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TC Dale · 07-30-2003, 08:35 AM

Please allow me to take you back. To a time when baseball was the national pastime, when folks sit by their radios and listened to their favorite players making another pitch or stroke of the bat into the hearts of their fans and into legend.

What if the baseball had not had the color line? If anyone that wished, and all that wanted to play the grand game of baseball could? What would have happened and what new legends would sit among the old in Cooperstown?

In this version of history, folks did have that chance. The color of your skin meant nothing as long as you could play the game of baseball. It took 20 small northern Indiana communities to show the world that baseball was at its purest and best when all had the chance to walk that road to glory.

Please understand, this backstory will be long. The background is something that is needed to see what it took for the little Wabash River Valley League to take on baseball to the creation of the AllAmerican League.

I know that this won't be the grandeur of GForce's stories, or Tiger Fan's eloquent speech, but something maybe a little of all that. I know I am missing others that have made me enjoy the game of OOTP a little more, like Professor's look at history and baseball..

I digress. Look for more here asap, as I open the book on "The Little League That Could."

Comments are welcome...and needed.

07-30-2003, 08:35 AM	#1
TC Dale Global Moderator Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 4,970	"The little league that could..." Please allow me to take you back. To a time when baseball was the national pastime, when folks sit by their radios and listened to their favorite players making another pitch or stroke of the bat into the hearts of their fans and into legend. What if the baseball had not had the color line? If anyone that wished, and all that wanted to play the grand game of baseball could? What would have happened and what new legends would sit among the old in Cooperstown? In this version of history, folks did have that chance. The color of your skin meant nothing as long as you could play the game of baseball. It took 20 small northern Indiana communities to show the world that baseball was at its purest and best when all had the chance to walk that road to glory. Please understand, this backstory will be long. The background is something that is needed to see what it took for the little Wabash River Valley League to take on baseball to the creation of the AllAmerican League. I know that this won't be the grandeur of GForce's stories, or Tiger Fan's eloquent speech, but something maybe a little of all that. I know I am missing others that have made me enjoy the game of OOTP a little more, like Professor's look at history and baseball.. I digress. Look for more here asap, as I open the book on "The Little League That Could." Comments are welcome...and needed. __________________ ----------------------------------