EOBHR

Entirety of Baseball History Replayed!

Love baseball.... but sick of the 3+ hour games  and all the pampered $10+ MILLION/YEAR players...while you now have to skip lunch every other day plus have also completely stopped changing the oil in, or servicing,  your family car just so you can pay for your MLB cable package?!?  Then you may need to use a healthy supplement to reduce or even replace the current 25% of your waking hours watching draggy baseball games, plus the unhealthy brain-warping diet of erectile dysfunction, gout water, automobile, beer, and insurance ads that accompanies them: YES YOU NEED to experience  the efficient, , never-boring, digest-sized baseball world  of EOBHR (The "Entirety of Baseball History Replayed" project)....Wherein a unique possible but not actual history of baseball unfolds in an unpredictable but totally plausible,  entertaining, fascinating, relaxing, mind-blowing, time-efficient way.  EOBHR is now replaying the 1906 season.  Each season consists of a 16 game per team regular season, followed by an NCAA-like tournament among teams that finish in the top half of their organizational unit's standings.   The tournament games count in team win-loss and also in player statistics.   Really, would you rather spend a year plowing  through the HARD-COPY, HERNIA/SLEEP-INDUCING,  NO-HOT-PHOTOS, HARD-COPY 500,000 word  TOME of Tolstoy's War & Peace -- or see a 2-3 hour movie of the same story, loaded with plenty of hot , blouse-ripping actresses -- hunky, ripped actors -- and colorful, head-banging violence??  EOBHR began the project on July 11, 2006 and has now replayed 1903, 1911, 1912, 1914, 1917, 1918, 1923, 1928, 1933, 1937, 1941, 1944, 1949, 1954, 1955,  1958, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1993, 1995, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,  2009, 2010, 2011 & 2012 MLB seasons.  EOBHR staff hands-on manage both sides and records game details real-time as each contest progresses.  You can relive each game by reading the entertaining, succinct, picture-assisted, irreverent game writeups...  A few hours of occasional reading will enable you to relive an entire season in a plausible way that actually ADDS to your appreciation of real baseball by its presentation of surprising what-ifs.... AND IF YOU ENJOY EOBHR, YOU'LL  LIKELY BE IN NIRVANA  WHEN YOU  CUDDLE UP WITH THE SKUNKVILLE SAGA!!! The world's longest (well over 1,500,000+ words), most pictorial (5,000+ photos), with more than 1,000 archived episodes to enjoy...  funniest novel ever written in English or any other language, including Swahilian!.. Kirkus Reviews compares The Skunkville Saga to the works of James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, & John Barth.  FONT>

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6/1/15

1906 EOBHR REPLAY #38 DAY 9 N.L.

What a Lush performance!!
'Look... They didn't nickname me Sunny Jim, for nuthin?!!'
Handsome Giant pitcher, 'Dummy' Taylor, shuts out 116-game-winning 1906 Cubs!

1906 EOBHR REPLAY#38 DAY 9 NL

 

GAME 71:  1906 ST. LOUIS CARDINALS (4-5/6th) 3-9-1-7

1906 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (6-3/T1st) 0-2-1-4

A low-scoring yet one-sided game, as the road Cardinals take advantage of 1B Jack 'Eagle Eye' Beckley (3-4/D/RBI in win), striking EARLY with a two out go-ahead single T1st, and slugging backstop Mike Grady slugging  a BEEEG 2-out 2-run triple (T7th) LATE to really shut the door and thereby 'pound' (well, maybe 3-0 WAS a pounding in this era, (like a 3-0 British Football outcome!!)  the previously undefeated Phillies 3-0. 

The Phils enter the game having outscored their opponents by 35-16 in their first eight games... But maybe this game is a wakeup call that the 2nd half of this EOBHR 1906 replay may be much more challenging than the 1st half for the suddenly quaking Quakers. 

The loss drops the Phils into a tie with the actual record-setting Cubs (116W-36L real '06; 6-3 in replay) for 1st place in the EOBHR NL.

The Phils' starter Johnny Lush indeed pitched like he had a hangover, while obscure opposing Cardinal starting P Carl 'Collie' Druhot, who pitched only 2 1/3 real innings in any season but this one, was nearly unhittable on this day.

Only Phillie cleanup man Kitty Bransfield and 7-hole batting 2B Kid Gleason collected as much as a single against Lush as far as hits; Silent John Titus and Bransfield receiving generous free passes from Lush for the remainder of the Phils' meagre offensive 'production'. which of course netted exactly 0 runs...  

A lush performance by Lush has the baseball critics of the day mesmerized and suddenly in awe

 

 

 

GAME 70:

1906 BROOKLYN TROLLEYDODGERS            (5-4/T3rd) 5-11-2 in 11

1906 PITTSBURGH PIRATES                 (5-4/T3rd)    4-10-1 in 11

With this important victory, the gritty underdog 66-86 actual '06 Dodgers move into the Tourney-eligible 1st division, a 1/2 game ahead of the 4-4 '06 Redlegs, a team with a very similar actual 1906 record (64-87) to the '06 Bums, while the actual 93-win Pirates stay barely above .500.

Buc starting P Sam Leever seems to want to even the odds early as he yields T2nd passes --  then weak-hitting Dodger C Lew Ritter loops a lucky little 2-out single over in the infield to give the road Dodgers an early 1-0 lead.  Then in the T3rd,  dangerous Dodger slugger 1B Tim Jordan, who drew the 1st of the prior innings' productive walks, smokes a 2-out triple over great HOF CF and leader Fred Clarke, who freezes at first, then has to chase the ball down after it soars over him.  2-0 Brooklyn...

And a similar scenario unfolds T5th, when athletic and dangerous, speedy 2-hole batting Dodger Billy Maloney follows Jordan's example and gets revenge by tripling over CF Clarke, who, as also the team's manager, rips a new xxxhole for the HOF CF both for his fielding and his mangey managerial strategy.

With Clarke's energy now pushing himself and the team, the Bucs actually have the tying run in scoring position in the B7th, but end up settling for half a comeback, as mediocre Dodger SS Phil Lewis makes an 'off'' throw to 1st after fielding a routine 2-out grounder, and 1B Jordan has an E added to his otherwise fine game stats, Lewis'  wide throw tipping of the first baseman's mitt (E3).  Dodger starting P Jim Pastorius adds to the mess by yielding a BB to Billy Hallman, then the great Tommy Leach lines a long bases loaded single, halving the Dodger lead to 4-2.   

But the unsatisfied Buc manager/CF/slugger Fred Clarke lines his 2nd hit of the game B8th, then cleanup man and 1B Jim Nealon lines a BTB hit to RCF, and when Clarke scores on a sac fly, the Dodger lead is slimmed down to  4-3, B8th...Then a Ritter passed ball and C Dutch Meier sac fly plus a 3B Tom Sheehan 2-out B8th ground single into the hole and......ahhhhhhh......Manager and player Clarke can breathe a bit, the game finally tied 4-4... The Pirates have caught up to their prey at last!

... Fast-forward to the B11th, Dodger starting P Jim Pastorius, impatient to put an end to his lengthy mound duty one way or 'nuther, drives the go-ahead and decisive blow, a long go-ahead double driven into LCF as Jim Nealon tallies easily with what proves to be the Dodger winning run in this saga-length  contest. 

Winner Jim Pastorius.:  This game had gone well Pastorius being fun or entertaining for me or anyone...  and with Neal-on, a strong blow by me could end everyone's -- the players, fans, sportswriters, stadium vendors, stall-cleaners, even the EOBHR followers who have been envisioned as part of baseball's rich and fabulous future.... Thank goodness I was able to get lucky and end everyone's  misery, and as far as baseball's fabulous future, I'll be watching if I get the chance ....

 

 

 

 

GAME 69: 

N.Y.GIANTS (3-6/7th) 4-5-0

CHICAGO CUBS (6-3/2nd) 0-6-0

The Giants, normally a dominant team during this pre-lively -ball era in fact did win 96 games in real 1906, while the Cubs, whom they manage to shutout in this upset, actually won 116 games to just 36 losses in real 1906!  But in this replay, the Giants, with this upset of Cub P Orvie Overall (1-1/3.94) in the lair of these all-time-great 116-36 Cubs in the Bruins home park...Although  McGraw's men find themselves still in 7th place in this replay , just a half-game ahead of the horrible (49-102 actual), flatulent Boston Beaneaters (2-6),

Due to his 6-hit shutout of the gaseous guys, Dummy Taylor (1-1/1.59) is honored as the game's MVP.  But for a long time in this game, the Giants looked as dead as ever. 

After 5 innings, the game was still scoreless, Orvie Overall (1-1/3.94) pitching for the actually mighty Cubs did not allow any Giant hits in the 1st five innings, as the humiliation of this normally great team continued in EOBHR '06...  But in the T6th, slumping Cub CF Spike Shannon (.103) pulls a hard leadoff single RF, then Giant SS Bill Dahlen checks what would have been strike 3 and ends up instead with a free pass from Orvie.  P Dummy Taylor does his job by dropping a sac bunt down the 3B line, moving the runners to 2nd & 3rd... And 4 for 36 Giant leadoff man 3B Art Devlin's sharp grounder to 3rd is enough to bring the game's 1st and only necessary run, Shannon, home as Cub 3B Hap Steinfeld takes the safe play at 1st. 

And McGraw's boys add an insurance run T7th, as catalyst Sammy Strang draws a leadoff walk, then picks up his N.L.-leading 5th SB when he swipes 2nd.  And then George Browne makes Sammy run when Browne ropes a 2-out single into RF, and the Giants are now ahead 2-0....Two runs on two hits by the 7th, but still ahead.

Strang, though, breaks thngs open more for the Jints in the T8th with a 2-run single out into right-center field,

Winning hurler Dummy Taylor proves he is as Dum as a Fox when, ahead 3-0 T8th, Dummy escapes a treacherous bases loaded one out Giant uprising -- without a run being scored into the original music about this Giant upset,

Taylor-Made Win by a real sharp Dummy

 

 
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