TUE. 7/15		ROUND 1				5 YEAR CONTRACT
9:00 AM	-	1	-	Rino65 - (CIN)	-	Ted Williams
9:30 AM	-	2	-	cmcafeeky - (BRO)	-	Stan Musial
10:00 AM	-	3	-	riftonapple - (CLE)	-	George Kell
10:30 AM	-	4	-	kujhawker - (NYY)	-	Ralph Kiner
11:00 AM	-	5	-	coyote522 - (NYG)	-	Warren Spahn
11:30 AM	-	6	-	Husker75 - (BSN)	-	Bob Feller
12:00 PM		7		strubrosII - (CHW)		Johnny, Pesky
12:30 PM	-	8	-	Ribbentrop - (PHI)	-	Hal Newhouser
1:00 PM	-	9	-	grayfoxx - (WSH)	-
1:30 PM	-	10	-	Razorhawg1 - (STL)	-
2:00 PM	-	11	-	benfc - (SLB)	-
2:30 PM	-	12	-	dirtbag13 - (PHA)	-
TUE. 7/15		ROUND 2				4 YEAR CONTRACT
3:00 PM		13	-	dirtbag13 - (PHA)
3:30 PM		14	-	benfc - (SLB)

Ralph Kiner OF

Kiner served as a U.S. Navy pilot during World War II.^[3]

Kiner was inducted into the Navy during the spring of 1943. As a cadet, he attended St. Mary's Pre-Flight School in California and earned his pilot's wings and commission at Corpus Christi, Texas, in December 1944. Kiner flew PBM Mariner flying boats on submarine patrols from Naval Air Station (NAS) Kaneohe Bay in Hawaii, accumulating 1,200 flying hours. Kiner enlisted the day after Pearl Harbor.^[4][5]From 1947 to 1951, Kiner topped 40 home runs and 100 RBIs each season.

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kujhawker - (NYY)

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Ralph Kiner

Bill James in '85: "It has become the custom since his election to the Hall of Fame in '75 to downgrade Kiner's skills, and to portray him as a one-dimensional slugger who at that hit on "only" 369 Homeruns for bad teams with the help of a fence that was pulled in on him."

James revisited his appraisal of Kiner in '01: When Branch Rickey came to Pittsburg, he systematically set out to destroy Kiner's reputation in order to trade the popular Kiner.

I'm not sure why a genius like Branch Rickey wouldn't enjoy a slugger like Kiner, after all he led the NL in HR for 7 consecutive seasons ('46-'52). Kujayhawker with Kiner in Yankee stadium is a scary proposition for AL pitching.

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3. riftonaple - George Kell third baseman

I have a fun fact about George Kell…..he was from a little town in Arkansas called Swifton about 30 minutes from where I live. After he retired, he owned a car lot in Newport AR. My wife and I bought a car from him once (not him personally but we did get to meet him).

warren Spahn, p

one of my first baseball cards was this old guy with no cap, big smile and it said “pitcher coach”.
one of those guys where the back of the card was completely filled top to bottom because the guy had been around so long.

They always had pics of guys with no cap in case they got traded. This was before photoshop.
i mean this was back when you took your roll of film to a drug store and waited weeks to find out your photos were overexposed.

Good stuff coyote. I'm 61, and use to LOVE baseball cards (I bet almost everyone on WIS did) -
I think a big part of my loving cards was that it was one of the few ways to ever know how the player actually looked (and of course the stats on the back. . Magazines helped too.

I'm toying with the idea of a google photo folders system of using a baseball card for each player on our rosters. It may be too much work as my sumer winds down. And, I'm not sure sharing the rosters of baseball cards idea is best served with google.

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Going to go completey contrary o how I normally draft and go with a hurler.

The Braves will take "Rapid Robert" Bob Feller -P.

Most of you old guys like me, I just turned 80, will always remember the famous pictures of Feller throwing his fast ball against a policeman on a motorcycle. They didn't have radar guns back then. The officer was given a 10 yard head start against Feller and Feller easily beat him. Most say Feller fast ball was going 104 MPH when it hit the target dead center. Some people even estimated Feller threw as fast as 120 MPH.

strub is up, Ribben on deck and grayfox in the hole.

Johnny Pesky SS

Pitcher Hal Newhouser

Hall of Famer Hal Newhouser was a great pitcher during the years of World War II and for a number of years after the war. Late in his career he was a productive reliever for the 1954 Cleveland Indians team which won 111 games. He won two MVP Awards and played in the World Series with the Detroit Tigers in 1945 and the Cleveland Indians in 1954.

Newhouser won more games before his 30th birthday than any other pitcher of the live ball era with 188. He won his 189th game on his 30th birthday but his arm had almost fallen off by that point, and he ended his career with "only" 207 wins.

SMed grayfoxx - (WSH)

Harry Brecheen P

Pitcher Harry Brecheen played a dozen years in the majors and was a member of the St. Louis Cardinals rotation for about a decade. He earned the nickname "The Cat" for his ability to field bunts, pouncing on them like a cat. One of the great left-handed pitchers in Cardinal history, Harry was a two-time All-Star and won 128 games in St. Louis.

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Bobby Doerr 2B

At the time of his death in 2017, Bobby Doerr was the last surviving member of the 1946 Red Sox team and the last surviving mlb player to have played in the 1930s. A native of California, he debuted with the Red Sox in 1937, going 3-5 and securing a starting position at 2B in 1938. He played his entire career with the Red Sox and was a nine-time All-Star. He was later a scout, hitting coach, and base coach for the Red Sox. Carl Yastrzemski credited Doerr with helping him improve his hitting in his Triple Crown season in 1967. Doerr's middle name, “Pershing” was in honor of General John J. Pershing, commander of the US Forces in Europe in WWI.

REMINDER:

2nd Round picks garner FOUR YEAR CONTRACTS

(this staggers contract lengths, resulting in 5 5-year, 5 4-year, 5 3-year, 5 2-year, and 5 1-year contracts)
ALL FUTURE DRAFTS ('47, '48, '49, etc. are five year contracts)

R1 - Philly A's
2B - Eddie Stanky

The man who famously said he would, "...spike my own mother if it meant being safe on a close play." was a teammate of Jackie Robinson when the Brooklyn Dodgers broke the color barrier in 1947. Despite not initially being in favor of integration, Stanky was ultimately instrumental in Dodger players publicly standing up for Robinson and "having his back". Stanky was more famous for his various on-field antics, to include his move when, as a runner on third base on a fly ball, he would station himself several feet behind the base in left field and time the arc and catch of the fly ball so that he was at a full run as the ball was caught and he was stepping on the base, making it nearly impossible to throw him out at home. The tactic was ultimately outlawed. He was (in)famous for his "Stanky maneuver" where he'd distract opposing hitters by jumping up and down and waving his arms while at his position behind the pitcher. Stanky was a master of the "delayed steal", and was responsible (as a
manager) for the implementation of the one-trip-per-inning rule to the mound due to his tendency to leisurely walk to the mound to confer with his pitcher when a game was close to being called for darkness or curfew.