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1921: Giants Replay, Game 34

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Almost a year between games in this replay.  Hopefully It won’t be that long until the next one.

Final from Braves Field:

As always , it took a couple of innings to get back into the rhythm and flow of a game that I hadn’t played in a few months.

The new, printed 1921 season set is a nice upgrade from the old PDF set that I printed 6 years ago.  For one thing I think more players are included, for another a team of 1921 Negro Leaguers was included.  Not sure what I’m going to do with them yet, maybe have them play each of the MLB teams in the set.

Stay tuned!

Cooperstown

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While browsing a couple of online game stores, I came across a ding & dent copy of the Strat-O-Matic Baseball 2019 Hall of Fame set.

I ordered it, because I didn’t think I had a Hall of Fame card set in my collection.

Turns out I was wrong, I had received a Hall of Fame set as a stretch goal for a Kickstarter for Payoff Pitch Baseball’s 1933 season.  That one is as of 2015.

Out of sight, out of mind.

So now I’ll have two of these HoF sets, one a few years more recent than the other.

I also bought it as an excuse to try to play Strat-O-Matic again.  After all, that’s what prompted me to build PepsiCo Park in the first place.

I’ll see about creating an 8-team league with these cards.  I don’t think I did anything with the Payoff Pitch HoF card set.

Stay tuned!

1948: Giants Replay, Game 1

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Opening Day at the Polo Grounds!

NEW YORK – APRIL, 1948. On Opening Day at the Polo Grounds in New York, Mel Ott, left, and Leo Durocher pack in the baseballs before the start of game number one in April of 1948. (Photo by Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images)

Final from the Polo Grounds:

A pitcher’s duel, with Pee Wee Reese driving in the only runs in the game for the Dodgers.

This is only the second Payoff Pitch Baseball game that I played using the Fast Action Cards instead of dice.  Oddly enough, the first game I played was this exact same game, but scored by hand in a pre-printed score book that was part of the rewards for the Kickstarter campaign for the 1948 season cards.  Supposedly there was an issue with that score book, so I put off continuing this replay until I got a replacement, which never came.

I decided to restart this replay since I was only one game in.

Stay tuned!