A tough vote it was...any city on the list would be a good fit.

(Though I voted for a couple not on the list...one's outside the US, the other's in a US territory/commonwealth)

AltLB Fans!

It is time to take our first step towards building our fourth Alt Sports league. This league is our largest yet with 30 teams! The voting on the cities yielded some wild and surprising results. The results were very close...but the thirty that we selected won definitively over those that we didn't. 

In our collective wisdom we tapped into some of America's most traditional and passionate baseball towns. We also branched off into brand new baseball markets. We added an exciting blend of international cities. Finally we are able to welcoming 9 new cities to the Alt Sports Universe. 

I am really excited about our blend of cities. I am sure that some of us that will be disappointed. I ask that you keep that to yourself (no hissy fits) so that we can enjoy this process together. Remember that everyone's current ownership is TBD until the official Owner Draft. 

Steelman came up with a great idea to help guide our design of the league. We are going to break the 30 cities up into eras. These decades can help guide our design of the names, logos and uniforms for each team. Baseball has been blessed with some unique trends over the course of time. We can use those fun trends to guide (but not define) our development of the team identities. I broke the cities down based off of the general expansion trends of the four major sports IRL. 

We will reveal two decades (10 cities) each day for the rest of the week. Once I make the post on Friday we will begin accepting submissions for the cities from the first group. So don't do it yet! But use this slow reveal to start brainstorming the team names. 

Here we go! Our first ten cities!  This group may be a little 'chalk' but I promise the next two days will not be...

Wait, teams in Ohio exist? Well, I guess if they're going to get into any league, it might as well be the laundry league

The usual suspects, of course, but not that that's a bad thing. Good name ideas are already in mind.

CubsOrSoxs wrote:

I’m glad too see Kansas City and San Francisco make it in the 60s, I am suprised Pittsburg is in there though.

 
I’m actually surprised at KC’s inclusion, but I welcome it wholeheartedly.