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Old 03-25-2017, 09:01 AM   #1
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History of Baseball : Majors, Minors and Barnstorming Leagues from 1901 on

For my latest dynasty I have decided to go back to my roots and do a new History of Baseball replay but this time the complete minor leagues will be included. The focus will jump around with the goal being simply to find some interesting stories and players that emerge in this sim. I love how in the early days of OOTP(version 2 to 6) I would research obscure major leaguers like Cliff Markle because of their accomplishments in sims I ran. I hope to find out more about baseball history and it's many characters as some obscure minor league names take centre stage in my reply, which will begin in 1901 and continue until 2016.

I have added a couple of twists to it. Since there are no minor leagues in the game for the first two decades, but plenty of players looking for teams, I added a couple of fictional leagues that will exist from 1901 until the mid-twenties. These fictional leagues will only contain real players and unlike the major leagues, will not be segregated. As a result players like Oscar Charleston will not have to wait until the Negro National League debuts in 1920 to begin their career's.

In addition to the extra leagues I also decided to take advantage of the tournament feature of OOTP18 to mimic the barnstorming teams of the era. A 16 team, 30 game barnstorming league will run every November from 1901 until the early 1940s in my universe. The barnstorming teams will be based on various regions and will also be fully integrated so all of the top players will have the opportunity to compete against each other. I am presently just starting the 1922 season but as I said the story will jump around as I notice (hopefully) interesting things from my league history.

FIRST DECADE BELONGS TO THE PIRATES
The Pittsburgh Pirates were the class of the major leagues in the opening decade of my sim. Led by Rube Waddell's 7 pitcher of the year awards and 4 National League MVP's along with Honus Wagner claiming 4 MVP's, the Pirates won 9 straight pennants and 8 of the first 9 World Series titles. Waddell (2221-103 from 1901-09) anchored a pitching staff that also included Jack Chesbro (263-202 in his career) and Deacon Phillippe (177-119). The only World Series loss the Pirates suffered in those 9 years was a 7 game thriller to the Philadelphia Athletics in 1904.

Pittsburgh's dominance would end with that opening decade as the St Louis Cardinals became the team to beat in the teens. The Cards won 6 World Championships (1913, 1915, 1916, 1918, 1920 and 1921) and were never on the losing end of a matchup with the American League champs.

BARNSTORMING CIRCUT
The Barnstorming winter tournament also had a dominant club as the boys from the Mid-Atlantic region won 12 of the first 20 championships. The only other winners from the 12 regions were the Midwest, with 5, and the Central region which claimed 3 titles. Just like in the National League, Rube Waddell was the top pitcher in the early years of the barnstorming circuit, winning 4 pitcher of the year awards and fashioning a 46-12 record for his Mid-Atlantic squad over 8 tournaments. Thru 1921 Walter Johnson was the top pitcher in wins with an 89-35 over 15 tournaments split between the Central and Appalachian teams (being from Tennessee the Big Train was eligible for either squad).

With no color barrier in this winter event one of the top hitters was Pop Lloyd, who was a .323 hitter and third all-time in career hits while plying his trade for the Gulf or South Atlantic squads. Barred from the Major Leagues Lloyd found a summer home with the Topeka Jayhawks of the Independent Northern Professional League begin in 1906 when the franchise was based in Kansas City. As of the start of the 1922 campaign Lloyd is the all-time leader in hits in that loop with 2235. Second on the list is Fred Beck at 2169 but no one else has over 2000.

Another real life Negro Leaguer who has fared very well in the Northern Professional League is Oscar Charleston. Now 28 years old, Charleston spent 5 seasons with the Oakland Oaks of the Western Independent League before move to the NPL and joining the Rochester Reds. In 1921, Charleston set an independent league record by batting .451 in 134 games.
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Old 03-25-2017, 10:00 AM   #2
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Reb russell - world series mvp

REB RUSSELL - WORLD SERIES MVP
The 1922 World Series saw the St Louis Browns win their first World Championship and it was all the more satisfying because the Browns knocked off their cross-town rival Cardinals in 6 games to claim the hardware. It was also the first time the Cardinals had lost a World Series after 6 wins and ended a 2 year Redbird hold on the title.

The Browns had been to the World Series twice before, once in 1913 when they lost to the hated Cardinals and back in 1902, when the franchise was still based in Baltimore. The hero for the Brownies was a 31 year old former ace pitcher who became a star outfielder after arm troubles: a man by the name of Reb Russell.

Russell, born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1889, saw his OOTP career mirror real life for his first several years in the game. In real life he was with the White Sox from 1913-1918 as a pitcher and won 22 games as a rookie in 1913. He would go 81-59 over 6 MLB seasons before arm troubles forced him to reinvent himself as an outfielder. He spent from 1919-21 entirely in the minors before getting some limited major league action in 1922 and 23 with the Pirates. After the 1923 season he never played another major league game but did kick around the minors until the age of 40.

In the sim he also began as a pitcher, but with the Red Sox, and had a pair of 20 win seasons while compiling a record of 91-87 and being named an all-star in 1915. In 1918 the game converted him to an outfielder but he was just awful at the plate, batting .148 in 81 at bats that season and just .192 the following year.

The turning point for Russell in the sim came on July 6, 1920 when Boston dealt him to the Browns in exchange for picher Jack Quinn and infielder Billy Mullen. Russell would go from being a 4th outfielder in Boston to a starting role with the Browns. He hit .261 in 74 games for St Louis in 1920 and followed that up with a career best .347 season with a 4.7 WAR in 1921. He also found power, blasting 25 homeruns and 122 rbi's that season as he helped the Browns to a second place finish behind Cleveland.

This season (1922) Russell played a career high 150 games, batting .298 with 17 homers and a league leading 123 rbi's. His rbi total, one more than Boston's Babe Ruth (.391,40,122) denied The Sultan of Swat's bid for a second triple crown.

The World Series began on October 8th with the visitng Cardinals winning the opener 7-5 thanks to a pinch hit 2-run homer from Ted Jourdan. Russell went 1-for-3 in that game but took centre stage in Game Two when he reached base all four times, going 2-for-2 including a 2-run double in a 6-4 Browns win to even the series. Something of note from that game, 18 year old Lou Gehrig made his post-season debut for the Browns as a pinch-hitter in the contest. Gehrig grounded out to end an inning, stranding 2 runners.

Russell went 2-for-4 with a 2 run homer in Game Three that had given the Browns a 4-2 lead at the time but the Cardinals rallied to win the game 5-4, scoring twice in the bottom of the ninth to force extra innings. Rogers Hornsby had 3 hits including the game winning rbi for the Redbirds.

Game Four was all about Russell as Reb went 3-for-5 with a pair of doubles, scoring 2 runs and driving 2 in as the Browns evened the series with a 6-4 victory despite being outhit 17-10. Gehrig got his second pinch-hit appearance in the series and delivered a 9th inning single this time. 30 year old catcher Bubbles Hargrave drove in all of the Cardinals runs as he had an rbi single and a 3-run homer.

Russell was just 1-for-5 and did not factor in the offense in Game Five as the Browns shut out the Cardinals 4-0 to take a 3 games to two lead in the series. Bill Sherdel, who won a career best 22 games during the regular season, pitched 8 2/3 innings of shutout ball before giving way to Dixie McArthur to get the final out.

Which brings us to Game Six and Russell made a statement early, belting a 2-run homer in the bottom of the first inning as the Browns scored 5 times in the frame before coasting to a 9-6 victory. Russell would finish the game 3-for-5 and ended the series with a .522 batting average along with 2 homers and 8 rbi's.

Here is Reb Russell's SABR biography page http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/00eafbd0
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Tiger Fan is back!! So excited you are back for another baseball dynasty! Interested to see how this pans out! Keep up the good work!
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Old 03-25-2017, 04:31 PM   #4
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Pete Hill

WESTERN BASEBALL ASSOCIATION 1901-1920
The Western Baseball Association began 1901 with 8 teams along the Pacific Coast of the United States. The league had visions of rivaling Major League Baseball but very few established major league stars agreed to move west so the league opened it's doors to Negro League players, who had been barred from MLB and previously restricted to the barnstorming circuit or semi-pro leagues.

In 1904 the Western Association doubled in size to 8 teams as a Caribbean League was added. It consisted of 5 US teams as well as 2 clubs from Mexico and the San Juan Senadores team from Puerto Rico. The league would thrive for the next decade but eventually folded following the 1920 season when 8 teams left the league to form the Pacific Coast League, which would be affiliated with major league baseball.

One of the first superstars of the WBA was outfielder Pete Hill, who played from 1904-20 with the Los Angeles Angels and was the all-time leader in hits with 2386. After the league folded Hill would join the Indianapolis ABC's of the Negro National League and is still active at this writing as a 40 year old in 1923.

Hill would win 3 Western Series with the Angels including 1919 when he was named MVP of the Pacific League. Hill would team with Cristobal Torriente from 1912-20 to give the Angels the 2 best hitters in the WBA. When the WBA disbanded Torriente would find a new home in another indpendent league with Wichita of the Northern Professional League. Torriente twice hit over .400 in the WBL including a league record .419 in 1920. He also batted .411 in 1918 but it was Hill that was the face of the league, playing in 1941 career games which is second behind only Rafael Almeida's 1974 games from 03-20 with the Hot Springs Arlintons and San Juan Senadores.


In real life Hill is a Hall of Famer who spent most of his career in the pre-Negro League era and his power often draws comparison to Babe Ruth. In 1919 while playing for Detroit he clubbed 28 homers, one shy of the number Ruth hit that season. After his career ended he seemed to disappear and there was confusion about not only his real name, but where he was buried. Here is a great article on the real life story of Pete Hill

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Old 03-25-2017, 05:07 PM   #5
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The 1924 BARNSTORMING CIRCUIT TOURNAMENT

The 1924 BARNSTORMING CIRCUIT TOURNAMENT
The Barnstorming Tournament has been around since 1902 and unlike the major leagues is open to players of color making it the only event where the best baseball has to offer can challenge each other. It is a 30 game season held every November and the teams are chosen based upon the region a player was born in. Only one state was deemed large enough to have it's own entry, but that state (California) has never won the event.

The most dominant squad has been the Mid-Atlantic, which has finished first in the East in all but 2 years. In addition to the Mid-Atlantic, the other five eastern regions are Appalachian, Gulf Coast, New England, Delta and South Atlantic. The West has California along with Midwest, Pacific Northwest, Great Plains, Central and Southwest. All teams are based on a players birth state so many players have the option of a couple of teams that they could play for.

The Central region is the defending champion, having beaten the MidAtlantic 2 games to one in last years final. The Central has 3 titles, all coming in the last 5 years. With most of the same players returning, the Central has to be one of the favourites to win this year's title.

Here is the Central roster and we will follow their progress through the tournament.
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Old 03-25-2017, 09:29 PM   #6
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The use of the tournaments feature for barnstorming is really interesting. Brings back memories of the barnstorming tour from the Pat O'Farrell dynasty.

Great to see another TigerFan dynasty!
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Old 03-26-2017, 09:51 AM   #7
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1924 Barnstorming Tournament

1924 BARNSTORMING TOURNAMENT
Johnny Mostil hit .434 and Oscar Charleston batted .405 to lead the Central team to a 21-9 record but it was not enough to allow them the opportunity to defend their Barnstorming Championship. The Midwest team won 23 games to take top spot in their division. Jim Bottomley (.403,4,30), Riggs Stephenson (.463,3,21) and Tris Speaker (.484,2,25) carried the Midwest offense while Lee Meadows and George Uhle each won 7 games. A quick start was the key for the Midwest as they began the loop with 11 wins in their first 12 contests.

In the other division the Mid-Atlantic claimed another title by finishing first with a 20-10 record, 4 games up on New England. The Mid-Atlantic lineup was stacked as they had Babe Ruth (.403,7,28), Lou Gehrig (.423,2,41), Hack Wilson (.357,2,23) along with a 37 year old Ty Cobb (.398,0,19). Stan Covelski (6-1, 3.38) and Lefty Grove (5-1, 3.44) led the pitching staff.

The best of three championship series began with a 5-2 victory for the Mid-Atlantic side. Ty Cobb hit a 2-run double while Howard Ehmke went the distance while allowing just 8 hits for the victory.

Two days later the Mid-Atlantic squad would claim it's 13th title with a 6-4 victory. Hack Wilson was the hero, getting 2 hits and scoring 3 runs while Topper Rigney had a pair of rbi's and 2 runs scored.

24 year old Lefty Grove of the Mid-Atlantic team was named the tour's top pitcher. The 24 year old recently signed with the Boston Braves organization after leading the Seattle Indians to a Pacific Coast League title in October. It was his first Barnstorming event. Grove was 25-14 for the Indians last season.

The top hitter in the tournament was Kiki Cuyler of the Southwest team and the Pittsburgh Pirates. The 26 year old hit a tournament record .535 (68-127). It was his third year in a row representing the Southwest. Cuyler is also a 3 year major league veteran with the Pirates and has led the National League in triples each of his 3 seasons. This past year he batted .349 and also led the senior circuit in stolen bases with 52.
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I have LOVED your dynasties in the past and I'm sure this one will be no different. Will keep an eye on this one for sure!!
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Leave it to Tiger Fan to come up with something interesting. I didn't know you could do a tournament in the United States. As usual, I'm interested in how your leagues are set up. Keep up the more than awesome work!
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1926: THE END OF AN ERA
As major league baseball and it's collection of affiliated leagues expanded again in Janaury of 1927, it marked the demise of the Independent Professional League. With the MLB supported International League setting up shop in many Northern Baseball League centres it caused that financially strapped loop to shut down.

The independents began in 1901 with the Pacific coast based Western League and the Northern League joined in 1904 making a total of 32 independent ballclubs. The Western League ended in 1920 with the emergence of the Pacific Coast League but the Northern loop soldiered on for an additional 6 seasons.

There are plenty of great stories from the 2 Independent loops but their biggest contribution to the game clearly was their open door policy of selecting the best player available regardless of race. As a result Oscar Charleston and Pop Lloyd would become two of the greatest players in Northern League history before both moved on to the Negro National League.


WICHITA WRANGLERS OF THE NORTHERN BASEBALL LEAGUE
The most dominant team in the Northern loop would end up being the Wichita Wranglers, winners of the last 9 pennants in the Great Plains League - which along with the Northeast League comprised to the Northern loop.

Baseball came to Wichita in 1914 when the Indianapolis Champions of the Great Plains League moved after the Federal League set up shop in Indianapolis. The Champions were anything but champions when they were based in Indy, finishing in the bottom half of the league regularly. In 1912 they managed their best showing by finishing third but that would be as close to title as the team would get in Indy. Things changed in Wichita as the club won it's first Great Plains league title in 1918 and followed that up by winning the league each of the next 8 seasons. The Wranglers also claimed the Northern Series five times, winning in 1921, 1922 and each season from 1924-26.

The Wranglers were led by a number of talented pitchers including Orion Mitchell, who joined the Wranglers after the Western League folded in 1920. Mitchell got a late start in pro ball, debuting with the Portland Beavers of the Western League in 1919. He made up for lost time, going 22-9 as a rookie and followed that up with a 20-8 season in 1920 - which was the last year for the Western League. Unemployed for the 1921 campaign, Mitchell found a home in Wichita in 1922 and was named the Great Plains League pitcher of the year after he went 30-4. He was 21-5 the following season and then in 1924 he went 26-4 to claim his second GPL top pitcher award. His career in Wichita came to an end in May of 1925 when his contract was purchased by the Chicago White Sox. Mitchell made 2 starts for the White Sox, losing both with a 6.59 era and was relegated to their reserve roster, and has not pitched since.

All I can find out about the real Orion Mitchell is he pitched 2 seasons (1919-20) for Norfolk of the Virginia League and was 14-8 in 1919. A google search also turned up an Orion Mitchell who was the baseball, basketball and football coach at Georgia State College from 1931-45 which puts him at about the right age to be the same guy.


GREATEST PITCHER IN NORTHERN LEAGUE HISTORY
As good as Mitchell was for his brief period in the league, due mainly to longevity the top hurler has to Claude Douthett, who won 424 games in a Northern League career that stretched from 1907 until the league folded. The only pitcher to win more games than Douthett at any level is Cy Young, who was 460-299 over a major league career that spanned from 1890-1907. Douthett began his career as a 20 year old with the Baltimore Baybirds and stayed with that franchise until after it's move to Syracuse in 1914. He was dealt to St Paul in 1915 and remained with the Saints until a trade to Binghamton midway through the 1926 campaign. Now 40 years old he was signed by the Cleveland Indians organization for the 1927 season but did not appear in a game with the Tribe.

I can't find much in the way of information about the real Claude Douthett other than what baseball reference has. He pitched for Terre Haute of the Central League in 1907 & 08 before splitting the 1909 seasons between Terre Haute and Waterloo of the Central Association.
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Leave it to Tiger Fan to come up with something interesting. I didn't know you could do a tournament in the United States. As usual, I'm interested in how your leagues are set up. Keep up the more than awesome work!
Yes, a great addition to the game and very easy to do as well. Just choose the United States as the nation and then select teams as fixed by region. You could use individual states as well if you prefer.
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Now that I have built a little history in my league I am going to do a slightly more detailed write up taking a brief look at each year with some comment from all of the leagues and the barnstorming tournament.

To help you catch up just a little bit here is the history of pennant winners from 1901 to where I presently sit...midway through the 1927 season.

If you want to know about a particular player or team in any of the leagues as I move through feel free to ask. I really appreciate the positive feedback and hope you find this dynasty interesting.
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1927 RECAP - part 1

1927
After two straight seasons of the Cleveland Indians beating the Boston Braves in the World Series we get something different in 1927. The Indians dipped to fourth place in a tight American League race that saw the Tribe finish just 6 games back of the league champion St Louis Browns in a season that saw the pennant remain up for grabs until the final day.

The Browns entered the final day with a 1 game lead on the second place Washington Senators. The Senators would do their part in an effort to force a playoff as Pat Malone (16-12) pitched a gem to lead Washington to a 3-2 win over the Philadelphia Athletics. A Browns loss would have left the two teams tied but St Louis blasted Chicago 11-5 as Lou Gehrig (.354,28,116) homered, doubled and drove in 5 runs to send the Browns back to the fall classic for the first time in 3 years.

For the 24 year old Gehrig it capped another outstanding season. Certainly not quite to the level of a year ago when the Iron Horse became the first American Leaguer to win the triple crown since Babe Ruth turned the trick in 1919. Speaking of Ruth, his Boston Red Sox finished third - 5 games off the pace and Babe did manage to stay healthy this year after a broken ankle limited him to 21 games a season ago. Ruth (.339,36,97) led the league in homers but was well short of the record 50 round trippers he hit in 1925 before his devastating injury.

In addition to Gehrig, the Browns offense also featured league batting champion Paul Waner (.392,7,120). Infielders Marty McManus (.294,4,51), Joe Dugan (.336,3,63) and catcher Luke Sewell (.296,2,77) were the other key offensive contributers. On the mound the big story was the emergence of 26 year old rookie Art Rooney (25-13, 2.91), who took the American League by storm as he arrived from seemingly nowhere. Rooney would later become even better known as the owner of football's Pittsburgh Steelers. The other star of the Browns rotation was 29 year old Johnny Wetz (18-12, 3.31), who in real life spent 4 seasons with the Boston Braves.

The New York Giants claimed their second National League pennant and first since 1923, ending the Braves three year run. Pittsburgh, led by batting average and rbi leader Tony Lazzeri (.362,18,118) finished second five games off the pace with Boston claiming third. The Giants got a great season from Ballplayer Harle (22-11, 2.84) but the rest of their pitching staff was merely average. New York's strength was it's offense, which was the best in the National League as all 8 starters batted at least .300 with a minimum of 63 rbi's.

Paul Waner's brother Lloyd (.344,1,67) is the Giants lead-off man with Goose Goslin (.339,9,88) and Glenn Wright (.325,10,101) also expected to play a big role in the World Series. The Giants will be missing their second baseman Frankie Frisch for the post-season. The 29 year old Frisch (.338,4,45) hurt his back in early August and has been sidelined ever since.

WORLD SERIES

Lou Gehrig was the story of Game One as the Browns first basemen ripped 4 hits including a triple and two doubles to lead St Louis to an 11-6 victory.

Game Two was a pitchers duel as future Steelers owner Art Rooney allowed just 1 run on 7 hits to outpitch Howard Ehmke as the Browns took a 2-0 series lead with a 2-1 victory. Joe Dugan drove in both St Louis runs with a pair of rbi singles. 18 year old New York outfielder Mel Ott made his World Series debut with a pinch-hit ground out to end the game.

The series shifted to St Louis and the Browns moved to within 1 victory of claiming the title with a 6-3 win in Game Three. Lou Gehrig again played a huge role, going 3-5 with a homer and a double while driving in 4 runs.

The Giants avoided a sweep with an 8-6 win in Game Four. Goose Goslin led the New York offense with 4 hits including a home run while Lloyd Waner added 3 hits and a pair of runs scored for the winners.

The Browns wrapped up their second title in team history the next day with a 9-6 victory at Sportsman's Park. Lou Gehrig hit his second homer of the series and drove in a pair of runs and was named the World Series MVP. Paul Waner also had 2 rbi's for the Browns, who also won the World Series in 1922.



1927 NEGRO NATIONAL LEAGUE
The end of the Independent Leagues did certainly boost the talent pool of the Negro Leagues as many big stars made their debut in the NNL in 1927. The biggest name was Oscar Charleston, a 34 year old veteran of over a decade with Oakland and Rochester of the Independent Leagues. Charleston joined the Memphis Red Sox in 1927 and finished second to Jud Wilson of the league champion St Louis Stars in the batting race.

The Stars won the league title for the second time in 3 years, as they swept the second place Kansas City Monarchs in a 4 game playoff.

Despite playing for the last place Cleveland Hornets, Turkey Stearnes set a Negro League record for homeruns in a season with 23. Stearnes returned to the Negro League, where he starred from 1920-25, after a season with the Wichita Wranglers of the now-defunct Northern Independent League. He won a triple crown in his lone season at Wichita, batting .448 with 39 homers and 128 rbi's.
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1927 - PCL Homerun champ Harold Yordy

Babe Ruth has company in the 50 homerun club. Ruth hit a major league record 50 homeruns for the Boston Red Sox in 1925, becoming the first player ever to reach the half century mark in round trippers. While Ruth has not returned to such lofty heights in the 2 years since a player in the Pacific Coast League did manage to reach the milestone.

Harold Yordy, a first baseman-outfielder with the Seattle Indians, set the minor league record with 50 homers this season. While still an impressive accomplishment, one must remember the PCL plays a much longer schedule and Yordy needed 177 games to collect his 50. His 49th and 50th both came off of Hollywood Stars pitcher Ballplayer Manlove in a 13-4 Indians victory on October 6th.

Yordy also led the PCL in batting average (.377) and RBI's (182) to become the first PCL player to win the triple crown. He made his pro debut with the Galveston Pirates of the Texas League in 1920 but was released at the end of the season after hitting just .233. The Seattle Indians signed him prior to the 1922 campaign and he has been with them ever since.

In real life he played 12 seasons in the minors while hitting a career high 30 homers for Albany of the Eastern League in 1929. I couldn't find much out about his career but did see that after his playing days he settled in Waynesboro, Pa. - where his pro career started in the Blue Ridge League - and became a police officer.
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BARNSTORMING LOOP 1927
The Mid-Atlantic squad continues to be the class of the East as they have won the division in 23 of the 25 years the league has been in existence and lead all teams with 15 championships. This year was no different as they topped the Delta team by 1 game to finish first in the East. With Lou Gehrig (.406,6,33), Hack Wilson (.355,6,31) and Babe Ruth (.375,4,29) as the heart of their batting order it is easy to see why the Mid-Atlantic had the league's best offense.

However, the homerun leader was not one of the major league sluggers. Instead the Mid-Atlantic leadoff man, a second baseman from the Havana Cuban Stars West of the Negro National League stole the show in his second Barnstorming series appearance. The player is 25 year old Rap Dixon, who clubbed 7 homers while batting .376. Dixon has spent 4 years with the Cuban Stars, hitting .318 with 30 homers in 356 games.

In reality Dixon should not be on the Mid-Atlantic roster as the real-life Rap Dixon was born in Kingston, Georgia but since that city is not in the database the game places his birth city as Kingston, New York.

There is a good article on Rap Dixon here https://homeplatedontmove.wordpress....-on-rap-dixon/


The Barnstorming championship, a best of three affair, would see the Midwest stars squaring off against the mighty Mid-Atlantic. The Midwest had some talented hitters as well led by Al Simmons (.486,6,45), Riggs Stephenson (.358,1,18) and Dixon's teammate from the Cuban Stars Charles Smith (.412,6,31).

The series opener saw the Midwest jump out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning thanks to Harvey Hendrick's homerun of Mid-Atlantic starter and St Louis Browns rookie sensation Art Rooney. However, the Midwest bats came alive in the third inning and took over the game following a bases loaded double from Lou Gehrig immediately followed by a 2-base knock from Hack Wilson. Gehrig and Wilson would each end the game with 3 hits as the Mid-Atlantic prevailed 8-5.

The series would end 2 days later as the Mid-Atlantic claimed their 16th title with a 6-2 victory. Rap Dixon had 4 hits while Hack Wilson had 3 including a 3-run homerun. Lefty Grove of Philadelphia Athletics fame went the distance for the win to improve his barnstorming record this season to 7-1. Grove was named the top pitcher of the event while Cleveland Indians and Midwest team outfielder Al Simmons earned the nod as the top hitter.
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Yes, a great addition to the game and very easy to do as well. Just choose the United States as the nation and then select teams as fixed by region. You could use individual states as well if you prefer.

Easy for you, maybe! Could you take us through it step-by-step?

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Yes, a great addition to the game and very easy to do as well. Just choose the United States as the nation and then select teams as fixed by region. You could use individual states as well if you prefer.

Easy for you, maybe! Could you take us through it step-by-step?

Thanks!
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To create a tournament using regions like I have in this league

1- Select new tournament and Pre-Defined fictional structure for your tournament with the number of teams you want to participate then go to step 2 of tournament creation wizard. (Image 1 below)

2- Go to step 2 of the wizard. Set nation to USA. Leave select a region with No region specified. Rename your tournament if you like.
For team selection choose fixed and then from roster source select "By team region"
Finally name your teams and use the nation drop down to pick the region or state you want for each team. (Image 2 below)

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1928 MLB recap

1928
For the second year in a row the American League pennant race was not decided until the final day of the season. This time the Boston Red Sox came out on top as they needed a 6-5 win over fourth place Cleveland to finish with a 90-64 record - one game better than the defending champion St Louis Browns, who blanked Washington 6-0 on Art Rooney's 22nd win of the season to finish at 89-65. The pennant was the sixth for the Red Sox with their only previous World Series win coming in 1923.

Browns first baseman Lou Gehrig (.411,34,122) led the American League in batting as he surpassed the .400 mark for the second time in his career.

Here are the Major League Players to hit .400 or better in a season since 1901
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1- Ty Cobb         Cincinnati	.4326	1912
2- Rogers Hornsby  STLCardinals	.4258	1920
3- Tris Speaker    NY Yankees	.4172   1911
4- George Sisler   STL Browns	.4167	1921
5- Al Simmons	   Cleveland	.4119   1925
6- Lou Gehrig	   STL Browns	.4115	1928
7- Lou Gehrig	   STL Browns	.4114	1926
The Red Sox had the most prolific offense in the American League led by a return to form from Babe Ruth (.328,46,124), who's 46 homers were the second most all-time, trailing only his record 50 set in 1925. The total brings Ruth's career mark to 341 and seems to indicate he is fully recovered from the broken ankle that robbed him of all but 21 games in the 1926 campaign.

Outfielders Harry Heilmann (.332,7,84) and Heinie Manush (.393,7,78) added to the Boston offense as did catcher Lefty O'Doul (.335,14,68) and infielders Lew Fonseca (.329,5,67) and Glenn Wright (.323,6,84). The rotation was led by 3 twenty game winners in Earl Whitehill (20-16,3.76), Steve Ellis (20-11, 3.20) and Ballplayer Harle (20-11, 3.43), who was acquired mid-season from the Giants.

Speaking of the Giants, the defending National League champs slipped all the way to fifth place, finishing 14 games back of the Pittsburgh Pirates. For the Pirates, it was their record 11th pennant but first since 1919. Pittsburgh's glory days were the first 9 seasons of the league as they led the National League each year from 1901-09 and won 8 World Series titles during that time.

This edition of the Pirates was led by infielders Tony Lazzeri (.378,19,129), Pie Traynor (.332,3,73) and Chick Tolson (.357,22,133) as well as an outfield of Harvey Hendrick (.341,13,88), Kiki Cuyler (.338,7,73) and Ed Morgan (.323,4,100). On the mound they had George Pipgras (22-12, 2.94), Charlie Root (22-10, 3.41) and Lefty Williams (19-9, 3.18).

The World Series opened in Boston on October 6th with the visiting Pirates taking the opener 5-4 behind a complete game from Pipgras. Boston evened the series the next day with a 6-3 victory in Game Two thanks to a 3 hit, 3-rbi effort from Lew Fonseca. The Pirates held Babe Ruth hitless through the opening two games.

Chick Tolson's 2-run single in the bottom of the 8th was the differenc in Game Three, lifting Pittsburgh to a 4-3 victory. Ruth finally got a hit in the game, a single, but is 1-for-11 in the series.

Game Four was Boston's turn to rally as the Red Sox tied the game in the top of the 9th and won it 7-5 with a pair of runs in the 10th inning. Lew Fonseca got the game winning rbi with a sacrifice fly while Ruth had a pair of hits including a 2-run homer.

The Pirates took a 3 games to two lead with a 5-3 victory at home in Game Five thanks to another solid outing from George Pipgras. He went the distance allowing 8 Boston hits in the contest. Pipgras also aided his own cause with an rbi double.

Game Six appeared to be well in hand for the hometown Red Sox as they led 4-0 entering the 8th inning. However, Pittsburgh exploded for 4 runs in the 8th including a 3-run homer from Kiki Cuyler to tie the game. The Pirates got the game winning run on a pinch-hit rbi single from John Monroe in the 9th inning and claimed the World Series title with a 5-4 victory.

The 30 year old Cuyler, who was 7-for-20 in the series with 2 homers and 6 rbi's, was named the series MVP. For Boston, it was a series of disappointment as their big bats of Babe Ruth (3-for-24), Harry Heilmann (3-18) and Heinie Manush (6-25) struggled all series.
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1928 BARNSTORMING LOOP
There was little surprise in the Barnstorming League of 1928 as the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest each won their respective divisions and will meet in the playoffs for the third straight year. Babe Ruth, who was named the American League MVP for 1928, had a strong November as he belted a Barnstorming League high 10 homeruns, one more than Mid-Atlantic teammate Hack Wilson. Ruth's 10 round trippers set a record for a barnstorming season, 1 more than the mark of 9 established by Lou Gehrig in 1923.

In the playoff series the Midwest struck first with a huge 7-0 victory in the opener of the best of three series. Washington Senator Charlie Gehringer homered, doubled and drove in 3 runs to lead his team to the win while pitcher Jesse Haines of the Cincinnati Reds threw a complete game 8-hit shutout.

The Mid-Atlantic evened the series with an 11-6 victory in Game Two. Babe Ruth, who had a terrible World Series for the Red Sox, had a huge game here as he went 4-for-5 with 3 rbi's and 2 runs scored.

The Mid-Atlantic wins it's 5th straight Barnstorming Series with a come from behind 9-8 victory in the deciding game. A 6-run 8th inning proved the difference as Brooklyn Dodger Bing Miller had 3 hits and drove in 3 runs while Negro League star Rap Dixon had a 4-hit game and scored the series winning run.


Lou Gehrig of the Mid-Atlantic and the St Louis Browns was named the tournament MVP. Gehrig, pictured below, hit .467 with 8 homers and 39 rbi's. It is his second time winning the award. The top pitcher was Lefty Grove of the Mid-Atlantic and the Philadelphia Athletics. Grove has been named top pitcher a record 5 times in the tournament.
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