Category Archives: Baseball

1917

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If there’s anything I’m learning from playing this 1917 MLB replay, it’s that the game was played very differently (obviously) back then.

I’ve started play on day two, and in the game I’m currently playing (Senators @ Athletics), I just had the weirdest double play that I’ve ever seen:

Bases loaded, 1 out.  I try a suicide squeeze, resulting in a strikeout and the runner on third getting caught stealing home.

I think this season replay is teaching me how to play this game better, in general.  I’d ignore the solitaire charts in my 1958 replay, and slowly started using them in my 1967 replay, but I’m using them whole hog in the 1917 replay.

Day two results should be posted shortly.

Stay tuned!

What Year Now?

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I went and bought yet another season for Ball Park Baseball, from yet another person on the Delphi forums.  Surprisingly it was a year that I didn’t have in any other game system.

There’s no New York Knights team, or Roy Hobbs, but it’s the same season that the movie The Natural took place.

Stay tuned!

Roster Card Baseball

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For some reason I’ve felt the need to play a quick-play baseball game, and not my old standby, Scoreboard Baseball.  As much as I like that game, the oldest season available is 1956.

Enter another game that I’ve owned for a couple of years and never played a full game: Roster Card Baseball.  Like Scoreboard, the teams are represented on one sheet, and a 2d10 and d6 die roll determines the outcome of a given at bat.  This makes it a bit more than a simple quick-play, which is probably why I never got that deep into it.

I bought about a couple dozen seasons from them over the past couple of years, through various sales, including the decade of the 1910’s.  I hadn’t printed out a bunch of these seasons, but today I arbitrarily printed out the 1942 and 1960 seasons, and I’m about to play a few games using the 1942, perhaps a World Series replay.

Stay tuned!