Old-Timey Logos & Eventually More: A Reboot

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Next are the National Base Ball Organization Leagues.

First is the New York League. It consists of the 16 New York metro area teams from the NBBO, split into two divisions: Brooklyn and New York City:














Some teams followed Gotham's lead and added nicknames:

Eckford of Greenpoint: now the Eckford Green Stockings
Nassau County B.B.C.: now the Nassau County Lions
Harlem Base Ball Club: now the Harlem Knights
Union B.B.C. of Morrisania: now the Morrisania Unions

Files available here: New York League Graphic Files

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The second new NBBO league is the Northeastern League. It has 18 former NBBO teams and two new ones, split into two divisions: the Northeast Division and the Upstate New York Division:














The two new clubs: the Niagara Falls Rapids, whose name should be self-explanatory, and the Schenectady Bolts, named as such because in 1892 the city became home to the first headquarters of Thomas Edison's General Electric.

If you know your Classical History, the nicknames for Troy and Utica should make sense.

Files are available: Northeastern League Graphics Files

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The last of the three new NBBO leagues is the New England Baseball Association, which consists of 16 teams: 13 from the old NBBO and 3 new ones. The competition, like the other two, has a pair of divisions: Massachusetts and Greater New England:














The three new teams:

• The Brass City Watchmakers: named because the team's home of Waterbury (CT) was famous for brassware and clockworks. The city was the original home of the Timex Corporation in the mid-1800s.
  
  
• The Bridgeport Ironmen: the city of Bridgeport (CT) had several large iron foundries in the 1800s and 1900s.
  
  
• The Pawtucket Foxes

Link to files: New England Baseball Association Graphics Files

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The Great Lakes Baseball Conference underwent a minor change for the 1890s, seeing Evansville move to the Southeastern & Atlantic League and the Erie Lakers come in from the old NBBO to replace them. The league remains a ten-team, one-division league:








Great Lakes Baseball Conference Graphics Files

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The last of the five NBBO leagues is the Prairie League. After seeing four teams leave for the MWBA it added four replacements to stay at ten going into the 1890s:








The new teams:

• The Council Bluffs Unions: Council Bluffs (IA) was the starting point of the Transcontinental Railroad and is home to the Union Pacific Railway Museum. The logo is based on the Union Pacific logo.
  
  
• The Davenport Riversiders: Davenport (IA) is located along the Mississippi River.
  
  
• The Kansas Blue Stockings: nod to a former minor league team named the Kansas City Blues, once managed by Tris Speaker and also the last minor league stop for Mickey Mantle before he joined the Yankees.
  
  
• The Southern Missouri Ozarks: the team's home city of Springfield (MO) is known as the "Queen City of the Ozarks".

Prairie League Graphics Files

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Now the last league that underwent changes for the 1890s: the Southeastern & Atlantic League. It added one existing team from the GLBC (Evansville) and one new team (Old Dominion) to expand from six to eight:








The new team, the Old Dominion Lords, gets its name because Virginia is known as the Old Dominion State, and in real life there is a university in Norfolk that goes by the same name.

Southeastern & Atlantic League Graphics Files

That's the end of the leagues that changes for the 1890s. Next: a new league in Canada.

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I will try to get Quickstarts and Templates up. Ideally the APBL and the three new Northeastern leagues go together, while the MWBA, GLBC, and PL go together since they're Midwestern leagues. The SEAL can go by itself since it's the only Southeastern League.

I don't want to make templates out of the existing leagues in my save because I have custom financials for them and they can be fiddly.

Of course, all the templates can be added to a new game to combine them all. I suppose you could also graft them onto a Quickstart???

[Jabez54]

Awesome project, tm!!

Many thanks for sharing your talent and Leagues with us... Spend my 50+ years in the NE till I traded it in for the SW's climate (don't regret the move of my last 18 years) ....* Wonderful to see the towns I had frequent there...

Thanks again!

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Originally Posted by Jabez54

Awesome project, tm!!

Many thanks for sharing your talent and Leagues with us... Spend my 50+ years in the NE till I traded it in for the SW's climate (don't regret the move of my last 18 years) ....* Wonderful to see the towns I had frequent there...

Thanks again!

Yep!

I lived in the Midwest from birth until 2018 and then moved to that area of northern Utah that straddles the mountains and the desert and...yeah that took some adjusting.

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The google drive link from the first post is now working for me always wanted to use some of these after first seeing your posts probably a couple years ago. Excited for the new ones!

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Originally Posted by 20_range

The google drive link from the first post is now working for me always wanted to use some of these after first seeing your posts probably a couple years ago. Excited for the new ones!

Good. I'd also moved everything over to my "Public" OneDrive folder, which makes everything easier to share.

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In 1893, the in-game universe saw the addition of the Canadian Baseball League, which was the first competition outside of the United States. The league has eight teams in a single division - two in both Montreal and Toronto:








Notes on names:

• Danforth (Toronto): team is located in a section of Toronto that became known for its large Greek population.
• Hamilton: known in Canada as "The Electric City" - developed the 2nd telephone exchange in North America and had an electric streetcar system in the late 1800s.
• London: named not just because the city's name, but because it has been home to several visits from high-ranking British royalty, including Queen Elizabeth II.
• Ottawa: a bit self-explanatory, but since Canada is a federation I decided to make them Federals instead of Nationals.
• Quebec City: was established in 1541 by French explorer Jacques Cartier.
• Riverside (Toronto): a nod to a founder and of the two teams who played the first game in the history of the league that became the NBA - the Toronto Huskies.
• Ville Marie (Montreal): located in the section of Montreal that is home to the original fortification that the city itself was built around (Fort Ville-Marie)
• Ville Ray (Montreal): Actually no real reason for this one.

Teams in the league play each other 18 times over via half a dozen three-game series, making for a 126-game season. As when other leagues have had less than a dozen teams, there are no playoffs in my version of the CBL.

This is another league I'll need to work on a Quickstart & Template for. I'll post them when I've made them.

Canadian Baseball League Graphics Files

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Okay, now for a big one, and the last one I finished before I got really, really sick in March: the All-Ireland Baseball Championship.

It's meant to mimic the Gaelic Athletic Association in that each county belonging to the four provinces of the Irish island fields a team, making for 32 teams in this league.

The main difference is that the GAA strictly sticks to geography for its divisions, meaning that there are wildly different numbers of teams in each provincial championship:

• Connacht: five
• Leinster: twelve
• Munster: six
• Ulster: nine

To make things work in an OOTP sense, I moved bordering counties around until each province had eight teams for competitive purposes. The teams in each provincial championship play each other a dozen times, making for an 84-game season that runs from June through August, with the All-Ireland Championships taking place early in September.

It took me wayyyyyyyyy too long to come up with suitable logos for the teams, so for names I used nicknames that county-level teams in the GAA already have. Some have several, so I picked one.

County names on the logos are in Irish, taken straight from the Gaelic Athletic Association website and cross-referenced with Wikipedia because I am by no means whatsoever an expert in Gaelic languages.

I'll break this league down over four posts so I can show jerseys, primary logos, and secondary logos.


CONNACHT PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIP

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LEINSTER PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIP

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MUNSTER PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIP

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ULSTER PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIP

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And that's where I was at when the triple illness hit. The next league up for my baseball universe is a Cuban league that starts in 1899, mirroring the start of the first Cuban league in real life. Uniforms for that league are also in the old format, but that's because I started coming up with the Cuban teams back during OOTP 20 or 21. The Irish league, and a couple of others that are coming up, are things I imagined more recently.

Unlike with the other leagues, I made sure to do the jerseys for this one with OOTP24 in mind so nothing on the front is repeated at the bottom. Even though the jerseys look abnormal in design, they're as clean as can get for the old format. As with the files for the other leagues, everything should be game-ready when moved to the appropriate folder.

I have yet to make a QuickStart & Template for this league, and again I'll post them when I do. Here are the team graphics: All-Ireland Baseball Championship Graphics Files

[Jabez54]

Many thanks for sharing your creation of the All-Ireland Baseball logos/Unis set... Especially The Kilkenny Cats, the home of my maternal grandfather... Will definitely be using these in the nearest future of my next Irish League!!

Go raibh maith agat, a chara! (Thank you, friend!)

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This could be a great replacement for Honkball, or any of the other leagues that were removed

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Originally Posted by Jabez54

Many thanks for sharing your creation of the All-Ireland Baseball logos/Unis set... Especially The Kilkenny Cats, the home of my maternal grandfather... Will definitely be using these in the nearest future of my next Irish League!!

Go raibh maith agat, a chara! (Thank you, friend!)

Well thanks! Of course feel free to use as much of that Irish set as you want, and there should be a zip folder containing all of it at the link. Hopefully I didn't mangle any of the Irish that was in the team identities.

I should have also said that a lot of GAA logo and Irish county shield repurposing was done to create most of the logos for the 32 teams.

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This could be a great replacement for Honkball, or any of the other leagues that were removed

Well thanks for that compliment! That would be pretty amazing, but given how many GAA logo and county shield elements I repurposed (see above quote) the only thing I would wonder about is copyright.