One week into my Buck O’Neil project – a 112-game simulated Strat-O-Matic season featuring Negro League legends and MLB Hall-Of_Famers. Games are played in 4-game sets from Thursday through Sunday and I report the results on this blog each day. Two of the opening series were split, and the other […]
Today’s games included a 2-1 pitchers duel, a 10-6 slug fest, a 5-4 nail biter, and a 8-2 rout which was very competitive until the 6th inning. The game stories are listed below. Bullet Joe Rogan turned in the best pitching performance for the New York Black Yankees, and Mike […]
Oscar “Heavy” Johnson was primarily an outfielder that also spent time at catcher and second base during his 12-year career. He played for the Kansas City Monarchs, Baltimore Black Sox, Harrisburg Giants, Cleveland Tigers, and Memphis Red Sox. As far as the nickname goes, “Heavy” was 6′ tall and weighed […]
Pittsburgh finally lost its first game. As a lifelong Red Sox fan, I was thrilled to watch Pedro Martinez dealing for St. Louis. He took a no-hitter into the 6th inning, and ended up with 15 strikeouts. Dominant!Speaking of dominant, Ralph Kiner hit 2 home runs again. This gives him […]
Quincy Trouppe was a catcher who began his career with the pennant-winning St. Louis Stars in 1931, and finally played briefly in the Major Leagues at the end of his career in 1952 with the Cleveland Indians. He also spent time with the Homestead Grays, Kansas City Monarchs, Chicago American […]
Three of the road teams managed to win today. The road teams used their A lineups, while the home teams introduced their B lineups. (There is no better/worse lineup, see how the rosters are constructed here.) The Pittsburgh Crawfords are the last remaining undefeated team.Satchel Paige gave up two runs […]
Turkey Stearnes was one of the great home run hitters from his era. He weighed only 175 pounds, so generating that power was truly extraordinary. Many of his homers measured 450 feet or more. He was admired by his peers, as demonstrated in this tweet from Bob Kendrick: Stearnes was […]
What an opening day – all four home teams won today. The most exciting game was New York at Birmingham, with some late inning heroics. Although Josh Gibson hit a 2-run homer to give Birmingham the lead in the bottom of the 8th inning, I’m going to focus on the […]
Louis Santop was one of the first great power hitters, once hitting a ball over 500 feet in 1912 during the dead ball era. The 6’5″ 240 pound catcher was known as “Top” and later as “Big Bertha” (a large piece of German heavy artillery). He was also rumored to […]
I decided to build an 8-team league for this simulation. I wanted to choose the teams from the Negro Leagues. Strat-O-Matic’s Negro League Legends set comes with four teams (Detroit Stars, Kansas City Monarchs, Pittsburgh Crawfords, Washington Homestead Grays), so I began with those four teams. I then added four […]
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