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.