Final from the Santa Cruz Beach-Boardwalk:
Monthly Archives: May 2019
SFBAL
Since this league plays on Mondays only, all players are available to play, including all pitchers, starters or relievers.
There is a starting pitching rotation that the teams use, and since all relievers are on 6 days rest, they can be used in the following game. Starters will only relieve if absolutely necessary (read: probably never).
The 5 bench players will be rotated into the starting lineups as the season goes on.
A barnstorming team will be created to play games against the other 10 teams, with no impact on the league standings.
The championship will be the top teams from each division (East and West). They will play a best of 3 series, again played on Mondays only, in order to allow the full bullpen to be available.
SFBAL: Game 6
2019: The Return
Deadball: SFBAL
I remembered that the league that I created had a team (Napa Vinters) who plays their home games at the fictional Bill Buckner Field @ Silverado. Buckner is from the area, born in Vallejo and graduated from Napa High School.
I think I’ll revisit that league sometime this week.
Suffice to say that this fictional team will be wearing a memorial patch on their uniforms.
Rest in Peace, Bill Buckner.
Pepsi Cup Racing Series: Race #11
1979: Nashville
July 14, 1979: Busch Nashville 420
Race results and current standings:
Richard Petty and Bobby Allison tangled early and often during the race, eventually causing a yellow flag during the waning laps, and taking Wayne Watercutter with them. The result was Darrell Waltrip regaining the points lead.
Your race winner, Dale Earnhardt!
Next up: the Coca-Cola 500 @ Pocono Raceway.
Stay tuned!
Ball Park Baseball Changes
I missed the initial announcements by about a week, but apparently there are plans in the works for a revamping of the look and feel of the cards and dice version of the game, in addition to a COMPUTER version of the game.
What’s most impressive to me is the news that the computer version will run on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS and Android.
ANDROID.
AS IN I CAN PLAY ON MY FREAKING PHONE.
Or at the very least, my iPad via iOS.
The thing is, as exciting as this is, I may still opt to play the cards and dice version.
At least all of my older season cards will still be playable with the new stuff. And thy’re going to release sets with ALL players per team, which is an issue when you play full season replays with current BPB sets.
Sadly, since I was a week late on this news, I missed out on being a tester for either the new format or the computer version of the game. Ah well.
Stay tuned!
1971 Pitcher Replays
1971 Giants Replay
I mentioned it elsewhere (Facebook) that I decided to abandon the Box Seat Baseball replay and just play this one with Ball Park Baseball, which I’m more familiar with, and I had the season cards for this one as well.
Box Seat Baseball is a solid game, it just seems like there’s even more chart flipping that I would do with BP Baseball.
Let’s see how long it takes me to do THIS replay.
Stay tuned!