12 teams from the Union League have split and created their own league called the Presidents League starting with the 1897 season.

As a result, the UL went and added two more teams for that season. The new schedule will include interleague play and for the first-time ever, an All-Star Game between the leagues.

The new playoff format is 3 division champions and 1 wild card from each league.

Union League
East
New York Gothams
Boston...

Mat Johansen's son and Lars-Erik Johansen's grandson Thom Johansen was drafted in the 1st round (9th overall pick) by the Los Angeles Seraphs in the 1892 draft. He's a pitcher like his grandfather was and I doubt he'll be as dominating, but..I thought it was neat that was good enough to go in the 1st round like his dad and that he fell to the 9th pick to the same team that both of those guys played for. Again, wish I could've orchestrated it, but I didn't...it was just the magic of the game....

For those of you scoring at home, at the end of the 1890 season, a few changes happened in the league.

The San Rafael Keepers folded and were replaced by the Santa Ana Oranges. The Keepers players went to Santa Ana.

The Boulder Profs merged with the Colorado City Gold Sox. But only some of their players went over. Basically their best prospects and major leaguers who weren't FA to be went to Colorado City, the minor leaguers who weren't stayed in the minors to be shifted...

I'm pleased.

I'm pleased with the progress so far.

I'm pleased with the old crew that has shown up so far on this project.

I'm pleased we have some new guys who are interested and following closely.

Myself and others have put a lot into this in the past few weeks. And while it is a huge undertaking because my obsession with detail and quality, there has been some serious headway made. I don't think there's a turning back point now.
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Two years in and things are beginning to take shape for the future. With the demise of the National League we are down to one league, which was my original intention. While there will be more changes they will be relatively minor from this point on, and the Players League will be the professional baseball league.

The Players League will be continuing on into the future, but I wanted to explain some of the reasoning on why I went this direction. I really wanted to use mostly historical...