The 1979 Team Icon League needs a new owner for the Pirates. The Team Icon League rules are basically you can only ever have players that played for your team at some point in their career. There are two special cases for keepers listed below and if a player doesn't fall into one of those two cases then he is eligible for all teams they had at least one appearance for.

CAREER KEEPERS - Any player who has every season in WiS for one team will belong to that team. They cannot be cut, but may be put in AAA as the rules state below.
*Ryne Sandberg would still be a Cubs Career Keeper even though he had 6 ABs for PHI in 1981 because all of this WiS seasons 1982-1997 are with CHC

TEAM ICONS - Any player whose first ten or more eligible WIS seasons are with the same team, and who has had no more than 3 full WIS seasons with other teams (including defunct teams) will be designated a Team Icon and belong to the team whom he played 10 years for.

Any player who only played for one active team, while all his other teams are defunct (CHC, CLE, MIL, SDP, SEA, TEX) will be a Team Icon of the active team, even if it was just 1 PA/1 IP with that active team.
- If a player is traded during his 10th season he will still qualify and that season will not be used against his 3.

- Any Team Icon being may be placed on IR any season he did not play for your franchise.

The team we have open is the Pittsburgh Pirates. Their roster is below. They finished 67-95 in 1978 and finished in 4th in the NL East. They have the #5 pick in all rounds of the 1979 Rookie Draft except they traded their First Round pick last year in a deal to get Larry McWilliams. As compensation for not having a First Round Pick a new owner will get a compensation pick at the end of the First Round. We are just waiting for the last few rosters to be posted for 1979 and then we'll be ready to go for the 1979 Rookie Draft. Trading is hot and heavy in this league as teams try to jump each other to get players that they need. 1979 should be extremely active for teams trying to get Rickey Henderson, Rick Sutcliffe, John Tudor, etc. C'mon in! We'd love to have you!

1979 Pittsburgh Pirates

C Milt May (PIT, DET, SFG, HOU, CHW)
C Ed Ott (PIT, CAL)
1B Willie Stargell PIRATES CK
2B Jim Morrison (PIT, CHW, PHI, DET, ATL)
2B Rennie Stennett (SFG, PIT)
3B Ken Reitz (STL, SFG, CHC
SS Bill Almon (SDP, NYM, MON, OAK, CHW, PIT, PHL)
SS Tim Foli (NYM, PIT, MON, CAL)
OF Sixto Lezcano (MIL, STL, SDP, PHL, PIT)
OF Al Oliver (PIT, TEX, MON, SFG, PHI, LAD, TOR)
OF Bill Robinson (PIT, PHI, NYY, ATL)
OF Richie Zisk (PIT, CHW, TEX, SEA)
OF Miguel Dilone (PIT, CLE, OAK, MON, SDP, CHC, CHW
DH Mike Easler (CAL, PIT, BOS, NYY, HOU)

P Doug Bair (CIN, STL, PIT, DET, OAK, PHI, TOR)
P Bert Blyleven (MIN, TEX, PIT, CLE, CAL)
P Gene Garber (PIT, KCR, ATL, PHL)
P Bruce Kison (PIT, CAL, BOS)
P Doc Medich (NYY, PIT, NYM, OAK, SEA, TEX, MLW)
P Enrique Romo PIRATES TI (SEA, PIT)
P Paul Moskau (CIN, PIT, CHC)
P Eddie Solomon (LAD, CHC, STL, ATL, PIT, CHW)
P Ed Whitson (SDP, SFG, PIT, NYY, CLE)
P Larry McWilliams (ATL, PIT, KCR, PHI, STL)

AAA

IR
P Terry Forster (CHW, PIT, LAD, ATL, CAL)
SS Mario Mendoza PIRATES TI (PIT, SEA, TEX) (SEA in '79)
P Mark Lee PIRATES TI (PIT, SDP) (SDP in '79)

Trades
Traded 1st rd to California

1979 Rookies eligible for the Pirates
C Steve Nicosia (PIT, SFG, MON, TOR)
SS Nelson Norman (TEX, PIT, MON)
P Ross Baumgarten (CHW, PIT)
P Danny Darwin (TEX, HOU, BOS, SFG, MIL, PIT, TOR, CHW)
P Randy Niemann (NYM, PIT, HOU, MIN, CHW)
P John Tudor (STL, BOS, LAD, PIT)

1979 Atlanta Braves
25 Keepers

C Joe Nolan (ATL, BAL, CIN, NYM)
1B Mike Lum (ATL, CIN, CHC)
2B Glenn Hubbard BRAVES TI (ATL, OAK)
2B Ken Oberkfell (STL, ATL, PIT, HOU, SFG, CAL)
3B Jerry Royster (ATL, LAD, SDP, NYY, CHW)
3B Bob Horner (ATL, STL)
SS Darrel Chaney (CIN, ATL)
SS Pepe Frias (MON, LAD, ATL, TEX)
OF Gary Matthews (SFG, ATL, CHC, PHI, SEA)
OF Claudell Washington (ATL, NYY, CHW, OAK, TEX, CAL, NYM)
OF Barry Bonnell BRAVES TI (TOR, ATL, SEA)
OF Rowland Office (ATL, MON, NYY)
OF Lee Lacy (LAD, PIT, BAL, ATL)
OF Gary Roenicke (BAL, ATL, MON, NYY)

P Doyle Alexander (BAL, TOR, ATL, TEX, NYY, DET, SFG, LAD)
P Dick Ruthven (PHI, CHC, ATL)
P Andy Messersmith (CAL, LAD, ATL, NYY)
P Adrian Devine BRAVES TI (ATL, TEX)
P Donnie Moore (CAL, CHC, ATL, STL, MIL)
P John Montefusco (SFG, NYY, SDP, ATL)
P Pete Falcone (NYM, STL, ATL, SFG)
P Tony Brizzolara BRAVES CK
P Rick Matula BRAVES CK
P Len Barker BRAVES TI (CLE, ATL, TEX, MIL) IR eligible (CLE in '79)
P Bo McLaughlin (HOU, OAK, ATL)

AAA
C Biff Pocoroba BRAVES CK
OF Larvell Blanks BRAVES TI (ATL, CLE, TEX)
OF Eddie Miller BRAVES CK

IR
P Rick Camp BRAVES CK IR until '80
P Preston Hanna (ATL, OAK) IR until '80

1979 Rookies available to the Braves
C Alex Trevino (NYM, CIN, HOU, LAD, SFG, ATL)
OF Bill Sample (TEX, ATL, NYY)
P Juan Berenguer (MIN, DET, NYM, KCR, ATL, SFG, TOR)
P Joey McLaughlin (TOR, ATL, TEX)
P David Palmer (MON, ATL, PHI, DET)
P Dan Petry (DET, CAL, ATL, BOS)

I will take the Braves

I'll take pitt