I know this thread is over a year old, but I haven't been here in a while. Cool thread. I am doing something similar. I have 2 separate old historical leagues. The first started in 1871. And yes, it takes an incredible amount of maintenance before you can play a season. I do custom schedules (because you only have 1 or 2 pitchers in the first few years) and interleague because I have two four team divisions.
The 2nd league is like yours. Starts in 1901. My goal is to win a championship with every team by going worst in the league to world champion with each team. As soon as I win, I take a job with the worst team from that year. I have won 9 championships and I'm currently in my first year managing the Yankees in 1943. This Yankees team is terrible. I am 13-47 so far
Babe Ruth was an absolute GOD in my game. He did play for me on 3 teams. I drafted him as manager of the White Sox. As a pitcher, he went 20-15 2.84 ERA in 1914 and was mediocre in 1915 and then I converted him to hitter in 1916. He went 0-4 7.56 ERA in 1916. He went on to hit 749 HRs. His best year was 1925 playing for my Athletics, putting up basically untouchable numbers, .400/.474/.820/1.294, 72 HR, 204 RBI, 14.1 WAR. In 5 out 6 straight years, 1926 - 1930, he hit over 50 and hit 60 in 1930. In 1929, his numbers were .406/.505/.797/1.302, 55 HR 184 RBI. In 1930, his numbers were .411/.496/.798/1.294, 60 HR 170 RBI. He is 2nd lifetime in hits with 3,731.
Ty Cobb was another god. He finished with 4,558 hits and a .351 career AVG. There are 2 current players with a higher career AVG young in their careers, Williams and DiMaggio. Ruth and Cobb hold career records in 14 of 19 categories. Shoeless Joe holds the record for Triples and Ted Williams has records in 4 categores.
Speaking of Shoeless Joe, he is 3rd in hits with 3,697 and a career .335 AVG.
On the pitching side, Cy Young ended at 516. Walter Johnson won 425. Some surprises were Christy Mathewson and Pete Alexander being much less dominant at 259 and 241 wins respectively. Top season for wins is Jack Pfiester with 35 in 1907 with Rube Waddell in 2nd with 34 in 1902. There have been only 9 season with a 30 game winner.
Right now, I am following Ted Williams whose career numbers so far are .372/.487/.648/1.135, all career leading numbers. In 1941, he hit 44 HR with 129 RBI and batted .403. Oddly, in current year 1943, (he missed due to war), he is only hitting .264. Same with DiMaggio. He is only hitting .251. through 59 games. I don't know why both are slumping so badly.
Anyway...just thought I would share some stats. Cheers!