MLB: A Fictional Story

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Note: For this dynasty report I will be using real MLB teams, along with authentic expansion and relocation according to history. However, I will be using completely fictional players and the league begins in the year 1902. Here we go...




Baseball is in my blood. My grandpa, Jerry Archer played professional baseball during the early years of Major League Baseball, or the MLB. I grew up on stories told to me by my grandpa. He would tell me stories of professional baseball in its infancy, along with some of the greatest players during this period. It was because of him and his stories, my only goal in life was to become a professional baseball player... Baseball during the late 1800's primarily consisted of teams from the same city, or within the general vicinity of one another, playing each other in small local leagues. However, during 1897 a man by the name of Arthur Douglas came up with an idea to create a larger professional baseball league. He contacted 8 of the more highly talented and economically successful teams on the east coast. These teams included 3 teams from New York City, 2 from Philadelphia, 2 from Boston, and 1 team from Washington DC. Before the start of the year 1900, Douglas had 16 teams, ranging from as far west as St Louis, to join his start up league. The owners of the now MLB, along with Douglas spent the next 2 years voting on the league structure and the league rules that each team would have to follow. The owners also voted to make Arthur Douglas the first commissioner of the newly formed MLB. The MLB officially opened for business in the year 1902...


My grandfather's, Jerry Archer, career almost never happened. He was drafted by the New York Giants in the 1st round (8th overall) in the 1905 amateur draft. However, his father, Gene Archer, decided that playing a game was no way for a man to make a living. With that said, Archer declined to sign with the Giants. Instead of playing pro baseball, my grandpa went to work on the family farm. He played semi pro baseball for his local team in Montgomery, Ohio. Thanks to a dominant season in the Ohio Independent League, Archer would once again attract the interest of the Giants...The New York Giants had quickly turned into a bottom feeder in the new league. They were yet to field a winning baseball team, while their division rivals, the Brooklyn Dodgers would go onto win the 1905 World Series. The Giants owner, Adam Hubert knew in order to make the MLB relevant, the teams from the more populated cities would have to become the better teams in the league. Hubert would not be rejected a second time. The Giants once again drafted Jerry Archer in the 1st round of the 1906 amateur draft, and made my grandpa an offer he could not walk away from, and with that, Jerry Archer was on his way to a career as a baseball player...