Cincinnati Beergardners Roster

Meet the

Cincinnati Beergardners

Position Players


Spoony Palm
Quincy Troupp
Jim O'Rourke
Ed Delahanty
Orlando Cepeda
Pete Rose
Buck O'Neil
Rogers Hornsby
Dick Lundy
Dewey Creacy
Johnny Evers
 Travis Jackson
George Kell
Christobal Torriente
Alejandro Oms
Jimmie Crutchfield
Reggie Jackson

Pitchers


Sandy Koufax
Slim Jones
Ray Brown
Catfish Hunter
Webster McDonald
Dazzy Vance
Roosevelt Davis
Willie Powell

The Beergardners will be playing in Redland Field (later known as Crosley Field) circa 1924.

Edits:

On April 6th, the Beergardners traded Roosevelt Davis and Johnny Evers to the River Captains for Steve Carlton.


On April 7th, the Beergardners trades Webster McDonald to the Model T's for Amos Russie.

Chicago White Bears Team Roster

Meet the:

Chicago White Bears


Position Players

Mickey Cochrane
Frank Duncan
Frank Chance
Lou Gehrig
Ralph Kiner
George Brett
"Rev" Cannady
Barney Serrell
Sam Bankhead
George Davis
Phil Rizzuto
Joe DiMaggio
Max Cary
Zack Wheat
Fred Clark
Sam Thompson
Harry Heilman

Pitchers


Max Manning
Old Hoss Radbourne
Mickey Welch
Joe McGinnity
Carl Hubbell
Rube Marquard
Verdell Mathis
Herb Pennock

The White Bears will be playing in Schorling's Park, originally known as South Side Park, where the White Sox played until Comiskey Park was built.

Leagues and Teams

The Continental League

Chicago White Bears
Cincinnati Beergardners
Detroit Model Ts
Kansas City Cattle Barons
Nashville Commodores
St. Louis River Captains

The Federal League

Boston Pilgrims
New Orleans Jazz Kings
New York Knights
Philadelphia Liberty
Pittsburgh Grays
Washington Senators

Introduction

As I mentioned in my Depression Era Baseball blog, I have always hoped to find an engaging project that would allow me to explore the Negro Leagues. With Strat-O-Matic's brilliant new card set of all time great Negro League players, designed for use with its existing Hall of Fame set, we're finally going to get to do what could never be done before - integrate baseball from the beginning, using the best players of each era regardless of skin color.

We'll need to take a lot of liberties of course. My proposal is to create two leagues with six teams apiece in cities that historically had teams, expanding to a few cities down South as well. This will mirror the traditional structure of the major leagues prior to expansion. The leagues will not engage in inter league play. The winners of each will then play a seven game World Series.

Each team will automatically draft players from an integrated pool of players, so each will feature a mix of Hall of Fame baseball players along with Negro League greats. The computer will draft and set starting lineups and rotations, and make the decisions. I plan to report, comment and add additional "color" to the writeups.

Here's some more on Strat-O-Matic's new Negro League set by way of background. Here's more about Strat-O-Matic baseball.

One note: The Strat-O-Matic Hall of Fame set was complete through 2001 and does not include subsequent inductees.  It also includes two players not actually in the Hall - Pete Rose, Carl Mays and Joe Jackson.