I've had a passion for nineteenth-century baseball since I was a kid. I have distinct memories of my twelve-year-old self trying to create a text-based baseball simulation game in BASIC, and then using it to replay the first recorded organized baseball game -- a dust-up between the New York Knickerbockers and the Nine York Nine from way back in 1845.
Fast-forward to today: The Strat-O-Matic Hall of Fame edition has given me the opportunity to explore the simulation of nineteenth-century baseball in a far more realistic fashion. You might have seen posts last fall about our Hall of Fame League, in which the boys and I divvied up the all-time greats into teams based on twenty-year time periods. We had some very memorable games, but Matthew and Nathaniel don't have quite the same zeal for baseball that I do, so it's been hard to get them back into Strat-O-Matic.
After reading another baseball history book while I was on a business trip in Seattle last week, I decided to create a new historical league that I can run all by myself. For this one, I'm using all Hall of Famers who debuted between 1871 (the beginning of Major League Baseball) and 1899. I have just enough players to create three full teams. I'll rank the players at each position and then conduct a draft with the hope of getting three relatively equal teams. Then we'll play ball!
Fast-forward to today: The Strat-O-Matic Hall of Fame edition has given me the opportunity to explore the simulation of nineteenth-century baseball in a far more realistic fashion. You might have seen posts last fall about our Hall of Fame League, in which the boys and I divvied up the all-time greats into teams based on twenty-year time periods. We had some very memorable games, but Matthew and Nathaniel don't have quite the same zeal for baseball that I do, so it's been hard to get them back into Strat-O-Matic.
After reading another baseball history book while I was on a business trip in Seattle last week, I decided to create a new historical league that I can run all by myself. For this one, I'm using all Hall of Famers who debuted between 1871 (the beginning of Major League Baseball) and 1899. I have just enough players to create three full teams. I'll rank the players at each position and then conduct a draft with the hope of getting three relatively equal teams. Then we'll play ball!
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