After a decade in San Jose, the Missions have announced a move to a new ballpark in downtown Oakland, California called Oracle Stadium. The Missions had been played in aging Morris Field since joining MLB in 1995.

The team will be named the Oakland Oaks after the major league club that played there from 1947-1958 before moving to Kansas City to become the Royals.

Like the Missions, that team never made the playoffs prior to it's move away from Oakland, now the city...

The career wins record is 481 by Satchel Paige who played from 1926-1949. Number two on that list and gaining ground is Dwight Gooden, who currently has 452 wins, putting him just 29 wins behind the all-time record.

He's still pitching well and providing he continues at his current pace, he'll break the record by the 2007 season.

The all-time home run record is 978 by Babe Ruth who played from 1913-1936. Number two on that list is Hack Wilson with 697.

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The 2005 season settled with the New York Yankees making their first playoff appearance since 1980. That year, they won the World Series. This year? It took an two extra games to get into the AL East Division Championship Series against the Washington Senators, after two ties forced the team to beat the Philadelphia A's and Baltimore Orioles to advance.

In the AL West, the Portland Beavers made good use of their first season in their new league and new city, making the playoffs after...

I took over an old historical league file I had from a fast-sim alternative history league I ran for a while. Starting in the late 1920, I simmed pretty much all the way through 2004. I did expand the league several times, as well as induce some moves. For the most part, though, teams were to end up in cities that have them though not all of them are in that particular manner.

The history is interesting and I'll do some chronicling, but here's the alignment. It's currently two leagues...

After a few years of running and participating in online leagues, I'm back to a place where solo play is on my brain and where I'd like to develop a nice immersive dynasty for the winter months.

I've almost always trended towards fictional because it makes life a bit easier for me, especially in recent years, but in the past I liked to start with a real base set of players and then delve into fictional after those guys retired.

I hadn't looked at any of the OOTP historical...