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Close. The #GratefulDead (perpetual Commissioner's Choice) while your COMMISSIONER eats chocolate. Excellent guess, by the way.

Today's #1947League game brought to you by #JerryGarcia and company.

https://youtu.be/oEYmWP68Amw

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That walkoff win gives the Phillies a 1-1/2 game lead in the National Division, and the Beautiful Shufflers are happy about that. #1947League #LynyrdSkynyrd #NowPlaying

https://youtu.be/vNZnTvmV6Hk

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PHILS WALK OFF CARDS ON WILD PITCH

In a see-saw affair, Gentry Jessup earned his first loss of the year by unleashing a wild pitch that scored Ron Northey from third. WP: Blair (10-1).

STLC (32-35) 002000010 360
PHI (47-23) 000000202 473

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It just dawned on me that I am about to announce a game result and I didn't ask a #1947League trivia question yesterday.

DOH!

Sorry, guys!

You know what that means....

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This is #1947League, a dice/cards replay of '47 #baseball season with 13% #Black players from the era, not 0.01%

#MLB #BLM #Baseball #nowplaying

#GuesstheSong based on lyric below. Click link to check your guess. Anyone can play.

https://youtu.be/Z0GFRcFm-aY

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Today's #1947League game also brought to you by the #StrayCats and the Beautiful Shufflers, who celebrate, in high style, the fact that I am back on the horse ...

https://youtu.be/zQwMoMSMKDI

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Today's #1947League game brought to you by @tabletopmania and the #Turtles, who scored big with what may be the most upbeat song of the Sixties...

https://youtu.be/uzAWDG3ZieM

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#1947League

YANKEES TOP BROWNS, TAKE HALF-GAME LEAD IN AMERICAN

Spud Chandler allowed the Browns 4 hits. Bill Ricks held the Yanks to 3-- but all the Bronx Bombers' hits knocked in runs. St. Louis falls to second place.

STLB (39-30) 240
NYY (40-29) 331

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Meanwhile, at the #NegroLeagues Baseball Museum in #kansascity ...

#baseball #BuckONeil #1947League

Negro Leagues Baseball Museum plans to expand on Buck O’Neil’s vision

https://theathletic.com/4483079/2023/05/03/negro-leagues-baseball-museum-new-facility/
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While we're waiting for #1947League to re-engage... we can take in Keith Moon's final TV interview, made even more lively by Good Morning America's chyron operator confusing him with Pete.

https://youtu.be/9QIpoJKgYk0

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Getting ready for a visitor from the States. #1947League will reconvene when the dust settles. Stay tuned.

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This guy, nicknamed Dr. Cyclops, went the distance for Newark to secure the Game 2 win that evened the 1946 World Series.

Name him.

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Today's #1947League brought to you by @RuthODay and The Self-Proclaimed Only Band That Matters. Always wondered how Talking Heads and the Attractions felt about that.

Great band. I had never seen this video.

https://youtu.be/EfK-WX2pa8c

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BRAVES TOP BUMS

Henry Miller had bouts of wildness, yielded solo homers to Furillo and Reese, but got the outs he needed for his fourth win. Monte Irvin scored twice for Boston.
Dodgers a game and a half behind Philly.

BKN 3 6 0
BOSB 6 11 0

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This is #1947League, a dice/cards replay of '47 #baseball season with 13% #Black players from the era, not 0.01%

#MLB #BLM #Baseball #nowplaying

#GuesstheSong based on lyric below. Click link to check your guess. Anyone can play.

https://youtu.be/1xqMY8UAGgg

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And here's the box score of the 1946 World Series, Game 1, via retrosheet.com

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Here, via baseball-reference.com, is the rundown on Game 1 of the 1946 World Series, which we talked about the other day.

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Off day for #1947League. Catch you tomorrow!

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This is #1947League, a dice/cards replay of '47 #baseball season with 13% #Black players from the era, not 0.01%

#MLB #BLM #Baseball #nowplaying

#GuesstheSong based on lyric below. Click link to check your guess. Anyone can play.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=WHSdRF0GxYs&feature=share

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#1947League question:

What unlikely, light-hitting Kansas City Monarch scored what proved to be the winning run in Game 1 of the 1946 World Series?

#baseball