Roger's 1938 APBA Replay Blog

Monday, September 19, 1938   Transactions:   St. Louis (AL) catcher Tommy Heath made his Major League Finale on 09/18/1938. St. Louis (AL) pitcher Oral Hildebrand made his Season Finale on 09/18/1938   Philadelphia (NL) pitcher Syl Johnson made his Season Finale on 09/18/1938   Note: A major hurricane has been pounding the East Coast of the United States, impacting, among other things, train travel. There are no NL games on the docket for today or tomorrow as localities are still digging out.   Philadelphia (AL) 12 Cleveland (H) 0   The A's led 3-0 after the sixth, and Bud Thomas (11-17, 4.74) was shutting out the hometown Indians. Philadelphia then jumped on the Cleveland bullpen and scored three runs in each of the seventh, eighth, and ninth innings for the runaway win.   Detroit (H) 1 Washington 0   Two powerful offenses combined to score one run, with third baseman Mark Christman singling home Pete Fox in t...

Week Twenty-Three of the 1938 BBW Replay is in the books, and what a week it was. We are now down to the final week of the season, and Mother Nature decided it was time to intervene. A massive hurricane roared up the East Coast late last week, interrupted several NL games last Sunday, no NL games were then played on Monday or Tuesday, and on Wednesday, there was only one NL game played (St. Louis at Boston). Games being impacted were one thing, but the entire region was impacted by the major storm, including train lines connecting cities. This also meant that NL teams, then playing their games on the East Coast, were hampered, but the potential customers of the baseball games were impacted greatly as well. And then, after the NL teams finally got to squeeze a full set of doubleheaders on Thursday, some teams had trouble getting trains back out to the Midwest. But it also impacted AL teams who had been able to play their games in the Midwest unimpeded, but when it came time for the E...