Roger's 1901 APBA Replay

Week six is in the books and it was another rough and tumble week in1901. Boston and Pittsburgh remain atop of their respective leagues, but behind them, there was quite a bit of shuffling. Behind Boston in the AL sits Chicago, but only three games separate Chicago from seventh place Washington. Philadelphia has won seven of its last ten, but the remainder are all taking turns knocking each other around. In the NL Brooklyn was in seventh place two weeks ago, but by dint of an 8-2 streak, they find themselves in second place, tied with Philadelphia who is on a 2-8 run and have lost their last seven in a row. Similar to Philadelphia, Boston was in third place just two weeks ago but are in the middle of a 1-9 stint of games and need to pull themselves out of it if they want to get back into the race. 1901 Washington Senators Ginger Beaumont still leads the NL in hitting (.422), just ahead of Ed Delahanty (.389) and Chicago teammates Danny Green (.359) and Topsy Hartsel (.357...

Monday, May 20, 1901 As seen on the telegraph:   Milwaukee player-manager Hugh Duffy had been suspended five days for abusing an umpire in yesterday's game. Cleveland announced the acquisition of outfielder Frank Cross . Frank Cross is the brother of Lave Cross (Philadelphia AL), but neither are related to Monte Cross (Philadelphia NL). Philadelphia (AL) announced the signing of infielder Joe Dolan . Dolan had previously been released by Philadelphia (NL). Boston (NL) announced the acquisition of outfielder Mike Smith . Smith had previously been released by Pittsburgh. Washington (H) 10 Philadelphia (AL) 9 (11) Philadelphia lead 6-1 after the top of the third, but at the end of the sixth it was Washington who was ahead by a score of 9-8. The Athletics committed five errors on the day plus had their center and left fielder get injured due to a collision in the outfield, but they held on and in the top of the ninth third baseman Lave Cross homered to ...