Luis Martinez
Posted on Saturday, April 26, 2008 @ 8:13 am
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According to Howe SportsData's 2000 season summary, Martinez was a 183 pound, 6'1" righty. According to Baseball Reference's player page for Martinez (and a couple other handy sources), he was (is) a 200 pound, 6'6" southpaw. Except for those little issues, we're clearly talking about the same guy.
MOV League, August, 1949
Posted on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 @ 12:00 am
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What really caught my eye, here was the Belleville ballpark information. Cathedral High is long-gone, now, but a little investigation shows that it was located roughly where St. Elizabeth's Hospital is--Fifth and Lincoln. And this certainly looks like the remnant of a minor league ballpark.
Waterloo May Become Baseball’s First Wild-Card Playoff Qualifier
Posted on Friday, February 15, 2008 @ 6:45 pm
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Organized Baseball's first wild-card playoffs could become a reality early in September, provided one of the Midwest League's two First-half divisional champions--Appleton or Quad Cities--finishes on top again in the final second-half standings.
Midwest League Rosters
Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 @ 7:53 pm
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For the past few months, I've been compiling (or creating, in some cases) electronic rosters for every Midwest League team, organization, and season. I've been collecting the basic resources for several years; the recent effort's been more about getting things into a useful shape than actually acquiring the data. The compilation effort has been--and continues to be--an odd combination of automation and manual handling; it turns out that much of the work is tweaking the data.
MWL 1982 Expansion: Attendance
Posted on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 @ 1:56 pm
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The Midwest League's 1982 format may be serving as a sort of pilot program the major leagues could consider in future years, should the big leagues opt for three divisions. The Midwest is the only Class A league not playing a split season, its three four-team divisions each crowning a champion at the end of the 144-game schedule, then adding a wild-card club--the team with the best record that did not win a divisional title--for a four-game championship playoff.
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