Posted by mpitt76 on 8/1/2022 2:52:00 PM (view original):
1981 John Butcher 1,817,147

You already drafted Butcher. You must really like him. (Site-mailed mpitt76, although he is not due up in round 14 for a while).

Lol. I site mailed him that Butcher was already taken and he’d need to repick. I didn’t realize it was actually him that had sniped his own player

Posted by footballmm11 on 8/1/2022 2:16:00 PM (view original):
1985 Woodward

sm please

im out for almost of rest of day so please skip me if I come up again, I’ll be back to pick later tonight

Just a reminder as his next pick comes up that he has already said to skip him.

My crack research department tells me BeAll and Pedro are the only one's ahead of me that need an OF3. They both have selected a 1983 player. So...

1983 Lloyd Moseby OF3 - $6,181,628

RP7 1982 Dave Rozema $1,010,366 $73,044,640

1968 Bobby Bolin

SP4

5,735,027

Posted by midknight on 8/1/2022 7:04:00 PM (view original):
My crack research department tells me BeAll and Pedro are the only one's ahead of me that need an OF3. They both have selected a 1983 player. So...

1983 Lloyd Moseby OF3 - $6,181,628

This pick compels me to tell a story. In early 1983, I was in 7th grade and had a friend named Peter who knew I liked baseball. He started telling me about this strange thing a slightly older girl he knew ran, a Rotisserie Baseball League, and asked if I'd be interested in joining it. This was an entirely new concept to me at that point, so he got me the rules and I set about trying to figure out how to approach it.

It wasn't actually like any Roto league I've been in since, maybe because they started getting more widespread around that time. Basically, you picked a list of players at set positions and sent it to her, and then that was your roster for the entire season. She mailed out (yes, postal service!) updates a couple times during the season, but you couldn't make any changes regardless. There were two players I picked that season that no one else in the league did: Willie Upshaw and Lloyd Moseby of the Blue Jays. I can't tell you why at this point, but I guess it was just a lucky hunch they'd be solid. Upshaw had been decent in '82, but Moseby looked overmatched and was already going into his fourth season.

Do you see where this is headed? Yeah, I won the league. And Upshaw and Moseby played a big part in that. I became a Jays fan from a great distance out of that season, basically adopting them as my AL team. And Lloyd Moseby was one of my favorite players for years, too.

So I hope he does really well for you, except when I play you.

I love the Shaker, and cool story. Growing up a Jays fan of the mid 80s teams we always referred to it as the best outfield in baseball - Graceful, speedy Moseby in Centre, home run champ Jesse Barfield and his cannon arm in right, and MVP George Bell in left.

Oh man... don't get me started on the early days of Rotisserie Baseball.

This is pre-internet. I ran both A.L. only and N.L only 12-team leagues and I would manually input the stats from the USA Today every week (remember those Tuesday sports editions with all the stats?) I would tabulate the weekly stats on the computer (anybody remember Lotus123?) by substracting current YTD totals minus last weeks' YTD totals. (I was good with spreadsheets very early on). Folks would call Sunday night and leave a message on a dedicated 2nd phone line with their weekly moves.

And I just did the math and I was in grade 7 in ‘83 as well. Although, truth be told, your story indicates you had more communication from a girl than I ever did.

Posted by ronthegenius on 8/1/2022 8:23:00 PM (view original):
And I just did the math and I was in grade 7 in ‘83 as well. Although, truth be told, your story indicates you had more communication from a girl than I ever did.

Well she did mail me a check, which was probably better than anything else she was likely to offer me at that age.

Posted by schwarze on 8/1/2022 8:21:00 PM (view original):
Oh man... don't get me started on the early days of Rotisserie Baseball.

This is pre-internet. I ran both A.L. only and N.L only 12-team leagues and I would manually input the stats from the USA Today every week (remember those Tuesday sports editions with all the stats?) I would tabulate the weekly stats on the computer (anybody remember Lotus123?) by substracting current YTD totals minus last weeks' YTD totals. (I was good with spreadsheets very early on). Folks would call Sunday night and leave a message on a dedicated 2nd phone line with their weekly moves.

Those were the best of days.

1992 Phil Clark

Bench4

857,947

1969 C #2 Jerry Moses 955,938

Total; 78,535,482