Go Cubs Go!
Cub bats were hot and the weather in the Cleveland was unseasonably warm. This morning I'm reminded of playing APBA Baseball, a "board game" on a card table in a tiny bedroom with my cousin. The following is a description of the game from Wikipedia.
The company's first offering was a baseball simulation table game using cards to represent each major league player, boards to represent different on-base scenarios (e.g. "Bases Empty", "Runners on First and Third," "Bases Loaded"), and dice to generate random numbers. Seitz's product was derived from the game National Pastime, invented and patented by Clifford Van Beek in 1925,[2] a game which Seitz played in his youth.[3] The game can be played against another person or in solitaire fashion. Devoted fans keep track of the results and assess how players' performance compares to their real-life statistics.
The game was fantasy baseball before fantasy baseball. Last night I probably would have saved Chapman for the seventh game. In APBA baseball you would realize that the dice were hot for Rizzo, Bryant, and Addison Russell. Double sixes were almost always home runs.
Tonight the live game features Kluber versus Hendricks. Almost certainly it will be a low scoring game except that maybe Kluber will be arm weary or that Hendricks pitches much better in Wrigley Field.
A 162 game season boiled down to the final 27 outs.
The company's first offering was a baseball simulation table game using cards to represent each major league player, boards to represent different on-base scenarios (e.g. "Bases Empty", "Runners on First and Third," "Bases Loaded"), and dice to generate random numbers. Seitz's product was derived from the game National Pastime, invented and patented by Clifford Van Beek in 1925,[2] a game which Seitz played in his youth.[3] The game can be played against another person or in solitaire fashion. Devoted fans keep track of the results and assess how players' performance compares to their real-life statistics.
The game was fantasy baseball before fantasy baseball. Last night I probably would have saved Chapman for the seventh game. In APBA baseball you would realize that the dice were hot for Rizzo, Bryant, and Addison Russell. Double sixes were almost always home runs.
Tonight the live game features Kluber versus Hendricks. Almost certainly it will be a low scoring game except that maybe Kluber will be arm weary or that Hendricks pitches much better in Wrigley Field.
A 162 game season boiled down to the final 27 outs.
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