Wayback Baseball Syndicate

The Wayback Baseball Syndicate (WBS) is a centralized, limited keeper, Diamond Mind Baseball (v12) simulation league beginning with the 1919 season. Our mission is to recreate an alternative, historical replay of the game of baseball.

If you are interested in joining the WBS, please email waybackbaseball@gmail.com for more information.

The WBS completes 1 full season, including draft and postseason, within a 4 month time span (~120 days).

General weekly sim schedule is MWFSa, with THSu off.

August 31, 1925
Bowling Green, KY (WBSP): The Austin Aces won 1-0 over Bowling Green today, clinchng the Knickerbocker League regular seaon championship, as ace Dolf Luque pitched a 4-hit shutout and picked up his WBS best 25th win. Herb Pennock also pitched well, throwing a complete game and giving up the games only run in the 8th, a Milt Stock single scoring Johnny Mostil. The Aces will likely enter the postseason heavy favorites to win it all. ｢boxscore｣


Bowling Green, KY (WBSP): Kiki Cuyler bats for cycle, drives in 5; Barons come back late to outlast Benedicts, win 12-10. ｢boxscore｣

August 17, 1925
Santa Mira, CA (WBSP): With a month left in the season, Kinnaird Street handled the slumping Ravers easily, dealing an 11-2 loss. Red Faber had a good day, finishing all 9 and allowing on 2 runs on 8 hits, no walks. Santa Mira's Vic Aldridge struggled, coming up short of his 20th win, allowing 7 runs in 5 innings. Faber helped his own cause, slugging his 2nd homer of the season, and Sam Rice did the most damage for the Kings, getting hits including a double and triple, and driving in 4. The Kings maintain a 5 game lead at the head of the pack, with Macon and Ozark Mountain jostling for 2nd place. Santa Mira's slump leaves them in 4th, 2 games out of a playoff spot. Over in the Knickerbocker League, Austin has all but clinched first place, 20 games ahead of Button Bay. Williston sits in 3rd, with a 5 game cushion above Bowling Green. ｢boxscore｣


Middlebury, VT (WBSP): Goose Goslin had an above average day for the Moundsmen: he batted 4 for 5, collected 2 triples, a home run, scored thrice, drove in 2, including his walkoff single in the 10th, AND became the first 20-20-20-20 player in the WBS (that's 32 doubles, 21 triples, 21 home runs, and 20 stolen bases for those keeping score at home). Goslin got a nice assist from Alto pitcher Lefty Thomas who beaned Fresco Thomas with 2 outs and the bases loaded in the 9th to score tying-run Jimmy Wilson. The final score stood 5-4, Walter Mails snagging the W. ｢boxscore｣

August 6, 1925
Hoboken, NJ (WBSP): Aces defeat Elysians 4-1, extend winning streak to 10 game, hold 19.5 game lead over 2nd place Wendigos. Rube Benton gets complete game win, improves to 5-3 with a 3.11 ERA. ｢boxscore｣

July 29, 1925
Boston, MA (WBSP): Young Elysian slugger Al Simmons had a big day at the plate, 5 for 5 with 2 home runs, a double, 6 RBIs, and 2 runs scored. Hoboken whipped Boston 14-6, scoring 12 of their runs in the 5th and 6th innings. All 6 Colonial runs came in the 6th as well, mainly on home runs by George Grantham and Roy Carlyle. Alex Ferguson earned the win (7-9, 4.39) and Dave Danforth took the loss (8-5, 4.50). Both teams sit low in the sstandings, but Boston still has a reasonable shot at sneaking into the postseason. ｢boxscore｣

July 13, 1925
New Orleans, NO (WBSP): The bottom third of the Alto linup (Aaron Ward, Wally Gerber, and pitcher Emil Yde) combined for 10 hits, 2 home runs, 2 triples, 3 doubles, 11 runs, and 8 RBIs in a 19-1 blowout against New Orleans. Bobby Veach also came within a home run of the cycle in a 4 for 6 day. Yde got the win (3-9, 4.92 ERA), and Johnny Morrison left early and fell to 8-6. ｢boxscore｣

July 10, 1925
Topeka, KS (WBSP): George Burns hits for cycle, Moosedogs rout Ticks 10-2. ｢boxscore｣

July 4, 1925
Button Bay, VT (WBSP): Raver pitcher Vic Aldridge was clutch for the Doubledays today. In addition to getting the win pitching 3 scoreless innings while allowing only 1 hit, his 2-out single on an 0-2 count against Baron reliever Neal Brady in the 7th set the stage for Macon's Irish Meusel to drive in teammate Bubbles Hargave for the critical go-head run, along with Aldridge for the insurnace run. The Doubledays opened with a bang; Outlaw Babe Ruth went deep to leadoff the bottom of the first and give his team an early 1-0 lead. The only Knickerbocker run came in the 3rd on a double by Baron Harry Heilmann that scored Austin's Milt Stock; Heilmann got greedy on the subsequent single by Colonial Ty Cobb and was nailed at the plate trying to score. Vic Aldridge was named the game's Most Valuable Player, for both his clutch hit and pitching performance. The 3-1 Doubleday win ended a 3-game losing streak for the league; The Knickerbockers hold an overall 4-3 series advantage. ｢boxscore｣

July 2, 1925
Raleigh, NC (WBSP): Today the Commissioners office announced the 1925 Midsummer Classic rosters. Blackwater's Babe Ruth and Button Bay's Rogers Hornsby return for their 7th consecutive appearances as starters, the most among all players. Austin's Dolf Luque will make his 2nd appearance as starter, and his 3rd appearance overall. Santa Mira's Virgil Barnes will start for the Doubledays in his first Midsummer Classic. Rookies Harry Rice (KS) and Lou Gehrig (OL) were voted in as starters, and Mickey Cochrane (Top) was selected at-large by Knickerbocker manager Kyle Pope. Other notable returning players include Ty Cobb (6 times), Harry Heilmann(6), Edd Roush (6), Tris Speaker (5), Dave Bancroft (4), Zach Wheat, (4), Jim Bottomley (3), and Goose Goslin (3). Blackwater owner Joe Coombs makes his first appearance in the Classic; Pope returns for his 4th one, uniquely having managed both leagues as a World Series manager, as well as managing in the inaugural 1919 Classic, and filling in for Robert Gianduso in the 1922 Classic. Pope is 2-1 overall in the Classic. This year's Classic will be played at Ebbets Field in Button Bay, VT!



July 1, 1925
Boston, MA (WBSP): Jim Bottomley gets walk-off hit againt Outlaws, 3 for 5 day with a double, propels red hot Kings to 9-1 streak, within 1 game of first-place Ravers to end the first half of the season. ｢boxscore｣

June 22, 1925
Macon, GA (WBSP): Macon wins over Santa Mira 5-2, Ray Kremer improves to 10-4, 3.8 ERA. Ravers loses 3rd straight. Baby Doll Jacobson extends hitting to 32 games, 2nd best all-time behind Charlie Jamieson's 1922 streak of 37 games. ｢boxscore｣

June 16, 1925
Santa Mira, CA (WBSP): The Ravers fell to the Wild Mustangs today by a score of 5-3, but Baby Doll Jacobson extended his hitting streak to 27 games and raised his average to .411 as he continues to be one of the dominant offensive forces in the WBS. Santa Mira's record stands at 44-24, 7 games head of the 2nd-place Kinnaird Street Kings, seemingly well on their way to the best season in the franchise's history. ｢boxscore｣

June 4, 1925
Williston, ND (WBSP): The Wendigos set a new WBS record today, scoring 26 runs on 32 hits and 7 Moosedog errors. Joe Harris hit a home run and a double, batting 4 of 6 with 6 RBIs and 3 runs scored. Eddie Collings and Tris Speaker each had 5 hits a piece. Max Carey led all batters with 6 hits, including 2 doubles, 4 RBIs, and 5 runs scored. Williston peaked with 12 runs in the 5th, which included 4 Topeka errors and 1 of Harris' homers. Lee Meadows pitched all 9, getting the easy win. ｢boxscore｣

May 29, 1925
Santa Mira, CA (WBSP): Virgil Barnes flirted with a no-hitter today, getting a shutout and allowing only 1 Middlebury hit, as the Ravers edged the Moundsmen 1-0 on a Jimmy Dykes solo shot in the 5th inning. Barnes improved to 8-2 with a 2.65 ERA. ｢boxscore｣

May 29, 1925
Ozark Mountain, TX (WBSP): Ravers win in 10 over Daredevils on solo shot by reliever Rosy Ryan. Third straigh win sees Santa Mira atop Doubleday League with 35-16 record. ｢boxscore｣

May 27, 1925
Topeka, KS (WBSP): Jack Scott gets 10th win, pitches complete game, as red hot Aces win 11th straight. Austin could be leaving the rest of the Knickerbocker league behind early, with more than a month to go before the midseason break. ｢boxscore｣

May 17, 1925
Santa Mira, CA (WBSP): RAVERS RALLY TWICE, STEAL WRIGLEY THRILLER IN NINTH. Terry's Bat Delivers Walk-Off Verdict After Wild Late-Inning Swings. ｢boxscore｣

May 16, 1925
Blackwater, KY (WBSP): SHERDEL'S MASTERPIECE BLANKS MOUNDSMEN, 1 TO 0. Bohne's Double Proves Enough Support for Two-Hit Gem at Fenway. ｢boxscore｣

May 15, 1925
Button Bay, VT (WBSP): ELYSIANS SURVIVE ELEVEN INNINGS TO EDGE BENEDICTS, 6-4. Late Heroics and Extra-Frame Rally Carry the Day at Ebbets Field. ｢boxscore｣

May 10, 1925
Old Lyme, CT (WBSP): TICKS OVERCOME THREE-RUN DEFICIT WITH SIX-RUN FOURTH, THEN SMITH'S SINGLE IN NINTH ROUTS COLONIALS. Cobb Triples, Carlyle Homers — Colonials Lead 6-0 Through Three — But Ticks' Sudden Eruption Ties Game, And Winning Blow Drives Home Winning Run in Walk-Off at Griffith, 7 to 6. ｢boxscore｣

May 10, 1925
Ozark Mountain, TX (WBSP): KINGS SQUANDER FIVE-RUN LEAD BEFORE DAREDEVILS WIN IN TEN, 6–5; DEAN INJURED IN MÊLÉE. Lyons Brilliant Through Nine But Baumgartner Yields Winning Run in Tenth — Douthit Sent Down on Strikes — Kings' Bats Fall Silent in Final Frames. ｢boxscore｣

May 9, 1925
Macon, GA (WBSP): MUSTANGS STORM BACK IN TENTH TO SUBDUE WHOOPIES IN TEN-INNING WAR AT SPORTSMAN'S PARK. Game Tied at Three Entering Extra Session — Reinhart Shuts Door for Final Two Frames as Wild Mustangs Push Across Three to Win, 6–3. ｢boxscore｣

May 5, 1925
Williston, ND (WBSP): COBB RUNS AMOK AT BAKER BOWL; COLONIALS PREVAIL IN TEN-INNING THRILLER. Georgia Peach Smashes Pair of Homers, Triples, Drives in Seven as Boston Outlasts Wendigos, 14–11. ｢boxscore｣

May 4, 1925
Macon, GA (WBSP): SHERDEL CONQUERS VISITORS WITH BAT AND ARM; CRAFTY SOUTHPAW HOMERS AND TRIPLES IN COMPLETE GAME TRIUMPH. Outlaws Ace Proves Himself No Mere Pitcher as Ruth Also Connects; Whoopies Turned Away at Home of Outlaws, 6–2. ｢boxscore｣

May 4, 1925
Williston, ND (WBSP): WALTER JOHNSON HURLS COMPLETE GAME AND DRIVES IN DECIDING RUN; BIG TRAIN STILL HAS STEAM. Veteran Right-Hander Baffles Visiting Colonials With Both Arm and Stick; Wendigos Triumph on Home Grounds, 3–2. ｢boxscore｣

May 2, 1925
Boston, MA (WBSP): FENWAY PARK, BOSTON SISLER AND RUTH TRADE BLOWS; WHOOPIES TRIUMPH IN TEN-INNING WAR BEFORE FENWAY THRONG. Home Nine Rally in Extra Frame as Sisler Drives in Four With Circuit Clout; Outlaws Fall, 6–7. ｢boxscore｣

April 28, 1925
ALTO NINE DOWNS KINNAIRD STREET KINGS IN MARATHON AFFAIR AT REDLAND FIELD
New Mexico Cowpunchers Prevail, 5 to 4, in Seventeen-Inning Battle of Attrition — Lyons Hurls Fourteen Frames in Gallant Losing Cause — Gerber's Single in Last Stanza Decides
｢boxscore｣

ALTO, NM (WBSP) — Before a fair-sized gathering of Tuesday patrons at Redland Field, the Alto Wild Mustangs and the Kinnaird Street Kings of Boston engaged this afternoon in a contest of baseball so prolonged and so stubbornly contested that many among the assemblage had quite forgotten the score of the early innings by the time young Wally Gerber stroked the ball through the infield in the seventeenth frame to end the proceedings at half-past six o'clock, with the Wild Mustangs the victors by a count of five runs to four.

It was, by any honest reckoning, a remarkable afternoon's work.

The Kinnaird Street faithful who made the long journey to New Mexico will find little comfort in the final figures, though they may take some small consolation in the performance of their pitcher, the stalwart Ted Lyons, who labored upon the mound for fourteen full innings and did not disgrace himself in the doing of it. Lyons threw one hundred sixty deliveries before his manager called upon Art Nehf to relieve him in the fifteenth, and though he yielded sixteen safeties and ultimately absorbed the loss — or rather, Nehf absorbed it on his behalf — the young right-hander's performance was of the sort that earns a man's respect even when fortune declines to reward it.

The Wild Mustangs, for their part, employed no fewer than seven pitchers in their cause, a procession of hurlers that began with the lefthander Yde and concluded with one Archie Stokes, who entered the contest in the fourteenth inning and proceeded to retire the Kings in order through the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth without permitting so much as a whisper of a rally. Stokes fanned three and walked but one, and he shall be remembered kindly in Alto this evening.

The drama of the middle innings was supplied chiefly by young Earl McNeely, who came to the plate as a batsman for hire in the seventh stanza and promptly deposited the baseball over the fence for a home run, his first of the campaign, driving in two runs and giving the Kings a three-to-two advantage that they would maintain through nine innings of scoreless play. It was the sort of blow that quickens the pulse and loosens the purse-strings of the sporting fraternity, and the Kings' partisans among the crowd expressed their enthusiasm accordingly — though one imagines they were something of a lonely contingent in the Alto grandstand.

The Wild Mustangs, however, are not a club given to quiet surrender before their home patrons. Edd Roush, that gifted center fielder who handles himself with the aplomb of a man entirely at home upon a baseball diamond, reached base three times and stole his fifth base of the young season. Sheely at first base was a perfect nuisance, collecting five hits in six appearances at the plate and generally comporting himself as though the Kings' pitching presented no particular difficulty. Lamar in left field drove in two runs.

The Wild Mustangs had knotted the affair at four in the eighth inning and from there the two clubs traded nothing — nine full innings of nothing, each side refusing to yield what the other could not take by ordinary means. Twenty-nine men left upon the bases by both clubs combined. The afternoon wore on. The shadows lengthened across the high desert outfield. The vendors exhausted their supply of everything.

In the seventeenth, with Stokes having suppressed the Kings without incident, the Wild Mustangs mounted what proved to be the final offensive of the afternoon. Gerber, whose contributions to this point had been largely defensive in character, singled sharply to drive home the winning run, and the long day's work was at last concluded.

The box score, should any reader possess the endurance to examine it, shows sixty-five at-bats for the Kings and sixty-four for the Mustangs. One hundred eighty-nine pitches thrown by the Boston staff; two hundred twenty-six by the assembled pitching of Alto. Not an error recorded by either club.

The Kinnaird Street Kings depart New Mexico with their record somewhat the worse for the afternoon's adventures. The Wild Mustangs, having demonstrated to the satisfaction of all present that the high country breeds ballplayers of no ordinary persistence, will take the field again tomorrow.

Kings 4, Wild Mustangs 5. Seventeenth inning. Winning pitcher — Stokes (1-0). Losing pitcher — Nehf (2-1). Time of game not recorded. Temperature 75 degrees, skies clear, wind blowing out toward center field at ten miles per hour.

April 17, 1925
Alto, NM (WBSP): Lou Gehrig gets walkoff home run in 9th, collects 2nd multihomer game; Ticks edge reigning champ Wendigos 6-5. ｢boxscore｣

April 13, 1925
Alto, NM (WBSP): Goose Goslin has 5 hits, 2 homers, 2 doubles but Moundsmen come up short against Alto; Wild Mustangs win 13-10. ｢boxscore｣

April 11, 1925
Boston, MA (WBSP): Gabby Hartnett belted 2 home runs today, and the Colonials came back late from a 5-1 deficit to tie the game in the ninth and win against Topeka in the 12th on a walkoff double by Zack Wheat. ｢boxscore｣

April 8, 1925
Ozark Mountain, TX (WBSP): Catcher Frank Gibson batted 4 of 4 with 3 home runs and 13 total bases, including a part in 4 consecutive home runs in the 5th with his teammates, Sam Hale, Ira Flagstead, and Ike McAuley. The Daredevils whopped the Santa Mira Ravers 13-3. ｢boxscore｣

April 6, 1925
Old Lyme, CT (WBSP): Rookie Lou Gehrig slugs 2 homers, double, in 4 for 4 effort on opening day in Old Lyme; Benedicts hold off late inning comeback to win 9-8. ｢boxscore｣

February 1, 1925
Raleigh, NC (WBSP): The baseball town of Button Bay, VT is selected by the Commissioner's office to host the 1925 Midsummer Classic. The state of Vermont will host the Classic for the 2nd year in a row. The game will be played at Button Bay's Ebbets Field. Williston's Kyle Pope will manage the Knickerbockers, making a record 4th appearance as manager in the Classic. Pope managed the Doubledays in 1919 (by appointment) and 1920 (LCS Champion), and the Knickerbockers in 1922 as a proxy for Robert Gianduso. Blackwater's Joe Coombs will manage the Doubledays in his first appearance in the Midsummer Classic.



November 15, 1924
The Woodlands, TX (WBSP): In the first pick of the 1925 Draft, the Ozark Mountain Daredevils selected pitching prospect Lefty Grove.



November 1, 1924
Raleigh, NC (WBSP): The Ozark Mountain Daredevils win first pick in the 1925 Draft Lottery.

Metrics and Such

The Herfindahl–Hirschman index is a measure of competetive balance. A low HHI value indicates greater competetive balance. The MLB HHI benchmarks in this chart are based on the real 1905-1945 final team W-L records.