Similarly to tajoumaru, our league's fiction involves the dissolution of MLB (for us, it happened in 2006). The league collapsed under the weight of out-of-control spending and the loss of public trust over the use of steroids. From its ashes, the
Planetary Extreme Baseball Alliance (PEBA) was born, a 24-team league with franchises based largely in small-to-mid sized markets in an effort to better connect to the common fan. After a rocky start, the league has flourished financially in recent years, enough so that it was recently able to purchase the 12-team
League of the Rising Sun (LRS), the preeminent Japanese baseball league in our universe. The current 2010 season is the first for the LRS as a PEBA-owned and operated entity.
You can view the hierarchy of our universe
here. Our
news archive is filled with PEBA-related back story. Apologies for the formatting issues and broken links you may encounter; we recently made a server change, and until our conversion scripts are ready the articles will look a little messy.