This version of the Birth Year League is all in the family... choose one of the following - your father, mother, brother, sister, son or daughter.  Using their birth year (I'm using my first born daughter - 1979), your player pool will come from the following four baseballreference.com lists:


 Major League Baseball Died This Year
 Major League Baseball Born This Year
 Major League Baseball New Debuts
 Major League Baseball Retirements

24 players on your roster MUST come from these 4 lists according to your family member's birth year and you can use any season of theirs... no minimums or maximums per list.  The 25th player can be a "bonus" player from your family member's birth year.  For example, Keith Hernandez doesn't appear on any list for 1979 but I could draft his 1979 season as my "bonus player".

I will post my team and the player connections to each list in the Theme Leagues Forum after I create the league.  Each owner will have to post their roster and connections there as well in order to receive the league#.

Salary Cap - $110M
No AAA, WW, DH, clones, trades or live play
Injuries turned off
Random realignment
Choose any stadium
YEARS ARE NOT EXCLUSIVE

Here's the links for each list:




Here's one of the lists I'm using... by clicking on  "more", it will take you to a menu with: New Debuts, Retirements, Born This Year & Died This Year

http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/1979-finalyear.shtml

OWNER LIST

01. finn2030 - 1979 (daughter) - roster posted, team entered
02. BCBSMA - 2008 (daughter) - roster posted, team entered
03. dweigel - 1920 (father) - roster posted, team entered
04. dlchow - 2005 (daughter) - roster posted, team entered
05. specsman - 1983 (daughter) - roster posted, team entered
06. cozmocrowe - 1942 (father) - roster posted, team entered
07. seven seas - 1985 (son) - roster posted, team entered
08. pinotfan - 1948 (brother) roster posted, team entered
09. fatboydad54 - 1936 (mother) roster posted, team entered
10. kriz - 1984 (brother) - roster posted, team entered
11. cholatse - 1939 (both parents) - roster posted, team entered
12. seven seas - 1954 (sister) - roster posted, team entered
13. 2chair - 1926 (mother) - roster posted, team entered
14. daddyzander - 1959 (mother) - roster posted, team entered
15. razorclams - 1989 (daughter) - roster posted, team entered
16. bsm7 - 1938 (mother) - roster posted, team entered
17. Drawdexer - 1928 (mother) - roster posted, team entered
18. cholatse - 1965 (sister) - roster posted, team entered
19. busterglen - 1972 (son) - roster posted, team entered
20. blanco44 - 1954 (father) - roster posted, team entered
21. finn2030 - 1965 (brother) - roster posted, team entered
22. XYGZ - 1971 (brother) - roster posted, team entered
23. greener88 - 1937 (mother) - roster posted, team entered
24. tdoak - 1918 (mother & father) - roster posted, team entered

sign me up Finn - year TBD (I have 10 years to choose from. need to research)

I'll sign up too. TBD.

I'll play shorthanded and go with the birth year of my first daughter too - 2005.  Guess there aren't any 9-year-olds in MLB yet.

I'm in, 1983, oldest daughter's DOB

Welcome BCBSMA, dweigel, dlchow & specsman... thanks for starting us off!

My 1979 roster is now posted in the Theme Leagues forum.

Make mine 2008 (youngest daughter) - no births, but good debuts & final year talent.

I would like to join - year TBD

I'll play. My sons birth year, 2011

Welcome 2chair & elonsmitty!

Check that. I'll use my brothers birth year, 1964

The offense will be awesome, but I don't know if I'll get any opposing batters out:  my late brother's birth year of 1948.

Welcome pinotfan!  elonsmitty, change noted.