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The theme of this league is that all of the 1969 players that are in the Hall of Fame are drafted and must stay on a roster for the season. Here are the Hall of Famers: Clemente, Ernie Banks, Willie Mays, Al Kaline, Gibson, Aaron, F. Robinson, Marichal, B Robinson, Drysdale, Killebrew, Brock, Hoyt Wilhelm (didn’t know that), McCovey, Catfish Hunter, B. Williams, Stargell, Bench, Yaz, Palmer, Morgan, Carew, F Jenkins, G Perry, Fingers, Seaver, Reggie, Carlton, Bunning, P Niekro, Sutton, Cepeda, Ryan, T. Perez, and B. Mazeroski.

The league is 80 mil, no DH. After 12 managers are signed up, we'll have a 4 round serpentine draft where the 3rd round is for unique stadiums. When you sign up, vote for diamond dope (DD) or autodraft (AD) to complete rosters. Also, there are 35 hall of famers, but we need 36 to fill the 3 rounds of players. So, when you sign up, vote for 1 player that played in 1969 and isn't in the Hall, but most deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.

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Frankie you always come up with creative ideas.
If you make it $80m instead of $100m count me in.

Rick

OK, I changed it to 80 mil. That way, the hall-of-famers will have a bigger impact.

1. franky35 - DD, Dick Allen
2. LMBombers - DD, Pete Rose
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I went through the pitchers first and came up with a short list of:

Luis Tiant, Sparky Lyle, Mickey Lolich, Tug McGraw and Vida Blue. Then I started on the hitters and didn't make it very far when I spotted the all-time hits leader and knew that was my obvious choice.

1. franky35 - DD, Dick Allen
2. LMBombers - DD, Pete Rose
3. Rick Smith - DD, Jim Kaat
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1. franky35 - DD, Dick Allen
2. LMBombers - DD, Pete Rose
3. Rick Smith - DD, Jim Kaat
4. ehlekev - DD, Harmon Killebrew
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Harmon? What a homer pick. (pun intended :wink: )

Harmon's pics have been removed from this thread as it has been pointed out that he is already in the HOF and Kev needs to pick a different player.

Here are our other picks so far.....

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couple comments. You can only vote for a player that isn't yet in the Hall. So, you can't vote for Killebrew. Also, isn't that a picture of Jim Wynn rather than Dick Allen?