![]() Considering the data that Dick Seitz, Hal Richman and the group from MN had to work with, they did a pretty decent job of simulating baseball on the table-top. There was no Internet to provide lefty/right splits, ballpark effects, and other drill-down stats that are commonplace today. The baseball games that existed in the 60’s were limited to the statistics that were available at the time. The chase, by Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, to break Babe Ruth’s single season homerun record of 60 held this then 8-year old’s attention for a lifelong obsession with our national pastime. So is it any wonder that my litmus test for judging baseball games is in the context of a 1961 Yankee season replay? Ironically, these days my two favorite baseball teams are the NY Mets and whoever is playing the Yankees.ġ961 was an interesting season, the first with expansion from the original 16 teams and a resulting increase in schedule from 154 to 162 games. ![]() I was heartbroken by Mazeroski’s walk-off 7th game World Series HR that ended my first mini-season of baseball. For me, it was 1961 and the only team in New York at the time, the Yankees. ![]() Anticipation for Spring Training, roster cuts, exhibition games and then the marathon of a full Major League Baseball season begins. Baseball on the Table-top Part II: Comparing Baseball BoardgamesĮveryone remembers their first one.
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