I have reached the middle of August in a replay of the 1919 American League season using Season Ticket Baseball. The main storylines of the season thus far have been ones of dominance –
- the White Sox shot out to a big early lead in the pennant race, and have maintained that into the last six weeks of the season as the rest of the AL – with the exception of the Browns, who have ridden a fearsome heart of the lineup to a clear second place – fight each other to get their noses over the .500 mark;
- Babe Ruth’s meteoric rise as a slugger has seen him hit 22 home runs to this point, needing just five more to tie Ed Williamson’s all-time single-season record;
- after a slow start, Ty Cobb has been incandescent over the past few months, hitting over .450 since early June to push his batting average above .400 while fighting off a challenge for the batting title from George Sisler.
You can follow along with my day-by-day replay blog as the Sox try to secure the flag and the Babe goes for the record books.
