1966 Atlanta Braves - Baseball Moves To The South

boblight24 · 08-21-2009, 03:14 PM

When Lou Perini sold the Milwaukee Braves to William Bartholomay in 1962 it was no secret that the city of Milwaukee was going to be without an MLB team before too long, it wasn't a question of if, it was a question of when. The ink wasn't even dry when Bartholomay, an insurance magnate from Chicago, was looking for larger television markets around the country so that he could relocate the Braves. The Milwaukee Braves hold the distinction of being the only MLB team to date to play in one city for more than one year and never posting a losing record, but the TV market wasn't the size that Bartholomay was looking for. Up stepped the city of Atlanta, led by Mayor Ivan Allen who in an effort to bring the Braves to the fast-growing Southern city, built Atlanta Stadium, an $18 million, 52,000 seat stadium in less than a year. The city of Atlanta had previously tried to get the A's to relocate from Kansas City, but to no avail. So in 1965, it was announced that the Braves would leave Milwaukee and head south Atlanta, but an injunction was filed in the state of Wisconsin which kept the Braves up north for one more season. Finally in 1966, the Braves packed up and moved to Atlanta, their new home.

Which is where you come in. Greetings all, I have tried and tried dynasties that never worked. I usually try an MLB dynasty with the current Braves, but never follow through with it. This time I thought I'd go back in time a little and start from day 1 in Atlanta. My dad grew up in the 50's and would always tell me about watching Mickey Mantle on Saturday's on his black and white TV and I grew up in the 80's where I would watch, with my dad, Dale Murphy on TBS. So I thought that I'd split the difference and start in 1966, the Braves inaugural season in Atlanta.

In their final season in Milwaukee, the Braves finished 86-76, in 5th place, 11 games behind the NL Pennant winning LA Dodgers. What I'm hoping to do is continue the Braves' winning ways with names like Aaron and Matthews so please sit back and enjoy the ride!

STARTING PITCHERS

THE BULLPEN

THE LINEUP

The final rosters aren't set yet, I believe I have 24 players listed above. The reason for that is because I've set the amateur draft (real players, full draft) to take place on March 1, instead of in June. There isn't much depth in the minors so I'm hoping that with the influx of draftees I can build the minors up a little bit. I don't know if this will change in the coming years, but that's what we're going to this year.

boblight24 · 08-22-2009, 11:09 AM

I am no stranger to these boards and posting my dynasty reports, the problem is that I start out strong and then fizzle out (sounds like my wife should be making a smart comment here). As you can see from my other dynasties: My Fictional Carolina Pines, My Cooperstown League Baltimore Orioles Dynasty, My Jack Nicklaus 6 Fictional Golf Dynasty, My NASCAR 3 - Winston Cup ReWritten 1990 Dynasty and there are others out there from Total College Basketball to Front Office Football, it's INSANE. The problem is that I get way too involved in creating spreadsheets and logos and newspaper articles via Microsoft Publisher that it becomes a chore and not very much fun because I play a game and then I have 100 things to do before I can proceed. Now don't get me wrong I love spreadsheets and creating formulas and storylines, but it does take its toll and I'm afraid that my dynasties are the ones that suffer.

I have been a fan of these forums for years now and like many of you I have enjoyed following Big Six's Pat O'Farrell Dyansty and cknox0723's Pale Hose Dynasty and all the other great dynasties that the OOTP community has brought to life with their vivid and wonderful imaginations. I don't think I could ever be as eloquent or as humorous with my writing, but I really want to try and make a dynasty last. More importantly I want it to always be fun. I started this Braves dynasty in the year 1966 and really want to take it through a number of seasons. In order to do that I need to kind of scale back on the amount of extra work that I usualy incorporate into my dynasties. I play out all the games so a season takes a long time and with a child on the way the games may be even fewer and far between, but nevertheless I'll need my moments of escape once my son arrives and I'm sure that I'll run to OOTP. Anywho, I plan on posting updates every few days, simple posts that will keep everyone up to speed on the happenings in the league, but nothing that will take more than a few minutes. I will of course do year-end stuff as well, but darn it I want this to be enjoyable. Please bear with me and my ramblings and please keep me on track if I start to go astray. Thanks and enjoy!

Funny that I'm posting this now and leaving soon for a baby shower so I won't be playing OOTP today, maybe tomorrow!

boblight24 · 08-24-2009, 03:19 PM

MLB Pre-Season News and Notes

Before we begin the 1966 season there are some happenings going on with MLB that need to be discussed, the first is a flurry of transactions that have some big names switching teams.

Detroit
sends LF Gates Brown to
Chicago (A) for
C Johnny Romano

San Francisco
sends 1B Orlando Cepeda to
Washington for
P Jim King

Baltimore
sends SS Luis Aparicio to
Philadelphia for
P Roger Craig

New York (A)
sends 1B Joe Pepitone to
Detroit for
2B Jerry Lumpe

Los Angeles
sends CF Willie Davis to
Minnesota for
P Mudcat Grant

Minnesota
sends LF Bob Allison to
San Francisco for
P Frank Linzy

Pittsburgh
sends 1B Bill Mazeroski to
Detroit for
P Hank Aguirre

In something that will no doubt be an absolute shock to the purists on this borad, but something that makes OOTP unique:
The St Louis Cardinals claimed SS Ernie Banks off of waivers from the Chicago Cubs

The 1966 MLB Amateur Draft (highlights)

Code:

Round 1 
Round 1, Pick 1 - New York Mets: 	  SP Bob Moose 
Round 1, Pick 2 - Kansas City Athletics:  SP Gary Nolan 
Round 1, Pick 3 - Boston Red Sox:	  SP Tom Seaver 
Round 1, Pick 4 - Houston Astros: 	  RF Reggie Jackson 
Round 1, Pick 5 - Washington Senators:    SP Jerry Koosman 
Round 1, Pick 6 - Chicago Cubs: 	  3B Doug Rader 
Round 1, Pick 7 - California Angels: 	  SP Jim Hardin 
Round 1, Pick 8 - New York Yankees: 	   C Frank Fernandez 
Round 1, Pick 9 - St. Louis Cardinals: 	  SP Joe Niekro 
Round 1, Pick 10 - Philadelphia Phillies: SP Danny Frisella 
Round 1, Pick 11 - Atlanta Braves: 	   C Johnny Bench 
Round 1, Pick 12 - Cleveland Indians: 	  SP Cisco Carlos 
Round 1, Pick 13 - Detroit Tigers: 	  MR Alan Foster 
Round 1, Pick 14 - Cincinnati Reds: 	  SP Bill Dillman 
Round 1, Pick 15 - Pittsburgh Pirates: 	  CF Pat Kelly 
Round 1, Pick 16 - Baltimore Orioles: 	  MR Roger Nelson 
Round 1, Pick 17 - San Francisco Giants:  SS Jerry Kenney 
Round 1, Pick 18 - Chicago White Sox: 	  RF Graig Nettles 
Round 1, Pick 19 - Los Angeles Dodgers:   LF Curt Motton 
Round 1, Pick 20 - Minnesota Twins: 	  2B Rod Carew 

Other Notable Picks
Round 2, Pick 1 - New York Mets: 	  CF Amos Otis
Round 2, Pick 5 - Washington Senators	   C Manny Sanguillen
Round 2, Pick 6 - Chicago Cubs		   C Ray Fosse
Round 2, Pick 11 - Atlanta Braves	  MR Ken Brett
Round 2, Pick 18 - Chicago White Sox 	  MR Sparky Lyle
Round 2, Pick 19 - Los Angeles Dodgers	  CF Cito Gaston

boblight24 · 08-24-2009, 03:28 PM

Pittsburgh Pirates (0-0) at Atlanta Braves (0-0)

Code:

  		   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 	R H E 
Pittsburgh Pirates 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 1 0 	5 10 1 
Atlanta Braves 	   0 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 X 	6 12 2 

WP: Tony Cloninger (1-0)
LP: Bob Veale (0-1)
SV: Billy O'Dell (1)

POTG: Roberto Clemente (PIT)

HR:
   PIT - R. Clemente (1)
   ATL - T. Cloninger (1)

Attendance: 35,381

Code:

  		   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 	R  H E 
Pittsburgh Pirates 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0  0  1 	4 14 2 
Atlanta Braves 	   0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0  0  0 	3  8 1 

WP: Vern Law (1-0)
LP: Pat Jarvis (0-1)
SV: Pete Mikkelson (1)

POTG: Vern Law (PIT)

HR:
   PIT - None
   ATL - Gary Geiger (1)

Attendance: 19,726

boblight24 · 08-24-2009, 03:36 PM

Atlanta Braves (1-1) at New York Mets (1-1)

Code:

Friday, April 15th, 1966 
  		1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 	R H E 
Atlanta Braves  0 2 1 0 3 0 1 1 0 	8 15 0 
New York Mets   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 	1 5 0 


WP: Denny Lemaster (1-0)
LP: Fred Talbot (0-1)

POTG: Rico Carty (ATL)

HR:
   ATL - J. Torre (1), R. Carty (1)
   NYM - E. Kranepool (1)

Attendance: 10,801

Code:

Saturday, April 16th, 1966 
  		1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 	R  H E 
Atlanta Braves  7 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 2      12 17 3 
New York Mets   0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 	4  5 1 

WP: Hank Fischer (1-0)
LP: Ray Sadecki (0-1)

POTG: Johnny Bench (ATL)

HR:
   ATL - J. Torre (2), J. Bench (1), D. Menke (1), H. Aaron (1)
   NYM - T. Haller (1)

Attendance: 15,529

Code:

Sunday, April 17th, 1966 
  		1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 	R H E 
Atlanta Braves  0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 	2 8 1 
New York Mets   4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 X 	5 9 0 


WP: Bob Moose (1-0)
LP: Tony Cloninger (1-1)
SV: Juan Pizzaro (1)

POTG: Bob Moose (NYM)

HR:
   ATL - None
   NYM - None

Attendance: 16,426

boblight24 · 08-24-2009, 03:49 PM

Atlanta Braves (3-2) at Philadelphia Phillies (4-2)

Code:

Monday April 18, 1966
  			1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11    R  H E 
Atlanta Braves 		0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1  0  3    6 15 0 
Philadelphia Phillies   0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0  0  0    3 12 0 

WP: Chi Chi Olivo (1-0)
LP: Fergie Jenkins (0-1)
SV: Billy O'Dell (2)

POTG: Felipe Alou (ATL)

HR:
   ATL - None
   PHI - None

Attendance: 14,113

Code:

Tuesday, April 19th, 1966 
  		      1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 	R H E 
Atlanta Braves 	      1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 	1 6 0 
Philadelphia Phillies 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 	3 8 2 

WP: Ray Culp (2-0)
LP: Denny Lemaster (1-1)
SV: Dick Hughes (1)

POTG: Ray Culp (PHI)

HR:
   ATL - None
   PHI - None

Attendance: 18,446

Code:

Wednesday, April 20th, 1966 
  		      1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 	R  H E 
Atlanta Braves 	      2 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 	5  9 1 
Philadelphia Phillies 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 	3 11 2 


WP: Hank Fischer (2-0)
LP: Jim Bunning (1-2)
SV: Billy O'Dell (3)

POTG: Hank Aaron (ATL)

HR:
   ATL - H. Aaron (2)
   PHI - G. Oliver (1)

Attendance: 13,181

Code:

Thursday, April 21st, 1966 
  		      1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 	R  H E 
Atlanta Braves 	      0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 	3 12 0 
Philadelphia Phillies 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 	2 10 1 

WP: Tony Cloninger (2-1)
LP: Ed Roebuck (1-1)
SV: Billy O'Dell (4)

POTG: Tony Cloninger (ATL)

HR:
   ATL - D. Menke (2)
   PHI - None

Attendance: 18,159

08-21-2009, 03:14 PM	#1
boblight24 All Star Reserve Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Beyond Is Where I Roam Posts: 554 Infractions: 0/1 (1)	1966 Atlanta Braves - Baseball Moves To The South When Lou Perini sold the Milwaukee Braves to William Bartholomay in 1962 it was no secret that the city of Milwaukee was going to be without an MLB team before too long, it wasn't a question of if, it was a question of when. The ink wasn't even dry when Bartholomay, an insurance magnate from Chicago, was looking for larger television markets around the country so that he could relocate the Braves. The Milwaukee Braves hold the distinction of being the only MLB team to date to play in one city for more than one year and never posting a losing record, but the TV market wasn't the size that Bartholomay was looking for. Up stepped the city of Atlanta, led by Mayor Ivan Allen who in an effort to bring the Braves to the fast-growing Southern city, built Atlanta Stadium, an $18 million, 52,000 seat stadium in less than a year. The city of Atlanta had previously tried to get the A's to relocate from Kansas City, but to no avail. So in 1965, it was announced that the Braves would leave Milwaukee and head south Atlanta, but an injunction was filed in the state of Wisconsin which kept the Braves up north for one more season. Finally in 1966, the Braves packed up and moved to Atlanta, their new home. Which is where you come in. Greetings all, I have tried and tried dynasties that never worked. I usually try an MLB dynasty with the current Braves, but never follow through with it. This time I thought I'd go back in time a little and start from day 1 in Atlanta. My dad grew up in the 50's and would always tell me about watching Mickey Mantle on Saturday's on his black and white TV and I grew up in the 80's where I would watch, with my dad, Dale Murphy on TBS. So I thought that I'd split the difference and start in 1966, the Braves inaugural season in Atlanta. In their final season in Milwaukee, the Braves finished 86-76, in 5th place, 11 games behind the NL Pennant winning LA Dodgers. What I'm hoping to do is continue the Braves' winning ways with names like Aaron and Matthews so please sit back and enjoy the ride! STARTING PITCHERS THE BULLPEN THE LINEUP The final rosters aren't set yet, I believe I have 24 players listed above. The reason for that is because I've set the amateur draft (real players, full draft) to take place on March 1, instead of in June. There isn't much depth in the minors so I'm hoping that with the influx of draftees I can build the minors up a little bit. I don't know if this will change in the coming years, but that's what we're going to this year. __________________ "No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda "Good is not good enough, when better is expected." ~Vin Scully

08-22-2009, 11:09 AM	#2
boblight24 All Star Reserve Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Beyond Is Where I Roam Posts: 554 Infractions: 0/1 (1)	I am no stranger to these boards and posting my dynasty reports, the problem is that I start out strong and then fizzle out (sounds like my wife should be making a smart comment here). As you can see from my other dynasties: My Fictional Carolina Pines, My Cooperstown League Baltimore Orioles Dynasty, My Jack Nicklaus 6 Fictional Golf Dynasty, My NASCAR 3 - Winston Cup ReWritten 1990 Dynasty and there are others out there from Total College Basketball to Front Office Football, it's INSANE. The problem is that I get way too involved in creating spreadsheets and logos and newspaper articles via Microsoft Publisher that it becomes a chore and not very much fun because I play a game and then I have 100 things to do before I can proceed. Now don't get me wrong I love spreadsheets and creating formulas and storylines, but it does take its toll and I'm afraid that my dynasties are the ones that suffer. I have been a fan of these forums for years now and like many of you I have enjoyed following Big Six's Pat O'Farrell Dyansty and cknox0723's Pale Hose Dynasty and all the other great dynasties that the OOTP community has brought to life with their vivid and wonderful imaginations. I don't think I could ever be as eloquent or as humorous with my writing, but I really want to try and make a dynasty last. More importantly I want it to always be fun. I started this Braves dynasty in the year 1966 and really want to take it through a number of seasons. In order to do that I need to kind of scale back on the amount of extra work that I usualy incorporate into my dynasties. I play out all the games so a season takes a long time and with a child on the way the games may be even fewer and far between, but nevertheless I'll need my moments of escape once my son arrives and I'm sure that I'll run to OOTP. Anywho, I plan on posting updates every few days, simple posts that will keep everyone up to speed on the happenings in the league, but nothing that will take more than a few minutes. I will of course do year-end stuff as well, but darn it I want this to be enjoyable. Please bear with me and my ramblings and please keep me on track if I start to go astray. Thanks and enjoy! Funny that I'm posting this now and leaving soon for a baby shower so I won't be playing OOTP today, maybe tomorrow! __________________ "No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda "Good is not good enough, when better is expected." ~Vin Scully

08-24-2009, 03:19 PM	#3
boblight24 All Star Reserve Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Beyond Is Where I Roam Posts: 554 Infractions: 0/1 (1)	MLB Pre-Season News and Notes Before we begin the 1966 season there are some happenings going on with MLB that need to be discussed, the first is a flurry of transactions that have some big names switching teams. Detroit sends LF Gates Brown to Chicago (A) for C Johnny Romano San Francisco sends 1B Orlando Cepeda to Washington for P Jim King Baltimore sends SS Luis Aparicio to Philadelphia for P Roger Craig New York (A) sends 1B Joe Pepitone to Detroit for 2B Jerry Lumpe Los Angeles sends CF Willie Davis to Minnesota for P Mudcat Grant Minnesota sends LF Bob Allison to San Francisco for P Frank Linzy Pittsburgh sends 1B Bill Mazeroski to Detroit for P Hank Aguirre In something that will no doubt be an absolute shock to the purists on this borad, but something that makes OOTP unique: The St Louis Cardinals claimed SS Ernie Banks off of waivers from the Chicago Cubs The 1966 MLB Amateur Draft (highlights) Code: Round 1 Round 1, Pick 1 - New York Mets: SP Bob Moose Round 1, Pick 2 - Kansas City Athletics: SP Gary Nolan Round 1, Pick 3 - Boston Red Sox: SP Tom Seaver Round 1, Pick 4 - Houston Astros: RF Reggie Jackson Round 1, Pick 5 - Washington Senators: SP Jerry Koosman Round 1, Pick 6 - Chicago Cubs: 3B Doug Rader Round 1, Pick 7 - California Angels: SP Jim Hardin Round 1, Pick 8 - New York Yankees: C Frank Fernandez Round 1, Pick 9 - St. Louis Cardinals: SP Joe Niekro Round 1, Pick 10 - Philadelphia Phillies: SP Danny Frisella Round 1, Pick 11 - Atlanta Braves: C Johnny Bench Round 1, Pick 12 - Cleveland Indians: SP Cisco Carlos Round 1, Pick 13 - Detroit Tigers: MR Alan Foster Round 1, Pick 14 - Cincinnati Reds: SP Bill Dillman Round 1, Pick 15 - Pittsburgh Pirates: CF Pat Kelly Round 1, Pick 16 - Baltimore Orioles: MR Roger Nelson Round 1, Pick 17 - San Francisco Giants: SS Jerry Kenney Round 1, Pick 18 - Chicago White Sox: RF Graig Nettles Round 1, Pick 19 - Los Angeles Dodgers: LF Curt Motton Round 1, Pick 20 - Minnesota Twins: 2B Rod Carew Other Notable Picks Round 2, Pick 1 - New York Mets: CF Amos Otis Round 2, Pick 5 - Washington Senators C Manny Sanguillen Round 2, Pick 6 - Chicago Cubs C Ray Fosse Round 2, Pick 11 - Atlanta Braves MR Ken Brett Round 2, Pick 18 - Chicago White Sox MR Sparky Lyle Round 2, Pick 19 - Los Angeles Dodgers CF Cito Gaston __________________ "No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda "Good is not good enough, when better is expected." ~Vin Scully

08-24-2009, 03:28 PM	#4
boblight24 All Star Reserve Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Beyond Is Where I Roam Posts: 554 Infractions: 0/1 (1)	Pittsburgh Pirates (0-0) at Atlanta Braves (0-0) Code: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Pittsburgh Pirates 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 1 0 5 10 1 Atlanta Braves 0 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 X 6 12 2 WP: Tony Cloninger (1-0) LP: Bob Veale (0-1) SV: Billy O'Dell (1) POTG: Roberto Clemente (PIT) HR: PIT - R. Clemente (1) ATL - T. Cloninger (1) Attendance: 35,381 Code: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 R H E Pittsburgh Pirates 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 14 2 Atlanta Braves 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 8 1 WP: Vern Law (1-0) LP: Pat Jarvis (0-1) SV: Pete Mikkelson (1) POTG: Vern Law (PIT) HR: PIT - None ATL - Gary Geiger (1) Attendance: 19,726 __________________ "No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda "Good is not good enough, when better is expected." ~Vin Scully Last edited by boblight24; 08-24-2009 at 04:01 PM.