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Originally Posted by T-Bone
I really don't like it so much. I think part of it is I don't really know the players so well. Even though I started watching baseball in the 1970's, the 1950's seems so much more "current" than 1920's.
Maybe the game was still in transition from the dead-ball era. Also, I think the War years creates a disconnect as well.
If I do another re-launch - I think I'll go back to starting in 1950.
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The 20s are as insanely high offense as the 00s and 10s are low offense, really, and there are still some fundamental differences in the game between then and even the 50s (the homerun was, outside of Babe Ruth, still not all that important for much of the decade, 3rd base was still much more of a defense-first position than it became later, teams didn't have set rotations vs. bullpens so much as they had a list of pitchers they went down when they wanted to start someone or bring in a change pitcher, etc.). I agree that by the 50s a lot of what we see today really started to get in place. It's still not the modern game - no closers to speak of, not a lot of pinch-hitting specialists, not a huge amount of platooning except by Casey Stengel - but it is a lot, lot closer.