16 Event Franchise League Archives

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The 16EFL Season 3 championship series changed its character completely for the 7th and deciding game. A series that couldn't have been any closer (3 games to 3 with both teams totaling 28 runs over the first 6 games) ended with a rout. A series that had seen the home team win every game ended with the vistors coasting to a victory that was never in doubt after the 5th inning.

The Cincinnati Reds, new comers to the post season, coasted to a 15 - 1 victory over a Giant franchise that won the inaugural 16EFL championship and was favored to collect a second crown in this series. Dolf Luque got his second win of the series and third of the post season, going 7 2/3 innings and allowing 1 run on 6 hits and 5 walks. Despite having 12 men reach base against Luque, the Giants managed only one run against him.

Luque was extremely efffective without being overpowering. He only struck out one Giant batter, but he got big outs when he needed them and got 1-2-3 innings at key points in the game. In the second, with the game still scoreless, Luque found himself in a bases loaded one out jam. But Bill Dahlen hit an at 'em ball to Pete Rose at 3rd and Luque got his counter part Tim Keefe to pop out to end the inning.

Luque's teamates rewarded his efforts in the top of the next inning, scoring three runs on a Joe Morgan triple, a Jim Bottomley RBI ground out and Frank Robinson's solo homer. In the bottom half of the inning Luque got the top three Giant hitters - Bobby Bonds, Frankie Frisch, and Willie Mays - all to pop up on the infield to get his team right back into the dug out. Luque had his second 1-2-3 inning after Bottomley's fifth home run of the post season (with Rose and Morgan aboard) put the Reds up 6-0 in the top of the fifth.

The Reds made it 10 - 0 on RBI singles by Rose and Johnny Bench and a two-run triple by Edd Roush before Matt Williams' solo shot in the bottom of the seventh, into to what was by then an empty left field bleachers, gave the Giants their only run of the game.

The Reds tacked on five more on a Roush sacrifice fly, RBI doubles by Rose and Bottomley and Al Simmons' two-run triple. Rudy Minarcin mopped it up. The Reds mobbed him on the mound after Bottomly handled Mays' slow roller to first on his own for the game's final out.

Luque, who threw 8 shut out innings in game 3 to get the Reds their first win of the series, was named series MVP despite taking the loss in relief in the series opener. That first game of the series was a 13 inning affair that will long be remembered as one of the greatest post season games in 16EFL history.

Luque came on in the bottom of the 13th looking for a save after the Reds had gone ahead 5 - 4 in the top half of the inning on Bottomley's RBI double. The Reds first baseman hit a line drive off of the right center field wall with two on and two out that looked like it would give the Reds a 2 run lead. Pinch runner Vince Coleman scored easily from second and the speedy Joe Morgan scoring from first on a 2-out double seemed like a foregone conclusion. But Mays played the ball perfectly off the wall and then made a throw to the plate that your grandchildren's grandchildren will see replays of. The one hop strike to Gary Carter beat Morgan by less than a foot and when the dust settled the Reds second-baseman looked completely stuned.

Despite allowing the Reds to take the lead, the Polo Grounds erupted and the momentum shifted to the New Yorkers. Luque, not used to pitching in relief and shocked by what had transpired to end the top half of the inning, looked lost on the mound. He walked 3 of the first 4 batters he faced, missing the strike zone badly at times. When Jim O'Rourke singled to center, Luque was back in the dugout before Carter crossed home plate with the winning run.

The next day, the Cincinnati papers complained little about Luque's performance however. Instead Sparky Anderson got most of the attention, specifically his handling of Christy Mathewson. The Reds' ace looked strong against his old team through 5 innings. He had allowed only one run on a Willie McCovey home run in the fifth, a ball that barely cleared the Polo Grounds short porch in right and surely would have been a lazy fly ball out in any other park in the league. But in the top of the sixth, with a one run lead, no body out and Johnny Bench on first, Anderson elected to lift Mathewson for pinch hitter Jerry Lynch. While many would question the decision to lift Mathewson in this situation, when Anderson asked Lynch to sacrifice the Giant fans in the Polo Grounds bleachers could hear the Reds faithful groaning back in Cincinnati. Rose and Morgan followed Lynch's bunt with back to back ground outs and the Reds had given up their ace without getting a run in return. It took Reds reliever Sammy Ellis less than five minutes to lose the lead, allowing a Mays triple and a McCovey RBI ground out in the bottom of the sixth.

Thankfully for Anderson, his team bailed him out by winning the series in seven and he returned to Cincinnati a hero.

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[b:4d7518e355]Event 8:[/b:4d7518e355]
[u:4d7518e355]AeroDave:[/u:4d7518e355]
CAP - $80M
DH - NO
WAIVERS - 10%

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All groupings for this league were made through randomizer.org.


East
[color=red:4d7518e355]Cubs48 (Red Sox)
2cityfan (Dodgers) [/color:4d7518e355]
rosenthm (White Sox)
errormagnate (Reds)

Central
[color=red:4d7518e355]Pjatscfy (Cardinals)
AeroDave (Twins) [/color:4d7518e355]
jpgavin (Yankees)
novie (A's)

West
[color=red:4d7518e355]buster j ratt (Giants)
majicmg (Braves) [/color:4d7518e355]
andycummings (Cubs)
FAaron (Pirates)

This is like a screw your roommate league. It would probably be more accurate to call it "Punch your roommate in the head 5 times then steal his/her girlfriend/boyfriend league".

The two teams in each division that are highlighted red are partners, and the ones in black are also.

Each team has to pick (2) carded players with a salary over 7 mil. for their partnering team. These players must start, and remain on that team, for the duration of the season.


Each team will also pick (4) carded players that are off limits to their partnering team. At no point during the season are these players allowed on that team.There are no salary requirements on these players.

Each team will pick there partnering teams stadium.

Finally, there will be a 4 round serpentine draft. Order detemined by tonights lottery. Any player that's ever played for your franchise is fair game.

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Division Winners :
Pirates (86-76)
Orioles (91-71)
Phillies (100-62)

Wild Card:
Giants (86-76)

No other team was over .500

The Phillies are the first 100 game winner

MVP - Babe Ruth (Braves) (his second MVP, back to back and both with the Braves) hitting .378 (second overall) with 62 HR and 157 RBI, leading the league in OPS at 1.355, slugging at .842 (Henry Aaron was second at .683), OBP at .513, Runs Scored with 183 and Walks with 162. He also had 220 hits, 50 doubles, and 17 triples, all good enough to place in the top ten.

Cy Young - Steve Carlton (Phillies) 25-13 with a 3.56 ERA and 295 K, leading the league in strikeouts and tying the Orioles Ned Garver (25-9) for the league lead in wins. Carlton narrowly edged out teammate Pete Alexander - 23-10, 2.68 ERA and 264 strikeouts.

Batting champ - Harry Heilmann (Reds) .379, his second batting title.

Home Run leader - Roger Maris (Cardinals) 73

RBI leader - Hank Aaron (Braves) 166

ERA leader - Firpo Marberry (Twins) 2.65, Pete Alexander (Phillies) led starting pitchers at 2.68

There were 12 twenty game winners.

Ty Cobb (Tigers) stole 58 bases, the second time he's led the league.

Fripo Marberry (Twins) saved 42 games, Archie McKain (Tigers) saved 41.

The Braves became the first team to score 1000 runs in a season (1106).

The Phillies led the league in ERA (4.18). This is the first season that the White Sox did not lead the league in ERA.

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We'll use the same scoring system as Barnstormers for the rankings here. One point for each regular season win, five points for making the playoffs, five points for making the finals, and ten points for a championship.

[b:58ee80c920]Managers Rankings [/b:58ee80c920](Total points)

1. 2cityfan - 363(2 playoffs)
1. Pjatscfy - 363 (2 playoffs, 1 final, 1 championship)
3. andycummings - 359 (2 playoffs, 2 finals)
4. Cubs48 - 357 (2 playoffs, 1 final, 1 championship)
5. Idanred - 348 (2 playoffs)
6. novie - 347 (2 playoffs, 1 final, 1 championship)
7. AeroDave - 346 (1 playoff, 1 final, 1 championship)
8. FAaron - 337 (1 playoff, 1 final)
9. buster j ratt - 325 (1 playoff, 1 final)
10. rosenthm - 303 (1 playoff)
10. jpgavin - 303
12. majicmg - 297

[b:58ee80c920]Franchise Rankings [/b:58ee80c920](Average points)

1. Pirates - 97.3 (3 seasons, 2 playoffs, 1 final, 1 championship)
2. Giants - 96.5 (4 seasons, 3 playoffs, 2 finals, 1 championship)
3. White Sox - 86.5 (4 seasons, 2 playoffs, 1 final, 1 championship)
3. Phillies - 86.5 (4 seasons, 1 playoff, 1 final)
3. Red Sox - 86.5 (2 seasons, 1 playoff, 1 final)
6. Reds - 84.5 (4 seasons, 1 playoff, 1 final, 1 championship)
7. Dodgers - 83 (3 seasons, 1 playoff, 1 final)
8. Braves - 82.5 (4 seasons, 2 playoffs)
9. Cubs - 82.25 (4 seasons, 1 playoff)
10. Tigers - 81.25 (4 seasons, 1 playoff)
11. Twins - 81 (2 seasons)
12. Cardinals - 79 (1 season)
13. Orioles - 78.25 (4 seasons, 1 playoff)
14. Indians - 76.5 (4 seasons)
15. A's - 74 (1 season)
16. Yankees - 0

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[b:5664fa42ff]Giants[/b:5664fa42ff] - Majic for Buster Ratt:
BP- Candlestick
Must use: Barry Bonds, Willie Mays
Forbidden: Youngs, McGinnity, Connor,Ott

[b:5664fa42ff]Braves[/b:5664fa42ff] - Buster Ratt for Majic:
BP- County ‘57
Must use: Henry Aaron, Eddie Mathews
Forbidden: Brouthers, Bancroft, Hamilton, Maddux

[b:5664fa42ff]Cardinals[/b:5664fa42ff] - AeroDave for Pfatscty:
BP- Robison ‘11
Must use: Stan Musial, Chick Hafey
Forbidden: Hornsby, O. Smith, Mize, Dizzy Dean

[b:5664fa42ff]Twins [/b:5664fa42ff]- Pfatscty for AeroDave:
BP- Griffith ‘41
Must use: Killebrew, Walter Johnson
Forbidden: Carew, Ruel, S. Rice, Knoblauch

[b:5664fa42ff]Cubs[/b:5664fa42ff] - FAaron for Andy Cummings:
BP- Wrigley ‘41
Must use: Jack Taylor, Hack Wilson
Forbidden: Banks, Hartnett, Madlock, Cuyler

[b:5664fa42ff]Pirates[/b:5664fa42ff] - Andy Cummings for FAaron:
BP-3 Rivers
Must use Burleigh Grimes, Stan Leever
Forbidden: Stargell, Kiner, Honus Wagner, Milt May

[b:5664fa42ff]A's[/b:5664fa42ff] - Jpg for Novie:
BP- Shibe ‘11
Must use: Jimmie Foxx to play 3B. Mark McGwire
Forbidden: Bishop, Ricky Henderson, R. Jackson, Tenace

[b:5664fa42ff]Yankees[/b:5664fa42ff] - Novie for jpg:
BP- Hilltop’11
Must use- L. Gomez, Ford
Forbidden- J.Dimaggio, Gossage, Moore, Elston Howard

[b:5664fa42ff]Red Sox [/b:5664fa42ff]- 2 city fan for Cubs ’48:
BP- Huntington Park ’11
Must use: Tris Speaker, Cy Young
Forbidden: Yasztremski, Doerr,Stephens, Fisk

[b:5664fa42ff]Dodgers[/b:5664fa42ff] - Cubs'48 for 2 city fan:
BP - Washington Park '11
Must use: Mike Piazza,Jackie Robinson
Forbidden: Duke Snider,Sandy Koufax,Don Drysdale,Dazzy Vance

[b:5664fa42ff]White Sox[/b:5664fa42ff] - errormagnate for rosenthm:
BP - Comiskey '78
Must use: Ted Lyons, and Red Faber
Forbidden: Ed Walsh, Luke Appling, Dick Allen, and Joe Jackson.

[b:5664fa42ff]Reds[/b:5664fa42ff] - rosenthm for errormagnate
BP - Crosley '41
Must use: Noodles Hahn and Barry Larkin
Forbidden: F. Robinson; J. Morgan; J. Bench; P. Rose

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[b:c34ddd2c07]Phillies sweep Giants[/b:c34ddd2c07]

The Philadelphia Phillies, baseball's winningest team, swept the New York Giants in their Division Series to advance to the League Championship. The Phils won two one run contests at home, then clinched with a 7 - 1 victory at the Polo Grounds.

The first game of the series proved to be the most dramatic as the Phillies won in walk off fashion. With the game tied at 4, the light hitting Larry Bowa led off the home half of the ninth. Always gritty, Bowa had a ten pitch at bat against Giant starter Tim Keefe before singling to right. With the winning run aboard, Keefe was aggressive in dealing with Roy Thomas. He quickly got ahead of the Philliadelphia lead off man 0 - 2 and then got him to chase a curve ball down for strike three. But Bowa, expecting Keefe to go out of the zone, stole second without a throw. Johnny Evers got a ground ball to the right side of the infield to move Bowa to third. With first base open, the Giants elected to walk Left O'Doul and bring up Mike Schmidt. Pitching coach Rick Reuschel came out to talk things over with Keefe and apparently asked his pitcher to stay out of the zone. Keefe walked Schmidt on 4 pitches to load the bases for Elmer Flick. Keefe started him with a curve ball low and away. He then came back with an inside fastball that didn't get in far enough, and Flick lined it to right to drive in the game winner.

Keefe gave up 5 runs, all earned, on 13 hits and 5 walks while striking out 6. Pete Alexander got the complete game victory for Philidelphia, giving up 4 runs on 9 hits and 3 walks. The Phillie ace had 10 strikeouts on the game. Manager John McGraw had a tough time hiding his disappointment after the game. "Any time you can score 4 runs on Pete, you want to take advantage of it. We had a three run lead against one of the best pitchers in the game and gave it back right away. That tends to be deflating to a team."

The Giants had taken a 4 -1 lead in the top of the sixth on a bases loaded, two-out, two-run single by short stop George Davis. The Phillies came right back in the bottom half of the inning though. Schmidt tirpled with one out and Flick drove him in with an infield single. Evers knocked the ball down in the hole between first and second but had no play. Roy Sievers followed with a home run to straight away center that tied the game at 4. The score stayed that way until Flick's heroics in the ninth gave the Phils the win.

Willie Mays had given the Giants a 2 run lead in the top of the fifth with a two-run single. In the bottom of the fifth, Gus Triandos drove in Sievers with an RBI ground out to get the Phillies on the board.

[u:c34ddd2c07]Game 2[/u:c34ddd2c07]
The Phils won game 2 despite a lack luster performance by Cy Young award winner Steve Carlton. The Philadelphia lefty couldn't make it out of the 3rd inning. He allowed a solo home run to Mays in the first, another to Matt Williams in the second and then gave up 5 in a third inning highlighted by Dave Kingman's three run homer to straight away center. But Clarence Mitchell bailed out Carlton, allowing just one run over the next 4 innings while his teamates scored 2 in the third and 4 in the fifth on the way to a 10 - 9 victory. The Giants hit five home runs in the loss.

[u:c34ddd2c07]Game 3[/u:c34ddd2c07]
The Phils coasted to the sweep in game 3 behind Earl Hamilton who only allowed one run on 4 hits and 3 walks over 7 and 1/3 masterful innings. Flick again starred for the Phillies offensively. He had 3 RBI on a two-run double in the first and a run scoring ground out in the third. Flick hit .500 during the series with 5 RBI and 3 runs scored. He was named series MVP as he drove in the game winning run in the 1st and 3rd games and scored the game winner in game 2 after leading off the bottom of the 7th with a triple.


[b:c34ddd2c07]Pirates get by Orioles in four[/b:c34ddd2c07]

The Pittsburgh Pirates took their Division Playoff series against the Baltimore Orioles 3 games to 1 to advance to the League Championship Series against the Philadelphia Phillies. The series hinged on game 2 in Baltimore. The game was a heartbreaker for the Orioles and their starter Tom Zachary. The Oriole lefty didn't allow an earned run until the 10th, but wound up with the loss.

Zachary was able to pitch himself out of trouble all day long. But in the fifth with a one-run lead, 2 out and a runner at third it was his glove, not his pitching, that let him down.

The Orioles had taken a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the third on a Ken Singleton RBI single. Zachary found himself in a bases loaded one out jam in the very next inning, but got Pirate firstbaseman Jake Beckley to line out to second and then got Manny Sanguillen to pop up to end the inning without any damage.

In the fifth it looked like Zachary had worked his magic again when he got Ralph Kiner to hit a slow roller to the right of the mound with two out and Maury Wills on third. Buy Zachary failed to field the ball cleanly. After he bobbled it, he looked home but the speedy Wills had long since crossed the plate. By the time he looked back to first Kiner had lumbered down the line safely and the game was tied. The fielding miscue seemed to break Zachary's concentration, and on the very next pitch he hung a breaking ball to designated hitter Chuck Klein who doubled into the right-center field gap to score Kiner and give the Pirates the lead.

Wally Gerber led off the home half and immediately picked up his pitcher. The Oriole short stop got a Harvey Haddix pitch on the inside part of the plate and pulled it down the line just inside the foul pole to even the score at 2. The Orioles had a great chance to get to Haddix, who proceeded to hit John McGraw, allow a single to Rogers Hornsby and walk Singleton to load the bases. Chuck Tanner came to the mound apparently to send his pitcher to the showers, but after an annimated discussion, the Pirate skipper opted to leave his starter in the game. It was the right call. Haddix bore down and struck out Reggie Jackson, Vic Wertz and Jim Gentile on a total of 11 pitches.

No one would score again until extra innings. The Orioles had two on with two out in the sixth, but Haddix got Rogers Hornsby to fly to left. The Pirates had runners at the corners with one out in the seventh, but Zachary induced a double play ball off the bat of Klein. In the ninth, Haddix needed Roy Face to get him out of trouble, coming on to get Jackson to fly out with two down and the winning run at second.

In the 10th, Zachary's luck finally ran out. He gave up a lead off single to Paul Waner who was forced at second on Kiner's ground ball. Zachary took a deep breath as Klein came to the plate with runners on yet again. After a couple of long foul balls down the right field line, it looked like he was in good shape as the Pirate DH flied to short right. But Freddie Lindstorm was next, and he tripled over Gene Woodling's head to give the Pirates the lead. Woodling, who was playing deep in a no doubles defense, appeared to lose the ball in the lights.

This game wouldn't end that easily though. In the bottom of the 10th, Wertz got things started with a triple of his own to put the tying run at third with no one out. Gentile then hit a fly ball to right that may have been deep enough to score the run, but respecting Waner's tremendous arm, third base coach Al Bumbry elected to hold Wertz at third. Asked why he didn't pinch run for the slow-footed Wertz, Earl Weaver said only, "With who?" Woodling followed with a fly to right that was clearly not deep enough to score the run and when Matt Nokes struck out, the Pirates were headed home with a 2 games to none lead.

[u:c34ddd2c07]Game 1[/u:c34ddd2c07]
The previous night, the Pirates took game one of the series easily, beating the Orioles 11 to 3 at Sportsman's Park. Pitching out of trouble was the key in this game as well, and Jesse Tannehill did it all day while his Oriole counterpart Ned Garver was not so lucky. Tannehill allowed only 3 runs in his complete game victory despite giving up 11 hits and a walk. He stranded runners in scoring position in 5 different innings. Garver gave up 11 runs on 10 hits and 6 walks, and couldn't make it out of the sixth inning. Wills went 3 for 4 with a walk, 3 runs scored and 4 stolen bases for the Pirates.

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Pirates claim season 4 championship in 7

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Pjatscfy:

125mil./DH/20%

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This rule is an attempt to create parity at the $125 cap by giving the the "smaller market" teams a shot at high priced players. There are 3 steps:

Step 1
Teams with exclusive rights to fewer than 4 players priced over $7 mil. will chose a "franchise player." This must be a player who spent at least 1/2 the years of his career with that franchise and has a salary above $7 million.

For example, the Yankees have exclusive rights to Ford, Rizzuto, Gehrig, Mantle, and DiMaggio, so they do not get to claim a franchise player. The Twins have exclusive rights to Walter Johnson, Killebrew and Ed Delahanty (since the Indians and Phils are both out this season). So they get to choose a franchise player. They have two options that meet the criteria - Blyleven and Goslin.

Five teams will select franchise players:
A's
Braves
Red Sox
Tigers
Twins

Step 2
Then we'll have a 3 round live draft. The rounds are based on salary, and the order of each round is based on the players available to the franchises above a certain salary.

Round 1Only players above 9 million dollars are available. Draft order: 1. Tigers - 2. White Sox - 3. Reds - 4. Pirates - 5. Dodgers - 6. Twins - 7. Braves - 8. Cubs - 9. Yankees - 10. Red Sox - 11. A's - 12. Cardinals

Round 2 Only players above 8 million dollars available. Draft order: 1. Tigers - 2. Reds - 3. Twins - 4. Cubs - 5. White Sox - 6. Pirates - 7. Dodgers - 8. Braves - 9. Red Sox - 10. Cardinals - 11. A's - 12. Yankees
This includes players above 9 million not drafted in round 1 and we'll make Eddie Mathews (8 mil exactly) available in this round.

Round 3 Only players above 7 million dollars available. Draft order: 1. Tigers - 2. Twins - 3. Cubs - 4. Reds - 5. White Sox - 6. Braves - 7. Red Sox - 8. Pirates - 9. Cardinals - 10. A's - 11. Dodgers - 12. Yankees

Step 3
Every team must either:
Have a hitter in their starting lineup with an OPS under .900 -or-
Have a pitcher in their starting rotation with an ERA over 3.00

If you use a platoon both halves must have an OPS under .900 (If you use 2 platoons, you can use opposite halves of different platoons, as long as there's somebody in the line up with an ops under .900 everyday.)

If you go the pitching route, your + 3.00 starter must appear every 4th or 5th day.

Meeting one of these two criteria should be pretty easy for most teams.

[b:a060f324be]Players designated as franchise players: [/b:a060f324be]
Are available only to the team that claimed them for the entire season.
Cannot be traded
Can be dropped but cannot be picked up by any team other than their original team.
This only applies to those 5 players (Foxx, Cobb, Clemens, Goslin, and Mathews)

[b:a060f324be]Players drafted during the live draft: [/b:a060f324be]
Can be released, traded picked up etc...
If you draft a player here and don't put him on your autodraft list he can be claimed on waivers by any other team he's available to. If you drop him after waivers, someone else can pick him up.

[b:a060f324be]Divisions[/b:a060f324be]

[u:a060f324be]East (NY/Bos) [/u:a060f324be]
Yankees
Dodgers
Red Sox
Braves

[u:a060f324be]Central (Midwest) [/u:a060f324be]
Reds
Pirates
Tigers
Twins

[u:a060f324be]West (Ill and Missouri)[/u:a060f324be]
Cards
Cubs
White Sox
A's

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[b:73a8ca4905]Division Winners : [/b:73a8ca4905]
Yankees (96-66)
Pirates (85-77)
Giants (88-74)

[b:73a8ca4905]Wild Card:[/b:73a8ca4905]
Indians (89-73)

MVP - Roger Maris (Cardinals) leading the league in HR with 81 (a 16EFL record, the next closest total was 46), RBI with 169, Runs Scored with 122, slugging at .711 and OPS at 1.081. He hit only .258, but had a .370 OBP thanks to 96 walks.

Cy Young - Bob Gibson (Cardinals) 25-12 with a 2.40 ERA and 285 K, leading the league in wins and strikeouts and finishing second in ERA.

Batting Champ - Honus Wagner (Pirates) .363 with 238 hits

ERA leader - Pete Alexander (Phillies) 1.79 (his second ERA title) with a WHIP of 0.79

In addition to Gibson, Greg Maddux 23-10 (Braves), Jake Weimer 21-10 (Giants), Joe Wood 21-10 (Indians) and Bob Veale 20-15 (Pirates) won 20 games.

Frankie Frisch (Cardinals) stole 74 bases.

Rosy Ryan (Giants) saved 40 games.

The Cubs were the only team to score over 700 runs (761)

The Phillies led the league in ERA (3.06) for the second season in a row.