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Tiger1022 · 04-08-2026, 12:48 AM

For years I've found the most entertaining way to play OOTP is creating fictional leagues. It's just fun to literally write history and watch it come alive in front of you. I also grew up in a small town in Ohio between Fort Wayne, Indiana and Toledo, Ohio....and I've been fascinated for the years by the "what if" knowing that the first professional game was in Fort Wayne. There can't be a smaller town in America that at one time meant so much to TWO different sports...even if their time in both was pretty brief. So with all of that said, I introduce to you....the United Baseball League.

Founded in 1876 the UBL at the start consisted of 2 separate and NO WHERE CLOSE to equal leagues...the Eastern League and the Frontier League. The Eastern League had the talent. They had the money. It's where anyone who was anyone in the country was at and no one else mattered. They actively thumbed their noses at their Frontier League siblings from the West. And for good reason....the Frontier League was basically a minor league compared to the Eastern. An ace pitcher in the FL? He'd be lucky to crack an EL's team bullpen. Whoever wins the MVP out West? MIGHT be a utility guy in the EL. Might.

In this thread I'm going to tell the story of the biggest underdog in the underdog league....the Fort Wayne Summit. The majority of the storytelling will be done through a newspaper chronicling everything- the Summit and their quintessentially Rust Belt owner and GM (to be introduced later), the Frontier League, and the UBL as a whole. The main journalists you'll see are Silas T. Pennington and Horace Whitcomb, a journalist and editor at the Fort Wayne News-Gazette. Silas, I'll point out now, is run by Chat GPT, a passionate, opinionated reporter tasked with following the Summit. Horace, the pragmatic, straight to the facts editor, will focus on the league at large. I WILL post screenshots of standings, league leaders, star players and record holders at the end of every season, but I want to actually stay interested in this save and tell a story.

This is issue 1.

04-08-2026, 12:48 AM	#1
Tiger1022 Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2026 Location: Ohio, USA Posts: 9	The Fort Wayne Summit...big city dreams with a small town budget For years I've found the most entertaining way to play OOTP is creating fictional leagues. It's just fun to literally write history and watch it come alive in front of you. I also grew up in a small town in Ohio between Fort Wayne, Indiana and Toledo, Ohio....and I've been fascinated for the years by the "what if" knowing that the first professional game was in Fort Wayne. There can't be a smaller town in America that at one time meant so much to TWO different sports...even if their time in both was pretty brief. So with all of that said, I introduce to you....the United Baseball League. Founded in 1876 the UBL at the start consisted of 2 separate and NO WHERE CLOSE to equal leagues...the Eastern League and the Frontier League. The Eastern League had the talent. They had the money. It's where anyone who was anyone in the country was at and no one else mattered. They actively thumbed their noses at their Frontier League siblings from the West. And for good reason....the Frontier League was basically a minor league compared to the Eastern. An ace pitcher in the FL? He'd be lucky to crack an EL's team bullpen. Whoever wins the MVP out West? MIGHT be a utility guy in the EL. Might. In this thread I'm going to tell the story of the biggest underdog in the underdog league....the Fort Wayne Summit. The majority of the storytelling will be done through a newspaper chronicling everything- the Summit and their quintessentially Rust Belt owner and GM (to be introduced later), the Frontier League, and the UBL as a whole. The main journalists you'll see are Silas T. Pennington and Horace Whitcomb, a journalist and editor at the Fort Wayne News-Gazette. Silas, I'll point out now, is run by Chat GPT, a passionate, opinionated reporter tasked with following the Summit. Horace, the pragmatic, straight to the facts editor, will focus on the league at large. I WILL post screenshots of standings, league leaders, star players and record holders at the end of every season, but I want to actually stay interested in this save and tell a story. This is issue 1. Attached Images