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Originally Posted by 9lives
That is awesome Laseron had that kind of effect on the community. I have seen some outstanding similar leagues that came out recently after the LBA. Its really my favorite kind of fictional baseball. Are you going to run it as an online league or just solo?
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No, I don't play online. I don't like financials. Money has almost ruined baseball. I am a child of the 50's...when there were only 16 teams and the rosters stayed basically the same year after year and you knew every player on every team...fan loyalty is non-existent today,...when you really do need a scorecard (cost $5 or more) to know who's playing...and it cost $100 for two to go to a major league game and get decent seats. I hope to go to all of the major league parks before I die...still got about 25 to go. But I am retired and hope to do it in the next few years. But at $100 a game, my wife and I will only go once in our lifetime. We love to go to minor league games...great seats, reasonable prices, good competition and skill...recently went to see the Ft. Worth Cats in the Central League...free parking, brand new stadium built where the old LeGrave Field was...and is named LaGrave Field...only cost us about $18 for tickets, hot dogs, cokes and I think an ice cream bar. And the game was just as good as the Yankees-Indians that cost $125...and a lot more convenient to get to...park right by the stadium. No need to ride trains and subways...Montgomery has a beautiful new stadium, too...but a little pricier...Memphis has a fine new stadium, but expensive and all the good seats have been gobbled up by corporations. We could only get seats way down the rightfield line. We also went to Asheville's McCormick Stadium where the Tourists play. It is an old stadium, but has character and charm. It seems to be carved out of a cliff. The rightfield dimensions are unique...a high fence from the line to right center...down the line about 300 feet...and only about 360 in the gap. A visiting batter was thrown out easily at second on a ball hit to the gap. It looked like a double in most ballparks, but not at McCormick. And I think it was because of the short fence. Free parking here, too. We spent about $15...best seats in the house, too.
My wife really is a baseball fan and can keep a scoreboard like a pro...in great detail...not just 4-3 (ground out second to first), but if it was hit hard or just a routine play or an outstanding play (she uses an * asterisk to indicate that). She bought me a book, The Joy of Keeping Score by Paul Dickson. So now we always go to minor league games on our summer vacations and she keeps score. Since I always complain about the overpriced rinky-dink scorebooks at the ballparks, she created a scorebook for me with plenty of space to put anything and everything you would want to keep track of. But for some reason, each season I have to teach her that LF is 7 and RF is 9...also the shortstop is 6. She always fusses about the shortstop and thinks he should logically be 5.
As I kid I would pick up the Sporting News at the newsstand and practically memorize it. I knew all of the Southern Association rosters and could converse knowledgeably about the PCL, American Association, International League, Texas League, Eastern League, South Atlantic League, Western Association...and a little about the other 40 minor leagues...like the Class D Evangeline League, Class C Cotton States League and Class B Carolina League. I could follow the players from Class D to the Majors. I would have made a pretty good teenage scout for some team. I was a ballboy and sometime batboy for the Mobile Bears of the Southern Association. Gary Bell (Indians), Bill Dailey (Twins), Gordy Coleman (Reds), Dick Stigman (Twins), Don Zimmer (Dodgers), Forest "Spook" Jacobs (A's), Walt Moryn (Cubs), Jim Gentile (Orioles), Don Demeter (Dodgers) and Dick Brown (Tigers) were my favorites Bear players. I also got to talk to Harmon Killebrew when he came to town with the Chattanooga Lookouts. It was a great time in my life.
There was a quiz show on TV popular at the time, The 64,000 Dollar Question, where you could win, what we thought was a "fortune" at that time. I remember answering all of the questions when a baseball expert was on it.
I should also give DreamTeams a lot of credit for inspiring my Federal Baseball Association of Ruthlandia (FBAR) and United Baseball Association of Tycobbia (UBAT). Both Laseron and the Metro are my favorite leagues. I hope mine will be half as good as they are.
I just got Fidel Montoya to create me a website. He is the third webdesigner I have worked with to get my site created. It has been a long and frustrating year. The first two just didn't have the time to finish it. I think he will do the job for me. So far, he has been impressive.