Seaview Artisans

90-72, tied for first in the ACL
April: 7-14. May: 15-14. June: 16-11. July: 13-12.
August: 21-7. September: 14-12. October: 3-2.

First season: 88-66, second (but 19 games back)

NOTES
Seaview won a best-of-three-game playoff with Tri-Cities to caputure the ACL pennant, then took the Century League World Series from Fremont four games to two.

Artisan statistics

What went right?
Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and August. Ruth won the ACL MVP award, Gehrig was second in the voting, and Portland's Ty Cobb finished a distant third. The Artisans finished May six games below .500, got above that mark briefly after the All-Star break, but lost their last six games in July to arrive at August first at 51-51, tied for fifth, nine games out of first. Ruth and Gehrig went on a tear, the club went 21-7 and finished August tied for first. The rest of the season was a three-way race between Seaview, Tri-Cities, and Bainbridge Island. The Artisans and Atoms finished tied, but Seaview swept the best-of-three playoff and won the Series. 237 homers, the most runs in the league, solid pitching.

What went wrong?
Gee... Max Bishop hit just .195.

Ruth is added to the list of tourist attractions on the Long Beach Peninsula that includes the world's longest beach, the Shelburne Inn, the Shoalwater Restaurant, the Ark Restaurant, the International Kite Festival, Fort Canby State Park, the North Head lighthouse, the boardwalk, and Jake the Alligator Boy at Marsh's Free Museum.

One of the Century League's first tug-o-wars was between Seaview and Renton for the rights to Lou Gehrig. Seaview won in part because Renton already had Jimmie Foxx. It is said that Gehrig wanted to get away from the bombastic Ruth. "That big galoot will eat every hot dog on the Peninsula," said Gehrig.