Hall of Fame by Position thru S53

Position	Elected	Player		Position	Elected	Player
SP	16	Sean Donovan		1B/RF	18	Ernie Broome
SP	22	Cookie Ramirez		1B	23	Parker McIntyre
SP	23	Juan Marin		1B	27	Russell Leonard
SP	25	Jackie Little		1B/LF	30	Jeff Trammell
SP	26	Terry Murphy		1B	31	Chris Tobin
SP	27	Wolf Miller		1B	32	Santos Santana
SP	27	Bip Bartee		1B/DH	32	Kevin Rolls
SP	28	Louie Gonzalez		1B	35	Pasqual Jimenez
SP	29	Cozy Ponson		1B	36	Gabe Marshall
SP	31	Joaquin Valentin		1B	36	Geronimo Martis
SP	34	Gerardo Cedeno		1B	37	Jacque Kyung
SP	35	George Crandall		1B	39	Jesus Martinez
SP	35	Joaquin Gil		1B	41	Derrick Monroe
SP	36	Kiko Simpson		1B	50	Kazuo Chang
SP	37	Archie Kraemer		1B	50	Darwin Morris
SP	40	Alex Morlan		1B	50	Saul Gonzalez
SP	41	Santiago Johnson		1B	52	Eliezer Sanchez
SP	41	Hector Arroyo		1B	53	Diego Ferrer
SP	42	Jimmie DeRojas
SP	44	Yunesky Lee		CF	29	Shea Brooks
SP	46	Jonathan Poole		CF	38	Joe Strange
SP	47	Nicholas Dietz		CF	39	Ivan Nieto
SP	48	Brian Stokes
SP	48	Don Nakajima		RF/1B	20	Brad Green
SP	49	David Nicasio		RF	27	Alexander Green
SP	50	Heath Weiss		RF/LF	30	Fernando Rodriguez
SP	51	Sammy Lee		RF	43	Trent Erickson
SP	52	Shin-Soo Huang		RF	43	Ugueth Ordonez
SP	53	Carl Bird		RF/1B	49	Juan Aquilar
				RF	52	Mike Burrell
RP	16	Don Gonzales
RP	28	Felipe Colon		SS/3B	17	John Russ
RP	46	Luis Alonso		SS	21	Rey Shigstoshi
RP	48	Chipper House		SS	39	Horacio Hernandez
C	24	Horacio Vallarta		2B	18	Vladimir Valentin
C	44	Doug Allen		2B/LF	19	Horacio Guardado
				2B/SS	31	Albert Bell
DH/C/1B	17	Kareem Nunnally		2B	35	Gary Reynolds
DH/1B	33	Geoffery Gentry
				3B	26	Endy Horton
LF	24	Javier Valdez		3B/SS/2B	31	David Lee
LF	29	Art Sweeney		3B	33	John Yashian
LF	40	Harry Javier		3B	37	Brandon Rigdon
LF/1B	46	Jesus Santiago		3B/CF/RF	38	Jerry Nolasco

All Time All Stars thru S52

Player	All Star		Player	All Star
Brad Green	16		Cookie Ramirez	10
Brian Stokes	14		Devon Burns	10
Ugueth Ordonez	13		Don Gonzales	10
Diego Ferrer	12		Don Nakajima	10
Brandon Rigdon	11		Felipe Colon	10
Horacio Vallarta	11		Hector Arroyo	10
			J.P. Osoria	10
			Jimmie DeRojas	10
			Luis Alonso	10
			Parker McIntyre	10
			Talmadge Giles	10

All Stars by Position thru S52

C	Horacio Vallarta	11		DH	Denny Kida	7
	Talmadge Giles	10			7 Players With	2
	Albert Cairo	8
	Danys Rincon	8		LF	Harry Javier	9
					Hod Decker	9
1B	Diego Ferrer	10			Mariano Alfonseca	8
	Parker McIntyre	10
	Darwin Morris	9		CF	Robb Gant	8
					Shea Brooks	8
2B	Julian Sanches	7			Fred Rivers	7
	Mark Starr	7			Joe Strange	7
	Vladimir Valentin	7			Kendry Montanez	7
	Michael Shibata	7
				RF	Ugueth Ordonez	10
3B	Brandon Rigdon	9			Brad Green	9
	John Yashian	7			Devon Burns	9
	Kenshin Zhang	7			Alexander Green	8
	Stan Kensing	7
				P	Brian Stokes	14
SS	J.P. Osoria	9			Cookie Ramirez	10
	Felipe Vega	8			Don Gonzales	10
	Horacio Hernandez	7			Don Nakajima	10
	Howie Martin	7			Felipe Colon	10
	Jake Sherman	7			Hector Arroyo	10
	Walter Friend	7			Jimmie DeRojas	10
					Luis Alonso	10

Owner History through S52

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hoyanoel	52	5134	0.609	11	4	*
oddson	52	4684	0.556	5	4	*
sac_lambs	52	4310	0.512	4	3	*
Pelot	52	4244	0.504	3	2	*
69cubs	52	4062	0.481			*
zoobaseball	47	3994	0.525	3	2	*
unitedcenter	47	3797	0.499	1		*
lylediekmann	46	4473	0.600	13	4	*
zinpa	43	3440	0.494	3		*
jpelot	42	3843	0.565	8	5	*
dn1266	37	3126	0.522			*
todzilla	35	2808	0.495	4	2
drejday	34	2946	0.535	2		*
pita323	34	2714	0.493			*
jazzurb	32	2639	0.509	2	2	*
thurmodore	31	2869	0.571	7	4
jmagliaro	31	2871	0.572	3	1
t2bott	31	2543	0.506	3	1
cavone	28	2301	0.507	1
ws2005sox	27	2132	0.487	2	2
mileininger	23	1977	0.531	1
njp226	23	1801	0.483	1
usaflag1776	21	1735	0.510	1	1	*
plymouth71	21	1735	0.510			*
sever22	20	1372	0.423			*
hiloboy21	16	1400	0.540	3	2
mowbs69	16	1361	0.525	1	1
jake72	14	1271	0.560	4	2
wild44	13	1019	0.484	1	1
drewster0	13	898	0.426			*
wolfman19	12	1269	0.653	2	1
mempgrizz	11	1009	0.566	3	3
kneeneighbor	10	892	0.551	1
jonathon2124	8	697	0.538	2	1
bobcat_grad	8	630	0.486	1	1
wolf44	8	720	0.556	1		*
Cruiser1981	8	690	0.532	2		*
BobParr	6	503	0.517			*
ericsomsel	5	379	0.468	1	1
chisox59	5	441	0.544			*
BearNation63	5	399	0.493			*
keltic44	5	352	0.435			*
10feettall	5	327	0.404			*
furniss13	4	380	0.586	1	1	*
pitboss13	4	315	0.486			*
reggiedeal	4	294	0.454	1
calvinhydro	4	274	0.423			*
steinbajl	2	186	0.574	1	1
GC2000	1	126	0.778	1		*
dan2980	1	69	0.426			*
jackr024	1	64	0.395			*

* means active owner

A summary of World Series S27

A game by game recap of the S27 World series and the highlights

Game 1: Burlington Bison 8, Oakland Elephants 10 

In  much anticipated matchup of the each team's best starter, Miguel Pineda faced off against Joaquin Gil. The Bison jumped to an early 5-0 lead on a 3 Run Homerun by Pete DeJean in the top of the 1st and a 2 Run homerun by Brian Ramirez in the 3rd. However, the Elephants scored 7 times in the bottom of the 3rd to take the lead and chase the Bison's Gil.  Both teams kept scoring runs, but the Elephants never gave up the lead and the game ended with Oakland on top 10-8. Hipolito Coronado and Andrew Berra drove 3 runs each for Oakland. Pineda earned the win despite giving up 5 runs in 7 innings.

Game 2: Burlington Bison 1, Oakland Elephants 8

Kiko Simpson pitched a complete game, 1 run game and dominated the Bison allowing only 4 hits. The Elephants scored 8 times, including a 5-5 effort by DH Ralph Marshall. The Elephants jumped to a 2-0 series lead.

Game 3: Oakland 1, Burlington 2

With the series switching to Burlington's spacious park and no DH for the Elephants, starters Bob Willis and Omar Gilbert gave their teams solid efforts. The game would go into extra innings and the Bison won it in the 12th inning on a bloop single by backup infielder Andre Groom. The Bison collected 13 hits.

Game 4:  Oakland 1, Burlington 2

The Bison brought back Joaquin Gill on short rest despite a disappointing game 1 start, and Gil redeemed himself with 6 solid, scoreless innings. The Elephants' Alton Kielty had a solid start. Again, the game went into extra innings. Milton Borland, appearing in relief despite making 33 starts in the regular season, gave up a hit to Tyrone Fasano in the 10th to bring in the winning run.

Game 5: Oakland 3, Burlington 1

Bison starter Torey Lopez made his first appearance of the World Series against Oakland's Miguel Pineda. Both starters pitched 8 solid innings, but Pineda outpitched Lopez and Oakland took the win in the last game in Burlington. Hipolito Coronado provided the Elephant offense with 2 homeruns. 

Game 6: Burlington 2, Oakland 5

The Elephant's Kiko Simpson pitched his second complete game of the World Series. limiting the Bison to 3 hits and striking out 6. Bison starter Bob Willis was chased after 4 innings. Harry Javier and Hipolito Coronado homered for Oakland. 

The Elephants became S27 World Series champions

S26 World Series Returns Burlington to the World Series, this time against New York

The S26 Mathewson World Series featured the Burlington Bison, returning to the World Series after a one year hiatus, facing off against the New York Funbags franchise, whose last World Series appearance was 6 seasons ago.

How they got here...
New York Fun Bags
In a tough American League East Division that saw three teams enter the postseason, the 95-76 New York entered the playoffs as a Wild Card team. The Fun Bags played the first round of the playoffs against the New Britain Bombers. In a tough series that went to a Game 5, New York advanced to face the Oakland Elephants.

As a team with 105 wins, the well rested Elephants came in as a heavy favorite, but New York dispatched them in 4 games. New York moved on to play Pittsburgh in a series that took 6 games before they advanced to the World Series.

Burlington Bison
The Bison, at 84-78 had the second worst record of the teams entering the postseason, edging only with only Wild Card team Helena (82-80) by two wins. The Burlington Bison did get the advantage of winning their division to earn a first round bye and were well rested when they faced Honolulu in the Division Championship Series. Defeating Honolulu in four games, the Bison advanced to the League Championship Series to play the Colorado Crush. After a six game series, the Bison advanced to the World Series

Game 1: Gerardo Cedeno (16-6, 3.22 ERA) vs Bob Willis (12-7, 3.51 ERA), in Burlington
Bison shortstop Gustavo Unamuno got two hits and drove in two runs while Pete DeJean broke a 2 run tie with a bloop single in the 6th inning. Willis pitched 5 solid innings before turning the game to the bullpen.

Player of the Game: Pete DeJean (drove game winning run)

Notable:
Bob Willis -- 5 innings, 1 Earned Run
Gustavo Unamumo - 2 hits in 4 at bats, 2 runs batted in
Pete DeJean -- 1 hit in 4 at bats, drove in the game winning run

Final Score: New York 3, Burlington 4
Burlington took the series lead

Game 2: Kiko Simpson (14-11, 3.17 ERA)  vs Joaquin Gil (13-11, 3.80 ERA), in Burlington
Joe Strange smacked a 3-run homer in the third and the Fun Bags never looked back. Simpson struck out 10 Bison in 7 2/3 to earn the win. Rookie Burke Snyder homered for the Bison.

Player of the Game: Kiko Simpson
Notable:
Joe Strange: 3 Run HR, 2 hits, 2 runs scored


Final Score: New York 5, Burlington 2
New York tied the series 1-1.

Game 3: Roosevelt Greene (11-8, 2.44 ERA) vs Jonathan Poole (3-3, 6.21 ERA), in New York
The 23 yr old Jonathan Poole, who was injured for most of the season, started for the Fun Bags as the series shifted to New York. Poole pitched six effective innings while Joe Strange, Jimmie Biddle and Clem Reese got two hits each and York McNamara drove in two runs. Greene got tagged for 4 earned runs in 3 2/3 innings. For the Bison, David Lee, Brian Ramirez and Adrian Beltre got two untimely hits each in the losing effort.

Player of the Game: Jonathan Poole
Notable: York McNamara, 2 RBI
Joe Strange, Jimmie Biddle and Clem Reese got two hits each

Final Score: Burlington 3, New York 5

New York leads the series 2-1.

Game 4: Gerardo Cedeno (16-6, 3.22 ERA) vs Christy Pearson (8-4, 2.94 ERA), in New York
In a controversial decision, the Bison started rookie Pearson in Game 4 instead of Bob Willis against perennial Cy Young candidate Cedeno. Pearson had been called up and used as a swing man spot starter and reliever during most of the season due to injuries to Bison pitching. Although Willis was the announced starter, Pearson was a game time decision as the pitching coach claimed Willis "wasn't at 100%". A Bison coach was quoted as saying "We had planned on Bob starting, but we also agreed that he'd only go at 100%. He may have been at 94-95%, but that's still not 100% and we chose to give the ball to Christy." Pearson pitched 7 2/3 solid innings to earn the win behind an offense powered by Brian Ramirez' 3 run homer in the 6th. Ramirez and Gustavo Unamuno got 2 hits each.


Player of the Game: Brian Ramirez (2 hits, 3 run HR)
Notable: Gustavo Unamuno, 2 hits, excellent defense
Christy Pearson - 7 2/3, win


Final Score: Burlington 4, New York 3
Burlington evened the series 2-2.


Game 5: Bob Willis (12-7, 3.51 ERA) vs Kiko Simpson (14-11, 3.17 ERA), in New York

Bison pitcher Bob Willis returned after 5 innings in Game 1, and threw 5 scoreless innings to get the win. Brian Ramirez was the offensive sparkplug, driving in 3 runs for the Bison and earning Player of the Game honors. The Bison took advantage of 3 errors by the Fun Bags.

Player of the Game: Brian Ramirez (2 runs, 3 RBI)

Notable: Bob Willis, 5 scoreless innings
Final Score: Burlington 5, New York 3
Burlington took the series lead 3-2.

Game 6: Mariano Gonzalez (12-7, 4.27 ERA) vs Joaquin Gil (13-11, 3.80 ERA), in Burlington

Right handed pitcher Mariano Gonzalez made the first start in the World Series, facing off against Burlington's pitching ace, Gil. Both starters pitched well, but New York edged the Bison 2-1. The winning run came in as part of a double play where the Bison conceded the run but could not subsequently catch up to the Fun Bags. Joe Biddle got two hits for Newe York

Final Score: New York 2, Burlington 1
New York tied the series 3-3.


Game 7: Gerardo Cedeno (16-6, 3.22 ERA) vs Roosevelt Greene (11-8, 2.44 ERA), in Burlington

Game 7 featured the third start by New York's ace, Cedeno, against the Bison's ERA leader. The Bison jumped to an early start with a solo HR by Pete DeJean in the 2nd, and added three more runs in the bottom of the 4th to chase Cedeno, and two more in the bottom of the 7th. Greene pitched 7 solid shutout innings before giving way to the bullpen. Greene also provided some offense with 2 hits and one RBI

Player of the Game: Roosevelt Greene, 7 shutout innings, win; At the plate: 2 hits and 1 RBI

Notable: Pete DeJean, 2 RBI, 1 HIT (HR)
Edgardo Polanco, 2 hits, 2 RBI
David Lee - 2 hits

Final Score: New York 2 , Burlington 6
Burlington Wins World Series 26