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Old 06-16-2014, 11:45 PM   #1
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The Liberty League, est. 1876

William Hulbert and his friend Ben Heath dined at Chapin & Gore's on Monroe Street in Chicago on Tuesday evening, September 14, 1875. They were old classmates at Beloit College in the late 40's and had kept in touch over the years. Whenever one of the two found himself in the city of the other, he would call on his friend and they would spend an evening together, usually reminiscing of their college days

However, on this night Hulbert was in an excitable mood and all he wanted to talk about was his idea for a new league of professional baseball teams. He told Heath that he was fed up with the way the big Eastern ball clubs in the National Association were treating the Western clubs like his own Chicago White Stockings and that he had a plan to do something about it. He was going to form his own circuit of teams and run the show himself, insuring that all the clubs were treated fairly. The players would be under tight contracts, he said, and the various clubs would not be allowed to raid one another's rosters for players. "There are no teams, really, in the National Association," claimed Hulbert. "It's just a big mob of players that hops onto whatever roster it feels like at the moment. I aim to change that."

Heath was excited by the idea himself and wished he had thought of it.

After the meal, the two friends rose from the table and Hulbert grasped Heath's hand and shook it. "It's been real good to see you again, Ben," he said. Then he grabbed at his chest and fell to the floor. Before Heath could kneel down to check on him, Hulbert was dead. And so was his idea of the National League. But the next day, as Heath was riding the train back to his native city of Philadelphia, he pondered his friend's idea and soon found himself resolved to make it his own.

Thus, the Liberty League was born.

Heath recruited some of the owners from the National Association and some who operated independent teams. By the new year, he had eight teams lined up to play in the Liberty League's inaugural season:

Boston Red Caps - Joe Waters (52)
Chicago White Stockings - Mike Potts (55)
New York Metropolitans - Nathan Wood (49)
Philadelphia Centennials - Ben Heath (45)
Pittsburgh Alleghenys - Green Cisek (53)
St. Louis Brown Stockings - Aaron Sherwood (60)
Troy Haymakers - Jersey Thompson (53)
Washington Olympics - Henry Wilson (53)

On Wednesday, February 2, 1876, the eight club owners met at New York's Grand Central Hotel and ratified a constitution (written jointly by Ben Heath and his manager John Rogers). They also agreed to follow the schedule of games devised by Rogers that called for 70 games to be played by each member club beginning on Saturday, April 1. Once each owner paid his annual Dues of $100 and signed the constitution, the Liberty League was officially established.

Each owner hired a manager to assemble his ball club from players of the National Association and independent teams across the country. Three of the owners chose men to solely manage the club and the rest hired men to play and manage:

Boston - James Arnold (44)
Chicago - Will Taylor (29) Pitcher
New York - Joe O'Neill (28) Infielder
Philadelphia - John Rogers (46)
Pittsburgh - Ed Parton (30) First Base
St. Louis - Pop Massey (43)
Troy - Reddy Ricker (29) Second Base
Washington - Matthias Haak (32) Third Base

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Welcome to the Liberty League, my latest, greatest and final fictional baseball universe. I plan on playing this league the rest of my life. Of course, I've had that plan before and we'll see how it goes.....

You may have noticed that this is my second try at the Liberty League. I had some issues in the first try that I felt would be better fixed by re-starting rather than repairing and forging ahead. Especially since we were only a few seasons in. Hopefully, we won't have to go through that again, but I reserve the right to get it right. Also, some of the storylines that I was pleased with in that thread will get re-used here. So you may have a spot of deja vu for a bit.

The premise of the Liberty League is for it to be a fictionalized mirror of professional baseball from 1876 through 1972, with a few major differences. In 1973, the Liberty League will begin to follow a more and more independent course through 2001, when there will be 32 major league teams. From there (if we ever get there), we will see where it goes.

One of the main precepts of the Liberty League is that there will always be a minor league structure consisting of two elements. The first element will be a AAA level operated by the major leagues. Each major league team will have one AAA affiliate. The second element of the minor league structure will be a AA level that is fully independent of the major leagues. The AA level will be responsible for bringing new players into the universe via an amateur draft. The major leagues will procure their players by drafting them from the AA level. No levels lower than AA will be represented in the universe, except in abstraction. In the Liberty League, we call the AAA level A Ball and the AA level B Ball. I will try to use real leagues as the basis for this setup, but in the early years there were not always enough real leagues preserved by history to accommodate this. Whenever there are not enough real minor league teams to accommodate all that we need, we will have a league called the "Independent Team Alliance" or ITA that will house the teams. We will never report on this league as if it truly exists, however. Think of it as a conglomeration of independent teams from around the country that is not really a league. Although they will only play each other, we will pretend that they play other unnamed teams in their region.

Since history has preserved no minor leagues for us in 1876, all 16 B Ball teams will be in the ITA and won't get mentioned in the dynasty report, except when we report on the stats of players in the Liberty League's draft of B Ball players in October or in passing to mention some extraordinary occurrence. For A Ball, we will have the International Association begin play a year earlier than it actually did and all Liberty League teams will have an affiliated member team.

For 1876, each Liberty League team has a 15 man active roster and their International Association affiliate has a 20 man active roster. All 35 players are considered on the "secondary" roster. No trading is allowed (the first MLB trade did not happen until 1886). There are no minor league options or waivers or free agency for major league players (reserve rules are in effect). However, any player 27 years of age or older on December 1 and not on the major league team's active roster or on the Disabled List on that date will become a free agent to negotiate with any team they choose.

The International Association teams for 1876, their managers and their major league affiliates:

Columbus Buckeyes - John Lieberman (40) - St. Louis
Guelph Maple Leafs - John Kelly (39) - Chicago
London Tecumseh - John Newby (38) - Washington
Lynn Live Oaks - Andy Harvey (43) - Boston
Manchester Reds - Jocko Nobles (47) - Pittsburgh
Providence Grays - Heinie Auen (52) - Philadelphia
Rochester Maroons - Steve Harrison (42) - New York
Syracuse Stars - Eddie Therrien (45) - Troy

Since I have no desire to try to make dollar amounts historically accurate or deal in millions of them, the value of a dollar will remain constant throughout the life of the Liberty League and for salary purposes, $20,000 will be approximately equal to $20 million at today's wage rates for major league ballplayers.

All owners and managers are maintained outside of OOTP. I do the hiring based on formulas I have created that utilize player personality ratings. I do the firing based on major league firings. If a fifth place club in the MLB fired their manager after game number 35, then whichever team is in fifth place in our league after game 35 will fire their manager. I also use the ratings to determine a players' susceptibility to gambler's bribes and whenever someone in real baseball was banned for something, we will have Liberty League players banned. I have other formulas using the personality ratings to determine other things, as well. For instance, all owners will come from the player pool (they are rated for business acumen).

I also have tables set up for player deaths to occur. Occasionally, as we saw in the first run of the Liberty League, young players will perish. Retired players will eventually pass on. These are not based on MLB occurrences, but will be totally random.

Each team will play 70 games for 1876 beginning on Saturday April 1. There will always be a game on Saturday and there will always be at least one day off between games, so that teams will usually play 3 games a week and never on Sunday. The team with the most wins will be crowned the Champion on September 21, unless there is a tie. There is no post-season.

Eventually, I will choose an expansion team as my own permanent property and we will follow them on a daily basis, but until then I will sometimes manage a club day-to-day and sometimes sim through seasons as just the commissioner.

I will begin 1876 playing the role of Reddy Ricker, a 29 year old star second baseman who has been hired by Jersey Thompson to manage the Troy Haymakers. I'll play each of their games out and we will follow them daily as long as Reddy keeps his job and/or Troy keeps their franchise. After that we will play it by ear.

Hope you enjoy the ride!

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The first thing I will do is post the Opening Day rosters of the eight Liberty League teams and their International Association affiliates. The statistics provided are the players' records from Spring Training this year.

Editor's Note: This is another major difference between the Liberty League and the National League of 1876. Since I play with stats only, except for the 'other' ratings on a 1-10 scale, I need the Spring to evaluate players. So, the Liberty League will always play 6 weeks of Spring Training games (36).
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The National Association

The National Association lasted from 1871 to 1875. Ben Heath put it out of business when he started the Liberty League. Most of the best players from the National Association have ended up on Liberty League teams.

So that you will know who the star players are going into 1876, here are the top pitchers and players from the National Association with their career stats from 1871 to 1875. Also listed are a few not so top players who led the Association in something. The team is their current Liberty League team. The Def (Defense) column is a subjective rating of the player's current prowess at his primary position on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the best.

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Meet Your 'Makers

I am Reddy Ricker. I'm a fair ballplayer and Jersey Thompson gave me a good salary to assemble and run his team in the new Liberty League. We'll play out of Troy, New York, and Mr. Thompson has been trying to get folks to call us the Haymakers. He told me he hired me because I was the best ballplayer with a brain he had seen and that I was a natural leader. I don't like to brag, but it would be false modesty if I said I disagreed with him.

I played 5 years in the National Association and twice my team won the championship, in '72 and '74. Last year we finished 3 games out, mostly because I missed 6 weeks in June and July with a bum arm. I had the highest batting average in the Association last year, batting .370. My pitcher was Bill McClean, who's the best pitcher in baseball in my opinion and I tried to get him to come to Troy with me, but it didn't work out. We're the smallest city to have a team in the Liberty league and Mr. Thompson is afraid we won't draw many patrons to our games, so he has limited what I can spend on salaries. Joe O'Neill, the manager for the New York City club, offered Bill a lot more money than I could, so he went there.

But I ended up with a fair pitcher or two, anyway. I got John Bendickson, who was the main pitcher for the team that beat us out last year. Plus, he's only 24 and Bill is already 30. He was 36-20 in only his second season and I think he can get a lot better. I also got 27-year-old Abe Everette, who also won 36 games last year, though he lost 29. If they both show the improvement that I think they can, nobody will have better fellas in the box than us.

To catch them, I got Jumbo Tilford. He might not be the best catcher in the game (that's probably Al Cannon, who signed with Washington), but he's one of the best and you can count on him like the sun rising in the morning. In his 5 years in the Association, he caught every game his team played without missing a single one. He's got a good arm and a solid bat. Only knock on him is he ain't too bright, but he's a lot smarter than he is fast. He's as slow as the day is long. He's 31 and his experience will really help our young hurlers develop into star boxmen.

At first base, I got a bit of a dilemma, but it's the good kind to have. I signed Tom Stanley to be my starter. He's a solid hitter and plays decent defense. He's not too bright and can't run much, but that's why he's at first. Later on, I got a chance to sign Sol Popko and I took it. He hit even better than Stanley last year, leading all first baseman in average and total bases. He's younger, too. But I told Stanley he was my starter, so I'm gonna have Popko playing in Syracuse in reserve.

At second will be me. I can pick it with anyone and my bat speaks for itself. Or at least, it used to. This Spring I didn't hit a lick. Everything was right at somebody. Plus, this managing stuff has made it hard to focus on my hitting like I should. But I'm confident my hitting will come around.

At shortstop, I have Bill Rush. I can honestly say there is not another man I'd rather have playing the short field for me than Bill. He can play anywhere in the infield and play well. He can hit, too, but had a bit of a down year last year. But this Spring, he was the best hitter on our team. At 27, I think he is primed to have his best season yet.

At third will be Crazy Kelley. We only call him Crazy because he is nuts. He's a smart guy and a hard worker, but he marches to his own drummer. He's not a bad fella, but other guys have a hard time relating to him. But he can play third base and hit with the best of them. Last year he hit almost .350. His biggest problem has been staying healthy for a whole season.

In left field we'll have John Hagadorn. Last year, he was a rookie and hit almost .300. He can run very well and play defense with anybody in either left or right. He can play center in a pinch, too. He's got a good arm and is a good fella in the clubhouse. He has shown some power in his bat and combined with his speed and defense, he ought to be a good player for the Haymakers for years to come (assuming there are years to come for the Haymakers).

Bobby Hubbard will be our center fielder. He's only the best hitting and best fielding center fielder in baseball. Hit almost .350 last year. He'll be our leadoff man and I hope will lead the league in runs scored.

In right field, I signed the player I am most excited to have in Troy. Jimmy Gerber is only 25, but can already hit with the best of them and nobody can play right field better than he can. He's got it all: speed and power and defense. Plus he can bat from either side of the plate. There are only 3 players in the National Association who had a career slugging percentage over .400 and Gerber is one of them. I already had his name written down as the clean-up hitter for every game this season, but he went and got injured in Spring Training and will miss the first month. That will hurt us a bunch, but I think we should be okay. Dave Taylor will play in Gerber's spot until he's back. Taylor has one of the strongest arms I have ever seen and won't hurt us defensively, at least.

I don't want to toot my own horn too much, but I am really proud of the collection of ball players I got to come to Troy to play for the Haymakers. If they all play up to their potential, we will win this league going away.

The season starts on April 1 and we get to play at home at Putnam Grounds against Joe O'Neill and his New York Metropolitans. Joe put together a pretty good team himself, but he had the biggest bankroll of anybody and ought to have been able to sign a player or two. It will be a good contest to see if cunning can win out over cold hard cash.

See ya there.

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Saturday, April 1, 1876 - Opening Day vs. New York Metropolitans

It's time to put your money where your mouth is and get this new League up and going.

Charlie Moss, N.Y. (35 R 35-32 2.83 last year in NA. All-time winningest pitcher in NA history - 182 wins in 5 seasons) vs John Bendickson, Troy (24 R 36-20 1.88 last year for the Champion team in the NA)

Won - 8 to 1

Frankly, I don't know why O'Neill went with Moss over my ol' pal Bill McClean. Moss was a great pitcher, but he's getting on in years and McClean is the best there is as far as I'm concerned. Moss started off okay, setting us down in order in the first. In my first official time at bat in the Liberty League I popped out to the catcher. The game was tied at 1 apiece until we scored 3 times in the 5th. We then batted around in the 6th and got 3 more runs. Bobby Hubbard is making good on my prediction that he will lead the League in runs scored: He did it 3 times today. He had a couple of hits, stole a base and threw out a runner at third. I ended up with 2 hits and a walk. 1 RBI, but no runs scored. I made an error, too. Errors are going to happen though. You just want to make sure you limit them to physical errors and not mental ones. Tom Stanley had a double and a single and knocked in a run. Jumbo Tilford had a hit and scored twice and threw out both guys that tried to steal on him. But the star of the game was young John Bendickson, who held the Mets to 7 hits and 1 unearned run. He also had 2 hits with his bat and scored twice. We had 851 paid patrons come to see the game. I think Mr. Thompson's fears of small crowds was unfounded and he should have let me spend more money. But I couldn't have gotten a much better team, anyway, I think.

Other Games:
Boston (7) at Washington (2) - Charlie Morlock (1-0) over Cal Wright (0-1). 23-year-old CF George Kunz had 3 hits, including a double and a triple for Boston. He had 4 RBIs. C Al Cannon had 4 hits for Washington, including a double, but no runs or RBIs. LF Jesse Spencer hit the first home run in Liberty League history for Washington. His blast came in the 3rd inning with no one on base.

Pittsburgh (2) at Chicago (12) - Will Taylor (1-0) over Bones Lane (0-1). Chicago rapped out 17 hits and Pittsburgh made 11 errors. Chicago only made 1 error. SS Dan Mitchell had 3 hits, including 2 doubles for the White Stockings. He knocked in 2 and scored once. RF Joe Rerik had 3 hits with 3 RBIs and 2 runs scored. Chicago had the biggest turnout of the day with 1,089 paying their way in to see the game.

Philadelphia (3) at St. Louis (4) - Fred Cline (1-0) over Pop Yurkovich (0-1). Philadelphia out-hit the Brown Stockings 8 to 6 and only made 1 error to St. Louis' 7, but lost anyway. Yurkovich only allowed the 6 hits, but he has no one to blame for the loss except himself. With the game tied at 3 in the bottom of the 7th, he walked a batter with 1 out. He then threw a wild pitch to move the runner to second and let him go to third when he bungled a groundball back to the mound. The run scored on a groundball that the Centennials tried to turn into a double play, but came up short. 2B Bub Crawford hit a home run and scored twice. He was the batter that Yurkovich walked in the 7th and eventually scored the winning run.
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Monday, April 3, 1876 vs. St. Louis Brown Stockings (1-0 tied for 1st)

Fred Cline, St.L. (33 R 1-0 1.00) vs John Bendickson, Troy (24 R 1-0 0.00)

Lost - 6 to 2

Bobby Hubbard led off with a single, stole second and went to third when Bill Rush bunted him over. And then I popped out to the catcher. Made me mad all day. There are four things a club needs to win: pitching, hitting, baserunning and defense. Today we had good pitching, but nothing else. We made 5 errors, two of them my own. We only had 6 hits. Bobby Hubbard had 2 of them with a double and Crazy Kelley had 2. I was 0 for 4. Bendickson had it going today and we let him down. He struck out 4 and not one of the runs was earned.

Other Games:
Chicago (11) at Boston (6) - Will Taylor (2-0) over Charlie Morlock (1-1). Chicago had 19 hits. They've now scored 23 runs in their first 2 games. 3B Jack Pierce and C Jake Houghton each had 4 hits with a double. Each scored twice. Houghton had 2 RBIs and Pierce had 1. Will Taylor held Boston to 5 hits. Charlie Morlock did not pitch very well, but he hit a home run.

Pittsburgh (7) at Philadelphia (5) - Bones Lane (1-1) over Pop Yurkovich (0-2). LF Harvey Burke had 2 hits with a triple. He scored twice and knocked one in. Bones Lane had a pair of singles.

Washington (6) at New York (4) - Cal Wright (1-1) over Charlie Moss (0-2). 2B Calvin Biron had 3 hits and an RBI for Washington. It was 37 degrees for the Metropolitan's New York debut and only 374 came out to see it.

In the Opening Day of the International Association, Rochester scored 9 times in the bottom of the 9th to win 15 to 14 against London. Rochester had 5 hits in the inning and London made 5 errors and had a passed ball.

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Thursday, April 6, 1876 at Pittsburgh Alleghenys (1-1 tied for 3rd)

John Bendickson, Troy (24 R 1-1 0.00) vs Bones Lane, Pitts. (33 L 1-1 4.50)

Won - 9 to 4

Very first thing that happened in this game is a ball was hit to me and I made a bad throw putting a runner at second who eventually scored. I am glad that I am the manager or I'd be sitting on the bench after 5 errors in 3 games. Helped by 3 Pittsburgh errors, we scored 4 times in the 2nd, but then Bones Lane started mowing us down and Pittsburg kept chipping back until they tied it up. After our outburst in the second we only had 3 hitters go to bat in the next 4 innings. I finally broke the string of consecutive outs by taking a walk, but John Hagadorn grounded into a double play. But in the 8th, Bobby Hubbard got us going with a lead-off double and we scored a pair of runs. Added 3 more in the 9th to seal the deal. Hubbard had 3 hits on the day and scored twice. Bendickson held the Alleghenys to 7 hits, but finally gave up an earned run.

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New York (6) at Boston (1) - Charlie Moss (1-2) over Charlie Morlock (1-2). Moss held Boston to 4 hits and knocked out 3 with his bat. C Willie English had 3 hits and 3 RBIs.

St. Louis (3) at Washington (13) - Cal Wright (2-1) over Fred Cline (2-1). 2B Calvin Biron had 4 hits with a triple and 2 RBIs and 2 runs scored. C Al Cannon had 4 hits and scored twice with an RBI.

Philadelphia (6) at Chicago (2) - Pop Yurkovich (1-2) over Will Taylor (2-1). 3B Jim Ware had 3 hits with a double and scored 3 times.
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Saturday, April 8, 1876 vs. Philadelphia Centennials (1-2 tied for 4th)

John Callaham, Phil. (27 R 0-0 0.00 1st start) vs Abe Everette, Troy (27 L 0-0 --- 1st start)

Won - 5 to 2

I mentioned there were 4 things a team needs to win; today we had 3 of the 4. All but good base running. We were thrown out stealing 3 times. John Hagadorn was thrown out twice trying to steal third base, but he had a double and a single and made 7 put outs in left. He also made our only error of the game, but it was on a bad throw at the plate that really did not cost us anything. Bill Rush went 0 for 4 today. Our best hitter in the practice games has started out the season 1 for 18. I only had 1 hit, but it was a big one, scoring two runs to make the score 4 to 1. And I had my first errorless game of the year. Crazy Kelley had 2 hits with a double. Everette pitched a great game, only giving Philadelphia 6 hits.

Other Games:
Chicago (6) at New York (3) - Will Taylor (3-1) over Charlie Moss (1-3). 2B Sandy Woodruff had 3 hits with a home run, scoring twice for Chicago.

Pittsburgh (6) at Washington (14) - William Cunningham (1-0) over George Dennis (0-1). C Al Cannon had 3 hits with a double, scoring 3 times and knocking in 4 runs. 1B Lou Knight had 4 hits and scored 3 timed with 2 RBIs.

Boston (4) at St. Louis (6) - Roger Lake (1-0) over William Rose (0-1). CF William Macho had 2 hits and scored twice.
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Tuesday, April 11, 1876 at Chicago White Stockings (3-1 tied for 1st)

John Bendickson, Troy (24 R 2-1 0.67) vs Will Taylor, Chicago (29 L 3-1 1.50)

Won - 6 to 4 in 12 innings

Bendickson sat down the first 11 that he faced, but then we made 3 errors in the 4th to give them a pair of gift runs. We scored 4 times in the first, but not again until the 12th. Back-to-back doubles by Tom Stanley and Crazy Kelley gave us the go ahead run and a single by Jumbo Tilford added some insurance. It was Tilford's third hit of the game. Kelley came up gimpy after his double and I had to put Wash Horsfall in for him. He'll be gimpy for a day or two, but that's all. I gave Dave Taylor the day off in right against the tough lefty and put George Fields out there. It was not pretty. Fields can't field. He made 3 errors. He did have a hit and a walk and stole a base, but he won't be in right field again anytime soon. I put Taylor back out there in the bottom of the 12th and it was a good thing because two balls were hit out there and he caught them both. Bill Rush had another O'fer; he is now 1 for 25. I moved him down to the bottom of the order, but I need him in the field.

Other Games:
Pittsburgh (5) at Boston (8) - Charlie Morlock (2-2) over Bones Lane (1-3). LF Sandy Perkes had 4 hits with a double, a run and an RBI.

Washington (15) at Philadelphia (10) in 10 innings - Cal Wright (3-1) over John Callaham (0-2) in relief of Pop Yurkovich. Philadelphia scored 5 times in the bottom of the 9th to tie the game, only to lose. Washington had 26 hits. They have scored 42 runs in their last 3 games. 7 players had at least 3 hits. 4 players scored 3 runs apiece.

St. Louis (4) at New York (5) - Charlie Moss (2-3) over Fred Cline (2-2). Moss held St. Louis to 4 hits, one of them a home run by SS Fred Young, his second hit, not home run, hit of the year. Manager Joe O'Neill stole third base in the 8th and scored the go-ahead run on a long flyball.

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