The Table Top Sports Games of Chris Saguisag
Sometimes I have to tell myself that. Like now.
No, I’m not going to complete the APBA base game collection with the football game.
I have a very old set from 1996, with two teams from 1995: San Francisco and Kansas City.
I looked at the price of the game online: $44.
I then looked at the price of an NFL season set: over $100 for anything post-1966! And they don’t even have 1997 available!
I also perused a couple of videos on YouTube, one stating that I’d have to get the new base game to play with the new card sets, I couldn’t play the seasons with my old game.
And seeing how I hardly play football games anyway (have yet to finish a season replay), this purchase is a big fat no.
Second Season/SS Express will scratch that football itch when I get it, along with the two quick play options I have, Game-Winning Drive FB and Fast Drive FB.
I was watching Dave Garner’s latest video about how he picks his replays, and got stuck with the idea of choosing a season before my team existed.
So I figured, why not go with the last NHL season before the San Jose Sharks came into existence?
This may not be a full season replay, but one where I play a certain number of games featuring the players who would eventually be the inaugural 1991-92 San Jose Sharks.
Plus it’s the first year the Pittsburgh Penguins won the Stanley Cup, so that should be a pretty good Cup Final series to play, yeah?
Stay tuned!
Welcome to Opening Day 1986!
Final from Three Rivers Stadium:
Doc goes the distance to secure the Mets’ first win of the season.
And I just realized that I’ve started my first non-Giants full season replay since 1989, when I replayed the Mets 1988 season.
Also, for some reason, rolling a game in APBA seemed less strenuous than any baseball game that I’d been playing lately, namely Ball Park Baseball and Payoff Pitch Baseball.
Go figure.
Next: The Mets travel to Philadelphia for a weekend series against the Phillies.
Stay tuned!
In preparation of the arrival of the new APBA Baseball box, I began to put together the lineups for Opening Day 1986 for the Mets and the Giants.
I looked up the lineups for the Mets-Pirates season opener on April 8th, 1986, started to sort out the lineups, and found that the 1986 set does not have Steve Kemp carded for the Pirates.
Hmph. I hate when that happens, but there you go.
So I started looking at possible solutions.
Option 1: purchase the updated 1986 APBA Baseball Season set, where all players are carded.
Nope. Not interested in purchasing any new APBA Baseball sets.
Option 2: play the game with Payoff Pitch Baseball 1986, where Kemp *is* carded.
Possible/probable route I’ll take, as I was thinking of rolling home games using APBA and away games using Payoff Pitch.
Option 3: same as #2, but just sub players in when playing APBA.
More probable since I had to do that with some games/players in my Ball Park Baseball 1971 SF Giants replay.
Option 4: APBA only and sub players as needed.
Most probable if I only want to use one game system. Which I kinda do, at least with either or both the Mets or Giants.
For starters I think I’ll play with the APBA Baseball 1986 season, basic set, with advanced fielding rules.
I’d like to also score these games by hand, there’s a website called Digital Dugout that will print out a blank scoresheet with lineups for any ball game from 1906 to now, but BallStat makes it easier on my arthritis and stat keeping.
I’ll figure it out after the new box arrives.
Stay tuned!
It appears that I have the following seasons for APBA Baseball:
1986 (from my brother, Robert)
2000 (50th anniversary set, fancy set and cards)
2002 (at the time I thought this was going to be the last hurrah for World Series appearances by the Giants)
I’m getting a new boxed basic APBA Baseball set this weekend. I have no plans to pick up any new teams.
I just wanted something simple as an alternative to Ball Park and Payoff Pitch Baseball, which is why I have no plans to get the Master Addition booklet.
For 1986, I plan to play both the Mets and Giants, maybe abbreviated seasons, using APBA for the road games and Payoff Pitch for the home games for both teams.
Not sure about 2000 and 2002, though I do plan to replay the 2000 Subway World Series at the very least.
From the scorecards I found Robert did play the 2002 World Series, with a different outcome.
There’s also a team envelope with the 1971 San Francisco Giants.
I think back then I was planning to play at the very least the 2000 season since that’s the boxed set that I have.
REALLY fancy cards in this set.
I’ll figure it out after the new box arrives.
Stay tuned!
