Comments on: Seamheads Historical League Preview – Part 4 of 7 – American Midwest Division http://seamheads.com/2009/01/22/seamheads-historical-league-preview-part-4-of-7-american-midwest-division/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:10:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike Lynch http://seamheads.com/2009/01/22/seamheads-historical-league-preview-part-4-of-7-american-midwest-division/comment-page-1/#comment-4836 Mike Lynch Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:57:52 +0000 http://seamheads.com/blog/2009/01/22/seamheads-historical-league-preview-part-4-of-7-american-midwest-division/#comment-4836 Bob, The Orioles are run by Roy Firestone, who is a huge Orioles fan. When we established the ground rules we made it clear that players from the entire history of each team's franchise were eligible to be selected. But we also made it clear that the GMs' decisions would be honored, and if they wanted to build rosters of guys whose names started with the letter Q, they could (thankfully no one took us up on that one). I was disappointed as well that Firestone didn't dip into the Browns' history to pull out some players. Sisler, Williams, Shocker, Baby Doll Jacobson, Clift, Vern Stephens, Harry Howell, Rube Waddell, and Jack Powell all would have been good choices. But Firestone decided to go with nothing but Orioles.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('4836','Mike Lynch'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('4836','Mike Lynch','Bob,\r\n\r\nThe Orioles are run by Roy Firestone, who is a huge Orioles fan. When we established the ground rules we made it clear that players from the entire history of each team\'s franchise were eligible to be selected. But we also made it clear that the GMs\' decisions would be honored, and if they wanted to build rosters of guys whose names started with the letter Q, they could (thankfully no one took us up on that one). \r\n\r\nI was disappointed as well that Firestone didn\'t dip into the Browns\' history to pull out some players. Sisler, Williams, Shocker, Baby Doll Jacobson, Clift, Vern Stephens, Harry Howell, Rube Waddell, and Jack Powell all would have been good choices.\r\n\r\nBut Firestone decided to go with nothing but Orioles.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Bob,

The Orioles are run by Roy Firestone, who is a huge Orioles fan. When we established the ground rules we made it clear that players from the entire history of each team’s franchise were eligible to be selected. But we also made it clear that the GMs’ decisions would be honored, and if they wanted to build rosters of guys whose names started with the letter Q, they could (thankfully no one took us up on that one).

I was disappointed as well that Firestone didn’t dip into the Browns’ history to pull out some players. Sisler, Williams, Shocker, Baby Doll Jacobson, Clift, Vern Stephens, Harry Howell, Rube Waddell, and Jack Powell all would have been good choices.

But Firestone decided to go with nothing but Orioles.

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]]> By: Bob R. http://seamheads.com/2009/01/22/seamheads-historical-league-preview-part-4-of-7-american-midwest-division/comment-page-1/#comment-4834 Bob R. Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:49:08 +0000 http://seamheads.com/blog/2009/01/22/seamheads-historical-league-preview-part-4-of-7-american-midwest-division/#comment-4834 Before reading the questions, I was stunned that no St. Louis Browns made the Orioles roster. Not Sisler or Clift or Ken Williams? Even Wally Schang, who had 1 excellent year and 2 pretty decent ones there seems a reasonable choice. And no pitchers either. Why is that? I was also surprised that Mickey Lolich could not find a spot on Detroit's roster.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('4834','Bob R.'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('4834','Bob R.','Before reading the questions, I was stunned that no St. Louis Browns made the Orioles roster. Not Sisler or Clift or Ken Williams? Even Wally Schang, who had 1 excellent year and 2 pretty decent ones there seems a reasonable choice. And no pitchers either. Why is that?\r\n\r\nI was also surprised that Mickey Lolich could not find a spot on Detroit\'s roster.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Before reading the questions, I was stunned that no St. Louis Browns made the Orioles roster. Not Sisler or Clift or Ken Williams? Even Wally Schang, who had 1 excellent year and 2 pretty decent ones there seems a reasonable choice. And no pitchers either. Why is that?

I was also surprised that Mickey Lolich could not find a spot on Detroit’s roster.

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