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I set up a recreation of the 1939 season with real minor leagues, and set myself as manager of the Seattle Rainiers. While playing a game I noticed something odd--when I went to the bench to put in a pinch hitter, the roster was full of several players known as "Jim Unknown." They don't actually show up on the team roster away from an actual game, just when you go to the bench for a sub during a game. It's no big deal if I'm running the game; I'll just ignore them, but when the games are played automatically, sometimes several Jim Unknowns get into the game on the same team at several different positions. This is different than something else I've noticed, e.g., "Ballplayer Kondash" for the Hazleton Mountaineers of the Interstate League--there actually was a Kondash for Hazleton but his first name is unknown according to baseballreference.com.
Another issue is that the Interstate League for 1938 is incorrectly identified as AA; Baseballreference.com identifies it as at the C level, roughly comparable to Short Season A in today's arrangement.
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