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Originally Posted by Piggy Lid
I know you're not trying to put together a 100% historically accurate thing but it's interesting to put out the strengths of some of the European nations involved here.
France - baseball wasn't introduced until the twenties. A real-life French team would be 100% French-Americans. The weakest player base by far.
Germany - No serious baseball until after WW2. Again a real-life team would have been 100% German-Americans but at least there are more of them than French.
Holland - The first club in Holland was founded in 1911 so until then again all Dutch-Americans.
Scotland - Unlike England baseball never reached Scotland. Scots-Americans with a handful of a players playing in England.
Ireland - Same as Scotland except they would a load of Irish-Americans to pick from.
England - You've started right in the middle of the "golden age" of English baseball. From the late 19th century until WW1 they was a small (semi-) professional league in England even occasionally importing a few American pros.
Add in a few English born Major-leaguers and England would expect to be as dominant over the rest of the Europeans (except maybe Ireland) as the US would be over the rest of the world.
If you wanted to add some more European nations then Wales (where baseball was played to an amateur standard) and Norway/Italy/Russia (emigration to the USA) would probably be stronger than at least France and Holland at that time.
Just a suggestion.
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yeah really I just went off the OOTP nations list...whoever had the most players "created" got an amateur team. Like I said in my first post, I really didn't aim to be historically accurate b/c it's only a side-bar to my universe, not what it's based on. I am working on a dynasty that will be historically accurate and will be more traditional, about one player rather than a world or league.