1956 Regular Season Results

Standings - latorrer0.tripod.com/sombb/1950kp/1956/standings.html

Highlights:
Charleston suffers their worst week of the season and the Denver Bears capitalize to move into 2nd place and close the gap by 4 games over the last 10 games.
New Orleans Bob Nieman continues his hot hitting, batting .429 with 12 BBs over his last 10 games.
Toledo has turned things around after some key managerial changes, they are now 11-1 in their last 12, the Hens still have a way to go, but they have righted the ship.


Daily Recaps and League File - latorrer0.tripod.com/sombb/1950kp/1956/leaguefiles/Week_16.zip

Standings - latorrer0.tripod.com/sombb/1950kp/1956/standings.html

Highlights:
Toledo's Mike Garcia records the 5th 1 hitter of the season on July 30 against Montreal, a lot of close misses this year in tries for no hitters.
Two terrific hitting performances this week, Louisville's Charlie Maxwell went 6-6 on August 7th in s one sided win against Beaumont, with a HR, double, 3 RBI and 3 RS. Maxwell's performance was outdone on August 1 by Toledo's Willie Jones, who went 7-7 with 2 doubles, a triple, 2 RBI and 2 RS in a 7-6 15 inning victory over Montreal.
Amarillo and Hollywood both went 5-2 this week making a late push to bridge the gap from also ran to the last playoff spot, currently held by Denver.

Daily Recaps and League File - latorrer0.tripod.com/sombb/1950kp/1956/leaguefiles/Week_18.zip

Standings - latorrer0.tripod.com/sombb/1950kp/1956/standings.html

Highlights:
Denver's Herb Score recorded his 15th 10+ K outing of the season. Score is now 17-12 for the Bears, and is on pace for 320 Ks.
New Orleans Walt Moryn and Larry Doby have helped the Pelicans keep pace with the Senators, combining for 32 H and 25 RBI over their last 79 ABs.
The race for the last few playoff spots are tightening up, Louisville is fading losing their last 5 and 9 out of the last 10, and the Indians are surging, going 8-2, closing the gap between 4th and 5th to 3 games.
The Senator's Lew Burdette and the Indian's Bob Rush have eclipsed the 20 W mark, 5 other pitchers have a great shot of also reaching the milestone.

Daily Recaps and League File - latorrer0.tripod.com/sombb/1950kp/1956/leaguefiles/Week_20.zip

Standings - latorrer0.tripod.com/sombb/1950kp/1956/standings.html

Highlights:
Vern Law pitches Louisville's 2nd 1 hitter of the year, a 10-0 victory over Montreal. It was Law' 10th appearance of the season, so he was well rested and ready to hurl a gem. Montreal has now been 1 hit 3 times this year.
The Lookout's Mickey Mantle is on fire, now leading in HR after hitting 8 HRs in his last 9 games. Mantle also had 16 RBI and batted .389 over that span.
The Senators are running away from the field, now with a 13 game lead. The Charleston pitching staff has been nothing less than dominant, with a team ERA of 3.32. The worst numbers on the staff belong to their 21 save closer Marv Grissom with a 3.62 ERA.

Daily Recaps and League File - latorrer0.tripod.com/sombb/1950kp/1956/leaguefiles/Week_22.zip

Standings - latorrer0.tripod.com/sombb/1950kp/1956/standings.html

Highlights:
Congratulations to the playoff teams (in seeded order):

(1) Charleston
(2) Denver (8-6 vs NOP)
(3) New Orleans
(4) Louisville

New Orleans was 9-5 in September, but even playing that well wasn't enough to hold off Denver for 2nd place with the Bears going 11-3. Top seed Charleston suffered their only losing month of the season and fell 1 game short of the 100 win mark. The Senators 99 wins is a tournament record. Louisville played just well enough to hold off the Gold Sox, but have the tough task of facing Charleston to open the playoffs.

Denver has made the playoffs for the 3nd consecutive year, and are looking to repeat as champions in back to back years. Louisville has now made the playoffs a tournament leading 4 times and they are playing for their 2nd championship as well.

In individual season performances, we have different players at the top of each of the major categories which will make for some interesting MVP voting. Toledo's Vic Power is the batting champion at .342 and a solid .013 point lead over Chattanooga's Mickey Mantle. Mantle chased down Indianapolis' Joe Adcock for the HR lead, ending up with 56 and 1 HR to spare. Adcock's early lead in the RBI race held up finishing up with 138 to Mantle's 126. Indianapolis' Willie Mays swiped 77 bases, but even more remarkably was that he was only thrown out 6 times.

On the mound, Indianapolis' Bob Rush and New Orlean's Johnny Antonelli tied with 23 Wins, topping a group of 8 20 game winners. Louisville's Tom Acker edged out Antonelli for the ERA title with a 2.55 ERA. Denver's Herb Score put up epic strikeout numbers with 344 and New Orleans' Ray Narleski won the Rolaids award with 24 saves.

Daily Recaps and League File - latorrer0.tripod.com/sombb/1950kp/1956/leaguefiles/Week_24.zip