1906 World Series Recap Cleveland Indians vs. Chicago Cubs The Cubs and Indians matchup is officially complete. This world series turned out to be a lot like the actual 2016 World series between these teams, and I was constantly in a state of frustration as I was hoping for my…
Having rolled 1121 games, I am finally down to the big payoff. My 1906 replay is actually the 2016 real world prequel. I am hoping that this matchup features the same winner. Much like my real world pre series jitters I am suffering from a bit of worry. The Cubs…
Final Standings W L .PCT Cubs 107-33 .764 Pirates 102-38 .729 Giants 88-52 .629 Phillies 75-65 .536 Reds 51-89 .364 Dodgers 50-90 .357 Braves 42-98 .300 Cardinals 42-98 .300 National League Most Valuable Player Frank Chance (Second Award) Chicago Cubs .350 AVG 1 HR 88 RBI 64 SB National League…
My Final Standings Indians 100-40 .714 A’s 83-57 .593 White Sox 83-57 .593 Browns 82-58 .586 Yankees 79-61 .564 Senators 52-88 .371 Tigers 44-96 .314 Red Sox 37-103 .264 Amercian League Most Valuable Player George Stone St. Louis Browns .339 AVG 4 HR 78 RBI 50 SB American League Pitcher…
1906 replay guidelines and observations Since not everyone is familiar with my replay setup I am providing this as a separate article to save space on the actual review. Because my first replay of 1901 was for a 140 game schedule, I am going to be doing 140 game seasons.…
If you missed it, here is the 1961 AL summary and here is the 1961 NL summary. On to the postseason! Game 1 Reds 4 Yankees 1 This was a pretty solid pitching duel between Jim O’Toole and Whitey Ford. Both teams got off to good starts, and after one…
Having provided the settings, I used on the AL recap I am going to go right to the details on this. Only pausing to say that I let the computer handle almost all the other teams except for the Cubs. Final National League Standings W L Pct. Reds 85 55…
Continuing to play seasons has become a bit harder with being involved with a league, so I am breaking down and do another on Windows as it tends to go faster and the stats compiled for you. In this case it’s 1961, the second of the three free seasons I…
This would be probably one of the strangest Monday submissions. it’s 1945 Kelly Callaghan, mother of Casey Candaele. She is the player they based the movie League of their own on. However, there were obviously a fair amount of historical inaccuracies and changes for the movie. She didn’t play for…
Editor’s note: Congratulations to Joe Schall for winning the Chicagoland APBA Tournament. This comes on the heel of Joe winning the Prairieland 3 tournament earlier this year! Nice work, Joe! Congrats also to runner-up, Zach Zavela Now, here is Scott Fennessy’s writeup on his teams’s experience at the Tournament. This…