My first experience was the Cadaco game with the spinners. I also played Strat-O-Matic for a while in the early 80's.
Computer-wise, the one I remember the most was one just called "Computer Baseball" for the Commodore 64 made by SSI. It had some flaws (Casey the computer manager took forever to do things, and if you struck out the lead-off hitter it would almost invariably lead to a cascade of runs unless you walked the #2 guy) but I played the heck out of it - it had a module where you could enter your own teams which was a lot of fun.
I also played an early version of APBA for the PC for a while. It predated the version with Ernie Harwell, but was still a good game.
Front Page Sports: Baseball '94 flor the PC was the next big leap. Like Computer Baseball, I could enter my own teams - working backwards I had actually entered every MLB team back into the 1910's(!).
Then came OOTP.
I also played Little League for a couple of years. Usually right field and occasionally second base. I was a terrible outfielder, a pretty decent second baseman and a godawful hitter.
