MLB Modified

[Mike45]

Wow the AL West was incredibly mediocre across the board

[alexsimon99]

Originally Posted by Jeff1787

Sure...I'll do the Division leaders at the All-Star break and full standings at the season's end!!

Awesome! I was so happy when the Seals finally broke through and won one a few years back... Felt so disappointing to see the close calls with the best hitter in the game on the squad.

[Jeff1787]

Real life stuff: Horace McBride never made it to the big leagues. He played 953 games in eight seasons (1928-1936) in the minors, mostly with the New York-Pennsylvania League. He hit a career .339 with 99 homers.

Among the 17 spitball pitchers exempted when the pitch was banned, Doc Ayers was unique. He was the only one who hurled with an underhand motion. He played in the majors from 1913-1921. Ayers did not retire from baseball at that point, but pitched nearly three more years in the minors. He had moderate success in the American Association before retiring in 1923, winning ten or more games each year.


*On Deck – 1935 Hall of Fame Ballot*

[Jeff1787]

*On Deck – 1935 Hall of Fame Voting Results*

[Jeff1787]

Real life stuff

Eddie Cicotte was one of baseball's most effective pitchers in the second decade of the American League but is today best remembered for being banned from baseball as part of the Black Sox Scandal for his alleged involvement in fixing the 1919 World Series. His major league record was 209-148, and while he was 36 years old in his last major league season, he had gone 21-10 and should have been able to pitch several more seasons.

Bill Kenworthy was a popular player and manager in the Pacific Coast League from the mid-teens through the mid-twenties, where he was known as "The Iron Duke", and was a star of the short-lived Federal League in 1914 and 1915. He is noted in some baseball encyclopedias as "Duke" Kenworthy, but never used that nickname during his bride major league career (53 PA).

Ewart "Dixie" Walker pitched four seasons for the Washington Senators. He was a year older than teammate Walter Johnson and was his roommate. After his major league days he played for many more years in the minors.

*On Deck – Minor League news*

[Jeff1787]

*On Deck – Opening day rookie watch*

[Jeff1787]

Real life stuff: James Buster Clarkson, better known as Buster or Bus Clarkson, was a baseball player who played briefly in the major leagues and had a long career in the Negro leagues, the minor leagues, and the Puerto Rican Professional league.

*On Deck – 1935 Amateur Draft*

[Jeff1787]

Real Life stuff: After his 11th grade year at Herbert Hoover High School (San Diego), Ted Williams played 42 games for San Diego Padres of the Pacific Coast League. After graduating in 1937, he played the rest of the year for San Diego before signing with the Boston Red Sox.

*On Deck – 1st half news*

[Jeff1787]

*On Deck – All-star break*

[Jeff1787]

*On Deck – All-star break*

[Jeff1787]

*On Deck – Notable events in the second half of the season*

[Jeff1787]

• Dobie Moore played his entire 7-year Negro League career with the Kansas City Monarchs
• Harry Heilmann ended his career in 1932 with 2660 hits
• Lou Gehrig got his 2500th hit in 1937
• Chino Smith was a great Negro League hitter, but unforunately died in 1932 at the age of 28
• John Beckwith, nicknamed The Black Bomber, played in the Negro Leagues for 22 seasons

*On Deck – Final standings*

[Jeff1787]

*On Deck-1935 MLB Batting Leaders*

[Jeff1787]

Real life stuff

Before his 1937 major league debut, Chet Laabs played for Fort Wayne (Class-B) in 1935 and Milwaukee (Double-A) in1936 hitting 66 total home runs.

*On Deck-1935 MLB Pitching Leaders*

[Jeff1787]

Real life stuff
Ray Prim, the 1945 National League ERA champion who appeared in the 1945 World Series with the Chicago Cubs, pitched six years in the majors as part of a professional career that spanned from 1928-47. He is in the PCL Hall of Fame, having pitched in the PCL for most of the time between his 1930's stint in the majors and his 1940's time there.

*On Deck-1935 Post season*

[Jeff1787]

Real life stuff
Harry Kelley pitched in the majors from 1925-1926 and 1936-1939. He was 277-202 in the minors, with 206 wins coming in the Southern Association, where he was a five time 20 game winner. In 1935 he was in the Southern Asscoiation.

*On Deck-1935 World Series*

[Jeff1787]

*On Deck-1935 Major awards*

[Habsfan18]

Great touch with the Sporting News paper!

[Jeff1787]

Real life stuff

Tom Winsett played in the majors for parts of seven seasons and had eight homers total. However, in the minor leagues during 12 seasons, he hit 220 career homers. He played mostly in the International League and the American Association.

Hank Majeski played for the Eau Claire Bears of the Northern League in 1935, batting .307. He began his 13 year major league career in 1939.

*On Deck - 35 Years of MLB History*

[Jeff1787]

*On Deck - 1936 Hall of Fame ballot*