OT - Does anyone have the 1911 Strat-O-Matic Card set?

[baseballart]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

I found the basic version to be accurate enough too. The only advantage of the righty-lefty split was it forced the team in the field to handle relief pitchers more carefully. I also see you were a 1 centerfielder. You obviously had skills.

Although with only a "3" rating in RF and LF, Robmay have been shy of the corners

I collected SOM cards from about 1969 to 1992 or so, buying cards each year. Over the course of that time, I also picked up original sets of a few of the pre-1969 sets. I also have a few (8 or so) of the very very rare cards from either the first or second year of SOM, 1960 or 61--I'll have to go back and check.

I think the last time SOM came up, I promised to post these, but don't think I ever did.

[barrysloate]

Has anyone ever seen, or possibly have a scan of, Barry Bonds's 2002 Strat-O-Matic card? I'm guessing it is virtually all hits and walks, with only a number or two representing an out.

[Cy2009]

Barry,

I don't have the 2002 Bonds card. But here is a scan of the 2001 Bonds card (73 HRs).



Cy

[barrysloate]

Thanks Cy. That of course is about as good as a hitter's card can possibly be. 2002 would likewise be an interesting one.

I just noticed that it doesn't even have a SINGLE on it, only extra base hits. Amazing.

[Rob D.]

Originally Posted by baseballart

Although with only a "3" rating in RF and LF, Robmay have been shy of the corners

Max,

I always found it so much easier reading the ball off the bat in center field than in left or right. More than a few times when I was in right field, I looked like I was wearing skates.

[baseballart]

Originally Posted by Rob D.

Max,

I always found it so much easier reading the ball off the bat in center field than in left or right. More than a few times when I was in right field, I looked like I was wearing skates.

Rob

I should have worn skates in Little League; it could only have helped. I think I hit .222 when I was 12 and switched to basketball, where my university scoring average was something like 0.7 ppg.

I also sucked in hockey. Growing up in Saskatoon Saskatchewan, that was not a good thing.

[T206BrownHindu]

I spent much of my childhood playing APBA. We even had a rec class at school that consisted of 26 kids (for 26 teams at the time) each playing their own team. I remember that I was the '84 Padres...I still don't know how that team made the WS that year...they were terrible in APBA!

If I remember correctly, they have (had) a Master version and a Basic version of the game. Also, they used to be based in Lancaster, PA...not sure if that is still true or not.

[MDCook]

Played in many APBA mail leagues in 80's and early 90's. A lot of fun drafting your team and looking forward to next years crop of rookies to draft. Always played the basic game and could finish a game in 15-20 minutes. Haven't played in years but this thread brings back good memories.

Matt

[FrankWakefield]

I played APBA.... still have a bunch of those cards in the attic. Tilly Shafer was great in the 1912 World Series set... seemed to always get on base, then could run like a rabbit.

A bunch of us played lots of All Star Baseball, it was put out by Avalon Hill as I recall. Simple but fun. We had a league, a WS. Cy Young threw the only no hitter we had, and we must have played a thousand games. He walked 2.

And for our 1948 Indians fan....

[Butch7999]

All-Star Baseball -- produced in various editions from 1941 to 1993, and again in 2003 and '04, as All-Star Baseball game, Ethan Allen's All-Star Baseball game, All-Star Baseball, Strategic All-Star Baseball, and The Original All-Star Baseball, among other variations -- was made by Cadaco-Ellis (later just Cadaco). That's the spinner game with the circular "pie-chart" disks
[ http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/...rBaseballGame/ ].

Avalon Hill published Baseball Strategy and several versions of Statis Pro Baseball, both as Avalon Hill games and in conjunction with Sports Illustrated Games, and Superstar Baseball! in partnership with SI.

Superstar Baseball! was a follow-up version of SI's 1971 Baseball Game, which featured then-current players and teams. A 1973 version, All-Time All-Star Baseball, featured Hall of Fame players from all eras. That version later became Superstar Baseball!.

APBA [ http://www.apbagames.com/stadium/index.html ] is still based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania -- site of the 2011 Annual Convention of the Association of Game & Puzzle Collectors [ http://www.agpc.org/ ].