What Baseball Board Games Did You Play As A Kid?

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by thekingofclout

Yesterday, I finally won my absolute favorite Baseball Board Game. It's the 1973 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED All-Time All-Star Baseball Game. With the colored sheets of every team's all time greatest players and the set of three unique dice, my friends and I wore that game flat out!

I had lost on the last few high grade games over the last few years and they all went for over at least $400. I had forgotten all about it until I found one of my old buddies on facebook that I played the game with for at least 3 or 4 years. Turns out, he has my old game!

So I set it on my ebay search and one finally came up for sale (and a really nice one at that!) and I won it last night for what I thought was a very good price.

So... it got me to thinking that there might be a bunch of others here on the board that played one game or another in their childhood.

So which one was your favorite? Here's mine...

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I bought the first one as a kid (folded sheets in dark blue box - 1971?), and later my parent got me the All-Time All Star one.

I still have the sheets for both games.

[barrysloate]

I played Strat-O-Matic fanatically in 1964 and 1965; and I played the game with the discs and the spinner, I think it was Roger Maris Baseball but I forget.

Or it may have been the Cadaco game pictured above. It's just too long ago to remember.

[baseballart]

I started playing Strat-o-matic in 1969. I stupidly passed on buying one of the very few original sets of 40 players from 1960 (I believe) when I had a chance but as a 13 year old in 1972, I didn't have a job, much less $250.

I acquired five or six large size individual cards on ebay from either 1960 or 61 four or five years ago. I'll try and post them here. Over the years, I acquired a number of the original years' sets up through 1969, but at some point, I've lost track of which ones I have, and haven't looked in those shoeboxes for a couple of years.

[barrysloate]

Max- I believe 1962 was the first year for Strat.

[baseballart]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Max- I believe 1962 was the first year for Strat.

Barry

1962 was the first full complete year of players, I believe. 1961 had a set of 40? players. I had thought the first player set was from 1960, but the som website and the linked article says 1961. I'll have to check and scan those early cards, which don't have any year on them.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...tic/index.html

[bbcard1]

Still play APBA. 66s.

[barrysloate]

You may be right Max....by the way, I don't have a Facebook account. That's the only reason I haven't responded to your emails...but I can be your friend outside of Facebook!

[baseballart]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

by the way, I don't have a Facebook account. That's the only reason I haven't responded to your emails...but I can be your friend outside of Facebook!

Hmm. I don't recall sending you emails regarding Facebook, or in fact sending any emails to you recently at all. Hopefully they aren't some sort of spam virus (although if you did join Facebook, I would friend you )

Can you email me one of my emails to me at weder (at) shaw.ca so I can see what was sent

Max

[Hot Springs Bathers]

I played the Sports Ilustrated game in the blue box and actually bought the College and Pro Football issues too.

I then found APBA in the early 70's and played and collected the seasons for years, sad to hear about the major changes in that company this year. I bought Strat Baseball later and can see how people could get hooked on either game.

Of course living in the south the SI College Football game was my favorite, I almost wore the game out. Took it to college and it did get worn out. I wish there was a good college football game out there now, even at 57 I would try it.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by Hot Springs Bathers

I played the Sports Ilustrated game in the blue box and actually bought the College and Pro Football issues too.

I then found APBA in the early 70's and played and collected the seasons for years, sad to hear about the major changes in that company this year. I bought Strat Baseball later and can see how people could get hooked on either game.

Of course living in the south the SI College Football game was my favorite, I almost wore the game out. Took it to college and it did get worn out. I wish there was a good college football game out there now, even at 57 I would try it.

I had the college one also, and we also wore it out. The best two teams were clearly Notre Dame and Alabama, and if you knew how to play Notre Dame, no one could beat you. Did you all find the same to be true?

[barrysloate]

I just forwarded it Max. It's the second one I've gotten.