Mike decided that he would chronicle Season VIII using his new video camera.  However, after shooting the draft and several weeks of the regular season this project went unfinished.

After three relatively stable seasons wherein Mike, Dan, Louis, and John played all three, and Eugene played two, the landscape of the league changed once more.  Louis resigned after the Season VII World Series.  Eugene, newly graduated from the Police Academy, rejoined the league.  Joe, after a three season absence, decided to come back as well.  And Frank, who had been sentenced to a lifetime ban, applied for reinstatement.  The sentence allowed Frank to reapply after two seasons off.  He did so after three seasons away from the game.  The other five league members voted 4-1 in favor of Frank’s return.  The one dissenting vote came from hard-line owner Eugene Cucinello.

Aside from the makeup of the league, the biggest change in the game itself was the abolition of the designated hitter.  Reasoning that there was just too much offense, the league thought it would be best to make pitchers hit. 

There was no big surprise at the top of the standings as Joe, despite his layoff, captured his fifth division title in his five seasons of play.  The one surprise was Frank making the playoffs for the first time.  After finishing last or next-to-last in all three of his previous seasons, and being away from the game for the three most recent seasons, Frank finished in third place a full ten games ahead of Eugene.  And the surprises didn’t end there.  Frank defeated Dan in the playoffs, thus ensuring there would be no three-peat for Dan.  Could Frank ride the magic all the way to the Promised Land?  No.  He did take Joe to seven games in the World Series, but Joe was victorious. 

One of the more interesting games in the history of the league was the last regular-season game of Season VIII.  In this game, Mike and Dan played 21 innings.  Mike won it 10 to 7. Mark Eichhorn pitched 14 innings for the victory. Coming into the game Babe Ruth had 58 homeruns. At that time the homerun record was 59, which Ruth had done twice before (in Seasons VI and VII). Ruth batted leadoff for Mike and led off the game with his 59th homerun. He went homerless in the final 20 innings and had to settle for tying his record.