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Thursday, October 07, 2021
Lakeland Evening Telegram, October 7, 1921: GIANTS BREAK HOODOO, TAKING THIRD
The Giants slugged their way to victory in the seventh when they bunched eight hits for eight runs. The Yanks used three pitchers in an attempt to stem the tide but the Giants were hitting their pace today and could not be stopped. Up until the seventh inning the game was evenly fought by both teams, the score being tied 4 to 4 at the end of the sixth.
After being shut out in the first two games of the series, the Giants dropped 13 on the Yankees in Game Three.
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1. Jefferson Manship (Dan Lee) Posted: October 07, 2021 at 08:02 AM (#6044395)C: Fleet Walker (-0.1 WAR)
1B: Jose Cardenal (20.7 WAR)
2B: Mookie Betts (50.0 WAR)
3B: Evan Longoria (57.4 WAR)
SS: Grady Hatton (18.6 WAR)
LF: Frank Baumholtz (8.1 WAR)
CF: Rudy Law (9.3 WAR)
RF: Chuck Klein (46.6 WAR)
SP: Brickyard Kennedy (34.9 WAR)
SP: Bill Walker (14.5 WAR)
SP: Alex Cobb (14.4 WAR)
SP: Kris Medlen (8.4 WAR)
SP: Butch Henry (8.3 WAR)
RP: Bud Daley (6.5 WAR)
Manager: Charlie Fox
Amateur catcher in the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame, maybe better than Walker?: Zensuke Shimada
Guy who very graciously and in good humor listened to me and some friends heckle him for three hours in September 1995: Milt Cuyler
Right fielder for the '89 Canton-Akron Indians, starting pitcher for the '90 Canton-Akron Indians: Jim Bruske
Fun names: Punch Knoll, Moxie Hengel
HoF nickname.
It's hard to argue with the results, since the Dodgers clearly know what they're doing. But I don't see the advantage.
Also Mookie started as an infielder in the minors. I don't know what made the Sox decide to move him to the outfield.
in his 7 years at the Baker Bowl he had 143 homers and 507 RBIs at home and 62 & 278 on the road
And he got chased out of CF by Bradley. Which didn't seem like a promising move for Mookie's career length but he added power and started hitting above-average for a RF anyway.
I was a bit taken aback when I saw Willie Mays' 1964 Strat-O-Matic card and discovered that he had filled in at both shortstop and third base (only one game at each, but)...
his game at SS was in a 23 inning second game of a doubleheader the Giants had run out of players
I'd put Irv Hall at shortstop, Hatton at second, Betts in right, Klein in left, and Baumholtz (not a good outfielder) on the bench. Mike Foltynewicz is the 5th starter if Fox can fix him.
The bullpen is interesting: 15 pitchers with > 200 innings, all with at least 27 starts, none with more than 10 saves. It's a whole pitching staff of swingmen.
Of course, Sosa is a much stronger candidate (league quality, integration, meh defense vs. dreadful defense, slight Wrigley effect vs. massive Baker Bowl effect, at least some pre-1993 value) but it's a fun resemblance.
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