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Wed Nov 26, 2014 12:32 pm
Al Dark, former player and manager, died earlier this month (November 13th). His death gave me an idea about a possible theme league, which was to have teams consisting of players that he managed. But before I went to too much effort, I wanted to get a feel as to whether there would be interest.
Dark had the following managerial stints: S.F. Giants 1961-1964, Kansas City A's 1966-1967, Cleveland Indians 1968-1971, Oakland As 1974-1975, and San Diego Padres 1977.
Even though he managed the Giants early in the 60s, there are actually a substantial number of those players in the 70s set (i.e. Mays, McCovey, Cepeda, Marichal and Gaylord Perry).
I wanted to do small ball ($60 M), possibly restrict the stadiums to the teams that he managed, and require that all teams have a certain number of his players (most likely at least one representative of each of the teams) on them at all times and that they represent a substantial portion of the teams overall salary (i.e., you just can't load up your team with cheapo $0.75 players).
And all team names would have to have Dark in the Title.
Anyway, I'm open for suggestions and comments.
If there appears to be sufficient interest, I will work on a spreadsheet.
Dark had the following managerial stints: S.F. Giants 1961-1964, Kansas City A's 1966-1967, Cleveland Indians 1968-1971, Oakland As 1974-1975, and San Diego Padres 1977.
Even though he managed the Giants early in the 60s, there are actually a substantial number of those players in the 70s set (i.e. Mays, McCovey, Cepeda, Marichal and Gaylord Perry).
I wanted to do small ball ($60 M), possibly restrict the stadiums to the teams that he managed, and require that all teams have a certain number of his players (most likely at least one representative of each of the teams) on them at all times and that they represent a substantial portion of the teams overall salary (i.e., you just can't load up your team with cheapo $0.75 players).
And all team names would have to have Dark in the Title.
Anyway, I'm open for suggestions and comments.
If there appears to be sufficient interest, I will work on a spreadsheet.