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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7/8/15

DAY 11 EOBHR#38 1906 N.L.

Three Finger Brown's pitching hand
'I never saw Joe with THAT level of determination beforest! He pitch-ed lick a masheen -- fer goodly sakers!!'
Deadball Slugger Red Murray
BucPlayer: 'It makes me sick in the stomach just to even look at a PICKSHURE of Vinegar Bill Essick!"

DAY 11 EOBHR#38 1906 N.L.

GAME 88

Pittsburgh Pirates (6-5/3xT3rd) 0-6-1-10LOB

Cincinnati Reds (6-5/3xT3rd) 1-1-3-6

Cincy hurler 'Vinegar Bill' Essick certainly leaves a sour taste in the Pirates' batters' mouths with his six-hit shutout wherein he strands 10 Buccos...and also drives in the game's only run with a sac bunticle.   As the Buc's motley crew ever more bitterly and murderously stare at him, as the frustrating game continues in the Red Sea (Cincy)...

Terrific Pirate 2B Claude Ritchey seems to quickly atone for his decisive bungle B5th by immediately drilling a leadoff triple to open the T6th... But when next batter, Buc star RF Ginger Beaumont's, bunt is right back at winning P EssickRitchey's immediate break home on the purposeful dribble makes sure the sprinting then diving baserunner Ritchey is even Essicker,  firing home to slugging C Admiral Schlei, who blockades the home port, and emphatically sinks Claude, who was just recovering from his infamous error T5th!

Meanwhile,  Pitts' sure Lefty Leifield, who had been hurling a no-no until Ritchey's ripped triple, has the brainchild that to resume no-hit hurling is the only safe way to have a chance in this squeaker... 

Which Lefty in fact does (hurls a CG one-hitter).... And is still tagged with the loss due to Vinegar Bill Essick's  bitter pill of a relaxed, strand'em, 6-hit shutout...Seemingly in this outing Bill is miraculously able to pour on the vinegar when things get tight, thereby stranding 10 sour-faced Pirates in the bitter losing waters!!   

Would you believe that Vinegar can effectively repel a team of very dangerous Pirates (93-60 actual)?!?...And drive home the winning tally-ho?    

 

 

 

GAME 87 

St. Louis Cardinals (5-6/6th) 8-14-4

Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers  (6-5/3-team T3rd  2-5-1

26-year-old rookie hurler Fred Beebe, who post-MLB-career became the head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers collegiate baseball squad, does it all in this key win for the Cardinals, i.e., keeping them within reach of a post-season single-elimination Tourney position (top 4 teams each league).  Fred fires a 5-hitter, walking only one Trolley Dodger and improving his season to 2-1/3.33...

Plus P Fred's refined contact-hitting skills result in a game-tying groundout T3nd.  And not be Beebe outdone, hurler Fred adds a line single...then comes around to score on slugging Red Murray's (.357) bases bloated 3-run double T4th... As the Cardinals' fly the score up fer above where a lowly Trolley Dodger might ever bern able to rutch!

26-year-old rookie hurler Fred Beebe, who post-MLB-career became the head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers collegiate baseball squad, does it all in this key win for the Cardinals, i.e., keeping them within reach of a post-season single-elimination Tourney position (top 4 teams each league).  Fred fires a 5-hitter, walking only one Trolley Dodger and improving his season to 2-1/3.33...

Plus P Fred's refined contact-hitting skills result in a game-tying groundout T3nd.  And not be Beebe outdone, hurler Fred adds a line single...then comes around to score on slugging Red Murray's (.357) bases bloated 3-run double T4th... As the Cardinals' fly the score up fer above where a lowly Trolley Dodger might ever bern able to rutch!

Brooklyn players moan:  'How kin we ebber be 'spected to win when the pitcheller hez a B.B. gun  fer an arm... And then their sub Murray is knownelled to have het a 471 footed homer in hiz MLB deadball currear...and wend on to het as many donglers as Honust Wagnert '07-'08-'09??'

GAME 85 
Philadelphia Phillies (7-4/2nd) 0-3-0

Chicago Cubbies            (8-3/1st) 2-9-0

In real 1906, in the midst of the true deadball era, these '06 Cubbies had the greatest win-loss record ever, 116-36.  And Mordecai Brown, 26-6, with a league-leading actual 1.04 ERA, was the central figure on this all-time great/dominant team.  Batters actually hit .202 against him, helping 'Three-Finger' Brown to a league-leading-low .252 on-base pct

In this game, the Cub HOFer holds the Phillies, an average offensive team among the 1906 clubs, to 3 singles, no walks, with one Phillie baserunner caught stealing.  Whoops!  How can you produce a run with those pieces, especially since they may be scattered all throughout the game??  Answer:  You can't!!  The two Phillie singlers who DIDN'T get caught stealing were stranded 'far from home' (weep, weep).  Leadoff man John Titus (.100 in replay), Sherry Magee (.395), and C Jerry Donovan (a smokin' .034 BA! in replay) were the contributors of these three scattered, impotent safeties.

But the great actual 1106-36 Cubs collect a more modern 9 safeties, 3 by super-3B Harry ('Hap') Steinfeldt (.381 in replay) with Chitown racking up 4 walks, 2 doubles and a homer, 6 runs scored and only 2 whiffffffs.  

Phillies lost in Offensive Brownout

 

GAME 86  Boston Braves (2-9/8th) 0-4-0

New York Giants (4-7/7th) 6-1-3-1

It's hard to believe even with the shortness of a 16 game replay that a Giant (actual 96-56) loss in this one would have lowered the formidable club to the same pathetic record as, and thus a tie for last place with the horrible Braves (actual 49-102)...

Of course 'crazy' things can happen in 10% season replays + single-game-elimination among top half of teams in regular season via Tourney..... Versus a full 154 or 162 game season plus tiers of 3 to 7 game playoffs series.

A runs-scored analysis of the two combatants in this game shows that the Giants have been edged runwise  33-31 in their 11 games so far... McGraw's men's offensive average of just 2.8 runs a game the striking (stinking?)  factor.  In contrast, the Braves have actually scored one more run (32) than the Giants (31)...but have been nearly doubled up by their opponents, 59-32. 

This is a game where the great Iron Man Joe McGinnity (2-2/2.81 so far in '06) fires a 4-hit shutout at Boston in the Giants' Polo Grounds, and the struggling Giant offense manages to burst out of its shell for 4 runs in the B3rd, plus a singleton in the B4th against Boston's staggering ace Vive Lindamin (0-3/5.11).

Giant leadoff man, 3B Art Devlin has a devilish look in his eyes just before he lines a leadoff double into RCF B3rd....Then slumping 5 for 32 (but 7 free passes) HOF C Roger Bresnahan (Roger going an amazing .516/32-62/7-1-3-11/18R in the previously executed EOBHR 1903 replay) lines a long go-ahead single that Brave CF Johnny Bates has to chase down, scoring leadoff man and 3B fielding wizard Art Devlin (struggling at.178).. And then in an unparallelled event in this era, Giant 2B Sammy Strang (.389) and cleanup man Cy Seymour (.220) hit BTB homers, Strang's also bringing home Bresnahan.  

Braves Strang-led

 

 
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