I know what you're saying: not another one!
I'm aware that there are a lot of dynasties similar to the one I'm about to start, but I really feel this will help me learn more about baseball's history. Please excuse me for my redundancy!
First of all, I want to both thank AND apologize to TigerFan. Thanks for the wonderful dynasties that you've created: they've inspired me to do something similar. Thanks also for your historical facepacks, which add so much from an immersion standpoint for me while doing this.
However, I also must apologize to you as well: they say imitation is the most sincere form of flattery and I hope you believe that statement. Your dynasty writing is superb and I have a feeling I'm going to borrow quite liberally from your style - I hope that's okay.
I will start things in 1901, the so-called start of the modern era of baseball. I will start off each year with some facts and memorable moments from the real season in question and then move to my replay season. I'm not planning on copying a bunch of stats at this time, but if it's something that a reader would like to see, let me know.
There are certain liberties that I'll take with my recreation in order to keep things as realistic as possible - for example, expansion and city changes will be handled as they were in real life. Baseball was filled with politics in the early years, and I'll have my recreation of baseball history reinact many major moments from real life (ie: Nap Lajoie being forced to move to Cleveland in 1902 in order to keep him away from the National League). The one I won't touch, however, will be real life player deaths (ie: Ed Delahanty, Thurman Munson, Roberto Clemente, etc) - they will live on in my recreation if they haven't retired in-game. To help keep things clear, I will
bold face anything that happened both in real life and in my recreation when reporting.
On to the show...