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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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The game handles all sorts of things differently than what happened IRL 19th century baseball. However it does handle the St. Louis Cardinals exactly as happened IRL. 1882: St. Louis Brown Stockings, 1883-1898: St. Louis Browns, 1899: St. Louis Perfectos, and 1900-present: St. Louis Cardinals. It has to meld together Baltimore Orioles teams to make up for their lack of existence until 1901, so you get St. Louis Brown Stockings > Louisville Eclipse > Louisville Colonels > Milwaukee Brewers > St. Louis Browns > Baltimore Orioles. I believe that's the order of things, but don't hold me to it. I think Markus does this to prevent the AI's head from asploding, which is a good thing. I think somewhere somebody (Baseball Man?) has a quickstart that features 19th century ball as it really happened, but this is one of very few things that I don't tinker with.