This will be the 17th revival season of finn2030’s Bookend Twist League. Here are the rules.

If you like researching teams, this league may be for you... Take any player in the WIS database from 1885-2023 who played for at least 2 seasons or for at least 2 teams (if a player has MLB stats for 2024 or appears on a 2025 40 man roster he would be ineligible)... then take his first and last teams as listed in http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/ and twist any player who appears on the 2 rosters. Your bookend player must be on your team and you can use any season of his. No 200K exemptions... twist only the players that appear on the 2 rosters.
Using Babe Ruth as an example, your player pool would be from the 1914 Red Sox and 1935 Braves, twisted to any season. Bookend Players are only exclusive for the purpose of making teams and can appear on other team's rosters.


BLACKLIST... We’ve blacklisted the players from Seasons 1-16. Any player selected will be blacklisted from all future seasons. As players are selected for this season, I will be adding them to the blacklist.

Salary Cap $110M
24 teams
No to AAA, WW, DH, clones or trades
Injuries turned off
Chronological alignment based on Bookend player's first season
Choose a home stadium from any of your Bookend player's career teams

Please list your player and his first and last seasons here in the forum or in a site mail.

Blacklisted Players - You can’t base your team on any of these players, but you can use them if they were on one of your 2 rosters.

Hank Aguirre
Mike Aldrete
Moises Alou
Larry Andersen
Brady Anderson
Luis Aparicio
Jake Arrieta
Billy Ashley
Doug Baird
Dusty Baker
Home Run Baker
Bill Bailey
Steve Balboni
Dave Bancroft
Scott Bankhead
Franklin Barreto
Jimmy Barrett
Jack Barry
Kevin Bass
Antonio Bastardo
Trevor Bauer
Beals Becker
Carlos Beltran
Buddy Biancalana
Dante Bichette
Earl Blackburn
Vida Blue
Ping Bodie
Bobby Bolin
Bobby Bonds
Rafael Bournigal
Jim Bouton
Oil Can Boyd
Kitty Bransfield
Bob Brenly
Jim Brower
Smoky Burgess
Bill Burns
Pat Burrell
Homer Bush
Joe Bush
Bud Byerly
Matt Cain
Ken Caminiti
Tom Candiotti
Robinson Cano
Jose Cardenal
Steve Carlton
Chris Carpenter
Cris Carpenter
Cam Carreon
Brett Cecil
Roger Cedeno
Rick Cerone
Spud Chandler
Virgil Cheeves
Larry Cheney
Will Clark
Ty Cobb
Rich Coggins
Rocky Colavito
Dave Collins
Eddie Collins
Dave Concepcion
Jeff Conine
Wilbur Cooper
Fritz Coumbe
Stan Coveleski
Gavvy Cravath
Frank Crosetti
Michael Cuddyer
Clay Dalrymple
Bud Daley
Kal Daniels
Rich Dauer
Darren Daulton
Vic Davalillo
Eric Davis
Ron Davis
Tommy Davis
Andre Dawson
Doug DeCinces
Sam Dente
Bill Dickey
Joe DiMaggio
Octavio Dotel
Phil Douglas
Don Drysdale
Larry Doyle
Jean Duboc
Bill Duggleby
Mike Easler
Dennis Eckersley
Andre Ethier
Neftali Feliz
Jack Ferry
Cecil Fielder
Rollie Fingers
Chuck Finley
Ryan Flaherty
Bobby Floyd
Casey Fossum
George Foster
Roger Freed
Sam Freeman
Jeff Frye
Charlie Furbush
Phil Gagliano
Bob Ganley
Damaso Garcia
Edgar Garcia
Phil Garner
Scott Garrelts
Ned Garvin
Lou Gehrig
Cesar Geronimo
Brian Giles
Bernard Gilkey
Carlos Gomez
Adrian Gonzalez
Juan Gonzalez
Dwight Gooden
Mudcat Grant
Craig Grebeck
Rusty Greer
Vean Gregg
Bobby Grich
Alfredo Griffin
Marquise Grissom
Kip Gross
Pedro Guerrero
Ron Guidry
Carlos Guillen
Harvey Haddix
Bump Hadley
Rip Hagerman
Joe Hague
Roy Halladay
Lenny Harris
Bob Heise
Claude Hendrix
Ramon Hernandez
Art Herring
Orel Hershiser
Buck Herzog
Carmen Hill
Koyie Hill
Shea Hillenbrand
Bill Hinchman
Solly Hofman
Ken Holtzman
Joe Horlen
Steve Howe
Al Hrabosky
Tom Hume
Clint Hurdle
Tom Hutton
Pete Incaviglia
Jason Isringhausen
Fred Jacklitsch
Austin Jackson
Charlie Jackson
Joe Jackson
Dion James
Hi Jasper
Derek Jeter
Pete Johns
Davey Johnson
Lance Johnson
Randy Johnson
Rankin Johnson
Walter Johnson
Andruw Jones
Doug Jones
Mike Jorgensen
Ron Karkovice
Steve Karsay
Tom Kelley
George Kelly
Roberto Kelly
Jeff Kent
Bill Kenworthy
Mike Kickham
Ralph Kiner
Lee King
Mike Kingery
Red Killefer
Ed Klepfer
Corey Knebel
Brad Kocher
Andy Kosco
Sandy Koufax
Hiroki Kuroda
Bill Lamar
Ryan LaMarre
Ced Landrum
Ray Lankford
Jack Lapp
Wade LeBlanc
Al Leiter
Mark Lemke
Jeffrey Leonard
Jim Lindeman
Bryan Little
Skip Lockwood
Kenny Lofton
Kyle Lohse
Mickey Lolich
Tim Lollar
James Loney
Davey Lopes
Yoan Lopez
Derek Lowe
Fred Luderus
Mike Lynch
Fred Lynn
Ryan Madson
Greg Maddux
Duster Mails
Al Mamaux
Rick Manning
Juan Marichal
Roger Maris
Pepper Martin
Russell Martin
Dennis Martinez
Pedro Martinez
Ramon Martinez
Don Mattingly
Dal Maxvill
Bert Maxwell
Darrell May
John Mayberry Jr
Carl Mays
Nomar Mazara
Ken McBride
Tim McCarver
James McDonald
Roger McDowell
Jack McGeachy
Joe Medwick
Ramiro Mendoza
Fred Merkle
Jim Middleton
Kevin Millwood
Eddie Milner
Dale Mitchell
Kevin Mitchell
Roy Mitchell
Yadier Molina
Rick Monday
Don Money
Wally Moon
Brett Morel
Paul Moskau
Curt Motton
Bobby Murcer
Eddie Murphy
Johnny Murphy
Stan Musial
Greasy Neale
Robb Nen
Pat Neshek
Hal Newhouser
Otis Nixon
Trot Nixon
Mike Norris
Johnny Oates
Lefty O’Doul
Ron Oester
Bob O’Farrell
Dan Otero
Orval Overall
Angel Pagan
Rafael Palmeiro
Jonathan Papelbon
Mitchell Page
Bobby Parnell
Gaylod Perry
Jim Perry
Pat Perry
Gary Peters
Jack Pfiester
Tony Phillips
Babe Pinelli
Cotton Pippen
Luis Polonia
Drew Pomeranz
Jorge Posada
Buster Posey
Bill Powell
David Price
Yasiel Puig
Mel Queen (1942-52)
Rey Quinones
Tim Raines Sr
Hanley Ramirez
Doug Rau
Ed Reulbach
Jerry Reuss
Jose Reyes
Mariano Rivera
Phil Rizutto
Brian Roberts
Dave Roberts (1999-2008)
Cookie Rojas
Al Rosen
David Ross
Wade Rowdon
Braggo Roth
Babe Ruth
C. C. Sabathia
Bret Saberhagen
Donnie Sadler
Fernando Salas
Tim Salmon
Juan Samuel
Rey Sanchez
Deion Sanders
Charlie Sands
Ray Schalk
Jason Schmidt
Calvin Schiraldi
Jonathan Schoop
Herb Score
Everett Scott
Jack Scott
Aaron Sele
George Selkirk
Hank Severeid
Pedro Severino
Joe Sewell
Howie Shanks
Ed Sicking
Ted Sizemore
Enos Slaughter
Dave Smith
Earl Smith (1916-1922)
Ozzie Smith
Syd Smith
Duke Snider
Fred Snodgrass
Luis Sojo
Julio Solano
Alfonso Soriano
Mario Soto
Tris Speaker
By Speece
Chris Speier
Craig Stammen
Fred Stanley
Arnold Statz
Russ Swan
Bill Sweeney (1907-1914)
Dave Telgheder
Zeb Terry
Bob Tewksbury
Bobby Thigpen
Josh Thole
Frank Thomas (1951-1966)
Roy Thomas
Bobby Thomson
Jack Thoney
Terry Tiffee
John Tudor
Terry Turner
Fernando Valenzuela
Andy Van Slyke
Bobby Veach
Dario Veras
Quilvio Veras
Zoilo Versalles
Tim Wakefield
Chico Walker
Larry Walker
Bobby Wallace
Allen Watson
Buck Weaver
Orlie Weaver
Brandon Webb
Jake Wells
Gus Weyhing
Steve Whitaker
Doc White
Hoyt Wilhelm
Bernie Williams
Cy Williams
Matt Williams
Mitch Williams
Stan Williams
Maury Wills
Art Wilson
Chief Wilson
Hooks Wiltse
Dave Winfield
Mellie Wolfgang
Joe Wood
Dick Woodson
Todd Worrell
Gene Wright
Steve Yerkes
Eric Young, Sr.
Heinie Zimmerman

mfumar - returning - Brady Anderson
dvorr80 - returning - Jim Middleton
scjensen51 - returning - Bobby Bonds
richabbs - returning - Hi Jasper
trd3 - returning - Bill Burns
frank_drebin - returning - Buddy Biancalana
ronthegenius - returning - Roy Thomas
0soup4u - returning - Lefty O’Doul
snuffy45 - returning - Roger Freed
MAZZILLI16 - returning - Nomar Mazara
sfile - returning - Jason Isringhausen
bbondsmvp - returning - Oil Can Boyd
happyhours - returning - Tommy Davis
cstrohmier - returning - Tom Kelley
dlchow - returning - Ed Klepfer
d_rock97 - returning - Cam Carreon
sweetnss355 - returning - Chuck Finley
gees51 - returning - Don Drysdale
chewy3344 - returning - Tim McCarver
buckleslie - returning - Tim Raines Sr
summerfield - returning - Eddie Milner
gyrene - returning - Juan Marichal
bixman51 - joining - Donnie Sadler
mfumar - returning -Terry Turner

Wait List

redwingscup
mars2010
3dayrotation

I’ll be starting the new league on St Patrick’s Day once our playoffs start. We usually have openings, so leave your name if you want to be on the waitlist.

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Back with Tim Raines Sr.
1979 Montreal- 2002 Florida

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"Sleepy" Bill Burns
1908 Washington Nationals and 1912 Detroit Tigers

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Back with Ed Klepfer. 1911 New York, 1919 Cleveland

i will take Don drysdale 1956-1969

Think I want to go for Bobby Bonds

68 Giants, 81 Cubs

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