Roger's 1916 APBA Replay

Week Twenty-Three of the 1916 BBW Replay is in the books, and the season continues to draw down. Boston and Brooklyn remain unthreatened atop their respective leagues, while chaos remains for the group of teams directly behind them. Most teams have brought up the Major League roster a couple of new players, but if you want to get appearances for the youngsters, then those appearances, batting or pitching, must be taken away from veterans, so many lineups are scrambled on a daily basis as the tryouts for roster slots next season are underway. Who are these guys? To be honest, most are people who will never be heard of again at a Major League level, but there are a couple - Burleigh Grimes , Howard Ehmke , Socks Seibold - all of whom will stick around for quite a while. In the American League, Boston has a 9.0-game lead over second-place Detroit, and their Magic Number is now reduced to 13, and they only have fifteen games left to play. Detroit is well ahead of third-place New York, w...

Monday, September 11, 1916 Transactions:   Pittsburgh infielder Frank Smykal made his Major League Finale on 09/10/1916   Cleveland catcher Hank DeBerry made his Major League Debut on 09/12/1916   Chicago (AL) (H) 12 St. Louis (AL) 6   The White Sox exploded for ten runs in the bottom of the fourth inning to blow open a close game, and ease the way for Red Faber (12-9, 2.43) to pick up the win. St. Louis scored five times in the top of the ninth off the Chicago bullpen, but the outcome was never in doubt.   Detroit 8 Cleveland (H) 4   The Indians led 4-1 after the fifth inning, but a two-run triple by Sam Crawford put the Tigers ahead in the top of the seventh. Detroit added three more runs in the ninth to ice the game for Hooks Dauss (16-9, 2.54)   Boston (AL) 11 Washington (H) 10   Bill Carrigan Boston manager Bill Carrigan , a long-time catcher, occasionally would include himself in the lineup as part of h...