Tag Archives: Baseball

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!

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!

Trading Card Game

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A couple of years back PLAAY Games came out with a “Quick-Rate” supplement for History Maker Baseball which allowed you to create teams using ordinary baseball cards.  It came with a few packs of 1987 Topps wax packs to help start out your teams.

I created a Topps 1987 team and then bought a couple of packs of current baseball cards and created a 2018 team.

I played 1/2 a game and put the game away.

Almost 2 years later, I opened the History Maker Baseball game box and found the unfinished Trading Card Game.

I finally finished it.  There’s no box score since I hand scored this one.

1987 Topps  3
2018 Topps 6

WP: Jacob deGrom, LP: Dennis Eckersley, S: Marcus Stroman

1987
L. Andersen: 5.0 IP, 3 ER, 6 H, 2 K, 1 BB
D. Eckersley: 3.0 IP, 3 ER, 5 H, 3 K, 0 BB

2018
J. deGrom: 7.0 IP, 3 ER, 6 H, 5 K, 1 BB
M. Stroman: 2.0 IP, 0 ER, 1 H, 2 K, 0 BB

HR: Cespedes (1)

This was an interesting play through, which I’ll play on occasion for fun now that I’ve dug it out.  I have stacks of cards from 2019 and a couple of packs from 2020, perhaps I should pit those two seasons against each other.

Stay tuned!

’21 to ’48

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I haven’t touched my 1921 Giants replay in a while, and I recently found out that a new printed set of cards for that season will be coming out from Sideline Strategy.  I have the DIY PDF version.

So I’m putting that replay officially on hold and restarting the 1948 Giants replay.

That 1948 replay was to be hand scored and use fast action cards (FACs) instead of dice.  I’ve since decided to forego hand scoring because of my arthritis, and perhaps do a combination of FACs and dice.

I’ll have it all sorted out this week.  And I’ll go back to the 1921 season once the new cards come out.

Stay tuned!