R2 - Philly A's
SS - Lou Boudreau

Nicknamed "Old Scuttlefoot", "Handsome Lou" and "The Good Kid", Boudreau still holds the MLB record for consecutive doubles in a game (4), and led all players in hits for the 1940s with 1,578. The 8-time AL leader in fielding percentage, Boudreau also was a standout basketball player, earning All-American honors for the University of Illinois for the 1937-38 season. Despite playing professional baseball, Boudreau acted as an assistant coach for the Illini basketball team from 1939-1942. Boudreau was a key figure in stopping Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak when he barehanded a bad-hop grounder to start a double play late in the game. Boudreau is credited with inventing the infield shift, which he employed to use as a psychological ploy against dead-pull hitter Ted Williams.

St. Louis Browns Round 2 (14)
Enos Slaughter OF
"Country" Slaughter was from my home state of North Carolina and one of my early Cardinal "heroes". My High School baseball coach, who played several years in the Cardinal organization in the early 50's, talked about attending spring training camps where Slaughter was always around. Slaughter served three years in the Army Air Corps in WWII but spent much of his time organizing baseball teams on Pacific Islands. Sadly, but not uncommon during the 40's and 50's, Slaughter was said to have held a strong prejudice against black baseball players and supposedly purposely injured Jackie Robinson. However, many simply marked it a part of Slaughter's always rough and tumble play. He was later a mentor to the Cardinals' Lou Brock. Just as in baseball, Slaughter had a tulmotous married life with five wives (all divorced). It what many of us University of North Carolina Tar Heels considered a somewhat humorous irony, he coached of the Duke University baseball team from 1971-1977.

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)	-	Bob Lemon
1:30 PM	-	10	-	Razorhawg1 - (STL)	-	Harry Brecheen
2:00 PM	-	11	-	benfc - (SLB)	-	Bobby Doerr
2:30 PM	-	12	-	dirtbag13 - (PHA)	-	Eddie, Stanky,
TUE. 7/15		ROUND 2				4 YEAR CONTRACT
3:00 PM		13	-	dirtbag13 - (PHA)		Lou Boudreau,
3:30 PM		14	-	benfc - (SLB)		Enos Slaughter
4:00 PM		15	-	Razorhawg1 - (STL)
4:30 PM		16	-	grayfoxx - (WSH)
5:00 PM		17	-	Ribbentrop - (PHI)
5:30 PM		18		strubrosII - (CHW)
6:00 PM		19	-	Husker75 - (BSN)
6:30 PM		20	-	coyote522 - (NYG)
7:00 PM		21	-	kujhawker - (NYY)
7:30 PM		22	-	riftonapple - (CLE)
8:00 PM		23	-	cmcafeeky - (BRO)
8:30 PM		24	-	Rino65 - (CIN)
WED. 7/16		ROUND 3				3 YEAR CONTRACT
9:00 AM		25		dirtbag13 - (PHA)
9:30 AM		26		benfc - (SLB)
10:00 AM		27		Razorhawg1 - (STL)

benfc
a Tar Heels fan - OUCH !!!

razorhawg an arkansas fan - smh

and Im assuming
KUJahawkers is a Kansas fan - meh....

you guys hopefully know this is a baseball sim and NOT a college basketball SIM

Joe Dimaggio OF


Joe DiMaggio was a huge star who won three MVP awards and has one of the highest career slugging percentages of all time. He was married to actress Marilyn Monroe for a time, and boefore that to another actress, albeit less famous, Dorothy Arnold. He holds the record for the longest hitting streak in major league history, 56games in 1941. It was considered such a huge accomplishment that he beat out Ted Williams for the 1941 American League Most Valuable Player Award, even though Williams hit .406 that season - the last player ever to bat above .400. DiMaggio was a star from the moment he reached the major leagues: in his first month with the New York Yankees, in May of 1936, he set an all-time record by getting 48 hits, the most of any rookie in his first month in the big leagues.

Posted by cmcafeeky on 7/12/2025 9:56:00 PM (view original):
benfc
a Tar Heels fan - OUCH !!!

razorhawg an arkansas fan - smh

and Im assuming
KUJahawkers is a Kansas fan - meh....

you guys hopefully know this is a baseball sim and NOT a college basketball SIM

Grad school x2, 30 years in Chapel Hill 69-98. Wife and daughter also alums. I guess you could say we bleed Carolina Blue, but my grand daughter is a Duck. She and my daughter live only a few miles from U of O.

Posted by benfc on 7/13/2025 12:33:00 AM (view original):

Posted by cmcafeeky on 7/12/2025 9:56:00 PM (view original):
benfc
a Tar Heels fan - OUCH !!!

razorhawg an arkansas fan - smh

and Im assuming
KUJahawkers is a Kansas fan - meh....

you guys hopefully know this is a baseball sim and NOT a college basketball SIM

Grad school x2, 30 years in Chapel Hill 69-98. Wife and daughter also alums. I guess you could say we bleed Carolina Blue, but my grand daughter is a Duck. She and my daughter live only a few miles from U of O.

Interesting -
I'm a 4th generation Kentucky fan -
(born and raised in Danville - currently in Shelbyville)
proud maniacal part of Big Blue Nation -
Love UK basketball history - etc etc.
so, I have loathed Carolina's baby blue for 61 years... (lol)
I think we could agree on one thing.... our disdain for the Dukies.

SS 1946 Pee Wee Reese

SMed strubrosII - (CHW)

Glad to Draft such a Versatile Player .... Of course notice looking at SS Defensive Ratings

"He was the heart and soul of the 'Boys of Summer'." - Vin Scully

Pee Wee Reese played sixteen years in the major leagues, missing three full years to World War II. He was in the top ten in MVP voting eight different times, appeared in seven World Series and was in ten All-Star Games. His entire major league career was with the Brooklyn and later Los Angeles Dodgers.

A versatile player, he led the league in a variety of categories: walks in 1947, runs scored in 1949, stolen bases in 1952, and sacrifice hits in 1953. He was also second in triples in 1946 and was in the top ten in doubles three times. On the pennant-winning 1947 Dodgers team, he and Jackie Robinson tied for the team lead in homers with 12. He played mostly in the days before Gold Gloves were awarded, but his range factors and fielding percentages during most of his career were good.

The Braves first 4 year pick will be "The Big Cat" Johnny Mize - 1B. MIze and Kiner jockeyed back and forth for about 3 seasons for the NL home run title. Mize was known for his fielding prowess with a .992 lifetime fielding pct. In his later years he also won 5 straight World Series while on the Yankees.

coyote is up, ku on deck and rifton in the hole.

vern stephens, ss

i’d heard of vern, but didn’t know much about him. So i googled vern. Turns out a lot of folks don't know much about him.
i might have been the first person to google the poor guy.
well, vern hit a lot of hr’s for a ss. First one to hit 25 in a season. Ahead of his time. He drove in a lot of runs too.
lead the league in rbi’s twice. Not bad for a ss.

so why isn’t he better known?
beats me, vern.

1 more tidbit:
he was from new mexico. I like that. My daughter is a public defender in albuquerque and my 3 yr old granddaughter is practically a native and I’m quite fond of the place.

Posted by coyote522 on 7/13/2025 1:39:00 PM (view original):
vern stephens, ss

i’d heard of vern, but didn’t know much about him. So i googled vern. Turns out a lot of folks don't know much about him.
i might have been the first person to google the poor guy.
well, vern hit a lot of hr’s for a ss. First one to hit 25 in a season. Ahead of his time. He drove in a lot of runs too.
lead the league in rbi’s twice. Not bad for a ss.

so why isn’t he better known?
beats me, vern.

1 more tidbit:
he was from new mexico. I like that. My daughter is a public defender in albuquerque and my 3 yr old granddaughter is practically a native and I’m quite fond of the place.

I knew about him and hoped he might sneak through but, alas, not to be. Good pick

NY Yankees selects P Virgil Trucks

The Detroit Tigers signed Trucks as an amateur in 1938. In his first pro season, Trucks set a minor league record with 418 strikeouts.^{[citation needed]} He also threw four no-hitters in the minors.^{[citation needed]} He debuted with the Tigers in the fall of 1941.

Trucks missed two seasons due to military service in World War II and was discharged from the Navy less than two weeks before his start in the second game of the 1945 World Series.

Trucks was the uncle of Butch Trucks, a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band

Posted by cmcafeeky on 7/12/2025 9:56:00 PM (view original):
benfc
a Tar Heels fan - OUCH !!!

razorhawg an arkansas fan - smh

and Im assuming
KUJahawkers is a Kansas fan - meh....

you guys hopefully know this is a baseball sim and NOT a college basketball SIM

DEFINITELY A KU JHAWKS FAN!!!

I went to school there from 1979 through 1982, when I left to start my government career as a Air Traffic Controller (Flight Service)...moved to Nebraska in 1985, but I have always been a KU, Royals & Chiefs fan!!!

ROCK CHALK JAYHAWK, GO KU!!!