If I play at the rate I played yesterday (2 games in a day), I could be finished with the 1917 season in about 2 years!  And the most games that I ever played in a day was something like 4 games, so even that time could be cut in half!

That’s not going to happen, though.  There are periods when I need to back off from one hobby and go do another, which is why I averaged about 130+ baseball games per year since I started playing regularly.

And even within the table top games hobby, I do play football, soccer and racing games too, with basketball and hockey still waiting in the wings.

So while 9 years sounds like a long time, it may be shorter (or longer) depending on what’s going on in my life.

I will get this one done, though.  Someday.  Just not tomorrow.  Or next month.

As an aside I will say it’s quite a thing to see names in these lineups of players who are the legends of baseball, like Babe Ruth pitching for the Red Sox, or Ty Cobb striking out against Stan Coveleski.  Tris Speaker.  Wally Pipp.  Names of players who I’ve heard of, but never really knew.  After the two games I played Thursday night, I found myself looking up some of the players online to see what their careers were like.  It surprised me to find that Coveleski was a Hall of Famer, who used the spitball.  Pipp’s name rang a bell, and I confirmed online that this was the fella who Lou Gehrig replaced on the Yankees.

Forever a student of this game, that’s me.

Stay tuned!