WG2 mystery?

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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

Butch: is your interest in Owen simply a curiousity, or is there a game oriented reason to know his identity.

And I do not take offense easily, in part because I know how lovable I am. But also because I recognize the starkness of this medium, and the communication limitations which we are all dealing with.

With regard to my visit to your site, I hope that you do not view that as being tracked down in your lair. Because my tour was focused on determining if I could obtain information regarding how the E.R. Williams and Lawson's games were played. So far, all that I have determined is that it appears that we have the wrong date associated with the Lawson game.

It is neat how you determined the date range for that issue based on the number of balls required for a walk.

In any event, as I was touring the postings, I cane upon the group which led up to your posting here, and thought Id chime in with some comments. I also commented on other posts.

I like your site, and your hobby specialty, and plan to revisit there. And who knows, I could just have a game that I need some help with.

Edited to add:

Why yes, I do have a game which I am curious about. Perhaps from my description, you can help identify it.

It is a baseball game, at least 50 years old.
I have played it for about 12 hours, and it plays as designed.
I do not have a commercial issue of this game.
It has no correlation with any actual players.
It requires no pitching.
Hitting is established by the roll of three dice.
The focus of the game employs chess like strategy and planning to pit fielding against baserunning.
The field consists of a grid containing (I don't know) about less than 1000 boxes, some of which contain three numbers.
The numbers identify whare the batted ball lands - which then "rolls" until fielded.
There are about six lines of instruction comprising less than 50 words which adequately describe game play.

What is this game?