The TBL Baseball Annual A publication of the Transcontinental Baseball League The Franchise 2011 Edition Walter H. Hunt All 24 Teams Analyzed Robert Jordan Using the T.Q. System Mark H. Bloom The TBL Baseball Annual A publication of the Transcontinental Baseball League 2011 Edition by Walter H. Hunt Robert Jordan Mark H. Bloom with contributions from all of TBL’s managers and extra help from: Joe Auletta Jim Dietz Mark Freedman Paul Harrington Darrell Skogen Copyright © 2011 Walter H. Hunt. This book was produced using a Macintosh with Adobe InDesign CS2 and Adobe Photoshop 7.0. I can be reached by mail at 3306 Maplebrook Road, Bellingham, MA 02019 or by e-mail at
[email protected]. The 2011 TBL Annual the TBL baseball annual Welcome to the 2011 TBL Baseball Annual. This is the sixteenth year of the Annual in the book format, and we welcome the talents of Mark “Boomer” Bloom to our staff. This year’s book has the features you’re accustomed to reading, and this year each team writ- eup includes a player we’ve designated as The Franchise. Some are current players, while others are from the team’s past . sometimes when the team was in a different place. We imagine that this will lead to some interesting discussions. We also feature entertaining articles by Joe Auletta and Mark Freedman, comments from the Commissioner, and a dedicatory poem on Bob Feller from the talented Jim Dietz. We also bring back Grantland Rice to memorialize the late, great Harmon Killebrew. As always, it’s probably as much fun to write as it is to read.