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Category Archives: PLAAY Games
1984
I’m gonna try my best to finish this Gooden rookie season replay this weekend.
Truth be told, while I enjoy playing these games in general, I miss playing Ball Park Baseball. And I vowed to not to bounce around game systems unless I finish these smaller projects (less than 40 games).
So after I finish this one, it’s back to 1917 and 1967 for a while, and then I continue the John D’Acquisto rookie season replay.
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Silverado Foursome
I played a round of golf last night!
The venue:
The players:
Calvin Peete
Mike Souchak
Jay Herbert
Nick Price
The results:
It was close at the halfway point, but then Price birdied on 4 of the last 6 holes and ran away with the win.
And like some of my other table top games (sports and war), I learned something that I didn’t know, this time it was about the man named Calvin Peete, the most successful African-American golfer prior to Tiger Woods.
Golf
Current Goal
Stubs
This is something that I was thinking of doing a couple of years back.
I came across a pair of ticket stubs from a Giants game from 43 years ago. Since I just happen to have the MLB season set from that year, I decided to replay this game.
Final from Candlestick Park:
2-5, run scored, 5 RBI, HR
I plan to do this more often, as I come across ticket stubs around the house.
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Football
1974: John D’Acquisto, Game 6
May 4th, 1974
Welcome to Parc Jarry!
A head-to-head match up between two rookies…
Final from Parc Jarry:
The Giants’ bats come alive as D’Acquisto goes 6 innings, allowing 3 runs on 7 hits, with a pair of strikeouts, for the win.
D’Acquisto: win, record now 3-2 (actual result: loss, record: 2-2)
Next game: May 8, 1974: John D’Acquisto vs. Jon Matlack @ Shea Stadium
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4 Years Ago
According to Facebook, today is the anniversary of the day that I received PLAAY Games’ History Maker Baseball in the mail.
That game, in addition to Strat-O-Matic Baseball, set me on my current hobby of table top sports.
I suppose I’ll pull that one out and play a game or two of the 1974 John D’Acquisto rookie season replay.
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Schedule
Yeah, this never has worked for me: setting up a schedule for what to play on any given day.
I had a table that I rolled dice one to try to determine what game I would play on a given night. Didn’t work, never stuck to it, and it was edited many times as I finished a given replay.
I want to try to organize my play between sports games and war games, so maybe I should just alternate my weekly focus from one to the other, because I’ve actually found myself frozen into inaction as I try to decide between the two hobbies. I end up doing neither and spending too much time online or wallowing in my own indecision.
So starting this week, I’ll continue with the war games (Bataan! is my primary focus), and switch to sports next week, just in time for the big racing day of 2017 (Monaco GP/Indy 500/World 600), which happens to fall on my sister’s birthday. Focus will be on baseball and (of course) racing games.
And maybe wrestling.
Stay tuned!