Is It Baseball Time Already?!

I may be slogging through the Soulbound rulebook and working on a massive but top-secret Druid Cycle project, but I made sure to take some time tonight to prep for the upcoming Season 6 of my nineteenth-century Strat-O-Matic baseball league. It seems like forever since these lads took the field, but the new season really snuck up on me.

Last time around, the Haymakers captured their third championship in five years with a Creighton Cup series win over the Blue Legs. However, the balance of power in the league may well shift, as I had one more batch of players to distribute before I have, at last, reached the end of the Hall of Famers who have even the most tenuous ties to premodern ball. In the final player dispersal draft ever, the Canaries landed little-known but phenomenally talented hurler Addie Joss. The the second-year Resolutes, meanwhile, loaded up with stud pitcher Christy Mathewson and leadoff hitter John McGraw; I like the way our newest team is shaping up. I'd love to see them make a run at the playoffs, much like their expansion cousins -- the newly minted league-champion Millionaires -- did in my hockey league. 

Opening Day is tomorrow!