86 GOWDY ALL STAR TRIBUTE TO THE NEGRO LEAGUES

                                          86 ALL STAR TOURNEY 

A successful Negro league was created in 1920 when team owners met at the Paseo YMCA in Kansas City Mo in  1920.   I grew up in Kansas City and neighborhoods were divided by ethnicity and race with DMZ zones known as parks.  One thing that all these neighborhoods shared in common was a love of baseball and that included the kids that lived in that Paseo neighborhood.  Baseball and other sports were our first interactions with other neighborhoods.  So I want to play an All Star game which gives tribute to the Negro leagues and also see some of the historic demographics of the game with a  4 team round robin tournament using the Inside Pitch board game.  Team names:

Black Diamonds ( Afro-American players)
Internationalists ( Foreign born players)
Confederates  (  players born in Southern and Western states)
Federalists  ( players born in Northern and Eastern states )

note:  some players* may play for teams where there were insufficient players in a pool

The 1986 rosters:

BLACK DIAMONDS
KANSAS CITY

Hitters

Tony Pena c
Eddie Murray 1b
Frank White 2b
Hubie Brooks ss
Tony Pendleton 3b
Jim Rice lf
Rickey Henderson cf
Joe Carter rf
Dave Parker dh

Bench

Ashby c *
Madlock ut
Whitaker 2b
Smith. O. ss
Brown C. 3b
Raines of
Davis E of
Gwynn of
Barfield of
Phillips ut
Coleman of

Pitchers 

Gooden NYM
Candeleria CAL
Boyd BST
Blue SF
Stewart Oak
Jones O BLT
Youmans MTL
Guante Pit
Moore D Cal
Smith L CHC


INTERNATIONALISTS
LOS ANGELES

HITTERS

Pena c
Hernandez 1b
Samuel 2b
Fernandez ss
Franco 3b
Canseco lf
Davis C  cf
Maldonado rf
Bell dh

Bench

Diaz c
Gallaraga 1b
Garcia D 2b
Griffin A. ss
Guillen ss
Cruz of
White of
Sierra of
Tartabull of
Virgil c
Oquendo ut

PITCHERS

Valenzuela
Blyleven
Higuera
Cox
McCaskill
Ojeda
Fernandez
Darling*
Berenguer
Williams F.




CONFEDERATES
ATLANTA

HITTERS

Davis c
Davis 1b
Sandberg 2b
Trammel ss
Brett 3b
Snyder of
Dykstra of
Bass of
Puckett of

BENCH

Carter c
Clark 1b
Sax 2b
Burleson ss
Parrish 3b
McReynolds of
Pettis of
Hayes ut
Lynn of
Fletcher if

PITCHERS

Scott
Downs
Hurst
Witt
Rhoden
Davis. M.
Righetti
Eichhorn
Schraldi
Thigpen
Orosco


FEDERALISTS

Parrish c
Mattingly 1b
Oester 2b
Ripken ss
Schmidt 3b
Winfield of
Manning of
Baines of
Gibson dh

BENCH

Whitt c
Hrbek 1b
Doran 2b
Gaetti if
Boggs 3b
Hall of
Boston of
Yount ut
Horner 1b
Grich ut
Cangelosi of

PITCHERS

Clemens
Morris
Tudor
Tewksbury
John
Haas
Plesac
Franco
Kerfeld
Tekulve


I will update once round 1 is completed.