Monday, December 02, 2024

A Watsonian Post with Doylist Footnotes

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  As we hurtle toward the end of February 1924 and toward the start of spring training, it's time for a quick look ahead at the season t...
Sunday, September 29, 2024

Your Alt-1923 World Series Champions

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  Really, I should stop making predictions because they're always wrong.  It took the full seven games, but the New York Giants emerged ...
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Alt-1923 World Series Preview

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  OK, I hit a lot of points in that last, long post. Let me see if I can keep this relatively concise... On paper, the Yankees should wipe o...

Alt-1923: Season Recap!

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  It's my intention to write a World Series preview in the next day or two, but I do feel like it's worth writing something separate...
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Alt-1923: Home Stretch

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 After a month or so of real-life travels and adventures, I write this on the evening of 31 August 1923, game time. Long story short, most o...
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Alt-1923: All-Star Break

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  We sit at the All-Star Break, with ninety games played and seventy-two more to go. In the American League, the Yankees are playing at a 12...
Friday, May 24, 2024

Alt-1923 Preview

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  There are just a few days left in Spring Training as I start this post (and they may be over by the time I finish it), and the Yankees are...
Sunday, February 04, 2024

The Alt-1922 World Series Champions

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Are your New York Yankees! The Yankees defeated the Brooklyn Robins with relative ease, taking the series 4 games to 1. The only blot on the...
Thursday, January 25, 2024

Alt-1922 World Series Preview

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The Brooklyn (proto-)Dodgers vs. the New York Yankees are in the World Series, just like nature intended. Of course, Yankee Stadium isn'...
Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Faber Leads Yankees to Playoff Victory: An article from the Alt-New York Examiner

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  New York, 2 October 1922: Six months after the 1922 baseball season began, the Yankees finally passed the Red Sox in the standings for goo...
Monday, January 22, 2024

Alt-1922: Like 1978 or like 1904?

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  In the end I suppose it was going to always be this--the Yankees and Red Sox are tied after Game 162, and need to play Game 163.  The will...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

The Final Throes of the Alt-1922 Regular Season

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  It's the morning of 27 September 1922, and the pennant races are as good as I've had since starting this simulation back in 1915. ...
Friday, December 29, 2023

Alt-1922: Home Stretch!

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  For starters, The AL won the All-Star Game 4-1 on the strength of a Babe Ruth home run.  When last we left things, the Yankees were 7 1/2 ...
Saturday, December 09, 2023

All-Star Break, Alt-1922

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It's July 9th, 1922. The All-Star teams have just been announced, with the game scheduled for the 11th at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh. Th...
Thursday, November 23, 2023

Alt-1922 at the start of June

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  It's the start of play on 1 June 1922. The Yankees have played 54 games, placing them at the one-third mark of the season, and they fi...
Thursday, November 02, 2023

Alt-1922 Preview

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The 1922 season opener is nigh, and the Yankees were far below .500 during Spring Training. They pulled off one big trade, sending Hank Robi...
Monday, September 11, 2023

Your Alt-1921 Champions: The Boston Rustlers

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 I thought it would take a miracle, but in the end it just took some of the Yankees' worst traits showing up at some of the worst times....
Saturday, August 26, 2023

Alt-1921 World Series Preview

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  It will be your defending champion New York Yankees facing the team of the teens, the Boston Rustlers, in the Alt-1921 World Series. For a...