[Kelric]

For those interested, this is going to be a very interesting year in the OBL. Josh Gibson, Indian Bob Johnson, Buck O'Neil, Lonny Frey, Schoolboy Rowe and Hilton Smith are all in the amateur draft this season. All of them have the ratings to be All Stars in their first season. Depending on health, Gibson and O'Neil both look to be future Hall of Famers - 20 years old, both already have an 8 rating for Contact, not to mention Gibson's 8 power rating in a league that has not yet seen a home run boom.

It takes us about two months to run a season, a few weeks to run an offseason. So we aren't too far away from the time when we'll be seeing DiMaggio and Mize and that generation of stars.

Edit to add - The Athletics have All Star catcher Mickey Cochrane (58.7 VORP this year), second baseman Dick Porter (24.3 after two seasons over 30), stud left fielder Joe Medwick who put up a 32.4 VORP in his age 20 season and has 9/9/5/4/9 ratings with a little room to grow into his talents still, as well as Earle Combs and Tom Hughes in the OF.

The Cardinals have Dizzy Dean and Carl Hubbell leading their rotation. Their infield is pretty weak, but their outfield of Chick Hafey, Goose Goslin and Mule Suttles bashed their way into the National League Championship Series.