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Late to the party, sorry ...
In my humble opinion, any GREATEST TEAMS league should never include either teams from the Deadball Era (but I love it) nor the 1980s (which I also love). For these two reasons:
The Deadball Era (1900 to 1919) teams don't have the firepower to match teams from 1921 and after. They just don't. We'd hope and assume that pitching and speed would make up the difference, but it doesn't. And I bet these teams rarely (if ever) perform well in mixed-era leagues. They sure don't do it for me.
Teams from the 1980s (and the 70s, to a lesser extent) are just weak all around. I think one could play a very compelling and entertaining 70s-80s "Best Team's" league, but the 80s ELITE teams (1984 Tigers, 1986 Mets, 1988-89-90 Athletics) don't fare well against elite teams or even "good" teams from other Eras.
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