Foxx and Lombardi Win Batting Crowns; Final Standings (10/3/38)

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

SPORTS

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Some end of the year stuff, including Bob Fellers 18 K’s in the final game. It looks like the regular season was 152 games back then, though the Bosox only got in 149 with rain-outs never made up. The World Series schedule may be of interest to you Cubs fans. And the Rams won a game.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

[If] not a scramble, [to make a deal with Hitler-Homer] there was a stir in Moscow. Though the Soviet Union was militarily allied to both Czechoslovakia and France, the French government had gone along with Germany and Britain, without protest, in excluding Russia from Munich. It was a snub which Stalin did not forget and which was to cost the two Western democracies dearly in the months to come. On October 3, four days after Munich, the counselor of the German Embassy in Moscow, Werner von Tippelskirch, reported to Berlin on the "consequences" of Munich for Soviet policy. He thought Stalin "would draw conclusions"; he was certain the Soviet Union would "reconsider her foreign policy," become less friendly to her ally France and "more positive" toward Germany. As a matter of fact, the German diplomat thought that "the present circumstances offer favorable opportunities for a new and wider German economic agreement with the Soviet Union." This is the first mention in the secret German archives of a change in the wind that now began to stir, however faintly, over Berlin and Moscow and which, within a year, would have momentous consequences.

William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 427

[MAD-AS-HELL]

Pujols should have won the batting title this year but they are allowing chipper Jones, who played in FAR fewer games and less at bats, to take the title. Pujols is just amazing. His ability to hit for average and power while keeping strike outs to a minimum. He truly is the best all around hitter in the game today and he did it while being injured the entire season.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/stats/bycategory?cat=Batting&conference=NL&sort=22

[Beernoser]

If anyone’s interested in baseball history, check out www.whatifsports.com.

[Dr. Thorne]

I am a life-long Yankee fan, but Jimmie Foxx was one hell of a hitter.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

An autographed photo of Ruth, Gehrig and Foxx. That’s got to be a good investment.

[CougarGA7]

WHOOOHOOOO!!!! The Rams won!!! Take that Detroit!

[Zuben Elgenubi]

“The Beast” wins the AL batting crown, his second.

[BroJoeK]

"Though the Soviet Union was militarily allied to both Czechoslovakia and France, the French government had gone along with Germany and Britain, without protest, in excluding Russia from Munich. It was a snub which Stalin did not forget and which was to cost the two Western democracies dearly in the months to come."

Winston Churchill, "The Gathering Storm":

"Even more disastrous was the alteration in the relative strength of the French and German Armies. With every month that passed, from 1938 onward, the German Army not only increased in numbers and formations and in the accumulation of reserves, but in quality and maturity. The advance in training and general proficiency kept pace with the ever-augmenting equipment.

"No similar improvement or expansion was open to the French Army. It was being overtaken along every path.

• In 1935 France, unaided by her previous allies, could have invaded and reoccupied Germany almost without serious fighting.
  
• In 1936 there could still be no doubt of her overwhelmingly superior strength.
  
• We now know from the German revelations, that this continued in 1938, and it was the knowledge of their weakness which led the German High Command to do their utmost to restrain Hitler from every one of the successful strokes by which his fame was enhanced.

"In the year after Munich, which we are now examining, the German Army, though still weaker in trained reserves than the French, approached its full efficiency. As it was based upon a population double as large as that of France, it was only a question of time when it would become by every test the stronger.

"In morale also the Germans had the advantage. The desertion of an ally, especially from fear of war, saps the spirit of any army. The sense of being forced to yield depresses both officers and men.

"While on the German side confidence, success, and the sense of growing power inflamed the martial instincts of the race, the admission of weakness discouraged the French soldiers of every rank."

[nw_arizona_granny]

Thanks...........good thread.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Look how far Philadelphia has come in just 70 years. Pick either league. In 1938 Philly sucked.