Essays
From time to time we send out some important
information (or trivial rambling) to league
members. While some of this stuff might tend to be
of the read-it-and-toss-it variety, some of it
might prove useful for reference. So we’ve begun
to archive it.
More-or-less essential reading
New
GM Startup Instructions (12/13/18) Step-by-step
"how to" for getting started in the Circuit
Do The
Right Thing (1/12/19) Mandatory
reading for prospective league members
Doubleheaders
and the Four-Man Rotation (3/11/19) They
don’t play well together
Keepin’
It Real—Late 1940’s–Early 1950’s
(6/5/19) How to look “period” as opposed to
"time traveler”
What is Tanking?
What Isn’t Tanking? (11/4/21)
Tips on how to avoid having the finger pointed
your way
Trivia/strategy/helpful hints/less essential
stuff
The
Undesired Peace (12/2/18) How OOTP
forced us to have a postseason series in 1946
The
Reserve Clause (2/17/19) A quickie
primer on what it was, and how it works in OOTP
Dee-fense,
Dee-fense… Part I (4/11/19) How
Bill McKechnie got into the Hall of Fame
Dee-fense,
Dee-fense… Part II (4/11/19) How
you can get there too
Expansion/Relocation/Realignment
(5/5/19) A vision of the future to get the
discussion going
Stretching
the Defense (8/21/19) Cepeda or
McCovey—a nice “problem” to have
Note
About the Injury File We Use
(10/23/20) It’s kinder and gentler but it can
still bite
Getting
Better (6/25/21) 12 teams that got
good fast
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