NARBL Opens - 24 Team Fictional League Based a Divided America

[JDevil]

Full League Name: North American Republics Baseball League (NARBL)
Main URL: NARBL League Site
Reports URL:
Boards URL: NARBL Forums
Rules URL: - I'm literally editing these as I type this
Commissioner(s) OOTP Forum Username(s): JDevil
Email Address: colecleburne@gmail.com
OOTP Version: 13
Game Needed: Required
Players: Fictional
# of Teams: 24
Export Deadlines Days And Times: Tue,Thu,Sun - Exports due 8pm EST
League Time Per Sim: 7 days
First Season: 2012
Latest Season: 2012
Special Rules & Settings: See Below or check the rules page
Currently Available Teams: Many - Check Here

The NARBL is a 24 team associated league that divides teams into two leagues based on a fictionalized divided America. This America is based on the premise that the Confederate States of America were able to gain their independence after the conclusion of the Civil War. There is also a third America republic that comprises the current states of Oregon and Washington, along with the Canadian province of British Columbia. This is called Cascadia. There are also some other modifications such as Cuba, Central America etc. Please see our backstory here. I will continue to complete it as time permits.

The Union League will have 14 teams divided into two divisions of seven teams. It will have a salary cap, and will have wild card teams.

The Confederate League will have 10 teams divided into two divisions of five teams. There will be no salary cap, and only division winners make the playoffs

If you are interested in joining, send me a message via AIM (click the icon in my profile) or complete this form or e-mail me at colecleburne@gmail.com or....PM me on the forums.

[JDevil]

Historical Basis

“…Besides, if it should become the great interest of those nations to separate from this, if their happiness should depend on it so strongly as to induce them to go through that convulsion, why should the Atlantic States dread it? But especially why should we, their present inhabitants, take side in such a question?…The future inhabitants of the Atlantic & Missipi [sic] States will be our sons. We leave them in distinct but bordering establishments. We think we see their happiness in their union, & we wish it. Events may prove it otherwise; and if they see their interest in separation, why should we take side with our Atlantic rather than our Missipi descendants? It is the elder and the younger son differing. God bless them both, & keep them in union, if it be for their good, but separate them, if it be better.” letter to John C. Breckinridge, Aug. 12, 1803


“Whether we remain in one confederacy, or form into Atlantic and Mississippi confederacies, I believe not very important to the happiness of either part. Those of the western confederacy will be as much our children & descendants as those of the eastern, and I feel myself as much identified with that country, in future time, as with this; and did I now foresee a separation at some future day, yet I should feel the duty & the desire to promote the western interests as zealously as the eastern, doing all the good for both portions of our future family which should fall within my power.” letter to To Dr. Joseph Priestley, Jan. 29, 1804

[JDevil]

January 1862 - New Orleans Holds - Union flag officer David Farragut attempted to take New Orleans, in accordance with Winfield Scott's "Anaconda Plan". Confederate installations at Fort Jackson and St. Philip hold. Thus the Union is not allowed to enter the Mississippi River and divide the Confederacy in half. The Confederate defense of New Orleans gave French Emperor Napolean III reason to intervene. Facing pressure at home from industrialists and politicians, who favored a quick Southern victory; along with his own imperial ambitions in Mexico. With New Orleans successfully defended, the French emperor officially recognized the Confederacy.

[JDevil]

April 1862 - The Confederates win convincingly at Shiloh - Beauregard and Johnston agree on a plan to push Union forces back to Owl Creek instead of letting them stumble back to Pittsburgh Landing, destroying Grant's army. Buell and Halleck retreat back to Nashville giving the Confederates momentum and initiative in the west. The decisive defeat of Union forces in rural Tennessee ended Grant and Sherman's battlefield command roles for the remainder of the war. Beauregard proved to be a much more able commander than Johnston and was able to hold off Union forces out west.

[JDevil]

September/October 1862 - The Maryland Campaign is Successful - Special Order 191 was not lost by Bobby Lee. Lee's orders are recovered by trailing Confederate troops before they were allowed to fall into Union hands. The resulting Confederate advance catches McClellan and the U.S. by surprise. Instead of fighting at Antietam, General Lee forces McClellan into a battle on the banks of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania and destroys the Army of the Potomac in the Battle of Camp Hill on October 1, 1862. After the victory at Camp Hill, Confederate forces captured Philadelphia. The United Kingdom recognized the Confederacy on October 22nd bolstered by French recognition, Confederate successes and frankly they had grown tired of Secretary of State Seward who threatened the Brits to stay out of the conflict, and was seen as very antagonistic to the proud British Empire. Lord Palmerston notifies President Lincoln that British warships would be escorting merchant vessels into Southern ports; and that any act disrupting British trade would be construed as an act of war.

[JDevil]

November 1862 - The War Ends - While considering the mediation offer, Abraham Lincoln mentions to the British ambassador Richard Lyons that he has in his desk drawer a proclamation that would have freed slaves in the rebellious Confederacy. Lincoln has discussed the proclamation's viability with his cabinet, but after the U.S. defeat at Camp Hill, he decided against issuing it. He was warned by Lyons that if the proclamation were issued, he would have been perceived as acting in desperation, since the U.S. was about to officially concede defeat and that issuing such an order would amount to nothing more than an attempt to raise insurrection inside what was now another country, and doing so would be seen as a directly hostile act.

Shortly after the conclusion of Camp Hill, Confederate general Braxton Bragg completes the conquest of Kentucky; sometime after the U.S. agreed to mediation, Kentucky becomes the twelfth state to enter the Confederacy. In addition, the pro-Confederate Five Civilized Tribes of the Indian Territory are given territory of their own in the C.S., later to become the State of Sequoyah.

[JDevil]

November 1862-February 1863 - Lincoln and Davis Agree to a Settlement - With prospects for a victory grim, and now a looming two front war with the British in Canada, U.S. President Lincoln agrees to a cease fire with C.S. President Davis on November 5th 1862. With the Confederates in a superior position, and with the aid of the French and British, the South was able to negotiate favorable terms. After occupying Washington D.C, and Baltimore during the Maryland Campaign forcing the evacuation of all essential federal government employees, the Confederates were able to gain D.C., Maryland and Delaware, establishing the Mason-Dixon line as the border between the countries. In return the Union gained control of what would become West Virginia, after voters in that part of the state repealed the ordinance of secession at the Wheeling Convention.

Kentucky was added to the Confederacy and "Indian Territory" was given to the Five Civilized Tribes and turned into the State of Sequoyah. Although contested throughout the war, Missouri was never seriously contended by the Confederates, thus stayed with the Union.

All federal installations in Confederate territories were surrendered to the South. The Confederates also gained control of New Mexico territory, and relinquished all claims to land north of 37 degrees north. (The U.S. capital moves back to Philadelphia)

[JDevil]

1864 - US Presidential Election -With a defeated and now fractured country, Abe Lincoln decided not to run for re-election in 1864. Largely seen as the one man that tore the country apart, Lincoln moved west....more on that later. Republican John C. Fremont of California ran on a hard line Republican platform that blamed Lincoln for not emancipating the slaves sooner, which he hoped would give the North the moral high ground and hopefully prevent the British and French from recognizing the Confederacy, and generally mismanaging the war. Fremont ran against Horatio Seymour of New York. Seymour ran as a fiscal conservative and railed against the abuses of federal power by president Lincoln. The country's political parties have been completely fractured. The Republicans are seen as the people who started and eventually lost the war. The Democrats are seen as nothing other than Copperheads in disguise. William Buckingham, governor of Connecticut, left the fractured Republican Party and joined the newly formed American Party. The American Party was anti-immigrant, isolationist, and also supported lowering the tariff. Buckingham received some support in Ohio and some industrial parts of New England. Though they were frightened by the spector of electing another Republican to the presidency, the Union elected Fremont by a narrow margin.

[JDevil]

1862 - 1865 - Native American Relations in the United States - As a reaction to the Dakota War, and possibly because it was still smarting from the loss to the CSA in the War for Southern Independence, federal troops set out to exterminate the Sioux Indians. The union looked to transform the west as quickly as possible and open it up for white settlement, due to the now much more antagonistic relationship with the South. The US was compelled to win this newly formed competition with the South, and pushed hard for westward expansion to achieve their goals.

After a second major victory for the US over the Sioux in the Dakota Territory, the Dakota tribal elders reached out President Davis and Sequoyah Governor Stand Watie. The people of Sequoyah maintained an uneasy peace with the Creek and fractured Cherokee, after the war. Both Davis and Watie agreed to allow the Sioux to settle in the western part of Sequoyah. From late 1862 to 1865 the remaining Sioux, relocated to Sequoyah, where they maintained a rather high degree of autonomy over tribal affairs.

[JDevil]

1866 - CS Presidential Election -The 1866 CS Presidential election, was so lopsided, it was nearly uncontested. National hero Robert E. Lee reluctantly accepted the tremendous groundswell of support of the nation ran unopposed in the Democratic primary. His only real competition would have been former Vice President Alexander Stephens. Stephens decided against running, due to his icy relationship with President Davis, and the prospect of running against arguably the most famous person in the Confederacy. The newly formed Federal Party, comprised mostly of former Whigs and former supporters of Union nominated John Bell who ran as a Constitutional Unionist in 1860. Bell, from Tennessee did receive some support in border states, but the overwhelming popular support of Lee, gave him the presidency after he received over 80% of the popular vote.

[Base Stealer]

Wowowow i'm very interested!!!!
Can i join? (no time waster....)
And....if i can join.... can i have the Cincinnati Admirals?
Thanks a lot

[JDevil]

If you are interested in joining, send me a message via AIM (click the icon in my profile) or complete this form or e-mail me at colecleburne@gmail.com or....PM me on the forums.

[Base Stealer]

Sent a mail....

[VdoubleB]

This will be my first league. I look forward to competing with the other owners!

[Caminsky]

Sent a form. Also, may I suggest that you check out some books by Harry Turtledove? Given your apparent penchant for alternate Civil War history, you would probably like his writing.

[bwburke94]

Applied. This is my first online league since OOTP10, so I'll need to get used to playing these again.

[JDevil]

Originally Posted by Caminsky

Sent a form. Also, may I suggest that you check out some books by Harry Turtledove? Given your apparent penchant for alternate Civil War history, you would probably like his writing.

I got about 80% through how few remain. Never finished it because I knew how it ended. I bought then next one in the series, haven't read it yet. I responded to your inquiry as well. Longstreet will eventually be President, and some of my ideas are heavily borrowed from the book.

[JDevil]

Originally Posted by bwburke94

Applied. This is my first online league since OOTP10, so I'll need to get used to playing these again.

Brendan - Check your e-mail.

[JDevil]

Originally Posted by VdoubleB

This will be my first league. I look forward to competing with the other owners!

As long as you bring the Bacon

[VdoubleB]

Only for myself, because a man never shares bacon. It's like a unwritten rule, or something..

Also, I believe I botched the forum registration. If my forum name was supposed to be '(first name) - (team name)'. Feel free to edit. I'm a dummy.