Brought to you by:
3 longtime Commissioners combine to provide a retrospective look at baseball in the Golden Era
Hardball Heroes, the latest offering from
Total Sports World (TSW), takes you back in time to a place where baseball was always played in the afternoon, where it was a game, a passion....a true American Pasttime.
Hardball Heroes takes you back in time, to the mid-1930s, where all the major independent leagues of the early twentieth century played. A combined collaboration of over 15 real life years (and countless simulated seasons!) of Commissioner experience is provided to those who join what will become the largest OOTP online world ever created in a historical/fictional setting.
Your Commissioners:
"The General" Mark Cooley
Mark has been a longtime user of OOTP, going back to OOTP 2. While he has been in a variety of online leagues, his passion was fictional/historical type settings, which culminated in Glory Days Baseball, a historical league set in 1920 that he ran through the mid-30s. Mark is thrilled to put together Hardball Heroes, and created the movie and logo present in this announcement. Mark is the Founder of Total Sports World, and currently runs the highly successful Gridiron Glory, a Bowl Bound College Football league, with 119 active human owners currently in it.
James "LB" LeBlond
"LB", as he's known, has been a lifelong gamer, having run all kinds of leagues with his local friends back in his grammar school, high school, and college days. What LB really wanted was the ability to run a complete league with all teams owned. That became a reality as the internet evolved. After spending 1995 through part of 2000 learning how leagues were run, and what kind of effort it took to run one well, LB's dreams to be the ultimate entertainer became a reality as Electronic Major League Baseball (eMLB) was born in July of 2000. To this day, eMLB continues to operate, 7 1/2 years and 16 seasons later using the same database of players and history. LB has been an OOTP Fan since OOTP 3. While he admits to being more of a modern baseball guy, LB is very knowledgeable about baseball's past, and excited to support this venture. LeBlond is a Board of Director and Director of Marketing for Total Sports World.
Mike Dills
Mike is another example of a dedicated Commissioner. Having inherited USBA from Scott Fite almost 2 years ago, Mike has solidly positioned USBA to be one of the best fictional leagues available in the OOTP world. Another fan of OOTP since OOTP 2, Mike is proud of the almost 6 years of USBA's existence, and looks forward to its continued tradition and longevity. Mike is a Board of Director for Total Sports World.
The Setup:
Included in the league are 7 leagues of 12 teams each, operating independent of each, but allowing trading
amongst any of Hardball Heroes' 84 historical teams!
What leagues are included:
-- American Association
-- International League
-- Southern Association
-- Pacific Coast League
-- Independence League (Negro clubs)
-- Latino League (Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican clubs)
-- Texican League (Texas League and Mexican League clubs)
What it offers:
-- Separate names db for each league giving true ethnic names to each league each year.
-- Facegen altered to give correct faces to each set of players.
-- Historical names db created just for this league.
-- 154 game schedule for each league.
-- Era correct financials/salaries.
-- Era specific game results
Total Sports World (TSW) is proud to present the latest of its highly successful and promising OOTP Leagues. To complement the highly successful
eMLB (Modern Teams, Modern Players), and
USBA (Fictional Teams, Fictional Players), TSW has added the element of yester-year in baseball by creating what will soon be the largest online OOTP World in a Historical Teams/Fictional Players setting.
For more information, please visit the
Hardball Heroes website, and see what teams are still available for the inaugural season.
If you're interested in a team, please be sure to fill out our
application.
Hardball Heroes - The Glory Days are Back!
