What if there were no Ruths, Mantles, Johnsons or Trouts hogging the headlines, the limelight, the leaderboards and the payrolls?
What if, by some strange quirk of fate, the zeroes suddenly became the heroes?
What would the baseball world look like with the underdog as the ubermensch?
Speculate no more, baseball fans. I present to you the Footnote League.
Come on down, lesser lights, for now it is your time to shine!
Step right up, little guy, for now you are the big man on campus!
Grab a bat, Moonlight Graham. It's two down in the 9th and the winning run is on third. Go knock that sucker in and cover yourself in the glory that was never afforded you the first time around!
EDIT: For those of you who have stumbled across this league some time after its inception but who don't have time to go through every post, I will be updating this first post with links for the recaps for each season, offering you the Cliff Notes version to catch you up more expeditiously.
Seasons 1901 thru 1903 just have a summary of the respective seasons. From 1904 onwards - at which point I went a little on the overkill side of things and created my OOML website - the page will merely list all of the posts relating to that season.
1901 1902 1903 1904
1905 1906 1907