What your favorite Baseball Era to play?

jbmagic · 04-14-2004, 04:36 PM

Bluenoser · 04-14-2004, 04:44 PM

All of the Above.

darkhorse · 04-14-2004, 05:07 PM

None of the above.

19th century.

Rizon · 04-14-2004, 05:07 PM

80s

theasfl · 04-14-2004, 08:19 PM

the year 2145

Eugene Church · 04-14-2004, 08:29 PM

I like 1950's baseball.

Also like 1920-1950. Players seem to play for the love of the game. You could also keep track of players and teams...rosters did not get wholesale changes each year. Players started and finished their careers with one team.

Do not like Modern Day Baseball with all the substitutions and pitching changes. The players seem to only care about money...money...and more money. Mediocre millionaires are in great profusion. It too hard to keep track of who's playing for who.

robbydee · 04-14-2004, 08:35 PM

1950s for me as well ... many, many hall of famers and just 16 teams, so you get to know all the players very well. Steals were way down, but power was good (at least before steroidball started).

Bald Eagles · 04-15-2004, 12:20 AM

I start in the current year and play fictional leagues only. See Henry's reasoning in his Fictional Dynasty Thread.

Rubilario · 04-15-2004, 12:30 AM

I'm having fun starting in 1950.

Warren Spahn, Don Newcombe, Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Whitey Ford, Robin Roberts, Stan Musial, Ted Williams, Ralph Kiner, Duke Snider and more.

Rookies coming in in the next few years would be Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Harmon Killebrew, Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, Eddie Matthews and more.

Very fun!

jnshmoo · 04-15-2004, 10:13 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Eugene Church
I like 1950's baseball.

Also like 1920-1950. Players seem to play for the love of the game. You could also keep track of players and teams...rosters did not get wholesale changes each year. Players started and finished their careers with one team.

Do not like Modern Day Baseball with all the substitutions and pitching changes. The players seem to only care about money...money...and more money. Mediocre millionaires are in great profusion. It too hard to keep track of who's playing for who.

Amen. I pretty much lost interest in baseball in general in the late 80's to early 90's for the same reasons. Only just this season did I suddenly get interested again...and that was before the Tigers started this bizarre behavior of winning games.

ctorg · 04-15-2004, 10:19 AM

I usually play fictional and go for 80s-like results. Since that's what I grew up with, that's what I like to see. I like it when 40 HRs leads a league and teams can post ERAs under 3.

Jestre · 04-15-2004, 10:24 AM

I'm a deadball fan, love the strategy involved in non-homer era. Great pitching, great baserunning and bunting, scratching out runs, the facepacks of the old players.... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh....

beatnikpoet13 · 04-15-2004, 10:38 AM

i'm partial to the deadball era. even though i'm a Yankees fan, i can't help but use the whitesox, just to see what might have happened had the blacksox scandal not happened.

IatricSB · 04-15-2004, 12:30 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Jestre
I'm a deadball fan, love the strategy involved in non-homer era. Great pitching, great baserunning and bunting, scratching out runs, the facepacks of the old players.... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh....

I second that motion...

KurtBevacqua · 04-15-2004, 01:10 PM

I grew up and learned baseball in the 70's, so to me that will always be the best decade.

It also had a little of everything, great pitching (Seaver, Palmer, Ryan), excellent baserunning (Brock and Morgan), great sluggers (Jackson, Rice, and Schmidt), great managers (Herzog, Anderson, and Weaver). To me it was the decade with the best balance between great pitching, great hitting, great defense, and great baserunning. The 50's leaned to much to the hitters with very little baserunning, the 60's was all about pitching, the 80's was real good but momentum was swinging to hitters and bullpens were getting too prevalent, and the 90's and beyond is all about hitting. I think all around the 70's had the best of all facets of the game.

jbmagic · 05-06-2004, 02:21 PM

bump

TigersFan23 · 05-06-2004, 04:28 PM

I'm partial to the 1970s- a time of massive change within baseball, some UGLY uniforms, several dynasties (A's, Reds, Orioles, Yankees), really wild hair (i.e. Oscar Gamble), odd-ball teams (i.e. the Veeck White Sox and Billy Martin managed Tigers/Rangers/Yankees) and interesting personalities (Dave Kingman, Mike Marshall, Mark Fydrich, Reggie, etc.).

Mariner and Giants Fan · 05-07-2004, 03:12 AM

I first started watching baseball in 1966, with my Dad. I remember Marichal & Perry getting off to great starts (20-2) for my beloved Giants! Yet they still came up short by 1.5 games to the Hated Dodgers.

I was born in Norfolk, VA (1956), but became a Giants fan because my Dad grew up in Brooklyn!? Yeah he liked the Giants and hated the Bums! My Dad had it great as a young adult (20's) living in New York City. Home to the Giants, Dodgers and Yankees. He told me stories about watching 2 games with a mirror (one TV in each room) and listen to another game on the radio! About seeing games at Ebbits Field and The Polo Grounds.

My Dad passed on his love and passion for this game to me. I remember growing up watching him play softball. Then I got to play softball with my son's watching me.

Anyway back to the 60's and my Giants always coming in second place in 1966, 67, 68 and 69!! Yet I remember the Impossible season of 1967 when the Red Sox came out of nowhere to win the AL and play in a very exciting World Series against the Bob Gibson lead St. Louis Cardinals. I remember the 1968 season, Year of the Pitcher. Bob Gibson had an unbelievably miniscule league leading ERA of 1.12!! Denny McLain won 31 games to lead the Detroit Tigers to the AL Pennant. What a wonderful World Series. The Tigers fell behind 3 games to 1 and rallied for three straight victories to capture the Crown! Back then most (or all?) of the Series games were on during the Day. I remember watching one of the Series games in 1968 in School in Gym class.

Then came the Miracle Mets (1969). I lived in Atlanta, GA. The town went nuts over the Braves first division crown (in Atlanta). That was the year that the Expos and Padres were added in the NL and the AL added Seattle (Pilots) and KC Royals. The AL and NL split into divisions (East and West).

I remember when we first moved to Atlanta in the summer of 1968, I had attended baseball games in New York (Shea and Yankee Stadium) and Baltimore (Memorial Stadium). Yet Fulton County Stadium was the first "modern" stadium I attended. I finally got to watch my Giants up close and personal. I saw Mays, McCovey and Marichal. Bobby Bonds as a rookie. Clemente and Stargell, Bob Gibson, Tom Seaver, Billy Williams, Ron Santo and Ferguson Jenkins. I saw Aaron hit number 500 against my Giants. I saw the Braves turn a Triple Play against the Cubs with runners on second and third! A 1-0 Braves win over the Cards, Phil Niekro (pitched a one hitter) outdueling Bob Gibson. Baseball was so pure so innocent (or maybe that was me and my perspective).

I enjoyed the 70's with more hitting and speed becoming a greater factor. The 80's were fun but that was when the game started changing, more about money and show less about the game. I moved to Seattle, 1976. Suffering through 18 years of really mediocre (sometimes downright awful) teams. Then along came 1995, and coming from behind by 13 games in August to win the division on the 163rd game (I got to attend). Then the 5 game win over the Yankes in the LDS! Coming from 2 down! Then the 116 win season of 2001. Yet even though I have watched the Mariners become a "real" major league team, baseball is not as enjoyable as it once was. The game I grew up enjoying and dreaming about playing has become a Big business and is all about profit, the $$, greed and self indulgence (though basketball is worse).

I remember those days so distant yet so near. How excited I was to watch the All Star game and the World Series with my Dad. We watched pro football and basketball together and that was enjoyable, but we most enjoyed sharing the passion that is baseball.

Jeremy Weimer · 05-07-2004, 04:28 AM

I'm a fan of the deadball era and I'm not really sure why. It's just the era I prefer to play the most out of all of them in OOTP.

Makakilo MooNs · 05-07-2004, 05:32 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Jestre
I'm a deadball fan, love the strategy involved in non-homer era. Great pitching, great baserunning and bunting, scratching out runs, the facepacks of the old players.... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh....

How can you scratch for runs in this game without going batty? It desperately needs a pitch-by-pitch mode in v7.

Anyway, my favorite is the 70s although I am playing deadball right now. I think you will find that everyone chooses the decade when their love for the game was formed (thus, my love for 70s ball) unless it was so recent that they have had to go back in time and learn to appreciate the dead ball era.

View Poll Results: What your favorite Baseball Era to play?
current year	18	19.35%
1900's	10	10.75%
1920's	5	5.38%
1930's	0	0%
1940's	3	3.23%
1950's	10	10.75%
1960's	10	10.75%
1970's	11	11.83%
1980's	19	20.43%
1990's	7	7.53%
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04-14-2004, 04:36 PM	#1
jbmagic Hall Of Famer Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 3,417	What your favorite Baseball Era to play? What your favorite Baseball Era to play?

04-14-2004, 05:07 PM	#3
darkhorse Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2002 Location: fort worth, tx Posts: 10,850	None of the above. 19th century. __________________ "The Human Torch was denied a bank loan."

04-14-2004, 05:07 PM	#4
Rizon Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: SF Area, California Total Posts: 531,691 Posts: 2,369	80s __________________ JML MILKSHAKES

04-14-2004, 08:19 PM	#5
theasfl Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Coral Springs, FL or Orlando, FL (UCF) Posts: 7,988	the year 2145 __________________ All-Sports Fantasy League The ASFL 22 different games, 9 sports. Please check out the website (www.theasfl.com/asfl2/). The league is free- if you're interested please fill out the signup form and/or email the commissioner. Miami Talons (ABL): 2004, 2005 & 2008 Champs

04-14-2004, 04:44 PM	#2
Bluenoser Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: In The Moment Posts: 14,214	All of the Above.

04-14-2004, 08:29 PM	#6
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 36,011	I like 1950's baseball. Also like 1920-1950. Players seem to play for the love of the game. You could also keep track of players and teams...rosters did not get wholesale changes each year. Players started and finished their careers with one team. Do not like Modern Day Baseball with all the substitutions and pitching changes. The players seem to only care about money...money...and more money. Mediocre millionaires are in great profusion. It too hard to keep track of who's playing for who.

04-14-2004, 08:35 PM	#7
robbydee Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 44	1950s for me as well ... many, many hall of famers and just 16 teams, so you get to know all the players very well. Steals were way down, but power was good (at least before steroidball started).

04-15-2004, 12:20 AM	#8
Bald Eagles Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Waveland & Sheffield Posts: 402	I start in the current year and play fictional leagues only. See Henry's reasoning in his Fictional Dynasty Thread.

04-15-2004, 12:30 AM	#9
Rubilario Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 41	I'm having fun starting in 1950. Warren Spahn, Don Newcombe, Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Whitey Ford, Robin Roberts, Stan Musial, Ted Williams, Ralph Kiner, Duke Snider and more. Rookies coming in in the next few years would be Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Harmon Killebrew, Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, Eddie Matthews and more. Very fun! __________________ CBL Commissioner HFBL Commissioner FDBL Commissioner EBL Co-Commissioner LOYO Consultant

04-15-2004, 10:19 AM	#11
ctorg Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Queens, NY Posts: 9,848	I usually play fictional and go for 80s-like results. Since that's what I grew up with, that's what I like to see. I like it when 40 HRs leads a league and teams can post ERAs under 3. __________________ My music "When the trees blow back and forth, that's what makes the wind." - Steven Wright Fjord emena pancreas thorax fornicate marmalade morpheme proteolysis smaxa cabana offal srue vitriol grope hallelujah lentils

04-15-2004, 10:24 AM	#12
Jestre All Star Reserve Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: North Smithfield,Ri,USA Posts: 612	I'm a deadball fan, love the strategy involved in non-homer era. Great pitching, great baserunning and bunting, scratching out runs, the facepacks of the old players.... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... __________________ My eyes perceive the present, but my roots are imbedded deeply in the grandeur of the past. "Chief Meyers"

04-15-2004, 10:38 AM	#13
beatnikpoet13 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Cudahy, Wisconsin Posts: 122	i'm partial to the deadball era. even though i'm a Yankees fan, i can't help but use the whitesox, just to see what might have happened had the blacksox scandal not happened.

04-15-2004, 01:10 PM	#15
KurtBevacqua Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 2,968	I grew up and learned baseball in the 70's, so to me that will always be the best decade. It also had a little of everything, great pitching (Seaver, Palmer, Ryan), excellent baserunning (Brock and Morgan), great sluggers (Jackson, Rice, and Schmidt), great managers (Herzog, Anderson, and Weaver). To me it was the decade with the best balance between great pitching, great hitting, great defense, and great baserunning. The 50's leaned to much to the hitters with very little baserunning, the 60's was all about pitching, the 80's was real good but momentum was swinging to hitters and bullpens were getting too prevalent, and the 90's and beyond is all about hitting. I think all around the 70's had the best of all facets of the game. __________________ "The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C's interests, are entirely overlooked. I call C the Forgotten Man" - William Graham Sumner

05-06-2004, 02:21 PM	#16
jbmagic Hall Of Famer Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 3,417	bump

05-06-2004, 04:28 PM	#17
TigersFan23 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Tucson, AZ Posts: 156	I'm partial to the 1970s- a time of massive change within baseball, some UGLY uniforms, several dynasties (A's, Reds, Orioles, Yankees), really wild hair (i.e. Oscar Gamble), odd-ball teams (i.e. the Veeck White Sox and Billy Martin managed Tigers/Rangers/Yankees) and interesting personalities (Dave Kingman, Mike Marshall, Mark Fydrich, Reggie, etc.).

05-07-2004, 03:12 AM	#18
Mariner and Giants Fan All Star Starter Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Port Townsend, WA. Posts: 1,264	I first started watching baseball in 1966, with my Dad. I remember Marichal & Perry getting off to great starts (20-2) for my beloved Giants! Yet they still came up short by 1.5 games to the Hated Dodgers. I was born in Norfolk, VA (1956), but became a Giants fan because my Dad grew up in Brooklyn!? Yeah he liked the Giants and hated the Bums! My Dad had it great as a young adult (20's) living in New York City. Home to the Giants, Dodgers and Yankees. He told me stories about watching 2 games with a mirror (one TV in each room) and listen to another game on the radio! About seeing games at Ebbits Field and The Polo Grounds. My Dad passed on his love and passion for this game to me. I remember growing up watching him play softball. Then I got to play softball with my son's watching me. Anyway back to the 60's and my Giants always coming in second place in 1966, 67, 68 and 69!! Yet I remember the Impossible season of 1967 when the Red Sox came out of nowhere to win the AL and play in a very exciting World Series against the Bob Gibson lead St. Louis Cardinals. I remember the 1968 season, Year of the Pitcher. Bob Gibson had an unbelievably miniscule league leading ERA of 1.12!! Denny McLain won 31 games to lead the Detroit Tigers to the AL Pennant. What a wonderful World Series. The Tigers fell behind 3 games to 1 and rallied for three straight victories to capture the Crown! Back then most (or all?) of the Series games were on during the Day. I remember watching one of the Series games in 1968 in School in Gym class. Then came the Miracle Mets (1969). I lived in Atlanta, GA. The town went nuts over the Braves first division crown (in Atlanta). That was the year that the Expos and Padres were added in the NL and the AL added Seattle (Pilots) and KC Royals. The AL and NL split into divisions (East and West). I remember when we first moved to Atlanta in the summer of 1968, I had attended baseball games in New York (Shea and Yankee Stadium) and Baltimore (Memorial Stadium). Yet Fulton County Stadium was the first "modern" stadium I attended. I finally got to watch my Giants up close and personal. I saw Mays, McCovey and Marichal. Bobby Bonds as a rookie. Clemente and Stargell, Bob Gibson, Tom Seaver, Billy Williams, Ron Santo and Ferguson Jenkins. I saw Aaron hit number 500 against my Giants. I saw the Braves turn a Triple Play against the Cubs with runners on second and third! A 1-0 Braves win over the Cards, Phil Niekro (pitched a one hitter) outdueling Bob Gibson. Baseball was so pure so innocent (or maybe that was me and my perspective). I enjoyed the 70's with more hitting and speed becoming a greater factor. The 80's were fun but that was when the game started changing, more about money and show less about the game. I moved to Seattle, 1976. Suffering through 18 years of really mediocre (sometimes downright awful) teams. Then along came 1995, and coming from behind by 13 games in August to win the division on the 163rd game (I got to attend). Then the 5 game win over the Yankes in the LDS! Coming from 2 down! Then the 116 win season of 2001. Yet even though I have watched the Mariners become a "real" major league team, baseball is not as enjoyable as it once was. The game I grew up enjoying and dreaming about playing has become a Big business and is all about profit, the $$, greed and self indulgence (though basketball is worse). I remember those days so distant yet so near. How excited I was to watch the All Star game and the World Series with my Dad. We watched pro football and basketball together and that was enjoyable, but we most enjoyed sharing the passion that is baseball. __________________ Hebrews 11:1 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen"

05-07-2004, 04:28 AM	#19
Jeremy Weimer Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 3,411	I'm a fan of the deadball era and I'm not really sure why. It's just the era I prefer to play the most out of all of them in OOTP.