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Old 04-22-2017, 05:35 PM   #24
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I started playing board baseball games (Sherco). Back then, I kept all the stats in notebooks by hand before computers. My wife still gives me crap about that. I started looking for a computer baseball game that I didn't have to bat or pitch because those games stat wise were unrealistic. Then I found OOPT 6. Now I don't have to, to quote Rogers Hornsby, "Stare out the window and wait for spring", because it's always baseball season at my house!
That was back in the 60's right? I started playing baseball board games back then. The first one had individual cards for players like Hank Aaron and Willie Mays but I could not remember what it was called. It was poorly rated as Aaron had 10 homeruns in the first 3 games lol. Then I moved on the the spinner baseball game with circular cards that fit over the spinner, Ethan Allen or something like that. Finally I played Avalon Hill games and then APBA in 1973, now that was the first "real" baseball game that I loved. But still keeping stats was so laborious that when I discovered Pursue The Pennant for the computer I was in stat heaven lol (circa 1987).
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