When I was 16 years old I went to at least 25 games at old Sicks Stadium in Seattle and watched the first season of the Seattle Pilots.
I went there to watch major league baseball.
I saw stars, in a stadium that sat 29 thousand people such as big Frank Howard, Rod Carew, Reggie Jackson and managers like Ted Williams (he managed the Senators).

This league is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of that team that would become, one year later, the present day Milwaukee Brewers.

Heres the rules:
100 Mil
No DH, clone, ww, aaa players

You must have these position players on your roster:
1969 Pilot SS Ray Oyler
Either a 1943 or 1946 version of Pilot manager, Joe Schultz
You must have at least 6 other Seattle Pilot position players on your roster, twisted to any year they played in their career
The rest of the position players are from 1969 American League position players twisted to any year that they played in their career

Pitchers:
You must have "Ball Four" author Jim Bouton's 1969 season on your roster
You must have Miguel Fuentes on your roster...RIP Miguel
You must have at least 4 other Pilot pitchers on your roster that can be twisted to any year that they played in their career
The rest of the pitchers will be from a pool of 1969 American League pitchers, twisted to any year that they played in their career

use www.baseball-reference.com/teams/ and check for all eligible Pilot players who played at least one inning for the Pilots in 1969
Players like Skip Lockwood, Dooley Womack, Bucky Brandon and Mike Ferraro are eligible!

All games are to be played at Sicks Stadium

League # is MLB 124536

pretty simple right?
enter a team....follow the rules and lets GO PILOTS!!!

Added bonus!
The team with the lowest .OAV from the cumlative Seattle Pilot pitchers (400 min. WIS league innings for only original Pilot pitchers)

will win the founders credit!

I'll put a team in

As will I. Cool idea

Like razorclams, I was 16 years old in 1969, living in the Pacific Northwest. I only attended one Seattle Pilots game (vs. Baltimore), but it was my first MLB in-person experience. Please reserve a spot for me in this league.

Do our at-large position players have to be drawn from the 1969 season?

Posted by VanMeter on 4/15/2019 9:57:00 PM (view original):
Do our at-large position players have to be drawn from the 1969 season?

They must be players who appeared in the American League in 1969
They can be twisted

thanks guys and gals
please enter your teams ASAP!

In picking our Pilot players, are we restricted to the players who played enough games with the Pilots to be "Sim eligible" for 1969, or may we use players such as Skip Lockwood and Bucky Brandon who played for the 1969 pilots but not in enough games to show up in the SIM for that year? In other words, can we pick (and twist) any player who shows up on the Pilots roster in baseball reference.com?

Posted by celticus on 4/16/2019 5:11:00 PM (view original):
In picking our Pilot players, are we restricted to the players who played enough games with the Pilots to be "Sim eligible" for 1969, or may we use players such as Skip Lockwood and Bucky Brandon who played for the 1969 pilots but not in enough games to show up in the SIM for that year? In other words, can we pick (and twist) any player who shows up on the Pilots roster in baseball reference.com?

yes
use baseball reference for any player who played in at least one Pilot game in 1969

thanks for the question
added to league rules

Pilot pitchers must have at least a total of 400 innings to be eligible for the founders credit

Please enter (MLB 124536) after enjoying creating your best Pilot team

I will try it

I'm in

presume 1969 Bouton must be one of the two listed Pilot seasons. Please confirm.

I loved reading Ball Four. I'll play.

Just a FYI for you guys who weren't diehard Pilots fans: the Billy Williams who played briefly for Seattle in 1969 is not the same Billy Williams who had a HOF career for the Cubbies