[Mariner and Giants Fan]

Originally Posted by Eugene Church

I retired in 2002... in my teenage years in the 1950s, I played APBA, a board game played with dice and cards for each player.

Yep, I had to keep score myself... had to figure the batting averages and ERAs all by myself... keep the standings all by myself... I had to type out the standings on a wornout Underwood typewriter that would only print in red... the black ribbon had faded out... I became a math whiz in school because of APBA baseball... hey, I can handle 'rithmetic real good... it's the algebra and trigonometry that ruined my life.

I used to dream of a game that would keep statistics.

Miraculously I found it in 2003... Season Ticket Baseball... which was OOTP3.

I thought I had died and gone to Heaven... no more figuring stats for EC... Markus did it all for me... and a lot more.

Being up in age a little bit, I never thought I would live to see my OOTP players scrampering around the field... 3D animation?.. EC should live so long.

Long story short.

Yep, EC must have died and gone to Heaven, 'cause my OOTP players are running around the baseball diamond in beautiful uniforms... don't have to read the text any more... I CAN WATCH THEM PLAY!.

My OOTP players even occasionally run through walls for me.

Glory Hallelujah! Thank you Markus Heinsohn and the wonderful OOTP Development Team.

Though I was born in the 1950's I still have a very similar story to yours. I started out playing APBA when I was 17 (1973) and later graduated to computer games Pursue the Pennant in 1987). The keeping of stats kept me from ever playing out an entire season though I did try. I, like you did start with STB and have been on board ever since, loving this game. I day dream about what a 17 year me would have thought about this game, I probably would never have been seen outside,