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Originally Posted by scprideandms
I am still in, let me know on repicking teams.
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What I'm leaning towards right now is 24 teams, with the basic idea being that the Players League did not buy into Al Spalding's famous bluff in the fall of 1890 and instead pushed on, with the result being that the NL had to fold. The Players League does away with the reserve clause, allows the previous excluded players of color to play, and goes with two 12 team conferences, geographically aligned.
What this means for teams is that we'll have fictional teams, in real cities, the markets being the 24 biggest (no two-team cities) in the 1890 census. It'll either be East-West, or North-South conferences, no interconference play. With NL, AA, PL and Negro leaguers, there will be plenty of players and I will add players from the International League, which was the top minor league at the time, if needed.