This will be the twelfth 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 1885-2022 who played for at least 2 seasons or for at least 2 teams (if a player has MLB stats for 2023 or appears on a 2024 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 1-11. 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.

Mike Aldrete
Moises Alou
Larry Andersen
Luis Aparicio
Jake Arrieta
Billy Ashley
Doug Baird
Dusty Baker
Home Run Baker
Steve Balboni
Dave Bancroft
Scott Bankhead
Franklin Barreto
Kevin Bass
Antonio Bastardo
Carlos Beltran
Vida Blue
Ping Bodie
Bobby Bolin
Rafael Bournigal
Jim Bouton
Kitty Bransfield
Smoky Burgess
Pat Burrell
Homer Bush
Joe Bush
Bud Byerly
Matt Cain
Ken Caminiti
Robinson Cano
Jose Cardenal
Steve Carlton
Chris Carpenter
Brett Cecil
Roger Cedeno
Rick Cerone
Spud Chandler
Ty Cobb
Rich Coggins
Rocky Colavito
Eddie Collins
Dave Concepcion
Jeff Conine
Wilbur Cooper
Fritz Coumbe
Stan Coveleski
Gavvy Cravath
Frank Crosetti
Michael Cuddyer
Clay Dalrymple
Kal Daniels
Darren Daulton
Eric Davis
Ron Davis
Andre Dawson
Bill Dickey
Joe DiMaggio
Phil Douglas
Jean Duboc
Bill Duggleby
Mike Easler
Dennis Eckersley
Neftali Feliz
Jack Ferry
Cecil Fielder
Rollie Fingers
Bobby Floyd
George Foster
Sam Freeman
Jeff Frye
Charlie Furbush
Phil Gagliano
Damaso Garcia
Edgar Garcia
Scott Garrelts
Ned Garvin
Lou Gehrig
Cesar Geronimo
Brian Giles
Bernard Gilkey
Carlos Gomez
Adrian Gonzalez
Dwight Gooden
Mudcat Grant
Vean Gregg
Bobby Grich
Alfredo Griffin
Kip Gross
Pedro Guerrero
Ron Guidry
Carlos Guillen
Bump Hadley
Roy Halladay
Bob Heise
Claude Hendrix
Ramon Hernandez
Art Herring
Buck Herzog
Koyie Hill
Shea Hillenbrand
Bill Hinchman
Joe Horlen
Steve Howe
Tom Hume
Clint Hurdle
Tom Hutton
Pete Incaviglia
Fred Jacklitsch
Austin Jackson
Charlie Jackson
Joe Jackson
Derek Jeter
Pete Johns
Davey Johnson
Lance Johnson
Randy Johnson
Rankin Johnson
Walter Johnson
Andruw Jones
Doug Jones
Mike Jorgensen
Ron Karkovice
Steve Karsay
Roberto Kelly
Jeff Kent
Mike Kickham
Ralph Kiner
Lee King
Mike Kingery
Red Killefer
Corey Knebel
Hiroki Kuroda
Bill Lamar
Ryan LaMarre
Ray Lankford
Wade LeBlanc
Jeffrey Leonard
Jim Lindeman
Bryan Little
Skip Lockwood
Kenny Lofton
Kyle Lohse
Mickey Lolich
Tim Lollar
James Loney
Davey Lopes
Derek Lowe
Fred Luderus
Mike Lynch
Fred Lynn
Ryan Madson
Greg Maddux
Duster Mails
Al Mamaux
Rick Manning
Roger Maris
Pepper Martin
Russell Martin
Dennis Martinez
Pedro Martinez
Ramon Martinez
Don Mattingly
Dal Maxvill
Bert Maxwell
Carl Mays
Ken McBride
James McDonald
Roger McDowell
Joe Medwick
Ramiro Mendoza
Fred Merkle
Kevin Millwood
Dale Mitchell
Kevin Mitchell
Roy Mitchell
Yadier Molina
Rick Monday
Don Money
Brett Morel
Curt Motton
Bobby Murcer
Eddie Murphy
Johnny Murphy
Stan Musial
Greasy Neale
Robb Nen
Pat Neshek
Hal Newhouser
Otis Nixon
Mike Norris
Ron Oester
Bob O’Farrell
Orval Overall
Gaylod Perry
Jim Perry
Pat Perry
Gary Peters
Jack Pfiester
Tony Phillips
Babe Pinelli
Cotton Pippen
Luis Polonia
Drew Pomeranz
Bill Powell
David Price
Yasiel Puig
Mel Queen (1942-52)
Rey Quinones
Ed Reulbach
Jerry Reuss
Mariano Rivera
Brian Roberts
Dave Roberts (1999-2008)
Al Rosen
David Ross
Babe Ruth
C. C. Sabathia
Bret Saberhagen
Fernando Salas
Tim Salmon
Juan Samuel
Rey Sanchez
Charlie Sands
Ray Schalk
Jason Schmidt
Herb Score
Everett Scott
Jack Scott
Aaron Sele
George Selkirk
Hank Severeid
Joe Sewell
Howie Shanks
Ed Sicking
Ted Sizemore
Enos Slaughter
Dave Smith
Earl Smith
Ozzie Smith
Syd Smith
Duke Snider
Fred Snodgrass
Luis Sojo
Mario Soto
Tris Speaker
Arnold Statz
Russ Swan
Bill Sweeney (1907-1914)
Josh Thole
Frank Thomas (1951-1966)
Bobby Thomson
Jack Thoney
Terry Tiffee
John Tudor
Bobby Veach
Dario Veras
Quilvio Veras
Zoilo Versalles
Tim Wakefield
Larry Walker
Bobby Wallace
Allen Watson
Buck Weaver
Orlie Weaver
Brandon Webb
Gus Weyhing
Steve Whitaker
Doc White
Hoyt Wilhelm
Bernie Williams
Cy Williams
Mitch Williams
Stan Williams
Maury Wills
Art Wilson
Hooks Wiltse
Dave Winfield
Mellie Wolfgang
Joe Wood
Dick Woodson
Todd Worrell
Gene Wright
Eric Young, Sr.
Heinie Zimmerman

mfumar - returning -Rich Coggins
dvorr80 - returning - Steve Whitaker
scjensen51 - returning - Bernard Gilkey
richabbs - returning - Hooks Wiltse
trd3 - returning - Roger McDowell
frank_drebin - returning - Mitch Williams
ronthegenius - returning - Cotton Pippen
0soup4u - returning - Doug Baird
mars2010 - returning - Chris Carpenter
snuffy45 - returning - Arnold Statz
MAZZILLI16 - returning - Kip Gross
tensaver716 - returning - Bobby Bolin
mberg - returning - Fred Snodgrass
sfile - returning - Rick Cerone
Jesters - returning - Josh Thole
gyrene - returning - Kenny Lofton
vilefileman - returning - Ken Caminiti
redwingscup - returning - Orval Overall
dlchow - returning - Brett Morel
Jdh34 - returning - Tom Hutton
bbondsmvp - returning - Carlos Guillen
chewy3344 - returning - Franklin Barreto
d_rock97 - joining - Fred Jacklitsch
dcates - joining - John Tudor

Wait List

adsmith182
GeorgeHRuth
newarkwilder
keth
3dayrotation

Site Mail List

Mfumar; dvorr80; scjensen51; trd3; richabbs; frank_drebin; ronthegenius; 0soup4u; mars2010; gyrene; snuffy45; tensaver716; mberg; sfile; MAZZILLI16; Jesters; vilefileman; redwingscup; dlchow; Jdh4; bbondsmvp; dcates; chewy3344; d_rock97

As of right now, we have at least 3 openings, so I’m site mailing the first three on the waitlist. Leave your name if you’re interested.

Josh Thole - NYM ‘09 and TOR ‘16

All updated.

I’ll be starting the league on 3/27 when our playoffs start and then sending out the league number.

Put me down for Jorge Soler (2014 Cubs) & (2023 Marlins)

I'll return with Fred Snodgrass 1908 Giants and 1916 Braves.

Waitlist me

Going to give things a go with Bernard Gilkey

90 Cardinals
01 Braves

Posted by tensaver716 on 3/19/2024 8:07:00 PM (view original):
Put me down for Jorge Soler (2014 Cubs) & (2023 Marlins)

Soler played last year and is on the Giants roster, so he’s not eligible.

Posted by d_rock97 on 3/19/2024 9:52:00 PM (view original):
Waitlist me

You may get in this time. I’ll keep you posted.

All updated

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