Roger's 1949 APBA Replay

Week 11 was an exciting week on many fronts. Joe DiMaggio returned for one thing, and went 12-for-27 with four homeruns, seven runs scored, and eleven RBI's in six games. More importantly for Yankees fans was that he led the Yankees three-game sweep in Boston. New York still has a long row to hoe if they are going to catch Boston though. Boston does come to New York for a three-game series starting tomorrow so this might be their opportunity. Actually, everybody has a doubleheader on Monday - it's the Fourth of July Holiday - so they all will play two. After Monday's games, all teams will be at the 70 games played mark, heading toward the halfway point of the season. Dom and Joe DiMaggio New York now leads Boston in both batting average and runs scored, but Boston's ERA is almost a full run better than New York's. That may be New York's biggest challenge. Cleveland had a bad start to the week when they lost four at home to Detroit, but they bounced bac...

It's a Monday and it's a travel day. The eastern NL teams are all heading east and in the AL the western teams that are heading west. The next two weeks will feature west vs west and east vs east in both leagues and at the end of that two weeks, we will be at the halfway point of the season. Monday, June 27, 1949 Only one game today as the Cubs headed downstate to play the Cardinals. The full slate of games will resume tomorrow. St. Louis (NL) (H) 7 Chicago (NL) 1 Fred Martin St. Louis starter Gerry Staley (4-0) didn’t allow a run until the eighth inning and picked up an easy win against the rival Chicago Cubs. Enos Slaughter and Red Schoendienst both homered in support of Staley. Note: St. Louis activated pitcher Fred Martin . Martin had been on the Mexican League suspended list. To make room on the roster St. Louis sent out reliever Jim Hearn . Tuesday, June 28, 1949 New York (AL) 9 Boston (AL) (H) 1 In his first game of the season, ...

Week 10 is completed and the standings continue to twist and turn. Not at the top mind you, but in the lower echelons, teams continue to move up and down, even if slightly, trying to better their position. The Washington Senators even managed to spend a few days in fourth place, only to fall back when Cleveland came to town. The big news this week was a no-hitter by Philadelphia's Russ Meyer over Pittsburgh. This whole week was another pitching oriented week as both leagues have their ERA and Batting Average continue to level off to their expected norm. There are no more teams are hitting over .300 and all teams now find their ERA's are all below 5.00. Vic Wertz Of course, a no-hitter is big news, but the real news is that Joe DiMaggio will be returning. He has been seen working out in Yankee Stadium over the past few weeks to get ready to play, and the current rumor is that we will make the trip up to Boston to play up there on Tuesday. New York had gotten off to a ...

Monday, June 20, 1949 Boston (AL) (H) 2 Detroit 1 Vern Stephens hit a two-run homerun (#24, 65) in the first, Detroit answered with one in the second, and that was all the scoring in this one. Walt Masterson (6-3) defeated Ted Gray (5-6) in a pitcher's duel. St. Louis (AL) 9 New York (AL) (H) 7 (11) Both teams scored two runs in the first, St. Louis added two in the second, and that was it until the Browns scored three times in the sixth. New York scored three times in the seventh to make it close, and then the Yankees scored twice in the bottom of the ninth to send the game into extra innings. Brown's third baseman Bob Dillinger hit his first homerun of the year off Joe Page (0-3) in the top of the eleventh and Ned Garver came in for the save as St. Louis won their second consecutive game. Cleveland 7 Philadelphia (AL) (H) 1 Cleveland jumped on Dick Fowler (5-6) by scoring four in the first, a Larry Doby two-run homerun (#12, 42) being the b...