I basically joined for the same reasons as bigal, and as Mike T. indicated half the fun is finding out about those players who played 100 years ago.  Babe Ruth is a favourite of mine, so I would sometimes build a team around him, where I had him pitching, and yes he was a pitcher at the start of his career.  And then I would have him in the outfield.  So I would have 3 Babe Ruth's on my team, and when he was pitching 3 times in the batting order.  Deadly team with all 3 in the line up.  I have been debating about picking up another team, just to try it out again, haven't played in a few years now that I switched over to HBD, but it was a lot of fun.