Roger's 1938 APBA Replay Blog

Week Twenty-Two of the 1938 BBW Replay is in the books, and it was an interesting week, schedule-wise. There were plenty of days off (I am assuming they were weather-related), and there were plenty of doubleheaders. (Likely scrambling to make up for missed days this week and from previous weeks. Several teams have reached the 140-game-played mark, but it won’t be for a couple of days yet because of a hurricane that is currently rolling up the East Coast, disrupting train travel as well as ball games. The AL teams are currently playing in the Midwest, so for the short term, they are not impacted, but the NL teams, currently playing on the East Coast, will be idle on Monday and Tuesday. The Yankees have reached the 100-win mark, they have a 13.0 game lead over the second-place Red Sox, and their magic number is down to eleven. The eyes of baseball aren’t even looking in the Yankees' direction as they are all now focused on the battle in the N between Pittsburgh and Chicago. These t...

Monday, September 12, 1938   Transactions:   New York (AL) pitcher Spud Chandler made his Season Finale on 09/11/1938   Boston (NL) catcher Butch Sutcliffe made his Major League Finale on 09/11/1938   Chicago (AL) catcher Luke Sewell returned to play on 09/13/1938   Cleveland pitcher Clay Smith made his Season Debut on 09/13/1938. Smith had previously been recalled from Wilkes-Barre (EL)   Detroit (H) 4 Chicago (AL) 3 (11) Hank Greenberg socked a solo homerun (49, 164) in the second, and Detroit added two more in the third, but the White Sox added single runs in the seventh, eighth, and ninth innings to tie the score at 3-3 and send the game into extra innings. Both teams had chances, but no one could come through. In the bottom of the eleventh and the Tigers loaded the bases, and third baseman Mark Christman stood in there and took an inside pitch off his shoulder, which forced home the game-winner.   Tuesday, Septemb...