The Topps Pennant App and the Baseball Purist
If your anything like myself you probably consider yourself to be a baseball purist. You eat, breathe, and sleep the sport. You may even disagree with the league when teams are relocated and it might even be the case that you prefer original team names over their current ones [The Houston Colt .45s seems a-lot better than the Astro's]. I recently spent $3.99 on the Topps Pennant App, which provides historical data for seasons and games on a team-by-team basis. Its possible for you to see when a team was on a hot streak, when they were going through a slump. It even shows a teams comparison to the rest of the league. In some cases you can even see how a particular player performed on a particular day.
For any baseball nut this is a good purchase, while like any app it has its downfalls. For example it doesn't provide the name of every team in MLB history [which for me is a slight annoyance]. Here is a screenshot of the Houston Astro's in 1962
In 1962, they weren't even called the Astro's [their name change didn't come until 1965]. In their inaugural season in '62 they were the Colt .45s and their logo looked like this.
It does give the stats of the 1957 Milwaukee Braves [who were first the Boston Braves and later the Atlanta Braves] when they won the World Series
The app even gives you stats for the Boston Braves, the franchise before Milwaukee, but its doesn't tell you the Florida Marlin stats instead it gives you the stats as the Miami Marlins. Overall though the APP is awesome for any baseball nut. While baseball-reference.com is just as handy [if not handier]. This app is must have for any baseball die hard. After all who else will be able to tell you that the St. Louis Browns only played seasons while compiling a record of 118-190 over those two seasons on the fly? Only the proud owner of the Topps Pennant app would be able to do so..and you'd even be able to show your friends this is what the Browns logo looked like
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