From the Department of Off The Grid:
I have been running the Central League in the background in addition to the Baseball League, both to provide a history for teams and their players when they get voted into the League, and to have someplace to which relegate a team when they get voted out of the League.
Darwen and Woolwich Arsenal were two such teams.
Darwen got booted after the 1898 season; you may remember
Arsenal recently getting popped after their godawful showing in 1903.
Darwen has been limping along through the dregs of the Central, where they will probably play out the string and eventually wind up. Arsenal, on the other hand, is playing like a team with a mission to get voted back in, and soon.
So it's the irresistible force facing the highly movable object on the 19th of July in front of an initially disinterested crowd of 1,303 at Manor Ground in London for a 2:00pm start. The game starts predictably enough: the Gunners running away in a laugher, up 15-3 through six and a half.
And then, the fire hose opened. I mean, really opened wide. After it was all over, the Gunners had plated TWENTY FIVE runs in the bottom of that seventh inning, aided by nineteen hits (including two home runs) and EIGHT Salmoner errors, to take a 40-3 lead going into the top of the eighth.
Of course, this is baseball with its lack of clock, so you never know whether the other team is going to make a comeback and take the lead from you. So, just to be certain the stake went all the way through the heart, Arsenal scored two more in the eighth, to arrive at the final score of 42-3.
Really, you can't make this stuff up. (Although, apparently, OOTP can.)
Here's the box score for the game and, as a special bonus, the game log of the 25-run seventh inning. Enjoy!