HOFL Winding Down

The PreThirties are pulling away. They went 7-2 in this set including a 23-2 rout of the fading Chicago Legends. New York had a 14-run 3rd inning in that game.

Barry Bonds (STL) had his consecutive homer streak end at 9 games, but continues to bash. He leads the league with 74 dingers. Teammate Mark McGwire is second with 59.

In other highlights, Randy Johnson (BOS) tossed a 2-hitter and struck out 16 against NY. Only a 2-run homer from Lou Gehrig marred the otherwise excellent outing. Mike Schmidt (CIN) became only the 2nd player this season to hit for the cycle. Dizzy Dean (PHI) had a 2-hit shutout over Boston. Don Drysdale (BRK) leads the league with a 23-10 record. Sandy Koufax (BRK) threw a shutout for his 20th win. Bob Gibson (BRK) was going for his 20th win to join Drysdale and Koufax. He led lowly Pittsburgh 8-0 thru 5 innings and then imploded, eventually losing 15-14.

There are 21 games left in the regular season. I'll play 9 tomorrow and the last 12 on Friday. Then the playoffs on Saturday and Sunday (to correspond with the actual 2014 HOF inductions.)

One of the interesting things about the cards of the early guys is that they all seem to have some interesting split chances. Lots of HR1,fbB... or TR1,fbB. Like this:



This is Cy Young's card vs RH batters. Almost everybody has stuff like this on their card.

That reminds me, if there are any specific player cards you'd like to see, tell me in the comments and I'll put it on here.