Category Archives: History Maker Baseball

2022 Baseball America & History Maker Baseball Express

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This week I picked up History Maker Baseball Express from PLAAY Games.  It’s a quick-play version of their History Maker Baseball Game.

After one play with the first game of my Baseball America 2022 league, I think it’s a good game.  I may run the entire season with this game engine.

Game 1: New England Minutemen @ Portland Mavericks

Mavericks 10
Minutemen 1

WP: Sinclair
LP: Rentschler

Game took longer than advertised (10 minutes) because of learning the game mode.

We’ll see how often I get to this one, and how I end up presenting game stats.

Stay tuned!

2022 Baseball America

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One of the first non-APBA/Stat-O-Matic games that I picked up was History Maker Baseball.

It came out 10 years ago, and as PLAAY Games usually does, they introduced a fictional league for this game called Baseball America.

I opted not to get that league, instead picking up the Century League along with the 2012 MLB season.

As it’s the 10th anniversary of History Maker Baseball, it’s also the 10th anniversary of Baseball America, which they commemorated with a deluxe card set, with bigger cards and names of the teams on the cards.

I picked up the PDF of the standard edition, having recently picked up their new basketball game.

And of course I created my own variation on the fictional league, keeping  most of the existing team names, and retaining the rosters intact.

I took all the unsigned players and distributed them equally among the 12 teams, giving each of them 27 players on their rosters.

Here are the teams!

My additions were Portland, Detroit, Terre Haute, Seattle, and Bay City (San Francisco).

As to when I’ll start up this league?

Stay tuned!