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Charlie, although the MiLB teams database starts in 1914, it is only Federal League in '14 and '15. The 1st "real" minor league is the Texas League in 1919, followed by the Negro League in 1920 and the PCL in 1921. The International League comes in 1927, the Blue Ridge League in 1929, then they start coming fast and furious. The American Association doesn't start in this world until 1933.
However, if you use the database converter that someone uploaded, you can get into those ODB files and you will see that DATA for minor leaguers goes back to 1884. You would have to manually update those leagues/teams if you want to keep up with them.
I've tried turning on the "Maintain Real Minor Leagues" button AND creating my own minor league. The game will delete what I've created as soon as it hits the next off-season.
I've also tried turning on the "Import Real Historical Rookies" for both minor leagues that I've created and the game created. In both cases it imported real rookies into the PCL -- in the 1920s, when the PCL is actually in the game. I doubt it would work before then because there is no tie between the MiLB data which contains only a team name and the league structure which has a team ID. So I think your choices are to let it do it's thing or put a lot of work into building that pre-1930s MiLB system.
It's funny this came up because I am doing a lot of work trying to decide if I should start my next random players league in 1903 or 1884. 1884 looks like such a lot of work for a very unstable minor league.
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