Category Archives: Baseball

Renaissance?

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In addition to pulling the APBA games off the shelves, I also pulled the Strat-O-Matic games as well.

I was surprised to find that I have the 1994-95 NHL season set for Strat Hockey.

Arguably my favorite Sharks team, at least in the early years of the franchise.

I mean…

I may replay that Sharks season, in addition to the 1991-92 Sharks season (ordered earlier this week from APBA).

I ordered a new set of parts for Strat Hockey, in addition to the 1945-46 NHL season, in honor of

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I’m not sure why I’ve been going back to the roots of tabletop sports gaming, first with APBA Golf and Soccer, now with the hockey games.  I just seem to be wanting something more in my game play, as much as I enjoy playing similar, newer games of the same sports.

Oddly enough I have no desire to go back to APBA or Strat-O-Matic Baseball.

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I also don’t feel like going through the 1995-96 hockey teams and reversing trades to get accurate rosters, so if I end up playing that season, it will be with existing rosters.

I noticed the inaccurate opening rosters when I was about to play Blackhawks vs Sharks, and Sandis Ozoliņš was not on the Sharks roster, having ended the season with Colorado.

He scored the first goal for the Sharks that year.  I only remember that because he also scored the first goal for the San Francisco Spiders that season.

Anyways, I felt a little miffed that the rosters were wrong, so I went looking for a list of transactions for that season, and then decided that to heck with it, and will just play with the existing rosters.

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Another pair of games that I pulled off the shelf and put right back: APBA and Strat-O-Matic Football.

Never learned to play either.  Maybe when the football season rolls around I’ll pull one of them out, but Second Season and Inside Blitz are good enough for me for now, to scratch the football itch.  Which doesn’t come up too often, TBH.

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So is this a tabletop renaissance?  Maybe.

We’ll see how it goes.  I think I’ve played more tabletop sports games this year already than I had in the last 3 years.

Future Plans

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I plan on continuing the following ongoing replays:

Baseball
1921 NY Giants (Payoff Pitch Baseball)
1971 SF Giants (Ball Park Baseball)
Soccer
2015-16 Tottenham Hotspur (APBA Soccer)
2020-21 AFC Richmond (Dice United)
Racing
1984 Winston Cup (Red White & Blue Racin’)
2012 SCRAM (Red White & Blue Racin’)
Football
1960 Denver Broncos (Fast Drive Football)
1967 Denver Broncos (Second Season/Second Season Express/Inside Blitz/Grid Iron Wars)

At some point I plan on adding hockey and basketball into the mix, as time permits.  I just have to decide which replays to include:

Hockey
1966-67 NHL (Hockey Blast)
1969-70 Oakland Seals (Hockey Blast)
1991-92 San Jose Sharks (APBA)
2013-14 IHL (Hockey Blast, fictional)
2022-23 Central Cities League (Stone Cold Hockey, fictional)

Basketball
1960-61 Syracuse Nationals (Bank Shot Basketball)
1966-67 San Francisco Warriors (Inside the Paint)
2022-23 Basketball League of America (Highlight Maker Hoops, fictional)

And of course I’ll be tracking all the games right here.

Stay tuned!

1959: Giants Replay

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Oh, who am I kidding?  The 1959 replay will focus primarily on the 2nd season of baseball in San Francisco.

One difference will be the addition of a random game here and there between teams of which neither are the Giants.

I may start doing that in my other replays as well, while maintaining focus on the Giants (or the Mets, if I ever restart the 1986 or 1988 replays).

Not sure how I’ll decide which other teams to play, but I may try to dip into the American League more than the National League for these random games.

Stay tuned!