1938 BBW Replay Opening Day
APBA BBW 6.0 is installed, the 1938 season disk is installed, and all the prep work is done, so it's time to start playing games. 102 non-carded players have been added, the league set-up is complete, and the non-game impacting updates have been made. ATMgr is configured and the opening day lineups are set as well as all the scheduled transactions that will occur throughout the season. The stadium backdrops are all in place as well, and so with all that, it's time to play. Philadelphia (AL) opened the 1938 season on April 18 with a game in Washington ( box score ), with President Roosevelt in attendance to throw out the first pitch. Both teams had sixteen hits in the game, but Washington came out ahead 12-8 thanks to a pair of three-run homeruns by Zeke Bonura and Buddy Lewis (inside the park). The big news of the 1938 pre-season was when Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis granted free agency to ~100 St. Louis Cardinals farmhands. St. Louis was the westernmost and south...