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!

Okay honestly I have been an occasional OOTP player since way back to OOTP 4, then left it until OOTP 8 and then 14, 17 and just yesterday downloaded 18! Whew what a long strange trip it's been ... tomorrow I'll blog about my baseball simulation experience ... will take a while to prepare it hehe