The Table Top Sports Games of Chris Saguisag
Final from Crosley Field:
Giants drop 2 to the Reds.
These were the first two games played with a set of all-new charts from Sideline Strategy, including expanded rare play charts.
The rare play charts may have cost the Giants the second game, as Slim Sallee was tossed after arguing a called ball 4 against Lew Fonseca, who eventually scored the winning run on a sac fly by Bubbles Hargrove.
Next up: the Giants go to St. Louis to play a series against the Cardinals.
Stay tuned!
I should be further along in these replays, considering all the time spent at home. It’s taken exactly 9 months to play this 4 game series between the Giants and Pirates.
Of course I had started this particular replay 7 years ago. Never imagined I would get to the 100th anniversary of the season in question.
Final from Forbes Field:
Giants take 3 of 4 from the Pirates.
Next up: Giants come home to the Polo Grounds to face the Cincinnati Reds.
Stay tuned!
Baseball resumes tomorrow, July 16th, with a triple-header:
Ball Park Baseball 1971: Game 47, Expos @ Giants
Payoff Pitch Baseball 1921: Game 46, Giants @ Pirates
Inside Pitch 1988, Game 1: Mets @ Expos
I’m replaying the first season replay that I ever attempted, the 1988 New York Mets season, using Inside Pitch. I asked for and got a copy of the latest rules and charts, so I figured that with would be a good time to take that game out for a spin again.
And yes, I plan to get back to the 1917 season soon.
Stay tuned!
I looked over what I had been playing last year, and I found a couple of replays that I started but never continued, like the 1936 World Series.
I’ll get to that one soon. Heck, I set up a Google Sheet to replay the New Giants 1936 season before I realized that I had played game one of the World Series. So I may do both, backwards, finishing the 1936 World Series and then replaying the Giants 1936 season.
As if I didn’t have enough replays started already.
Incidentally, I also set up the San Francisco Giants 1980 season replay in Google Sheets as well. For reasons.
Stay tuned!
I have now played more games (45) in my 1971 San Francisco Giants replay than I’ve played games (44) in my 1921 New York Giants.
I started the 1921 replay 7 years ago.
I started the 1971 replay 2 years ago.
My goal is to finish one of these replays by the end of the year, 50 or 100 years after the given season.
I’ll consider it a bonus if I can finish both replays.
Stay tuned!
It just occurred to me that my two current Giants season replays are 1971 and 1921.
Fifty and one hundred years ago, and 50 years apart.
Much like the 1967 and 1917 replays, one of which I had finished (1967) and the other (1917), well, I still have over 1200 games to go…
But I think it’s possible to finish one or maybe both ’71 and ’21 replays by year’s end, IF I commit to playing both more often.
We’ll see how it goes.
Stay tuned!
