The Baseball Chronicle is a long-running league using fictional players in a real-world historical universe that began in 1871 and is now in the 1940s. TBC is now on its fifth version of OOTP having started back in OOTP 9.
GMs (and non-GM followers of the leagues) are encouraged to create their own players (either "ancestors" or simply made-up guys) on the
TBC website.
Here are the cogent points in list form:
Full League Name (Initials): The Baseball Chronicle (TBC)
Main URL: The Baseball Chronicle
Reports URL: BNN Home Page
Boards URL: The Baseball Chronicle
Commissioner(s) OOTP Forum Username(s): legendsport
Email Address: commish@legendsport.com
OOTP Version: 13
Game Needed: Required
Players: Fictional players in Historical setting
# of Teams: 16 (will expand based on MLB History)
Export Deadlines Days And Times: Monday thru Friday 6am ET
League Time Per Sim: 1/2 month (15 or 16 days per sim)
First Season: 1871
Latest Season: 1909
Special Rules & Settings: This is a talent-only league. Coaches are on, scouts are off. We'll attempt to mimic the Reserve Clause era with financials on, no free agency, no rookie draft. The top-level minors (PCL, IL and AA) are in the game, but independent with mechanisms in place for the MLB teams to be able to draw from these leagues.
Currently Available Teams:
MLB: Giants, Highlanders (Yankees)
The Baseball Chronicle attempts to model, as closely as possible, real baseball history with fictional players. We use special rules for player procurement and will include things such as the Federal League, both World Wars, and the gradual development of the farm system in our march through history.
TBC is an homage not only to great OOTP 6.5 leagues such as Time Warp Baseball and PBRL, but also to baseball history itself. Who will be TBC's "Babe Ruth" or "Ted Williams?" Join in and find out, it's going to be a great ride.
About the TBC Commissioner:
The commish has years of experience running OOTP leagues going back to OOTP 2 the most successful of which was Greatest Generation Baseball which ran for 20 seasons, covering versions 4 thru 6.5 of the sim. Other long-running leagues included the 20th Century Chronicle, a season-per-week league that ran the 1901-2000 seasons and BaTTY which was similar to 20CC but scrambled debut dates. All three were long-running, successful leagues and some of the GMs from those leagues (as well as some TWB & PBRL vets) are signed on for TBC.
TBC was also featured by BradC in the "Articles about OOTP" section of the OOTP boards,
here.