Experiment for Whole Nine Yards productions

WHAT DID I DO TO BASIC 1908 ?

What improvements and enhancements did I do to the basic 1908. [see credits in earlier post]

1) Put in an as played schedule.
2) Created many missing players.
3) Added the ratings for players who were not rated at the positions they played.
4) Added a comprehensive real life transaction log.
5) Added real life lineups. [ estmated finish end May 2006]
6) Altered pitch rate to 140/50
7) Adjusted manager tendencies, and player tendencies, to produce a more deadball era friendly environment.
8) Play tested at each stage.

1908 MOTORING

JOHNNY KLING GREAT CUBS CATCHER

DRAFT OF CREDITS

1908 THE DEADBALL ERA RECREATED WITH A DMB SEASON

Sources:

Diamond Mind Baseball Game creator Tom Tippett

Original season created by Chris Joyce
Hosted by Jamie Marshall on www.sportplanet.com/sbb/apfas.dbs.htm

As played schedule from Luke Kraemer of Diamond Mind Baseball

Lineups and opening day rosters from Sporting Life [1908] Microfiche courtesy of SABR lending library, librarian Eileen Caprenari

and provided in pdf format by Mark Miller [of Baseball Goodies web site]

Further advice, inspiration, encouragement and information from Ken Schmidt, Kevin Gertsen, Robert Bofors, Luke Kraemer, Mark Miller and Elan Gelbart.

Books:

The Unforgettable Season by G.H. Fleming
More than Merkle by David Anderson
Deadball Stars of the National League, a publication of SABR
Touching Second by Evers and Fullerton
Johnny Kling by Gil Bogen

Inspiration:

Deadball Committee of SABR

TELEPHONE 1908 STYLE

THREE FINGER BROWN

Mordecai Peter Centennial Brown, keystone of the Chicago Cubs pitching staff.

LUXURY AT SEA

Cunard's Mauretania, sister ship of the Lusitania launched in 1907 made the Atlantic crossing in May 1908.

TECHNICAL STUFF AGAIN

I am collecting pages from Proquest of the 1908 newspapers in order to check my lineups. I have done several autoplays and the database runs smoothly with real life transactions on. There will be some fine tuning necessary before the line insertion begins.

The statistics look quite good but home runs are up a bit, and league ERA's are also up, but I still think the replays will give a good idea of Deadball Era baseball.

For important figures I would want a 70% statistical agreement, we will do some more autoplays to check on this.

ED WALSH CHICAGO WHITE SOX

THE SPRINGFIELD RACE RIOT 1908

There was a harsh side to the USA in 1908, and for African Americans it could be a dangerous place.


The Springfield Race Riot of 1908 was sparked by Mabel Hallam's false accusation and fueled by economic and racial tensions already brewing in the black and white communities.

This riot also marked the last conflict between the races when the black people did not rise up as a group to defend themselves. As a possible result of the riots in the Great Emancipator's home town, an integrated group of concerned citizens gathered in the Big Apple, New York City. This group was seeking a solution to the growing problems between the blacks and the whites in America.

How could a city that prided itself on the home of the man who set the slaves free also try to run blacks out of their town?

If this could happen in Springfield, Illinois it could happen anywhere in the United States. Something had to be done. This idea gave rise to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Today as the most influential civil rights organization, it continues to strive for the civil liberties of African Americans.

MODEL T FORD 1909

NAPOLEON LAJOIE CLEVELAND NAPS

THE MEN WHO SHRUNK THE WORLD

WILBUR WRIGHT

ORVILLE WRIGHT

1908 IN THE AIR

Orville Wright demonstrates flight to the army at Fort Myers in 1908.

BIG IN PITTSBURGH

HARD MEN IN SUITS DETROIT TIGERS 1908

BIG IN NEW YORK

Matty and the Flatiron, the superstars of 1908 New York.

TROLLEYS AND MORE......

THE WAY TO TRAVEL

In the late 1800’s electric motor technology was perfected. The street railway industry immediately seized upon this new source of power, as a way to solve the many problems associated with operating horse cars.
The first successful electric street railway installation in the United States, was in Richmond, Virginia in 1887. It wasn't long, after the initial success in Richmond, that almost all of the horse car lines in North America were converted to electric power. The electric trolleys became so popular with the riding public, that the street railway industry, experienced explosive growth in ridership, almost overnight.

THE WORLD OF ELECTRIC TROLLEYS

In the first decade of the century the trolley was king.

BACKGROUND

With my database away at the DMB repair factory I will continue to post background and information about the era.