(This game was played as part of The Splendid Splinter co-op project to replay Ted Williams' .406 season of 1941.)
Joe Dobson recovered from a rough first frame to go the distance and Ted’s solo shot in the 5th inning proved to be the difference between the Sox and Athletics at Fenway.
(This game was played as part of The Splendid Splinter co-op project to replay Ted Williams' .406 season of 1941.)
Bob Feller struck out ten Red Sox, but couldn’t get the big out when he needed it as Boston scored a run in the bottom of the 8th inning to nip the Indians by a score of 5-4. Cleveland greeted Boston starter Charlie Wagner rudely, leadoff batter Lou Boudreau doubling and Ken Keltner pinging one off the left-field wall one out later to score the game’s first run with only one out on the books. But the Sox answered with power in the 2nd, Jimmie Foxx and Jim Tabor drilling back-to-back blasts off Feller to put Boston into the lead.
(This game was played as part of The Splendid Splinter co-op project to replay Ted Williams' .406 season of 1941.)
Boston rallied from an early four-run deficit to take the lead in the 7th inning and hold on for a narrow 6-5 victory at Fenway Park. Detroit drew first blood in the 2nd when Lou Finney allowed Birdie Tebbetts’ single to get under his glove and roll all the way to the RF wall for an error, allowing Frank Croucher to score (although Tebbetts was thrown out at home attempting to take the same liberty himself). Back-to-back triples led to two more Tiger runs in the 3rd and, after Lefty Grove had hit a solo homer in the bottom half to get one run back, Detroit ripped three consecutive doubles in the 4th for two runs that gave them a 5-1 lead. (Of the ten hits allowed by Grove on the afternoon, six went for extra bases.)
(This game was played as part of The Splendid Splinter co-op project to replay Ted Williams' .406 season of 1941.)
Ted had another fine day - two singles, a stolen base, a run scored and a key defensive play - but it was Jimmie Foxx’s three-run homer in the 7th inning that lifted the Red Sox to victory in Chicago, despite some late heartburn. Boston took the lead in the 2nd when Foxx started the inning with a triple; he scored on Bobby Doerr’s double, and Jim Tabor’s single produced a second run. The home team threatened for the first time in the 5th, loading the bases with one out with the help of Tabor’s miscue, but Luke Appling hit a fly ball to medium left field which Williams caught and then threw home to erase Mike Tresh attempting to tag from third for an inning-ending double play.
19 February 1982: Lucien DeBlois scored four goals and Ed Staniowski turned aside 34 shots as Winnipeg thumped Quebec in Alberta. The Jets scored three unanswered goals in the first period, despite being outshot 14-11, with DeBlois tallying his first three minutes from the end of the period to give the home team a 3-0 lead. The 24-year-old winger picked up right where he left off after the break, scoring twice in the first ten minutes of the second to complete his hat trick, become the fifth 20-goal Jet of the season, make the score 5-0, and chase Dan Bouchard from the Nordique net.
20 February 1982: In a game in which the referees decided to pocket their whistles, the Bruins rode a four-goal opening period to a straightforward win over the Red Wings at Joe Louis Arena. The two teams got off to a cracking start, with three goals being scored in the first 4:20, but Detroit’s early 2-1 lead was a distant memory by the end of the period. Boston scored three times (Bourque, K. Crowder, Pederson) in the final eight minutes to take a 4-2 lead into the first intermission, and expanded that with the only goal (Kasper) of a relatively sedate second stanza.
(This game was played as part of The Splendid Splinter co-op project to replay Ted Williams' .406 season of 1941.)
Three more semi-random matchups simulated with Bank Shot Basketball . . .
(This game was played as part of The Splendid Splinter co-op project to replay Ted Williams' .406 season of 1941.)
For some time now, I've been in the market for a full-play college basketball game. I had been a long-time customer of the now-departed Classic College and Pro Basketball, for which I own hundreds of teams purchased over the past 15-20 years, and its demise left a hole in my stable. Specifically, I wanted a full-play game that not only consistently produced current seasons but also had a large library of historical teams; I have a strong tendency towards historical gaming in the first place, and I expect this to only accentuate in the case of NCAAB as NIL and conference realignment move the sport towards one-year playing contracts and the diminution of long-standing rivalries.
