1948: Giants Replay, Game 1

Posted on February 21, 2020 by Chris S.

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

Posted on February 17, 2020 by Chris S.

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

Posted on February 9, 2020 by Chris S.

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!

1971: Giants Replay, Game 17

Posted on February 1, 2020 by Chris S.

Welcome to Three Rivers Stadium!

Final from Three Rivers Stadium:

1971: Giants Replay, Game 16

Posted on January 18, 2020 by Chris S.

Final from Candlestick Park:

Tito Fuentes hit his first homer of the season and drove in the winning run.

Next up: the Giants travel to Pittsburgh for a 3-game series against the Pirates.

Stay tuned!

New Year, New In Progress Chart

Posted on January 9, 2020 by Chris S.

Sure, let’s add the 1947 49ers replay, and put the 1967 Warriors replay back on the schedule.

Stay tuned!

1971: Giants Replay, Game 15

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Chris S.

While I did play a game from 1917 on New Years Day, I have a few more games from that day (April 17, 1917) to get through before posting the daily scores.

Technically that was the first game I played in 2020, though this is the first result that I’m posting.

Final from Candlestick Park: