Roger's 1949 APBA Replay

Week 15 is complete and we move on to Week 16, the 2/3's point of the replay. If anything, the teams at the top of their respective leads have managed to segregate themselves from the teams in the middle, who in turn have started to separate themselves from the teams at the bottom. There is still room for shuffling and there are still a lot of games left to play - only one team has reached the 100 games mark, although all teams will be there in a few short days. Ellis Kinder Boston just had a thirteen game winning streak snapped and they continue to suck up all the oxygen in the room, not letting anybody else mount a serious rally. New York had climbed to within 5.5 games of Boston just last week, but continue to play well and now find themselves 9.0 games behind. Cleveland had gotten to within one game of New York to begin the week, lost that game, and then ended the week losing 3-of-4 to Boston. Detroit has players with three of the top five batting averages and three pi...

It's a Monday and it's a travel day. The AL Midwestern teams will spend the next few weeks roaming around the east coast, while in the NL the easternmost teams will be wandering the Midwest. There were actually two games played today, but the St. Louis at Brooklyn game was declared a tie ( Link ). Monday, July 25, 1949 New York (AL) (H) 2 Cleveland 1 (12) Both teams rushed back to get a head start on this week's games, with Cleveland finding themselves only a single game behind New York. It was a pitcher's duel, with Cleveland getting to Vic Raschi first when Mickey Vernon hit a solo homerun (#13, 46) in the sixth to give the visitors a 1-0 lead. It looked like Early Wynn might be able to get the shutout, but Bobby Brown singled home Phil Rizzuto with the game-tying run in the bottom of the eighth, and eventually, the game moved into extra innings. In the bottom of the twelfth, Snuffy Stirnweiss singled off Satchel Paige (2-3), was sacrificed to s...