Arastorm
Cutthroats Farewell to the League
June 13, 2009 at 02:14PM View BBCode
As the league comes to a close of its third year cycle, from my perspective, it has been a fun ride. We've had 12 consistent owners (a good ratio compared to other trial leagues I hear) that fought each year to compete.
As the Cincinnati Cutthroats, we came in 5th place in 1950, 6th place in '51, and somehow attained 2nd place and a run at the playoffs in '52.
The Cutthroats fielded some decent players, including:
[url=http://www.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?player=nobody&mode=stats&id=5818730]Otis Watson, 2B, 3 season All-Star Starter[/url], whose advanced age had not yet caught up with him
[url=http://www.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?player=nobody&mode=stats&id=5818777]Aaron Cox, SP, 3 seaon All-Star[/url], maintaining a vitally low era throughout among a team whose era seemed extremely high
[url=http://www.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?player=nobody&mode=stats&id=5818421]Jack Spade, C, 3 season All-Star, 2 season All-Star Starter[/url], arguably the league's top catcher
[url=http://www.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?player=nobody&mode=stats&id=5818685]Johnnie Thunder, CF, 2 season All-Star, 1 season All-Star Starter[/url], whose advancing age clearly had an impact upon as the years progressed
[url=http://www.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?player=nobody&mode=stats&id=5818417]Quicki Barbieri, RP, 2 season Fireman of the Year winner[/url], who learned that the team has to win games in order to earn saves
As a rundown of the 1952 final season playoffs, the second place Cutthroats outbattled the division winning Milwaukee Brenton3313 team in a 4-3 series victory.
With regards to the American League, the New York Bundies entered their second straight World Series by fending off the division rival Detroit Red Sox of Boston, 4 games to 1.
The 1952 World Series began at the Bundies homefield. The Cutthroats were fortunate to take both of the first two games, their first ever World Series appearances. However, returning to the Cutthroat stadium did not advance the goals of the Cincinnati team. It collapsed, dropping each of the next four games in the series. For the second straight season, the mighty NY Bundies won the World Series!
For all the rest of the cast and crew of the Cincinnati Cutthroats, including those players who were able to switch positions to fill really huge holes in the defense, along with all the really struggling players who kept trying and finally succeeded in sending the teams to the playoffs.
[Edited on 6-14-2009 by Arastorm]