Nine Innings To Winning: The All Stars Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 7/9/2013
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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We hope you enjoyed the six week intermission. It is now time to get back into the swing of things and start the second half of our double header. When we left off last month Tim10966 had just won the first half of the season. The second half begins today. Will someone else be able to step up and win round two allowing them to go head to head with Tim10966 in the first ever Geocaching World Series?

In case you missed the first half, let’s recap: We release a new geocache each Saturday. After it's published, you will have roughly a week to find it and select a baseball team. This is optional of course and as long as you find the container you can log your success for all fellow Geocachers to see. Name one team and include their name in your log. Its record the following week will be your score. The "catch" is every team must be unique, so FTF has choice of any squad, even the Padres. STF has second choice, and so on.

At the end of nine weeks the winner will square off against Tim who was lucky enough to win the first half.

This geocache is the first inning! Anyone making the find through Sunday, July 21st is eligible and the scoring will occur from Monday, July 22 through Sunday, July 28th.





Major League Baseball introduced its first All-Star Game as part of the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago. Following its success it became an annual tradition. The following year’s game featured the legendary performance of Carl Hubbell who consecutively struck out future Hall-of-Famers Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons, and Joe Cronin.

Initially the manager of the previous year’s league pennant winner was designated as manager of the all star team and they would then select their roster. This was soon replaced with the fans voting for the starting lineup, but still allowing for the managers to pick the pitching staff and reserve rosters. This continued until 1957 when Cincinnati fans stuffed the ballot box and selected 7 Reds as part of the starting lineup. The following year players and managers selected the entire roster until fan voting was reinstated in 1970.



That year’s game featured the infamous game ending collision at home plate between the Reds Pete Rose and the Athletics Ray Fosse. Rose was roundly criticized for his rough play in what many players perceived as a meaningless exhibition game.

As years went by more and more fans also perceived the All Star game as insignificant and interest waned. To create more relevance the league introduced a new rule bestowing World Series home field advantage upon the league that won the All Star game.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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