Well, the last time I checked in it was 1898. It's over 20 years later and things have changed in the league somewhat. Let's recap and get you familiar with 20th century baseball, shall we?
First, there are now two leagues instead of just one. The Presidents League was created in 1897, from 12 teams in the UL. There are now 15 teams in each league, after a series of expansions led to a total of now 30 teams.
Inevitably, some teams have left the stage since we last met up and some new ones have joined the scene.
SAY GOODBYE TO (last season)
Memphis Elephants (1909)
Shreveport Gassers (1917)
SAY HELLO TO (first season)
Albuquerque Dukes (1910)
Augusta Tigercats (1910)
Dallas Steers (1916)
New York Knights (1910)
Newark Terriers (1916)
South Bend Greens (1918)
FROM HERE TO THERE
Buffalo Blue Wings became the Baltimore Blue Wings in 1910.
Santa Rosa Peanuts became the San Francisco Peanuts in 1918.
Wilmington Quicksteps became the
Miami Amigos in 1920.
Santa Ana Oranges became the Hawaii Islanders in 1918.
WHERE YOU GOIN'?
I'm still debating where I'll go, but I think I'm going to take over a team starting this off-season. So many of the older franchises are having a devil of a time winning titles (which is kinda what I wanted when I started, this push of old v. new franchises, etc., history and all that) and it'd be interesting to help some of them end their droughts. Los Angeles's drought isn't all that long, but it's notable is that they made the playoffs 14 of the first 17 years of the franchise existence and won 3 titles during that stretch, but haven't won another since. (1874)
Here are a few notables: (last title)
Bantam (1833)
Cleveland (1829 in Evansville)
Philadelphia (1827 in Pacific)
San Francisco (1854 in Santa Rosa)
Victoria (1860)
So it'd be interesting here, as three of these franchises are in new cities (or in the case of Philadelphia, their 3rd city and haven't won it since their first) and it'd be cool to see if they could manage to win one.
I'm still debating my next move, but I should know soon what I'm going to do. It'll probably be Bantam, since that's my FOBL team.