Roger's 1957 APBA Replay

1957 Detroit Tigers Week nine is in the books and what a week it was. The White Sox actually lost three games - so maybe they are human after all. There were a lot of trades this past week as well, including the famous Billy Martin going to Kansas City from New York trade following a "nightclub incident" that involved Martin, Mickey Mantle, and the late Whitey Ford. Ted Williams had a three homerun game and a two homerun game in the same week, and three players hit grand slams. Besides Ford, this week also saw the passing of another 1957 alumni - Hal Raether.   All of this, but the really big news of the week was 1957 no-hitter #3 as Art Ditmar no-hit the mighty White Sox. Ditmar allowed three walks and helped the Yankees win the final two of their four-game series in Chicago.   Chicago (NL) finally reached the 50 games-played mark and Washington became the first team to reach the 60 games-played mark. In the peculiar occurrence section, Ted Williams had a four-pitch four-bal...

Monday, June 10, 1957   Transaction List:   Baltimore infielder Wayne Causey made his final season appearance on 06/09/1957. Baltimore outfielder Tito Francona was injured (?) on 06/09/1957 and did not return to play until 07/01/1957. Baltimore outfielder Joe Durham made his season debut on 06/11/1957   Washington outfielder Whitey Herzog made his final season appearance on 06/09/1957   New York (NL) pitcher Steve Ridzik made his final season appearance on 06/09/1957   Detroit infielder Ron Samford was injured (?) on 06/09/1957 and did not return to play until 06/23/1957   Chicago (NL) catcher Jim Fanning returned to play on 06/11/1957 following his injury (?) of 05/26/1957   New York (AL) 5 Detroit (H) 0   The Yankees scored single runs in the first and third innings and Bob Turley (3-1, 1.64) made that lead stand up until New York could score three times in the ninth for a little breathing room.   ...