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11-19-2019, 02:46 PM | #1 |
All Star Reserve
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Fictional League with Historical Premise
The year is 1940 -
From its inception in 1924, thru the 1939 season, the Mexican League was basically a league of native Mexican semi-pro players, playing for their local teams. There were a few foreign imports that played in the league during those seasons, most notably Martin Dihigo, who left the New York Cubans after the 1936 season to spend his summers in Mexico. Not surprisingly, Dihigo put up some outstanding batting and pitching statistics when he joined the league. In 1938, fellow Cubans Ramon Bragna, Lazaro Salazar, Silvio Garcia and Julio Rojo joined Dihigo, and in 1939 Negro Leaguers Quincy Trouppe, Roosevelt Davis, Barney Brown, Barney Morris, Andy Porter and Eugene Smith all played on Mexican League teams. But things really changed in 1940, when Veracruz team owner Jorge Pasquel took control of the league. Pasquel, along with his brothers, are famous for trying to sign Major League Baseball players in 1946 to play in Mexico. However, before that, Pasquel made a very successful effort to sign Negro League players prior to the 1940 season. Negro League players were not bound by a reserve clause, at least one that was enforced, and they could be enticed to leave the US leagues for much less money than players in Organized Baseball. A total of 67 players that either had or would later play in the Negro Leagues played in the 1940 Mexican League, which was almost 1/3 of all the league players. That number included Baseball HOFers Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell, Willard Brown, Willie Wells, Ray Dandridge, Leon Day, Hilton Smith and Dihigo. The level of play in the Mexican League jumped exponentially overnight, perhaps going from something equivalent to a “Class D” league at the time to a league similar in quality to the Eastern League, a “Class A” league, which would be equivalent to AA in today’s Organized Baseball classification. The concept of the league is not to follow the exact footsteps but rather to fictionalize the "what-ifs" - Rather than to try and re-create history try to do it with fictional players and create it's own history. The teams are the teams that existed in the league in the 1940's (with some slight liberties) as some of the league histories are a little murky Several of the teams were renamed in the early 1940's - So I chose teams that had longer histories where possible The league will be made up of fictional players - Mexican, Cuban and Negro League players Here are the league pages for review: It is made up of 7 teams http://tonyarmer.net/MBL/news/html/l..._100_home.html I will post the particulars shortly based on reception of the idea |
11-20-2019, 05:47 PM | #2 |
All Star Reserve
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Basic rules and Concept:
The season will be 90 games it will run from October to December (again to mimic the warmer temps in the region) Scouting will be on - set to Normal All numbers will be 1-20 - No Stars No Coaching No Dh (ugh !) 25 man roster - 25 reserves - As some of these teams had from 20+ to 40+ it allowed players to come and go - So no minors but reserves No draft - Players will show up as free agents - There will be no real players these will all be fictional players and all either caribbean or negro league type players No playoffs - only division winner |
11-21-2019, 10:02 AM | #3 |
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Sounds like a great project/league.
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11-28-2019, 07:14 PM | #4 |
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