This will be season 6 of our revival of Bookend Twist. I’ll be starting the new league on February 9th or 10th when our playoffs start. We usually have an opening or two, so leave your name if you want to be on the waitlist.

This will be the sixth 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 1885-2021 who played for at least 2 seasons or for at least 2 teams (if a player has MLB stats for 2022 or appears on a 2022 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 1-5. 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

Moises Alou
Jake Arrieta
Billy Ashley
Home Run Baker
Steve Balboni
Dave Bancroft
Scott Bankhead
Ping Bodie
Smoky Burgess
Homer Bush
Matt Cain
Jose Cardenal
Roger Cedeno
Ty Cobb
Rocky Colavito
Wilbur Cooper
Stan Coveleski
Gavvy Cravath
Frank Crosetti
Clay Dalrymple
Darren Daulton
Joe DiMaggio
Phil Douglas
Bill Duggleby
Mike Easler
Dennis Eckersley
Neftali Feliz
Rollie Fingers
George Foster
Jeff Frye
Phil Gagliano
Cesar Geronimo
Dwight Gooden
Mudcat Grant
Vean Gregg
Pedro Guerrero
Bob Heise
Claude Hendrix
Ramon Hernandez
Koyie Hill
Shea Hillenbrand
Joe Horlen
Steve Howe
Tom Hume
Clint Hurdle
Austin Jackson
Charlie Jackson
Joe Jackson
Derek Jeter
Randy Johnson
Walter Johnson
Andruw Jones
Doug Jones
Steve Karsay
Roberto Kelly
Jeff Kent
Lee King
Mike Kingery
Red Killefer
Hiroki Kuroda
Bill Lamar
Ray Lankford
Jim Lindeman
Bryan Little
Mickey Lolich
James Loney
Mike Lynch
Fred Lynn
Ryan Madson
Greg Maddux
Duster Mails
Al Mamaux
Roger Maris
Pepper Martin
Russell Martin
Dennis Martinez
Pedro Martinez
Ramon Martinez
Don Mattingly
Bert Maxwell
Carl Mays
Ken McBride
James McDonald
Ramiro Mendoza
Kevin Millwood
Dale Mitchell
Kevin Mitchell
Roy Mitchell
Don Money
Bobby Murcer
Eddie Murphy
Johnny Murphy
Stan Musial
Greasy Neale
Robb Nen
Hal Newhouser
Ron Oester
Jim Perry
Pat Perry
Gary Peters
Tony Phillips
Luis Polonia
Bill Powell
Mel Queen (1942-52)
Rey Quinones
Dave Roberts (1999-2008)
David Ross
Babe Ruth
C. C. Sabathia
Bret Saberhagen
Fernando Salas
Tim Salmon
Juan Samuel
Charlie Sands
Ray Schalk
Jason Schmidt
Herb Score
Aaron Sele
George Selkirk
Howie Shanks
Ed Sicking
Ozzie Smith
Duke Snider
Luis Sojo
Mario Soto
Tris Speaker
Russ Swan
Bobby Thomson
Jack Thoney
Bobby Veach
Dario Veras
Larry Walker
Orlie Weaver
Gus Weyhing
Doc White
Hoyt Wilhelm
Cy Williams
Dave Winfield
Mellie Wolfgang
Joe Wood
Dick Woodson
Todd Worrell
Eric Young, Sr.

Owners

mfumar - returning -
newarkwilder - returning -
dvorr80 - returning -
scjensen51 - returning -
barracuda3 - returning -
richabbs - returning -
redwingscup - returning -
trd3 - returning -
frank_drebin - returning
ronthegenius - returning
0soup4u - returning
3dayrotation - returning
finn2030 - returning
mars2010 - returning
snuffy45 - returning
MAZZILLI16 - returning
Craig479 - returning
alice- returning
strubrosll - returning
pmwksw - returning
GeorgeHRuth - joining
tensaver716 - joining
CLWECW - joining
Jdh34 - joining

Wait List


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darny10

mfumar; newarkwilder; dvorr80; scjensen51; barracuda3; richabbs; redwingscup; trd3; frank_drebin; ronthegenius; 0soup4u; 3dayrotation; finn2030; mars2010; snuffy45; MAZZILLI16; Craig479; alice; strubrosII; GeorgeHRuth; pmwksw; tensaver716; CLWECW; Jdh34

Going to go with a Moises Alou team (90 Pirates, 08 Mets)

And hope that the other team I was dabbling with is available in Season 7

I'll try Phil Douglas, please. 1912 White Sox & 1922 Giants.

Please add me to the wait list

Roberto Kelly
1987 and 2000 Yankees

I'll try Mike Kingery. Thanks!

All updated

Back with Bill Powell - 1909 Pirates~1913 Reds.

I'll be back with Home Run Baker - 1908 A's & 1922 Yankees.

Returning with Tony Phillips - 82 A's/99 A's

Returning with Danny Heep...............1980 Astros-1990 Red Sox