Logo and Picture/Alias Files

This is baseball as it might have been--indeed should have been. The Negro League All-Stars are placed on the major league teams for which they might have appeared. I appreciate that the Strat-O-Matic Game Company has granted permission for me to make these seasons available to you.

The process used to create the teams was as follows.
1. The Negro League players who were active during a particular season were placed in the free agent pool. The seasons for each player are given in the Guide Book that accompanies the Negro League All-Stars.
2. The Draft-O-Matic feature was used to select which team would receive a particular player. The draft was done in reverse order of the teams' won/loss records. This means that the teams with worse records in that season received the highest picks.
3. The teams were restricted in terms of which players they could draft. When the Negro League set was released, Glenn Guzzo wrote an article featuring a chart showing the most likely major league teams on which the Negro League players might have played. Scott Simkus chose one American League and one National League city as the likely destination for each player. The teams could only draft the players who were likely to have played on that team. You might expect that this would distribute the talent across the league, but this is generally not the case. The players usually are assigned to a city associated with their careers in the Negro Leagues. New York, Chicago, and St. Louis, for example, receive more than their fair share of the players; Boston receives none.
4. The lineups were generated automatically. There were a few cases in which a Negro League All-Star was unable to crack the starting lineup for the team in one league, but was able to do so for the team in the other league. In such cases, the player was assigned to the suggested team in the other league.

IT MUST BE EMPHASIZED THAT IN ORDER TO USE THESE LEAGUES, YOU MUST OWN THE AUTHORIZATION FOR THE PARTICULAR SEASON AND FOR THE NEGRO LEAGUE SET. For example, in order to play with the 1911 season, you must own the authorization for the 1911 season and the Negro League set.

Check back because I'll add additional seasons in the future.

1911 Integrated Season.zip

1920 Integrated Season.zip

1924 Integrated Season.zip

Follow the steps below in order to use the leagues.
1. Download the file(s).
2. Unzip the file(s).
3. Copy the files (Control-C).
4. Open CDROMBB/ROSTERS and paste (Control-V) the files into that folder.

You might have to close the game and then reopen it before you will be able to use these leagues. There should be an American League Integrated season and a National League Integrated season for each league that you download.

I'm not planning on doing a picture pack for any of these seasons. If you download the photo pack that I've already done for the season and the photo pack for the Negro League All-Stars, then you should have everything you need for these seasons. Since adding the Negro League All-Stars represents a major change to how the season was actually played, there are no as-played options for the seasons. I think the schedule, however, is the as-played schedule--some people might have preferred a different schedule.

Dan has created some very attractive team logos for approximately 1970 to the present.
Uploaded 3-8-11
Logos for 1970 to present.zip

These sets feature pictures which are all in the same format for use with the Strat-O-Matic's special sets. Color pictures have been used wherever possible. Ken Z deserves a lot of credit for the many colorizations that were done specifically for this set. His work on finding the pictures and doing the colorizations has been amazing.

There is also a spreadsheet containing information about year of birth, year of debut, teams on which played, etc. for the players in all three sets. Obviously the ability to sort data in a spreadsheet should be helpful for persons trying to create a league utilizing the players from all three sets.

Each set contains an alias file. The lines from the alias file must be copied into your existing alis file in order for the pictures to work within the game.

Ken Wenger

Hall of Fame--updated 2-11-11
Alias files are included for both the 2001 and 2011 Hall of Fame sets.
Hall 0f Fame 2-11-11.zip

Negro Leagues--updated 2-10-11--Special thanks to Ken Z for his detective work in finding most of these pictures and for his beautiful colorizations.
Negro Leagues 2-9-11.zip

Baseball Heroes--uploaded 2-10-11
Heroes 2-9-11.zip

Alternate Pictures for players with more than one team--uploaded 2-11-11
alternate pictures 2-11-11.zip

Spreadsheet of Data for the Hall of Fame, Negro League, and Heroes set--uploaded 2-11-11
I've created a spreadsheet containing a tremendous amount of data about the Hall of Fame, Negro League, and Hero players. Special thanks are due to Scott Simkus, Rob Ratliff, and Glenn Guzzo for their suggestions and help with some of the data. The obvious advantage to having a spreadsheet is the ability to sort the data in order to create teams. For example, the data can be sorted by year of birth, city of birth, debut year, best season, etc. The teams for which a man played are listed, so it is easy to determine all of the players who played for the Dodgers or any other franchise. The fielding ratings also are included. This will enable you to make sure that all positions are covered adequately for all of the teams. I've also added "phantom positions." Some players appeared in quite a few games at positions for which they are not rated. The letters w, x, y, and z indicate positions at which a player appeared in at least 200, 100, 50, and 10 games, respectively.

Updated 2-1-12
Hall of Fame Chronology--revised 2-1-12.xls

Jonathan K. has created a face pack for 1993. Unfortunately, the file for this set has become corrupted. If Jonathan sees this message and still has the set, I'll be happy to upload it if he will be kind enough to send it to me. In the meantime, I've created my own photo set for 1993. It is available at:
http://my.opera.com/WenKen/blog/

Ken Wenger

The nineteenth century logos are more generic. I had to use some liberties in developing them. Be assured, however, that there was some research and reason behind each of the logos. In some cases, it is the writing that appeared on the team's uniform as seen on period pictures or baseball cards.

Read more...