We need two owners for the upcoming 1970 season.  One will take over the New York team (Shea Stadium) playing in the NL East.  The other will build an expansion team in KC/Minnesota to compete in the AL West.

The New York roster is below. 

Sitemail with interest, and I'll give you a peek at the private forum so you can learn enough to make an educated decision.  Great league now playing its 29th season, longtime owners.  Four-team expansion draft for 1970 will take place in early March.

New York (Shea Stadium)

Bill Butler	1969	Kansas City Royals	SP	$4,302,024
Bob Gibson	1969	St. Louis Cardinals	SP	$10,713,474
Jerry Johnson	1969	Philadelphia Phillies	SP	$2,566,217
Jim Lonborg	1969	Boston Red Sox	SP	$2,433,375
Dave McNally	1969	Baltimore Orioles	SP	$6,774,562
Jim Rooker	1969	Kansas City Royals	SP	$4,867,712
Luis Tiant	1969	Cleveland Indians	SP	$5,305,250
Joe Gibbon	1969	San Francisco Giants	RP	$1,790,915
Ron Kline	1969	Pittsburgh Pirates	RP	$396,496
Rich Nye	1969	Chicago Cubs	RP	$1,020,718
Jerry Grote	1969	New York Mets	C	$3,211,659
Buck Martinez	1969	Kansas City Royals	C	$1,653,081
Ellie Rodriguez	1969	Kansas City Royals	C	$2,414,385
Mike Epstein	1969	Washington Senators	1B	$4,458,500
Glenn Beckert	1969	Chicago Cubs	2B	$3,442,751
Ron Santo	1969	Chicago Cubs	3B	$5,400,080
Terry Harmon	1969	Philadelphia Phillies	SS	$990,904
Jackie Hernandez	1969	Kansas City Royals	SS	$2,657,582
Ted Kubiak	1969	Oakland Athletics	SS	$2,167,791
Johnny Callison	1969	Philadelphia Phillies	OF	$4,125,009
Jose Cardenal	1969	Cleveland Indians	OF	$4,889,451
Alex Johnson	1969	Cincinnati Reds	OF	$3,824,636
Manny Mota	1969	Montreal Expos	OF	$2,733,101
Carl Taylor	1969	Pittsburgh Pirates	OF	$2,237,727
Carl Yastrzemski	1969	Boston Red Sox	OF	$5,590,912
Active Roster Total Salary:				$89,968,312

Come on!  Clemente's hitting .395/7/24 after 31 games!

i'll take em crusty!  i've been wanting back in:)

Great.  See sitemail.  Welcome back!

Am interested, please send sitemail. Just want to get a gander at league rules etc.

Do love the formula and the era.

Bench, Oliva, and Lolich . . . come on down!!

1969 draft begins early next week!

How many teams in the league?  Thanks.

Posted by blueorange on 1/11/2013 11:49:00 PM (view original):
How many teams in the league?  Thanks.

16 teams now in 1969.

I am on board as one of the four new expansion teams in 1970.

We've had some interest, but we need a taker!

Below this post are those interested in learning more about 1970 . . .

   I would like to be considered for an expansion team.

We need only an owner for the New York team above.  We hope to start the expansion draft in 3-4 weeks.  Sitemail with interest, and I'll give you a peek at the private forum.

Posted by ooooohdoggie on 2/7/2013 4:37:00 PM (view original):
   I would like to be considered for an expansion team.

I was so looking forward to the 1971 season with the team I built during the 1970 draft.
Owning the first pick I selected Oakland A's Vida Blue who had a monster sophomore WhatIfSports Sim season.

The initial salary cap prior to Expansion was $ 90 Million, and was lowered to $ 85 Million after Expansion.

The League had a contentious process to proceed with a 1969 Expansion Draft, so one of the compromises was to proceed with a 1970 Expansion one season after Real Life expansion. My team that I had drafted wasn't able to be a perennially strong contender. The roster which couldn't get under the cap in 1971, would get in under the cap with $ 15 Million + to spare in 1972.

My Team was hoping to use my 1971 top pick to draft rookie Dusty Baker with his near $ 200,000 rookie salary. Just missed getting Baker and took an expensive Paul Splittorf as my first round draft choice.

Splittorf could replace some of the quality pitching I would likely need to trade. After the 1971 draft we were over the cap by $ 10 Million as I remember it. I just couldn't keep the team I built under the cap without selling key players off.

I saw 4 of the ten pitchers in the top 5 for the two League Cy Young Awards would have pitched for me before I had to cut salary to enter a team under the cap. We were only able to keep two of the four.

I had drafted Houston's Don Wilson, as well as Dave Roberts and Ray Sadecki to join Baseball's standout pitcher that season, Vida Blue, with over 300 Innings Pitched. The team finished with about 93 wins as I remember it.