1921: Giants Replay, Game 46

Posted on July 17, 2021 by Chris S.

Final from Forbes Field:

1971: Giants Replay, Game 47

Posted on July 16, 2021 by Chris S.

Final from Candlestick Park:

The Return

Posted on July 15, 2021 by Chris S.

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!

Olympics

Posted on July 8, 2021 by Chris S.

Curiosity bit me again, probably because of Olympic fever.

Damn NBC Sports and their Tokyo 2021 commercials.

There’s a games designer named Roberto Chiavini who has a variety of quick-play sports games. His Daring Racers game is a quick, fun game that I’d been playing for a few years.

One sports sim venue that I’ve never tried is the Olympic Games, even just something as simple as the decathlon. Chiavini offers the full Olympics from a given year, with all the events played that year, so I decided to try the 1984 Summer Games from Los Angeles, California.

I should be getting the PDF via email in the next day or so. If I like this one I may get a Winter Games set (1980?) or maybe the 1992 Summer Games.

Stay tuned!

Another Season Setup

Posted on July 1, 2021 by Chris S.

1966, for reasons.

Just not sure if I want to setup yet another San Francisco Giants replay that I’ll never get to, or the New York Mets, or maybe decide with a 20-sided die, since there were 20 teams in the majors that year.

Stay tuned!

Replay Review

Posted on June 28, 2021 by Chris S.

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!

Replays

Posted on June 26, 2021 by Chris S.

No replays since mid-May.

No baseball since April.

Time to get back to those replays.

Stay tuned!

Vulcans? In Birmingham?

Posted on June 3, 2021 by Chris S.

I was browsing a site selling t-shirts of defunct sports teams, and learned that there was a team in the World Football League called the Birmingham Vulcans.

So of course I looked for the team in any team sets available for games that I play.

I learned that they played for one season, or rather part of a season before the league folded.

They were the team with the best record when the league ceased operations, so a bunch of sports writers declared them the champions of that shortened season.