Roger's 1901 APBA Replay

Week 25 is in the books and the 1901 regular season is now completed. Congratulations to the Chicago White Stockings and Pittsburgh Pirates for their respective league championships. While Chicago's championship was not really in doubt, the NL came across a peculiar circumstance. With two days remaining in the regular season, Pittsburgh had a 2.5 game lead over Brooklyn and both teams had two remaining games on the schedule, meaning that if Brooklyn won their two and Pittsburgh lost their two that Pittsburgh would still have a .5 game lead. There were rumblings out of Brooklyn about a protest since both teams finished with less than 140 games played it might be necessary to arrange the missing games to be played so a true championship could be crowned. Brooklyn won their two games, but so did Pittsburgh, so the commissioner's office (i.e., me) summarily declared Pittsburgh the NL champion. 1901 Al Champion Chicago White Stockings Despite the two leagues still being vi...

Monday, September 30, 1901 As seen on the telegraph: Cincinnati announced that pitcher Crese Heismann would return to the mound following his HBP injury of 09/26/1901. Boston (NL) announced that catcher Pat Moran would return to play following his hand injury of 09/24/1901. Pittsburgh announced that catcher George Yeager would return to play following his leg injury of 09/15/1901. Boston (NL) 5 Pittsburgh (H) 3 The Beaneaters got up 4-0 after the second and Vic Willis shutdown the Pirates the rest of the way. Pittsburgh did manage to get the score back to within 4-3, but Willis was too much today. St. Louis (H) 14 New York 0 The Cardinals got the scoring started with six in the third and then topped that off with a five-run sixth, putting the game out of reach. Mike O'Neill (2-1, .062) got the easy shutout victory. Jesse Burkett went 1-for-5 on the day and is now hitting .395. Philadelphia (NL) 5 Cincinnati (H) 2 (GM 1) The Phillies ...