Category Archives: Inside Sports Games

Biscuit in the Basket, or From Way Downtown… BANG

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I’m going to sound like a broken record, but I’m going to try my best to FINALLY play a hockey or basketball game by the end of the month.

I should try to start the 1966-67 replay in either sport, either the Toronto Maple Leafs or San Francisco Warriors season replays.

PLAAY.com just updated Hockey Blast to version 5.0, and I’m interested in their All-Time Franchise Great Teams #2 set, which has the Sharks.

And the temptation to build yet another sports-themed dice tower/tray has been on my mind.  A multi-use “arena” for hockey and basketball.

Stay tuned!

1909: On Hold

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I came up with the rosters for the Deadball 1909 league, but then decided not to build it further for now, since I still have:

  • 1967 SF Giants season replay
  • 1917 MLB replay
  • 1921 NY Giants replay
  • 1967 Denver Broncos replay
  • 1958 NFL replay
  • 1979 Winston Cup replay
  • 2016 SCRAM season
  • 2016 SCRAM trucks season

on top of the Deadball 2018 SFBAL season.

That’s a lot of stuff. That list doesn’t even include the mini-replays (John D’Acquisto rookie season, Doc Gooden Cy Young season, various Giant-Dodgers replays, MLB Postseason replays, etc.).

And then there’s the occasional golf tournament, wrestling event and boxing match.

And the non-sports table top games.

So little time.

The Deadball 1909 season may or may not ever materialize.  At least not in the near future.

Stay tuned!

Finish What You Started

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That’s a goal of mine right now.  Enough sitting on my hands about what I should be playing.  I simply need to get these done before starting something new.

Which is why I’m focusing on the various racing series that I started a couple of years ago.  They have the shortest schedules and an average play time of about 30-45 minutes, so I should be able to finish these fairly quickly.

The Pepsi Cup truck series is the shortest, with 18 races and 5 of them already run.

SCRAM 2016 and Winston Cup 1979 are 30+ races each.

Then I can move on to the various baseball replays, starting with the John D’Acquisto rookie season replay.  And I really want to play and finish the 1967 San Francisco Giants season replay.

There will be pauses for football (NFL/AFL/CFL), boxing, and non-sports games as well.

Stay tuned!

1962: Meet the Mets, Games 8-10

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Easier to post these as series…

Finals from Forbes Field (April 21st-23rd):

10 games in, these Mets have the same record as their real-life counterparts (1-9).  Though I was able to get their first win earlier than they did.  Historically their first win was on April 23rd against the Pittsburgh Pirates.  In my replay it was April 17th against the Houston Colt .45s.

Next up: the Mets visit Cincinnati for the first time.

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!

Goals?

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I toyed with the idea of setting up a goal of finishing 50% of each of my current projects by the middle of the year.

But then I realized that this could turn this more into a chore than a hobby.

So I’ll make it a not-so-strict goal, with the baseball projects taking priority.

And I still plan to start the 1917 full season replay sometime soon.

Stay tuned!