[plannine]

While playing pre-1900 baseball over and over, and getting frustrated by almost yearly teams coming and going, I have attempted to make a simple guide to early baseball, merging early leagues into one time line, removing some one season teams, eliminating many team name changes, while still leaving some options for historical failures.

Im sure someone else has tried making it easy, but couldnt find it.

Any comments, suggestions or updates from historical players are welcomed.
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League Structure - is how the league should look at that point in time.
New Teams - anytime during the mentioned period you can add listed teams...
or not.

National Association/National League

LEAGUE STRUCTURE 1871

** Boston Red Stockings
** Chicago White Stockings
** New York Mutuals
** Philadelphia Athletics

New Teams (1872-5)

* Brooklyn Atlantics
* Baltimore Canaries
* Washington Nationals
* Baltimore Marylands
* Philadelphia White Stockings
* Hartford Dark Blues

League Structure 1876 (rebuild league with all new teams)

** Boston Braves #
** Cincinnati Reds #
** St. Louis Cards #
** Chicago Cubs #
** Hartford Dark Blues
** Louisville Grays
** Philadelphia Phillies #
** Philadelphia Athletics


(New Teams - 1878-82)

* Buffalo Bisons
* Cleveland Blues
* Troy Trojans
* Detroit Wolverines
* New York Giants #
* Kansas City Cowboys
* Washington Nationals
* Indianapolis Hoosiers
* Pittsburgh Pirates #
* Cleveland Spiders
* Brooklyn Dodgers #

1883 (LEAGUE sTRUCTURE - 16 Teams)

** Baltimore Orioles
* Boston Braves
* Brooklyn Dodgers
* Buffalo Bisons
* Chicago Cubs
* Cincinnati Reds
* Cleveland Spiders
* Detroit Wolverines
** Louisville Colonels
* Kansas City Cowboys
* New York Giants
* Philadelphia Athletics
* Philadelphia Phillies
* Pittsburgh Pirates
* St. Louis Cardinals
** Washington Senators

1892 (League Struture - 12 Teams)

* Baltimore Orioles
* Boston Braves
* Brooklyn Dodgers
* Chicago Cubs
* Cincinnati Reds
* Cleveland Spiders
* Louisville Colonels
* New York Giants
* Philadelphia Phillies
* Pittsburgh Pirates
* St. Louis Cardinals
* Washington Senators

1900 (League Structure - NL Classic Eight)

* Boston Braves
* Brooklyn Dodgers
* Chicago Cubs)
* Cincinnati Reds
* New York Giants
* Philadelphia Phillies
* Pittsburgh Pirates
* St. Louis Cardinals



1901 AMERICAN LEAGUE

* Baltimore Orioles/NY Yankees
* Boston Americans/Red Sox
* Chicago White Stockings
* Cleveland Blues/Indians
* Detroit Tigers
* Milwaukee Brewers/St Louis Browns
* Philadelphia Athletics
* Washington Senators



All other settings are subject to your version of baseball history but adding (expanding) teams before removing teams will slow down mass retirements (sometimes).