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Diamond Legacies is a baseball simulation game for one or two players. After picking the teams, you determine the lineups and managerial strategy; die rolls and charts determine what happens on the field of play. Each ballplayer in the game represents a real player in baseball history with ability ratings based on his actual statistics. For this volume of Diamond Legacies, the year is 1934. Ratings are provided for the ballplayers on all eight National League teams, all eight American League teams, and all eight Negro National League teams from that year. This means you can replay the World Series, or the All-Star Game, or you can replay a team's entire 1934 season. You can have a squad of Negro League all-stars play against AL or NL all-stars. Or you can find out what would happen if one or more of the top Negro League players joined one of the MLB teams that year. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination. All you need to start playing is this book and a set of percentile dice (not included). Travel back to the historic ballparks of 1934 and watch the diamond exploits of Lou Gehrig, Josh Gibson, Hank Greenberg, Satchel Paige, Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx, Carl Hubbell, Oscar Charleston, and Dizzy Dean. These legends and all the other big league players from 1934 are waiting to take the field again!