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The History of the Fly-By-Night Baseball Association THE HISTORY OF THE FLY-BY-NIGHT BASEBALL ASSOCIATION Founded in 1974 by David Smith History of the FBNBA BY SCOTT ELLIS 1985 REPRINTED AND UPDATED BY ROB BRUNO (the first 35 years) Part II 1974 -2009 (In 1994, the FBNBA is getting ready for its 19 th PMB season and 20 th season overall. The Prologue that Scott Ellis wrote on June 9, 1985, could easily be written today as the FBNBA has had her ups and downs again and has also expanded for 1994. See if you agree as you read Scott’s Prologue. 2004 – Now going into the 32 nd year the FBN is healthier than ever returning 23 members for 2004 and the return an old friend.) Prologue - June 9, 1985 The play-by-mail version of the Fly-By-Night Baseball Association is 10 years old this year. Not many PBM organizations can make that claim. We’ve had our ups, we’ve had our downs, but the FBNBA has survived, evolved and flourished. We’ve had a lot of fun and with expansion in 1986, more excitement is on the way. The FBNBA is not heavily into statistics, but neither does it discourage detailed record keeping. We do however focus more on personalities and competitiveness rather than getting bogged down with trivial number. I think it is especially nice that the FBNBA can accommodate both the computer brains and good time gamers. We are a trading association. This is good too, because the more we talk to each other the more friendships are made. While there have been some feuds in the FBNBA history there are many more friendships. From all I’ve been through in my Strat-O-Matic career, I know for sure that the FBNBA is a unique group. Longevity, competitive- ness, friendliness, communication and change are the reasons. Let’s hope we have many more FBNBA years to come. The history was originally commissioned in March 1983 - more than two years ago. The project was undertaken with former Commissioner Craig Haines’ approval. INTRODUCTION From a great beginning in 1974, to a near total collapse in 1977-79 to the vibrant comeback in the early 1980’s and the modern era we’re in now, the Fly-By-Night Baseball Association has endured. (The FBNBA ‘s real modern era did not start until 1988, when the league reverted back to its roots of 1974, and became 65% face to face and in 1994, will almost be 70% face to face. 18 members are expected to be in person for Draft Day with Jeff Merklin and Mike Gerack flying in from Ohio and Florida respectively.) The association has had dozens of managers a few dynasty teams a lot of trades some disputes and a hell of a lot of fun. But the mere fact that the FBNBA has held together for 11 years (now 32, years) is a testimony to the caliber of the associations members. When you read this history you’ll know what I mean. Many notable SOM managers are in or have passed through the FBNBA - Dave Smith, Thomas Angel, Jeff Green, Jeff Merklin, Rob Bruno, Bruce Kutler, Steve Walters, Burke Ittenbach, Jim Jurgensen, Norman Swift and many others. With former Commissioner Craig Haines’ blessing I’ve put together a history of our leagues. Most of the leagues old timers will remember many of the things I’ll be writing about, other newer members will not. For all of you this record is designed to give you a sense of the leagues’ past and perhaps give you something to shoot for. The opinions in this story are mine. But this is a free country with free speech and I make no apologies! (Jeff Merklin will probably remember many of the things Scott has written about and for all the rest of us Scott was right “perhaps (it will) give you something to shoot for.”) Chapter 1 - The Beginning The FBNBA did not start out as a play-by-mail league. It started in 1974, as an eight member face to face league in Hutchinson, MN. Dave Smith founded the FBNBA and served as its first Commissioner in a four year stint. Dave is still involved in SOM, although he hasn’t communicated with the FBNBA in years. He’s been in recent SOM Review issues hawking something called the “1984 SOM Baseball Advanced Version Scouting Report.” Dave’s going to get slammed some in this story, as his abandoning the league in 1978, almost caused the FBNBA to fold. However, without Dave Smith, there would be no FBNBA and his founding efforts were gargantuan. Smith’s newsletters for the first three years of the leagues’ were regular and full of comprehensive statistics and features. His early newsletters were probably the association’s best. He helped create the family spirit that sustained the leagues after he left them. Although somewhere along the line Dave Smith lost interest in his creation, the FBNBA owes Dave lasting gratitude. Dave started the ball rolling in the fall of 1974, with and ad in the Strat-O-Matic Review asking for managers to form a new PBM H - 1 league. He got 16 managers and 14 backup managers - the FBNBA has never had that many backups since! (The SOM Review was a monthly publication written with the game company’s consent that lasted about 20, years. After the editor retired the StratFan came on the screen. I thought I would never say it but … bring back the REVIEW!!! StratFan sucks!!!) In his first newsletter, Dave told us about his face to face FBNBA which included friends like Randy Popp. The first ever FBNBA game occurred on Feb. 26, 1974. I don’t remember the teams or anything else about the face to face game however. Dave once told me that he named the association “Fly-By-Night” because of that phrase’s negative connotations. Steve Walters during his first term as Commissioner in 1981 asked the membership for a name change, but that was voted down. Fly-By-Night may be a bad name but after using it for 11 years its what we are known by and it’s too late to change now. Dave had grand plans for the FBNBA in that first newsletter - plans that never got off the ground. He envisioned a three-league association, with his face to face league continuing, a 12 team PBM league and a six team minor league made up of the left over players the first PBM league didn’t draft. That master plan didn’t cut it, but a philosophy he printed in that first newsletter did: “The Fly-By-Night Baseball Association is more than a baseball league for having fun. It is sort of a social organization and uniting medium for … good friends hoping that the league can help keep in touch with all members throughout their lives.” Unfortunately for Dave, his face to face league never made it into 1977. For the rest of us though, the FBNBA has been a uniting force. (If Scott could have seen into the future he may have said that Dave Smith’s dream did come true. Maybe it’s not Dave’s face to face league but the entire National League and the American League East is almost all face to face today. We do not have a minor league but the FBNBA has grown to 24 teams.) (From a supplement sent out by Scott, Nov. 30, 1985) One thing I neglected to put in earlier pages of the History of the Fly-By-Night Baseball Association was ages and occupations of our managers. In the first couple of years of our league, Founder Dave Smith kept pretty good records of this. Since then, records on this have been spotty. Steve’s latest effort this year to have everyone write biographies of themselves was not too successful. So I’ve complied all the information I know of into this volume. It’s not complete, but at least it’s something! In addition, I’ve included information on the FBNBA.s 1974 and 1975 Face to Face competition. This information is not complete either, but it’s the best I’ve got. 1974 FACE TO FACE STANDINGS American Division Won Lost GB National Division Won Lost GB Cairo Sheiks 30 26 --- Moscow Marauders 67 10 --- Tasmanian Sun Devils 19 18 1.5 Ole O’s 20 14 25.5 Jerusalem Jets 16 26 7.0 New York Trippers 9 15 31.5 Miami Suns 29 48 11.5 Hawaiian Diamonds 30 58 42.5 In the American Division Playoffs, Miami Defeated Cairo and Jerusalem beat Tasmania. In the National, New York beat Ole and Moscow beat Hawaii. Jerusalem then defeated Miami to advance to the World Series and Moscow defeated New York to get the National World Series berth. In the World Series, Moscow won four of five against Jerusalem. An All-Star series also was played, for the first and only time in the FBNBA history. The Nationals beat the Americans three of four in a five game series. (Since 1988, the league has had an annual All-Star game. At the end of the 1998, season the National League hold a 7 games to 4 lead over the American League) The first games in the FBNBA were face to face and were played February 26. Dave’s face to face buddies tried to play a 144-game schedule, but they didn’t make it and nobody even ended up playing the same amount of games.
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