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Sorry about your best friend – who died 2 years ago but this intro thingy was begun back then when the thread idea was hatched.

Thanks, at least we know he’s in Heaven and not suffering from cancer anymore.

And now with the pandemic it might continue after you stopped it?

I'm thinking about it; I stopped in the mid-'50s, I have ideas up to 1990. Fans will notice if I do. I see it's easy to do threadmarks now, too, though I'd still have to insert the titles so don't know if I'll have time, I need to set aside time first if I do that..

But it's still not easy to copy from your browser and have good spacing - maybe you'll figure something out. It gives you an excuse to reread and remember what you had. Anyway, since he was such a huge Packer fan, I thought your TLIAW might be on the NFL.

Well, the draft would be so complex with all the systems of each team, it was hard to know for sure how to really do one right..

True, and baseball’s your thing, anyway. So, Yankee dominance is turned on its head.

Yes, OTL is a Yankee boom en masse. For instance, with expansion the 1949-1964 dominance of 15 pennants in 17 years was rather easy to whittle down to 5 in “If Baseball integrated Early.” And, an anti-Yankees TL on othertimelines.com really missed a lot of chances - the Yankees kept wining pennants and losing in the Series, but the poster could have had Ed Barrow and thus superscout Paul Krichell stay in Boston! He could have had Tom Greewade stay with the Dodgers, too, instead of Branch Rickey lettering him go to the Yankees; giving the Dodgers Mickey Mantle!

Wait, you’re getting ahead of yourself. This doesn’t quite do all that, but there’s something about Ruth you haven’t done before, right?

Yes, see, in my one on Ruth as a Red - https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...little-guy-babe-ruth-a-cincinnati-red.301037/ - plus my Cardinals in the American league one - https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-heavyweights-league-cardinals-in-the-a-l.106217/ - where Ruth is an Oriole, Lou Gehrig is just the start of the Yankees dynasty, and that’s very likely.

But, not with the Yankees not even in New York.

No, they almost left New York after 1920 - Stoneham wanted to kick them out of their lease.

And, of course, a bit of a spoiler, but in traditional AH irony fashion a certain trade makes the Yankees look better at first?

Yes, call it A Spoiled Peach which leads to their first 2 Series being losses causing a huge stain on them that leads to disaster. That was going to be the TL name till the Ruth change came up as I developed it.

I see your love of puns has not disappeared, even if you have no jokes to connect this TLIAWhatever to the original British political ones.

I decided to give you a break after that awful pun on Thatcher’s name a la Chris Berman, “Margaret Thatcher “Prime Minister? You’re in trouble.” Although now I have the urge to talk of Ed Heath “row Airport,” Anthony “East of” Eden, Theresa May “or may not,” David “Candid” Cameron…

That kind of naming convention might just make political campaigns somewhat bearable.

Hey, if it inspires a TLIAD about it, all the better. Now for the feature presentation here.
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