Category Archives: SOM Baseball

Strat-O-Matic: ’62 Giants vs. ’54 Giants

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I went back to the roots of my recent table top sports hobby, and played a game with Strat-O-Matic Baseball.

PepsiCo Park was originally constructed from inspiration I found online for Strat-O-Matic players’ dice tower/trays, yet I played very few SOM games with this park, after getting into a plethora of other baseball games, most notably Ball Park Baseball.

I had planned to do a mini-replay/project with 6 teams: 4 Giants, 1 Yankees, 1 Mets.

So here is a game with the 1962 Giants against the 1954 Giants.

Final from the Polo Grounds:

A real pitcher’s duel until the bottom of the 8th.  I may have left O’Dell in too long, yeah?

I don’t know how often I’ll play this project, I haven’t even come up with a schedule.

Stay tuned!

Hall Of Fame League

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I came up with the team names after dividing up the players into 10 teams:

Pacific Division
Corvallis Corgis
Albuquerque Dodos
Riverside Otters
Yakima Quokkas
Tuscon Meerkats

Atlantic Division
Louisville Sloths
Birmingham Baboons
Grand Rapids Lemurs
Richmond Vultures
Providence Manatees

I’ll post rosters and maybe a schedule later.

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!