Category: 1950s Baseball History

1951 Tournament: Pirates at Indians

Editor’s note: Tournament games are played with Strat-o-Matic cards and dice. Three-man pitching rotations will be used for starting pitchers. Injuries are in-game only during this single elimination event. Al Rosen drove in three runs and the Cleveland Indians survived a late rally by the Pittsburgh Pirates to post a 5-3 win as the opening […]

1951 Tournament: A’s at Cardinals

Editor’s note: Tournament games are played with Strat-o-Matic cards and dice. Three-man pitching rotations will be used for starting pitchers. Injuries are in-game only during this single elimination event. Red Schoendienst knocked in both runs to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a 2-0 victory over the Philadelphia A’s in the opening round of the […]

1951 Tournament: Phillies at White Sox

Editor’s note: Tournament games are played with Strat-o-Matic cards and dice. Three-man pitching rotations will be used for starting pitchers. Injuries are in-game only during this single elimination event. A big fifth inning proved to be the difference as the Philadelphia Philles downed the Chicago White Sox 10-3 in the opening round of the 1951 […]

1951 Tournament: Reds at Red Sox

Editor’s note: Tournament games are played with Strat-o-Matic cards and dice. Three-man pitching rotations will be used for starting pitchers. Injuries are in-game only during this single elimination event. The ninth inning may have been a little tough for Ewell Blackwell, but the right-hander maintained his composure as the Cincinnati Reds held on for a […]

1951 Tournament: Tigers at Braves

Editor’s note: Tournament games are played with Strat-o-Matic cards and dice. Three-man pitching rotations will be used for starting pitchers. Injuries are in-game only during this single elimination event. Warren Spahn was just good enough to survive. Spahn’s complete game effort allowed the Boston Braves to post a 5-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers in […]

1951 Tournament: Cubs at Yankees

Editor’s note: Tournament games are played with Strat-o-Matic cards and dice. Three-man pitching rotations will be used for starting pitchers. Injuries are in-game only during this single elimination event. Chicago Cubs pitcher Bob Rush had quite a day as he faced the top-seed in the 1951 Tournament. Rush limited the New York Yankees to five […]

1951 Tournament Preview

Editor’s note: Tournament games are played with Strat-o-Matic cards and dice. Three-man pitching rotations will be used for starting pitchers. Injuries are in-game only during this single elimination event. The 1951 season featured one of the most iconic moments in baseball history. New York legend Bobby Thomson hit a walk-off homer that decided the National […]

Reds Decade Tournament: 1911 at 1955

Editor’s note: The Reds Decade Tournament games are being played with Strat-o-Matic cards and dice. Injuries will only be used during the game when they occur. For this tournament, the rules include a three-man pitching rotation that starts over with each best-of-three game series. If a real life starter is not in the rotation, he […]