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My Dad taught me to do math by playing dice baseball. We would select eight rosters and play about 50 games. We saved all of the stats and then would use them to identify two all star teams and play a best of seven series. If I remember correctly we used two dice and the following combinations dictated the action. 1-1 and any combo of 7 was a single, 2-2 double, 3-3 triple, 4-4 homer, 5-5 walk, 1-2 strikeout, 6-6 double play or a sacrifice fly depending where the runners were, any other combinations were outs. The lead runner was always out if a force out existed, no stealing and runners could only advance the number of bases the hitter collected. It was a fun and simple way to learn math. Oh yeah I'm over 50 and Merv Rettmund was an absolute beast.