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Old 02-21-2016, 01:55 PM   #121
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Originally Posted by Eugene Church View Post

I found a Negro League encyclopedia at the library that gave wonderfully detailed writeups on the Negro League players... I had another Negro Player history book that I used.

I also located a database of Negro League stats and used them.
There's a book out there (1994 copyright- hardback - out of print now) called The Negro Leagues Book - by Dick Clark and Larry Lester. Pretty spendy to get but a library may have a copy, somewhere.

i has no stats in it, but it does have a year by year roster of at least the major Negro League Teams, as well as a list of All-Star games and players. (those are the only stats in the book).

It's amazing how many players played on more than one team in a given year. I guess some of it was winter ball, or barnstorming, but with all the team jumping and lack of a real schedule maybe it's not that amazing after all.

Point being, maybe it's not all that impossible to put together a Negro League. Data is scattered all over, and it'd take a lot of work, but maybe lukasberger was right when he noted Spritze thinks it can be done. Geez. That'd be incredible!!!!! Just another reason to wait to buy 18 or 19 i guess. Of course, that's is i ever get out my my dungeon when 17 arrives! Anyway .... many many thanks to lukasberger for looking into it and the same to Spritze for all the work he's done already and continues. You guys are nearly as incredible as the game itself.
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