Posted by trd3 on 12/7/2019 5:08:00 PM (view original):
Sorry about that. It was the second game (12-0).

Thank God, I will get half my starters out of that one. I will not likely be going for a $90m team here, unless I pick a very expensive 25th man!

Looks like a fun theme.I'll give it a try.

big_dowg: A newcomer! Here are your six housewarming gifts:

1. Senators @ Philadelphia Athletics, August 6, 1930 - a lot of offense there!
2. Athletics @ Twins, August 14, 2010
3. Red Sox @ Tigers, August 1, 1910
4. White Sox @ Browns, September 5, 1913
5. OF-P Ed Daily 1885-91
6. Expos @ Phillies, June 15, 1986

Five box scores sometimes makes pitching tough, but you drew a couple of deadball games and old-time Ed Daily, so I think you'll manage to find enough good innings.

Posted by trd3 on 12/7/2019 3:03:00 PM (view original):

Posted by trd3 on 12/7/2019 2:26:00 PM (view original):
Here are your pages tdoak:

1) Chicago White Sox at New York Yankees, July 19, 1942
2) Minnesota Twins at New York Yankees, August 18, 2015
3) LA Dodgers at Philadelphia Phillies ,September 15, 1963
4) Player page - P Scott Service (1988-2004)
5) St. Louis Cardinals at New York Mets, August 4, 1996

Somehow forgot the 6th page:

6) 1896 Brooklyn Bridegrooms Batting Page

So, when you get a roster, I need to verify it against the six pages you drew. Here is my tentative team. Please post under the same format, NOT HERE, but on a Theme Leagues page that I will create now:

1) White Sox @ Yankees, 1942: Joe DiMaggio, Jerry Priddy, Phil Rizzuto, Red Ruffing
2) Twins @ Yankees, 2015: Andrew Miller, Shane Robinson, Alex Rodriguez, *Nick Rumbelow
3) Dodgers @ Phillies, 1963: Dick Calmus, Don Drysdale, Tony Gonzalez, Dallas Green
4) Scott Service, 1992 Expos: Wil Cordero, Jeff Fassero, Dennis Martinez, *Scott Service
5) Cardinals @ Mets, 1986: Edgardo Alfonzo, Alvaro Espinoza, Todd Hundley, Danny Sheaffer
6) Brooklyn Bridegrooms, 1896: Ad Gumbert, George Harper, Fielder Jones, Harley Payne
7) Wild Card: 1978 Rod Carew

TOTAL PAYROLL: 80,977,088

I'll give this another tumble...

finn2030: Last draw of the night! Here goes:

1. Cardinals @ Pirates, April 22, 1926
2. Yankees @ Orioles, September 14, 1997
3. 1991 AL Second Base [fielding] - here you have to take four players who appeared in at least one game at 2B in the AL that year - no twisting, so you probably want to look for a couple of guys who played other positions, too
4. Giants @ Pirates, July 17, 1966, second game of doubleheader
5. Rangers @ Indians, July 5, 1995
6. Reds @ Boston Braves, August 19, 1913, second game of doubleheader

George Suggs threw a one-hit shutout in that last game!

Any spots left?

toddcommish: I haven't started counting yet, but we are not close to full. So here are six pages for you:

1. Indians @ White Sox, August 17, 1936
2. OF Mike Yastrzemski 2019
3. Athletics @ Orioles, September 5, 1981
4. 2013 NLCS Cardinals over Dodgers (4-2) - you can use any player who appeared in the series
5. Expos @ Diamondbacks, September 1, 1999
6. Red Sox @ Yankees, April 22, 1956 - Don Larsen started for NY, and homered, but didn't last 5 innings for the win

That's 15 owners signed up in the first day! Plenty of room for more, and we always need a couple of alternates as we often see that someone fails to enter their team.

Count me in

Posted by dbrom on 12/7/2019 11:21:00 PM (view original):
Count me in

dbrom: I already have counted you in: see your draw on page 2!

I will join again and stink it up again

Rattlers: Hopefully you will find these guys not so bad:

1. Browns @ Philadelphia Athletics, June 6, 1942
2. Reds @ Rockies, May 3, 2006
3. C Tim Spehr 1991-99
4. 1998 NLCS Game 1, Padres @ Braves, October 7
5. Mets @ Reds, May 17, 1969
6. Mariners @ Indians, July 28, 1991

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in! I just checked the site for the first time in a few months. This is my favorite theme and I knew it tends to pop up around Christmas. Lucky me! Spin me up 6 pages please, tdoak. (Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!)

Posted by Belsea on 12/8/2019 8:23:00 PM (view original):
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in! I just checked the site for the first time in a few months. This is my favorite theme and I knew it tends to pop up around Christmas. Lucky me! Spin me up 6 pages please, tdoak. (Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!)

Belsea: Happy holidays! And I'm honored you came back to check for this thread! Here are six pages for you:

1. * P Hilton Smith Hall of Fame [see below] https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=smith-001hil
2. Reds @ Phillies, July 2, 1959, second game of doubleheader
3. Giants @ Cardinals, July 17, 1973
4. 1951 Washington Senators batting orders [any four players who started a game for the Senators, including starting pitchers]
5. * 1B Guy Sturdy 1927-28
6. Astros @ Rockies, May 31, 2012

So, you've been assigned two non-sim players; pick 200k players to fill both roster spots, and I will choose a 200k replacement for each.

Hilton Smith's replacement will be a pretty useful pitcher: I am looking at the list of eligible pitchers from AAA, and the closest I can find for outstanding walk-to-strikeout ratio and a good hitter is 1920 Walter Johnson. But there is the question of his teammates, since you can only have a max of three non-sim players. Solution: he did attend Prairie View A & M college at some point [or maybe just got an honorary degree], so you can take the three other MLB players who attended that school. It's not a bad list: https://www.baseball-reference.com/schools/index.cgi?key_school=c7f564e9