Meet Your Hall of Famer: Pete Pryor

 

Bio:   Pete Pryor was born in Blaine, MN (Pop. 57,186, North part of Minneapolis metro area.)  He attended St. Louis Park High School (Nickname: Orioles) where he led the Orioles to back-to-back high school finals, in which they won the Championship his Senior year.  He was also an All-Class Super Stater as a Senior.

Draft: Was the 24^th pick in the first round in Season 32 by Louisville (xmasjjm).  

Scout Ken Post- “He was a tremendous defensive CF and at 6-3 we knew he would his bat would continue to get better.  And oh yeah he had 6.7 speed in the 60-yard dash.”

Manger (mike1184)-  "After working through bouts of inconsistency when Pete first arrived in the Major Leagues, his gold glove defense and well-rounded offensive game while patrolling Center Field helped him become an anchor for 2 San Juan World Series victories.”  As far as the San Juan Expos are concerned, his jersey number has been retired since Pryor hung up his cleats, and the club has plans to mummify and display his body after 'ol Pete kicks the bucket.

Career: Pryor was drafted in Season 32 by Louisville, then was traded in Season 33 to San Juan where he spent 11 MLB season after breaking in during Season 35.  He finished his MLB career with 4 seasons in New York.  During his time, he helped win back-to-back World Series rings for San Juan in 36 and 37.  He also accumulated 8 All-Star appearances, 4 CF Gold Gloves (36, 41, 42, 43), and 1 CF Silver Slugger award (40).  His best season was Season 40 when he hit .303, .883 OPS, 104 R, 32 2B, 31 HR, 86 RBI and stole 29 bases.   He used that season to accumulate career stats of .279 Ave, .812 OPS, 1229 R, 2278 H, 482 2B, 83 3B, 311 HR, 1140 RBI, and 293 SB.  He still holds the record for triples in a season (11) and in his career (62) for San Juan. He also holds the career mark of 348 doubles for San Juan.

Speech Highlight- “I grew up going to Twins games and always dreamt of playing in the big leagues.  My parents help completely supported me when I chose to chase my dream out of high school.  I owe a great deal to them.  I also a big thank you to the San Juan organization and city for taking a chance on me.”

                                  An afternoon at the Barleymoe

                  Today Elijah Craig is joined by Henry McKenna

Elijah: Henry thanks for stopping by. I wanted to discuss the leagues' history.

Henry: What do you want to know Elijah.

Elijah: Which league has won the most World Series?

Henry: The National League leads the American League 28 to 25. The Nationals are lead by Las Vegas with 7 championships in eleven appearances.

Elijah: Is the big dog in the American League thebigdogs?

Henry: You just couldn't help yourself on that one Elijah; could you.

Elijah: No, I couldn't.

Henry:You're right thebigdogs have won 5 world series in 10 appearances.

Elijah: Have the two franchises ever met in the World Series.

Henry: Yes in fact it happened in season 30. The Fargo franchise was located in Montreal that year. Las Vegas won the Series 4 game to 2.

Elijah:What do you find interesting about this league?

Henry: Two franchises have the same owners for all 53 seasons. Mr.Stickball has run Colorado and bwb53 has run El Paso all 53 seasons. In fact these two franchises played in the league's first World Series.

Elijah: What franchise has had the most owners?

Henry: It is actually two franchises. Both Hartford and Charleston  have had 13 owners. In Hartford mannytanner has only run the franchise three seasons and he's already 4th in career wins. This season he will pass Charleston's trapapoodle for third in wins.

Elijah: Are you trying to confuse me?

Henry: trapapoodle has run three franchises this league. Not only has he run the Hartford and Charleston but he had 3 season with the Cleveland franchise. In total trapapoodle has won 1107 games in this league.

Elijah: Any other guys run more than one franchise?

Henry; Probably too many to mention. the most notable is mike1184. Mike ran the Vegas franchise for the first 26 seasons. Mike took season 27 off. When he came back in season 28 pimpbotlove  had that franchise so he tool over the San Juan franchise. mike1184 has 2447 franchise wins with the Vegas franchise and 2325 wins the Expos. Actually there are another 7 guys running multiple franchises.

Elijah: Any managers that stick out to you?

Henry: Yea, bigfrank84.

Elijah: bigfrank84? Who the heck was he.

Henry: bigfrank84 ran the Hartford franchise back in season 7. He won 100 games made the playoffs as a wildcard. His team lost its only playoff series and quit the league; actually quit HBD.

Elijah: Henry, you've given me tired head with all these stats. It is time for a drink. You want to drink your stuff or my stuff?

                                New people and places for season 54

We lost only one manager to the captain this season. buddy996 has been replaced by Frozenherd. Frozenherd is veteran owner playing in 21 leagues over 134 seasons. He has made the playoffs 47 times winning two World Series while compiling a .510 winning percentage in regular season games.

We will have a few new ball parks. The old Milwaukee franchise is in New York. I think technically it is New York one, and New York Empire is New York two but I've never understood the one and the two about the New York franchises. When dherz_263 moved from Miller Field to Shea Stadium, that's sure to have made Ralph Collier and his pitching mates happy. Last years Brewers era of 4.90 is sure to be lower for the transit Authority this year at Shea.

fdarby moved the Dakota's from Sioux Falls to Toledo and renamed them the Blades.  The big winner in this move is Wayne Butler. Fifth Third Field is still a pitcher friendly park but not as bad as Razavi Field.Butler certainly will be able to hit .300 this season.

Frozenherd moved his franchise from Montreal to Detroit. This is the most dramatic change. Olympic Stadium was ranked by SCAT as the sixth easiest venue to score runs in. CoAmerica Park is ranked fifth in suppressing runs.

With the new ball parks there should be a decrease in runs scored in the National League.

One team changed their name. The old Santa Fe Raiders have been rebranded as the Santa Fe Fernandez MVP Tour. 25 year old Alex Fernandez is now not only the face of the franchise but also the name. In three full major league seasons Fernandez has made 2 all star games, one silver slugger and hit for the cycle.

                          Season 53 awards

THE Stickball League names our awards after retired owners.

The McBain award is not an annual award. To win this award you must exceed the previous high season win total of 135 wins. McBain was active in our league for 12 years , seasons 22 through 33. He's retired for HBD. In 207 seasons McBain made the playoffs 170 times while winning 20,618 games.

The current holder of the McBain awards is the Fargo franchise and thebigdogs.

The Dean award is given to the comeback player of year. Dean spent 21 years, and thousands of pixels on the chat board, in our league. Dean retired, due to poor health, in season 46. Knowing that our world chat lacked his presence Dean returned to the league in season 50. Like McBain, Dean is retired from HBD.

This years winner of the Dean award is Daichi Brea of the Jacksonville Bandits. Brea was signed as an international free agent in season 37 for $12.3 million by NormanW5. In eleven major league seasons Brea won 110 games with an era of 4.18. At the age of 34 Brea, in his free agent season , went on the disabled list with a strained elbow. Brea , facing Tommy John surgery and decreased value as a free agent considered retiring but his wife's aunt Hilda suggested that Daichi see Damachi Xi a local acupucturist. Xi worked her magic and Brea won 19 games for the Bandits.

The final award is the Branch Rickey award to the franchise that wins the most games from their teams at all levels. brad11's Santa Fe franchise won 552 games narrowly beating out mannytanner's Blue Frogs by 4 games.