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I wanted to get a family theme league together for ATG. So, I was hoping to get some help with the known father/son or brother combos.

ie. The Alou's, DiMaggio's etc... or Griffey's

We probably need a live draft for this, $100million (possibly).

If there are enough blood relatives that would be perfect. If not, we could go with the last names. ie. Johnson's, Smith's etc...

The only caveat would be you need to have the entire entourage of Johnsons or Smiths etc... on your team.

Anybody up for this? It may not be totally competitive, but it will be fun.

The help part... I could use some finding the family ties.

Without any research yet, we have... (if interested, please copy/paste and add what you find)

Alou, Bonds, DiMaggio, Waner, Alomar, Delahanty and...?


visick

Wills, Boone, Griffey, Niekro, Perry, Brett,

this page may help:

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/family/fam1a.shtml

Niekros (Phil and Joe), Perry (Jim and Gaylord), Forsch (Ken and Bob), Brett (Ken and George).

I don't think you will find enough for 12 teams :cry:

This would be hard, I've played around and had a hard time fielding teams of Williams, Bills etc, smiths, jones, thomas, toms.. etc

Not sure how you could do it, unless only starting nine or 30 % of players have sim ilar names
greg

Dick Allen and brother Bernie and a few stray allens.

Bagbys jr and sr
berras dale and yogi
Trouts steve and Dizzy
paul and Dizzy dean

You might have an easier time making a "sibling rivalry" league....each team must have a brother combo split between each opposing team... wonder if there are enough combos for that?

Vern & Vance Law
Sandy & Roberto Alomar(Sandy Jr. does not have a card)
Earl & Earl D Averill
Bob & Ray Boone(no cards for Brett and Aaron)
Barry & Bobby Bonds
Cecil & Prince Fielder
Jim & Mike Hegan
Fred & Jason Kendall
Bob & terry Kennedy
Roy and Roy Smalley
Doc Gooden & Gary Sheffield(Uncle/nephew)