Legends of Cooperstown News-November, 2001

� Josh Raup's Cleveland Spiders, behind the managerial skills of John McGraw and the pitching of Don Sutton and Sam McDowell, have forged a tie for the American League lead at the halfway mark of the first set.

� The Spiders are tied with Tim Daniels' Boston Americans with 12-8 records, and both teams are just 1 game ahead of Nick Flory's Rochester Live Oaks, who at 13-11, have completed their first set of games. Boston is being led by OF Oscar Charleston who is at .360, 3 HR, 18 RBI, while Rochester's pitching tandem of Juan Marichal and Carl Hubbell are a combined 9-0.

� The Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers, Dan Spellacy's National League franchise, are near the top of their league, in part due to the efforts early on of their number 1 draft pick, Rogers Hornsby. The Brooklyn second baseman leads the NL in Home Runs with 9, RBI with 25, and is 3rd in the league with a .395 batting average.

� Phil Trygar's Kansas City Monarchs lead the LOC NL by 2 games over Brooklyn, Kentucky, and Mountaintop and by
3 games over Scranton. Satchel Paige and Hilton Smith have 3 wins apiece for KC and Sonny Siebert has notched 4 saves, but it has been the speed of Cool Papa Bell, Buck Ewing, Frankie Frisch and Pop Lloyd, who have combined for 25 stolen bases, that have led the Monarchs. Eclipse slugger Jimmie Foxx has slammed 6 Home Runs in just 8 games played so far this season.

� 'Big' Ed Walsh once led the American League in ERA, yet lost 20 games! In 1910 for the White Sox, he had a 1.27 ERA to go along with an 18-20 record and is the only player to ever accomplish this feat.

� There is only one pitcher in the history of the game to record over 400 starts and over 400 relief appearances in his career and he's not in the Hall of Fame. During his 24 year career, Charlie Hough had a 216-216 record, with 61 saves in 3,801 innings over 440 starts and 418 relief appearances with LA, Chicago, Texas and Florida.

The only Hall of Famer to appear in a World Series for 3 different teams is Burleigh Grimes, in 1920 with Brooklyn, 1930-31 with St. Louis, and 1932 with the Chicago Cubs.

� The youngest player to ever appear in a World Series is Hall of Famer Freddie Lindstrom, who at the age of 18 played third base for the Giants in 1924. He went 10-30 with 2 doubles and 4 RBI, but NY lost to the Washington Senators 4 games to 3.

Just a reminder that the first set of games ends on November 30th. The following teams have already finished the first set-Rochester, Newark, Brooklyn, Scranton and Virginia. With the holidays coming up
more time has been allotted for the first 2 sets, but be sure to try and finish up soon.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!