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9 out of 10, 50 seconds. Not bad at all for these questions.

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10 out of 10, 39 seconds. I love those how many rookie of the years did someone win.

Clyde Milan Milan was a left-handed hitter who batted .285 over the course of 16 seasons, and Clark Griffith called him Washington’s greatest centerfielder, claiming that he played the position more shallow than any man in baseball. Yet Clyde “Deerfoot” Milan achieved his greatest fame as a base stealer. After Milan supplanted Ty Cobb as the American League’s stolen-base leader by pilfering 88 bases in 1912 and 75 in 1913, F. C. Lane of Baseball Magazine called him “Milan the Marvel, the Flying Mercury of the diamond, the man who shattered the American League record, and the greatest base runner of the decade.” It was hyperbole, of course; Cobb re-claimed the AL record in 1915 by stealing 96 bases and went on to swipe far more bases over the decade than Milan, but Deerfoot stole a total of 481 during the Deadball Era, ranking third in the AL behind only Cobb (765) and Eddie Collins (564). In 1906 he joined Wichita of the Western Association. “I felt none too sure that I could make good there, for the company was much faster,” Clyde recalled. That partial season in Wichita saw him hit just .211, but he returned in 1907 and batted .304 with 38 stolen bases in 114 games, attracting the attention of Washington manager Joe Cantillon, who had seen him in a spring exhibition. That summer Cantillon dispatched injured catcher Cliff Blankenship to Wichita with orders to purchase Milan’s contract, then go to Weiser, Idaho, to scout and possibly sign Walter Johnson. In later years Clyde loved to relate Blankenship’s remarks during his contract signing: “He told me that he was going out to Idaho to look over some young phenom. ‘It looks like a wild goose chase and probably a waste of train fare to look over that young punk,’ Blankenship said.” Milan cost the Nats $1,000, while Johnson was secured for a $100 bonus plus train fare. Milan and Johnson had a lot in common: They were the same age, they both hailed from rural areas–Washington outfielder Bob Ganley started calling Milan “Zeb,” a common nickname for players from small towns–and they were both quiet, reserved, and humble. Naturally, they became hunting companions and inseparable friends, and eventually they became the two best players on the Senators team. “Take Milan and his roommate, Walter Johnson, away from Washington, and the town would about shut up shop, as far as base ball is concerned,” wrote a reporter in 1911. But stardom was not immediate for Milan. After making his debut with the Senators on August 19, 1907, he played regularly in center field for the rest of the season and batted a respectable .279 in 48 games. In 1908, however, Milan batted just .239, and the following year he slumped to .200, with just 10 stolen bases in 130 games. Cantillon wanted to send him to the minors and purchase an outfielder who could hit, but the Senators were making so little money that they couldn’t afford a replacement. Fortunately for Washington, Jimmy McAleer took over as manager in 1910 and immediately recognized the young center fielder’s potential. Under McAleer’s tutelage, Milan bounced back to hit .279 with 44 steals, and in 1911 he became a full-fledged star by batting .315 with 58 steals. Milan’s peak was from 1911 to 1913 when he played in every game but one, batted over .300 each season, and averaged almost 74 stolen bases per season. In 1912 he finished fourth in the Chalmers Award voting, and his American League record-breaking total of 88 steals would have been 91 if Washington’s game against St. Louis on August 9th hadn’t been rained out in the third inning. Running into Milan on a train that summer, Billy Evans, who had umpired Milan’s first game back in 1907, remarked on his wonderful improvement in every department of the game, base running in particular. “When I broke in, I thought all a man with speed had to do was get on in some way and then throw in the speed clutch,” Milan told the umpire. “I watched with disgust while other players much slower than me stole with ease on the same catcher who had thrown me out. It finally got through my cranium that a fellow had to do a lot of things besides run wild to be a good base runner. I used to have a habit of going down on the second pitch, but the catchers soon got wise to it and never failed to waste that second ball, much to my disadvantage. Now I try to fool the catcher by going down any old time. Changing my style of slide has also helped me steal many a base that would have otherwise resulted in an out. I used to go into the bag too straight, making it an easy matter for the fielder to put the ball on me, but I soon realized the value of the hook slide.” In 1914 Milan suffered a broken jaw and missed six weeks of the season after colliding with right fielder Danny Moeller. He rebounded to play in at least 150 games in each of the next three seasons, 1915 to 1917, and he continued to play regularly through 1921, batting a career-high .322 in 1920. Griffith appointed Milan to manage the Nats in 1922 but the job didn’t agree with him; he suffered from ulcers as the club finished sixth, and he was fired after the season amidst reports that he was “too easy-going.” That marked the end of his major-league playing career, but he continued to play in the minors in Minneapolis in 1923, while serving as player-manager at New Haven in 1924, and Memphis in 1925 and 1926. After retiring as an active player, Milan coached for Washington in 1928 and 1929 and managed Birmingham from 1930 to 1935 and Chattanooga from 1935 to 1937. He also scouted for Washington in 1937 and served as a coach for the Senators from 1938 through 1952.

This week’s fine group of modders honor who created a lot of mods that you would have in your own game or in the season conversion or classic mods and they would be in there in the open without you noticing it. And another modder who spent a lot of time working on datafiles that really gave a different look to Mvp baseball. And finally in our behind the scenes category we have a modder that once again exemplifies what working behind the scenes on mods really meant because I believe only a few will recall his name. Spitoon Each time you were at bat during the game you may have been using Spitoon’s mods without knowing it as he made his mods for Mvp ‘04 and ‘05. The ball he made for Mvp 2004 is still one of the best I ever saw and you can compare it to the hi-res ball by Trues for Mvp ‘05. If you noticed the different style bats in the game you can thank the work by this modder for that. Spitoons Bat Selector for MVP 2005 Spitoon and Trues combined datafile mod New Bats and Official MLB Baseball (for Mvp 2004) Squeegeedeadly Squeegeedeadly is the creator of some highly recommended camera mods for Mvp 2005 that I encourage some of you to try. His mods have been buried in the download section along with many others in this thread and because he is not well known to the group of people that are here today (he has not been here in fourteen years) his mods have been overlooked. That I believe is a mistake and if you experiment with any of these camera mods you will see what I mean. SqueegeeDeadly’s First Person Camera View SqueegeeDeadly’s Aerial Fielding Cam SqueegeeDeadly’s Camera Mod 2 TSN Overlay Behind the Scenes Crowe1 Crowe1 was part of the superb group of modders that gave us the Total Classics series. He is not well known as Fuzzone or Jim825 but his work in that series helped make it what it is today. Crowe1 worked in the stadium restoration group that helped make the old ballparks in the game more colorful and attractive. Based on his mod of the 1944 Sportsman’s Park he was very successful. Crowe1's Sportsman Park 1944

7 out of 10, 71 seconds. The three I got wrong I should have got wrong. I had no idea. We are a third of the way through and it is a very close race to the top.

10 out of 10, 33 seconds. I really needed a good score today but I was also shocked to see the time.

Great job Jim!

4 out of 10, 98 seconds. Three days in a row now that I have done terrible. Don't believe it when it says General: Easier because they are only being half truthful with you. One of my questions was What was the name for Saskatoon's WHL team in 2005? I did not see any guesses that said who gives a damn so I had to wing it. 😄

3 out of 10, 89 seconds. Another baseball card question, naturally. But these were hard questions. Two days in a row for me Jim. I've been having a hard time. And sometimes with these difficult baseball questions I have noticed something. Sometimes they are just difficult but challenging. Sometimes they are downright impossible. Like today.

5 out of 10, 121 seconds. The funny part was that I got the first four right. Then I went right straight downhill.

9 out of 10, 48 seconds. These were not that difficult today. Who won the 1953 World Series, making it their 5th consecutive World Series title? I'll take those questions every day.

I have a lot of pressure too trying to keep up with all of you. That's what makes this game so much fun each month. Anyone can win it.

10 out of 10, 36 seconds. I love those "how many rookie of the year awards did so-and-so win?" Thank you! When I get one I am going to to be thrilled. Good going Jim.

6 out of 10, 79 seconds. And I am happy to get six of them. Wow.

10 out of 10, 39 seconds. I love the ones where I don't have to read the entire question. Born in Narrows, Georgia, I had the nickname, 'Georgia Peach'......etc. As soon as I saw that I knew it was Ty Cobb. I don't know how many times I have done the same thing.

Domingo German, Matt Bowman, Franchy Cordero, Jimmy Cordero, Billy McKinney and Ryan Weber were outrighted off its 40-man roster today. I don’t see anything wrong with this and it was a good move by Cashman and the Yankees. It was also an easy move on their part so we will see how well they do when the transactions and acquisitions get harder.

4 out of 10, 76 seconds. I was completely lost in this one and the only thing that saved me was guessing four of them right. When they ask me Nascar and soccer questions I am beaten. How do I know where Dale Earnhart is from? I never was interested enough to find out. Maybe you didn't get any of those under forty seconds scores but you got enough to keep pace and win. You have always done good in this trivia.

6 out of 10, 94 seconds. Like Jim, i was lucky to get that many correct. These were tough. Ok, here is our winner for the month of October. Congratulations Fiebre. He won this month with room to spare. I actually had the lead for the first half of the month and I said to myself if I just remained consistent I could win. Well that is exactly what I did. For the rest of the month I was consistently bad. 😄

Once again this week we look at a uniform modder whose mods were strictly for Mvp Baseball 2004 and a stadium creator for Mvp 2005 that whose work you probably have seen if you have played some of the more modern Total Classics mods. And our behind the scenes modder was a guy who worked in the in game audio department in the great Total Classics series. Ari Ari’s uniform work on this website has been buried in the download section for many years because the last mod he uploaded was in July of 2004 and it was for Mvp 2004, a game that gets no attention anymore because of the popularity of Mvp 2005. Even when Mvp ‘04 was thje only game in town around here Ari’s uniforms were overshadowed by other unform creators such as UMachines and KCCityStar, both of whom made uniforms for each team in the major leagues. Ari was a guy who made many alternate uniforms and I personally enjoyed putting them into my game. As a reminder you can use any of these uniforms in your Mvp 2005 game. Red Sox Uniform Pack One of the uniforms in the Red Sox uniform pack. There are four uniforms total. San Francisco (New York) Giants World Series Jerseys Mets Alternate Home Uniforms Devil Rays Alternate Away When you are asked to use Fuzzone’s Mvp Studio please disregard that. That was the ideal way to install uniforms back then and it was one of the best programs around to manage your uniform installations. Now please TiT to install the uniforms. EvilSelig With a name like that you know how this guy felt about the former commissioner. EvilSelig’s stadiums were stand-alone mods (they could be used in just about any mod or season available) or for particular editions of the Total Classics series. It’s true that when you think of stadium creators you think of guys like Pirate and Dennis James. But his work like Municipal Stadium in Cleveland and the Metrodome in Minneapolis take a back seat to no one. HHH Metrodome Cleveland Municipal Stadium Baltimore Memorial Stadium by Sean O updated by evilselig Safeco Field Behind the Scenes TxDodger73 Not a lot of people will recognize this name even though he has been a member here since April of ‘05 but TxDodger73 made a name for himself by working on the in game audio in the Total Classics series. He actually does have a handful of audio mods that he released but I don’t recommend you downloading them because they are already included in some of the season and classic mods.

This is really impressive for the questions that they ask for this round. I know what you mean.

5 out of 10, 56 seconds. My God these questions. I winged it today and am looking forward to November.

This is good to learn but I have one question. Why 1990 and 1991? They were similar although they did have different champions. But I also think a Total Classics mod is a good Total Classics mod.

9 out of 10, 70 seconds. I should be happy with this am I right? No! I got the first nine questions right and the last one was a baseball card question. Here you are everyone, remember this answer so you don't get stumped on it.