Back to the 60's / Babyboomer's League

[Free Radicals]

I was wondering if this has ever been done . Only use players from basically the 60's teams . Each player takes a park in the league , no repeats. So each park is unique to the league (determining how to do this not yet determined) . You can ONLY gets players from these teams . No 3 Fingers or Pete's .

Bal '70
Bos '67
Cubs '59
Sox '59
Det '68
La '65
Min '65
NYM '69
SF '62
StL '64
Pit '71

That's 11 and the closest others are Mil '57 and Oak '73. We could get a consensus on the last park. Whatcha think ? Crazy ...nutty...different ? :D

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[raslavens]

I think not enough teams. Why don't you do 60s and 70s or 60s on up? That would create more interest and make it more feasible to field a decent team.

[Free Radicals]

Sure would make draft day interesting at least .

[childsmwc]

I have run and played in similar themes that try and limit the player pool to a specific ERA. I would suggest that you need atleast 13 and probably 14 teams in your player pool to make the draft work.

This are very fun and you definitely use an entire group of guys that would normally never play in ATGII,

Bbrool

[errormagnate]

I like it and I'd do it probably better as a live draft and I would think Oak'73 is more of a 60's team than the '57 Braves. But then again '57 was the quintessential Esinhower era baby boomer year.

[rschwartz51]

I've seen Theme Leagues use this concept (ie; Battle of the ERA's) where you play each era as separate league. This along with a league I ran for 3 seasons which used 12 separate Teams which combined Teams which had common aspects. Yankees, Cards, Dodgers, etc.

In the times your theme came up there seemed to be the end result that it was best to use $100M salary cap in order to use the stars of the period. The period most often was either 1950-1972 or 1957-1972. Most managers rejected adding teams past 1980 but that is a possibility.

I would be very interested if 1956 & 1957 teams were at least included.

[Free Radicals]

Well how about 1950-1975 . There's an era that's still considered Babyboomer. Like I said Its not etched in stone and was looking for imput . We can toss is Cle '54 , Yanks '56 , Shibe '50 , Cin '75, Oak '73 , plus all meantioned earlier and then its a pool of 18 teams . I do believe the 1969 game is only 18-20 teams .

[memphisjohn]

If this helps, technically the Baby Boomer generation was born from 1946-1964. So you could rationalize the two 1946 teams...