It's probably not a good sign for your career when an independent league team trades you for a player to be named later.
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Minor Details: Games of September 5
Fort Myers takes a 2-0 lead in the championship series! Cedar Rapids advances to the division finals! Two more big games tonight!
Happy Birthday–September 6
Oyster Burns (1864)
Red Faber (1888)
Tommy Thevenow (1903)
Johnny Lanning (1910)
Harry Danning (1911)
Vince DiMaggio (1912)
Hal Jeffcoat (1924)
Fran Healy (1946)
Greg Olson (1960)
Roy Smith (1961)
Pat Meares (1968)
Derrek Lee (1975)
Micheal Nakamura (1976)
We would also like to wish a happy anniversary to Mom and Dad MagUidhir.
Players of the Year
In looking at these, remember that they are done on a team-by-team basis. In other words, we're giving an award for being the best player on each team for the 2014 season. Thus, someone who spent half the season for one team and half the season for another, while he may have done very well for both, might not be the player of the year for either one.
Players of the Month: August
Well, August and the first day of September.
Minor Details: Games of September 4
Adam Brett Walker II and Matt Tomshaw lead Fort Myers to a first-game victory. Logan Wade and Mat Batts lead Cedar Rapids to even their first-round series. A couple of big games tonight.
Game Recap #140: Not Quite 4, Just Enough 5
Pinch-runners.
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Happy Birthday–September 5
Al Orth (1872)
Nap Lajoie (1874)
Lefty Leifield (1883)
Max Bishop (1899)
Merv Shea (1900)
Gene Bearden (1920)
Bill Mazeroski (1936)
Karl Kuehl (1937)
Tom Hallion (1956)
Candy Maldonado (1960)
Jeff Brantley (1963)
Jimmy Haynes (1972)
Randy Choate (1975)
Rod Barajas (1975)
Jason Hart (1977)
Karl Kuehl was a coach for the Twins from 1977-1982. He was a minor league manager for several seasons and also managed the Montreal Expos in 1976. His minor league managing career started in 1959, when he managed the Salem Senators in the Northwest League at age 21.
Tom Hallion has been a major league umpire from 1986-1999 and 2005-present.
Players of the Week
I know these are late, but having done them all year, I wanted to do the last one, too. We'll have players of the month for August at some point as well.
Minor Details: Games of September 3
D. J. Baxendale pitched seven strong innings and Fort Myers got a touchdown in the third to move to the championship round. Cedar Rapids was blanked and needs to win tonight to stay alive.