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.

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.