Roger's 1949 APBA Replay

Due to the long holiday weekend and me having the on-call duties from work (i.e., meaning I was effectively under house arrest for the duration) I was able to apply all of my finishing touches, got the ATMgr transaction and lineup files loaded and working, and was able to actually begin the replay earlier this evening.  I will be posting weekly recaps like I did during my 1930 replay (link). I do not have some sort of hard-coded schedule though, I will just be working my way through the replay a week at a time, and we will see where it goes. Connie Mack The final decision to be made was that I ended up deciding to not re-grade my pitcher's but instead to stick with the APBA as given pitching grades. It was my observation that the game company broke away from their standard formula for grade assignment with this re-issue set, so let's give it a shot.

The 1948 season ended with quite a bang. In the AL, Cleveland and Boston ended the regular season a tie and required a one-game playoff. Cleveland won the playoff game and advanced to the World Series for the first time since 1920. It wasn't just a two-team race though, as the Yankees, always in contention, finished the season two games behind the league leaders. Lou Boudreau In the NL, Boston won easily over St. Louis by six games and advanced to the World Series for the first time since 1914. Brooklyn finished one game behind St. Louis and Pittsburgh was game behind them in a close race for second place.  In the 1948 World Series Cleveland hit .199 as a team but still won the championship in six games over Boston. The war has been over for several years now and life is starting to return to some semblance of normalcy across the country, and in baseball as well. Older stars are starting to fade and new ones are appearing, and some of the new stars that have rece...

1949 was a bit of a transition year for baseball. Many players had missed time due to the war but were now beginning to edge past their prime. Many of the youngsters that should have been in line to replace them also missed time during the way, meaning they missed valuable time in honing their baseball skills. Throw in the introduction of television and the integration of black baseball players (there were eight in 1949), and big changes were coming. This was a new era of baseball, and many of the old-timers were ill-equipped to handle the new change. Lou Brissie But as baseball is wont to do, old stars soon faded away and new stars soon appeared. Mantle, Mays, Aaron, Banks, Matthews, and others rose to the top, all while lesser names got their chance as well. Franchises would soon start to migrate to better markets, expansion was but eleven years away … basically, baseball was ready to explode in ways most people at the time could never have fathomed in 1949 The w...

Now that I have completed my 1930 replay ( link ) I am ready to move onto my next project - 1949. I did a 1949 replay back in the mid-1980's using the Basic Game, with only the twenty players per team card set (no extra players at all). At the time I had other plans for future replays, but somehow parenthood got in the way and I have only just restarted doing solo replays. Ted Williams For my 1930 replay, I chose to use APBA Baseball for Windows (BBW) instead of cards and dice (C/D) like before. As much as I might prefer actually rolling for each at-bat, the prospect of all the necessary records keeping was overwhelming, so I opted for the computer game instead. I also chose to use the APBA Transaction Manager ( ATMgr ) add-on which maintains and loads the actual lineups as used during that season, again, another huge time saver once it was all set-up. The net of all this was once I did all of my prep work and had everything set-up before I played a game, once I star...