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Caporegime · 06-15-2014, 03:26 PM

Chuck,

Absolutely outstanding work all around! I rarely follow dynasties here, but yours has me riveted. I was considering creating and simming my own English professional baseball league starting from the mid-19th century to the present that was based more on the historical timeline of cricket - a kind of "what if" baseball supplanted cricket at some point in England and the Commonwealth scenario.

However, your league makes my idea look positively ludicrous. Your storyline is at least a plausible and interesting one, and you've done a superb job with the uniforms, logos, and name files as well. I wish this were a mod or a template. If we ever get the ability to add international tournaments like the WBC to OOTP, this is the English baseball league I'd want in my universe. Great work!

BTW, I'd love to know your thoughts on the following: If baseball had fully developed in England along the lines of your dynasty IRL and achieved a level of popularity only surpassed by football (soccer), where do you see baseball's place in the rest of the Commonwealth today? Do you think it would've caught on elsewhere in the Empire? Would it have replaced Cricket at some point as the ball & bat game of choice? Would "Cricket-mad" India, for example, be "Baseball bonkers" India today instead? How about in Australia, the West Indies and elsewhere?

Thanks again!

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Caporegime All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: The Borough of Kings Posts: 1,714	Chuck, Absolutely outstanding work all around! I rarely follow dynasties here, but yours has me riveted. I was considering creating and simming my own English professional baseball league starting from the mid-19th century to the present that was based more on the historical timeline of cricket - a kind of "what if" baseball supplanted cricket at some point in England and the Commonwealth scenario. However, your league makes my idea look positively ludicrous. Your storyline is at least a plausible and interesting one, and you've done a superb job with the uniforms, logos, and name files as well. I wish this were a mod or a template. If we ever get the ability to add international tournaments like the WBC to OOTP, this is the English baseball league I'd want in my universe. Great work! BTW, I'd love to know your thoughts on the following: If baseball had fully developed in England along the lines of your dynasty IRL and achieved a level of popularity only surpassed by football (soccer), where do you see baseball's place in the rest of the Commonwealth today? Do you think it would've caught on elsewhere in the Empire? Would it have replaced Cricket at some point as the ball & bat game of choice? Would "Cricket-mad" India, for example, be "Baseball bonkers" India today instead? How about in Australia, the West Indies and elsewhere? Thanks again! __________________ "If you don't know where you are going, you'll wind up someplace else." - Lawrence Peter Berra Last edited by Caporegime; 06-15-2014 at 03:30 PM.