VOLUME:XLVII ... January 1, 2021
LATEST NEWS
HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone. I hope this year will be a lot more enjoyable and it's a really low bar to get there. Along those lines I'm hoping MLB can give us 162 games.
The official APBA data is here and I've provided everyone with that information. That'll be useful as we head toward the cut down date ahead on the 27th & draft on the 30th. We'll be using room RCMBA2021 for the draft. As for what you are doing in the draft or trading it's important to know that since we play by the same rules as MLB, new rules for our 2021 season:
- When a reliever enters a game he must face 3 batters unless the innings ends before that total is reached
- This year the 13 pitcher maximum on the active roster is waived. You can have whatever you wish
- The active rosters expand to 28 players.
- All extra innings will begin with a runner on 2nd base. The guy who made the last out is that runner & if he scores, it's unearned
- I'll get go into more details as our season approaches
Not at all the opinion of others but this is how I will remember this disgusting, horrific dumpster fire 2020 year:
- Wearing a mask
- Inside a store noticing a yahoo walking by me without a mask spewing his germs into my air
- Worrying about how close the person is standing behind me
- Wondering why people are hoarding toilet paper
- Daily death tolls
- The loss of Joe Skovran and his brother Jeff
- Only getting 60 games of MLB baseball and nothing played at NBT Stadium in Syracuse.
- Seven Hall of Fame members dying
- My Blues losing a World Series game when ahead 11-2 entering the 8th inning.
- Not being at the dinner table with my daughter and grandson on Thanksgiving or Christmas
- People.. Dr Anthony Fauci
- Pictures.. lines of cars waiting for food, California wildfires, empty stadiums, the videoed murder of George Floyd
- Words.. Covid 19, pandemic, social distancing, Zoom, protest, truth decay & denial, narcissism, autocracy
An amusing look and read if you have Microsoft Word: How Dave Barry remembers 2020
"F*** off 2020"
... IMPORTANT DATES ...
- January 27 (Wed): Cut down date and end of Draft Pick deals
- Jan 30, 2021 (Sat): Free Agent Draft on ROLZ-room: RCMBA2021
THE SHOW
Time to remember those who won't be with us in 2021:
- Dick Allen 12/7/20 (78yrs) - 1963:1977.. 292/378/534.. 351 HR/1119rbi/1848h/133sb.. x7 AS
- Johnny Antonelli 2/28/20 (89yrs) - 1948:1961.. 126-110 WL/3.34 ERA.. 1992ip/1870h/1162k/21sv.. x5 AS
- Glenn Beckert 4/12/20 (79yrs) - 1965:1975.. 283/318/345.. 22 HR/360rbi/1473h/49sb.. x4 AS
- Frank Bolling 7/11/20 (88yrs) - 1954:1966.. 254/313/366.. 106 HR/556rbi/1415h/40sb.. x4 AS
- ** Lou Brock (HOF) 9/6/20 (81yrs) - 1961:1979.. 297/347/414.. 149 HR/900rbi/3023h/938sb.. x6 AS
- Foster Castleman 11/9/20 (89yrs) - 1954:1958.. 205/250/341.. 20 HR/65rbi/136h/4sb
- Horace Clarke 8/5/20 (81yrs) - 1965:1974.. 256/308/313.. 27 HR/304rbi/1230h/151sb
- Angel Echevarria 2/7/20 (48yrs) - 1996:2002.. 280/343/455.. 21 HR/90rbi/152h/1sb
- Ed Farmer 4/1/20 (70yrs) - 1971:1983.. 30-43 WL/4.30 ERA.. 624ip/611h/395k/75sv.. x1 AS
- Tony Fernandez 2/15/20 (57yrs) - 1983:2001.. 288/347/399.. 94 HR/844rbi/2276h/246sb.. x4 AS
- ** Whitey Ford (HOF) 10/8/20 (91yrs) - 1950:1967.. 236-106 WL/2.75 ERA.. 3170ip/2766h/1956k/11sv.. x10 AS
- Domaso Garcia 4/15/20 (63yrs) - 1978:1989.. 283/309/371.. 36 HR/323rbi/1108h/203sb.. x2 AS
- ** Bob Gibson (HOF) 10/2/20 (84yrs) - 1959:1975.. 251-174 WL/2.91 ERA.. 3884ip/3279h/3117k/6sv.. x8 AS
- ** Al Kaline (HOF) 4/6/20 (85yrs) - 1953:1974.. 297/376/480.. 399 HR/1582rbi/3007h/137sb.. x17 AS
- Jay Johnstone 9/26/20 (74yrs) - 1966:1985.. 267/329/394.. 102 HR/531rbi/1254h/50sb
- Eddie Kasko 6/24/20 (88yrs) - 1957:1966.. 264/317/331.. 22 HR/261rb/935h/31sb.. x1 AS
- Matt Keough 5/1/20 (64yrs) - 1977:1986.. 58-84 WL/4.17 ERA.. 1190ip/1190h/590k.. x1 AS
- Don Larsen 1/1/20 (90yrs) - 1953:1967.. 81-91 WL/3.78 ERA.. 1548ip/1442h/849k
- Phil Linz 12/9/20 (81yrs) - 1962:1968.. 235/295/311.. 11 HR/96rbi/322h/13sb
- Bobby Locke 6/4/20 (86yrs) - 1959:1968.. 16-15 WL/4.02 ERA.. 416ip/432h/194k/10sv
- Mike McCormick 6/13/20 (81yrs) - 1956:1971.. 134-128 WL/3.73 ERA.. 2380ip/2281h/1321k/12sv.. x4 AS
- Lindy McDaniel 11/14/20 (84yrs) - 1955:1975.. 141-119 WL/3.45 ERA.. 2139ip/2099h/1361k/174sv.. x2 AS
- Denis Menke 112/1/20 (80yrs) - 1962:1974.. 250/343/370.. 101 HR/606rbi/1270h/34sb.. x2 AS
- ** Joe Morgan 10/11/20 (77yrs) - 1963:1984.. 271/392/427.. 268 HR/1133rbi/2517h/689sb.. x9 AS
- ** Phil Niekro 12/26/20 (81yrs) - 1964:1987.. 318-274 WL/3.35 ERA.. 5404ip/5044/3342k/29sv.. x5 AS
- Bob Oliver 4/19/20 (77yrs) - 1965:1975.. 256/295/400.. 94 HR/419rbi/745h/17sb
- Ron Perranoski 10/2/20 (84yrs) - 1961:1973.. 79-74 WL/2.79 ERA.. 1174ip/1097h/687k/178sv
- ** Tom Seaver (HOF) 8/31/20 (75yrs) - 1967:1986.. 311-205 WL/2.86 ERA.. 4783ip/3971h/3640k/1sv.. x13 AS
- Ed Sprague 1/10/20 (76yrs) - 1968:1976.. 17-23 WL/3.84 ERA.. 408ip/406h/188k/9sv
- Tony Taylor 7/16/20 (84yrs) - 1958:1976.. 261/321/352.. 75 HR/598rbi/2007h/234sb.. x2 AS
- Claudell Washington 6/10/20 (65yrs) - 1974:1990.. 278/325/420.. 164 HR/824rbi/1884h/321sb.. x2 AS
- Bob Watson 5/14/20 (74yrs) - 1966:1984.. 295/364/447.. 184 HR/989rbi/1826h/27sb.. x2 AS
- Jimmy Wynn 3/26/20 (78yrs) - 1963:1977.. 250/366/436.. 291 HR/964rbi/1665h/225sb.. x3 AS
Other sports
- Herb Adderley 10/30/20 (81yrs) NFL 1961-1972: Green Bay Packers cornerback.. x5 AS
- Kobe Bryant 1/26/20 (41yrs) NBA 1996-2016: "Black Mamba" - Los Angeles Lakers.. 33,643 pts.. x18 AS
- Tom Dempsey 4/4/20 (73yrs) NFL 1969-1979: Philadelphia Eagles.. held longest FG 63yd 1970-2017
- Tommy Heinsohn 11/9/20 (86yrs) NBA 1956-1978: Boston Celtics player & head coach.. x6 AS
- Paul Hornung 11/13/20 (84yrs) NFL 1957-1967: "Golden Boy" Green Bay Packers halfback.. x2 AS
- Rafer Johnson 12/2/20 (86yrs) OLYMPICS 1956-1960: two consecutive decathlon gold medals for USA
- Bobby Mitchell 4/5/20 (84yrs) NFL 1958-1968: Cleveland Browns & Washington Redskins.. x4 AS
- Sir Stirling Moss 4/12/20 (90yrs) FORMULA 1 1951-1961: 16 wins/66 starts
- "Curly" Neal 3/26/20 (77yrs) FUN: 1963-1985: Harlem Globetrotters legend
- Gale Sayers 9/23/20 (77yrs) NFL 1965-1971: Chicago Bears.. x4 AS
- Don Shula 5/4/20 (90yrs) NFL 1963-1995: Head coach Baltimore Colts/Miami Dolphins.. x2 Super Bowl wins
- David Sterns 1/1/20 (77yrs) NBA 1984-2014: Commissioner
- John Thompson 9/1/20 (78yrs) NCAA 1972-1999: Head coach Georgetown.. 596 wins.. x1 NCAA champion
- Willie Wood 2/3/20 (83yrs) NFL 1960-1971: Green Bay Packers.. All-time great safety.. x8 AS
In the non-sports world
- Chadwick Boseman 8/28/20 (43yrs) actor: starred in "Black Panther" movie 2016
- Edd Byrnes 1/8/20 (87yrs) actor/singer: "Kookie, Kookie", starred in "77 Sunset Strip" TV show 1960-61
- Sean Connery 10/31/20 (90yrs) actor: "Bond. James Bond"
- Robert Conrad 2/8/20 (84yrs) actor: starred in "Wild, Wild West" TV show 1965-69
- Charlie Daniels 7/6/20 (83yrs) singer: "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" 1979
- Kirk Douglas 2/5/20 (103yrs) actor: "Spartacus" 1960, "Seven Days in May" 1964
- Hugh Downs 7/1/20 (99yrs) TV host: "Today" 1962-71, "Concentration" 1958-69
- George Floyd 5/25/20 (46yrs) truck driver: killed by Police Officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, MN
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg 9/18/20 (87yrs): Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court
- Roger Kahn 2/6/20 (92yrs) writer: "The Boys of Summer" 1972
- John Lewis 7/17/20 (80yrs): U.S. Congressman 1987-2020 & civil rights activist
- Regis Philbin 7/24/20 (88yrs) TV host: world record holder with 16,746 hrs on TV
- Charlie Pride 12/12/20 (86yrs) singer: "Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'" 1971, 1953-60 played minor lg baseball
- Little Richard/Richard Wayne Penniman 5/9/20 (87yrs) singer: The Architect of Rock & Roll - "Tutti Frutti" 1955
- Alex Trebek 11/8/20 (88yrs) TV host: "Jeopardy" 1984-today
- Chuck Yeager 12/7/20 (97yrs) fighter pilot & "Ace": first to break sound barrier in Bell X-1 1947
Rest in peace