World Champions 26

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Lawrence Duffy

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Bill Perry

Colorado wins the World Series in five games as Duffy and Perry combine for seven home runs and 15 RBIs.

26th Fingers League All-Star Game

National League 10, American League 1

WP: Ernest Richard
LP: Yuu Komatsu
HR: Ray Bunch
Player of the Game: Everth Furcal -- 2 for 3, 3 runs, 2 bb

Game Facts:
- Komatsu and Pete Norris were the stating pitchers.
- Two hits, two errors, two walks and two fielder's choices led to six National League runs in the opening frame.
- J.T. Decker had an impressive first inning. In the inning, he hit two singles, scored the game's first run and drove in a run.
- Four pitchers (2 for each league) pitched two scoreless innings. Richard and Randy Paulson for the NL. Gustavo Samuel and Fernando Saenz for the AL.
- Thurman Fiorentino and Jerry Parker made plus plays in the field.
- There were 15 singles and only two extra-base hits.
- Colorado led the AL with nine All-Stars and four starters. All four starters went 0 for 2.
- The Gringos led the NL with five All-Stars and three starters.

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HR DERBY CHAMP

Hardball Dynasty's

Valerio Nieto

 

28 BOMBS!!!

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IOWA CITY CORN KINGS

This year's All-Star Game was held at Principal Park in Iowa City. The Corn Kings didn't have an All-Star representative but Taylor Glynn was chosen master of ceremony.  His list of accomplishments is a mile long.

Four-time NL MVP; five-time All-Star; five-time Silver Slugger; one-time Gold Glover; one-time NL Batting Champion; one-time Home Run Derby Champion; Season 10 Rookie of the Year Award winner; 568 career home runs; Hit a home run at 40 years old; Approaching 2,500 career hits and 2,000 career starts in RF.

Hardball Dynasty's

Taylor Glynn

HOF Vote - Santos Lopez

Baseball-reference.com has the Gray Ink and Black Ink to determine if a player is HOF worthy. I can't really do it those ways so I do an Awards Ink for the Fingers League. Simply add up all the major ML Awards a player has accumulated over his career. I don't include All-Star MVP, HR Derby Champ, times hit for the cycle, no-hitters thrown, World Series rings.

Santos Lopez's Awards Ink - 17

Awards Ink Avg. for HOF position players - 13.67

Awards Ink Avg. for HOF pitchers - 12

Louie Ma - 3,000 Hits

World Series 25

The 25th installment of the Fingers World Series was one of the best ever. Five of the six games saw the game-winning run score in the ninth inning of later. Ultimately, Nashville took the Series in six games. This is the first World Series win for khendrickson; and third for the Nashville franchise (ewd330 won the first two).

Louie Hayashi led the way to the title. Hayashi batted .500 (11 for 22), scored seven runs, hit two home runs and drove in seven runs. He homered in each of Nashville's wins in Games 1 and 2, and his walk-off single in Game 5 gave Nashville a 3-2 Series lead.

Monterrey's future Hall of Famer Everth Furcal proved to be the best player in a losing effort. He also batted .500 (14 for 28). Furcal scored seven runs, hit two doubles, a triple, three home runs and drove in seven.

This was the third World Series loss for taz and the Gringos. Overall, the Gringos have won six NL pennants and three World Series in the last nine seasons. They'll surely be back next season fighting for another championship.

Fingers World Series Turns 25

- American League teams have won 18 WS and hold an 88-54 WS advantage over the National League.
- The AL won 15 straight WS between Seasons 4 and 18.
- There has been five WS sweeps. Though it hasn't happened since Season 11.
- There's been seven Game 7s. The AL's won four of them.
- froidl was a perfect 8 for 8 in WS.
- taz21 has the second most WS appearances - six - and tied for second most WS titles - three.
- dedelman and themehl have five pennants each. themehl won three WS; dedel is 0 for 5.
- jmayhew, ewd330 and rawdk27 all won two WS.
- dedelman, kern82 and andrewfrance are a combined 0 for 10 in WS.

Fingers XXV

Welcome to the 25th season of Fingers League Hardball Dynasty!

It's hard to believe that we're starting the quarter-century season and we're still waiting for the former MAPS/current Cheetahs franchise to die off. 

The same can be said about Louie Ma. It seems the 38-year-old will not stop until he reaches 3,000 hits. He needs 112 hits to reach the milestone and bunting has Ma under contract through next season.

The top free agents made out very well this offseason. Hopefully my math is right on all these... A.J. Hurst 5yrs/$71 mil; Leon Padgett 5yrs/$95 mil; Banana Nichols 5yrs/$95 mil; Nick Gil 5yrs/$80.5 mil; Ernest Richard 5yrs/$101.5 mil.

Good luck to everyone!

Not including the Gringos :)

WORLD SERIES 24

For the third time in six seasons, taz and the Monterrey Gringos reach the top of the Fingers League mountain!

Congrats taz!