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Old 06-28-2022, 08:22 PM   #139
kcstengelsr
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Thank you asrivkin for Hilldale Park in Darby, Pennsylvania west of Philadelphia. The Hilldale Club (informally known as the Darby Daises) were in a number of Negro Leagues now considered major league quality. Having a home park for Hilldale Club is good to have as many historic parks for Negro Leagues teams are yet to be created for OOTP.

One problem with OOTP23 which I hope eventually is fixed in OOTP24 is the fact that some major league quality Negro Leagues are missing for some years. For examples if one starts a 1928 season with Negro Leagues and minor leagues included you will not find the 1928 Hilldale Club of the Eastern Colored League and if one starts a 1929 season you will not find the 1929 Hilldale Club of the American Negro League. One will find the Hilldale Club if one starts a 1932 season as the complete 1932 East West League is included along with the extra Pittsburgh Crawfords.

When one gets a Negro Leagues going in OOTP you usually have to make some manual roster changes. I like to use Seamheads as my NeL source and I set up the starting lineups for the 1932 Hilldale Club and the 1932 Detroit Wolves. I played these two in a game using asrivkin's new Hilldale Park which you may watch on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acYo...el=kcstengelsr

The YouTube description of the game has more details about what was involved in setting up this Negro Leagues game.

One thing about the 1932 East West League that I learned recently is the fact that the park of the 1932 Detroit Wolves still exists and is being somewhat restored as a playable historic site:

https://www.mlb.com/news/historic-ne...SFN8fufw6HgJsU

Thanks for what you do for us, asrivkin!

Last edited by kcstengelsr; 06-29-2022 at 07:01 AM.
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