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This is a great thread.
One game I didn't notice mentioned was Talking Baseball. I played this about 1971-72? You had a hand held device with a speaker that you put little disks into and you heard the play call come through the speaker. At 9 years old I'd geek it up and create a line up card with my favorite players and run through a game.
After that it was All Star baseball with the round cards and spinner. Played the crap out of that until I discovered Strat in high school. A girl friend bought me Statis Pro when I was 18, but seemed a little awkward. You had to literally move your players around the board to field batted balls.
In the late 80's I got suspended from work for playing a baseballgame on my work computer, but I can't recall the name of the game. All I can remember is that it had historical teams and that you could edit the rosters in DOS.
I loved Earl Weaver -- the stadium disks was awesome, but really thought that Tony LaRussa and Old Time Baseball rocked. A guy named Nick Keren had a set of killer utilities for the game that made up for the allowances. One thing i found odd was that if you played out your dynasties long enough you'd get players with female names.
When Tony Larussa went away it allowed me to focus on my real life and career until I stumbled on OOTP around version 6. It's been downhill ever since.
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