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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9/3/15

1906 EOBHR REPLAY #38: DAY 13 OF 16

Do tell....Sentell sent expressly to win this game?
Clown Prince of Baseball not so Smiley

1906 EOBHR REPLAY #38: DAY 14 OF 16 A.L.

1906 CHICAGO WHITE SOX (7-7/4th) 1-10-0 

1906 CLEVELAND INDIANS (11-3/1st)  2-4-0

In a classic Deadball Era pitcher's duel, baseball comedian and undefeated P Nick 'Clown Prince of Baseball' Altrock (2-1/1.60) does NOT get the last laugh, pitching a 2-hitter entering the B12th, his own ChiSox squandering 10 hits in their struggle to score just one measley run...  The White Hose being gunned down 5 times (to a mere 2 successful thefts) by Indian 3-hole batter and Star-of-the-Game C Nig Clarke... Slow-footed Nig stealing a base himself in the game, showing the Sox speedsters how to go about it properly.

In the final analysis, Altrock's (2-1/1.60) unusual 4-hitter over 11 2/3 frames is flawed by 10 free passes, five of them strategic/intentional!  Winner Strawberry Bill Bernhard (2-0/2.57) fanned but 2 to Altrock's 6, but also walked a relatively low 5 (for this crazy game with apparently an ump with a postage stamp sized strike zone).   

Still, only half of Altrock's 10 free tickets to run the bases as the player saw fit were unintentional, so please channel most of your abuse on Sox manager Fielder Jones, aka moi, schizophrenic manager of both squads as always....so I was then also the managerial component of successful Tribe playing manager Nap Lajoie....

The winning two RBI were the net product of 4 singles and a double, plus the ten walks, with of course many of the 15 hits/walks not contributing anything score-wise.  There were no errors in the game.  By far, the game's critical hit was 'Firebrand' George Stovall's walkoff bases loaded single with one out B12th, scoring 1 for 6 2-hole batting SS Terry Turner.

The winning Indians left a stunning 13 men on base, but still overcame the White Sox, who stranded a more normal 8 men.

 

    

 

1906 EOBHR REPLAY #38: DAY 13 OF 16 N.L.

1906 Phila. Phillies (9-4/T1st w/Cubs)  6-10-1

1906 Boston Beaneaters (3-10/last in both leagues) 0-3-3

Yes, analysis would probably show that only rarely if ever does a team win that makes as many errors as it collects hits, the bucket in which workhorse and staff ace Irv Young (1-3/2.72) find themselves against the explosive Phillies: 3 errors made by their fielders, 3 hits -all singles - accumulated by these same folks, one of those by stalwart Beeneater P Irv Young (1-3 but a 2.72 ERA) in his two turns at the plate before being PH for in the B8th.

Winning Phillies P Tully Sparks 3-2/1.88 + .353 BA as of game's end) sparks the game's 1st and most necessary run ...doubling with 2 out T2nd to score rarely used leadoff batter/singler T2nd, occasional 3B Paul Sentell, who has a nice 3-5/T/2R afternoon, leads off the T5th with a triple the other way, into the RF corner, then scores on a C Jerry Donovan single, his 2nd RBI safety of the win to extend the Phillies' advantage to 4-0. 

The Essential Sentell

 

1906 PITTSBURGH PIRATES (8-5/3rd) 15-15-2

1906 ST. LOUIS CARDINALS (5-8/T6th) 1-5-2

The Buccos explode for 5 runs T1st and 6 runs T4th against, arguably, the Cardinals' best hurler of '06, Ed ('Cargo Carrier') Karger (now 1-3/3.86; actually 7-19/2.62 in '06).

Pirate workhorse Sam Leever just relaxes back and pulls the right levers in an easy 5-hit win, as he astutely pitches to contact (3 K's, just 1 BB) all the way.... given his team's breakaway lead.  Leever 'Brother' (i.e. Buc teammate of P Leever), real HOF SS Honus Wagner (.462), who lost five big games to injuries so far in this 16-game re-gag, leads the Bucs by doubling, tripling,and finally by walking the talk and taking a walk..... and is given an intentional pass as well in his six PAs, as he scores his 6th & 7th runs of the '06 rework.

Losing P Ed Karger (1-3/3.86), humbly:  'My job is to carry and proteck the cargo (our lead), but since we never had a lead, and insteed I had a vicious wreck of a 5-Bucco-run T1st.... there ne'er twas any lead to proteckt.... I'd feel like we really were Pirates of our own fans an' thar ticklet munny, but when I realized we wuz on the road, and at leas makin' sumbodies happy, I fellet a lot better... Not thet I just gave them baby pitches frim then on...I tried my darnedest, just lick when my wifen darns my socks....

Karger Kragged

 

 

1906 CINCINNATI REDLEGS (6-7/5th) 1-5-1

1906 NEW YORK GIANTS (5-8/7TH) 7-10-1

In an odd attack, Giants mount 3-run multiple-run rallies against seemingly faded Reds:  In the T3rd: NYG> 3 runs, T5th NYG> 2 runs), and in T7th (NYG> 2 runs).  Against this devastating, merciless deadball attack, there is no place for Brooklynites but to dive for cover....'Those deadballs hurt...like jagged rocks...when you're getting hit by them...It's inhuman!' complains/campaigns losing P Bob Wicker, a basket case after the game.

Giant 3-hole-batting CF Mike 'Turkey' Donlin convincingly talks turkey with a 2-run double in the B3rd and a 2-run dinger in the B5th, while Giant P Dummy Taylor pitches a smart 6-innings of 2-hit shutout baseball before being relieved by George Ferguson, while the red-faced Reds P Bob Wicker (0-2/5.79) has a wicked time of it on the mound.

Losing P Wicker: Basket Case after Game;

Batting star Donlin: I Jest Kept Pounding Away Until I Could See They Wuz Done -all- In....

 

1906 Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers (7-6/T3rd) 4-8-3

1906 Chicago Cubs (7-6/T3rd) 0-4-3

Yes, the actual 116-36 Cubs just seem to be dogging it in this EOBHR replay... Like it isn't worthy of the extreme effort they actually put out almost 110 years ago....Now, that doesn't mean it's just a factor of age here in the future.... Since the vim & vigor of the 1906 players is simulated at almost exactly the same as their joie de vivre and ability to punt, pass, and kick....wait, I mean to run, hit, field, throw, slide, and spit tobacky juicet just like their 1906 counterparts done did.

The charisma or effort or intangible factor should be built into the ratings (i.e., the official statistics) as well... although most SABRmetricians believe they have largely debunked the natural, emotional notion of 'clutch hitting' or 'clutch fielding/pitching/baserunning'... That the stats tell the truth just as is.   

In this upset, the actual 66-86 Brooklynites upset the actual record-setting116-36 Cubs in Chicago, to the charredgrin of their loyals, in a 4-0 Brooklyn whiteout. the intireable Harry McIntire (3-0/1.74) coasts through this game as if he has a full night's sleep between each inning, shutting out the 'overhyped?' greatest team of all time as they sock a healthier supply of 8 hits, although, with the pint-sized fielding gloves (truly more like the size of your Mom's gloves or change purse than the today's over-sized glove-like overnight-stay-style handbag that she may now carry, vintage 2015), each team makes three fielding bungles.

3B and leadoff batter Doc Casey leads the Trolley Dodger offense with a 3 for 5 effort, including a double, an RBI, and a swipe.  Obscure Bum SS Phil Lewis goes 2 for 4 with a run and an RBI to boost his BA to .116, while slightly better known speedy CF Billy Maloney drives his N.L. replay-leading 6th 2-bagger to make it 2-0 T9th, then scores the low-scoring game's 3rd run on a 5 for 30/one-ribbie C Lou Ritter ribbie groundout in the Dodge Boys' 3-run T9th!    

Trolley Dodgers Dodge mighty Cubs 

 

1906 EOBHR REPLAY #38: DAY 13 OF 16 A.L.

Game 100

1906 PHILADELPHIA A'S (5-8/6th) 7-10-0 

1906 BOSTON RED SOX (4-9/TLast) 0-3-1

With one out B8th, homeboy slugger Buck Freeman doubles to the CF wall to become the  1st and only BoSox baserunner of the game against great deadball HOFer Eddie 'Walk My' Plank (2-1/2.08) !!  The Sox collect 2 other hits in the 8th/9th but are summarily shut out in an effortless performance by Plank (2-1/2.08/15K:4BB).

Meanwhile, slugging but slumping 0 for 11 Socks Seybold is a bold (at least for the deadball era) 2-4/3RBI/R in this easy win as he begins to vigorously rehab his slash line...

Socks pummels an RBI single with 2 out T3rd to cap the A's decisive 3-run T3rd rally and plasters it on in the very next inning (T4th), by lining a 2-out 2-run bases loaded single following a seemingly rapidly aging  39-year-old Cy Young (0-4*/5.02 in this '06 regurge (and in real 1906, Cy sighs and reveals he wuz actually the real A.L. leader in losses -- 21)... whiff of A's normally bash-fulfilling 1B Harry Davis (17-49/3D/2T/6BBs/.908PRO).

Socks:  'Hey major leaguers of past present and futchure, yer futchere...Do you rilly think you kin match my socks in that deadballs era???

 

Game 99

1906 NEW YORK HIGHLANDERS (9-4/2nd/1GB) 1-3-2

1906 ST. LOUIS BROWNS (7-6/T3rd) 5-9-1  

N.Y. OF Willie Keeler does his darned-ist, with a 2-out bullet (single) to RF ('Hit 'em where they ain't!' Keeler's famous quote) to end winning P Barney Pelty's no-hit bid T6th. then great fielding 1B Hal Chase tries to chase Wee Willie home with his BTB infield hit... But as we know, infield hits by daffynition are not generally very good for scoring even a fast man from 2nd, even with two oot... so Keeler has to settle with let's go walking come and DO THE STRAND (as he is stranded on 3rd).

Meanwhile, the Browns had already cashed in a deadball offensive goldmine of 3 runs in the B3rd, leaving Yankee Pitcher 'Curveless Wonder' Al (a lifetime 200+ gamewinner, who led the A.L. in real 1906 with 27 W's) Orth and his Highlander mates wondering what on Orth happened to him and them in this important game for their now 9-4 Highlanders, who slip and fall, their lawyers getting busy, to 2nd place behind the replay's peak-topping 9-3 Cleveland Napsacks.

In the crucial St. Louis 4-run lead-reversing N.Y. Brownout  B8th, the home park seems to becoming browner and browner as the minutes pass....

The game is knotted 1-1 B3rd, when St. Louis homeboy and leadoff man CF Charlie Hemphill leads off with a single CF off Curveless loser Al Orth (3*-2/2.18), who remains tied for 1st in 1906 EOBHR A.L. pitching wins (3) despite the defeat that is now he is now suffering. 

Hemphill's safety is followed by two misfiring bunt attempts by bottom-of-zee-barrel sub (except for his fine outfield play) OF Ben Koehler, but then Koehler plays it kool, buckling + knucklng down and coming through with a perfect sacrifice bunt buckling, knuckling, chuckling past a fully-extended P Orth on Ben's final try... As new-attitude, cooler bunter Koehler beats out the throw to 1st, a man on fire after dropping such a nice sacrifice! 

Next, slugging, HOF-quality LF George Stone (19-51/.373/10R/4-1-0-5/5SB) slashes a go-back-ahead-this-time-for-good double down the RF line as St. Louis retakes the lead, 2-1 B3rd.... in a game where the future Yankees will not score again versus ace Brownie starting P Barney Pelty (3-0/2.00).   

Later, 7 for 39 fancy-fielding 1B Tom Jones shows what is new for this pussycat by doubling all the way to the base of the RCF wall! for an unneeded, as it turns out, unnecessary, but always nice to have anyhow. insurance run! 

What on Orth?  Curveless Al Pelted by Mere Brownies!! 

 

Game 98

1906 Detroit Tigers (4-9/T7th) 3-4-0

1906 Cleveland Naps (10-3/1st) 6-10-2 

Nap Lajoie opens the scoring early, by smashing a 2-out B1st go-ahead double, his replay-leading 8th 2-bagger of this 1906 recreation. Nap's smash into LCF scores 'Bunker Busting' Tribe OF Bunk Congalton (line one out single, Bunk's A.L. leading 20th safety, ratcheting up B.C.'s hitting streak to 9 games). 

But in this seesaw affair (certainly one to see, but which only I 'saw'), ace clubhouse prankster Germany Schaefer pranks Tiger C Nig Clarke with a one out T4th high pop straight up....that is........ nonetheless dropped by C Clarke ('Not to niggle, but Whut wuz on thet bawl??') for a well-deserved E2.  Next, Stonington CT's Matt McIntyre draws a free pass ('far out', exclaims Matt, a hip team player) off Cleveland hurler Bob Rhoads, and takes a walk down the 'road' to first base. Then  next Tiger up, Fred Payne rips a 'Band of Gold', a streaking double down the RF line to deadlock the game 1-1.

And Bill Coughlin's broken bat 2-run single (his 8th & 9th ribbies)  into shallow RF gives the Tigres an impressive 3-1 early lead.

And so, at 3-1 Detroit the game stands even unto the B6th.  But George Mullin, quietly sitting after the game, mulls: 'By George, I thought I had this game in me hippie pocket as a geft fer me stripe-ed mateys.., but alass, mebbe I became too busy admiring the handsome young lasses in the Naps' box seats....  The lead just kept 'dwendolyn' and 'gwendolyn' awhey'... 'Twas like a bad dream frum witch I cood nut breck free!!'

B6th: Cleveland leadoff batter (in game opening batting order) SS Terry Turner ties Congalton for the A.L. with his 20th hit of the redo by grounding one out RBI single.  3-2, Tigers

B8th:  George Mullin serves a slowbouncing RBI groundout to great hitter Nap Lajoie (20*-58/8**D/17**R/10RBI), scoring Nig Clarke with tying run.  3-3 tie

Then 1B Claude Rossman (20-57/5D/9R/15RBI/7BB) drills long go-ahead single LCF.  4-3 Detroit en route to a 6-3 cumfrumtherbehind win, with an Elmer Flick 2-out bases loaded single whacked (not simply 'flicked') into RF supplying the necessary walkoff winning score plus another for his mom and his RBI total.

George (1-3/5.03) after game... Leave me alone... I'm Mullin ye know!! 

 

 

   

 

  

 

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