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Week 20 Summary

1901 Boston (NL) infield: Lowe, Tenney, Long
and Demontrville (Seated)

Week 20 is in the books and there do not appear to be any pending threats to the Al and NL standings leaders but the teams below them continue to fight it out for better placements in the final standings. The mythical "magic number" started appearing in the standings a week ago, so we must be getting close.

The replay has averaged ~44 games a week through Week 20, so the push to finish the season continues. For only having four weeks remaining in the season there are several teams that still have a lot of games to play. A little number crunching shows that teams are averaging ~108 games played, so ~32 games left to play in these final few weeks. Let's look at the upcoming schedule:

  1. Week 21 has 67 games on the schedule
  2. Week 22 has 54 games on the schedule
  3. Week 23 has 36 games on the schedule (All games on Wednesday, 09/19/1901 were canceled because of the funeral of President McKinley).
  4. Week 24 has 53 games on the schedule
  5. Week 25 has 17 NL only games on the schedule

Dummy Hoy
I had forgotten there was a Week 25. My previous replays both had 24 week seasons, I started repeating it here, and I just kept going with it. This also means the while the AL got started a week after the NL and it is getting finished a week before.

And of course, there are a ton of doubleheaders yet to get
Dummy Taylor
played. Most rosters are pretty thin to begin with so any time there are injuries or ejections occur some inventive lineup juggling is required. The injuries are rest-of-game injuries only so I am OK for the next game. Most teams have a pitcher or two that make outfield appearances, plus several teams have a backup catcher that will make emergency appearances around the diamond … sometimes you just have to make a decision and live with it.

Dummy Hoy and Dummy Taylor weren't the first deaf players to play at the top level of professional baseball, but they were two of the first to have a real impact:



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