I posted this on baseball-fever.com as well, but wanted AH.com peoples' opinions, too,
Of all my Print On Demand books, "If Baseball Integrated Early" (baseball integrated from the beginning) and "Completed Game" (baseball with no strike fiascos) do the best.
What would be the most interesting AH if I'd try to do another baseball one? I have a few other thigns I'm working on but it's a possibility for sometime later this year or next. It's a lot of fun to write 9and hopefully fun for people to read)
A different IBIE is also possible; things could have gone in a different manner with a different POD and still keep baseball integrated from the start, slowly adding more black players a la the NFL of the 1940s and 1950s. It would then cover the history of the US, too - and I could change a few other little things. (This is where I might used that idea that sputtered with the open thread starting with that wrong turn at Shiloh - perhaps instead of a fictional player who survives the Civil War (and could have beent aht superstar OTL had he not died at 18 or 19) it is instead Cap Anson not making a fuss about them (he could see the black soldiers as having prevented war with the Lakota/Sioux, for instance.) Plus, you could have a surviving Octavius Catto having an impact.
My "cardinals in the American League" timeline I did a number of years ago is one thought, because just missi9ng the sale of the Browns one day is a *very* easy Point of Departure and it leads to babe Ruth staying with the major league Baltimore team, the Cardinals as a dominant force with the Yankees, etc.. This seems to be the easiest of the "original 16" to have switch leagues right away, at least.
(Someone on BBF mentioned having the Browns be the dominant team, and some of what was suggested is included in that TL, though I think they thought the title would be the big grab for a baseball fan. For a casual fan, though, the Cardinals in the AL would be just as good doing much of what was suggested.)
A player being different - Ty Cobb flaming out with the Yankees jinxed without Ruth; it would just require someone else get Gehrig to start the process of making the Yankees just another team. Having this start from Ruth being elsewhere would help, too.
Something more recent could also work well and might be some peoples' choice. the no collusion mini-timeline I did could be interesting if expanded. Someone else mentioned Mays and Aaron together on a team, though that would likely be with something else. (Perhaps My Veeck to Milwaukee TL expanded.)
Of course, feel free to mention what "other" is like they have.
Of all my Print On Demand books, "If Baseball Integrated Early" (baseball integrated from the beginning) and "Completed Game" (baseball with no strike fiascos) do the best.
What would be the most interesting AH if I'd try to do another baseball one? I have a few other thigns I'm working on but it's a possibility for sometime later this year or next. It's a lot of fun to write 9and hopefully fun for people to read)
A different IBIE is also possible; things could have gone in a different manner with a different POD and still keep baseball integrated from the start, slowly adding more black players a la the NFL of the 1940s and 1950s. It would then cover the history of the US, too - and I could change a few other little things. (This is where I might used that idea that sputtered with the open thread starting with that wrong turn at Shiloh - perhaps instead of a fictional player who survives the Civil War (and could have beent aht superstar OTL had he not died at 18 or 19) it is instead Cap Anson not making a fuss about them (he could see the black soldiers as having prevented war with the Lakota/Sioux, for instance.) Plus, you could have a surviving Octavius Catto having an impact.
My "cardinals in the American League" timeline I did a number of years ago is one thought, because just missi9ng the sale of the Browns one day is a *very* easy Point of Departure and it leads to babe Ruth staying with the major league Baltimore team, the Cardinals as a dominant force with the Yankees, etc.. This seems to be the easiest of the "original 16" to have switch leagues right away, at least.
(Someone on BBF mentioned having the Browns be the dominant team, and some of what was suggested is included in that TL, though I think they thought the title would be the big grab for a baseball fan. For a casual fan, though, the Cardinals in the AL would be just as good doing much of what was suggested.)
A player being different - Ty Cobb flaming out with the Yankees jinxed without Ruth; it would just require someone else get Gehrig to start the process of making the Yankees just another team. Having this start from Ruth being elsewhere would help, too.
Something more recent could also work well and might be some peoples' choice. the no collusion mini-timeline I did could be interesting if expanded. Someone else mentioned Mays and Aaron together on a team, though that would likely be with something else. (Perhaps My Veeck to Milwaukee TL expanded.)
Of course, feel free to mention what "other" is like they have.