League of Nations

[Syd Thrift]

Overview

Blimey. We were so, so close, yet so far away. I am not sure how our boys managed to survive the month of September without three of our biggest guns in the lineup: Byron Feveryear was gone for the season in late August and Orrin "The Longstop" Perrel (he is a shortstop, you see! Giggle! We British with our sly British humour! We even add an extra vowel to humour because it is so witty!) missed a couple of weeks as well. Oh yes, and Indian Isayu Konda was also sorely missed at the end. Nonetheless, our British determination led us past the hated Germans and into the playoffs, where we just barely got swept by the Parisians. Oh, all right, that is what we like to call dramatic understatement. But we still came within... 8 games of repeating as World Champions. That has to count for something.

Retirements
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Manager Pedro Gallo. Not an Englishman but he will be missed nonetheless.

94-68, .580 PCT 2nd, 5.0 GB
At home		44-37, .543 PCT
On the road	50-31, .617 PCT
X-inning games	 6-8,  .429 PCT
One-run games	20-24, .455 PCT
Versus LHP	19-15, .559 PCT
Versus RHP	75-53, .586 PCT
April		12-9,  .571 PCT
May		20-8,  .714 PCT
June		14-15, .483 PCT
July		17-13, .567 PCT
August		13-14, .481 PCT
September	18-9,  .667 PCT

Batting Average		.279 - 4th in EURO
On-Base Percentage	.344 - 2nd in EURO
Slugging Percentage	.390 - 2nd in EURO
Runs Scored		 869 - 2nd in EURO
Hits			1598 - 4th in EURO
Extra-Base Hits		 422 - 2nd in EURO
Home Runs		  62 - 1st in EURO
Bases-On-Balls		 563 - 1st in EURO
Strikeouts		 454 - 4th in EURO
Stolen Bases		 181 - 4th in EURO

Earned Run Average 	3.31 - 2nd in EURO
Runs allowed		 706 - 4th in EURO
Hits allowed		1604 - 7th in EURO
Opponents AVG		.275 - 5th in EURO
Home Runs allowed	  23 - 1st in EURO
Bases-On-Balls		 281 - 1st in EURO
Strikeouts		 596 - 2nd in EURO

Pitching

The pitching, or shall we say the defense, was decent but not fantastic, although much of what kept the rotation from stardom were faults with the fielding prowess of the men behind them. The top two guys were among the finest lights in the league and the rest of the rotation was good enough. One minor piece of worrisomeness (we are English and therefore get to create words) is the age of the team. Turvill and Boden are right in their prime but Bradley Weld and Zach Thompson are starting to get a little older than we'd prefer our moundsmen to be. And there's not a lot in the way of youthful men waiting in the wings.

Projected Rotation
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Cameron Boden
Freddie Turvill
Bradley Weld*
Tim Lindstrom*
Taylor Royce**
Lee MacKimmie (CL)*
Zachary Thompson (CL)*

Player				Age	W	L	Pct	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA
Cameron Boden			28	25	12	0.676	41	41	0	331.2	355	97	2	28	144	2.63
Freddie Turvill			30	23	13	0.639	38	38	0	306.1	319	94	0	68	136	2.76
Bradley Weld			33	19	16	0.543	40	40	0	292.2	330	121	8	37	134	3.72
Tim Lindstrom			28	11	15	0.423	37	28	2	219.2	253	89	4	64	85	3.65
Taylor Royce			27	5	8	0.385	22	15	0	135.2	172	70	2	41	34	4.64
Lee MacKimmie			26	2	4	0.333	36	0	5	62.1	75	27	0	16	29	3.90
Carl Shone			27	2	0	1.000	19	0	0	44.0	47	20	4	14	26	4.09
Zachary Thompson		36	4	0	1.000	24	0	4	36.0	29	10	3	6	4	2.50
Alexander Scoley		26	3	0	1.000	8	0	1	23.2	24	6	0	7	4	2.28
Team Totals			29.0	94	68	0.580	265	162	12	1452.0	1604	534	23	281	596	3.31

Batting

The "soft white underbelly" of the London lineup, as it were, is the remarkably poor job the team did at catching baseballs in 1920. The Monarchs had 3 players in the European League top 10 in errors last year - SS Orrin Perrel was 2nd with 45, C Derek Mallam added 40 to tie for 4th, and 3B George Green bobbled 32 spheroids to finish 9th. 2 of those three players are getting on in years but don't have really adequate backups at the position. The third man, 3B Green, may be better suited for the other corner of the infield. Finding solid defenders for these positions should be a high priority for 1921.

Projected Lineup
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C - Derek Mallam
1B - Teddy Kalman*, George Green*, Max Lesage***
2B - Isayu Konda
3B - George Green*, Nathan Vessey*
SS - Orrin Perrel
LF - Ron King, Ilia Akbash**
CF - Carlton Wakefield, Cameron Reid*
RF - Byron Feveryear

Pos	Player			Age	G	GS	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG
C	Derek Mallam		35	145	144	516	76	120	17	4	14	95	4	5	82	21	0.233	0.336	0.362
C	Riley Whipp		28	29	18	69	7	14	0	0	0	5	0	1	7	6	0.203	0.286	0.203

1B	Teddy Kalman		33	110	106	429	61	138	19	2	6	63	4	2	34	12	0.322	0.378	0.417
1B	Max Lesage		19	77	34	133	19	29	3	1	1	14	5	3	6	20	0.218	0.248	0.278
1B	Finley Hawes		31	21	0	18	1	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	3	1	0.167	0.286	0.333

2B	Isayu Konda		32	107	107	417	84	133	27	10	9	63	16	8	70	18	0.319	0.415	0.496
2B	Ellis Renwick		28	107	67	235	35	63	12	6	0	21	16	5	13	30	0.268	0.303	0.370
2B	Keverne Cruthers	22	5	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2B	*Kian Baskerville	26	2	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

3B	*George Green		22	152	151	593	68	177	33	11	4	93	0	0	48	65	0.298	0.350	0.411

SS	Orrin Perrel		35	148	139	556	78	189	26	6	0	81	2	1	57	33	0.340	0.398	0.408
SS	Nathan Vessy		30	133	44	183	30	38	10	3	0	22	16	6	11	25	0.208	0.247	0.295

LF	Ilia Akbash		36	126	54	249	62	61	12	6	0	28	25	13	16	32	0.245	0.289	0.341
LF	*Thomas Asquith		31	104	36	199	36	54	9	4	4	25	9	4	15	15	0.271	0.322	0.417
LF	*Kai Moore		24	97	35	183	24	36	3	1	3	23	3	1	28	25	0.197	0.308	0.273
LF	*Joe Hollinger		28	50	32	135	13	42	11	4	2	21	0	1	18	3	0.311	0.389	0.496

CF	Cameron Reed		34	121	114	427	63	116	21	7	4	62	16	14	51	8	0.272	0.352	0.382
CF	*Carlton Wakefield	33	80	48	193	28	59	11	4	3	40	1	0	17	27	0.306	0.363	0.451

RF	*Byron Feaveryear	29	109	108	448	100	156	27	10	10	50	64	23	52	17	0.348	0.422	0.520
RF	Ron King		24	59	59	228	36	74	13	3	1	31	0	0	19	18	0.325	0.377	0.421
 	Team Totals		29.0	2047	1458	5719	869	1598	272	88	62	800	181	88	563	454	0.279	0.344	0.390

Legend
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no stars - Starter for sure
* - On the bubble
** - Longshot to be on Opening Day roster
*** - Blimey.

[Syd Thrift]

Overview
The 1920 season was over for the Matadors essentially before it started. We did not feel we had an adequate chance at taking home the European League shield and so at the end of spring training we traded our top two starters, Jesus Galvan and Mario Ramos, to the Mexico City Aztecs for a windmill of prospects. Actually if you look at our team as a whole it wasn't so much the pitching that did the team in as it was the hitting. Granted that the pitching did not help. What we're getting at is that maybe it was a good idea to get some of those hitting prospects.

Retirements
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SP Marcos Guzman - Had 5 fine starts in September after spending most of the year in reserve but decided to call it a career.

71-91, .438 PCT 7th, 28.0 GB
Home		37-44, .457 PCT
Road		34-47, .420 PCT
X-inning games	 3-6,  .333 PCT
One-run games	16-25, .390 PCT
Versus LHP	10-16, .385 PCT
Versus RHP	61-75, .449 PCT
April		 7-13, .350 PCT
May		15-16, .484 PCT
June		15-14, .517 PCT
July		13-14, .481 PCT
August		 9-19, .321 PCT
September	12-15, .444 PCT

Batting Average		.263 - 9th in EURO
On-Base Percentage	.302 - 10th in EURO
Slugging Percentage	.347 - 8th in EURO
Runs Scored		 670 - 9th in EURO
Hits			1500 - 9th in EURO
Extra-Base Hits		 330 - 8th in EURO
Home Runs		  41 - 7th in EURO
Bases-On-Balls		 310 - 10th in EURO
Strikeouts		 631 - 10th in EURO
Stolen Bases		 153 - 8th in EURO

Earned Run Average 	3.97 - 9th in EURO
Runs allowed		 761 - 6th in EURO
Hits allowed		1593 - 6th in EURO
Opponents AVG		.280 - 7th in EURO
Home Runs allowed	  77 - 10th in EURO
Bases-On-Balls		 474 - 7th in EURO
Strikeouts		 515 - 5th in EURO

Pitching

The Flying Morales Brothers led the rotation in 1920. The sons of a family of trapeze artists, these young men have different reasons for turning to baseball. The younger man Martin Morales chose the American sport because it is less strenuous than training his shoulder muscles to hold his entire body while flipping through the air. "One arm is better than two", he told us. His older brother Hector, though, has other ideas. "Hard work? I do not think that word means what he thinks it means." The elder Morales chose to pitch because he wanted to prove to the world the competitive fire of Spaniards.

Player				Age	W	L	Pct	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA
Héctor Morales			27	14	18	0.438	39	33	0	268.1	264	101	21	69	120	3.39
Martín Morales			24	13	17	0.433	35	34	0	263.1	291	106	11	96	76	3.62
Iván López			32	16	17	0.485	37	34	0	257.1	299	124	20	60	66	4.34
Juan Fernández			22	12	16	0.429	32	32	0	233.1	238	95	7	103	122	3.66
Ramiro Sosa			23	1	10	0.091	13	13	0	87.2	119	57	7	37	29	5.85
Pedro Ruíz			24	2	3	0.4	43	0	6	79.2	91	35	5	25	33	3.95
Pedro Osuna			20	3	2	0.6	32	0	1	65.2	72	27	3	19	24	3.70
José Salas			36	2	2	0.5	29	0	4	51.1	61	18	0	18	22	3.16
Marcos Guzmán			35	4	1	0.8	5	5	0	44.1	50	10	0	12	12	2.03
Francisco Torres		25	2	2	0.5	4	4	0	26	23	10	1	9	5	3.46
Ángel Fernández			25	2	1	0.667	4	4	0	23.2	35	16	1	6	1	6.08
Andrés Alomar			23	0	1	0	3	3	0	11.1	17	14	0	14	2	11.12
Alejandro Bautista		21	0	1	0	5	0	0	8.2	18	9	1	2	3	9.35
Sergio Vesa			21	0	0	0	3	0	0	6.1	12	9	0	2	0	12.79
Rafael Córdova			25	0	0	0	1	0	0	2.2	3	0	0	2	0	0.00
Team Totals			25.5	71	91	0.438	285	162	11	1429.2	1593	631	77	474	515	3.97

Batting

All we can really say about this offense is that one of these days it will be quite formidable. Well, maybe. The team was fairly young but with no real superstars there may not be a whole lot of improvement out of this group. Felix Hernandez is fast, at least.

Pos	Player			Age	G	GS	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG
C	Carlos García		22	139	118	449	32	128	15	4	2	63	2	0	16	16	0.285	0.308	0.350
C	Ricardo Martínez	28	54	44	166	17	39	10	1	1	16	0	0	6	16	0.235	0.267	0.325

1B	Felipe Pérez		27	160	160	612	57	174	21	5	7	91	1	0	42	70	0.284	0.327	0.369		
1B	Orlando Muñóz		34	112	23	168	14	44	12	1	0	22	1	0	11	26	0.262	0.321	0.345		
1B	Jesús Cruz		34	10	1	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0.167	0.375	0.167

2B	Jorge Campos		24	143	117	442	42	96	15	8	1	35	6	8	26	49	0.217	0.258	0.294		
2B	Cris Jiménez		35	111	47	210	26	65	9	3	4	37	2	2	12	19	0.310	0.351	0.438		
2B	#Víctor Ramírez		21	66	52	186	17	40	11	2	0	16	2	1	7	35	0.215	0.241	0.296		
2B	Augusto Sánchez		27	30	30	105	7	25	4	0	0	10	3	1	6	13	0.238	0.277	0.276

3B	*António Mateo		27	95	95	359	46	104	17	5	2	33	1	0	24	44	0.290	0.343	0.382		
3B	Sergio Rodríguez	33	24	23	86	15	32	2	2	1	20	1	2	6	3	0.372	0.415	0.477		

SS	Gerardo Carrillo	28	113	61	221	25	46	4	5	3	22	2	1	17	38	0.208	0.267	0.312		
SS	#Pedro Enríquez		27	53	39	132	10	37	6	0	0	5	1	1	6	5	0.280	0.309	0.326
SS	Francisco Correa	18	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	

LF	*Enrico Ramírez		25	148	137	562	65	159	25	2	4	54	3	0	21	55	0.283	0.315	0.356		
LF	Manny Molina		23	21	21	88	14	28	5	2	3	15	0	1	6	8	0.318	0.358	0.523

CF	Félix Hernández		25	134	105	465	76	109	18	10	2	31	49	14	29	40	0.234	0.282	0.329		
CF	*Cisco Quintero		26	53	53	211	30	63	10	3	2	30	17	5	11	31	0.299	0.326	0.403		
CF	*Cristóbal Sánchez	24	108	34	145	49	34	4	1	0	10	33	13	3	29	0.234	0.247	0.276		
CF	Alberto Castillo	22	34	7	35	8	7	1	0	0	0	6	2	1	3	0.200	0.222	0.229

RF	*Alfonso Carvajal	28	110	87	350	42	98	13	6	4	37	8	8	37	50	0.280	0.350	0.386		
RF	*José Fierro		23	106	42	211	34	70	8	0	4	34	14	2	11	9	0.332	0.357	0.427		
 	Team Totals		26.1	2111	1458	5696	670	1500	224	65	41	619	153	61	310	631	0.263	0.302	0.347

[Syd Thrift]

Overview

The Aztecs really jumped off to a good start last year but for some reason, despite picking up a couple of great pitchers from Madrid and engineering a solid midseason trade for an equally great hitter, they slumped at the end of the year, going just 2 games over .500 from the trade deadline forward and getting knocked off in short order by the Chicago Defenders in the postseason. It was the second such early exit for the Aztecs, who are really beginning to feel the sting of raised expectations now. Things won't get any easier this year, what with Mexico City getting lumped in with the Royal Canadians and the 4 other non-USA clubs in a giant Colonial Division. That being said, outside of Canada the new teams are mostly patsies. The Aztecs figure to blaze past them the way Pancho Villa blazed past Pershing.

Retirements
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3B Gilberto Lopez - a decent backup in '19 but wasn't in the picture last year.
C Eduardo Gonzalez - Very good hitting backup catcher in the first year of the league but the victim of numbers in '20.
SP Edgar Uribe - Sound like a broken record? This man didn't pitch at all in 1920 following 15 league-average starts the season before.
SP Juan Jaramillo - In an alternate universe when the Aztecs didn't pick up two of the best pitchers of the EU for 1920, this man might have made a difference.

95-67, .586 PCT, 2nd, 2.0 GB
Home		44-37, .543 PCT
Road		51-30, .630 PCT
X-inning games	 9-7,  .563 PCT
One-run games	27-31, .466 PCT
Versus LHP	29-11, .725 PCT
Versus RHP	66-56, .541 PCT
April		11-6,  .647 PCT
May		17-13, .567 PCT
June		22-9,  .710 PCT
July		17-13, .567 PCT
August		13-16, .448 PCT
September	15-10, .600 PCT

Batting Average		.275 - 3rd in AA
On-Base Percentage	.329 - 4th in AA
Slugging Percentage	.378 - 3rd in AA
Runs Scored		 765 - 4th in AA
Hits			1601 - 3rd in AA
Extra-Base Hits		 424 - 2nd in AA
Home Runs		  44 - tied for 4th in AA
Bases-On-Balls		 459 - 4th in AA
Strikeouts		 568 - 9th in AA
Stolen Bases		  77 - 10th in AA

Earned Run Average 	2.85 - 1st in AA
Runs allowed		 607 - 1st in AA
Hits allowed		1431 - 1st in AA
Opponents AVG		.251 - 1st in AA
Home Runs allowed	  20 - 2nd in AA
Bases-On-Balls		 301 - 1st in AA
Strikeouts		 577 - 2nd in AA

Pitching

Back in the old American and National leagues, a sub-3.00 team ERA was not necessarily anything special. There were years where the entire league had a sub-3.00 ERA. Given that, it's still quite an accomplishment for a League of Nations team to reach a mark like this. After all, what did Mexico know of baseball before 1919? Granted, it helped to bring over Jesus Galvan and Mario Ramos, but the other half of the rotation, Jose Gonzales of Acapulco and Manuel Figueroa of Tlaxcala, were no slouches. 25 year old Julio Leon of the hometown Mexico City even wrapped up many of the Aztecs' victories.

Player				Age	W	L	Pct	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA
Jesús Galván			27	23	14	0.622	40	40	0	335.2	307	94	3	84	138	2.52
José Gonzáles			27	17	11	0.607	40	38	0	307.2	311	102	2	51	103	2.98
Manuel Figueroa			32	24	11	0.686	38	38	0	297	294	95	5	52	109	2.88
Mario Ramos			34	16	11	0.593	30	30	0	225	217	67	4	22	118	2.68
Alberto Corona			29	2	6	0.25	27	2	2	83.1	84	27	1	24	30	2.92
Carlos Díaz			29	4	4	0.5	10	8	0	67	65	25	0	23	20	3.36
Francisco Ramos			26	1	2	0.333	16	0	1	44	37	7	2	7	18	1.43
Júlio León			25	2	3	0.4	24	0	5	43	38	14	0	17	18	2.93
Sancho Perea			33	4	3	0.571	7	6	0	40.2	45	22	2	12	10	4.87
Tomás Ortíz			21	1	0	1	8	0	0	23	21	6	1	6	6	2.35
Juan González			20	1	2	0.333	5	0	1	7.1	12	8	0	3	7	9.82
Team Totals			27.5	95	67	0.586	245	162	9	1473.2	1431	467	20	301	577	2.85

Batting

Mexico City's hitting wasn't nearly as impressive as the pitching. Well, of course not. It was still very, very good though, especially after Edgar Diaz came aboard from the Chicago Defenders. So strange that that club would pull such a "white flag" trade and then go on to defeat our men in the postseason. Baseball is a crazy game. For the most part, the lineup's pretty set going into '21. We're not fond of Mariano Colon at first base but there are many, many people who could theoretically fill that spot.

Pos	Player			Age	G	GS	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG
C	Ramón Guzmán		25	128	96	401	40	110	21	13	3	45	0	0	29	48	0.274	0.319	0.414		
C	#Cris Ortíz		22	82	62	250	32	71	10	1	1	36	0	0	26	33	0.284	0.345	0.344		
C	*Eduardo González	38	7	4	17	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	0.176	0.263	0.176		

1B	Mariano Colón		27	138	93	381	32	94	19	6	3	51	0	0	26	41	0.247	0.295	0.352		
1B	Augusto Sánchez		27	20	12	43	3	13	1	2	0	13	0	0	1	7	0.302	0.304	0.419		

2B	*Juan Rodríguez		22	134	88	374	53	117	26	3	3	57	13	4	42	17	0.313	0.385	0.422		
2B	Álex Lafrosia		22	83	35	131	23	42	3	2	1	14	4	1	8	12	0.321	0.359	0.397		
2B	*Luis Vargas		25	14	14	57	14	26	5	1	0	10	5	4	10	4	0.456	0.544	0.579		

3B	Sergio Rodríguez	33	110	110	436	63	134	33	2	8	61	2	5	43	25	0.307	0.369	0.447		
3B	*António Mateo		27	50	50	195	17	57	9	1	0	23	1	0	15	15	0.292	0.346	0.349		
3B	*Gilberto López		36	20	2	15	2	6	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	0.400	0.438	0.400		
3B	Ricardo Tobor		18	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000		

SS	Luis Rangel		31	155	143	624	88	184	40	8	2	74	9	8	44	16	0.295	0.342	0.394		
SS	#Nelson Ramírez		35	124	101	392	48	109	21	6	2	46	0	1	37	18	0.278	0.341	0.378		
SS	#Víctor Ramírez		21	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000		

LF	Juan Garza		33	91	91	357	54	106	17	4	4	48	0	0	34	45	0.297	0.358	0.401		
LF	Edgar Díaz		35	43	43	179	28	62	12	4	4	36	0	0	8	12	0.346	0.377	0.525		
LF	José Ramos		36	58	26	133	13	41	5	0	2	14	0	0	15	13	0.308	0.384	0.391		
LF	José Herrera		17	10	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000		

CF	*Cisco Quintero		26	110	110	489	79	132	16	8	6	39	27	9	22	81	0.270	0.310	0.372		
CF	António Huertas		30	43	18	80	14	18	5	1	0	5	0	1	3	6	0.225	0.253	0.313		

RF	Juan Benavides		26	129	85	301	57	86	22	9	3	44	7	13	27	33	0.286	0.346	0.449		
RF	*Juan Jose Ortega	33	64	49	197	20	51	8	2	0	24	2	2	13	26	0.259	0.302	0.320		
RF	*Luis Garanzuay		24	41	33	145	19	26	4	3	1	15	4	1	17	15	0.179	0.264	0.269		
RF	Gustavo Guevara		33	55	31	130	14	43	8	5	1	16	0	1	7	15	0.331	0.365	0.492		
 	Team Totals		27.9	1958	1458	5813	765	1601	296	84	44	711	77	51	459	568	0.275	0.329	0.378

[Syd Thrift]

Overview

The Glorious Revolution has to start somewhere. The depths that this baseball team has reached is not due to the inadequacies of Communism - nyet! In fact, just implying that it might got the writer of that last sentence "re-educated". Nyet, this team is bad because of the legacy of capitalism and Czarism. However, the capitalist pig-dogs will not prevail! Just wait and the proletariat will prove not just the equal of the rest of you but the better! Our strong Soviet backs will lift us to the top!

Retirements
-------------
1B Iokim Partasov - A rock of the team in 1919 but slipped in 1920 and "elected" to ply his trade in Siberia instead.

67-95, .414 PCT, 10th, 32.0 GB
Home		39-42, .481 PCT
Road		28-53, .346 PCT
X-inning games	 8-12, .400 PCT
One-run games	23-26, .469 PCT
Versus LHP	 6-18, .250 PCT
Versus RHP	61-77, .442 PCT
April		 7-12, .368 PCT
May		13-17, .433 PCT
June		14-17, .452 PCT
July		12-18, .400 PCT
August		15-13, .536 PCT
September	 6-18, .250 PCT

Batting Average		.261 - 10th in EURO
On-Base Percentage	.319 - 8th in EURO
Slugging Percentage	.342 - 9th in EURO
Runs Scored		 678 - 8th in EURO
Hits			1470 - 10th in EURO
Extra-Base Hits		 319 - 9th in EURO
Home Runs		  33 - 8th in EURO
Bases-On-Balls		 468 - 5th in EURO
Strikeouts		 603 - 9th in EURO
Stolen Bases		 161 - 6th in EURO

Earned Run Average 	3.77 - 7th in EURO
Runs allowed		 782 - 8th in EURO
Hits allowed		1550 - 4th in EURO
Opponents AVG		.273 - 4th in EURO
Home Runs allowed	  48 - 7th in EURO
Bases-On-Balls		 550 - 9th in EURO
Strikeouts		 457 - 8th in EURO

Pitching

Because we lacked individual stars, the Soviet Socialist Republic went with quantity. As you can see, it worked unbelievably well. Even though the top pitcher finished just 47th in the league in innings pitched, the team was still more or less league average in terms of pitching quality. That is called the wave of communism. And as our men get better and better, we will crush our opponents behind the monstrous strength of collectivist philosophies and such.

Player				Age	W	L	Pct	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA
Bogdashha Fotinov		25	11	14	0.440	34	34	0	246.1	278	87	1	60	84	3.18	
Spartak Ozeretskovsky		30	8	14	0.364	36	18	4	167.2	159	62	7	63	37	3.33	
Seriozhenka Erbanov		26	11	7	0.611	18	18	0	143.2	137	42	3	42	35	2.63	
Scott Ellis			30	9	8	0.529	18	18	0	135.1	133	57	1	49	51	3.79	
Andrey Karabashlykov		25	4	9	0.308	19	14	0	115.1	99	29	1	64	27	2.26	
Grigory Begunov			21	2	8	0.200	16	13	0	104.1	117	48	8	42	18	4.14	
Bogdan Paleev			22	4	6	0.400	50	0	1	98.1	114	34	4	26	56	3.11	
Dima Likum			26	4	8	0.333	12	11	0	78.1	106	50	7	18	35	5.74	
Sacha Ayukasov			20	3	6	0.333	10	10	0	70.2	86	45	8	32	23	5.73	
Panas Rudnev			25	1	3	0.250	18	6	0	69	69	32	3	46	8	4.17	
Hedeon Ayatskov			26	2	4	0.333	8	6	0	49	62	38	1	29	11	6.98	
Gavrilovich Beschenko		26	3	1	0.750	4	4	0	35.2	41	10	0	10	14	2.52	
Kolya Pyatnov			22	1	1	0.500	20	0	1	33.2	33	13	1	25	13	3.48	
Oleg Ayukasov			21	2	0	1.000	13	0	0	33	44	20	2	20	12	5.45	
Joseph Vranitzky		28	2	1	0.667	4	4	0	29.2	28	9	0	4	24	2.73	
Konstantine Totiev		23	0	4	0.000	4	4	0	17.2	27	14	1	15	7	7.13	
Serge Zhmulev			34	0	0	0.000	3	0	0	8	5	3	0	1	1	3.38	
Vasya Linev			21	0	1	0.000	2	2	0	3.1	12	9	0	4	1	24.30	
Team Totals			25.1	67	95	0.414	289	162	6	1439	1550	602	48	550	457	3.77

Batting

And offensively, our plan is working just as well! Oh, sure, it didn't accomplish as much in terms of old-fashioned capitalist metrics such as "runs scored" or "batting average", but it did its thing while having only two men achiee more than 500 at-bats. Just as we Proletariat share the wealth, so do we share the load. This means that when a man like Ioakim Partasov (now "retired" to Siberia) falters, there are 3 or 4 men to rise up and take his place. And they will do that while singing the new hymns that have been written for our man Vladimir Lenin. Huzzah, Lenin! Huzzah, workers!

Pos	Player			Age	G	GS	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG		
C	Makar Lyubich		37	135	85	347	28	84	15	4	1	43	2	0	25	29	0.242	0.292	0.317		
C	Leo Nilin		28	131	55	247	14	60	3	2	0	29	2	1	27	36	0.243	0.318	0.271		
C	Shura Saakyan		31	76	22	124	16	30	4	1	0	16	0	0	6	11	0.242	0.269	0.290		

1B	*Ioakim Partasov	39	138	134	492	57	125	35	6	1	48	1	1	64	52	0.254	0.341	0.356		
1B	Iosif Bazaev		30	143	34	236	24	65	3	1	0	23	8	6	16	34	0.275	0.319	0.297	
	
2B	#Mikhail Wolubuev	37	76	66	241	28	63	5	1	0	20	0	2	21	31	0.261	0.338	0.290		
2B	#Seriozha Gafurov	34	127	44	183	15	41	6	3	1	18	6	3	10	30	0.224	0.267	0.306		
2B	Lev Jivulin		22	47	38	140	9	28	1	1	0	11	2	3	12	19	0.200	0.268	0.221		
2B	Dimitri Rodomanov	24	88	33	113	30	20	2	0	0	10	12	1	14	11	0.177	0.266	0.195		

3B	#Artyom Vzyatyshev	26	140	101	420	41	90	20	5	6	40	2	1	19	57	0.214	0.248	0.329		
3B	Gavrel Pinchover	22	42	2	18	8	3	0	0	0	0	3	3	2	6	0.167	0.250	0.167		

SS	Leonide Johov		22	153	139	466	52	120	21	9	2	68	12	6	35	46	0.258	0.312	0.354		
SS	Yasha Mahutov		19	87	63	211	24	55	4	1	0	23	10	7	4	29	0.261	0.273	0.289		

LF	*Ganya Acharyan		22	155	143	573	82	161	28	15	4	78	16	14	53	31	0.281	0.345	0.403		
LF	*Yury Pahmutov		25	30	30	101	24	34	6	0	3	17	6	0	24	11	0.337	0.477	0.485		
LF	*Karolek Vihrov		31	53	14	84	6	20	3	2	0	11	1	0	7	17	0.238	0.293	0.321		
LF	Mark Yarushin		26	55	10	52	21	14	1	1	1	6	10	2	5	7	0.269	0.367	0.385		

CF	*Vasilii Emin		25	110	99	379	45	106	12	7	2	23	36	10	13	49	0.280	0.302	0.364		
CF	Redmond Stettin		25	91	25	145	35	44	7	2	0	20	25	12	14	10	0.303	0.360	0.379		

RF	#Sergei Lenyashin	30	159	159	593	86	206	27	7	10	77	6	8	81	8	0.347	0.426	0.467		
 	Team Totals		26.5	2325	1458	5639	678	1470	214	72	33	627	161	80	468	603	0.261	0.319	0.342

[Syd Thrift]

Overview

How far can you go in the League of Nations with power and front-line pitching? Pretty far, probably, but the Giants aren't quite in the position to test that idea. They did lead the AA in hitting, but have yet to unleash the awesome power of the home run that they've been telling everyone about. They plan on moving back into their old haunts, the Polo Grounds, next year, and that ought to add a bit to their homerun totals. Otherwise, a rough September is what stood between them and 90 victories.

Retirements
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None

85-77, .525 PCT 4th, 12.0 GB
Home		41-40, .506 PCT
Road		44-37, .543 PCT
X-inning games	 7-5,  .583 PCT
One-run games	25-19, .568 PCT
Versus LHP	19-10, .655 PCT
Versus RHP	66-67, .496 PCT
April		 8-8,  .500 PCT
May		19-9,  .679 PCT
June		17-16, .515 PCT
July		14-18, .438 PCT
August		16-13, .552 PCT
September	11-13, .458 PCT

Batting Average		.286 - 1st in AA
On-Base Percentage	.337 - 3rd in AA
Slugging Percentage	.379 - 2nd in AA
Runs Scored		 808 - 3rd in AA
Hits			1664 - 1st in AA
Extra-Base Hits		 380 - 5th in AA
Home Runs		  44 - tied for 4th in AA
Bases-On-Balls		 451 - 5th in AA
Strikeouts		 460 - 4th in AA
Stolen Bases		 119 - 8th in AA

Earned Run Average 	3.71 - 6th in AA
Runs allowed		 723 - 4th in AA
Hits allowed		1469 - 2nd in AA
Opponents AVG		.261 - 2nd in AA
Home Runs allowed	  42 - 7th in AA
Bases-On-Balls		 547 - 8th in AA
Strikeouts		 423 - 9th in AA

Pitching

There were some really bad pitchers on this team in 1920. How David McClendon did not implode with a 1:4 K/W ratio and 17 homeruns allowed (3rd in the AA) is beyond even us. And we know baseball because we are Giants fans. Geraldo Alvarado managed an even worse ratio than McClendon, although in fairness he did kind of implode. Steve "Two Armed" Daly was the ace of the staff and Jim Jones should be better in a full season (he came in in a midseason deal with the US Army and missed the last month and a half with bone chips in his elbow). Also, Juan Lozano figures to only improve upon an up and down campaign.

Player				Age	W	L	Pct	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA
Juan Lozano			24	19	17	0.528	39	38	1	316.2	317	139	4	113	92	3.95	
Steve Daly			31	18	14	0.563	34	34	0	273	271	90	4	60	100	2.97	
David McLendon			26	15	14	0.517	32	32	0	245.1	245	109	17	120	33	4.00	
Jeffery William			26	11	7	0.611	26	19	0	157.1	147	52	3	48	48	2.97	
Gerardo Alvarado		23	8	8	0.500	21	20	0	152.2	185	86	8	91	22	5.07	
Jim Jones			33	5	5	0.500	15	13	0	104	113	45	3	36	43	3.89	
Jeffery Lewis			33	7	6	0.538	48	0	4	94.2	77	26	0	25	52	2.47	
Jessie Franklin			23	1	2	0.333	30	0	5	57.1	58	19	2	25	23	2.98	
Steve Ivey			18	1	4	0.200	6	6	0	40.2	48	25	1	27	8	5.53	
Ralph Bryant			26	0	0	0.000	1	0	0	3.1	4	2	0	1	2	5.40	
Ryan James			20	0	0	0.000	1	0	0	2	4	3	0	1	0	13.50	
Team Totals			25.7	85	77	0.525	253	162	10	1447	1469	596	42	547	423	3.71

Batting

On top of being impressively hit-worthy, this team is also impressively young. That means adaptable. And adaptable means they'll keep on hitting until the cows come home. And since cows do not, as a general thing, live in New York City, that could be a long, long time. The core of the lineup - C Mike Bryan, 2B Duane Bunch, 3B John Baird, CF Terry "Slacker" Schroeder, and RF Stephen Everett are all well under 30. If they can just coax some more good performances from their moundsmen, the sky is the limit for these boys.

Pos	Player			Age	G	GS	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG		
C	Mike Bryan		24	148	145	569	47	171	24	8	5	85	0	0	19	57	0.301	0.322	0.397		
C	Vincent Newman		28	64	17	104	7	19	2	1	0	8	0	0	10	14	0.183	0.252	0.221		

1B	Travis Hamilton		27	132	79	349	40	86	11	4	0	48	2	1	31	8	0.246	0.305	0.301		
1B	*Clay Davis		35	46	42	164	25	55	17	3	1	28	1	1	18	7	0.335	0.400	0.494		
1B	*Mark Johnston		18	25	25	85	4	12	2	0	1	8	0	0	3	20	0.141	0.167	0.200		
1B	Adam Walker		21	38	16	65	8	17	1	1	1	7	1	1	4	14	0.262	0.314	0.354		
1B	Dave Banks		21	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000		

2B	Duane Bunch		25	160	160	661	111	229	26	6	3	69	5	8	49	16	0.346	0.388	0.418		

3B	John Baird		26	148	148	625	89	200	25	4	5	69	4	2	40	20	0.320	0.359	0.397		
3B	Pablo Cuevas		24	60	16	74	7	18	1	0	0	4	0	0	6	10	0.243	0.300	0.257		

SS	*Harry Williams		28	159	159	533	54	145	23	4	3	68	4	1	42	49	0.272	0.336	0.347		
SS	Lawrence Ellis		28	69	3	34	2	6	0	0	0	4	0	0	1	6	0.176	0.200	0.176		

LF	#Dave Gillespie		24	139	96	453	74	122	15	9	4	41	43	20	33	59	0.269	0.324	0.369		
LF	*Robert Beatty		22	51	51	207	46	66	14	6	4	21	6	3	32	10	0.319	0.411	0.502		

CF	*Terry Schroeder	26	162	162	611	135	195	34	22	11	106	37	22	105	25	0.319	0.417	0.501		

RF	*Steven Everett		27	159	159	614	72	190	41	5	5	116	10	4	34	59	0.309	0.342	0.417		
RF	Ralph Forrest		25	107	18	153	30	38	6	2	1	25	3	1	12	17	0.248	0.318	0.333		
RF	Floyd Carson		22	40	0	12	10	3	0	0	0	1	1	3	0	1	0.250	0.250	0.250		
RF	Micheal Shelton		31	5	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000		
RF	*John Trimble		17	8	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000		

 	Team Totals		25.2	1975	1458	5826	808	1664	259	77	44	742	119	67	451	460	0.286	0.337	0.379

[Syd Thrift]

Overview

Following our extravagant first League of Nations title, all we have to say is... uohohohho! Uohohohoho! And also, uohohohohoho! Perhaps even we were doubtful after a below .500 June left our club at 41 wins against 38 losses. But as we say about le Tour de France, it is not something that can be won in a single day. From July 1 on, we lapped the tired riders of the European League to the tune of a 66-26 mark including the playoffs. Speaking of the postseason, in it all eyes were on the beaucomp bats, but the defense was the Arc du Triomphe of October.

Retirements
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1B Anthony Guillemot - Only played sparingly in 1919 and retired after a year in reserve.

99-63, .611 PCT 1st, - GB
Home		55-26, .679 PCT
Road		44-37, .543 PCT
X-inning games	 7-5,  .583 PCT
One-run games	23-25, .479 PCT
Versus LHP	15-9,  .625 PCT
Versus RHP	84-54, .609 PCT
April		11-8, .579 PCT
May		15-14, .517 PCT
June		15-16, .484 PCT
July		21-9,  .700 PCT
August		20-7,  .741 PCT
September	17-9,  .654 PCT

Batting Average		.294 - 1st in EURO
On-Base Percentage	.344 - 1st in EURO
Slugging Percentage	.402 - 1st in EURO
Runs Scored		 873 - 1st in EURO
Hits			1728 - 1st in EURO
Extra-Base Hits		 438 - 1st in EURO
Home Runs		  59 - 2nd in EURO
Bases-On-Balls		 444 - 6th in EURO
Strikeouts		 408 - 2nd in EURO
Stolen Bases		  78 - 9th in EURO

Earned Run Average 	3.38 - 3rd in EURO
Runs allowed		 679 - 2nd in EURO
Hits allowed		1513 - 3rd in EURO
Opponents AVG		.266 - 3rd in EURO
Home Runs allowed	  26 - 2nd in EURO
Bases-On-Balls		 384 - 2nd in EURO
Strikeouts		 529 - 4th in EURO

Pitching

Joel Lemoine was named the greatest pitcher in zee history of zee European League for 1920, which says about all we wanted to say about this pitching staff. Zee naysayers, they say that so much of our pitching staff it is made of the non-French, but that just goes to show how many people love the France!

Player				Age	W	L	Pct	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA
Joël Lemoine			29	27	12	0.692	41	41	0	333	322	105	2	58	112	2.84
Urbanus Gruppe			27	23	15	0.605	40	40	0	322.2	324	113	4	99	126	3.15
Melvin Hopstaken		30	15	10	0.600	30	30	0	239	234	81	2	41	106	3.05
Hendri Arents			26	9	11	0.450	21	20	0	161	191	69	3	37	61	3.86
Ernest Robin			26	4	5	0.444	11	11	0	90.1	97	37	2	26	20	3.69
Patrick Séguin			25	5	4	0.556	17	11	0	78.2	115	52	5	37	30	5.95
Frédéric Devaux			27	4	4	0.500	17	7	3	70.1	91	35	6	33	19	4.48
François Michel			25	5	1	0.833	21	0	1	52.2	44	12	0	10	26	2.05
Benjamin Munoz			32	4	1	0.800	33	0	7	52	38	8	1	17	19	1.38
Stéphane Carpentier		24	2	0	1.000	11	2	2	34.2	40	18	0	16	9	4.67
Daniel Huguet			28	1	0	1.000	5	0	0	13.2	17	13	1	10	1	8.56
Team Totals			27.2	99	63	0.611	247	162	13	1448	1513	543	26	384	529	3.38

Batting

The only reason the French did not produce the MVP last year is that there were too many qualified candidates to split the French vote. Jean-Pascal Dumoulin, Moise Gros, Sebastien Guilbert, Didier Bernard, and Herve Fischer all received MVP votes, but of course you cannot combine them all into one the way that Austria could combine all their love for their only good player Viet Aehrenthal. Sacre bleu! It is just as well. Vienna needs something to root for. They cannot, after all, celebrate winning more games than losing them, or winning the Great War. Did we just say that?

Pos	Player			Age	G	GS	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG		
C	*Laurent Garnier	26	106	102	378	54	115	24	1	4	63	3	1	59	8	0.304	0.395	0.405		
C	Sjaak Schultz		25	54	29	132	15	34	5	2	2	22	0	0	9	16	0.258	0.303	0.371		
C	Gervais Becker		27	30	23	88	11	19	5	2	0	11	0	0	5	2	0.216	0.265	0.318		
C	Claude Gonçalves	29	37	8	58	9	18	3	1	2	14	0	1	4	0	0.310	0.355	0.500		

1B	Jean-Pascal Dumoulin	26	159	159	626	83	190	42	8	5	93	1	0	65	73	0.304	0.365	0.420		
1B	*Marcel Granger		24	77	3	77	7	21	4	1	0	14	0	0	7	9	0.273	0.333	0.351		

2B	*Moïse Gros		28	157	156	649	136	207	32	7	9	79	15	7	71	15	0.319	0.386	0.431		

3B	Gilbert Perrin		23	154	154	569	67	160	25	5	7	83	10	12	58	16	0.281	0.349	0.380		

SS	#Didier Bouchard	35	117	108	362	50	104	21	6	2	39	1	0	14	52	0.287	0.314	0.395		
SS	Anthony Legras		24	110	29	127	21	28	4	0	0	9	1	1	6	11	0.220	0.259	0.252		
SS	Édouard Duprat		32	68	30	118	8	30	4	1	0	14	0	0	1	18	0.254	0.267	0.305		
SS	Aurélien Thomas		33	81	9	48	3	7	2	0	0	1	1	1	0	8	0.146	0.143	0.188		

LF	Sébastien Guilbert	32	158	158	649	94	222	39	8	0	82	5	1	50	7	0.342	0.388	0.427		
LF	*René Payen		26	101	24	155	24	43	8	2	3	23	0	1	11	17	0.277	0.325	0.413		
LF	*Sandy Combe		22	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000		

CF	*Hervé Fischer		28	116	116	500	92	166	44	18	3	71	24	12	34	39	0.332	0.374	0.510		
CF	René Imbert		23	57	16	68	18	10	0	1	0	6	6	4	7	7	0.147	0.227	0.176		
CF	*Wassim Richard		29	25	8	35	7	10	1	0	0	3	4	1	2	2	0.286	0.324	0.314		

RF	*Didier Bernard		27	158	156	655	81	215	19	9	20	109	1	1	28	31	0.328	0.363	0.476		
RF	*Frédéric Olivier	25	73	8	41	28	8	1	0	1	7	6	2	2	6	0.195	0.250	0.293		

 	Team Totals		27.2	2088	1458	5877	873	1728	301	78	59	806	78	48	444	408	0.294	0.344	0.402

[Syd Thrift]

Overview

Yes, the Rio de Janeiro Carnival was a carnival for everyone involved! Especially opposing hitting! We wanted to give the fans a real taste of Brazilian action! in our first year and the team did not let us down! Not one bit! Excitement first, then winning!

Retirements
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1B Salome Rmus - Did not play and had too few vowels to compete at a major league level anyway.
RF Thomas Soares - Also didn't play.

67-95, .414 PCT 9th, 30.0 GB
Home		36-45, .444 PCT
Road		31-50, .383 PCT
X-inning games	 2-9,  .182 PCT
One-run games	12-31, .279 PCT
Versus LHP	16-20, .444 PCT
Versus RHP	51-75, .405 PCT
April		 9-10, .474 PCT
May		13-15, .464 PCT
June		11-18, .379 PCT
July		 9-22, .290 PCT
August		15-13, .536 PCT
September	10-17, .370 PCT

Batting Average		.273 - 5th in AA
On-Base Percentage	.322 - 6th in AA
Slugging Percentage	.372 - 5th in AA
Runs Scored		 761 - 5th in AA
Hits			1569 - 4th in AA
Extra-Base Hits		 402 - 3rd in AA
Home Runs		  38 - 8th in AA
Bases-On-Balls		 408 - 7th in AA
Strikeouts		 534 - 8th in AA
Stolen Bases		 226 - 2nd in AA

Earned Run Average 	4.32 - 9th in AA
Runs allowed		 828 - 9th in AA
Hits allowed		1525 - 3rd in AA
Opponents AVG		.272 - 4th in AA
Home Runs allowed	  48 - 8th in AA
Bases-On-Balls		 610 - 10th in AA
Strikeouts		 335 - 10th in AA

Pitching

It wasn't the best pitching staff in the league, or even an average staff, but it was the youngest! We are so excited about everything that we can only speak with exclamation points! And then sometimes we have to put extra exclamation! points in the middle! of sentences! We do not know how Heliodoro Meredith could lose 22 games and Adolfo Regalo just miss winning 20 with otherwise similar records but it sure is exciting! to think about!

Player				Age	W	L	Pct	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA
Heliodoro Meredith		26	13	22	0.371	39	39	0	314	298	114	1	111	81	3.27	
Adolfo Regalo			28	19	13	0.594	35	35	0	280.1	282	108	9	79	75	3.47	
Teodoro Labrego			25	10	20	0.333	39	31	1	264.1	256	110	3	123	62	3.75	
Mário Bahamonde			25	13	15	0.464	31	30	0	224.2	255	114	10	73	62	4.57	
Johão Rojo			23	7	18	0.280	25	25	0	162.1	214	116	7	103	21	6.43	
Odoardo Parente			19	2	0	1.000	29	0	3	65	58	33	5	42	19	4.57	
Sisto Greenough			20	3	4	0.429	35	0	2	64.1	81	37	7	38	6	5.18	
Alberto Solís			18	0	1	0.000	12	2	1	29.2	37	28	2	21	4	8.49	
Niculáo Unho			19	0	0	0.000	12	0	1	24.2	37	26	3	15	5	9.49	
Abraão Le Coq			21	0	2	0.000	5	0	1	5.1	7	3	1	5	0	5.06	
Team Totals			22.4	67	95	0.414	262	162	9	1434.2	1525	689	48	610	335	4.32

Batting

The lineup was exciting! too! Look at Danilo Salgado's exciting! 86 steals! 226 steals as a team! If you could win just by being exciting, the Carnival would have been the 2nd winningest team in the league! Exciting! Like the "samba" music that we love! Some of the boys were less exciting(!) but we kept shuffling people out in an exciting! manner until we found the proper breakdown of exciting! Exciting!

Pos	Player			Age	G	GS	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG		
C	Mannuell Bicand		27	101	72	303	33	64	12	2	0	32	1	1	24	7	0.211	0.275	0.264		
C	#Norberto Cabeceiras	34	89	84	287	35	85	12	1	6	46	0	0	29	23	0.296	0.366	0.408		
C	Pacio Persoa		24	6	6	19	2	3	1	0	0	3	0	0	2	1	0.158	0.238	0.211		

1B	Prospero Galeano	25	93	93	358	51	118	18	10	3	49	0	3	18	11	0.330	0.368	0.461		
1B	#Timóteo Repincho	25	124	61	306	39	75	14	10	0	38	5	5	23	42	0.245	0.301	0.356		

2B	David Molina		28	158	152	581	78	177	34	7	2	66	10	6	45	15	0.305	0.354	0.398		

3B	Justo Paulos		24	126	102	380	56	106	27	17	4	64	27	11	29	60	0.279	0.327	0.471		
3B	Felício Blasco		39	99	58	252	25	64	2	1	1	32	0	0	13	12	0.254	0.285	0.282		
3B	#Javier Ozores		28	17	15	49	3	11	2	0	0	1	0	0	4	8	0.224	0.283	0.265		
3B	Altifício Bonita	24	5	5	19	1	9	1	0	0	3	2	0	1	0	0.474	0.500	0.526		
3B	*Telma Vabo		29	9	0	8	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.250	0.250	0.250		

SS	Aluizio Medelas		30	105	59	260	30	75	13	0	3	42	1	1	17	13	0.288	0.328	0.373		
SS	Arcibaldo Reynolds	32	67	59	227	29	59	11	4	2	33	3	2	17	9	0.260	0.310	0.370		
SS	#Ricardo Fernández	21	140	44	226	42	44	6	1	3	28	21	7	31	22	0.195	0.291	0.270		

LF	*Danilo Salgado		24	152	148	638	125	217	40	15	4	59	86	23	56	71	0.340	0.394	0.469		
LF	*Teobaldo Moeringk	27	97	47	208	22	51	11	3	0	25	2	1	23	29	0.245	0.316	0.327		

CF	Luciano Mendanha	31	103	87	310	32	85	16	6	0	44	8	11	19	38	0.274	0.314	0.365		
CF	Dimian Anjinho		32	60	36	127	9	36	6	2	0	17	1	4	3	12	0.283	0.295	0.362		
CF	Clotilde Avelho		22	82	22	120	23	31	5	0	1	6	17	5	3	18	0.258	0.278	0.325		
CF	*Carlito Lehrfel	31	35	31	115	12	25	6	6	0	11	2	3	7	7	0.217	0.262	0.374		

RF	*Laurenço Canejo	21	122	115	460	67	137	19	7	8	51	40	13	34	48	0.298	0.346	0.422		

 	Team Totals		25.9	2052	1458	5750	761	1569	270	94	38	684	226	96	408	534	0.273	0.322	0.372

[Syd Thrift]

Overview

Buongiorno! The team of il Pappa took a molto piccolo step backwards last year. It was primarily that poor month of May that did this team in, but in truth they were never that competitive in the first place. Our sunny nature forces us to admit, however, that the Cardinali did set a team record for victories in 1920! Moving into an East/West formation will probably help, especially if Italia is placed in the East with London and Paris in the West. What our men did do, they did with slap hitting and not enough speed. That will have to change.

Retirements
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None

81-81, .500 PCT 5th, 18.0 GB
Home		41-40, .506 PCT
Road		40-41, .494 PCT
X-inning games	 6-11, .353 PCT
One-run games	27-30, .474 PCT
Versus LHP	10-12, .455 PCT
Versus RHP	71-69, .507 PCT
April		12-9,  .571 PCT
May		11-17, .393 PCT
June		16-13, .552 PCT
July		15-14, .517 PCT
August		12-16, .429 PCT
September	15-12, .556 PCT

Batting Average		.280 - 2nd in EURO
On-Base Percentage	.342 - 3rd in EURO
Slugging Percentage	.372 - 4th in EURO
Runs Scored		 809 - 3rd in EURO
Hits			1621 - 3rd in EURO
Extra-Base Hits		 369 - 5th in EURO
Home Runs		  47 - 4th in EURO
Bases-On-Balls		 544 - 2nd in EURO
Strikeouts		 429 - 3rd in EURO
Stolen Bases		 157 - 7th in EURO

Earned Run Average 	3.73 - 6th in EURO
Runs allowed		 768 - 7th in EURO
Hits allowed		1651 - 9th in EURO
Opponents AVG		.283 - 9th in EURO
Home Runs allowed	  46 - 6th in EURO
Bases-On-Balls		 420 - 4th in EURO
Strikeouts		 401 - 9th in EURO

Pitching

1919's European Big Six winner Yvon Calzolai suffered a couple of injuries in 1920 and wasn't quite as effective even when he was healthy. Fortunately, Alrigo Mascolo was there to take up much of the slack. The rest of the rotation was mostly average, though we rue the day we allowed Daniele Capeci on a pitcher's mound. All we can say is this: he won 17 games for us the year before. No, we are serious about that.

Player				Age	W	L	Pct	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA
Alrigo Mascolo			32	24	11	0.686	39	39	0	286	307	112	8	71	96	3.52	
Robin Covi			27	10	12	0.455	31	29	0	229	276	87	3	69	43	3.42	
Yvon Calzolai			36	15	10	0.600	28	28	0	217.1	227	80	15	26	74	3.31	
Maurice Carbone			25	10	12	0.455	31	25	0	203	240	79	1	59	44	3.50	
Zaccaria Cestini		21	9	8	0.529	26	23	0	165.2	197	86	3	51	33	4.67	
Daniele Capeci			36	2	13	0.133	29	14	1	133.2	173	82	12	52	41	5.52	
Emmanuele Bernasconi		25	3	10	0.231	32	0	3	78.1	77	28	0	27	25	3.22	
Michele Tadini			30	4	2	0.667	38	0	2	68	76	25	1	28	30	3.31	
Egziabher Nanji			21	1	3	0.250	4	4	0	27.2	30	13	2	18	3	4.23	
Guilhem Neri			23	1	0	1.000	6	0	0	25	22	3	0	8	8	1.08	
Florian Tadiotto		26	2	0	1.000	6	0	1	14.1	15	1	0	5	3	0.63	
Fernand Frangipani		19	0	0	0.000	4	0	0	7	11	7	1	6	1	9.00	
Eugenio Vitti			25	0	0	0.000	1	0	0	0.2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	
Team Totals			26.6	81	81	0.500	275	162	7	1455.2	1651	603	46	420	401	3.73

Batting

Before we get started, we have to ask: what kind of Italian name is Karl? We appreciate his backstop prowess and are quite fond of his last name, but Karl? It sounds like one of his parents came from Northern Italy. Far Northern. Elsewhere, we feel molto bene about the situation in left field: watching him zip around the bases like a fast Italian steed makes us forget the way he sometimes wanders aimlessly on defense. At first, Leonard Cosini came 1 home run, 6 RBIs, and 8 walks from having a very remarkable looking year.

Pos	Player			Age	G	GS	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG		
C	Karl Aguzzi		31	121	110	419	48	121	33	11	5	76	12	4	26	47	0.289	0.330	0.456		
C	Edouard Tacchinardi	21	64	43	170	17	40	8	1	0	24	0	0	17	5	0.235	0.302	0.294		
C	Cristiano Lucchi	24	38	9	59	2	10	2	1	0	5	0	0	3	7	0.169	0.210	0.237		

1B	*Leonard Cosini		26	148	148	568	100	179	19	10	9	94	2	6	92	8	0.315	0.409	0.431		
1B	Ermanno Caprara		38	33	0	14	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0.214	0.313	0.214		

2B	Sal Columbo		32	155	149	590	73	161	15	1	5	84	2	2	63	48	0.273	0.340	0.327		
2B	Manlio Franchescetti	30	72	27	138	13	41	5	0	0	12	1	1	9	8	0.297	0.345	0.333		
2B	#Marcel Capellari	31	6	1	7	2	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0.286	0.444	0.286		

3B	#Eugenio Gardella	25	125	111	448	55	130	22	8	2	55	3	4	32	47	0.290	0.337	0.388		
3B	*Massimiliano Belloi	34	85	29	141	14	37	1	2	1	13	3	0	3	10	0.262	0.283	0.319		
3B	Niccolo Lago		27	19	19	68	4	15	2	1	0	7	0	0	4	11	0.221	0.260	0.279		
3B	#Fabio Penucci		21	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000		

SS	Raimondo Pazzi		24	97	97	392	64	130	30	3	1	45	19	6	47	5	0.332	0.400	0.431		
SS	Silvano Damasco		23	124	67	241	49	63	8	3	1	23	20	11	15	30	0.261	0.313	0.332		

LF	Tavio Caraccioni	23	157	157	647	112	186	34	12	6	82	70	25	87	43	0.287	0.373	0.405		

CF	*Brando DiLivio		27	141	140	557	70	177	23	5	7	68	2	2	56	42	0.318	0.383	0.415		
CF	*Elia Perfetti		25	57	22	101	18	26	1	0	0	14	7	5	5	13	0.257	0.287	0.267		

RF	Isacco Buon		23	147	146	596	96	179	32	6	7	75	11	2	52	19	0.300	0.355	0.409		
RF	*Blaise Ugolino		26	98	21	121	22	32	2	2	2	19	2	11	11	13	0.264	0.331	0.364		
RF	Gilbert Paolozzi	22	5	0	5	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	0.200	0.167	0.200		

 	Team Totals		26.6	1969	1458	5779	809	1621	254	68	47	742	157	79	544	429	0.280	0.342	0.372

[Syd Thrift]

Overview

That didn't end the way we'd planned it. The Royal Canadian Mounted Baseballists led the A/A for much of the summer but a 21-29 record after August 7 killed their playoff hopes. Injuries are what did the deal. Canada lost half its rotation, its closer, and half of its starting infield within mere weeks. You can win with all that but it's pretty hard. Ah well. Just missing out in 1920 will make '21 that much sweeter when we win the pennant.

Retirements
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None

91-71, .562 PCT 3rd, 6.0 GB
Home		45-36, .556 PCT
Road		46-35, .568 PCT
X-inning games	 7-9,  .438 PCT
One-run games	25-16, .610 PCT
Versus LHP	20-14, .588 PCT
Versus RHP	71-57, .555 PCT
April		15-5,  .750 PCT
May		16-11, .593 PCT
June		18-12, .600 PCT
July		18-12, .600 PCT
August		 9-17, .346 PCT
September	15-14, .517 PCT

Batting Average		.273 - 6th in AA
On-Base Percentage	.347 - 2nd in AA
Slugging Percentage	.373 - 4th in AA
Runs Scored		 840 - 2nd in AA
Hits			1559 - 5th in AA
Extra-Base Hits		 401 - 4th in AA
Home Runs		  47 - 2nd in AA
Bases-On-Balls		 635 - 1st in AA
Strikeouts		 378 - 1st in AA
Stolen Bases		 170 - 5th in AA

Earned Run Average 	3.85 - 7th in AA
Runs allowed		 767 - 7th in AA
Hits allowed		1624 - 9th in AA
Opponents AVG		.279 - 9th in AA
Home Runs allowed	  35 - 4th in AA
Bases-On-Balls		 441 - 5th in AA
Strikeouts		 545 - 3rd in AA

Pitching

Pressed as hard as they were, it was not surprising that the Mounted Baseballists tinkered with a 3-man rotation for a couple weeks in early September. This gamble only pushed them further away from contention, although in a sense even some losing efforts out of their top men was better than using, say, Bernard Thivierge for an extra few starts. Maxandre "Grizzly Man" Lavoie still ended up the A/A Big Six award winner, so it wasn't all bad. And really, outside of Lavoie himself the staff was very, very young.

Player				Age	W	L	Pct	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA
Maxandre Lavoie			31	26	13	0.667	42	42	0	335	327	94	2	49	152	2.53
Jason Lanning			26	20	15	0.571	41	41	0	316	366	135	4	72	109	3.84
Bob Maitland			24	15	11	0.577	29	29	0	217.2	219	83	3	68	74	3.43
Chuck Gou			24	8	4	0.667	35	11	0	127.2	143	52	2	37	52	3.67
John Seaman			22	4	8	0.333	19	12	0	107.2	120	53	4	51	42	4.43
Émile Pelletier			28	9	3	0.750	44	1	6	81.2	88	32	2	36	33	3.53
Lyle Cluff			22	1	2	0.333	25	1	1	54.2	67	29	4	33	18	4.77
Keith Brennan			23	3	3	0.500	6	6	0	50	70	28	6	16	11	5.04
Alastair Lewthwaite		27	2	2	0.500	7	7	0	45.1	60	28	4	19	21	5.56
Ray Huot			25	2	2	0.500	6	6	0	39.1	57	24	0	13	7	5.49
Jerry Robbins			20	0	2	0.000	19	0	4	36.2	43	15	0	15	20	3.68
Bernard Thivierge		26	1	5	0.167	6	6	0	31.1	46	36	2	22	6	10.34
Quinn Woodward			29	0	1	0.000	4	0	0	10.2	12	8	0	5	0	6.75
Lou Winman			19	0	0	0.000	2	0	0	3.1	6	7	2	5	0	18.90
Raynald Racine			24	0	0	0.000	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00
Team Totals			24.7	91	71	0.562	286	162	11	1458	1624	624	35	441	545	3.85

Batting

If it's possible, the Royal Canadians may have a problem of having too many great hitters. Losing 3B Michel Briand and 1B Tim Kinch for a good chunk of the season allowed the team to try Irish import MacKillan Dwywy at both slots for extended time. Third base is supposed to be his natural position but he was an absolute disaster (17 errors, a .866 fielding average in 35 starts there), and the team wants to have both him and Kinch in the lineup so it's looking like left field will be his spot in 1921. Having all three players in the lineup full-time and bringing back stud keystone man Jon Simon will really help next year.

Pos	Player			Age	G	GS	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG		
C	Vince Umlah		27	96	96	373	53	106	31	4	1	60	1	2	42	28	0.284	0.360	0.397		
C	Don Knutsen		27	67	61	221	15	51	11	1	1	34	0	0	11	20	0.231	0.266	0.303		
C	Stu Nicholson		24	10	5	21	0	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	3	0.143	0.217	0.190		
C	Lee Plante		17	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000		

1B	*Josué Godbout		30	104	65	274	22	74	13	3	3	34	0	0	21	44	0.270	0.325	0.372		
1B	Tim Kinch		33	68	68	266	43	103	17	1	2	45	2	1	31	9	0.387	0.454	0.481		
1B	Greg Mansel		23	26	2	21	2	6	1	0	0	4	0	1	2	3	0.286	0.320	0.333		

2B	*Jonathan Simon		25	104	104	344	89	107	21	14	3	49	36	6	110	4	0.311	0.481	0.480		
2B	*Sébastien Beaupré	28	89	45	169	20	43	9	1	0	16	4	3	12	19	0.254	0.305	0.320		

3B	Michel Briand		33	126	109	423	46	108	18	3	6	65	0	1	42	52	0.255	0.328	0.355		
3B	MacKillan Dywy		27	91	88	359	43	109	15	2	5	70	1	1	34	10	0.304	0.360	0.398		
3B	*Gary Rockwell		26	43	18	67	7	15	0	1	0	11	1	0	6	6	0.224	0.295	0.254		
3B	#Bill Harding		22	12	5	22	1	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	5	0.182	0.182	0.182		
3B	*Alex Fortin		20	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0.000	0.333	0.000		

SS	George Bannerman	36	154	144	549	62	147	37	5	3	92	1	1	50	23	0.268	0.327	0.370		
SS	Gabriel Mailhot		31	102	24	118	20	38	5	4	1	16	3	1	3	8	0.322	0.341	0.458		

LF	*Ron Nock		30	146	146	610	137	206	26	9	4	46	46	10	93	7	0.338	0.425	0.430		
LF	Hayden Redmond		24	70	12	106	10	27	4	4	1	21	1	0	7	7	0.255	0.304	0.396		
LF	*Dominic Bérard		21	83	22	90	27	24	1	0	0	5	15	6	4	9	0.267	0.295	0.278		
LF	 Colton Arnett		32	36	9	46	7	11	2	1	0	9	0	0	4	9	0.239	0.300	0.326		

CF	#Alexandre Maurice	34	161	161	631	95	184	35	12	7	102	3	4	86	17	0.292	0.383	0.418		

RF	*Rusty Dodd		25	117	83	353	73	99	10	10	8	47	32	12	48	32	0.280	0.372	0.433		
RF	Ben Bragg		24	78	29	142	25	36	4	2	1	17	24	8	14	6	0.254	0.321	0.331		

 	Team Totals		26.0	2073	1458	5717	840	1559	277	77	47	779	170	57	635	378	0.273	0.347	0.373

[Syd Thrift]

Overview

We admit that we just don't understand this game of base ball that well. The object is to put the little ball into the glove, right? And that gets you points? We think we probably did pretty well, though. Our opponents seemed happy enough to face us. And we liked to run around a lot. That was fun.

Retirements
-------------
SP Wei-Guo Chen. 11-8 last year and a key piece of the Dragons machine. So long, Mister Chen.

75-87, .463 PCT 7th, 22.0 GB
Home		42-39, .519 PCT
Road		33-48, .407 PCT
X-inning games	 4-8,  .333 PCT
One-run games	26-30, .464 PCT
Versus LHP	17-9,  .654 PCT
Versus RHP	58-78, .426 PCT
April		10-12, .455 PCT
May		12-18, .400 PCT
June		14-16, .467 PCT
July		14-15, .483 PCT
August		11-15, .423 PCT
September	14-11, .560 PCT

Batting Average		.269 - 7th in AA
On-Base Percentage	.316 - 9th in AA
Slugging Percentage	.347 - 10th in AA
Runs Scored		 731 - 6th in AA
Hits			1541 - 7th in AA
Extra-Base Hits		 336 - tied for 8th in AA
Home Runs		  28 - 10th in AA
Bases-On-Balls		 386 - tied for 9th in AA
Strikeouts		 602 - 10th in AA
Stolen Bases		 196 - 3rd in AA

Earned Run Average 	3.62 - 5th in AA
Runs allowed		 735 - 6th in AA
Hits allowed		1527 - 4th in AA
Opponents AVG		.269 - 3rd in AA
Home Runs allowed	  38 - 5th in AA
Bases-On-Balls		 467 - 6th in AA
Strikeouts		 539 - 4th in AA

Pitching

Our pitching staff was quite old, and everyone knows that is a good thing because it allows them to impart their venerable ways upon the youth. In this case, the oldness was Huai-yi Xia, who was very fine, and Wei-guo Chen, who tired of the "pitching" by season's end and chose to return to his farm.

Player				Age	W	L	Pct	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA
Qian-gui Huan			31	23	12	0.657	36	36	0	296.1	302	99	0	43	149	3.01	
Huai-yi Xia			39	10	18	0.357	32	31	0	245.1	291	97	1	55	93	3.56	
Tu-an Pai			27	10	13	0.435	30	29	0	220.1	229	88	9	71	84	3.59	
Wei-guo Chen			38	11	8	0.579	33	19	0	168.1	163	69	5	97	37	3.69	
Yen-ti Jiao			22	6	10	0.375	23	22	0	153.2	134	46	5	38	82	2.69	
Zi-jing Lao			30	5	7	0.417	51	0	4	107	108	32	4	53	27	2.69	
Huang-di Li			33	4	9	0.308	20	15	0	101	133	63	3	46	21	5.61	
Bing-de Huie			33	4	1	0.800	20	0	0	52.1	50	22	5	20	13	3.78	
Gui-fan Won			24	1	3	0.250	10	4	0	38.2	49	24	1	13	16	5.59	
Chih-tui Shan			36	1	2	0.333	3	3	0	21.1	26	14	1	12	5	5.91	
Wei-guo Ren			24	0	1	0.000	10	0	2	18	20	14	3	13	6	7.00	
Zhen-bang Ke			26	0	3	0.000	3	3	0	16.2	22	10	1	6	6	5.40	
Team Totals			30.3	75	87	0.463	271	162	6	1439	1527	578	38	467	539	3.62

Batting

We have a vague sense that our hitting is not quite as good as our pitching, but we remove such doubts from our head with the calm coolness of the north wind. Tian-yun Qiao and Yun-qi Gang were the team leaders with their whirlwind-like speed and bird-like watchfulness, respectively. Gang also possessed an element beyond the normal five of earth, wind, water, fire, and chi that we shall call clutch. If he can teach the inner workings of this element to the rest of the team, we shall be unstoppable.

Pos	Player			Age	G	GS	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG		
C	Hou Bing		27	102	98	335	36	92	18	3	1	51	2	2	13	54	0.275	0.310	0.355		
C	Xiao-gang Xin		26	90	47	198	19	47	11	1	0	30	0	0	18	31	0.237	0.311	0.303		
C	Zhong-yi Zhang		22	21	17	60	3	10	1	0	0	7	0	0	0	13	0.167	0.180	0.183		

1B	Zai-shuo Juan		31	149	147	552	64	168	23	4	0	74	7	1	35	64	0.304	0.341	0.361		
1B	Tzu-jao Xú		24	115	35	214	35	61	11	6	2	31	24	9	20	17	0.285	0.346	0.421		
1B	Shi-fu Ran		24	78	18	97	23	21	3	0	0	9	10	1	5	10	0.216	0.255	0.247		

2B	Ki-tong Huie		36	92	79	312	47	88	16	2	2	34	1	0	39	35	0.282	0.364	0.365		
2B	*Wing-fung Ruan		35	50	45	178	27	52	5	2	1	15	1	0	17	8	0.292	0.360	0.360		

3B	Shi-kai Yao		23	158	158	618	86	170	16	6	6	61	22	8	24	83	0.275	0.315	0.350		
3B	Si Wan			27	45	6	41	4	12	1	0	0	3	0	0	4	7	0.293	0.356	0.317		

SS	Yun-qi Gang		31	160	160	623	74	188	36	8	2	103	2	3	47	13	0.302	0.349	0.395		
SS	Gui-fan Shiu		27	36	0	6	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0.167	0.167	0.167		

LF	*Tian-yun Qiao		25	130	130	548	94	165	31	14	6	49	71	26	56	7	0.301	0.365	0.442		
LF	En-guo Tsao		25	40	15	76	9	15	3	0	0	3	3	2	7	15	0.197	0.262	0.237		

CF	#Chi-young She		34	149	139	506	52	139	23	2	2	53	1	3	19	59	0.275	0.298	0.340		
CF	Liang-hsi Gang		33	67	24	150	15	33	9	0	3	17	0	1	15	26	0.220	0.289	0.340		
CF	Hsin-ping Wang		21	55	18	86	13	26	3	0	1	13	7	2	2	13	0.302	0.326	0.372		
CF	Lan-fang Liu		22	14	4	18	5	3	0	1	0	4	0	0	2	5	0.167	0.250	0.278		

RF	*Jen-djieh Wa		27	98	97	362	34	100	15	0	2	30	0	2	35	26	0.276	0.338	0.334		
RF	*Shi-fu Pai		25	90	45	199	40	50	8	5	0	17	40	7	12	31	0.251	0.294	0.342		
RF	Wai-ho Song		19	21	14	51	8	15	2	1	0	7	5	2	1	10	0.294	0.302	0.373		

 	Team Totals		28.1	2031	1458	5737	731	1541	249	59	28	659	196	70	386	602	0.269	0.316	0.347

[Syd Thrift]

Overview

The first year was very first yearish for our Outback. We still aren't quite sure how we avoided 100 losses last year. We can't call it luck because if luck was a factor at all... well, look at the runs given up. We're pretty sure quadruple digits is bad. It is, right? The good news about the bad pitching is that it took a lot of the heat off of the offense, which wasn't very good either but nobody noticed that. Also, we were able to send some of our best guys off to Canada and London where they were able to experience World Championship contention experience. Once they retire they'll no doubt come home to Australia and tell us all about it.

Retirements
-------------
None

63-99, .389 PCT 10th, 34.0 GB
Home		38-43, .469 PCT
Road		25-56, .309 PCT
X-inning games	 9-6,  .600 PCT
One-run games	25-21, .543 PCT
Versus LHP	15-21, .417 PCT
Versus RHP	48-78, .381 PCT
April		 4-16, .200 PCT
May		10-18, .357 PCT
June		11-18, .379 PCT
July		14-17, .452 PCT
August		13-14, .481 PCT
September	11-16, .407 PCT

Batting Average		.268 - 8th in AA
On-Base Percentage	.328 - 5th in AA
Slugging Percentage	.355 - 7th in AA
Runs Scored		 712 - 9th in AA
Hits			1520 - 8th in AA
Extra-Base Hits		 340 - 7th in AA
Home Runs		  45 - 3rd in AA
Bases-On-Balls		 498 - 3rd in AA
Strikeouts		 529 - 7th in AA
Stolen Bases		 103 - 9th in AA

Earned Run Average 	4.88 - 10th in AA
Runs allowed		1005 - 10th in AA
Hits allowed		1706 - 10th in AA
Opponents AVG		.293 - 10th in AA
Home Runs allowed	  74 - 9th in AA
Bases-On-Balls		 588 - 9th in AA
Strikeouts		 430 - 8th in AA

Pitching

Boy, that was a lot of pitchers! We didn't even know there could be so many people with strong arms in the entire nation of Australia! Well, maybe there were not, judging by the results. Patrick Harwood was good, at least, and Alex Scoley, who we received from the English in a trade, will probably be pretty decent. Beyond that, picking and choosing who will give up 10 runs in the next game is fun!

Player				Age	W	L	Pct	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA
Patrick Harwood			33	16	12	0.571	35	35	0	269	284	100	2	81	97	3.35	
Scott Vanderven			33	14	20	0.412	37	37	0	265.1	314	129	9	83	86	4.38	
Alexander Scoley		26	12	14	0.462	27	27	0	201.1	204	70	3	53	59	3.13	
Keith Brennan			23	7	11	0.389	22	22	0	166	193	82	10	51	55	4.45	
Bradley Hammond			21	2	12	0.143	16	16	0	103.1	123	64	12	61	30	5.57	
Tye Spooner			18	1	7	0.125	16	8	0	66.2	99	55	8	43	14	7.43	
Damien Duerden			24	4	3	0.571	30	0	4	52	59	24	2	21	19	4.15	
Mike Bond			21	1	4	0.200	12	5	0	39	58	36	3	24	3	8.31	
Zach Beard			20	0	5	0.000	10	5	0	36	61	33	6	16	13	8.25	
Noah Knopp			21	2	1	0.667	17	0	1	36	53	33	3	26	6	8.25	
Sam Naughton			19	0	0	0.000	19	0	0	35.2	33	18	2	26	8	4.54	
George Ford			22	1	2	0.333	20	0	1	30	40	17	2	18	11	5.10	
Gavin Dingle			19	0	0	0.000	12	0	1	28	30	15	0	20	7	4.82	
Chris Baxter			25	1	3	0.250	13	0	0	24.2	37	23	3	18	8	8.39	
Leo Holland			20	1	0	1.000	8	1	0	20.2	34	20	2	10	8	8.71	
Brandon Gordam			19	1	3	0.250	4	4	0	18	32	23	3	13	1	11.50	
Lou Winman			19	0	0	0.000	5	0	0	14	13	11	2	5	3	7.07	
Jamie Walker			18	0	0	0.000	6	0	0	11.2	17	12	1	9	0	9.26	
Wayne Lovett			21	0	2	0.000	2	2	0	7.2	12	6	0	7	1	7.04	
John Lukies			22	0	0	0.000	3	0	0	4.1	10	4	1	3	1	8.31	
Team Totals			22.2	63	99	0.389	314	162	7	1429.1	1706	775	74	588	430	4.88

Batting

Youth lives on! One big part of why the hitting was bad rather than mediocre was the whole shipping off of our stars to other teams thing. It's kind of like a lend-lease action only we don't get the players back. Then they give us their not very good or else young guys in return. Sounds fair! It also gave us a lot of time to try guys like Scott Eager. He wasn't very good, but we tried him! Did you know that he's not even old enough to drink in the United States? Actually that's not true anymore because he just turned 21. But it's interesting!

Pos	Player			Age	G	GS	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG		
C	*Tristan Kadow		34	123	81	322	34	91	18	6	0	27	0	0	38	31	0.283	0.360	0.376		
C	Vince Umlah		27	51	51	194	32	59	11	5	1	35	2	0	26	13	0.304	0.387	0.428		
C	#Orlando Torres		25	37	30	110	18	29	8	0	3	17	0	0	7	9	0.264	0.317	0.418		

1B	Scott Eager		21	121	121	446	36	111	20	1	3	57	0	0	23	61	0.249	0.291	0.318		
1B	*Richard Ward		33	101	13	125	11	22	2	0	3	20	0	0	14	8	0.176	0.262	0.264		
1B	Teddy Kalman		33	27	22	92	14	32	7	0	1	10	0	0	11	2	0.348	0.417	0.457		
1B	*Freddy López		28	15	6	28	1	3	1	1	0	2	0	0	2	4	0.107	0.167	0.214		

2B	*Blake Johnson		24	139	130	502	59	148	20	10	1	65	15	8	56	11	0.295	0.363	0.380		
2B	Scott Lutz		25	110	82	316	33	80	16	3	0	29	0	2	11	31	0.253	0.284	0.323		
2B	#Mark Richards		17	13	3	19	3	3	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	5	0.158	0.150	0.316		

3B	*Robin Tamburrino	24	101	100	409	71	111	22	4	4	46	11	9	46	4	0.271	0.349	0.374		

SS	Greg Mansel		23	83	77	264	25	59	10	2	0	18	0	1	13	40	0.223	0.257	0.277		
SS	Toby Delaney		27	109	68	254	21	64	7	1	0	31	0	1	9	29	0.252	0.270	0.287		
SS	Christos Dawson		19	26	26	89	5	11	0	0	0	5	4	5	6	14	0.124	0.179	0.124		

LF	*Greg Lee		24	100	81	355	70	116	16	5	6	34	23	5	36	8	0.327	0.389	0.451		
LF	Rowan Fewings		29	122	49	229	35	51	10	7	2	19	10	10	11	32	0.223	0.260	0.354		

CF	*Kevin Martin		25	154	149	559	86	195	18	5	12	95	14	10	109	79	0.349	0.454	0.463		
CF	Brad Mercer		35	32	12	51	5	12	2	0	0	2	0	0	9	6	0.235	0.344	0.275		

RF	Darren Underhill	32	149	86	400	55	116	9	7	3	49	11	4	35	27	0.290	0.351	0.370		
RF	Ron King		24	70	65	239	32	81	12	0	5	40	1	0	17	16	0.339	0.381	0.452		
RF	*Anthony Mills		21	35	34	126	14	36	9	1	0	19	9	1	7	16	0.286	0.323	0.373		
RF	Josh Mossop		28	75	10	76	10	15	1	0	0	3	1	0	6	11	0.197	0.265	0.211		
 	Team Totals		24.3	2107	1458	5670	712	1520	231	64	45	658	103	56	498	529	0.268	0.328	0.355

[Syd Thrift]

Overview

The Empire of the Rising Sun had an improved season last year and will, with just a little wah, will compete with Mexico and Canada in the Pioneer Division next year. All improvements that need to be made are on the offensive side of the game. Any problems with the defense were with the men who were actually in the field, not on the mound. Okay, the mound is in the field. Quiet.

Retirements
-------------
None

85-77, .525 PCT 5th, 12.0 GB
Home		42-39, .519 PCT
Road		43-38, .531 PCT
X-inning games	 9-5,  .643 PCT
One-run games	31-19, .620 PCT
Versus LHP	17-16, .515 PCT
Versus RHP	68-61, .527 PCT
April		 6-10, .375 PCT
May		15-12, .556 PCT
June		10-21, .323 PCT
July		19-13, .594 PCT
August		18-12, .600 PCT
September	17-9,  .654 PCT

Batting Average		.264 - 9th in AA
On-Base Percentage	.317 - 8th in AA
Slugging Percentage	.352 - 8th in AA
On-Base + Slugging	.669 - 8th in AA
Runs Scored		 694 - 10th in AA
Hits			1500 - 10th in AA
Extra-Base Hits		 341 - 6th in AA
Home Runs		  36 - 9th in AA
Bases-On-Balls		 434 - 6th in AA
Strikeouts		 435 - 2nd in AA
Stolen Bases		 165 - 6th in AA

Earned Run Average 	3.52 - 3rd in AA
Runs allowed		 718 - 3rd in AA
Hits allowed		1600 - 8th in AA
Opponents AVG		.278 - 8th in AA
Home Runs allowed	  24 - 3rd in AA
Bases-On-Balls		 360 - 3rd in AA
Strikeouts		 652 - 1st in AA

Pitching

As stated, the pitching staff did a fantastic job. They didn't have a lot to show for it due in part to the Tokyo "divine whirlwind" strategy of using as many pitchers as they could so that each member could pitch to utter exhaustion, but the quality was there. Pay particular attention to Tatsu Ki****a, who would have been a Rookie of the Year candidate if it wasn't for that expansion. Come to think of it, Shinsaku Iwasaki was pretty good too.

Player				Age	W	L	Pct	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA
Kunimatsu Yoshida		31	18	18	0.500	38	38	0	311.1	358	114	7	34	132	3.30	
Tatsukichi Ki****a		27	18	8	0.692	38	27	1	229.2	221	76	1	66	136	2.98	
Yasujiro Ishida			25	8	14	0.364	27	25	0	182.2	208	71	3	72	63	3.50	
Shinsaku Iwasaki		25	13	8	0.619	22	22	0	176.2	195	52	2	10	73	2.65	
Mitsuoki Katayama		26	9	12	0.429	26	26	0	173.2	201	82	3	58	79	4.25	
Takaaki Takahashi		24	6	7	0.462	23	11	0	121	131	49	2	32	79	3.64	
Takiji Fujihara			32	3	5	0.375	29	10	4	94.2	117	46	3	37	39	4.37	
Shunso Ishii			24	7	0	1.000	37	0	2	76	64	14	0	15	34	1.66	
Eisuke Sato			39	2	4	0.333	19	2	1	48	52	36	2	24	8	6.75	
Shoji Tanaka			23	1	1	0.500	5	1	1	16.2	31	13	1	6	6	7.02	
Shuichi Onishi			28	0	0	0.000	8	0	0	15.2	22	13	0	6	3	7.47	
Team Totals			27.6	85	77	0.525	272	162	9	1446	1600	566	24	360	652	3.52

Batting

Outside of A/A batting champion Hiro Sato, the hitting was... not good. This problem is, shall we say, enhanced by the poor fielding. We would add Moto Mori****a to the list but even though he hit .321 he also allowed more men to steal bases on him than anyone in the league save the clown the New York Giants are using at the position. Granted, he was 2nd in baseball in baserunners killed but that's a small consolation for a man who was 3rd from the bottom of the list in runner thrown out percentage. Oh, who needs stats anyway? We believe that the only way out of this is through lots and lots of drilling. Repetition will lead to more baseballs being hit as well as more baseballs being caught. We are sure of it.

Pos	Player			Age	G	GS	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG		
C	*Mototsune Mori****a	24	137	135	514	64	165	12	7	6	72	0	0	48	15	0.321	0.376	0.407		
C	Hiroya Sugiyama		35	85	27	166	18	44	7	4	0	20	1	0	10	18	0.265	0.307	0.355		

1B	Nobuhiko Kobayashi	26	113	79	291	28	80	10	1	3	36	1	0	25	18	0.275	0.328	0.347		
1B	*Tsuyoshi Yamada	25	112	79	280	21	75	7	0	0	27	1	1	20	26	0.268	0.328	0.293		
1B	Jiro Sanu		24	16	4	23	1	5	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	0.217	0.250	0.304		

2B	Tokuma Yamaguchi	25	123	110	454	54	129	22	6	2	54	7	5	18	23	0.284	0.311	0.372		
2B	Yasutoki Yosano		37	92	46	175	18	44	10	0	0	31	0	0	5	13	0.251	0.274	0.309		
2B	*Naomi Yano		26	32	12	60	6	13	4	0	1	10	1	4	2	7	0.217	0.254	0.333		

3B	Ichiro Kiyomizu		24	141	115	379	32	94	13	5	1	34	4	7	9	65	0.248	0.269	0.317		
3B	Tsuneyo Yoshizawa	24	73	39	140	16	26	2	2	2	17	1	1	11	20	0.186	0.248	0.271		

SS	Katsuhito Honda		29	141	112	436	63	98	11	11	1	26	48	17	23	34	0.225	0.265	0.307		
SS	Takahiro Takeda		26	79	52	160	8	29	4	0	0	13	0	0	14	21	0.181	0.244	0.206		

LF	*Kata Matsumoto		25	101	67	274	42	77	12	7	4	36	14	4	37	27	0.281	0.364	0.420		
LF	Mitsuhide Shiraishi	27	125	41	224	42	62	8	1	3	27	4	1	40	11	0.277	0.390	0.362		
LF	Aki Kobayashi		24	91	36	166	18	40	2	3	1	22	2	5	15	12	0.241	0.299	0.307		

CF	Azumamaro Sakei		24	133	99	425	86	136	19	18	1	42	72	24	19	13	0.320	0.345	0.456		
CF	*Akihito Watanabe	35	110	46	237	15	59	10	1	1	27	0	0	18	6	0.249	0.305	0.312		
CF	*Harunobu Goto		26	78	58	235	51	67	12	8	8	33	5	2	36	30	0.285	0.382	0.506		

RF	*Hirofumi Sato		30	147	139	542	81	190	36	7	2	70	4	0	72	9	0.351	0.425	0.454		

 	Team Totals		27.3	2201	1458	5675	694	1500	220	85	36	633	165	71	434	435	0.264	0.317	0.352

[Syd Thrift]

Overview

It wasn't that bad of a year, really. In times of peace, the US Army Corps of Baseball Engineers is perfectly content to allow the other American teams to bask in the limelight

of winning records and not losing. We are more than happy to learn from Cincinnati, New York, and to some extent Chicago (not literally, since the Army still does not allow

African Americans in its front line ranks, and we strongly consider the USACoBE to be on the front lines!) and even send some of our better men out on "furlough" so that they

might infect the whole country with their fighting spirit. Given this, we think it highly encouraging to have finished ahead of anybody at all, even if the two teams worse than

use were brand new.

Retirements
-------------
None

73-89, .451 PCT 8th, 24.0 GB
Home		36-45, .444 PCT
Road		37-44, .457 PCT
X-inning games	 9-9,  .500 PCT
One-run games	20-25, .444 PCT
Versus LHP	17-24, .415 PCT
Versus RHP	56-65, .463 PCT
April		10-10, .500 PCT
May		14-18, .438 PCT
June		16-15, .516 PCT
July		10-18, .357 PCT
August		14-13, .519 PCT
September	 9-15, .375 PCT

Batting Average		.264 - 10th in AA
On-Base Percentage	.314 - 10th in AA
Slugging Percentage	.348 - 9th in AA
Runs Scored		 713 - 8th in AA
Hits			1504 - 9th in AA
Extra-Base Hits		 326 - 10th in AA
Home Runs		  43 - 6th in AA
Bases-On-Balls		 399 - 8th in AA
Strikeouts		 509 - 6th in AA
Stolen Bases		 326 - 1st in AA

Earned Run Average 	4.25 - 8th in AA
Runs allowed		 813 - 8th in AA
Hits allowed		1599 - 7th in AA
Opponents AVG		.276 - 7th in AA
Home Runs allowed	  82 - 10th in AA
Bases-On-Balls		 536 - 7th in AA
Strikeouts		 461 - 7th in AA

Pitching

The pitching staff had no player on it "drop and give us 20". Twenty losses, we mean! That's an Army joke, son! Go take a lap! Kids today. It's a good thing the Army instills the kind of discipline that keeps our new recruits from laughing mockingly at us and just refuse to laugh at jokes they haven't learned to find funny yet. Hey, wait a minute. All the rest of you, take two laps! That will teach you!

Player				Age	W	L	Pct	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA
Patrick Marshall		27	17	18	0.486	37	37	0	301.2	275	105	15	120	79	3.13	
Tom Wheeler			30	14	13	0.519	35	35	0	256.1	293	132	19	74	102	4.63	
Wyatt Dorsey			27	15	9	0.625	26	26	0	210.1	221	69	7	36	93	2.95	
Ernie Franklin			37	4	12	0.250	28	17	0	142	181	89	6	72	35	5.64	
Steve Parker			22	7	8	0.467	29	14	2	134.1	159	61	6	46	43	4.09	
Jim Jones			33	6	7	0.462	15	15	0	113.1	118	42	4	39	43	3.34	
Ralph Bryant			26	4	13	0.235	20	17	0	109.1	132	73	10	51	19	6.01	
Luther Cain			27	2	8	0.200	47	0	3	87.2	106	53	6	39	22	5.44	
Daniel McGowan			22	4	0	1.000	29	0	4	52.2	49	28	5	32	12	4.78	
Herbert Guss			23	0	0	0.000	12	0	0	25.2	30	14	1	16	8	4.91	
James Raymond			22	0	0	0.000	5	0	0	14.1	21	14	3	7	4	8.79	
John Lee			22	0	1	0.000	1	1	0	6.1	14	6	0	4	1	8.53	
Team Totals			26.5	73	89	0.451	284	162	9	1454	1599	686	82	536	461	4.25

Batting

The French lent us a couple of players for the 1919 season but deteriorating relationships between us and that nation of whining surrender-dogs caused them to end this agreement. As a result, we were left trying out a bunch of guys at catcher and in the outfield all season long. This did not work as well as we might have hoped; we'd have loved it if a "platoon" arrangement would work out, since we like that word "platoon". It's a lot like "dragoon". Are you snickering again, private? Drop and give me twenty! No, not 20 losses! You aren't even a pitcher! Give me 40 now! And then take a lap!

Pos	Player			Age	G	GS	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG		
C	Palmer Hartley		24	100	81	302	27	73	7	1	1	29	1	0	6	13	0.242	0.264	0.281		
C	 Reed Billington	31	61	47	163	16	39	1	1	2	22	1	0	14	18	0.239	0.291	0.294		
C	Mitch Little		22	31	19	68	6	17	2	1	0	7	0	0	1	13	0.250	0.261	0.309		
C	Jeremy Franklin		23	28	15	54	1	4	1	0	1	3	0	0	0	7	0.074	0.074	0.148		

1B	*Clay Davis		35	106	98	372	51	119	30	7	4	65	0	2	54	12	0.320	0.400	0.470		
1B	Adam Walker		21	52	52	179	15	40	1	1	1	15	11	4	6	32	0.223	0.255	0.257		

2B	Jason Miller		20	122	72	263	27	67	5	2	2	22	0	2	27	34	0.255	0.325	0.312		
2B	*Mark Scrivner		22	70	65	241	23	69	15	2	2	33	5	2	10	24	0.286	0.311	0.390		
2B	Oscar Stephens		32	87	28	163	10	39	10	0	1	10	2	2	3	12	0.239	0.260	0.319		
2B	#Felipe Muñóz		19	23	0	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0.250	0.400	0.250		

3B	Ken Griffin		31	107	104	356	41	100	19	3	3	54	1	1	32	34	0.281	0.345	0.376		
3B	Morris Watkins		31	139	84	313	29	87	9	4	0	40	6	5	19	37	0.278	0.318	0.332		
3B	Dennis Binion		23	45	0	28	4	5	0	1	0	0	3	0	3	4	0.179	0.258	0.250		

SS	Brian Frank		22	150	145	590	102	172	25	14	4	50	88	20	37	32	0.292	0.340	0.402		

LF	*Brett Price		22	139	107	429	58	123	13	8	7	61	38	17	30	60	0.287	0.336	0.403		
LF	*Félix Martínez		35	134	43	249	31	66	6	3	2	27	4	1	35	17	0.265	0.360	0.337		

CF	Clyde Daniel		22	126	75	347	45	80	15	6	1	36	54	12	21	39	0.231	0.277	0.317		
CF	*Jeffery Gordon		29	115	71	314	43	84	19	3	1	31	11	4	24	18	0.268	0.326	0.357		
CF	*Steven Terry		27	45	43	179	23	51	10	2	4	31	11	6	8	2	0.285	0.312	0.430		
CF	José García		26	15	13	54	9	16	2	0	0	2	10	2	2	3	0.296	0.321	0.333		

RF	Dan LeBlanc	25	155	134	534	78	159	18	7	5	67	54	20	60	11	0.298	0.367	0.386		
RF	Rick Chandler	23	89	0	17	26	2	0	0	0	3	26	17	0	4	0.118	0.158	0.118		

 	Team Totals	26	2223	1458	5697	713	1504	217	66	43	646	326	118	399	509	0.264	0.314	0.348

[Syd Thrift]

Overview

If only we could have tossed out half a year... following the loss to Berlin on June 30, we were 17-32 and headed for dead last thanks in large part to the onerous reparations

levied upon us by the so-called Allies. However, we were able to throw off the shackles of domination the rest of the way and came surprisingly close to evening up our record by

the end of the year. Our general tactic was to drop easy ones against the good teams, thus lulling the league into a state of unconsciousness, then beating up on the bad clubs

in the league. This year, we're going to try and concentrate our losingness on our real allies, the Germans; maybe a couple extra wins from us will prove the difference.

Retirements
-------------
MR Max Plischke - A major player in 1919, he fell victim to the youth movement in 1920, playing in just 8 games and 15.1 innings.

78-84, .481 PCT 6th, 21.0 GB
Home		45-36, .556 PCT
Road		33-48, .407 PCT
X-inning games	 7-8,  .467 PCT
One-run games	29-19, .604 PCT
Versus LHP	10-14, .417 PCT
Versus RHP	68-70, .493 PCT
April		 6-14, .300 PCT
May		12-18, .400 PCT
June		14-14, .500 PCT
July		17-13, .567 PCT
August		15-13, .536 PCT
September	14-12, .538 PCT

Batting Average		.271 - 7th in EURO
On-Base Percentage	.328 - 6th in EURO
Slugging Percentage	.354 - 7th in EURO
Runs Scored		 721 - 7th in EURO
Hits			1543 - 7th in EURO
Extra-Base Hits		 333 - 7th in EURO
Home Runs		  42 - 6th in EURO
Bases-On-Balls		 479 - 4th in EURO
Strikeouts		 525 - 6th in EURO
Stolen Bases		 237 - 2nd in EURO

Earned Run Average 	3.60 - 5th in EURO
Runs allowed		 734 - 5th in EURO
Hits allowed		1592 - 5th in EURO
Opponents AVG		.276 - 6th in EURO
Home Runs allowed	  41 - 4th in EURO
Bases-On-Balls		 395 - 3rd in EURO
Strikeouts		 484 - 6th in EURO

Pitching

The pitching staff was essentially four men in size the entire year. The Musik featured 3 pitchers in the top 25 in innings pitched, quite a large number for a rebuilding team

if you ask us. Maybe the "re" should be lopped off as that implies there is some element in the past to build to. One guy who we did not include in our "basic four" was Simon

Stangassinger, who has one of the best names in the league. Say it out loud. Stangassinger. Stangassinger. It just sounds like a fastball or perhaps a bratwust sizzling past

you. A bratwurst that sizzles "past" you isn't maybe the kind of bratwurst you might enjoy but you get the drift.

Player				Age	W	L	Pct	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA
Florian Knaus			33	16	22	0.421	40	40	0	321	347	125	2	57	117	3.50	
Frantz Kauntiz			28	17	14	0.548	39	39	0	306	303	106	2	95	129	3.12	
Ludwig Senner			34	15	19	0.441	39	39	0	302	369	130	6	61	106	3.87	
Oktav Roga			21	12	11	0.522	33	22	0	208.1	202	71	7	79	40	3.07	
Simon Stangassinger		33	10	8	0.556	26	17	0	142.1	172	73	8	39	41	4.62	
Helmut Horngacher		33	4	6	0.400	33	0	4	65.1	73	19	5	21	27	2.62	
Thomas Miko			28	1	1	0.500	11	1	0	23.1	34	20	5	10	5	7.71	
Rudjer Todorovic		29	2	0	1.000	7	0	0	17	18	5	0	8	5	2.65	
Gernot Voglreiter		18	1	1	0.500	2	2	0	16	18	7	1	7	2	3.94	
Max Plischke			38	0	0	0.000	8	0	0	15.1	11	6	2	4	4	3.52	
Franz Griesser			19	0	0	0.000	3	0	0	13.2	19	8	3	9	2	5.27	
Helmut Renner			22	0	2	0.000	2	2	0	12.2	18	8	0	4	5	5.68	
Clemenz Schaller		21	0	0	0.000	2	0	0	5.1	8	1	0	1	1	1.69	
Team Totals			27.5	78	84	0.481	245	162	4	1448.1	1592	579	41	395	484	3.60

Batting

To get this out of the way first: Veit Aehrenthal helped out immensely because he was the best player in the European League. The entire outfield was speedy and good: all three

starters bad at least 35 steals, and snagged stray fly balls with aplomb. The great news about the rest of the team is that they were so bad they should be easily replaceable.

Pos	Player			Age	G	GS	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG		
C	*Benjamin Lueger	30	133	130	496	52	151	19	5	1	88	7	3	44	50	0.304	0.359	0.369		
C	Michael Zweig		27	88	34	169	19	46	6	2	1	22	0	0	14	7	0.272	0.335	0.349		
C	Florian Maurer		30	32	5	46	7	13	2	1	0	3	0	0	3	4	0.283	0.340	0.370		
C	Ludwig Rieser		25	3	2	9	0	3	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	0.333	0.333	0.556		
C	Florian Raich		20	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000		

1B	#Frantz Felbiger	26	146	112	450	51	104	21	1	4	60	0	0	72	11	0.231	0.336	0.309		
1B	*Werner Zingler		28	41	41	133	8	32	4	0	0	15	1	0	11	25	0.241	0.301	0.271		
1B	*Mijalko Panic		30	26	0	24	2	6	0	1	1	5	3	0	4	4	0.250	0.357	0.458		

2B	Julian Gerg		23	130	123	418	38	124	20	4	0	43	10	6	16	67	0.297	0.320	0.364		
2B	Manfred Pirktl		26	70	22	83	12	21	5	0	1	6	1	1	4	7	0.253	0.303	0.349		
2B	#Clemenz Reiter		21	58	21	77	3	14	0	0	0	4	0	2	3	12	0.182	0.220	0.182		

3B	David Schwarzacher	25	61	52	193	17	46	10	0	0	16	2	1	7	23	0.238	0.267	0.290		
3B	Michael Koellerer	38	38	38	111	11	33	5	0	1	14	0	0	30	0	0.297	0.447	0.369		

SS	David Lichtenegger	30	158	158	611	93	153	26	4	6	56	17	8	54	9	0.250	0.312	0.336		
SS	Dietmar Poestinger	23	133	72	279	48	61	10	2	0	30	39	14	10	35	0.219	0.247	0.269		

LF	*Helmuth Grosskopf	25	150	142	579	86	166	24	10	8	66	35	12	47	56	0.287	0.343	0.404		
LF	Rainer Spitzaner	33	24	16	58	6	15	2	0	0	3	0	0	3	6	0.259	0.295	0.293		

CF	*Veit Schusetka		22	134	97	420	56	113	15	11	0	33	50	22	35	42	0.269	0.322	0.357		
CF	Alex Schrattenthaler	26	93	62	248	25	71	8	1	1	23	3	2	16	24	0.286	0.336	0.339		
CF	#Alois Schmollinger	23	121	15	150	18	41	6	0	0	18	16	9	5	20	0.273	0.296	0.313		

RF	*Veit Aehrenthal	29	154	154	582	106	195	31	12	18	90	38	13	91	43	0.335	0.420	0.522		
RF	*Ari Mautner		22	103	0	69	17	14	3	0	0	9	15	3	2	11	0.203	0.219	0.246		

 	Team Totals		26.8	2142	1458	5697	721	1543	235	56	42	656	237	96	479	525	0.271	0.328	0.354

[Syd Thrift]

Season Preview

There are a lot of changes in store for 1921, and to help us sort out the effect of these changes we've brought in a group of experts. From the New York Giants, manager Joe Sanchez.

Joe Sanchez: I intend to impart the proper amount of grit to this discussion. And hustle. Hustle's important.

From the Moscow Proletariat, rookie manager Orel Woitenkoff.

Orel Woitenkoff: We will bury you. Sorry, I was not talking to you, Comrade Reporter. I was talking to the American.

From the London Monarchs, first year manager Max Bates.

Max Bates: I don't really know this baseball thing so well, guys. I'm just a haberdasher. What am I doing here?

And finally, from the Paris Revolution, manager Katsuyuki Sato.

Katsuyuki Sato: I come from eastern France. Far eastern.

Thanks, guys. First of all, let's talk about the new lineup. For the first time in history, baseball has aligned itself into separate divisions within the larger leagues. We hope that this will heighten local rivalries and increase competitiveness overall.

Joe Sanchez: Also, this ensures two American teams will be in the playoffs. As one of those teams, I like those odds.

Orel Woitenkoff: Typical capitalist pig-dog rhetoric.

Joe Sanchez: I don't like you.

Enough, men. Let's take a quick look at the divisions.

American/Asian League

American Division
-----------------
Chicago Defenders
Cincinnati Reds
New York Giants
US Baseball Engineers

Katsuyuki Sato: Look at that! That's patently unfair.

Joe Sanchez: What are you talking about? The best team in the American Association is in there. Just because there are only four teams doesn't mean that it's going to be easy.

Max Bates: I once sold a hat to a man in New York!

Katsuyuki Sato: That's not the point and you know it. You're going to have 2 teams from your division going to the playoffs, whereas the only way my division gets 2 teams is if we have better records than your division?

Max Bates: Wait, aren't you from France?

Katsuyuki Sato: Oh yeah. I mean "their". Ha! Why did I say "our"? I am from France, after all! France France France!

Moving on...

Pioneer Division
----------------
Mexico City Aztecs
Rio de Janeiro Carnival
Royal Canadian Mounted Baseballists
Shanghai Dragons
Sydney Outback
Tokyo Rising Sun

Joe Sanchez: See? You've got both of the expansion teams in there. It's not so bad.

Katsuyuki Sato: Yeah, and Mexico City and the Canadians, both countries, last time I checked, that are right next to the United States.

Joe Sanchez: Yes, but not *in* America. You foreigners just don't get it, do you? Baseball is an American sport and there needs to be an American division. That's the way it is.

Max Bates: Hey, pardon me for asking, but aren't your eyes a little squinty for a Frenchman?

Katsuyuki Sato: Those are called epicanthic folds, you idiot!

Max Bates: Blimey, mate! I thought I asked for no insults.

Orel Woitenkoff: I think I agree with Japanese man.

Katsuyuki Sato: Thanks... hey!

Orel Woitenkoff: That is unfair divisional setup that favors the pig-dogs. And also, Englishman is idiot.

Thanks for the insight. Moving on...

European League West
-----------------------
Amsterdam Admirals
Brussels Painters
London Monarchs
Madrid Matadors
Paris Revolutions

Orel Woitenkoff: This is good division. All good teams put together so that Mother Russia can field only okay team and still maybe win division.

Max Bates: I like it, too. Those are basically all the good places to visit in Europe. Well, except Florence. And there isn't a team in Florence.

Katsuyuki Sato: You're still an idiot. If you're in the same division as us, that means you have to try harder to get into the playoffs.

Max Bates: Oh yeah, well... your head is small for your body size.

And the final division:

European League East
--------------------
Athens Philosophers
Berlin Teutonic Knights
Moscow Proletariat
Rome Cardinals
Vienna Musik

Katsuyuki Sato: This looks like the "Germany automatically wins" division to me.

Joe Sanchez: Yeah, people who don't know baseball all that well would probably think that. People who do understand baseball, on the other hand, can recognize the inherent clutch abilities of the Italian and Austrian races and understand that no matter how much better the Germans are on a talent basis than everyone else, they will find a way to lose.

Max Bates: I agree with Joe on the basis that he hasn't insulted me yet.

Orel Woitenkoff: We will find way to take care of Germans. I would not worry about that.

As Mr. Sato so kindly pointed out, the playoffs are being expanded as well. The European side of things is easy enough to figure out: the division winners automatically make it as well as the players with the 2 next best records. There will be an extra round to take care of this, which will be 5 games in length. On the A/A side of things, there will be one "wild card" just as there is in Europe but the final playoff squad will by the 2nd place team in the American division.

Katsuyuki Sato: An American division team could lose 100 games and make it if the other 2 teams lose more than 100. How fair is that?

Joe Sanchez: That won't happen. New York and Cincinnati both have too much grit on their roster and in their hearts to not win it all.

Katsuyuki Sato: Grit? What is this grit you are talking about?

Joe Sanchez: Moderator, do you see what I'm saying? These non-Americans simply don't understand what baseball is. Meanwhile we have a starting third baseman who is not even six feet tall. That is called clutch, my friends.

Katsuyuki Sato: I don't even know how to answer that.

Orel Woitenkoff: What is clutch? There is no clutch.

Max Bates: I think that's something you get in a car.

Don't look at me. I'm just the hired help.

Finally, the last thing we wanted to speak about is the addition of a brand new midseason exhibition called the All-Star Game. Each league picks their best players and they duke it out for nine innings. This looks to be an innocent, fun way of letting the fans see the stars of both leagues.

Joe Sanchez: This is a terrible idea. You know what would be a good idea? An All-Clutch game with the clutchiest players in the game. You wouldn't even have to play the World's Series because that would pretty much be a foregone conclusion. An All-*Star* game, though? That just muddies the picture.

Max Bates: I want to see the stars! It will be ever so much fun!

Katsuyuki Sato: This is going to be great. I so want to see my friends from the Rising Sun. My eyes are welling up just thinking about it.

Max Bates: Wait a minute! I get it! You're Japanese! You're just managing the French because they paid you a lot of money!

Katsuyuki Sato: Did I mention that you are an idiot? I can't remember anything after that last sentence of yours. It pushed everything smart out of my head the way a sumo wrestler pushes all the other patrons out of a sushi bar when he needs some delicious puffer fish. Anyway, you are an idiot.

Well, folks, that's a wrap! I hope you understand this league just a little better now!

[Syd Thrift]

May Day Standings

America/Asia Standings

American Division

Team			W   L  PCT   GB  Home Away XInn	 1Run	Streak
Chicago Defenders	10  7 .588    -	 5-3  5-4   1-0	 3-2	L1
New York Giants		9   8 .529  1.0	 3-5  6-3   1-1	 2-1	W1
Cincinnati Reds		8   9 .471  2.0	 4-2  4-7   0-0	 1-1	L2
USA Baseball Engineers	3  14 .176  7.0	 1-8  2-6   0-1	 0-3	W1

Pioneer Division

Team			W   L  PCT   GB	 Home Away XInn	 1Run	Streak
RC Mounted Baseballists	12  5 .706    -	 6-2  6-3   1-1	 3-3	L1
Shanghai Dragons	12  5 .706    -	 8-3  4-2   2-0	 4-2	W4
Tokyo Rising Sun	11  6 .647  1.0	 6-3  5-3   2-1	 6-3	W1
Mexico City Aztecs	8   9 .471  4.0	 3-3  5-6   1-1	 1-2	W1
Sydney Outback		7  10 .412  5.0	 6-5  1-5   1-2	 1-2	L1
Rio de Janeiro Carnival	5  12 .294  7.0	 3-6  2-6   0-2	 1-3	L1

European League Standings

Euro West

Team			W   L  PCT   GB	 Home Away XInn	 1Run	Streak
Paris Revolutions	11  6 .647    -	 4-4  7-2   1-0	 1-3	L2
Amsterdam Admirals	10  7 .588  1.0	 5-3  5-4   1-1	 3-2    W1
Brussels Painters	7  10 .412  4.0	 1-5  6-5   0-0	 0-1	W2
Madrid Matadors		7  10 .412  4.0	 4-7  3-3   0-1	 3-1    L5
London Monarchs		6  11 .353  5.0	 2-6  4-5   2-0	 1-4	W1

Euro East

Team			W   L  PCT   GB	 Home Away XInn	 1Run	Streak
Vienna Musik		12  5 .706    -	 3-3  9-2  1-0	 4-0	L1
Rome Cardinals		9   8 .529  3.0	 6-3  3-5  1-1	 3-2	L1
Athens Philosophers	8   9 .471  4.0	 4-5  4-4  0-0	 1-2	L1
Moscow Proletariat	8   9 .471  4.0	 2-7  6-2  0-2	 0-1	W4
Berlin Teutonic Knights	7  10 .412  5.0	 3-8  4-2  0-1	 2-2	W1

At the opening bell, it appears that Paris Revolution manager Katsu Sato's premonitions about the league structure could turn out to be true. Right now, if the playoffs started, the 9-8 New York Giants would be in the playoffs and the 11-6 Tokyo Rising Sun would be on the outside looking in. Granted, it is very, very early, but that is somewhat troubling news. On the other hand, it will be nice to see either the Giants or the Reds in that weird out-of-time period we like to call October. There is only one October, after all, and as far as the League of Nations is concerned, there really isn't even one of them.

The game in 1921 also seems to be a little bit rougher on the players. So far, the following men have learned that their season is over:

Fat Freddie Turvill, SP, London
Enrico Ramirez, LF, Madrid
Alfonso Carbajal, RF, Madrid
'Don Quixote' Mario Ramos, SP, Mexico City
Frederic Deveaux, MR, Paris
Sisto Greenough, MR, Rio de Janeiro
Niculao Unho, MR, Rio de Janeiro
Bob Maitland, SP, Royal Canadian
Qian-gui "Kung Fu" Han, SP, Shanghai
Edmund Woodward, MR, US Army

Paris has been especially hit by the injury bug: at present, half its lineup is on the disabled list (1B Jean Pascal Dumoulin, SS Didier Bouchard, CF Herve Fischer, RF Didier Bernard). These setbacks don't appear to be doing a lot to their play on the field, though. London, on the other hand, has not been playing up to snuff at all. Part of that is their own injury struggles; in addition to #2 starter Turvill, they've also been without the use of Byron Feveryear for a good chunk of the proceedings thus far. Of course, Feveryear is one of those gritty ballplayers who spends almost as much time on the bench tending to his on-field injuries as he spends in the field putting his body on the line, so his absence can hardly be blamed for any downfall. In fact, the Monarchs lead the EU in hitting with a .312 mark. Their pitching isn't even that bad. It's just ponderous.

One team playing down to expectations is the US Army Baseball Engineers, who have taken a "scorched earth" policy to their own team. One wonders how much worse New York and Cincinnati would be if they didn't have what is essentially a farm team giving up their top players in addition for refuse. Then again, this is the country hit by the tragedy of the Baseball Brigade; in some ways, they can do whatever they want.

State of the League: Offense Reigns

Just over 10% into the season, one thing is very clear: we're going to be seeing a lot more runs scored this year. League of Nations batting hovers around the .290 mark, with the European League sitting just below .300 at .298. Home runs are also up, although not as spectacularly; last year teams hit an average of about 45 per team whereas this year it's looking like they might hit 55. It's hard to pinpoint a reason as to the sudden rise in offense. There's a general warming trend going on throughout the world. More than anything else, though, we think this is a sign of the world putting its mark on the American pastime.

[Syd Thrift]

May 1: Warren G. Harding is sworn in as President of the United States and General Manager of the Cincinnati Reds.

May 1: Germany asks for reparations to be delayed or canceled and is denied forcefully. So forcefully, in fact, that the reparations extend to baseball. London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, and Moscow are all allowed to take a player from the Teutonic Knights in that order. The mini-draft goes as follows:

London: SP Verner Schumann
Paris: CF Nisin Kirsch
Amsterdam: LF Kristian "Aurochs" Eckhardt
Brussels: SP Dustin Meise
Moscow: 3B Eustace Winschermann

May 7: The Russian White Army captures Mongolia from China, taking 2 Chinese ballplayers in the process. The players involved are a reserve pitcher and SP Luo-Han Thum (2-1, 4.33 ERA).

May 9: The Peace of Riga ends the Polish-Soviet War and frees all suspended Moscovian players to play once more.

[Syd Thrift]

Nothing happened.

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The Way Things Are Shaping Up

America/Asia Standings

American Division

Team			W  L   PCT   GB	Home	Away	XInn 1Run  Streak
Chicago Defenders	27 19 .587    -	11-11	16-8	 1-0  7-3      W2
Cincinnati Reds		23 23 .500  4.0	13-11	10-12	 1-0  3-5      L2
New York Giants		22 24 .478  5.0	10-12	12-12	 3-1  9-5      W2
USA Baseball Engineers	15 31 .326 12.0	 7-17	 8-14	 1-2  2-6      L2

Pioneer Division

Team			W  L   PCT   GB	Home	Away	XInn 1Run  Streak
RC Mounted Baseballists	32 14 .696    -	15-7	17-7	 1-1  6-6      L1
Mexico City Aztecs	26 20 .565  6.0	14-10	12-10	 1-3  4-5      L1
Shanghai Dragons	25 21 .543  7.0	14-11	11-10	 4-2  9-6      W2
Tokyo Rising Sun	25 21 .543  7.0	13-9	12-12	 3-2  8-8      W1
Sydney Outback		18 28 .391 14.0	10-14	 8-14	 2-4  4-6      L9
Rio de Janeiro Carnival	17 29 .370 15.0	 6-15	11-14	 1-3  4-6      W1

European League Standings

Euro West

Team			W  L   PCT   GB	Home	Away	XInn 1Run  Streak
Paris Revolutions	27 19 .587    -	12-10	15-9	 4-0  6-8      W1
Amsterdam Admirals	26 20 .565  1.0	14-8	12-12	 2-3  8-8      W3
Brussels Painters	24 22 .522  3.0	10-14	14-8	 3-1  7-2      W2
London Monarchs		22 24 .478  5.0	12-10	10-14	 5-2  5-8      L5
Madrid Matadors		17 29 .370 10.0	 9-15	 8-14	 4-5 8-10      L1

Euro East
Team			W  L   PCT   GB	Home	Away	XInn 1Run  Streak
Vienna Musik		31 15 .674    -	17-7	14-8	 3-1  9-1      W4
Moscow Proletariat	24 22 .522  7.0	12-12	12-10	 1-6  7-5      L2
Athens Philosophers	21 25 .457 10.0	 9-13	12-12	 1-1  5-9      L3
Berlin Teutonic Knights	20 26 .435 11.0	 8-17	12-9	 2-4 11-9      W1
Rome Cardinals		18 28 .391 13.0	10-11	 8-17	 1-3  3-9      L1

So far, the really big story of the League of Nations is the amazing play of the Vienna Musik. The Axis partners with Germany in the Great War had the talent to contend since the league began but finished below .500 in each of their first two seasons. It seems like they've saved up all their grit for this season. The livelier ball appears to be helping them more than anyone else in the league. So far, the Musik have clobbered 30 home runs, most in the league and on pace to pass the century mark. That's quite an accomplishment, considering the current European team HR record is last year's London squad with 62.

This will come as a shock to nobody but the man leading the Austrian charge is RF Veit Aehrenthal. The uberstar isn't chasing .400 like some of the other men in the game but he is hitting a more than respectable .353 with 7 homeruns (2nd in the Euro) and 17 steals (also 2nd). 1B Mjalko Panic, a 31 year old rookie, also adds 7 HRs to the attack and CF Veit Schusetka gives them 3 men in the top 8 (he has 5 dingers). On the other side of the ledger, Florian Knaus is the odds-on favorite to be the first Euro All-Star Game starter. Going into the year, he was just 31-41 but he has yet to lose in 10 starts and 9 decisions. His earned run average of 1.65 also leads the league. Ludwig Senner has a similar rags-to-riches story, going from 30-29 in his career to 6-3 this year with a 2.81 ERA (3rd in the league).

The Royal Canadians' story is not quite as balanced as that of the Musik. It's about how great hitting can totally pummel a league if the hitters can stay healthy. So far the Mounted Baseballists have scored 322 runs in 46 games. That's almost 7 per game! 1B Tim Kinch, who has fought back and neck injuries since the LoN began, is having the kind of year where a .403 May batting average counts as a slump. He's at .428 overall this year. Thanks in part to his timely hitting, leadoff hitting RF Ron Nock has scored 53 runs already this year. That's on pace for 204! It would not be a complete surprise if the 1921 A/A All-Star lineup consisted entirely of Canadians.

Players of the Month Announced

Florian Knaus was, as expected, named the May Pitcher of the Month for the European League. Yes, it's unlikely that he'll finish the season with the 32 wins he's on pace to reaching, but it's still an amazing start. His A/A counterpart is Mexico City's Carlos Diaz. Diaz is an interesting story. In 1919 he went 18-8 for the Aztecs but 1920 saw the Madrid Matadors more or less give their best two starters up to the "other" North American team. Somebody had to be the odd man out. Diaz played in just 10 games, compiling a 4-4 record as the 5th starter in a 4-man rotation. This year, Mario Ramos (16-11, 2.68 ERA) suffered a bad elbow injury in his first start and forced the Aztecs to recall Diaz from the reserve list. He's really shown up for this team, going 7-3 on the year including 6-1 in May.

Because there are no expansion teams this year, the Rookie of the Month honors are being awarded to actual rookies this season for the first time. The A/A winner was 3B Masaharu Sato. Just 22 years of age, he captured the May ROY award by hitting .403 with 8 runs scored in 67 at-bats. The European League also rewarded a young third sacker, Demetrius Martis of the Athens Philosophers. Demetrius gave hope to thousands of Greek baseball fans with his own .402 average for the month with 24 RBIs and 26 runs. He doesn't turn 21 until next April and could join the pantheon on Mount Olympus by the end of his career.

Moscow has vaulted into the game this year following the cessation of the USSR's conflict with Poland (who are on the short list of countries being considered for future expansions), which allowed them to play several pitchers and 2 starting outfielders who had been banned, lest they use the awesome power of Tesla's teleportation device for nefarious reasons. Was it that added protection that made Sergei Lenyashin so good? The camaraderie of similarly awesome teammates? Whatever the reason, the People's Hitter was absolutely unstoppable in May. He hit .436 with seven home runs, averaged more than a run scored and run batted in for the month, and reached base half the time he came to bat. Just amazing.

Jonathan Simon, Canada's second baseman, is constantly being forgotten about by the sports reporters of the world. It's not that he's average or even merely good. It's just that he has so, so many teammates who shine in the limelight a little brighter. His lead-gloved Irish LF Mack Dwywy, scientific but always hurt 1B Tim Kinch, smooth-talking French Canadian CF Alexandre Maurice, speedy RF Ron Nock... who were we talking about again? Oh yeah. Jon Simon is a man whose primary offensive talent is his ability to take a pitch that falls outside of the strike zone. He's walked 152 and 110 times in the league's first two years. Walks are important but often they have the side effect of making the rest of a player's stats look not so impressive. This is why we think it is a particularly prescient move to award Simon the Batter of the Month award for May. He hit .386 for the month with a .530 on-base percentage. As awesome as Sergei Lenyashin? Maybe, in his own way.

[Syd Thrift]

(note: the original way of keeping up with the draft was too much to keep track of and, frankly, not what I really want to do with this league. I mean, it was a nice idea but if it's not automated it's just too much house-keeping. I'm arranging the team in order of their wins so far this year instead, although the first two rounds will have teams picking from their own country only. I'm also going to bring something in from my earlier league, and that's making historical peepls into baseball players. That *is* the kind of thing I want to do because it is very realistic and accurate. Also, I worked really hard before to find 2 players from each team in each category. Here I'm going to try to find 1-3 guys for every team, more if there are more dudes of that nationality represented in the birth year per Wikipedia, less if there aren't).

Royal Canadian Mounted Baseballists
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Ben Blue, SP - Canadian bandleader and comedian. Stop crying, Canadians! At least he is actually from your country, unlike the next guy.

Vienna Musik
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Jaroslav Seifert, LF - Nobel Prize winning Czech writer, poet and journalist. Given that Vienna is currently the only Eastern European country outside of Russia (Austria stretches the definition of "Eastern Europe" but you get the drift), they get Hungarians (part of the same empire up until the end of the Great War) or Czechs if available.

Paris Revolutions
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Jean Dubuffet, SS - one of the most famous French painters and sculptors of the second half of the 20th century.

Chicago Defenders
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Mule Suttles, OF - Negro League outfielder.

Turkey Stearns, OF - Negro League outfielder, inducted into the real-life Baseball Hall of Fame in 2002.

Amsterdam Admirals
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Max Euwe, RF - Dutch chess Grandmaster, Mathematician, and author. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Champion (1935–1937). Euwe also served as President of FIDE, the World Chess Federation, from 1970 to 1978. Euwe was also a highly-regarded chess writer.

Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, SP - Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966. Unlike his predecessors, Verwoerd was not born in South Africa, but immigrated at age two with his parents from the Netherlands.

Tokyo Rising Sun
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Emperor Hirohito, CL - the 124th Emperor of Japan.

Brussels Painters
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Leopold III, SP - reigned as King of the Belgians from 1934 until 1951, when he abdicated in favour of the Heir Apparent, his son Baudouin.

Mexico City Aztecs
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Hunahpu (CL) and Xbalanque (CF) Maya - In honor of the Mayan independent state's capitulation to Mexico this year, the Hero Twins of Mayan mythology were discovered and cloned using the Tesla Device. The specifics are very complicated and not to be asked about for world security purposes.

Shanghai Dragons
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Chen Yi, LF - Chinese communist military commander and politician.

Moscow Proletariat
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Vasily Kalinnikov, SS - a Russian composer of two symphonies, several additional orchestral works and numerous songs, all of them imbued with characteristics of folksong. His symphonies, particularly the First, were frequently performed in the early 20th century. In recent years his fame has diminished but the symphonies are available in recordings.

New York Giants
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Ed Sullivan, P - American entertainment writer and television host, best known as the presenter of a popular TV variety show called The Ed Sullivan Show that was at its height of popularity in the 1950s and 1960s.

Walt Disney, 2B - Multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist. Disney is famous for his influence in the field of entertainment during the twentieth century.

Art Rooney - The founding owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers franchise in the National Football League.

Cincinnati Reds
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Clark Gable, P - an iconic American actor nicknamed "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday. Gable's most famous role was Rhett Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic film Gone with the Wind, in which he starred with Vivien Leigh. His performance earned him his third nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor; he had won the award for It Happened One Night (1934) and was also nominated for Mutiny on the Bounty (1935).

Gary Cooper, RF - An American film actor and iconic star. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, individualistic, emotionally restrained, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited to the many Westerns he made.

London Monarchs
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F.F.E. Yeo-Thomas, SP - The British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent codenamed "The White Rabbit" during World War II. His particular sphere of operations was Occupied and Vichy France.

Madrid Matadors
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Joaquin Rodrigo, P - a composer of classical music and a virtuoso pianist. Despite being blind from an early age, he achieved great success. Rodrigo is considered to be among the composers most responsible for popularizing classical guitar music in the twentieth century, and his Concierto de Aranjuez is one of the pinnacles of the Spanish music and guitar concerto repertoire. This blindness is even more amazing given his baseball prowess.

Rio de Janeiro Carnival
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Suavoco do Cristo, CL - Portugese for "Christ's Armpit", this is the name of a prominent bloco in Rio de Janeiro. Blocos are a group of people who dress in costumes to celebrate the Carnival. This one is associated with the area around Rio's Botanical Garden.

Athens Philosophers
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Theseus, CF - Here's a guy who killed a minotaur. Surely he can play a little baseball. Also cloned using the Tesla Device.

Berlin Teutonic Knights
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Karl Arnold, OF - Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1947 to 1956. He was President of the Bundesrat and as such acting head of state of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949, before the election of President Theodor Heuss.

Rome Cardinals
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Enrico Fermi, SS - Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and statistical mechanics.

Sydney Outback
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Gordon 'Nuts' Coventry, CL - Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League. With 1,299 goals over 18 seasons no football observer could deny that Coventry remains one of the greatest full forwards the game has ever seen.

US Army Baseball Engineers
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George Gallup, P - an American pioneer of survey sampling techniques and inventor of the Gallup poll, a successful statistical method of survey sampling for measuring public opinion.

Maxwell Taylor, MR - American soldier and diplomat of the mid-20th century.