D Love - good it is just a test league. In the future always try to avoid hard closing the app with CNT+ALT+DEL as it is most likely still running. The league is almost guaranteed to be corrupt if you do that. The program will require a few more minutes to repaint the screen and it the meant time windows may think the app is not responding when it still is calculating. Grab a coffee or a coke and let the program run it's course. It might take several more minutes depending on your system specs, configuration and efficiency. If you have a low end machine (128 MB RAM or less) it would be wise (and faster) to turn background apps off and refrain from giving the PC too many other non game commands like surfing in via 10 browser windows etc..
I is still always wise to back up a league: I'd suggest using winzip and zip up the entire folder. Give it a name related to the league and the league date and it should only take up 1-3 MB of space (you can skp the BMP image files within the league folder). Make sure that winzip is also archiving the folders within your main league folder. I think the most recent version (from 2002) of Winzip have this as the default setting.
Note that if you want to archive a career league the best time to backup/archive the league is right before you push the Proceed To Next Year button. That way you can use the various baseballrefernce style utilities out there like the ones from Jeff Cato, IatricSB, and Wallman.
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