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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift

I wouldn't delete the NA, I'd rename it the NL and repopulate it in 1876. The bigger issues with those older leagues if memory serves is that if you want to run the Players' League, Union Association, and American Association, you're going to have to do some weird things to make them work (I think the first two you can more or less do by creating an independent league that has teams in 1884 and 1892 but is teamless in other seasons - I guess you could also make that your Federal League for 1914-15 if you get that far).

I *think* I've seen people say that you can't have a 2-league major league tier and then remove and later re-add the 2nd league, so that makes the time between 1893 (when the AA merged with the NL) and 1901 (when the AL was created) somewhat problematic. You can *still*, I think, just have zero teams in the AA league but the AI's going to have a lot of issues with scheduling during that time period.

There is nothing wrong with deleting a league. It will still show history.
In my ABF league i started in 1876 with the NL and added AA in 1882. in 1900 I merged several team into MLB and deleted the NL & AAA and history still showed up for both leagues. Also I have deleted multiple leagues in my EBL vs MLB universe and they still have history.
I have no clue what you said in the 2nd part.

When you created the NL did you go to Edit League Structure and move the NA teams to the NL?
I'll post some screenies from my ABF league soon.