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Strat-O-Matic Baseball Online's All-Time Greats III, coming in early August to a browser near you.

New team teaser #10!

[url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYG/1921.shtml]1. 1921 New York Giants[/url]
[url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYY/1978.shtml]2. 1978 New York Yankees[/url]
[url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CLE/1906.shtml]3. 1906 Cleveland Naps[/url]
[url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/ATL/1982.shtml]4. 1982 Atlanta Braves[/url]
[url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BAL/1966.shtml]5. 1966 Baltimore Orioles*[/url] (replaces '70 Orioles)
[url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/PIT/1927.shtml]6. 1927 Pittsburgh Pirates[/url]
[url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CAL/1979.shtml]7. 1979 California Angels[/url]
[url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYY/1961.shtml]8. 1961 New York Yankees[/url]
[url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/TEX/1977.shtml]9. 1977 Texas Rangers[/url]
[url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/PHA/1911.shtml][color=darkred:72dbf9da35][size=14:72dbf9da35][b:72dbf9da35]10. 1911 Philadelphia A's[/b:72dbf9da35][/size:72dbf9da35][/color:72dbf9da35][/url]
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World Series Champs... featuring HoFer's Home Run Baker, Eddie Collins, Chief Bender, Eddie Plank... did I miss anyone?

Eddie Collins enjoys an upgrade here - he'll be removed from the '19 White Sox and represented here, with the '11 A's.


* Whether a year's card set is [b:72dbf9da35]Super-Advanced[/b:72dbf9da35] or not was a significant factor in our team decisions. SA card sets are sets that Strat-O-Matic officially created and released for that year, which include more accurate data (such as ballpark HR and clutch tendencies) than non-SA years. The 1966 Orioles (SA) replacing the 1970 Orioles (non-SA) is an example of such a move.

Other notes:

- Please refer to [url=http://forums-beta.sportingnews.com/viewtopic.php?t=96862]this thread[/url] for where I previously announced that ATG III will feature the option to play any of a number of pre-defined subsets of the master player pool, if you don't want to play with the entire pool.

- Since the team pool is growing so large, we are somewhat relaxing our "Greatest Teams" criterion for selecting new teams, and shifting the focus a little more towards the players. It's not a dramatic shift, but I just wanted to explain why you'll be seeing some 3rd place teams making the cut for ATG III.

- Error ratings WILL BE NORMALIZED across era, so you'll no longer have to worry about guys like Honus Wagner committing 50 errors a year.

:D :D :D :D

An upgraded Collins, Chief Bender, Plank & Home Run Baker. :D

Man, do I like this choice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Bye Bye bargain eddie. Hello stud eddie. :D

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Truly an All-Time Great Team. Terrific defensively for its time, as well. This was the famed "$100,000 Infield."

Frank "Home Run" Baker was always a favorite of mine; he's going to be a premium player, I think.

Now I wonder what the nit-pickers will say about this one... I can hear it now: "Jack Coombs had a much better year in 1910. It's a shame we have to settle for a mediocre Coombs card. Are they trying to overload the .50 starters?" ;)

WeeeeeeeeDogie. Great choice. :D :D :D

Eddie will no longer be bullet proof.....so its a trade off ..... should be a great card....and an expensive one too.....

I wonder if they will address the injury thing for the new game.... its pretty tough taking a guy with 599 PA's who has the same injury risk as far as number of games as a guy with 120 PA's..... I would think making those guys over 500 AB's have a max 7 games would be much better.

Cy Morgan with zero HR's should be a good card too....and Coombs "might" be usable also.........Stuffy and the 3 OF'ers may be decent small ballers if the defense is there....it looks suspect though. This is one of the better choices so far IMHO. :D

Jack Lapp will be one of the most sought after players off this team...if he gets a card. :shock: