Followup to Jim Hugh Moss story
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When I first put together the story of the execution of James Hugh Moss, former Negro League ballplayer, and the accompanying media coverage of Eula Mae Thompson, the intention was to try to tease out the details of what really may have happened the night Coleman Osborne was killed in Chatsworth, GA, August 5, 1927. [...]
2001 MLB Playoffs – Division Series Results
This replay has not worked out much like the real-life 2001 playoffs did, but that is a part of what makes it exciting. The Moneyball philosophy that the playoffs are “a crap shoot” may or may not be true, but Strat-o-Matic is a dice game and though the results over time will always end up [...]
“Sports Phone” New York Dream Series, 1981
They market the games as “the ultimate in realism,” and, I do admit, the verisimilitude of my Strat-o-Matic replays can cause blurred lines of reality and fantasy for me sometimes. I’ll never forget the classic 1-0 duel between Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale in the first ever game of my first PUB League season. Or [...]
Baseball, Cape Cod – by Lysander Kemp
Can anyone tell me anything about this poem or about this poet? Lysander Kemp (b. 1920 – ) was a translator in the mid-20th century, known mostly for his work translating Octavio Paz and Ruben Dario. I know that he was released from the US Army in 1942 and that he then attended Harvard, where [...]
Vin Sequitors
“It’s a shame you don’t remember Sydney Greenstreet, he would have been the perfect Fat Man.” – Vin Scully, after telling the story of Livan Hernandez’s dramatic defection from Cuba. – The following is a transcript of Vin Scully’s call of Andre Ethier’s at bat in the bottom of the 5th tonight (Vin was calling [...]