The Braves take Dixie Walker - OF. Know as the "Peoples Cherce" because he played in Brooklyn thus the Brooklyn accent. He was a .300 lifetime hitter but is best known as one of the main players fighting to keep Jackie Robinson out of the Major Leagues.

strub is up, Ribben on dec, & gray in the hole.

1B Rudy York

SMed grayfoxx - (WSH)

OF Stan Spence

Posted by strubrosII on 7/15/2025 1:30:00 PM (view original):
Johnny Hopp 1B

Johnny Hopp, known as Hippity Hopp, was born and raised in Hastings, NE, about 20 miles from where I live. He had several .300 season and finished up with a .296 lifetime BA. He in the Nebraska Sports Hall of Fame.

Vic Lombardi SP

At five feet seven and 158 pounds, Vic Lombardi was hardly an imposing figure on the mound. But the left-hander had enough talent and guile to pitch in 509 games over a seventeen-year professional career, including six seasons in the majors with two starts in the legendary 1947 World Series.

Lombardi was slight in stature even by the standards of his era. Inevitably, writers mined the thesaurus to come up with appropriately descriptive adjectives. In addition to the more mundane “little” and “diminutive,” Lombardi was also called “the mite southpaw,” the pint-sized southpaw,” “pint-sized portsider,” “pony pitcher,” “the welterweight pitcher,” and “the midget southpaw.” And, because he wore glasses at times during his career, he was also the “bespectacled little left-hander.”

But when Lombardi came up big against the Dodgers’ hated cross-town rivals, “little Vic” became known by a new moniker: “Giant Killer.” In his rookie season Lombardi beat the Giants four times, twice in relief, without a loss.

Posted by dirtbag13 on 7/12/2025 8:00:00 PM (view original):
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.

According to my 89 year old father, who spent several summers as a little boy with one of his oldest sisters in Akron and attended many Indians games (and he also played ball in college and was a scout for the Reds for a short time), Lou was one of the smartest ball players ever. He was the player-manager toward the end of his career and my Dad said that Lou, not the catcher, called the pitches from Shortstop. (my Dad is a little senile and gets confused when I ask him how they did this without the batter catching on, but I believe him as he told me this same story a few times, I just wasn't clued in enough then to ask how they did it.)

Phil Rizzuto SS Rnd 4 #47
Scooter Rizzuto a native New Yorker (Brooklyn & Queens) born 2nd generation Italian was the Minor League player of the year in 1940. He joined the Yankees in 1941 replacing a slumping Yankee great, Frankie Crosetti, another 2nd generation Italian immigrant. Rizzuto played two full seasons for the Yankees before entering the US Navy. In 1950, he had 200 hits and with a .324 average was elected the American League MVP. He was also one of best fielding Shortstops of his era. He played 13 seasons (all with the Yankees) and was on 7 World Championship teams. After retiring from the Yankees on the field, he became a a radio announcer and remained in the broadcast booth for 40 years. His "HOLY COW!" is still remembered by almost every baseball fan of the golden age of baseball. In 1978, when told on air that Pope Paul VI had just died, Rizutto commented,"that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win."

R4 Philly A's
Phil Cavarretta, 1B/OF

"Philibuck", as manager Charlie Grimm called him, joined Cap Anson as the only players to have played 20+ seasons for the Chicago Cubs. Exempted from military service due to a perforated eardrum, Cavarretta was a four-time All-Star during the war years while winning the MVP in 1945. Cavarretta played in three World Series and performed well, hitting .317. He acted as a manager, coach and scout for various organizations into the 1970s, and as of 2010 was the last living player to have played against Babe Ruth, on May 12, 1935.

R5 Philly A's
Joe Beggs, P

A multi-sport collegiate athlete who went to Geneva College on a track scholarship, Beggs saw a long path through the minor leagues before he was able to get a foothold in the bigs. Christened "The Fireman" due to his exploits as a reliever early in his major-league career, Beggs ultimately became a serviceable starter for the Reds and Giants before arm troubles and surgery ended his career in the late 40s. Beggs later became the superintendent of prisons for the state of Kentucky under Governor Happy Chandler (who you may remember as the second commissioner of baseball, and whose approval of Jackie Robinson's contract led to the integration of baseball).

THR. 7/17		ROUND 5				1 YEAR CONTRACT
9:00 AM		49		dirtbag13 - (PHA)		Beggs, Joe
9:30 AM		50		benfc - (SLB)
10:00 AM		51		Razorhawg1 - (STL)
10:30 AM		52		grayfoxx - (WSH)
11:00 AM		53		Ribbentrop - (PHI)
11:30 AM		54		strubrosII - (CHW)
12:00 PM		55		Husker75 - (BSN)
12:30 PM		56		coyote522 - (NYG)
1:00 PM		57		kujhawker - (NYY)
1:30 PM		58		riftonapple - (CLE)
2:00 PM		59		cmcafeeky - (BRO)
2:30 PM		60		Rino65 - (CIN)
THR. 7/17		ROUND 6				5 YEAR CONTRACT
3:00 PM	-	61		Rino65 - (CIN)	-
3:30 PM	-	62		cmcafeeky - (BRO)	-
4:00 PM	-	63		riftonapple - (CLE)	-
4:30 PM	-	64		kujhawker - (NYY)	-

5th Rnd 2nd (50) pick
Browns select Bill Bevens P
Bill Bevens was a "flash in the pan" pitcher for the Yankees, pitching in only four major league seasons from 1944 thru 1947. His best year was by far 1946 when he logged 249 innings and won 16 games with an ERA of 2.23. In 1947, he pitched 8 2/3 hitless innings in Game 4 of the World Series but walked ten batters. In the bottom of the ninth with two outs, he gave up a pinch-hit double to Dodgers 34 year old Cookie Lavagetto and the Dodgers plated two runs winning the game 2-1. Bevens returned in game 7 to pitch 2 2/3 innings of scoreless relief before being lifted for a pinch-hitter in the 5th inning when the Yankees scored the eventual winning runs. Joe Black pitched the last five innings for the win.

Red Embree SP

Right-hander Red Embree spent thirteen seasons in professional baseball from 1939 to 1952. Embree spent part of the 1942 season, all of the 1943 year serving in the United States Army, during World War II; he returned late in the 1944 season. During his playing time in the Major Leagues (1941-1949), Red built a 31-48 record and a 3.72 ERA while pitching 707 innings in 141 games.

Posted by Rino65 on 7/13/2025 7:21:00 PM (view original):
Reds select P Johnny Sain

Woild post facts but on vacation time is short. But as with a majority of players Sain served in the Armed Forces as part of the greatest generation of Heroes during WW II.

Warren Spahn and Johnny Sain were a dominant Pitching Duo on the 1948 World Series losing Boston Braves. My Dad remembers that they didn't have any other good Pitchers and there was a saying "Give me Spahn and Sain and 2 days of rain" that was popular that year.

SP Mort Cooper