Tacoma Tahomas

80-82, seventh in the ACL
April: 13-8. May: 16-13. June: 14-13. July: 5-20.
August: 15-13. September: 13-14. October: 4-1.

First season: 71-83, fifth

NOTES
The Tahomas took three of four from Bainbridge Island in the last series of the season to knock the Lumberjacks out of the pennant race.

Tahoma statistics

What went right?
Whitey Ford was brilliant, 19-9, 2.66, and probably wins the Cy Young award in any league that doesn't also include Walter Johnson. Ford anchored a staff that was third in the ACL in ERA at 3.97.

What went wrong?
The hitting. Tacoma was second to last in runs scored and hit just 177 home runs. Not exactly what you're expecting from a club with Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, and Rocky Colavito in the middle of the lineup. Mantle hit 35 homers, but batted just .270 and couldn't seem to buy a hit while the club was on a tailspin in July. The Tahomas were just two games out of first place on July 1. By August one they were in ninth place and 12 out. They weren't mathematically eliminated until the second to last week, but they weren't really in it after August, either.

It is probably just a coincidence that so many Yankee managers are working in the Century League.

Stengel gets to combine the New York and Cleveland pitching staffs from the 50s and then add some extra sock to his Yankee contingent in the field. Should be a good team.