Clarence “Spoony” Palm was a power hitting catcher. While playing with the St. Louis Stars in the late 1920s, in a home run friendly ballpark (Stars Park) he put up his better home run totals. Palm played 20 years (1927-1946) for thirteen teams, including the Birmingham Black Barons, Detroit Stars, […]
The statistics through Week 2 are now posted. You can find them on the Statistics/Standings Page. Strat-O-Matic only lists batting leaders if they qualify by having 3.1 plate appearances per game, so I have manually listed the top 10. I generated the list from Strat-O-Matic’s Report Generator.
Today’s match ups featured each team’s B lineup. Three of the four games were blowouts. Newark lost its 7th game, losing 8-7 to Birmingham in a game that was not as close as it sounded. Pop Lloyd went 3-4 with 3 RBI for the Eagles, while Hurley McNair led the […]
Bullet Joe was much more than an overpowering pitcher, he was also crafty with a repretoire that included a wicked curve (with a 3-foot drop), slider, palm ball, and changeup. He won 109 games, second most in black baseball. “He was one of the world’s greatest … isn’t any maybe […]
Today’s match ups featured the road team’s B lineup versus the home team’s A lineup. Three of the four games were blowouts. Newark lost its 6th game, and league leader New York dropped its second game of the season. Pedro Martinez turned in another gem, throwing a complete game, 2-hit […]
Ben Taylor was considered, along with Buck Leonard and Jud Wilson, one of the three best black first basemen. He came from a family with a great Negro Leagues history – his brother Charles was the manager of the Indianapolis ABCs; his brother “Candy Jim” was a great third baseman; […]
Today’s match ups featured the road team’s A lineup versus the home team’s B lineup. Two of the games were close, exciting contests. New York improved to a 5-1 record after squeaking by the Homestead Grays 2-1, despite Turkey Stearnes’s 3rd home run of the season. My favorite game was […]
Larry Brown was a switch-hitting catcher whose defense was his strength. Larry Brown had a great arm – wasn’t much of a hitter, but he could catch a cut ball, knuckleball, emery ball, anything. Ted (Double Duty) Radcliffe Larry Brown’s career as a catcher and manager spanned from 1919-1949. He […]
Today I played the first game of the second 4-game series. This week’s match ups are Newark at Birmingham, Pittsburgh at Detroit, St. Louis at Kansas City, and Washington at New York. Today’s games are played with each team’s A lineup (Negro League legends starting at catcher, 2b, 3b, and […]
The Strat-O-Matic Negro Leagues legend card set is made up of 103 players. You can check out a list of the players is this Strat-O-Matic guide book. I am playing a 112-game simulated season, so I will have 9 Player Focus features on players that are not part of the […]
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