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Jiggs McGee · 03-07-2022, 10:03 AM

JULY 7, 1941

ALL-STAR TEAMS ANNOUNCED

Veteran third baseman John Lawson of the Chicago Cougars and Detroit's Frank Vance will each be making a record 8th all-star appearance tomorrow at Brooklyn's Kings County Ballpark when the legends of the Federal Association square off with their Continental Association counterparts for the ninth consecutive season. Toronto star Fred McCormick is in the army or he likely would have joined Vance and Lawson as the only players to participate in 8 of the 9 contests in a series the Federal stars lead 5-3.

The Chicago Cougars led the way by placing 6 players on the Continental side while three teams had 5 members each being selected to the squad. They are the Fed leading Boston Minutemen, who have four players making their all-star debut, as well as a pair of Continental Association clubs in Cincinnati and the New York Stars. The host Brooklyn Kings have two players on the all-star roster including veteran shortstop Harry Barrell, who along with Philadelphia Keystones outfielder Bobby Barrell, compromise one of the two brother acts in the game. The other will be the young Schneider boys as both Boston's Buddy and the Cougars Skipper are making their all-star debuts. In contrast the two Barrell boys will both be competing in the all-star contest for the 7th time.

The only club that did not have a player selected was the Cleveland Foresters with each of the other 15 teams having at least two representatives although the Washington Eagles will only have pitcher Ike Keller dressed for the game. The Eagles other selection, outfielder Sam Brown, is injured and will not play which is also the case for Detroit's Frank Gordon.

There were several surprise omissions including Washington slugger Sig Stofer (.267,15,54), Sailors third baseman Marion Boismenu (.344,1,24), and Cincinnati pitcher Rufus 'Deuce' Barrell (10-4, 4.18) but the biggest omission has to be the Dynamos duo of Sal Pestilli (.299,16,56) and Red Johnson (.272,14,37). Pestilli in particular is shocking to some, as the 25 year old had never missed an all-star game and presently sits second in the Fed in both homers and rbi's.

Here are the players selected to participate in the 1941 All-Star Game.

ALL-STAR GAME FACTS

The 9th annual FABL all-star game is set for tomorrow at Brooklyn's Kings County Stadium. The stars of the Federal Association lead the series 5 wins to three but the Continental boys have claimed victory 3 of the past five years. Last season Billy Woytek of the Keystones and Detroit's Red Johnson each homered to pace the Feds to a 7-4 victory.

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			PAST ALL STAR GAME RESULTS
YEAR  LOCATION		 RESULT     			WINNING PITCHER   	  MVP
1933  Whitney Park       Federal 8 Continental 5	Ben Curtin STL         Pete Asher Pit
1934  Riverside Stadium  Federal 11 Continental 7	Chick Stout Pit	       Tom Taylor Cougars
1935  Broad Street Park  Federal 5  Continental 2	Art Myers Keystones    Freddie Jones StL
1936  Pioneer Field	 Continental 6 Federal 4	Tom Barrell BKN        Dick Walker Sailors
1937  Dominion Field     Federal 2 Continental 2 (19)	Don Attaway Keystones  Don Attaway Keystones
1938  Bigsby Oval	 Continental 5 Federal 4 (13)   Bob Cummings BKN       Fred McCormick TOR
1939  Forester Stadium   Continental 6 Federal 3        Art White BKN	       Fred McCormick TOR
1940  Thompson Field	 Federal 7 Continental 4  	Red Hampton Chiefs     Billy Woytek Keystones

Three players will be making their record 7th appearance in the All-Star game. Here are the players to have been named to the All-Star teams the most often:

Code:

MOST ALL-STAR SELECTIONS
8  John Lawson Cougars
8  Frank Vance Detroit
7* Fred McCormick Toronto
7  Bobby Barrell Keystones
7  Harry Barrell Brooklyn
6* Tom Bird Chiefs
6* Moxie Pidgeon Stars
6  George Cleaves Pittsburgh
6  Ron Rattigan Chiefs
5* Freddie Jones Cougars
5* Sergio Gonzales Detroit
5  Pablo Reyes Pittsburgh
5  Adam Mullins, Cincinnati
 *not selected this year

COUGARS IN THE CATBIRD SEAT AS MID-SEASON BREAK ARRIVES

If past results are any indication the Chicago Cougars can start printing World Championship Series tickets. As the season pauses for three days in order for the All-Star game to be played tomorrow in Brooklyn, the Cougars find themselves atop the Continental Association standings, owning a 3 game bulge on the second place New York Stars - a team they took two of three from in Chicago early last week. Each of the past three seasons and six of eight the team that has led the Continental Association at the All-Star game has gone on to win the pennant. The 1933 Cougars, Chicago's last pennant winner, were the first of those clubs with the lone exceptions being the 1935 Cleveland Foresters, who trailed Brooklyn by 5 games at the break before coming back to win the pennant and the 1937 Brooklyn Kings, who were in third place, 5 behind the Foresters before returning the favour from two years prior. It should be noted that the 1939 pennant winning New York Stars were in first at the break, but were tied with Cleveland at the time before going on to beat the Foresters by two games.

The Cougars did suffer a bit of a blow last week as outfielder Cliff Moss (.282,8,39) hurt his back and is expected to be sidelined until the end of the month. While the Cougars did take two of three in their showdown with the Stars it was not a great week for Chicago as they finished the week 4-3 after sweeping a doubleheader from Montreal but dropping back to back games on the weekend to Brooklyn including a rare loss in a Pete Papenfus start. Papenfus (12-4, 2.95), the all-star game starter, was not around for the decision in the 8-5 loss in 14 innings to the Kings but it was just the 5th of his 18 starts Chicago did not win and the first in a month and a half. The Cougars lead is now 3 games because the Stars, at least aside from Bill Barrett (.406,23,82) who won his 5th player of the week award this season, struggled to a 3-6 record in a very busy week.

FED NOT SO CUT AND DRY
While the CA leader at the break has had quite a success rate in claiming the pennant the story is quite different in the Federal Association. Last year Pittsburgh did have the lead at the midway point and went on to claim the Federal crown but that was the first time in 6 years the leader at the break claimed the Fed pennant. Included in those 5 years were the 1939 Boston Minutemen, who had a 2 game cushion on second place Pittsburgh as the all-star game arrived but would end up in third place, 10 games back of the Miners when October arrived.

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     	      HOW LEADERS AT ALLSTAR BREAK FARED
    FEDERAL ASSOCIATION                    CONTINENTAL ASSOCIATION
YEAR   TEAM    WIN PENNANT?	  TEAM    WIN PENNANT?
1933  Keystones     YES          Cougars      YES
1934  Gothams       YES		 Cleveland    YES
1935  St Louis   No/ NYG 2 back  Brooklyn     No  Cleveland was 5 back
1936  Pittsburgh No/ CHI 1 back  Brooklyn     YES    
1937  Chiefs     No/ PIT 1 back  Cleveland    NO  BKN was 3rd 5 back
1938  Detroit    No CHI 4.5 back Brooklyn     YES
1939  Boston     No PIT 2 back   Stars        YES were tied with Cle at break 
1940  Pittsburgh    YES          Toronto      YES

DECLARED 1-B AGAIN, BILL JONES WILL REMAIN WITH CHICAGO CHIEFS

A bit of controversy surrounding the draft status of Chicago Chiefs reserve outfielder Bill Jones. Jones is once again back to 1B-deferred status after an examination just prior to him shipping out with the latest group of new soldiers. Originally Jones had been deferred because of a dental deficiency due to having upper and lower partial dental plates after many of his teeth having been knocked out during basketball games. Unhappy about being considered a draft dodger, Jones was vindicated when he produced the letter about his missing occluding molars from the doctor and last month was returned to 1-A status by the draft board. However, in a final examination last week he was reverted back to 1-B and will remain with the Chiefs at least throughout the remainder of the season.

QUICK HITS

Ad Doria, bench boss of the Cincinnati Cannons, says he expects there will be no problems getting an deferment for his fine young infielder Charley McCullough, who just weeks ago seemed to be destined for the army just days after his first All-Star game appearance - slated for tomorrow. Doria says the new modified selective service order will allow Charley to finish out the season in Cannons red and white before dressing in Army green at some point during the winter.
The New York Gothams are trying to find a veteran outfielder to add to their offense while the St Louis Pioneers say Gail Gifford (.281,3,27), their 29 year old 8 year FABL veteran is on the block. Perhaps they should talk.
While the Stars slowed down last week, the same cannot be said for Bill Barrett. The 21 year old had 12 hits in 29 at bats including 3 more homers, drove in 8 runs and scored 9. He has won player of the week 5 times in the CA this season and the 21 year old (.406,23,82) has a huge lead on everyone in both associations in all three triple crown categories.
A good percentage of the 1941 draft picks are signing contracts and reporting to teams. Both the Cannons and Chiefs lacked first round picks but each are quite happy how OSA ranks their picks. The Cannons 2nd rounder Win Hamby and 4th rounder Dutch Peters both crack the top 100, with their other two fourth rounders showing well as Joe Beckstrom settles in at 119th on the OSA list while Maurice Carter is 144th. Given that the Chiefs didn't have a 1st, 2nd, or 4th round pick in this draft, they are quite pleased that their 5th round pick--Billy Brown--is debuting at #92.
Keystones 1939 third round pick Amby O'Brien tossed a no-hitter for Class B Bakersfield this week, beating Everett 6-0 to run his record to 10-3 with a 1.98 era. The 20 year old Pennsylvania native is proof some regional round picks can certainly show promise.

AROUND THE LEAGUE

Jiggs McGee takes a look around FABL with a quick comment or two on each of the 16 clubs. This time a list of players selected to the all-star team from each club:

BOSTON- 5: P Ed Wood (2), P Ray Dalpman (1), 2B Buddy Schneider (1), INF Jim Spencer (1), OF Bill Burkett (1)
BROOKLYN- 2: SS Harry Barrell (7), P Del Lyons (3)
CHIEFS-3: 1B Ron Rattigan (6), P Al Miller (4), OF Bill May (3)
COUGARS-6: 3B John Lawson (7), 1B Ray Ford (2), OF Leo Mitchell (2), P Pete Papenfus (1), P Harry Parker (1), SS Skipper Schneider (1)
CINCINNATI- 5: C Adam Mullins (5), OF Fred Galloway (3), P Roger Perry (2), P Butch Smith (2), 2B Charley McCullough (1)
CLEVELAND- 0: no selections
DETROIT- 4: 3B Frank Vance (8), P Frank Gordon (1), P Willie Montgomery (1), OF Sid Williams (1)
MONTREAL- 2: SS Jake Hughes (1), OF Bert Lass (1)
NY STARS- 5: 1B Dave Trowbridge (3), OF Bill Barrett (3), P Chuck Cole (2), P Robert Curry (2), P Vern Hubbard (1)
NY GOTHAMS-4: OF Leon Drake (3), 3B Billy Dalton (2), P Sammy Alger (1), SS Mule Monier (1)
KEYSTONES-2: OF Bobby Barrell (7), P Jim Whitely (1)
SAILORS- 2: C Woody Stone (3), OF Joe Watson (2)
PITTSBURGH- 4: C George Cleaves (6), OF Pablo Reyes (5), 1B Mahlon Strong (4),P Charlie Stedman (3)
ST LOUIS- 2: C Heinie Zimmer (2), P Danny Hern (1)
TORONTO- 2: OF Larry Vestal (3), P Lou Jayson (2)
WASHINGTON- 2: P Ike Keller (2), OF Sam Brown (2)

The Week That Was
Current events from the week ending 7/06/1941

6 men and a woman confessed in a New York courtroom to stealing secrets relating to the national defense of the United Stats for the benefit of a foreign power. The FBI trapped them in a sting operation.
Nazi forces claimed key victories in Russia as they move to within 350 miles of Moscow. German forces have also taken the capital of Latvia.
Stalin admits to the Russian people that the Germans have made huge gains, but warns them they were fighting for their liberty and their lives, calling on them to fight to the finish.
Japan has declared itself neutral in the Russo-German war, and believed to be concentrating instead on it's Far Eastern expansion policy and attempting to keep the United States out of the war by diverting it's attention from Europe.

03-07-2022, 10:03 AM	#372
Jiggs McGee All Star Reserve Join Date: Dec 2019 Posts: 677	July 7, 1941 All-Star break JULY 7, 1941 ALL-STAR TEAMS ANNOUNCED Veteran third baseman John Lawson of the Chicago Cougars and Detroit's Frank Vance will each be making a record 8th all-star appearance tomorrow at Brooklyn's Kings County Ballpark when the legends of the Federal Association square off with their Continental Association counterparts for the ninth consecutive season. Toronto star Fred McCormick is in the army or he likely would have joined Vance and Lawson as the only players to participate in 8 of the 9 contests in a series the Federal stars lead 5-3. The Chicago Cougars led the way by placing 6 players on the Continental side while three teams had 5 members each being selected to the squad. They are the Fed leading Boston Minutemen, who have four players making their all-star debut, as well as a pair of Continental Association clubs in Cincinnati and the New York Stars. The host Brooklyn Kings have two players on the all-star roster including veteran shortstop Harry Barrell, who along with Philadelphia Keystones outfielder Bobby Barrell, compromise one of the two brother acts in the game. The other will be the young Schneider boys as both Boston's Buddy and the Cougars Skipper are making their all-star debuts. In contrast the two Barrell boys will both be competing in the all-star contest for the 7th time. The only club that did not have a player selected was the Cleveland Foresters with each of the other 15 teams having at least two representatives although the Washington Eagles will only have pitcher Ike Keller dressed for the game. The Eagles other selection, outfielder Sam Brown, is injured and will not play which is also the case for Detroit's Frank Gordon. There were several surprise omissions including Washington slugger Sig Stofer (.267,15,54), Sailors third baseman Marion Boismenu (.344,1,24), and Cincinnati pitcher Rufus 'Deuce' Barrell (10-4, 4.18) but the biggest omission has to be the Dynamos duo of Sal Pestilli (.299,16,56) and Red Johnson (.272,14,37). Pestilli in particular is shocking to some, as the 25 year old had never missed an all-star game and presently sits second in the Fed in both homers and rbi's. Here are the players selected to participate in the 1941 All-Star Game. ALL-STAR GAME FACTS The 9th annual FABL all-star game is set for tomorrow at Brooklyn's Kings County Stadium. The stars of the Federal Association lead the series 5 wins to three but the Continental boys have claimed victory 3 of the past five years. Last season Billy Woytek of the Keystones and Detroit's Red Johnson each homered to pace the Feds to a 7-4 victory. Code: PAST ALL STAR GAME RESULTS YEAR LOCATION RESULT WINNING PITCHER MVP 1933 Whitney Park Federal 8 Continental 5 Ben Curtin STL Pete Asher Pit 1934 Riverside Stadium Federal 11 Continental 7 Chick Stout Pit Tom Taylor Cougars 1935 Broad Street Park Federal 5 Continental 2 Art Myers Keystones Freddie Jones StL 1936 Pioneer Field Continental 6 Federal 4 Tom Barrell BKN Dick Walker Sailors 1937 Dominion Field Federal 2 Continental 2 (19) Don Attaway Keystones Don Attaway Keystones 1938 Bigsby Oval Continental 5 Federal 4 (13) Bob Cummings BKN Fred McCormick TOR 1939 Forester Stadium Continental 6 Federal 3 Art White BKN Fred McCormick TOR 1940 Thompson Field Federal 7 Continental 4 Red Hampton Chiefs Billy Woytek Keystones Three players will be making their record 7th appearance in the All-Star game. Here are the players to have been named to the All-Star teams the most often: Code: MOST ALL-STAR SELECTIONS 8 John Lawson Cougars 8 Frank Vance Detroit 7* Fred McCormick Toronto 7 Bobby Barrell Keystones 7 Harry Barrell Brooklyn 6* Tom Bird Chiefs 6* Moxie Pidgeon Stars 6 George Cleaves Pittsburgh 6 Ron Rattigan Chiefs 5* Freddie Jones Cougars 5* Sergio Gonzales Detroit 5 Pablo Reyes Pittsburgh 5 Adam Mullins, Cincinnati not selected this year COUGARS IN THE CATBIRD SEAT AS MID-SEASON BREAK ARRIVES* If past results are any indication the Chicago Cougars can start printing World Championship Series tickets. As the season pauses for three days in order for the All-Star game to be played tomorrow in Brooklyn, the Cougars find themselves atop the Continental Association standings, owning a 3 game bulge on the second place New York Stars - a team they took two of three from in Chicago early last week. Each of the past three seasons and six of eight the team that has led the Continental Association at the All-Star game has gone on to win the pennant. The 1933 Cougars, Chicago's last pennant winner, were the first of those clubs with the lone exceptions being the 1935 Cleveland Foresters, who trailed Brooklyn by 5 games at the break before coming back to win the pennant and the 1937 Brooklyn Kings, who were in third place, 5 behind the Foresters before returning the favour from two years prior. It should be noted that the 1939 pennant winning New York Stars were in first at the break, but were tied with Cleveland at the time before going on to beat the Foresters by two games. The Cougars did suffer a bit of a blow last week as outfielder Cliff Moss (.282,8,39) hurt his back and is expected to be sidelined until the end of the month. While the Cougars did take two of three in their showdown with the Stars it was not a great week for Chicago as they finished the week 4-3 after sweeping a doubleheader from Montreal but dropping back to back games on the weekend to Brooklyn including a rare loss in a Pete Papenfus start. Papenfus (12-4, 2.95), the all-star game starter, was not around for the decision in the 8-5 loss in 14 innings to the Kings but it was just the 5th of his 18 starts Chicago did not win and the first in a month and a half. The Cougars lead is now 3 games because the Stars, at least aside from Bill Barrett (.406,23,82) who won his 5th player of the week award this season, struggled to a 3-6 record in a very busy week. FED NOT SO CUT AND DRY While the CA leader at the break has had quite a success rate in claiming the pennant the story is quite different in the Federal Association. Last year Pittsburgh did have the lead at the midway point and went on to claim the Federal crown but that was the first time in 6 years the leader at the break claimed the Fed pennant. Included in those 5 years were the 1939 Boston Minutemen, who had a 2 game cushion on second place Pittsburgh as the all-star game arrived but would end up in third place, 10 games back of the Miners when October arrived. Code: HOW LEADERS AT ALLSTAR BREAK FARED FEDERAL ASSOCIATION CONTINENTAL ASSOCIATION YEAR TEAM WIN PENNANT? TEAM WIN PENNANT? 1933 Keystones YES Cougars YES 1934 Gothams YES Cleveland YES 1935 St Louis No/ NYG 2 back Brooklyn No Cleveland was 5 back 1936 Pittsburgh No/ CHI 1 back Brooklyn YES 1937 Chiefs No/ PIT 1 back Cleveland NO BKN was 3rd 5 back 1938 Detroit No CHI 4.5 back Brooklyn YES 1939 Boston No PIT 2 back Stars YES were tied with Cle at break 1940 Pittsburgh YES Toronto YES DECLARED 1-B AGAIN, BILL JONES WILL REMAIN WITH CHICAGO CHIEFS A bit of controversy surrounding the draft status of Chicago Chiefs reserve outfielder Bill Jones. Jones is once again back to 1B-deferred status after an examination just prior to him shipping out with the latest group of new soldiers. Originally Jones had been deferred because of a dental deficiency due to having upper and lower partial dental plates after many of his teeth having been knocked out during basketball games. Unhappy about being considered a draft dodger, Jones was vindicated when he produced the letter about his missing occluding molars from the doctor and last month was returned to 1-A status by the draft board. However, in a final examination last week he was reverted back to 1-B and will remain with the Chiefs at least throughout the remainder of the season. QUICK HITS Ad Doria, bench boss of the Cincinnati Cannons, says he expects there will be no problems getting an deferment for his fine young infielder Charley McCullough, who just weeks ago seemed to be destined for the army just days after his first All-Star game appearance - slated for tomorrow. Doria says the new modified selective service order will allow Charley to finish out the season in Cannons red and white before dressing in Army green at some point during the winter. The New York Gothams are trying to find a veteran outfielder to add to their offense while the St Louis Pioneers say Gail Gifford (.281,3,27), their 29 year old 8 year FABL veteran is on the block. Perhaps they should talk. While the Stars slowed down last week, the same cannot be said for Bill Barrett. The 21 year old had 12 hits in 29 at bats including 3 more homers, drove in 8 runs and scored 9. He has won player of the week 5 times in the CA this season and the 21 year old (.406,23,82) has a huge lead on everyone in both associations in all three triple crown categories. A good percentage of the 1941 draft picks are signing contracts and reporting to teams. Both the Cannons and Chiefs lacked first round picks but each are quite happy how OSA ranks their picks. The Cannons 2nd rounder Win Hamby and 4th rounder Dutch Peters both crack the top 100, with their other two fourth rounders showing well as Joe Beckstrom settles in at 119th on the OSA list while Maurice Carter is 144th. Given that the Chiefs didn't have a 1st, 2nd, or 4th round pick in this draft, they are quite pleased that their 5th round pick--Billy Brown--is debuting at #92. Keystones 1939 third round pick Amby O'Brien tossed a no-hitter for Class B Bakersfield this week, beating Everett 6-0 to run his record to 10-3 with a 1.98 era. The 20 year old Pennsylvania native is proof some regional round picks can certainly show promise. AROUND THE LEAGUE Jiggs McGee takes a look around FABL with a quick comment or two on each of the 16 clubs. This time a list of players selected to the all-star team from each club: BOSTON- 5: P Ed Wood (2), P Ray Dalpman (1), 2B Buddy Schneider (1), INF Jim Spencer (1), OF Bill Burkett (1) BROOKLYN- 2: SS Harry Barrell (7), P Del Lyons (3) CHIEFS-3: 1B Ron Rattigan (6), P Al Miller (4), OF Bill May (3) COUGARS-6: 3B John Lawson (7), 1B Ray Ford (2), OF Leo Mitchell (2), P Pete Papenfus (1), P Harry Parker (1), SS Skipper Schneider (1) CINCINNATI- 5: C Adam Mullins (5), OF Fred Galloway (3), P Roger Perry (2), P Butch Smith (2), 2B Charley McCullough (1) CLEVELAND- 0: no selections DETROIT- 4: 3B Frank Vance (8), P Frank Gordon (1), P Willie Montgomery (1), OF Sid Williams (1) MONTREAL- 2: SS Jake Hughes (1), OF Bert Lass (1) NY STARS- 5: 1B Dave Trowbridge (3), OF Bill Barrett (3), P Chuck Cole (2), P Robert Curry (2), P Vern Hubbard (1) NY GOTHAMS-4: OF Leon Drake (3), 3B Billy Dalton (2), P Sammy Alger (1), SS Mule Monier (1) KEYSTONES-2: OF Bobby Barrell (7), P Jim Whitely (1) SAILORS- 2: C Woody Stone (3), OF Joe Watson (2) PITTSBURGH- 4: C George Cleaves (6), OF Pablo Reyes (5), 1B Mahlon Strong (4),P Charlie Stedman (3) ST LOUIS- 2: C Heinie Zimmer (2), P Danny Hern (1) TORONTO- 2: OF Larry Vestal (3), P Lou Jayson (2) WASHINGTON- 2: P Ike Keller (2), OF Sam Brown (2) The Week That Was Current events from the week ending 7/06/1941 6 men and a woman confessed in a New York courtroom to stealing secrets relating to the national defense of the United Stats for the benefit of a foreign power. The FBI trapped them in a sting operation. Nazi forces claimed key victories in Russia as they move to within 350 miles of Moscow. German forces have also taken the capital of Latvia. Stalin admits to the Russian people that the Germans have made huge gains, but warns them they were fighting for their liberty and their lives, calling on them to fight to the finish. Japan has declared itself neutral in the Russo-German war, and believed to be concentrating instead on it's Far Eastern expansion policy and attempting to keep the United States out of the war by diverting it's attention from Europe. __________________ Lead Columnist of The Figment Sporting Journal The Scripture of Sports Last edited by Jiggs McGee; 03-07-2022 at 04:27 PM.