[IatricSB]

For me it was Sports Illustrated Baseball. You had one team per page with hitters on one side and pitchers on the other. The season we played was 1971 (we played in 1972). I couldn't find the game anywhere in the stores, so my dad made xerox copies of my friends sheets (early piracy... Ouch, but then I would have bought it or I should say my parents would have bought it if I could have found it). The boxes were green for hits and red for outs and when my dad made copies, you couldn't read the results from the boxes that were red, so I had to hand write them in. Later, the same game became a bookcase game called Superstar Baseball. It used three dice with the 10's dice have three 3'2, two two's and 1 one, so it was easier to roll 30 than 10. The other two dice were added together to get the rest of the number and resulted in 0 to 9. The two dice had odd numbers... one went from 0 to 5 and the other went from 0 to 4 and had to 0's on it.

From there, it was stratomatic, APBA, and I've seen or played all the others: Microleague Baseball, Full Count, Earl Weaver and one of my favorites, Radio Baseball which I still have. Great stuff, but all eclipsed by the ultimate game.... OOTP.