C: Johnny Bench
1B: Orlando Cepeda
2B: Tony Lazzeri
3B: Jimmie Foxx
SS: Ernie Banks
LF: Al Simmons
CF: Fred Lindstrom
RF: Chuck Klein
DH: Willie Stargell
Pitchers:
Stan Coveleski
Whitey Ford
Waite Hoyt
Bob Gibson
Red Ruffing
Nolan Ryan
Hoyt Wilhelm
Vic Willis
Home park: Metrodome 2009
This was originally conceived as another five-team league, the Great Lakes League, but after the headaches of the Todd County League I opted to make it a six-team league just to be something different.
So the team names are the five Great Lakes -- Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario -- plus the St. Lawrence River, the major components of the St. Lawrence Seaway that makes Duluth a significant seaport.
The rosters were randomly selected from the millenium Hall of Fame set. I excluded the players of the 19th Century from which two of the Todd County League teams were selected. The teams are nine position players and eight pitchers. There will be no injuries. Each team will play 60 games, six home and six away against each of the other five teams.
The schedule was set up with one team, the Superiors, playing only two and four game series. All other series are three games. I expect that will be enough to avoid having Tom Seaver face Pete Alexander four times of the course of the schedule. In terms of pitcher rest, I will use games rather than days.
Home parks, to the extent possible, will be in cities on the respective body of water. For Superior, it will be a Minnesota park (of course) and for Huron it will be a Detroit park. I will not have two parks from the same real life season.
I will post rosters individually.
I have encountered yet more problems with the Todd County League schedule, standings and statistics, and I have decided it not worth the time and energy to try to fix it again.
I am declaring the Browerville Novelists to be the champions.
The next project will be a league of randomized teams out of the millenium Hall of Fame set. I will exclude the players used in the TCL. I have yet to decide if it will be another five-team league or a six-team league, but am leaning toward six.
The standings
W L Pct. GB
Browerville Novelists 25 14 .641 ----
Clarissa Crimsons 22 15 .595 2
Bertha Fishermen 18 18 .500 5
Long Prairie Agnews 16 22 .421 8.5
Hewitt Apollos 13 24 .351 10.5
Day 51 (at Yankee Stadium 1961)
Apollos (McDowell 4-2) at Agnews (Seaver 6-3)
Fishermen (T Williams 2-3) at Crimsons (Nichols 3-6)
Novelists 11, Agnews 5
Browerville scored eight runs in the eighth and ninth innings to overtake the Agnews and edge closer to clinching the pennant. Jesse Burkett, Ed Delahanty, Sam Thompson and Jimmy Collins each had a pair of RBIs. Old Hoss Radbourn yielded five runs on 10 hits in his complete game win. .
Crimsons 6, Apollos 5 (10 innings)
King Kelly bopped a solo homer in the eighth to even the score at five, and Monte Ward dropped a single in front of Cleon Jones to plate Roger Connor with the winning run with two outs in the bottom of the 10th. Willie Davis and Rico Petrocelli each homered and drove in two runs for the Apollos, who turned a triple play in the fifth inning. Cy Young went the distance for the win.
Novelists: Keefe Day 51, Welch Day 52. Projected starters: off Day 51, off Day 52, Keefe Day 53
The standings
W L Pct. GB
Browerville Novelists 24 14 .632 ----
Clarissa Crimsons 21 15 .571 2
Bertha Fishermen 18 18 .500 5
Long Prairie Agnews 16 21 .432 7.5
Hewitt Apollos 13 23 .361 10
Day 50 (at Royals Stadium 1973)
Novelists (Radbourn 6-4) at Agnews (Perry 1-5)
Apollos (Gibson 1-5) at Crimsons (Young 7-4)
Fishermen 15, Apollos 5
Bertha scored in eight of their nine at-bats, peppering four Hewitt hurlers for 20 hits, eight for extra bases. Dick Redding went the distance, allowing three runs in the first two innings but then holding the Apollos scoreless until Jim Wynn homered in the eighth, The Fishermen turned four double plays behind Redding.
Novelists 3, Agnews 1
Jesse Burkett punched a two-run single through a drawn-in infield to plate two runs in the third inning, and Mickey Welch allowed one run on three hits for his eighth victory as Browervllle drew closer to the pennant. The Novelists stole four bases off Nolan Ryan, but were caught stealing twice. Ryan allowed just six hits and three walks but was still saddled with his eighth loss in his final start of the season.
Novelists: Keefe Day 51, Welch Day 52. Projected starters: Radbourn Day 50, Clarkson Day 51, off Day 52, Keefe Day 53
To whom it may concern: Part of the long haitus in this league was the realization that I had mucked up the standings. I had no enthusiasm for going back through the games and finding the errors. I have finally done so. I beleive there are also discrepancies in the pitcher wins and losses, but I'm not going to do that much auditing.
The standings
W L Pct. GB
Browerville Novelists 23 14 .621 ----
Clarissa Crimsons 21 15 .571 2
Bertha Fishermen 17 18 .486 5
Long Prairie Agnews 16 20 .444 6.5
Hewitt Apollos 13 23 .361 9.5
Day 49 (at Fenway Park 1973)
Fishermen (Redding 4-2) at Apollos (McLain 0-6)
Agnews (Ryan 1-7) at Novelists (Welch 7-3)
Hitters
Name AB R H RBI 2B 3B HR BB SB Avg,
Anson 154 26 45 19 4 2 1 14 1 .292
Burkett 151 28 49 22 6 2 2 18 5 .325
Collins 142 18 41 20 9 1 1 4 0 .289
Delahanty 147 26 58 30 13 1 1 17 4 .395
Hamilton 141 34 51 17 5 2 1 31 6 .362
Jennings 146 16 42 23 7 1 0 8 4 .288
McPhee 127 18 33 21 4 2 2 13 3 .282
O'Rourke 155 26 52 18 4 2 1 3 1 .335
Thompson 154 21 43 27 8 6 2 13 1 .260
