 54 HR, 154 RBI
Goose Goslin - .366, 27 HR, 115 RBI
John Beckwith - .308, 35 HR, 123 RBI

Top Pitchers:
Satchel Paige - 33-3, 2.46 ERA, 396 K
"Wild Bill" Hallahan - 17-5, 4.76 ERA, 131 K


"Irish" Patrick and Satchel Paige should treat the fans to some classic showdowns, but the rest of each rotation are so erratic that the games will certainly come down to the output of the batters. Their offenses are equally dominant, so it will likely come down to Satchel in Game 7.

PREDICTION: Pilgrims in 7

[metsgeek]

I was psyched when I found those logos online.

[Hurkman]

Originally Posted by metsgeek

I was psyched when I found those logos online.

Those are some awesome logos, I must say. Also, Paige went 33-3 this season? All the Pilgrims need is one other pitcher to win a game, and they'll take the series.

[canadiancreed]

Originally Posted by metsgeek

I was psyched when I found those logos online.

where the heck did you find those?!

[kreitena]

How did Paige strike out 396? How many innings did he throw?

[MuertoDesagradecido]

Holy crap, almost 400 Ks from Paige? I can see why we're the underdogs!

[beltre13]

damn jimmie foxx put up some monster numbers this year.

[metsgeek]

Originally Posted by canadiancreed

where the heck did you find those?!

Google Image Search

[canadiancreed]

Originally Posted by metsgeek

Google Image Search

hmm....the power of Google.

[metsgeek]

Originally Posted by kreitena

How did Paige strike out 396? How many innings did he throw?

I'll check when I get home. I believe it was near 350. He got some talent increases last offseason, which bumped Stuff and Control well above 100. He's going to have a disgustingly good career......maybe even better than Chop Tempkin.

[metsgeek]

1931 WORLD SERIES

9/27/1931 - GAME 1 PILGRIMS 7 - SHAMROCKS 3

In the first showdown between Satchel Paige and "Irish" Patrick, the Pilgrims' ace prevailed, nearly throwing a shutout if it weren't for a throwing error by Jimmie Foxx which allowed 3 runs to score in the 8th. Goose Goslin led at the plate with a double, a triple and 3 RBI.

9/28/1931- GAME 2 PILGRIMS 4 - SHAMROCKS 7

The Pilgrims outhit their rivals 12-7, but the Shamrocks were able to capitalize, beginning with a 4 run 1st inning. Earl McNeely had 3 hits and 3 RBI, while Sam Bankhead launched a 2 run rocket to put the game out of reach.

9/30/1931 - GAME 3 SHAMROCKS 15 - PILGRIMS 5

The Pilgrims' fans were collapsing in the aisles from shock as the Shamrocks bitchslapped the home team with 22 hits including 2 jacks from Babe Herman, 2 from Norman "Turkey" Stearnes, and another one from Sam Bankhead. Heinie Scheer also contributed with 4 RBI.

10/1/1931 - GAME 4 SHAMROCKS 8 - PILGRIMS 4

In the second showdown between Patrick and Paige, the Shamrocks prevailed on 4 hits from Babe Herman and 4 RBI from Rap Dixon to put them one win away from a series crown.

10/2/1931 - GAME 5 SHAMROCKS 7 - PILGRIMS 8

It appeared that the Shamrocks were headed for a Game 5 win when they got out to a 5-0 lead after the first 2 innings, but the Pilgrims posted a 5-spot in the 3rd and never looked back. Their rivals rallied in the 9th, but fell one run short, keeping the Pilgrims alive in front of an ecstatic home crowd.

10/4/1931- GAME 6 PILGRIMS 11 - SHAMROCKS 4

Back across town, the Pilgrims tie the Series up with a blowout of their own. Both John Beckwith and Joe Hauser knocked in 4 to put the games out of reach, forcing a decisive Game 7 and a rubber match between Satchel Paige and "Irish" Patrick.

10/5/1931- GAME 7 PILGRIMS 2 - SHAMROCKS 3, 10 innings

Now THIS is the type of game fans expected from these two aces. Game 1 was an off game for "Irish" Patrick. Game 4 showed that Satchel Paige can also falter. Game 7 was another story entirely. The two aces battled it out for 9 innings, each allowing only 1 run, sending it to extras. In the top of the 10th, Patrick proved mortal as he gave up 2 singles and a walk. John Beckwith then knocked in a run with a long sacrifice fly to put the Pilgrims up 2-1. Patrick settled down and struck out Hack Wilson to stem the bleeding and give the Shamrocks a chance to strike back. In the bottom of the 10th, Pilgrims management made the inexplicable decision to pull Paige and bring in the closer Norm "King" Lehr with his pitiful 5.10 ERA. Immediately, Lehr walked the first batter, "Turkey" Stearnes. On his very next pitch, he uncorked a wild pitch, advancing Stearnes to 2nd. Three pitches later, Rap Dixon was walked as well, bringing up Mandy Brooks, the Shamrocks centerfielder. After Brooks fouled off four straight pitches, Lehr hurled another wild pitch, sending Stearnes and Dixon to 2nd and 3rd. The Shamrock fans were all on their feet, thundering their excitement with hoarse screams and pounding feet, and yet the Pilgrims kept Lehr in the game. One pitch later, Brooks laces a single over the head of Pilgrims firstbaseman Joe Hauser. Stearnes easily scores, tying the game, and Dixon barrels toward home easily beating the throw and winning the game and the Series in a most dramatic fashion.

1931 WORLD CHAMPS - BOSTON SHAMROCKS
2nd Championship

SERIES MVP: Michael "Irish" Patrick - 2-1, 3.96 ERA, 25 IP, 22 Hits, 9 BB, 21 K

[metsgeek]

1931 AWARD WINNERS

CONTINENTAL LEAGUE TOP ROOKIE: 
Buzz Arlett (BRO) - He batted .328 in 512 AB, with 27 homers and 139 RBI.

FEDERAL LEAGUE TOP ROOKIE: 
Allyn Stout (BSP) - He had a record of 19-13 with an ERA of 4.69.  In 38 games started, he pitched 291.2 innings, fanning 158 and walking 124 batters.

CONTINENTAL LEAGUE TOP ACE: 
Michael Patrick (BSB) - He had a record of 24-10 with an ERA of 2.84 and 3 shutouts.  In 42 games started, he pitched 348.2 innings, fanning 306 and walking 100 batters.

CONTINENTAL LEAGUE TOP SLUGGER: 
Chino Smith (CIN) - He batted .384 in 555 AB, with 58 homers and 143 RBI.

FEDERAL LEAGUE TOP ACE: 
Satchel Paige (BSP) - He had a record of 33-3 with an ERA of 2.46 and 4 shutouts.  In 41 games started, he pitched 351 innings, fanning 396 and walking 30 batters.
 
FEDERAL LEAGUE TOP SLUGGER: 
Jimmie Foxx (BSP) - He batted .344 in 540 AB, with 54 homers and 154 RBI.

CONTINENTAL LEAGUE GOLD GLOVE Winners: 
Pitcher: Rats Henderson (BRO)
Catcher: Butch Henline (CLE)
First Base: Gus Suhr (PIT)
Second Base: Les Burke (CHC)
Third Base: Bill Cissell (CHC)
Shortstop: Willie Wells (PIT)
Leftfield: Fats Jenkins (BRO)
Centerfield: Cuckoo Christensen (CHC)
Rightfield: Dewey Creacy (NYH)

FEDERAL LEAGUE GOLD GLOVE Winners: 
Pitcher: Monte Weaver (LOU)
Catcher: Lena Styles (BUF)
First Base: Mule Suttles (NYK)
Second Base: Hal Leathers (MIL)
Third Base: Ed Cotter (MIL)
Shortstop: Rogers Hornsby (MIL)
Leftfield: Neil Robinson (WAS)
Centerfield: Alejandro Oms (WAS)
Rightfield: Cristobal Torriente (WAS)

1931 LEAGUE LEADERS

 TOP 5 in BATTING AVG :
.396 Biz Mackey(MIL,FL)
.385 Dick Cox(DET)
.384 Chino Smith(CIN,CL)
.383 Joe Hauser(BSP,FL)
.379 Bill Perkins(PHI,CL)

TOP 5 in HOMERUNS :
58 Chino Smith(CIN,CL)
54 Jimmie Foxx(BSP,FL)
46 Tony Papadapoulos(DET)
46 Chuck Klein(LOU,FL)
43 Arnold Colfax(NYH,CL)

TOP 5 in RBI :
156 James Concannon(NYH,CL)
154 Jimmie Foxx(BSP,FL)
154 Chuck Klein(LOU,FL)
143 Chino Smith(CIN,CL)
139 Buzz Arlett( BRO,CL)

TOP 5 in ERA :
1.87 Bill Foster(CLE)
2.46 Satchel Paige(BSP,FL)
2.84 Michael Patrick(BSS,CL)
3.15 Lerton Pinto(CHC)
3.18 Lefty Gomez(DET)

TOP 5 in WINS :
33 Satchel Paige(BSP,FL)
24 Michael Patrick(BSS,CL)
22 Ted Trent(DET,FL)
21 Bill Foster(CLE)
21 Logan Drake(CHC,CL)

TOP 5 in SAVES :
45 Hal Kime(CHC,CL)
33 Walt Masters( BSB)
31 Red Parnell(NYH)
30 Jim Lyle(CIN,CL)
29 Freddy Sale(LOU)

[MuertoDesagradecido]

What a finish! Makes me want to go back through the thread and see what the most memorable World Series have been.

[metsgeek]

Originally Posted by MuertoDesagradecido

What a finish! Makes me want to go back through the thread and see what the most memorable World Series have been.

There's at least one other series which ended in a walkoff....can't recall which one, but it was a 7-gamer as well.

[legendsport]

Great stuff Pete - makes me want to go back and untangle the league file mess that came of moving "A House Divided" into the new sim.

[metsgeek]

Originally Posted by legendsport

Great stuff Pete - makes me want to go back and untangle the league file mess that came of moving "A House Divided" into the new sim.

I'll wager there are a bunch of people out there who would like you to do that as well. A House Divided was my favorite dynasty out there, bar none.

[metsgeek]

NOTEWORTHY EVENTS - 1931

* Italicized events actually happened. If the event is partially italicized, the parts in normal type have been changed for this reality. The changes could be extremely minor or quite significant.

• January 13 - German Reichskanzler Gottfried Feder makes the acquaintance of 33 year-old Joseph Goebbels, a rising star in the German Worker's Party known for his revolutionary ideas regarding use of the media and entertainment industry to deliver the messages of the state and indoctrinate the youth of Germany.
• February 3 - Napier Earthquake: Much of the New Zealand city of Napier is destroyed in an earthquake. It lasts for two and a half minutes and is estimated to have measured about 7.9 on the modern Richter Scale. The earthquake strikes with a massive upthrust, and half a minute later comes a huge resettling. There are 525 aftershocks recorded in the following two weeks.
• February 21 - Peruvian revolutionaries hijack a Ford Trimotor aeroplane and demand that the pilot drop propaganda leaflets over Lima.
• February 26 - Joseph Goebbels is chosen by Reichskanzler Feder to run the newly created Ministry of Propaganda.
  
  Minister Goebbels addresses a crowd of party members soon after his appointment.
  
  
• March 3 - The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the United States National anthem.
• March 17 - Nevada legalizes gambling.
• March 25 - The Scottsboro Boys Case: On March 25, 1931, a fight breaks out between black and white hobos riding in a car of a Southern Railway freight train. All the white men and boys are forced to jump off. When the train stops in Paint Rock, Alabama, the nine black youths are arrested on charges of assault. Two young white women dressed in boys' clothing, Victoria Price, aged twenty-one, and Ruby Bates, aged seventeen, are also found catching a free ride on the freight train. All are taken to Scottsboro, Alabama, the Jackson County seat. The two girls, unemployed mill workers and part-time prostitutes from nearby Huntsville, tell authorities they have been brutally gang raped by the nine black youths taken into custody in Paint Rock. After a lynch mob gathers, the Governor of Alabama, Benjamin M. Miller, is forced to call in the National Guard to protect the jail. Authorities plead against mob violence by promising speedy trials and executions.
  
  The nine men accused of raping two white women in Scottsboro, Alabama.
  
  
• March 30 - The Scottsboro Boys are indicted by a grand jury
• April - All the Scottsboro Boys are convicted and sentenced to death, except for one thirteen year old boy, who is sentenced to life in prison
• May 1 - Construction of the Empire State Building is completed in New York City
• June 5 - Count Fidél Pálffy is appointed Minister of Media in the Magyar Dominion. He immediately seeks an audience with Joseph Goebbels, with whom he has corresponded over the past few months.
• Summer - George Florescu discovers Vlad III Dracula's tomb in Snagov Monastery, Romania.
• July - 1931 Yellow River Flood: Between 850,000 and 4,000,000 people die as the Yellow River floods an area greater than 500,000 square miles. Deaths caused by the flooding include but are not limited to drowning, disease, ensuing famines, and droughts. It is easily the most deadly natural disaster in recorded history.
• July 21 - Unemployment eclipses 25% in the United States. Across the nation, numerous "villages" spring up in desolate areas and unpleasant neighborhoods, consisting of hundreds of shacks and tents that serve as temporary residences of those left unemployed and homeless by the Depression. People sleep in anything from open piano crates to the ground. Some of the men who were forced to live in these conditions possessed building skills and were able to build their houses out of stone. Most people, however, resort to building their residences out of box wood, cardboard, and any scraps of metal they could find. Some individuals even live in watermains. These "towns" are given the moniker of "Smithvilles" after President Smith whose popularity has dropped precipitously since the stock market crash of 1929.
  
  A typical Smithtown in Seattle, Washington
  
• August 11 - Despite public sentiment against the plan, in order to prevent the complete dissolution of the National Economic Security Administration, President Smith sponsors a bill to cut benefits by 50% and raise the Economic Security Tax by 2%. It narrowly passes in both house of Congress.
• August 22 - Senator Alf Landon, Republican senator from Kansas and Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, Republican Senator from Illinois each announce that they will seek the presidency in 1932.
• September 15 - Minister Goebbels of Germany meets with his counterpart in the Magyar Dominion, Count Fidél Pálffy. Pálffy has admired the accomplishments of Goebbels and would like to implement them in the Magyar Dominion.
• November 8 - The Panama Canal closed for couple of weeks due to damage caused by a number of minor earthquakes.
• December 10 - President Smith denies rumors that he will not run for re-election next November.
• December 20 - Governor Ross Sterling of Texas announces that he will run against President Smith for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1932.

[metsgeek]

IN MEMORIAM - 1932

ARKY VAUGHAN
TOM PADDEN
HANK PATTERSON
JOE GLENN
HARRY TAYLOR
ROY SCHALK
STAN HACK
JO-JO MORRISSEY
WES KINGDON
FRANKIE CROSETTI
OX ECKHARDT
RAY PEPPER
JO-JO WHITE
ROY HUTSON
HAL ANDERSON
ED COLEMAN
JOHNNY ALLEN
TONY FREITAS
SUGAR CAIN
TIM MCKIETHAN
RUDY KNEITH
CHARLIE DEVENS
LEROY HERRMANN
REGIS LEHENY
CLARENCE FIEBER
FRANK RAGLAND
ED EDELEN
ED GALLAGHER
JOE DEBERRY
ARCHIE WISE
LEO MOON
EARL KUNZ
ART JONES

[canadiancreed]

ahh my fav part, the history