September 12, 2008 
Manager Change for 1960
FRANKFORT, IN.. - To All SPB II 1960 Managers, It is my duty to announce that long time, loyal SPB II manager, Tim Johnson, has decided to resign from SPB II due to his illness, before the 1960 season. I think I speak for us all when I say that Tim has a long and solid track record with us in SPB II (as well as several other SPB leagues). Tim has told me recently that he has had several good days, and has been feeling good lately. I pray for you my friend. Your service as manager has been nothing but great in all of SPB! Thanks for your years of solid managing!

Tim asked that I find a responsible manager who would appreciate this nice team that he has had for such a long time, and I believe I have the man for the job in Steve Brunner. Steve has also been in other SPB leagues for several seasons, but has never managed in SPB II. Steve has already said he would love to manage Tim's old team, and that he hopes to be as competitive as Tim was with the franchise. Steve further said that he will keep the same team name, the West Warwick Monarchs, and will stay in Wrigley Field as well. Steve is a big Cubs fan, for those of you who did not know this. 

Please welcome our newest SPB II manager, Steve Brunner. 

September 12, 2008 
Team Name Change
DAYTON, OH.. - Dave Lauer has decided to chance his team name from the Southport Saints to the East Kenosha Lions....another EKL production! 

September 12, 2008 
Ballpark changes begin
FRANKFORT, IN.. - A quick change of heart from a couple of veteran managers for their home ballparks for the coming 1960 season. First, Terry Baxter decided to dump KC Municipal Stadium in favor of Busch Stadium (St. Louis), for his Hampton Roads Cruisers. Then Mike See jumped on the opportunity to adapt KC Municipal as his new home for the Route 66 Hot Rods. With that move he abandons Baltimore's Memorial Stadium. So now the available parks are Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, and the Los Angeles Coliseum, which becomes Dodger Stadium soon.

August 31, 2008 
Bishops take World Series crown for 1959!
FRANKFORT, IN.. - Congratulations goes out to Chris Williams' Salzburg Bishops as they edged out Rick Ryan's Rossville Hornets in 7 games to capture the 1959 World Series. Winning manager Chris Williams and loosing manager Rick Ryan both admitted to the fact that this series was the most exciting one they have been involved in during SPB play.

For the well written stories, the boxscores, the play by play, the scoresheets of each of the 7 games, be sure to check out the SPB II webpage for the full picture of this exciting series.

August 31, 2008 
Team name change
DAYTON, OH.. - Bill Lanke has changed his team name from the Minneapolis Lakers to the Wabash Rivers.  Please take note.  

August 31, 2008 
1959 Voting booth open
FRANKFORT, IN. - It is now time to cast your votes for both the 1959 All Stars, and for the '59 Award Winners. Please log into the Voting Booth of the main SPB web page and mark your ballots. 

I ask that you do this ASAP, because we have to wrap up this voting quickly as the SPB-Now league is also ready to vote as soon as we finish up, and next month 1939 ends and has to make their votes. So please vote promptly. Thanks to each of you for doing this.
  

August 31, 2008 
1959 BASE Reports
DAYTON, OH. - Using the great BASE program that creates many other statistical reports to augment the DMB program, here are the BASE REPORTS for some of the year-end statistics.  Enjoy! 

August 25, 2008 
1959 Standings comparison
DAYTON, OH. - SPB-2 beat writer John Ungashick has put together a flier that compares the records of each club versus their predicted finish and their expected finish based on runs scored and runs allowed.  Thanks John for this great finishing touch to the season!

August 22, 2008 
1959 Year-end reports
DAYTON, OH. - Yes, it's that time of year again....time for your two favorite reports.  The 1959 season ending Overusage report and Use or Lose report.  Enjoy! 

August 22, 2008 
1959 Final Stats now posted
DAYTON, OH. - The final stats and power rankings for 1959 are now posted. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for concluding their 1959 SPB II Season ahead of time. This league runs like a clock! All managers did a great job in reporting their monthly stats and finishing the season in good stead. This season proved to be one of the best balanced leagues we have ever had.

I offer my heartiest congratulations to Chris Williams, our N.L. pennant winning manager. His team the Salzburg Bishops won the flag handily while posting an 88-66 record, by beating out the 2nd place Evanston Elephants (managed by John Ungashick) by a 4 game margin. The Portland Beavers, managed by Rich Applegate, finished 3rd, 5 games behind the Pachyderms.

Also my hearfelt congratulations goes out to Rick Ryan, our A.L. pennant winning manager. His team the Rossville Hornets captured the crown by winning an SPB league high 91 games! (91-63). Finishing in a tie for 2nd place were Joe DeZarlo's South River Gladiators, and the Frankfort Fortress, managed by Gary Plunkitt. But they were both a distant 10 games behind the winners.

Good luck to both Chris & Rick as they head into the 1959 SPB World Series!

June 12, 2008 
Manager Change / Team swap
DAYTON, OH. - SPB I, II, and IV Managers, Following a most unusual request from a pair of seasoned SPB managers, I have decided to approve their strange "trade". Bill Lanke is giving up his teams in SPB I & IV in the move. Greg Henning is giving up his SPB II team. 

All managers please be sure you send your August MP's out to Bill in SPB II.    

March 7, 2008 
Manager change for restart of 1959
FRANKFORT, IN. - A couple of weeks ago, Jim Wheeler notified me that he would be leaving SPB II at the conclusion of the 1959 season. With the restart verified for 1959, he notified me today that he would like to drop out now if I could line up a new manager. Jim is taking on a new full time job working in NYC, and will have even more limited time for playing. I want to thank Jim for his many years of service as a dedicated SPB manager, and leader. He is still involved in SPB IV, and SPB NOW. Jim, you will be missed in SPB - II.

I would like to welcome back Steve Ehresman as the new manager of this team. Steve will be renaming the team, dropping the old Dayton Flyers moniker, and naming the team as the Lafayette Slims. So take a moment, if you can, to welcome back Steve E. to the SPB II League. Good to have you back!

March 7, 2008 
June 1959 Play temporarily halted
FRANKFORT, IN. - I can now announce that we will be RESTARTING the 1959 season. Currently we are still working on getting the new files ready. Hopefully they will be ready before the weekend is over. 

The vote was a fairly close one, but was decided when the final manager sent in a YES vote. The final tally was 8-6 in favor of the restart. I will send the new files out ASAP. Thanks to all of you for your understanding of this strange situation, and for your votes.

February 28, 2008 
June 1959 Play temporarily halted
FRANKFORT, IN. - With all of the inaccuracy of the season so far, and with most of us aware of this, I have decided to put a halt to the 1959 season until after we have had Luke Kraemer of Diamond Mind take a look at our season files to see if he can spot what is the offensive problem of this league. Hopefully, this delay will just take a few days to work through.

It is ok to send out your MP's for June play, but please DO NOT PLAY any June games until after you get my ok to resume the season. If Luke can come up with some reason for the missing doubles and triples (in particular), and he either fixes it up or tells Chris & I what to fix, we will then resume play. If he cannot find any reason, then we will be forced to play out the season with the problem still there.

The strangest part of this to me is that the stats work out well on a straight auto replay of the season. I do not believe any era stats are entered wrong though, as I believe Chris or I would have spotted that. This is the first time anything like this has ever happened in SPB.
I ask your patience while we try and work through this problem

December 28, 2007 
Pre-season prognosis from the beat writer
DAYTON, OH. - Hats off to John Ungashick for providing his insights on the upcoming 1959 season.  Thanks John for your efforts!