1860: Last Season Of Peace
Dark clouds were looming on the horizon as the 1860 baseball season began as concern about the impending US Federal election and the issue of abolition of slavery leading to secession of the southern states weighed heavy on many. Two new baseball clubs emerged in the last summer before the American Civil War. The first club was the Philadelphia Athletics. Town ball was the more popular game on the streets of Philadelphia but in 1860 the members of the Athletic...

Okay sorry all my blog pictures got whomped by server gods but I got it all straightened out and will be re-editing my blogs (yet again) to include the artwork with corrected urls. My apologies to all!

Eckfords Retake The Title
Despite the success on the field in 1859 the Brooklyn Atlantics found the need to replace two of their nine after 3B Tom Countryman and CF Bob Murray chose to leave the game. Also departing the field was Mutuals RF John Burns after only one season. The Eckfords nine remained unchanged since forming in 1856.

Of the three players only Murray was remarkable as he hit .429 in 1856 with a .629 OBP and slugging pct. of .714 but of course that was only...

First of all, I want to say that I'm having a lot more fun with this league than I thought I would have. I'm getting close to the turn of the century, though, and that means that I'm starting to run into more players that I'm more familiar with because I've played simulations with them before. Hopefully, that works to my advantage.

It has not escaped my notice that my core group of player is getting old, and I attribute that to the fact that I haven't been allowing myself to trade...

Three new players adorned the 1898 Hall of Fame ballot. The returning players on the ballot were Jim McCormick, George Bradley, Will White, and Cap Anson. The new players were as follows:

Jumbo McGinnis was a three-time 20-game winner and a two time all-star who spent most of his 11-year career in Washington where he amassed 160 career wins.


Dude Easterbrook was a third baseman who...