Category Archives: History Maker Baseball

Century League Redux

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Time for me to plan out another Simulated Baseball League that will get maybe 4-5 games played and then shelved in favor of all the other simulations I’m trying to finish!

This time I’m going to revisit the Century League cards that I believe I purchased along with the original History Maker Baseball Game back in 2013.

I’ll resort the ‘drafted’ teams that I created back into the original teams and form a league from that.

Team names will be figured out later, though I’m open to suggestions.  Maybe build on the Galactic Football League and name them after Star Wars planets/animals, or go traditional and pick cities/mascots that actually exist.

We’ll see where this goes.

Stay tuned!

New Plan

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I want to take a chunk out of all the baseball replays I’m currently running, so I’m going to try to play one game a night for as long as I can do that.

If I were more focused last year I would have finished at least one of these replays.

I have about 3 where I’m close to 40-50 games in, so I’ll start there, though I think I may start the 1986 dual replay that I’ve been itching to play, tonight.

Stay tuned!

PLAAY Holiday Sale 2020

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No sign of the two missing MLB NL card sets.

But did pick up a few PDFs from PLAAY.com‘s 2020 Holiday sale, including:

  • a new jai-alai game
  • the NFL/AFL 1969 season for Second Season football
  • the MLB 1975 season for History Maker Baseball, which comes full circle since the sample teams in my original boxed game were the 2 World Series teams from 1975
  • the 1960 SCRAM (fictional) season for Red White & Blue Racing

Of the 4 I’ve already printed out the racing set, and am currently making the schedule for the Replay To Be Started Soon™.

The funny thing is that just last week I was wondering if PLAAY was ever going to come out with a 1960s season set for the game.  Hopefully a NASCAR set will be produced from that era.

I’m still hoping that those two season sets show up.

Stay tuned!

Trading Card Game

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A couple of years back PLAAY Games came out with a “Quick-Rate” supplement for History Maker Baseball which allowed you to create teams using ordinary baseball cards.  It came with a few packs of 1987 Topps wax packs to help start out your teams.

I created a Topps 1987 team and then bought a couple of packs of current baseball cards and created a 2018 team.

I played 1/2 a game and put the game away.

Almost 2 years later, I opened the History Maker Baseball game box and found the unfinished Trading Card Game.

I finally finished it.  There’s no box score since I hand scored this one.

1987 Topps  3
2018 Topps 6

WP: Jacob deGrom, LP: Dennis Eckersley, S: Marcus Stroman

1987
L. Andersen: 5.0 IP, 3 ER, 6 H, 2 K, 1 BB
D. Eckersley: 3.0 IP, 3 ER, 5 H, 3 K, 0 BB

2018
J. deGrom: 7.0 IP, 3 ER, 6 H, 5 K, 1 BB
M. Stroman: 2.0 IP, 0 ER, 1 H, 2 K, 0 BB

HR: Cespedes (1)

This was an interesting play through, which I’ll play on occasion for fun now that I’ve dug it out.  I have stacks of cards from 2019 and a couple of packs from 2020, perhaps I should pit those two seasons against each other.

Stay tuned!

New Year, New In Progress Chart

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Sure, let’s add the 1947 49ers replay, and put the 1967 Warriors replay back on the schedule.

Stay tuned!

Current

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Around my workstation/table top play area are the following games, waiting to be played.

  • SSG Basketball
  • Net Results Soccer
  • Glory Days Boxing
  • Face to the Mat
  • B25 – Prince of the Skies

More hours in the day, or an extra day in the weekend.

I’ll get to all of them, along with the baseball and football and racing and hockey games.

Stay tuned!

In Progress, Revised Revision to the Revision

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In Progress, Revised Revision

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I’m having so much fun playing Net Results Soccer that I’ve decided to make it my primary soccer sim, and Soccer Blast my secondary.  The top three soccer replays listed are played with Net Results, the last one played with Soccer Blast.  Final Score and The Beautiful Game are being semi-permanently shelved.

The tables now reflect the priority that I place in playing these replays.  Baseball, soccer, and auto racing are my top played games.  I haven’t touched football in almost 3 years, and have yet to start basketball or hockey.

Baseball season sims (1917, 1921, 1971) are all Ball Park Baseball, short projects are played with History Maker Baseball (D’Acquisto ’74) and Inside Pitch (Gooden ’85).

Racing sims are all Red White & Blue Racing.

Football (Broncos ’67) is split between Inside Blitz and Second Season.  The Harbaugh ’90 project is played with Second Season.

Basketball (Warriors ’67) will be played with Inside the Paint.

Hockey will be played with Inside the Crease (Leafs ’67) and Hockey Blast (2014 quarter finals).

Stay tuned!

In Progress, Revised

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I’ve cut back on projects by picking the full season replays that I plan to actually play in the next 3 months or so.  This eliminated a few long dormant items on my list, allowing me to focus on what I’m already playing, and also allows me to narrow the choices on what else to play.

I’ve also separated the ‘short’ projects (less than a season, individual pitcher seasons, playoff runs) into their own list.

And of course there’s stuff like the heavyweight boxing tournament in Title Bout II and the Facebook Friends Wrestling Federation in Face to the Mat which are more like casual pick-up games that don’t require a schedule.

I hope to finally tally a game in both hockey and basketball fairly soon.

Stay tuned!