Season 3 of my nineteenth-century Strat-O-Matic baseball league is going along very well, and an interesting race is starting to shape up.
Back in Season 1, the Blue Legs' starting catcher, Mike "King" Kelly, won the MVP award after crushing four home runs (for context, that was more than the Haymakers hit as a team, and the same number that the Canaries hit). All the more remarkable was the fact that he did it in only 16 games. (Starting with Season 2, I expanded to 20 games per season.) After Season 1, however, Kelly's performance fell off sharply. Since that magical run, he's hit only one more bomb. Still, he's the all-time leader through 2.5 seasons of play with five career homers.
Slowly, other players have been catching up. Honus Wagner, George Davis, and Buck Ewing -- all currently teammates on the Canaries -- are all now up to four homers apiece. Will Kelly regain his power to put some distance between himself and these potential usurpers, or will another player claim his throne as the home run king?
Back in Season 1, the Blue Legs' starting catcher, Mike "King" Kelly, won the MVP award after crushing four home runs (for context, that was more than the Haymakers hit as a team, and the same number that the Canaries hit). All the more remarkable was the fact that he did it in only 16 games. (Starting with Season 2, I expanded to 20 games per season.) After Season 1, however, Kelly's performance fell off sharply. Since that magical run, he's hit only one more bomb. Still, he's the all-time leader through 2.5 seasons of play with five career homers.
Slowly, other players have been catching up. Honus Wagner, George Davis, and Buck Ewing -- all currently teammates on the Canaries -- are all now up to four homers apiece. Will Kelly regain his power to put some distance between himself and these potential usurpers, or will another player claim his throne as the home run king?
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