Harry Salmon pitched a complete game, leading Birmingham over Kansas City by a score of 8-1. Birmingham opened the scoring with 5 runs in the bottom of the 4th and coasted from there. Martin Dihigo had a 2-run double and scored twice, and Cristobal Torriente hit his first home run […]
Note: All statistics can be found at THIS SITE. After 7 weeks, Detroit opened up a 1-game lead on St. Louis, and 2 games on New York. Here are the standings, along with key individual statistical leaders. Ralph Kiner leads in home runs with 9 and RBI with 23. Mule […]
Detroit beat Birmingham, 6-3. Detroit scored 5 runs in the third inning thanks to a grand slam by Yogi Berra. Mule Suttles had a big day at the plate, going 3-5 with 2 doubles and 2 RBI. Hilton Smith picked up his 3rd win, going 8 innings while giving up […]
Detroit jumped out to a quick lead and held on to beat Birmingham, 5-2. It was the Mule Suttles show – he went 3-5 with 2 home runs and 3 RBI. Bobby Doerr drove in the other 2 Detroit runs. Josh Gibson had 2 hits in the loss, keeping his […]
Note: All statistics can be found at THIS SITE. After 6 weeks, St. Louis and New York are tied for first with 15-9 (.625) records. Detroit is only 1 game out of first. Here are the standings, along with key individual statistical leaders. Ralph Kiner continues to have a dominating […]
Week 6 wrapped up today.Kansas City beat Newark 1-0. Bill Drake pitched 7-1/3 innings of shutout ball to out duel William Bell. Kansas City scored its only run in the 8th inning, as Buck Leonard’s sacrifice fly drove home Fats Jenkins. Newark only managed to get 4 hits, 2 of […]
All standings and statistics can be found on this web page, created with Strat-O-Matic’s Web Builder: Standings and Statistics Web Page This week St. Louis took 3 of 4 at Birmingham, Washington took 1 of 4 at Detroit, Newark swept 4 at Kansas City, and Pittsburgh split a series at […]
St. Louis beat Birmingham 6-5, overcoming a 5-1 deficit by scoring 3 runs in the top of the 9th. Tank Carr drove home the first run of the 9th, and scored the eventual winning run on a bases loaded single by Joe DiMaggio. Willard Brown homered in the loss for […]
St. Louis beat Birmingham 3-1, thanks to Oscar Charleston’s 2-run home run. Bill Holland picked up his second win.Detroit edged Washington 9-8. Mule Suttles went 3-4 with a home run and 3 RBI, and Dick Redding won his second game on the season.Newark beat Kansas City 5-2, thanks to 4 […]
George “Mule” Suttles was a power hitting first baseman. Using a 50-ounce bat, he generated as much power as any other player. “They say he used the heaviest bat ever swung. Looking at it, I think it was true. He hit some boomers.” Hall of Famer Charlie Gehringer Suttlee’s career […]
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