Baseball Classic Replays

  Highlights of today's action: - Dodgers starter Kirby Higbe took a no-hitter into the 9 th inning in Brooklyn and was able to get the first batter in the inning.  He then gave up a bloop single, however, to break up the no-hit bid.  Regardless,  he won a 5-0 shutout of the Giants, striking out four and giving up no walks. Kirby Higbe (Dodgers) -  Game in Cincinnati between the Reds and the Cardinals is easily the game of the young season.   Both starters went nine innings – Reds’ starter Johnny Vander Meer walking four and striking out nine, while allowing one earned run; Cardinals’ starter Mort Cooper walked three, struck out six, and ultimately allowed two earned runs.   The Cardinals lead 1-0 in the bottom of the 9 th , with two outs and running on first, when pinch hitter Hank Sauer roped a double to tie the game.   The Cardinals came back and scored a run in the top of the 10 th , but the Reds came back again in the bottom of the inning fo...

  Some great games today, with two games in the National League going into extra innings.  The highlight of the day was certainly Paul Waner's two-out, game-winning, two-run single in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the Dodgers a win over the New York Giants.  Paul Waner (Dodgers)

 Yes, I keep starting projects then jumping ships to new ones - what can I say, I have ADD in staying focused on one project.  At the moment, I've been lured back to PC Replay Baseball, which to me is a near perfect implementation of the fantastic cards & dice game Replay Baseball.  My initial plan was to use a thread on the Delphi Forums that I created to post daily and weekly (in replay terms) updates, as I thought that might be quicker and easier than maintaining the blog.  The Delphi Forums, however, are not the most user friendly, so I am going to continue posting their while also linking to the full posts on this blog, which will allow followers to more easily read the screenshots and updates.  So, with that, please follow along as we relive perhaps the most iconic of baseball seasons!