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Week 23 Summary

Honus Wagner

Week 23 is in the books and after several very busy weeks, this one was relatively slow with less than 40 games played. The action will pick back up in Week 24 as the AL finishes its season and the NL dwindles down to its final remaining games in Week 25. The White Stockings have a magic number of one, so their clinching of the AL pennant is pretty much inevitable, but Pittsburgh's magic number is still at ten as they just can't pull away from Brooklyn. Those two teams played two games this upcoming week, so if Brooklyn does want to make a move it will have its opportunity.

Christy Mathewson
There were 31 players and managers from the 1901 season that made the Hall-of-Fame (I apologize if I missed anyone) including two, Christy Mathewson and Honus Wagner, that went in as part of the inaugural class of 1936. Obviously, most of these selected were selected by "Old Timers Committee's", but that makes no difference to me - they're in. I do read articles from time to time about players that don’t deserve to in the Hall of Fame. Fine. Whatever. I just think it is kind of demeaning to all involved. These players put in their time and effort, devoted their youth to the game we love, were at least pretty good players anyway, so let's let them have their moment. I don’t think that is too much to ask.

No long write-up this week. It's pretty much all over but the shouting as it is and my thoughts have been around what to include on a final end-of-season note. More to come - we're almost there.

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Frank Selee


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