This will be the 21st revival season of finn2030’s Bookend Twist League. Here are the rules.

If you like researching teams, this league may be for you... Take any player in the WIS database from 1885-2024 who played for at least 2 seasons or for at least 2 teams (if a player appears on a 2025 40 man roster he would be ineligible)... then take his first and last teams as listed in http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/and twist any player who appears on the 2 rosters. Your bookend player must be on your team and you can use any season of his. No 200K exemptions... twist only the players that appear on the 2 rosters.
Using Babe Ruth as an example, your player pool would be from the 1914 Red Sox and 1935 Braves, twisted to any season. Bookend Players are only exclusive for the purpose of making teams and can appear on other team's rosters.


BLACKLIST... We’ve blacklisted the players from Seasons 1-20. Any player selected will be blacklisted from all future seasons. As players are selected for this season, I will be adding them to the blacklist.

Salary Cap $110M
24 teams
No to AAA, WW, DH, clones or trades
Injuries turned off
Chronological alignment based on Bookend player's first season
Choose a home stadium from any of your Bookend player's career teams

Please list your player and his first and last seasons here in the forum or in a site mail.

Blacklisted Players - You can’t base your team on any of these players, but you can use them if they were on one of your 2 rosters.

Don Aase
Bert Adams
Hank Aguirre
Mike Aldrete
Moises Alou
Larry Andersen
Brady Anderson
Luis Andujar
Nori Aoki
Luis Aparicio
Jake Arrieta
Billy Ashley
Doug Baird
Dusty Baker
Home Run Baker
Bill Bailey
Steve Balboni
Dave Bancroft
Scott Bankhead
Franklin Barreto
Jimmy Barrett
Jack Barry
Kevin Bass
Antonio Bastardo
Trevor Bauer
Beals Becker
Fred Beebe
Mark Belanger
Carlos Beltran
Buddy Biancalana
Dante Bichette
Mike Bielecki
Earl Blackburn
Vida Blue
Ping Bodie
Bobby Bolin
Bobby Bonds
Rafael Bournigal
Jim Bouton
Oil Can Boyd
Gene Brabender
Kitty Bransfield
Bob Brenly
Jim Brower
Ollie Brown
Smoky Burgess
Bill Burns
Pat Burrell
Homer Bush
Joe Bush
Bud Byerly
Matt Cain
Ken Caminiti
Eric Campbell
Tom Candiotti
Robinson Cano
Jose Cardenal
Steve Carlton
Chris Carpenter
Cris Carpenter
Giovanni Carrara
Cam Carreon
Mark Carreon
Brett Cecil
Roger Cedeno
Rick Cerone
Spud Chandler
Virgil Cheeves
Larry Cheney
Will Clark
Ty Cobb
Rich Coggins
Rocky Colavito
Dave Collins
Eddie Collins
Dave Concepcion
Jeff Conine
Claude Cooper
Wilbur Cooper
Fritz Coumbe
Stan Coveleski
Wes Covington
Gavvy Cravath
Frank Crosetti
Michael Cuddyer
Clay Dalrymple
Bud Daley
Kal Daniels
Rich Dauer
Darren Daulton
Vic Davalillo
Chili Davis
Eric Davis
Ron Davis
Tommy Davis
Andre Dawson
Doug DeCinces
Sam Dente
Blake Dewitt
Bill Dickey
Joe DiMaggio
Octavio Dotel
Phil Douglas
Don Drysdale
Larry Doyle
Doug Drabek
Jean Duboc
Bill Duggleby
Todd Dunwoody
Mike Easler
Dennis Eckersley
Kevin Elster
Andre Ethier
Neftali Feliz
Jack Ferry
Cecil Fielder
Mike Figga
Rollie Fingers
Chuck Finley
John Flaherty
Ryan Flaherty
Bobby Floyd
Whitey Ford
Casey Fossum
George Foster
Roger Freed
Sam Freeman
Jeff Frye
Charlie Furbush
Phil Gagliano
Bob Ganley
Damaso Garcia
Edgar Garcia
Phil Garner
Scott Garrelts
Ned Garvin
Lou Gehrig
Cesar Geronimo
Brian Giles
Bernard Gilkey
Carlos Gomez
Adrian Gonzalez
Juan Gonzalez
Dwight Gooden
Mudcat Grant
Craig Grebeck
Rusty Greer
Vean Gregg
Bobby Grich
Alfredo Griffin
Mike Griffin
Marquise Grissom
Kip Gross
Pedro Guerrero
Ron Guidry
Carlos Guillen
Harvey Haddix
Bump Hadley
Rip Hagerman
Joe Hague
Roy Halladay
Aaron Harang
Lenny Harris
Bill Haselman
Bob Heise
Rickey Henderson
Claude Hendrix
Orlando Hernendez
Ramon Hernandez
Art Herring
Orel Hershiser
Buck Herzog
Carmen Hill
Koyie Hill
Shea Hillenbrand
Bill Hinchman
Larry Hisle
Solly Hofman
Ken Holtzman
Joe Horlen
Steve Howe
Al Hrabosky
Tom Hume
Catfish Hunter
Clint Hurdle
Butch Huskey
Tom Hutton
Pete Incaviglia
Jason Isringhausen
Fred Jacklitsch
Austin Jackson
Charlie Jackson
Joe Jackson
Dion James
Hi Jasper
Derek Jeter
Tommy John
Pete Johns
Bob Johnson (1960-1970)
Davey Johnson
Lance Johnson
Randy Johnson
Rankin Johnson
Walter Johnson
Andruw Jones
Chipper Jones
Doug Jones
Mike Jorgensen
David Justice
Ron Karkovice
Steve Karsay
Benny Kauff
Tom Kelley
George Kelly
Roberto Kelly
Jeff Kent
Bill Kenworthy
Mike Kickham
Kevin Kiermaier
Ralph Kiner
Lee King
Mike Kingery
Red Killefer
Ed Klepfer
Johnny Kling
Corey Knebel
Brad Kocher
Andy Kosco
Sandy Koufax
Hiroki Kuroda
Bill Lamar
Ryan LaMarre
Ced Landrum
Ray Lankford
Jack Lapp
Wade LeBlanc
Nemo Leibold
Al Leiter
Mark Lemke
Jeffrey Leonard
Bob Lillis
Jose Lima
Jim Lindeman
Bryan Little
Skip Lockwood
Kenny Lofton
Kyle Lohse
Mickey Lolich
Tim Lollar
James Loney
Davey Lopes
Al Lopez
Yoan Lopez
William Loudon
Derek Lowe
Fred Luderus
Mike Lynch
Fred Lynn
Ryan Madson
Greg Maddux
Duster Mails
Al Mamaux
Rick Manning
Juan Marichal
Roger Maris
Pepper Martin
Russell Martin
Dave Martinez
Dennis Martinez
Pedro Martinez
Ramon Martinez
Don Mattingly
Dal Maxvill
Bert Maxwell
Darrell May
John Mayberry Jr
Carl Mays
Nomar Mazara
Bake McBride
Ken McBride
Tim McCarver
George McConnell
James McDonald
Roger McDowell
Jack McGeachy
Kris Medlen
Joe Medwick
Ramiro Mendoza
Fred Merkle
Chief Meyers
Jim Middleton
Kevin Millwood
Eddie Milner
Don Mincher
Dale Mitchell
Kevin Mitchell
Roy Mitchell
Johnny Mize
Yadier Molina
Rick Monday
Don Money
Wally Moon
Bob Moose
Brett Morel
Bill Morrell
Paul Moskau
Curt Motton
Red Munger
Bobby Murcer
Eddie Murphy
Johnny Murphy
Tony Muser
Stan Musial
Randy Myers
Greasy Neale
Robb Nen
Pat Neshek
Hal Newhouser
Otis Nixon
Trot Nixon
Mike Norris
Johnny Oates
Lefty O’Doul
Ron Oester
Bob O’Farrell
Jose Offerman
Steve Ontiveros (1985-2000)
Al Orth
Dan Otero
Mel Ott
Orval Overall
Angel Pagan
Rafael Palmeiro
Jonathan Papelbon
Mitchell Page
Bobby Parnell
Gaylod Perry
Jim Perry
Pat Perry
Gary Peters
Jack Pfiester
Tony Phillips
Babe Pinelli
Cotton Pippen
Jose Pirela
Luis Polonia
Drew Pomeranz
Jorge Posada
Buster Posey
Bill Powell
Martin Prado
David Price
Greg Pryor
Yasiel Puig
Mel Queen (1942-52)
Rey Quinones
Dan Quisenberry
Tim Raines Sr
Hanley Ramirez
Doug Rau
Ed Reulbach
Jerry Reuss
Jose Reyes
Jim Rice
Mariano Rivera
Phil Rizutto
Brian Roberts
Dave Roberts (1999-2008)
Dave Robertson
Cookie Rojas
Al Rosen
David Ross
Wade Rowdon
Braggo Roth
Dutch Ruether
Babe Ruth
C. C. Sabathia
Bret Saberhagen
Donnie Sadler
Fernando Salas
Tim Salmon
Juan Samuel
Rey Sanchez
Deion Sanders
Charlie Sands
Bob Scanlan
Ray Schalk
Jason Schmidt
Calvin Schiraldi
Jonathan Schoop
Herb Score
Everett Scott
Jack Scott
Kevin Seitzer
Aaron Sele
George Selkirk
Hank Severeid
Pedro Severino
Joe Sewell
Howie Shanks
Ernie Shore
Ed Sicking
Ted Sizemore
Enos Slaughter
Dave Smith
Earl Smith (1916-1922)
Ozzie Smith
Syd Smith
Duke Snider
Fred Snodgrass
Chris Snyder
Luis Sojo
Julio Solano
Alfonso Soriano
Mario Soto
Tris Speaker
By Speece
Chris Speier
Craig Stammen
Fred Stanley
Arnold Statz
Kelly Stinnett
Snuffy Stirnweiss
Russ Swan
Bill Sweeney (1907-1914)
Dave Telgheder
Zeb Terry
Bob Tewksbury
Bobby Thigpen
Josh Thole
Frank Thomas (1951-1966)
Roy Thomas
Bobby Thomson
Jack Thoney
Terry Tiffee
Fred Toney
George Townsend
John Tudor
Terry Turner
Tom Underwood
Chase Utley
Fernando Valenzuela
Andy Van Slyke
Bobby Veach
Dario Veras
Quilvio Veras
Zoilo Versalles
Cory Wade
Tim Wakefield
Chico Walker
Larry Walker
Neil Walker
Bobby Wallace
Paul Waner
Allen Watson
Buck Weaver
Orlie Weaver
Brandon Webb
Jake Wells
Charles Wensloff
Gus Weyhing
Steve Whitaker
Doc White
Hoyt Wilhelm
Bernie Williams
Cy Williams
Matt Williams
Mitch Williams
Stan Williams
Walt Williams
Maury Wills
Art Wilson
Chief Wilson
Hooks Wiltse
Dave Winfield
Mellie Wolfgang
Joe Wood
Dick Woodson
Todd Worrell
Gene Wright
Jamey Wright
Steve Yerkes
Babe Young
Eric Young, Sr.
Heinie Zimmerman

mfumar - returning - Bob Johnson (1960-1970)
dvorr80 -
scjensen51 - returning - Nori Aoki
richabbs - returning - Babe Young
trd3 - returning - Orlando Hernandez
frank_drebin - returning
ronthegenius - returning - William Loudon
0soup4u - returning - Claude Cooper
snuffy45 -
MAZZILLI16 - returning - Al Lopez
sfile - returning
bbondsmvp - returning
happyhours - returning - Bake McBride
dlchow - returning - Mike Bielecki
d_rock97 -
sweetnss355 - returning - Jose Lima
gees51 - returning
bixman51 - returning - Walt Williams
DarthDurron - returning
TBill7 - returning
redwingscup - returning
crazystengel - Jamey Wright
cstrohmier - returning

Wait List

mars2010
3dayrotation
summerfield
mjoyce103
gyrene
vilefileman
big_dowg

I’ll be starting the new league in a day or so once our playoffs start.

Waitlist please

I’ll take Walt Williams, 1964 Houston Colt .45s to the 1975 New York Yankees

Mike Bielecki - 1984 Pirates and 1997 Braves

I'm returning!

Jamey Wright -- 1996 Rockies and 2014 Dodgers

Nori Aoki

2012 Brewers
2017 Mets

I’m returning tentatively with Babe Young (1936 NY Giants & 1948 StL Cardinals). If I decide to switch players, I’ll let you know.

I'd like to try Claude Cooper, please. 1913 Giants & 1917 Phillies.

All updated.