Johnny Dickshot, a former outfielder with the Pirates, Giants and White Sox, played with the Pirates from 1936-38, then played a single season with the Giants before returning to the minors. After hitting .352 for Hollywood in the Pacific Coast League in 1943, he returned to the majors in 1944 with the White Sox. His finest season came the following year, his final year in the majors, when he batted .302 in 130 games, with 74 runs scored and 58 RBI.
He finished his career with a .276 lifetime mark, with seven home runs and 116 RBI.

DBL History

The Johnny Dickshot Baseball League was 1st created in 1983. Creator and current DBL Commish Jason Christopher started a Baseball Simulation League know as The ACBL (Apple Computer Baseball League) using Strategic Simulations "Computer Baseball" which was created in 1981 until that was no longer made and the old floppy disks wore out. Needing new gaming software we used "Lance Haffners Full Count Baseball" which was pretty good but slow and these ran on my old Apple IIe computer. The league was comprised of close friends, family members and classmates. ACBL was quite different in the fact that all owners each had both a National and American League team and their respective players could only play in the league they were actually in, in real life. Gaming software was not as advanced as today and games took an average of 52 minutes to run, thus the season was shorter at 45 games. ACBL was a great league and ran from 1983-1993 then was disbanded as owners moved away and were strapped for time. In 1998 the league was revived under a new Name (DBL) and gaming Software (Strat-o-matic). A complete redraft took place and for the 1st time the league was completely run online. Since the re-birth of DBL in 1998, the league has undertaken expansion twice and has been a very successful league with many good owners from around the country. Today we have 24 owners for 24 teams and recently adopted a prospect/minor league draft. When ACBL began, we could use minor leaguers as long as they played in the majors we had to combine major and minor league stats. Current Oakland Bones owner Matt Speakman has been a DBL owner since the original ACBL draft in 1983. In 1984 Matt and his Oakland BlueBlades drafted a young, skinny Redsox rookie out of University of Texas.. Roger Clemens. Yeah.. we laughed at him, 18 years later.. he was still right. Good call Matt!

The best single game of DBL(ACBL) history was game 7 of the Championship series in 1985. The Kansas Jaybirds had just went 37-8 on the season and were facing the San Diego Mustangs. Kansas featured Willie McGee, Tony Gwynn, Leon Durham, Jose DeLeon, Terry Kennedy and John Tudor with San Diego a 30-15 regular season record featuring Dave Winfield, Ron Kittle, Jack Morris, Dan Gladden and Tom Brunansky. The Jaybirds had game 7 seemingly in hand on the road. Leading 6-3 in the bottom of the 9th, San Diego got 2 singles before any were out.. Kansas brought in their closer Kent Tekulve who struck out a batter for 1 out, walked the next, struck out another for 2 outs when Dave Winfield stepped in.. 2 outs... bottom of the 9th... bases loaded.. down 3 runs... Winfield caught hold of a frisby from the submariner and launched it out of the park to deep left field for a series winning Grand Slam homerun. Best vs the Best in the clutch.. Winfield cashed in giving the Mustangs their only Championship.

February 2002, DBL Website won the "Strat-O-Matic Webring Site of the Month Award". Being that February was the 1st month the DBL site was published, this was considered quite an acknowledgment and honor and was very much appreciated!