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Post by Cory Olson on Mar 10, 2023 9:39:38 GMT -5
The LOW team returns after a week off with Episode 123! Chad, Tim, and Stu are here and are joined by long-time promoter Michael Bratta! The panel discusses tabletop baseball games, including All-Star Baseball, Harry's Grand Slam Baseball, History Maker Baseball, and more! What baseball games have YOU played, promoters? Plus, Chad plays COTG?! Find out what the videos below have to do with this episode! Uncharted Territory: Episode 123 |
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Post by Tournament Master on Mar 10, 2023 10:12:12 GMT -5
I started off with Stratomatic, but I pled the heck out of Pursue the Pennant. It used 3 10 sided dice to get pretty precise. I had a few sets from the early 90's along with a set with the greatest teams of all time and one with the greatest single season players. The later I arranged into a big league with a few friends from highschool. One of the funnest parts was the box you rolled the dice in had a field and had stadium backdrops for all the stadiums and there were special rules for each stadium including weather effects and utilizing ball park features.
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Post by TTX on Mar 10, 2023 10:46:54 GMT -5
Figured it was about time for a baseball episode.
The only baseball game I played in my life was one where you picked a lineup and flipped cards over. Depending what position was batting something would happen (hit or out). Really liked it when I was young but had trouble finding people to play it with me and eventually moved to other things.
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Post by stu on Mar 10, 2023 11:29:12 GMT -5
I started off with Stratomatic, but I pled the heck out of Pursue the Pennant. It used 3 10 sided dice to get pretty precise. I had a few sets from the early 90's along with a set with the greatest teams of all time and one with the greatest single season players. The later I arranged into a big league with a few friends from highschool. One of the funnest parts was the box you rolled the dice in had a field and had stadium backdrops for all the stadiums and there were special rules for each stadium including weather effects and utilizing ball park features. I played Pursue the Pennant as well TM. Very detailed game, enjoyed it, still have it. It's a good one, for sure! |
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Post by Pete on Mar 10, 2023 15:14:51 GMT -5
Never played Pursue the Pennant but I did/do play Diamond Mind Baseball, the computer offshoot of it, after a few years of Strat-O-Matic. I once spent a clinically insane amount of hours doing research into how to effectively finish the lost 1994 season, including inputting stats for minor-league call-ups in September (and yes, I called up Michael Jordan to be a PR/OF replacement for the White Sox), going through newspapers.com to see what tentative plans I could find for specific teams, and taking care of details like moving the Mariners into Cheney Stadium in Tacoma (1994 was the year that roof tiles fell off the top of the Kingdome). The Indians ended up upsetting the loaded Montreal Expos in 5 to win the World Series.
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Post by Matt on Mar 10, 2023 16:06:09 GMT -5
OMG All-Star Baseball! My foray into gaming!
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Post by the_faction on Mar 10, 2023 16:24:46 GMT -5
When I was a kid in the 80's and I would build teams w/ my Topps cards and created my own rulesets for hits and outs based on the stats of the Defensive/Offensive players before discovering Strat-O-Matic. Then I stumbled across MLB Showdown in 2000 and it was a more refined version of the game I created as a kid in the 80's and it was surreal, but WotC killed the game in '06...
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Post by throwingtoasters on Mar 10, 2023 16:36:04 GMT -5
Great episode. I bought a Strat edition a few years ago played a couple games but it wasn’t for me. I have really liked Deadball and have played that a bunch. For someone who’s not a die-hard baseball fan like me, it’s a fun game.
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Post by ldivock on Mar 10, 2023 19:05:45 GMT -5
I started with Strat-o-Matic and have played countless others (including the previously mentioned Pursue the Pennant), but my favorite is Statis-Pro Baseball. I recently completed a 1972 Phillies replay with Statis-Pro Advanced to see if Steve Carlton could replicate his 27-10 mark with the team that went 59-97 (a strike wiped out the first week of that season). He "only" went 26-10 for me with 300 strikeouts (10 below his actual mark) while pitching 2/3 of an inning more than he really did and his ERA was 2.02 for me vs his actual 1.97 after getting shelled in his penultimate start on my tabletop. The team won 63 games for me, largely due to phenomenal (for them) hitting with runners in scoring position (.273 vs .230) which accounted for an extra 99 runs in that situation and +112 runs overall. Offense was way down overall in 1972, leading to the AL's adoption of the DH in '73 (the actual Phils averaged only 3.22 runs per game).
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Post by j on Mar 10, 2023 19:57:08 GMT -5
I had a friend who played Strat-o-matic and I'd play that with him a bunch but the game I played the most was a dice game called Baseball Card All-Star Game by Cap Toys... I just spent 20 minutes searching online trying to figure out the name of that game!
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