Redsfan1507
It is what it is
Wasn't Brock a Cub then ?
Marv Throneberry is considered their No. 1 first baseman. Ed Bouchee is also listed ... as is THIS guy.
Guess who that was and win the Choo Choo Coleman bobblehead.
Ed Bouchee is also listed
Better late than never.......
Did this guy have a kid named Bobby, who was considered somewhat "special"?
Some old Dodger guy, that just can't seem to get himself elected to the H.O.F.....
Other notables - Don Zimmer, and a young kid named Kranepool, who would play a fair amount of games for the Amazings. And, a "never was" pitcher called ( not sure if it is his given name ) Vinegar Bend Mizel.
AND, last but not least, the only guy to ever get traded for himself - Harry Chiti.
Old-time stats are interesting on a lot of levels.
The 1906 White Sox, pennant and W.S. winners over the 116-36 Cubs ... committed 243 errors that year and hit 7 home runs. I'd guess some of those dingers were inside the porkers. Team batting average of only .230.
Truly the dead ball era. The Cubs had 20 HR and made 194 errors.
Reds finished 51.5 games back of the Cubs, in 6th place.
Wow, win 96 games and be 20 games back. Tough luck for the GI-ants.
1906 National League Season Summary - Baseball-Reference.com
I had occasion last winter to do read about the 1944 St. Louis Browns. I got stuck on some of the details and went from there.
I honestly believe that if I could go back in time to special moment, it would have been the weekend the Browns won that pennant. Just looking at the box scores just boils up excitement.
Those guys had to SWEEP the Yankees that weekend ... and hope the Tigers lost a game to the last-place Senators. Can't get no better'n nat.
Top it off with the fact that they already knew they'd play the Cardinals, who won something like 105 games that year and had clinched about 3 weeks earlier. They played in the same ballpark.
The story I wrote (no, I didn't sell it yet) was a time travel yarn about a guy who wanted to go back and see first-hand, the 1944 Browns. I had a lot of fun creating the romance of that. He actually makes two trips, and meets a woman ... blah blah blah ... as well as other things that don't all deal with the game.
Trying to create street life in a place is pretty hard. Just try to imagine what would have been going on the day of a game. The new ballparks don't have those smells or sounds ... they just don't. I tried to find it when I was in Cincy a couple of weeks back ... and they do a nice job ... but it's still Yuppie Heaven. I wanna smell diesel fuel from the buses, and peanuts ... and cigar smoke (from a distance on that.) Maybe someday someone will develop an "app" that you can open up and sniff, kinda like the perfume ads in the women's magazines. "Smells like the street outside Ebbetts Field!"
I had another idea when it started and it changed, as novels do. The premise originally was that if you were to go back in time and actually OWN the Browns, say... in 1939 ... and you knew which guys inevitably who would be big stars ... you could turn the Browns into a great ball team. You'd sign Feller and DiMaggio, maybe work a deal to get Ted Williams ...