Rewriting Cubs history.........

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1904 Cubs Opening day Rotation and Lineups

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NOTE: The two trades made during Spring Training were to shore up the catcher position, seeing that both Frank Chance and the departed Johnny Kling were injury prone for the first few seasons. Win Mercer should add a little depth to the bullpen.

Thanks Progen, it will be interesting to see if this team, which really hasnt added many rookies of note in the past two years can get better iike they did in real life. In 1904, we finished in 2nd, but were still 13 games out of first, the Giants won 106 games and the seemingly unbeatable Pirates fell to 4th, winning only 87. This should be a real challenge this year, depends on if we can stay healthy enough to win.

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1904 First Half News

April News

- Senators lose LF Pop Foster for 6-7 weeks.
- Highlanders lose C Roger Bresnahan for 4 weeks.
- Cubs lose CF Danny Green for 3-4 weeks.

May News

- White Sox lose CF Dummy Hoy for 4 weeks.
- Giants lose 1B Art Devlin for 4 weeks.

- Cubs SP Jock Menefee NL Pitcher of the Month in NL

June News

- Athletics trade SS Fernando Sanchez and 2B Bert Daly to Superbas for SP Oscar Jones.
- Beaneaters trade C Fred Jacklitsch to WHite Sox for CF Juan Torres and LF Angel Ramirez.
- Cardinals lose 2B Jimmy Williams for 4 months.
- Beaneaters trade RP Dad Hale to Highlanders for 1B Liam Pugsley.
- Reds trade 2B CUpid Childs and 3B Octavio Brito to White Sox for LF Sam Mertes.

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1904 First Half Standings



1904 First Half Hitting Leaders



1904 First Half Pitching Leagers

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The first half of the 1904 season has proven to be a crazy season. The Cubs, Giants, Reds and Pirates have been trading places at the top all season long, and it has been interesting to watch.

My Cubs are above .500 and have actually been in first place twice but never for more than a day or two. Tom Hughes and Jock Menefee have led the way on the mound, but have winning records and eras under 2.00. As for the offensive side of things, Joe Tinker and Danny Green are hitting above .300. Green has spent a few weeks on the DL and hopefully he will stay healthy the rest of the way.

Second half of the season could be good if things continue to run smoothly.

1904 Cubs Mid Season Hitting and Pitching

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1904 Second Half News

July News

- Cardinals lose CF Emmet Heidrick for 6-7 weeks.
- Cardinals trade RP Jim Hackett to White Sox for CF Miguel Santana
- Phillies trade LF Juan Luis Hernandez and LF Claudio Ferreira to Beaneaters for RP Bob Dresser.
- GIants trade 2B Mario Ortiz and CF Jose Mendoza to Beaneaters for RF John Titus.
- Superbas trade CF Lefty Davis to Giants for RF Danny Murphy.
- Reds trade C Admiral Schlei and SP Luis Cortes to Giants for SP Dummy Taylor.
- Tigers trade RP Ed Siever to Beaneates for LF Duff Cooley and LF Juan Luis Hernandez.
- Superbas trade 3B Bill Coughlin to Reds for RP Rip Ragan and 3B Miguel Aquino.
- Cardinals trade SP Jack J Powell to Reds for SS Mario Cruz.
- Reds trade LF Fred Odwell to Beaneaters for RP Bob Lawson and 2B Mario Ortiz.
- Pirates trade C Jiggs Donahue to Cardinals for RP Alex Pearson and CF Miguel santana.
- Giants trade 1B Tom Jones to Cubs for RP Jack W Taylor and LF Hector Torres.
- Senators trade 1B Sam Dungan to Tigers for 1B Jorge Mendoza and 1B Francisco Costa.
- Naps trade 1B Candy LaChance to Highlanders for 1B Jose Marinez and CF Jim Jackson.
- Senators trade 2B Charles Moran and 2B Ferruccio Scimeca to Athletics for SP Chick Fraser.
- Naps trade RP Jack Lundobom and CF Alfredo Rodriguez to Giants for LF George Van Haltren.
- Beaneaters trade CF Phil Geier adn LF Claudio Ferreira to Senators for SP Yasukazu Kokawa.

-Cubs SP Tom J Hughes wins July Pitcher of the month

September News

- Cubs lose SP Frank Corridon for 5 weeks.
- Athletics lose RF Socks Seybold for 5 weeks.

- Cubs RF Garrt Croft, CF Mike J Lynch and RF Chick Pedroes retire from Single A Peoria.

- Athletic SP Eddie Plank throws No-Hitter against Senators.
- Americans SP George Winter throws No-Hitter against Athletics.

- Athletics lose RF Jack Hayden for 6-7 weeks.
- Pirates lose SP Jesse Tannehill for 6 months.

October News

- Naps lose 2B Erve Beck for 4 weeks.

1904 Final Standings



1904 End Of Season Hitting and Pitching Leaders





Pittsburgh once again represents the NL in the World Series but in AL, the White Sox were able to hold off the Americans and will do the honors for the AL against Pittsburgh.

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1904 Post Season News

- Pirates lose SP Jack Chebro for 7 weeks.
- Highlanders trade C Red Kleinow and 1B Jose Martinez to Athletics for CF Danny Hoffman.
- Beaneaters trade RP Ed Siever to Browns for 2B Luis Lopez and 3B Juan Luis Cervantes.

Pirates win 3rd WS in four trips.

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1904 Review (of a sorts)

Not as good as I had hoped, 4th place with only 86 wins. Not as good as rl or as high in the standings but we did improve once more. The Cubs are taking shape.

Only real injury worry this season was CF Danny Green. Green has been our best offensive player since the beginning and if he could stay healthy, things could be different.

Jock Menefee and Tom J Hughes and Bob Rhoads all won 20 games this season, anchoring a very decent Cubs rotations.

Overall, very promising so far. Have improved each year and with the age of our team not being too bad, we could be in for a lot of good years ahead of us.

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1904 EOS Cubs Hitting and Pitching (With rookies)





Rookie class for Cubs limited to just two Pitchers, Ed Reulbach and Big Jeff Pfeffer. This could be interesting. No hitting or defensive help this season so hopefully the hitters can keep it together. Not sure if either new guy will crack the rotation but a fourth is needed and maybe one of them can grab it and run.

Off season news coming soon.

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Off Season News

- Cubs trade SP Ed Reulbach, CF Luis Pena and RP Jack Doscher to Reds for 04 NL Pitcher of the Year Noodles Hanh. (only change in this offer from the computer was Ed Reulbach instead of Bod Rhoads.)
- Naps trade C Peaches Graham and c Raul Parado to Superbas for RF Harry Lumley

1904 Best Fielders





- White Sox RHP Frank E Smith wins AL Rookie of the Year.
- Giants LHP Hooks Wiltse wins NL Rookie of the Year.
- White Sox manager Ronald Perry top AL Manager.
- Pirates manager Fred Clarke top NL Manager.
- White Sox RHP Frank E Smith wins AL Top Pitcher Award
- Giants RHP Christy Mathewson wins NL Top Pitcher Award.
- Highlanders LF Mike Donlin wins AL MVP Award.
- Reds RF Sam Crawford wins NL MVP Award.

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Off Season News cont.

- Superbas trade RF Judge McCredie to Americans for RP Doc Adkins and C Yip Owens.
- Naps trade RP Jack Hickey to Phillies for SS Antonio Gonzales.
- Beaneaters trade RP Ham Iburg to Phillies for 1B Juan Flores and C Jose Cortez.
- Cardinals trade SP Cowboy Jones to Americans for SS Ramon Gomez.

December News

- Superbas trade SS Curt Bernard and C Yip Owens to Athletics for SP Weldon Henley.
- Americans trade C Johnny Kling and 1B Alberto Aguirre to Athletics for SP Wiley Piatt.
- Reds lose RP Bill Duggleby for 4 weeks (farm accident).

January News

- Americans tradee LF Jake Stahl to Tigers for RP Red Long and SP Eddie Cicotte.
- Cardinals trade SP Ed Murphy to Highlanders for SP Edgar Gabriel.
- Cardinals trade RP Red Donahue to Tigers for LF Juan Luis Hernandez and SS Juan Lopez.
- Cubs trade 1B Charlie Dexter to Browns for RP Pink Hawley and C Jorge Rodriguez.

February News.

- Phillies trade SS Mickey Doolan to Athletics for RP Rube Kisinger and 1B Jose Martinez.

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Spring Training News

- Cardinals lose RHP Al Orth for 4 weeks.
- Cardinals lose RHP Buster Brown for 5-6 months.
- Browns lose CF Hugh Duffy for 5 weeks.
- Cubs lose 3B Harry Steinfeldt for 4 weeks.
- Pirates lose LHP Homer Hillebrand for 5 months.
- Pirates lose RHP Alex Pearson for 4 months.
- Athletics lose 2B Nap Lajoie for 5 weeks.
- Tigers lose RF Alfredo "Flea" Cruz for 6 months.
- Americans lose MR Cy Young for 7-8 weeks.
- Giants lose RF John Titus for 5 weeks.

Ownership has decided once more that we should reach the playoffs. Not sure but in RL, Cubs won 92 games and finished 3rd, Giants again won over 100 games and Pirates finished in 2nd, could be interesting season.

Interesting ending to ST, Reds, Cubs, Beaneaters and Reds all finished with 14-9 records. (Dont really pay much attention to the ST standings as they almost always end up being opposite for me in the regular season.)

1905 Top Ten Prospects

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1905 Cubs Opening Day Lineups and Rotation





1905 First Mid Season reports later tonight.

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Enjoying your Cubs dynasty. I have a question. How do you do the trades in a historical league where you know who is going to be good ahead of time? Doesn't that give you an unfair advantage? Or do you let the computer do the trades? I've always wondered how people get around that in historical leagues.

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1905 Mid Season News

April News

- Reds lose LF Sam Crawford for 4 weeks.
- White Sox lose RHP Frank E Smith for 6-7 months.

May News

-Tigers SP Red Donahue tosses No-Hitter against Senators

- Naps lose LHP Otto Hess for 3 months.
- Cubs lose CF Danny Green for 4 weeks. (Just what I feared, wonder how good he could have been had he not getting hurt each year).

-Superbas SP Bill Donovan tosses No-Hitter against Giants

June News

- Naps lose SS Rafael "The Gambler" Garcia for 4 weeks.
- White Sox lose CF Dummy Hoy for 4 weeks (43 and still playing).
- White Sox CF Frank Shugart announces retirement at end of season (38)
- Cubs lose George Moriarty for 3-4 weeks, Pink Hawley for 1-2 weeks and SP Frank Corridan for 3 months on the same day.
- Americans lose Jimmy Collins for 10 months.
- White Sox lose Antonio Galindo for 4-5 months.
- Tigers trade RF Jimmy Barrett to Americans for SS Raul Lopez and C Marcos Salomon.

1905 Mid Season Standings



1905 Mid Season Hitting and Pitching Leaders

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Cubbies on a roll. At the mid point of our 1905 campaign, we are right there, 11 games above .500 and not very far out of the lead. If Green can stay healthy when he returns (in about a week) and the team can keep going, we could get a shot at the playoffs.

1905 Cubs Mid Season Pitching



1905 Cubs Mid Season Hitting



End of 1905 coming soon.

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Originally Posted by gglennwill

Enjoying your Cubs dynasty. I have a question. How do you do the trades in a historical league where you know who is going to be good ahead of time? Doesn't that give you an unfair advantage? Or do you let the computer do the trades? I've always wondered how people get around that in historical leagues.

Trading can be interesting and if you noticed, I have not done much so far. I think our biggest pick up was Noodles Hahn. But the reason it is not so easy is I do not use Recalc, so the OOTP development engine takes things once a player is imported.

My initial setting were to have intial import based on entire career and the same for the ratings after that. But, once the import is done, it is up to the OOTP engine to do what it will with the players.

This can be good or this can be bad. Example. Danny Green our CF. He in rl he played 8 seasons, from 1898 till 1905. He has a lifetime .293 average and accumulated 1021 hits. He played in 392 games.

SO far, for me, he has played almost the same time for me, he has a .304 ave so far, has 920 hits and has played in 804 games.

iF he starts every game from now till the end of the season, at most, he will have 875 games. A little behind what he did in real life. But he has a possible better average and may be more hits. He is only 28 so he could play for another 6-10 years.

This is a small example.

To be honest, I do base my trading on what I know of a player and the age. I do not like trading for players older than 30 and unless they are Ruthian in statsture, I usually pass on the trade. I also base my trades on needs and sometimes, but not always, on money.

It is fun without recalc on cause you really have no idea what a player is gonna do and as in Green's account, he has spent a bit of time each year on the dl, so he could have really surpassed his numbers had he not been hurt each year.

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If anyone has any fav players they want info on, feel free to ask, I will do my best to post what I can for you. Glad some are finding this fun and hope everyone is enjoying themselves, it is a lot of fun.

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First things first. Before I post the year end stuff, I have to say, this season was one of the most exciting I have simmed in a long time. Let me explain.

Coming out of the break, we were in 4th place and ready to make a move. At the end of July, the Cubs were in first place and for the entire month of July, we led the NL, by as many as 3 1/2 games. But, then it was injury time and although nothing major happened, The end of September saw the Giants back in first but only by 1/2 a game.

When the final day came about, the Giants had a half game lead but we lost to the Cardinals and that was that.

What a great ending and it was a great season for the Cubs.

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1905 Second Half News

July News

- Phillies trade SS Hughie Jennings to White Sox for RP Clark Griffith and SS Elimilton Marrecha. (Called a shocker in the new story)
- Phillies lose S Bill Keister for 3 weeks.
- Cardinals lose 3B Harry Wolverton for 4-5 months.
- Phillies lose 2B Nap Lajoie for 2-3 weeks.
- Reds trade RF Sam Mertes to Senators for RP Harry Hardy and 3B Julio Ojeda.
- Browns lose CF Hugh Duffy for 3 weeks.
- Americans trade ss Nakamoro Memoto to Cardinals for RP Al Orth and 3B Luis Bravo.
- Pirates lose 3B Tommmy Leach for 3-4 weeks.
- CUbs lose SP Jake Weimer for 12 months.
- Browns trade RP Bill Reidy and C Juan Valdez to Giants for RF Kip Selbach.
- Superbas trade 1B Tom McCreery and SS Tony Mendoza to Tigers for SP Joe Yeager.
- Tigers trade 1B Chris Lindsay and CF Cristian Najera to Beaneaters for SP Yasukazu Kokawa.
- Cubs lose CF Danny Green for 3-4 weeks (did I jinx him with my post?)
- Cardinals lose 2B Jimmy Williams for 3-4 weeks.

- Superbas 1B Joe Kelley gets 2000th hit.

August News

- Pirates lose SP Deacon Phllippe for 12 months.
- White Sox lose C Fred Jacklitsch for 5-6 weeks.
- Americans lose 1B Buck Freeman for 8 months.
- Cubs SP Big Jeff Pfeffer NL Rookie of the Month.

September News

- Browns lose RHP Ned Garvin for 8-9 months.
- Cubs SP Bert Cunningham retires from Iowa Cubs (39).
- Naps lose C Nig Clarke for 8 months.
- Tigers 1B Sam Dungan announces retirement (39).
- Pirates loses LF Fred Clarke for 6 weeks.

October News

- White SOx lose LF Zaza Harvey for 4 weeks.
- Beaneaters lose SP Togie Pittinger for 13 months.

1905 End of Season Standings