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My first baseball simulation ever played was myself. I would take a wiffle bat and ball and a glove and tennis ball in the back yard usually with a New York Mets yearbook for players names and play the game myself. When batting I'd run through the line up with wiffle bat and ball teaching myself to switch hit so I could hit lefty for lefty hitters, then after 3 outs I would get my glove and tennis ball and pitch against a wall fielding the comebackers or throwing a ball in the air for fly balls, and running up to my deck to rob Homers. I could not get switch throwing down though so everybody was righthanded. I had notebooks with line ups stats, standings etc. it was very detailed and I think the Mets won every game. I remember one crazy inning where the Mets hit 13 straight homers! But if I only had a short time to play I would sim my own highlight show instead.
Then a trip to the Hall of Fame I scored Pursue the Pennant which I modified to use real baseball cards, then I moved on to Commodore 64 and Microleague - Every console from NES to PS2 - Baseball Mogul, MVP 2005 for PC and finally Season Ticket into OOTP and haven't looked back since.
My favorite though was playing out games in my back yard, but I think a 35 year old man playing baseball with himself in the back yard would not be accepted by my neighbors. Sometimes I have some nice flashbacks playing wiffle ball with my son though.
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