Featherheads wrote:Hmm, I wonder how many are there left? Anyway since we were on the topic of trying to get to know the league better.... my question is how did you come about to owning your team?
Or more specifically, how did the team name come about? Were you allowed to pick your team name? Or was it already created for you? Why did you chose that particular team or location?
I should probably put in my answer to the original question, because frankly this sort of thing is tailor-made for us old folks....there is nothing we love more than to ramble on and on with boring, pointless stories about the olden days. In fact, that reminds me, back when I was a kid we used to ride our bikes to this construction site on the east side of town and throw dirt clods at each other. We would get grains of dirt in our hair and our shoes and all over our clothes, and sometimes someone would get hit in the eye, and start bawling like a little baby. Good times, good times...
Anyway, where was I? Oh yes, PEBA's formative years. I was one of the
very original owners, dating back to the
original discussion thread on Let's Go Tribe (you can look for me as "Jackdaw", Jeff of Manchester as "jdudas", and the Commish as "Corsairs", among others, as well as a lot of interesting franchise names/locations/logos which did not survive to the actual start of the league).
I put a fair amount of thought into the name and location of my team. I knew that I wanted to call them the Codgers, as that had been the name of a pretend basketball league team that I made when I was very young. In the original PEBA thread above, almost all of the initial franchises were located east of the Mississippi, so I decided the Codgers should be somewhere out west. At one point there was also some discussion of the possibility of franchises' Market Size being determined by the nearest large real-life metro area (do any of you other Original Owners remember that?), so I wanted my team someplace in Southern California that would be close enough to end up with the LA market. I settled on Palm Springs, since it was known as something of a retirement community, which would make it fit well with the Codgers name.
With my team being so close to LA and having six of the seven letters of its name in common with the Dodgers, it was easy to then go the next step and appropriate other elements of the real-life Dodgers franchise, adapting big chunks of their logo for Codgers use and stealing Ebbets Field to use for our stadium template. Because of these things (and some other stuff which happened in pre-PEBA Codgers history, which all of you will find out about someday when I get around to writing it), Palm Springs is probably the team closest to being an homage/takeoff of an actual MLB team--although I have never had strong feelings about the real-life Dodgers, either pro or con.
I remember thinking our original rivals were going to be a franchise based in San Luis Obispo, but that owner ended up having to bow out before the league began; I *think* that team might have become the Bakersfield Bears(?)--in which case they ended up being our rivals anyway!
Oh, and the salmon and green? I picked them simply because they were the coolest uniform colors of all time.
I think NBG was the one I wanted (which, as you know, did not win). 
