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Friday, February 19, 2021
New York Tribune, February 19, 1921: President Andy Lawson, of the Continental Baseball Association, announced [yesterday] that the Boston franchise of the league had been awarded to George F. Day and Lincoln G. Pope. They will have a negro team to represent [Boston], he said, and pending the building of grounds the Boston club will play on the Everett High School field.
The Knoxville Giants, playing at Brooklyn, will be a second negro club in the league, Lawson announced.
I’ve said it before, but it’s a huge bummer people didn’t get behind this league. It really could have sped up integration of the white major leagues.
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1. Jefferson Manship (Dan Lee) Posted: February 19, 2021 at 01:18 PM (#6005843)I looked it up; there are 122 people in the United States named Robert Sadowski or Bob Sadowski. I didn't spend any time looking into Bobbys Sadowski or Robbies Sadowski or any other minor variant.
There are 120 Steve/Steven/Stephen Ontiveroses, so if the Steves Ontiveros had overlapped it would have been at least as unlikely.
C: Chris Stewart (1.3 WAR)
1B: Gail Hopkins (3.2 WAR)
2B/Manager: John Morrill (23.0 WAR)
3B: Josh Fuentes (1.0 WAR)
SS: Alvaro Espinoza (3.9 WAR)
LF: Dick Siebert (7.0 WAR)
CF: Don Taussig (0.4 WAR)
RF: Josh Reddick (25.0 WAR)
SP: Dave Stewart (26.5 WAR)
SP: Miguel Batista (12.6 WAR)
SP: Daniel Megden (2.1 WAR)
SP: Tom Earley (0.9 WAR)
SP: Bob Sadowski (1.0 WAR)
RP: Tim Burke (12.1 WAR)
RP: Dan Otero (4.9 WAR)
RP: Keith Atherton (4.4 WAR)
Fun name: Uke Clanton
Scout/Fun name/Place where you lay down after you drop acid: Trip Couch
Broadcaster: Dave Niehaus
General Manager: Walt Jocketty
There are more George Formans than that in one family!
A one game MLB career, highly forgettable (he played ten years in the minors). One at bat, one strikeout; two innings in the field at first base, one error in two chances.
Which Kinds of Prospects Were Most Affected by the Year Off?
Seems like it might be a good kick off for an interesting question.
Young guys returned from service in WWII, Korea and Vietnam, but I guess they'd be hard to draw any info on as we only know about the guys who did that and made the majors. But maybe there's anecdotal info their from biographies.
It doesn't seem to have phased Al Bumbry, who seems like the kind of guy who'd be hurt by missed time. According to his SABR Bio, he only played baseball as a senior in college. He had been focused on basketball.
He got out of the army and proceeded to OPS .947 at Aberdeen, then tear up Asheville and Rochester the next season. Then he was an Oriole. As Bumbry puts it:
So I guess the lesson here is to take those inexperienced but toolsy guys and press them into services with life-threatening responsibilities. They should have all been working ICU's in 2020. Or working the meat packing plants.
Jim Tyrone
He said he's been in Japan four years, so it must be a 1982/1983 episode.
Needless to say, this has led to immediate here.]controversy[/url].
I've long advocated that players should not be required to get out of the way to earn a HBP if a ball is thrown in the batter's box, but also that a player who gets hit with a pitch outside the zone should not be awarded one.
As for this particular scenario, I think a simple ball if the ball is in the box, a strike if it's outside would suffice. It's less of a worry at the big league level, as you don't find the blatant examples of trying to "wear it" that you do at a few of the lower levels.
Don Baylor mastered the quarter-shoulder turn.
I just noticed that link is all messed up. The story is here.
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