Baseball Board Game

[Bluenoser]

Anyone ever owned/played on one of these? Looks like it could be fun.
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[Sweed]

Nice. Would have been great back in the 60's when I was a kid.

We used to put our baseball cards into batting orders and use a deck of cards to determine outcomes. 1-3 (single - triple), 4-bb, King-HR. Everything else was an out. Play out half inning, reshuffle and repeat. Pretty simple but started doing this in third and fourth grade while teaching ourselves to do batting averages and era. While in 5th grade we found Strat O Matic.

Never figured out the odds using the deck of cards but it was fun. We could have used this game the same way.

Do you know, does the maker take these to sports shows to sell? While I wouldn't buy one online, it does look like a good impulse item.

[Bluenoser]

Not sure, I saw it online. Looks like one of those web sites that offers multiple products at reduced prices. Never sure how trustworthy they are, don't use them myself.

Doesn't look like it would be difficult to make one though.

[monkeyman576]

Dynasty League Baseball/Pursue the Pennant is my baseball board game of choice.

[GeoWar]

Board games --
Strat O Matic
Classic Statis Pro Baseball
SI Statis Pro Baseball
*** then there were a couple of Dice games

Electric Baseball ??????

Then you could buy a deck ( like Old Maid or Go Fish ) and they would say ball strike - outs ( ground , fly, pop ) and tell hits

There was another deck of cards that had the calls by position batting -- We would make lineups with baseball cards - bring the players up to bat and turn over cards for results ..

[kq76]

I hadn't seen that one before, but there are a lot of baseball themed tabletop games. Besides the well known APBA, Stratomatic, and Statis Pro, there are the newer and well-regarded Baseball Highlights 2045, Bottom of the 9th, Lords of Baseball, and a tonne more I know nothing about.

[Amazin69]

Let's not forget All-Star Baseball, designed by an active MLB player (Ethan Allen, then with the Scrubs) and manufactured by Cadaco-Ellis for over 50 years. Spin those dials!



I wonder if Allen's playing on the Near North Side is the reason the Friendly Confines are used as the backdrop? Propaganda!

[dsvitak]

I have my own homebrew that has 2000 discrete outcomes, and I can play and document a game in ten minutes. I really should get it patented, and put on the market.

[Syd Thrift]

Honestly the Ethan Allen game, other than not modeling pitchers, is the one with the best statistical fidelity of all of them. I’m well past the point now to where I prefer ,y computer doing all the die rolls and calculations for me but that game was lowkey way ahead of its time…

[molarmite]

1974 Sports Illustrated Superstar Baseball is also a good one that I haven't seen mentioned yet. I've never played any of the other versions.

[Syd Thrift]

Originally Posted by molarmite

1974 Sports Illustrated Superstar Baseball is also a good one that I haven't seen mentioned yet. I've never played any of the other versions.

I actually had that game at one point when we found it at a garage sale. I think it was the 1973 version (this was the mid 80s) because IIRC all the stats were from 1972. It was pretty cool though.

I also remember really jonesing for I think it was Sherco baseball, which was described at the time as almost annoyingly realistic, like at the time you had to make 4 or 5 die rolls per play. Ironically I think OOTP probably does more than that but since all the die rolls are under the hood, everything's abstracted.

[dsvitak]

Originally Posted by Syd Thrift

I actually had that game at one point when we found it at a garage sale. I think it was the 1973 version (this was the mid 80s) because IIRC all the stats were from 1972. It was pretty cool though.

I also remember really jonesing for I think it was Sherco baseball, which was described at the time as almost annoyingly realistic, like at the time you had to make 4 or 5 die rolls per play. Ironically I think OOTP probably does more than that but since all the die rolls are under the hood, everything's abstracted.

Sherco was one of my favorites. You diced up where the ball went, on a grid of the ballpark you were playing in. There were wind effects, that were amazing. I would frequently see balls drift away from fielders, or even sail over the fence. REALLY good game. Each player was rated a little differently, with tendencies, and power ratings.

[Amazin69]

SherCo Grand Slam Baseball (created by Steve LeShay in 1968) has been on the market recently enough to have a website.