Kenny and Lisa were early frontrunners but cooled down later on to drop out of the running.

The Mariners had quite a few contenders, on the other hand. I polled the other coaches on whether pitching or hitting should take priority, and all one respondents said hitting, so Lulu it was. But Chucky’s great pitching came at the price of him being mediocre at best on offense, and in a greatly unreliable team, Luanne Lui was becoming increasingly valuable as she spent several games consistently getting on base instead of getting out. I’d been eagerly looking forward to this point, frequently assessing my players to see who was most likely to be an All-Star, and while there were some close races for a while, things were clear enough by the time of the break itself that I didn’t have a hard time making my selections.įor a long time, it had seemed like Chucky would be the Melonheads’ choice, as their pitching ace in a team otherwise scarce of big stars. In fact, the blog did not fizzle and die after just a few posts, but is still going, and I have no intention of stopping anytime soon! Let’s get on to the events of the last couple of months of Backyard Baseball…Īll-Star Break: My Selections and the Home Run Derbyįor the All-Star Game, each team would choose one player to be their All-Star, with nine of the twelve from each league chosen to be the default starting lineup for the game itself.

I also missed this blog’s one-year anniversary last month. I need to do these posts more often – it’s been more than a month and a half since the earliest events that I’m writing about here! Whoops.

Players in backyard baseball 2003