Once I'd decided on major league teams in Panama and Nicaragua, and then decided on precursor early 20th century leagues (and making at least one local minor league team for each of the 16 teams in the main league)... well then I just had to make an early 20th century league in Panama and Nicaragua!
Travel in this league sounds like it might be insane:
"Three years later, the Nicaraguan national squad made an epic four-day journey by train, ferry (which caught fire and sank), and horseback through Costa Rica to Panama for the 1938 edition of the Central American Games. As Nicaraguan baseball historian Bayardo Cuadra told George Gmelch, the mini-odyssey formed a long-lasting
esprit de corps.
9" -
--
sabr biography of Bluefields baseball legend Stanley Cayasso
maybe the league plays like Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with four days off for travel? A lot of these places would have only been accessible by boat until recently.
The logo is updated from a
request I got for a early 20th century
Nicaraguan league.
The Canal Zone Pilots become the Panama City Pilots (maybe they merge with the Cutters team), with the team in David as their minor league team. And the Managua team would in the future use Leon or Bluefields as their minor league affiliate. Or the league could expand to Honduras and Costa Rica.