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Originally Posted by BaseballMan
Id like to see it too. Right now i create my own historical manager. Id like an option like a manager's option of not getting fired. I hate creating the next historical owner and find out the team killed off the last historical owner and made a fictional one.
First thing would be to make a list of all historical owners. I'm not sure if that
data is available. In some cases its hard to figure out who was in charge when you have an estate or an equal partnership. Would be nice to have an option for a family estate or for companies.
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All of that information is out there, although I'm not sure it's all in one place. SABR is putting together
ownership histories for each team - the project is about half-way finished.
A problem for OOTP would be those instances when teams were owned by corporations, like when the Yankees were owned by CBS or the Cubs were owned by the Tribune Co. Right now, all of the news stories and notifications presume that a human being is the owner. So you could get a notice saying: "CBS has looked at your roster and he thinks you should get a new third baseman." Also, OOTP would need to include the option for female pronouns for those occasions when women owned teams, such as Marge Schott (Reds) and Helene Britton (Cardinals).