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This all looks great!

IC could be Indianapolis.

I agree.  Excellent series.  Thank you for accommodating requests you were not planning to do.  Great Job.  Take a break.  You deserve it.  Hope to see you back on the boards when the time is right.  Thank you for all your hard work!

48 minutes ago, MJD7 said:

I suppose it could work, but honestly the single feather motif still brings to mind Native American imagery to me, not an eagle, so I think it'd be best to avoid it personally.

This version is pretty awesome.  Can we see the road and alternates with updated sleeves?

On 9/17/2023 at 12:43 PM, MJD7 said:

Sure thing:

 

How about the Utah Bees?

Thanks for working that in.  It looks awesome!

Missing this one.  Please continue!

I have enjoyed your posts.  Keep going.  This is pretty good stuff.

I think Buffs works much better!  Great job.  I love the colors.

Houston Buffaloes looks great!  I like the colors.  I wonder what it would look like with the name shortened to Buffs.

Great job on all the concepts I've seen here.  I think it has been mentioned but is there any chance that you could do a Houston design rebranding the Colt .45s as the Houston Colts?

Chicago looks much better and Houston does to.

39 minutes ago, ThisIsFine said:

I think the baseball it the Houston logos should be changed to white, it’s kind of ineligible from a distance.

Probably the best set so far along with Cincinnati.  I agree that the comet needs to be white for more contrast.

4 hours ago, thesieve22 said:

Here's Chicago in A's colors, not sure which I like more but leaning toward the kelly green set. Thoughts?

The Golden Yellow really pops off of the darker Green.

Since the Oakland A's were mentioned it makes me wonder how it would look in those colors.

Would love to have a better look at the shoulder patches.  They all look pretty cool.

San Antonio looks pretty good.  When I return, I am also planning to do a MLB expansion thread.  Hopefully it will turn out as good as yours looks.  Great job!

Off to a great start!

4 hours ago, maxwasson said:

Just found out this morning that the project has been closed, and while I am disappointed that I won't get to see the rest of the potential concepts, I completely respect teeray01's decision to close the project, given the sheer workload that completing this could've entailed, but it was a fun time when this project was ongoing and I hope this inspires the subgenre of baseball alternate history further. 

 

Not saying I'm done.  I just need more time to deal with end of life things with my wife.  With the Oakland A's moving to Las Vegas and maybe Tampa Bay figuring out their stadium issues,  MLB expansion may happen in the next few years.  I may do some work on plausible expansion.

4 hours ago, coco1997 said:

I know it sucks, but I guess you should be flattered! 

How is your wife doing?

I guess I should be.  I have signed up as a designer on Teepublic and may release some of those designs again.  My wife isn't doing very well.  She had a stroke on 3/24 and chemo was stopped.  She is at home receiving hospice care.  We have a 10 year old daughter together.  It's been a tough couple of years.

Just discovered some of my logos on Teepublic  for T-shirts etc.  The designer is listed as The History of Baseball.  I'm glad they like my logos but I'm not really cool with someone taking credit for my design work and using them for profit!

Pretty cool stuff here.  Looking forward to seeing what you do with

Montreal.

15 hours ago, maxwasson said:

Really liking this concept thread, I do have an idea for what the Kansas City team could be called, I saw this name in a Sports Alternate History forum, and I thought it could stick for KC.

 

Name suggestion: Kansas City Imagineers

 

Name origin: "Imagineer" is a reference to the "Imagineers" that design theme park rides at Disneyland and Disney World, the name is Disney-related because Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse co-creator Ub Iwerks got their start in Kansas City at the Laugh-O-Grams Studios on East 31st Street. Ub Iwerks was also a Kansas City native, Walt Disney grew up both in Marceline and Kansas City as well, the old Disney family home is also located on East 31st street.

 

So this would be unique to have a Disney-inspired team name in the Midwest, because there's already the Anaheim Ducks (NHL) on the west coast near Disneyland the Orlando Magic (NBA) on the east coast near Disney World.

MLB cities without a UBA team: Tampa Bay, Kansas City, Oakland, Miami, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh

UBA cities without a MLB team: Montreal, New Orleans, Memphis, Charlotte, Las Vegas, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Vancouver, Portland

6 hours ago, maxwasson said:

 

I sincerely apologize for doing that, and I hope you can focus on the priorities in your life, I apologize if I have caused teeray01 and anyone else here any trouble today and I'm not mad at him for pausing the thread, but I don't want to be seen at some nuisance for ruining a man's life because I got a little too passionate about a thread that involves Twilight Zone-esque MLB teams, I have to own up to this big mistake and I hope we can move on from it.

Apology accepted.  I'm going to take a break from this for a while to get back to the place where this was fun again and to take care of my wife.

ARKANSAS ANGELS (LITTLE ROCK) - Final concept before I pause this project for a while

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