PEARSON SHUTS OUT REDS WITH 2 HITS AS YANKS WIN, 4-0 (10/6/39)

Microfiche-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz | 10/6/39 | John Drebinger, John Kieran

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Ping.

[KarlInOhio]

Still rooting for the Reds to pull this out when it gets back to Crosley Field. But then I'm rooting for the Poles on your other threads.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Still rooting for the Reds to pull this out when it gets back to Crosley Field. But then I'm rooting for the Poles on your other threads.

You never know. A good weekend in the friendly confines of Crosley and the Reds will be right back in it. And surely the French will break through the Westwall any day now. Maybe then they can roll straight to Berlin and the Wehrmacht will have to abandon Poland to protect the homeland.

[henkster]

This is kind of an “off” world series. What I mean is, where are the stars? I recognize DiMaggio for the Yankees, but I don’t see any other Hall of Fame names on either roster. And the Yankees won the AL going away. There were still plenty of other stars out there in the late 30’s, but maybe other than Williams and DiMaggio, a lot of them were past their prime.

Seems like a dry period before the war, and the new crop of great players won’t come around until the decade after the war; players like Robinson, Aaron, Mays, Mantle, Musial, Williams in his prime, etc...

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I recognize DiMaggio for the Yankees, but I don’t see any other Hall of Fame names on either roster.

The Yankees five future Hall of Famers on the roster, in addition to manager Joe McCarthy (would have been a half dozen if Gehrig hadn't been forced out by ALS):

DiMaggio
Lefty Gomez
Joe Gordon
Red Ruffing

For the Reds there was Ernie Lombardi, manager Bill McKechnie, and Al Simmons, who I am not familiar with and does not appear in the composite box score above.

Source: http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CIN/hof.shtml

[henkster]

Simmons is playing out the string; his best days are long behind him. He’s just there as a PH if needed. Kind of like Jimmie Foxx at this point.

Lombardi I just don’t know that much about, even though I’ve been to the Reds HOF at Great American Ballpark (and I’ve been to Cooperstown, too).

The others are mostly pitchers, that were admittedly pretty good.

Even so, my original post still stands. I just don’t recognize the players. But it could be that I wouldn’t anyway because I never saw them play and my dad didn’t talk about them. I went through the same thing with my son when we went to Cooperstown last March. I could say a few things about the players until we got to the late 1950’s or early 1960’s. Then he couldn’t get me to shut up from that point on.