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Originally Posted by Spritze
salted grains is what I am when I do try to be helpful. experience is all I've got.
quantified deviations does sound interesting. I will bring that up to the wife.
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I think it is wonderful that the Negro Leagues were included in OOTP Baseball. Perhaps this inclusion means a case could be made for the Brooklyn Bushwicks to be included in OOTP Baseball as well since they played a lot of games against the Negro League teams, beat them more than they lost to them and were as good as the top AAA teams at the time. Maybe the Metropolitan Baseball Association, which was a league that included the Buchwicks as well as several other strong independent/semipro teams such as the Bay Parkways, the Barton's Nighthawks and the Springfield Greys could be created.The vast majority of Bushwicks players were people who had played in the minors and/or majors or would do so in their future. Sometimes major or minor league players played for the Bushwicks for a few games at a time between seasons or at times when they were temporarily without a minor or major league contract and/or team to play for. For some veterans the Bushwicks were their last chance to play baseball for pay before retiring. It was not uncommon for major and minor league teams to sign players straight off of and away from the Bushwicks and they would be a great place to obtain free agents for those playing OOTP Baseball. Researching the Bushwicks would actually be easier than researching the Negro League players. All of the Bushwicks games were covered in New York newspapers and box scores were printed for them. (See:
https://fultonsearch.org/) The teams best season was 1946. They played 92 games and finished with a winning percentage that was just a fraction better than that ever achieved by a National or American League team. That year they played 41 games against Negro League teams and won 27 of them. One of the team's best hitters was Ed Boland. He is in the AAA free agent pool that the game creates itself and he gets an overall rating of 45. I think it should be much higher based upon how well he played on the Bushwicks. The team's best pitcher was Sam Nahem. He also gets a 45 from the game and also seems under rated. The only player who gets an overall rating higher than he seems to deserve is Tony Cuccinello. His 72 is too high. I assume this ratings deviations is due to the fact that OOTP Baseball does not take into account stats put up while playing on the Bushwicks. A last interesting fact about the Bushwicks is they played 95% of their games at home in Dexter Park. If MLB teams had played there it would be remembered as one of the most extreme pitcher's parks in baseball history. For an interesting article on the Bushwicks see WITH A BUNCH OF GARBAGEMEN IN THE LINEUP, THE BUSHWICKS CLEANED UP (
https://www.si.com/vault/1981/06/15/...cks-cleaned-up) There has also been a book wirtten about them. It is Baseball's Peerless Semipros: The Brooklyn Bushwicks of Dexter Park by Thomas Barthel. I can provide more info on the team if you are interested.