PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Player of the week for (June 21st - June 27th) is SP Charlie (Chinski) Root of the Freemont Furtraders. One of the bright spots in the Freemont rotation this season, Charlie just keeps on winning. Charlie now has eleven wins this season one behind league leader Carl Hubbell. For the week Charlie was 2-0 with two complete games, allowing only two earned runs in 18 innings of work with an ERA of 1.00. Charlie was masterful amassing eight strikeouts against one walk and only allowing ten hits between the two games.Other Player of the Week Candidates:
SP - Lefty Stewart of Hattiesburg who was 2-0 on the week with an ERA of 1.69 allowing three earned runs in 16 innings pitched with one complete game and eight strikeouts.
OF - Paul (Big Poison) Waner of Montgomery who batted .469 (15-32) with four doubles and a triple with one RBI and seven runs scored
OF Joe (Ducky) Medwick of Pawtucket who batted .467 (14-30) with one home run, one triple and one double with four RBI and four runs scored.
OF - Mel (Master Melvin) Ott of North Dallas who batted .519 (14-27) with one home run and two doubles, knocked in seven RBI and scored eight times.
LOOKING BACK AT THE FIRST FIVE SEASONS, PART 5
The DBS has now completed five seasons, so this series will take a look at the top 5 of certain categories and stories.5 WORST TRADES
1. SAHARA DUMPS AL SIMMONSSahara sent Al Simmons to St Louis for Waite Hoyt on the eve of the 1928 season. Simmons responded to his new locale by putting together a string of the greatest seasons the league has ever seen, belting 159 home runs from 1929-32. In exchange, Sahara got 13 wins from Waite Hoyt before releasing him. He currently toils in North Dallas, not doing much of anything.
2. COOCH AND CO. GO TO FREMONT
Charlie Gehringer put together 4 great seasons with Hershey/Fremont when he was sent packing to North Dallas in exchange for Tony Cuccinello, Ed Brandt, Jackie Hayes, Gee Walker and Charlie Root. Chas greeted the North Dallas hopeful by hitting a paltry .216, 84 points below his career average. Meanwhile, Cuccinello himself wound up hitting .292 and being named to the all-star team. As if this deal wasn't uneven at this point, add in Ed Brandt (who was 15-6 with a 2.38 ERA) and Charlie Root (only 8-14 but won some key games), and in one move, North Dallas not only single-handedly removed themselves from their first pennant, they handed a World Championship to Fremont.
3. BABE SENT PACKING FROM HARLEM
Why has the greatest player in the DBS been traded twice? Don't ask Harlem, who sent him to North Dallas for Whit Wyatt and Charlie Berry. The Babe has hit the ball consistantly for North Dallas, while Wyatt has not appeared for Harlem, and Berry has but probably shouldn't.
4. PAWTUCKET DUMPS PIPGRAS
What do you do when your "ace" goes 7-24 in a season and a half? Send him to St Louis, where he was an important piece in St Louis' championship. He has pitched about expectations. Who was he traded for? An over-the-hill Pete Alexander, where he won 5 games before retiring.
5. ON CRACK? HATTIESBURG SWAPS HACK FOR PYTLAK
Hack Wilson had been a staple of Mississippi/Hattiesburg for years. Twice he hit 39 homeruns, three times he knocked in 85 or more. So Hattiesburg sends him to Pawtucket for catcher Frankie Pytlak. Wilson lead Pawtucketin home runs and RBI. Pytlak is batting .190.
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