Roger's 1957 APBA Replay

Week 18 is in the books and we have reached the three-quarters point of the season with only six weeks remaining. This is the point in the season where teams begin wrapping up their home and away series versus their opponents, and soon they will be wrapping up their entire season of games versus those same opponents. The Giants are the only team that has reached the 120 games played mark, but all of the teams will be passed this mark by the end of Week 19. The Milwaukee Braves started off the week with a 1.0 game lead over the St. Louis Cardinals and by the end of the week that lead had grown to 4.0 games. After Week 12 the Cardinals were hitting .293 as a team, but now they are adown to .277, trailing Milwaukee at .278. The big three in the Milwaukee offense ( Hank Aaron , Eddie Mathews , and Wes Covington ) provide the pop and Bob "Hurricane" Hazel (.395) has been a nice addition to the outfield. Warren Spahn , Bob Buhl , and Lew Burdette are dominating from the mound a...

Monday, August 12, 1957 Transaction List:   Chicago (AL) pitcher Dixie Howell was injured (?) on 08/11/1957 and did not return to the mound until   Cleveland pitcher Bob Lemon made his final season appearance on 08/11/1957. Cleveland shortstop George Strickland was injured (?) on 08/11/1957 and did not return to play until 08/23/1957   Note: No games today. It's not a travel day, so I am not sure why. I did some research into events that occurred on this day, but nothing of relevance was found. So, it's just an off day. There are a lot of teams that can use it. All teams are back to play on Tuesday,   Tuesday, August 13, 1957   Transaction List:   Cleveland infielder Kenny Kuhn returned to play on 08/14/1957 following his injury (?) of 07/26/1957   New York (AL) 2 Boston (H) 1   Yogi Berra and Tony Kubek both had two-out run-scoring singles in the top of the first, Ted Williams answered with a run-scoring single of his own in the bottom hal...