Friday, August 31, 2007

Draft Teams

I create a new team every year to supplement the players lost to retirement.

1902 Wheeling Friends (friends from college and high school)

Batters: Klug, Monick, George, Mitra, Kelley, Hazlett, Dickerson, Mellon, Samons, Trishler, Pollack, Pandit, Matthews, Johnson, Metzgar

Pitchers: Rasti, Amaya, Dodd, Dingo, Parmar,

1903 Milwaukee Brewers

Batters: Equis, Foster, Busch, Schlitz, Anhesier, Pabst, Moosehead, Pauli, Beck

Pitchers: Miller, Hyacinth, Bass, Michelob, Coors, Killian, Sol

1904 Athens Gods

Batters: Perseus, Jason, Ulysses, Atalanta, Agamemnon, Endymion, Hercules, Paris,

Pitchers: Adonis, Artemis, Narcissus, Hyacinth , Icarus, Prometheus,

1906 Wisconsin Curds

Batters: Mozzarela, Stilton, Gruyere, American, Parmesan, Feta, Reblochon, Limburger, Sapsago, Tilsit, Bleu, Brick, Cheddar, Munster, MontereyJack

Pitchers: Gouda, Cottage, Gorgonzola, Romano, Roquefort, Vacherin, Provolone, Colby, Swiss, Brie

1907 Harlem Improvisation

Batters: Bird, Coleman, Giraldi, Blakey, Correa, Gillespie, Jellyroll, Arnstrong, Ellington, Monk, Metheny, Sun Ra, Basie, Hancock, Shepp

Pitchers: Evans, Coltrane, Tatum, Getz, Waller, Mingus, Davis, Zorn, Brubeck, Jordan

1908 Africa Brotherhood

Batters: Ethiopia, Tanzania, Gambia, Zaire, Nigeria, Kenya, Sudan, Cameroon, Senegal, Burundi, Zambia, Algeria, Somalia, Libya, Gabon

Pitchers: Angola, Niger, Rawanda, Mali, Ghana, Morocco, Egypt, Botswana, Liberia, Congo

1909 San Diego Spectrum

Batters: Blue , Green, Magenta, Forest, Lapis, Tan, Violet, Balck, White, Periwinkle, Plum, Orange, Scarlet, Crimson, Yellow

Pitchers: Gray, Lavender, Olive, Pink, Purple, Red, Mauve, Cyan, Off-white, Ivory

1910 Gorey Edwardians

Batters: Groo, Prawne, Penwiper, Wuggly Ump, Weary, Frastley, Sophia, Lawk, Scuffle, Zenobia, Ladderback, Skrim-Pshaw, Hammerclaw, Glassglue, Drusilla

Pitchers: Crague, Zillah, Yorick, Gashlycrumb, Dustcough, Legbail, Blotter, Sangwidge, Udgeon, Throbblefoot

1911 Paris Fleur di Lies

Batters: Verlaine, Moliere, Gautier, Verne, Celine, Voltaire, Montesque, Colette, Proust, Sand, Balzac, Rousseau, Dumas, Montaigne, Rimbaud

Pitchers: Camus, Gide, Hugo, Beckett, Rabelais, Maupassant, Flaubert, Merimee, Apollinaire, Zola

1912 Arkham Villains

Batters: Riddler, Venom, Juggernaut, The Vulture, Cat Woman, Braniac, Dr. Octopus, Green Goblin, Electro, Magneto, Kingpin, Moleman, Bizarro, Lizard Man, Myxzlplyx

Pitchers: Krang, The Rhino, Kraven, Dr. Doom, Molecule Man, Joker, The Toad, Ultron, Lex Luthor, Swamp Thing

1913 Brimingham Theorists

Batters: Marx2, Nietzche, Baudillard, Bataille, Bhabha, Foucault, Lacan, Fiske, Said, Greenblatt, Heidegger, Gramsci, Jakobson, Adorno, Zizek

Pitchers: Levi-Strauss, Bakhtin, Althusser, Benjamin, Kristeva, Hegel, Guattari, Deleuze, Derrida, Freud

1914 Memphis Rockers

Batters: Jagger, Dylan, Clapton, Allman, Lennon, Marley, Mould, Bono, Presley, Ringo, Garcia, Hendrix, Jerry Lee, Berry , Mccartney

Pitchers: Joplin, Harrison, The Edge, Richards, Diamond, Westerberg, Young, Mitchell, Parsons, Cobain

1915 Washington Presidents

Batters: Roosevelt, McKinley, Harding, Reagen, Ford, Hoover, Truman, Lincoln, Wilson, Polk, Jackson, Van Buren, Washington, Cleveland, Adams

Pitchers: Eisenhower, Kennedy, Clinton, Coolidge, Jefferson, Monroe, Grant, Taft, Carter, Nixon

1915 Greece/Rome Classics

Batters: Juvenal, Tacitus, Pindar, Sophocles, Lucian, Homer, Thucydides, Meander, Plautus, Seneca, Aristotle, Sappho, Phaedrus, Hesiod, Horace

Pitchers: Euripedes, Martial, Erasmus, Plutarch, Pliny, Plato, Cicero, Virgil, Aeschylus, Ovid

1916 Africa-America Writers

Batters: Dove, Dunbar, Wheatley, Wells Brown, Morrison, Baldwin, Naylor, Chestnut, Reed, Baraka, Hughes, Dellany, Angelou, X, Wideman

Pitchers: Haley, Do Bois, Welden Johnson, Gates, Lorde, hooks, Hurston, Tolson, Walker, King

1916 Dutch E. India Co Explorers

Batters: Clark, Hudson, Lewis, de Soto, Coronado, Balboa, Pizarro, de Gamma, Magellan, Columbus, Baedeker, Cortez, Boone, Cousteau, Cook

Pitchers: Ponce de Leon, Marquette, Raleigh, Crockett, Hillary, La Salle, Erikson, Joliet, Champlain, Drake

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