After being away from OOTP for a number of months, I recently got back to my fictional league to wrap it up before starting fresh in OOTP12. The reason I wanted to play out a few more seasons was because of this guy:
Nicholas was head and shoulders above his contemporaries as well as all other offensive players that came before him: 17-time all-star & 16-time league MVP. I followed him as he reached the 400 HR plateau, then the 500th, 600th & 700th HR marks. Still going strong at age 37, I kept the league going to see if he could reach 800 HRs. He signed a 2-year contract with his original team & had another brilliant season at age 38 that left him just 33 HRs shy of the milestone. In the second year of his contract his abilities finally started to erode & I got the sense that this would be it for him - 800 hrs or no 800 HRs.
He was no longer the Home Run King but he kept chipping away at until, in the final week of the season after a frustrating dry spell, he finally did it: 800 HRs! He would add 3 more in the final 5 games to finish with 803 - 356 more than the next guy on the home run list. Unfortunately, his team got swept in the League Championship as he went 1 for 15 in the series. Fittingly, his lone hit was a home run. He immediately retired at the conclusion of the playoffs, knowing his legacy was secure. Not bad for a guy who was picked in the supplemental draft!
