Thank you for your great support and encouragement.

Last Monday set a new record for views... 365... the old mark was a few weeks ago... 332.

THE ISLANDIAN TIMES
Monday, April 1, 2052

IPA THIRD ALL-DECADE TEAM 2021-2030

CF Roy Hobbs (2013-2031)
As expected the great Roy Hobbs repeated as the Third Decade Team center fielder, but he did have some competition from Russ Woodward, the gifted Marston outfielder, a contemporary of Hobbs... this decade's top center fielder chalked up some of his best seasons during this time... Hobbs led the Ruthlandian Union 10 times in hits in his career, five times in each decade... at 34 he batted a lofty .359 with 36 homers, 142 RBIs and scored 125 runs... at 36 Hobbs led the league with 138 runs batted in while hitting at a .342 clip... he was honored as an All-Star 15 times, won 7 Golden Gloves and posted a .345 lifetime BA, finishing second to Jet Kazmarek, the IPA all-time leader with a .350 BA... four times Hobbs won the batting title, seven times received the Golden Bat Award and twice captured the Ruthlandian Union Most Valuable Player trophy (2026 and 2030).

Overall in 19 seasons with the Waleska Westerners Roy Hobbs put up some strong statistics with 3793 hits (3rd all-time), 594 doubles (13th), 142 triples (8th), 587 homers (11th), 2037 RBIs (6th) and 2026 walks (11th)... the Westerners won two pennants and the 2028 Pro Cup... they topped the Tuckanarra Blue Jays in seven games... Hobbs was named the best player in the playoffs that season for hitting .333 with 4 homers, 18 RBIs and 14 runs in 18 games.

Thanks to knuckler for the Waleska Westerners jerseys.

Yesterday in the IPA

THE ISLANDIAN TIMES
Sunday, October 15, 2028

2028 IPA Pro Cup Finals

Waleska Wins First Pro Cup, De Leon Hero
The Waleska Westerners ended 27 years of frustration and finally won the IPA Pro Cup... the Westerners rallied from a 3-0 deficit, stunning Tuckanarra 4-3 with 4 runs in the top of the seventh to capture the Islands championship for the first time... Jose De Leon cleared the bases with a crucial 3-run double to bring home the IPA trophy to Waleska.

Another hero was reliever Jarred Laclair, who came on for starter Wild Bill Butler in the last of the fifth and salvaged a win... Butler had already walked in 2 runs when Laclair arrived on the scene... Laclair promptly forced in another run before he got out of the inning... winning pitcher Laclair (2-1/0.96) proceeded to shut out the Blue Jays on 2 hits over the final 4 frames in a brilliant relief effort, though he had to get out of a very threatening bases-loaded situation in the bottom of the ninth... with runners on second and third and only one out, Laclair fanned C Trevor Dowd (.372) for the critical second out, intentionally walked 1B Lynn Starr (.233), then retired 3B Koora Nawajuk on an easy fly ball to end the game and give Waleska its first ever Pro Cup.

SS De Leon (.217) led the Westerners at the plate with 3 RBIs... De Leon collected 13 RBIs during the playoffs... 3B Yahto Sisika (.301), LF Loco Dillinger (.385) and RF Roy Hobbs (.333) all had 2 hits and an RBI apiece... Hobbs topped the team with 18 RBIs in the postseason and Dillinger added 13... leading the Blue Jay bats were Nawajuk (.319), SS Jed Turchin (.405) and CF Terry Jasper (.294)... they each drove in a run... Quinn Starr (4-4/3.93) went the distance in defeat, allowing 4 runs on 8 hits.

At the post game press conference, Waleska skipper McGraw Johnson gave special credit to his hitters and also to his bullpen for really coming through for them in the playoffs... especially citing Laclair, who made 10 relief appearances... speaking of his batting order Johnson said it is a joy to make out a line-up card that features superstars Roy Hobbs and Loco Dillinger... plus solid sticks like Yahto Sisika, Calico Clay, Wilson James (.295) and Jose De Leon.

Manager McGraw Johnson, who has been at the helm for all of the 27-year title drought, was overjoyed... Soaked in champagne, the 60-year-old Johnson told the press, "Our fans have waited 27 long years for this moment... I have spent almost half my life trying to win this thing... it's an eerie feeling, almost like an alternate reality... I'm afraid I'll wake up and it'll all be a dream." Later in the victory celebration Johnson added, "I don't think we'll even need a plane to fly home."

Game heroes Jose De Leon and Jarred Laclair chimed in. De Leon said, "This is sheer joy for the team and the town of Waleska." Laclair added, "For years and years this is what the whole town has been waiting and wishing for... now we can all die happy... the dream has come true... Waleska has a Pro Cup."

Losing manager Carlton "Lefty" Stevens saluted the new IPA champ, saying, "Waleska has a strong core of hitters and a solid bullpen... we came close, but as you know, this was baseball... close only counts in horseshoes"... Stevens was disappointed, but not distraught. "My Blue Jays played a heck of a postseason... we were right in it right up to the last batter and last out... we came as close as you can come and not win the Pro Cup... all we needed was one more base hit and my Blue Jays would be celebrating."

THE ISLANDIAN TIMES
Monday, April 1, 2052

IPA THIRD ALL-DECADE TEAM 2021-2030

RF Corbett Brooks (2022-2044)
Long ball prowess got Corbet Brooks into the Islandian Pro Alliance Hall of Fame in 2047... and it certainly helped get him elected to the IPA Third All-Decade Team, too... he is third all-time with 727 roundtrippers, topped only by two legends, the all-time record-holder Jerry Culpepper (878) and Jack Elliott (848), the number two man.

Brooks was also a fine outfielder with a good arm... four times he was chosen for the All-Star team and he also got a Golden Glove in 2036... Brooks moved around a lot, played for four difference clubs, but never played for a pennant winner and never played in the postseason... his clubs were Red Bluff, South Fork, La Claire and High Mesa, all in the Tycobbian Union... he batted only .263 lifetime, but had 3008 hits, 600 doubles (11th), 1980 RBIs (9th), 1939 runs (14th), 2002 walks (5th) and played in 3187 games (12th)... Brooks also is the all-time leader by far with 2968 strikeouts, 500 more than Ivan Krause in the number two spot... he retired in 2044 at age 41 after 23 seasons.

Special thanks to knuckler for the Red Bluff Red Sox jerseys.

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NOTE: LOST LEAGUE DUE TO COMPUTER PROBLEMS.

This is where my game crashed after the 2051 season. Windows 11 was illegally installed over my Windows 10 and froze my computer and the Islandian Pro Alliance.
At that time Microsoft would ask you periodically to switch to Windows 11. Apparently, I inadvertently given them approval to switch to it.
I had to buy a new computer.
I could not reload my IPA and gave up on the league.

6 months later I discovered a backup of the IPA's first 51 seasons. I wiped out all the posts here on the Dynasty Forum for the years 2052-2056 and began to replay the IPA.

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Sadly, the LBA died under my watch. It just got to be too much. The problem is a lot of what OOTP does automatically, we had to do by manually. Every season, we had to change hometowns so that they came from the fictional cities. Before, facegen, we found pictures for our players. The free agency was done manually, emailing bids, that was hard to do. The draft was hard to do in forums, before we had the mods that helped with that. It was an awful lot. And we went thru several commishes because of it.

It would be great to get a fictional world online league started now.

Thank you for saying that. i still miss it. We've tried on a couple of occasions to reboot the league. But it always fall through. i dunno' maybe when we're all retired.

That league was created by portlander/9lives i couldn't take it over even if i wanted to. i helped bring the life, but so did a lot of other owners. (And if i tried to list all of them, i would miss a name...) In fact, that league is so real to me, that i feel about it the way i feel about the real major leagues. If i just let the the a.i. run Broncdom or Kron'nul or Zorphyr, it wouldn't be the same. i do have the logos. i really have enough of the old files to do a pretty good history of the league.

i have been working on my own fictional world. i have a map. i have a history. But i'm a bit of a perfectionist. So i'm slow to start. Once i get it going. i want it to last like yours has.

i love the Metro Leagues, too. i've been following it since he started it. i bounce back and forth between setting up a web page, like MetroLeagues or do a dynasty like you. And i've also become a fan of the Newland Continental Baseball League. i love fictional world leagues. Hopefully, some day soon, i'll be able to share mine with the community.

By the way, the logos and unis look great. The mod community did a great job. (i knew they would.) i just wish i could have helped. But my hands have been full.

Loyally following the IPA is plenty enough.
I always appreciate your comments over the years.

And as they always do, the Modders did a wonderful job on the graphics.
Because of them, I love the IPA even more.

I do believe the new logos, jerseys and caps have increased interest in the IPA. Daily viewership each day is up a lot... 300-375 per day.

Last year it was around 200 on average per day.

Looking forward to your new league. I know it will be a great one.

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Thanks to all of you, yesterday was a new record.

516 views.

That is simply amazing.

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It has proven too hard for me to report daily on two dynasty leagues.

Therefore I will not make daily updates on each league, the Islandian Pro Alliance and the State Line League, I will just update one of them per day.

You are a shining example for all of us writers, Eugene, especially at 75. You do what makes you happy, especially with all the joy you bring to others through your tales.

Honored to call myself a fan.

It's posts like yours that keep me going.

Thank you.

Anxious to see what you do for your next dynasty.

:) You are very welcome! If it can become even an inkling of what yours have, I'll be truly proud of it. Keep up the great work!

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Lordy mercy, I must be getting old... I did the division recaps in the wrong order... should have done Tycobbian North first after I completed the Ruthlandian divisions.

Yeah... I know what you're thinking... HE IS OLD .;)

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Yesterday in the IPA

THE ISLANDIAN TIMES
Sunday, October 15, 2051

BRANHAM VOTED THE PRO CUP MVP
It was not a unamimous choice for the baseball scribes. In the vote, the pollsters selected Arlon's fabulous rookie Erik Branham over the veteran Lanny Gray in the IPA Pro Cup Most Valuable Player balloting. Branham was named on 56 ballots and Gray on 42. The other two votes went to position players Ivan Cisneros and Carlo Campanella.

It was not an easy decision to make... Branham, a 23-year-old right-hander, went unbeaten in seven starts in the Pro Cup playoffs, charting a 5-0 record with two shutouts and a sterling 1.76 ERA... Gray, a 35-year-old southpaw, was equally as brilliant with three shutouts and a 0.72 ERA in six starts... however, Gray was only 4-2 record-wise, a crucial element in the balloting... he lost two close games, 1-0 and 3-0... Cisneros and Campanella were the best run providers for the new IPA champion... first baseman Cisneros hit .268 with 3 homers, 12 RBIs and 11 runs scored, while second baseman Campanella hit .308 with 2 roundtrippers, 13 runs and 7 RBIs.

During the regular season Erik Branham was 22-13 in 39 starts with a 2.09 ERA... Lonnie Gray chalked up a 21-14 mark and a 2.89 ERA... Ivan Cisneros had a fairly good year with a .271 BA, 20 homers, 87 RBIs and 99 runs, while Campanella batted only a modest .258 with 6 home runs, 40 RBIs and scored 75 runs.

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