Background loading images Original Franchises

[Leo_The_Lip]

OOTP has a boring background image while the game loads, so I thought I'd do a series of replacement images starting with the original 16 franchises.

In order to use these, you should:

1) Download the file into your OOTP [version] DATA file
2) Rename the existing background.jpg as OLDbackground.jpg (for example)
3) Rename the new team file background.jpg

You'll have to so this each time you change teams.

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I'll start with the defunct teams, beginning with the greatest sports franchise in the history of Philadelphia professional sports:

The Philadelphia Athletics

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Next up is, perhaps, the worst team in MLB history:

The St Louis Browns

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The Boston Braves are next. A few interesting things about this background:

1) I really, really want a sip of Spahn and Sain and Pray for Rain orange juice. I put the b&w image of the pitchers, plus Vern Bickford along side this great old ad.

2) For aesthetic reasons, I only added the first stanza of the famous diddy. Here's the whole thing:

First we'll use Spahn
Then we'll use Sain
Then an off day
followed by rain
Back will come Spahn
followed by Sain
And followed
we hope
by two days of rain.

3) The World Series tickets are wonderful. Note that you remove a feather for each game. This a press pass and you may not be able to see "WORKING PRESS -- NO LADIES ADMITTED!".
One can only suppose why the holder of these tickets did not attend the sixth and deciding game. Perhaps he had an assignation with a lady that day.

4) I got a little artsy-fartsy in the lower right corner by fading the 1914 pennant image over the team photo. That's why it is a little weird, but each photo by itself is bit boring.

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Next up is the Boston Braves dominated, of course, by the 1914 Miracle team and the 1948 pennant winner.

[Lafayette53]

This is really well done.

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I got tired of the shaggy blue softball loading screen, and saw this nifty poster from the 1989 World Series. It is too square to be a good background image, so I added a few pictures from that odd series.