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Originally Posted by Chicagofan76
in the game 1871 historical version the Brown Stockings started out in 1871 now in 1881 when the game expands the league by 8 teams. in stead of having the Louisville Eclipse be an expansion team it moved STL to LOU and made STL an exspansion team..... IRL the orig STL b- stockings were never the Louisville Eclipse. or the Eclipse were never the B-stockings.
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Actually, reading this post and reconsidering my last one, you may be right, Cf76. That could have been the way the game treated the situation and I merely recorded in my evolution history what I thought had happened.
I did not follow the situation closely enough to see which team was actually the expansion one; the new entry in the American Association was the SLBS and may indeed have been the team receiving expansion draft players. My comment above about how this game only loosely reflects early baseball history still stands, however.