It was the Summer of ’69…
 
 
Hi Phil. 
 
I enjoyed reading your recap of the '69 replay. There must be something about those Pirates, 
because my friend and I replayed the National League only from '69 by hand a few years back, 
and the Pirates won our league as well. Clemente actually hit .402 for us and led the Pirates to a
divisional crown.They then beat the West champion Reds in 5 games to advance to the Series.
 
We always intended to finish the NL and then play the AL and have a Series, but time and life 
got in our way. To this day, that league has no world champion. Anyway, I appreciate you 
sharing your story and thought I would share mine.
 
Karl Koelle
 
Something about that summer of ’69. Wasn’t there a song about that once…?