A couple of years back PLAAY Games came out with a “Quick-Rate” supplement for History Maker Baseball which allowed you to create teams using ordinary baseball cards.  It came with a few packs of 1987 Topps wax packs to help start out your teams.

I created a Topps 1987 team and then bought a couple of packs of current baseball cards and created a 2018 team.

I played 1/2 a game and put the game away.

Almost 2 years later, I opened the History Maker Baseball game box and found the unfinished Trading Card Game.

I finally finished it.  There’s no box score since I hand scored this one.

1987 Topps  3
2018 Topps 6

WP: Jacob deGrom, LP: Dennis Eckersley, S: Marcus Stroman

1987
L. Andersen: 5.0 IP, 3 ER, 6 H, 2 K, 1 BB
D. Eckersley: 3.0 IP, 3 ER, 5 H, 3 K, 0 BB

2018
J. deGrom: 7.0 IP, 3 ER, 6 H, 5 K, 1 BB
M. Stroman: 2.0 IP, 0 ER, 1 H, 2 K, 0 BB

HR: Cespedes (1)

This was an interesting play through, which I’ll play on occasion for fun now that I’ve dug it out.  I have stacks of cards from 2019 and a couple of packs from 2020, perhaps I should pit those two seasons against each other.

Stay tuned!