Roger's 1941 APBA Replay

Week Ten of the 1941 BBW replay is in the books, and it was quite a week. There were ten shutouts this past week, three grand slams, and A's outfielder Wally Moses hit for the cycle (the first of the season). Twelve of the sixteen teams have reached or surpassed the 60-game played mark and the rest will be there before the end of this upcoming week. 1941 Boston Red Sox The Yankees started the week with an 8.5 games lead over second-place Chicago and ended this week with that lead expanded to 11.0 games. This was New York's maybe not-so-subtle way of saying "you might blink, but we won't." Cleveland is now 1.0 games behind Chicago, Boston is 1.0 games behind Cleveland, and Washington is over .500 (31-30) and is 2.0 games behind Boston. This means that if Washington were in the NL with that record, they would be in third place, 0.5 games ahead of Cincinnati (30-30). St. Louis has a firm hold on sixth place in the AL, but they have shown occasional flashes of bei...

Monday, June 16, 1941 Transactions:   Babe Dahlgren Chicago (NL) first baseman Babe Dahlgren (Team Debut 06/16/1941) was acquired from Boston (NL) on 06/15/1941 Philadelphia (NL) pitcher/catcher Bill Harman made his Major League Debut on 06/17/1941   Boston (AL) outfielder Stan Spence returned to play on 06/17/1941   Cleveland 1 New York (AL) (H) 0   Indians' shortstop Lou Boudreau got a one-out walk in the top of the ninth, advanced to third on a hit-and-run single from Ken Keltner , and then scored the only run of the game on a sacrifice fly from Gee Walker . Al Milnar (6-8, 6.24) went all the way for the shutout win over Lefty Gomez (7-2, 2.49).   Detroit 5 Washington (H) 0   The Tigers scored two runs early to take a quick lead and then added three runs in the eighth to lock this one up. Bobo Newsom (2-11, 7.06) struck out ten and didn’t allow a hit until the eighth, the only hit the Nationals had.   Chicago (...