OT but well, they are baseball cards, and wow

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Posted By: Max Weder

1965 Strat-o-matic game with 1964 season cards...over $1k final bid--$1,130.09

http://tinyurl.com/29nr9o

Have I missed a surge in this area? Is there something special on this auction I'm missing? Should I dig out my 1962 to 1995 sets, sell them all, and retire to Sudbury?

Max

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Posted By: barrysloate

Max- the two years I played Strat-O-Matic nearly every day were 1964 and 1965! Seeing that box brings back memories, I used to have the same one. And I even bought the oldertimer teams, too. Guess I should have taken better care of it and saved it.

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Posted By: Jim VB

As a NYC kid, I never got into Strat-o-matic. I was strictly a "Challenge the Yankees" game player, and still have my old game (not exactly in "Mint" condition.)

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Posted By: dennis

would 1964 be the 1st year the game was produced,maybe thats why the high price?

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

My college roommates and I used to play Strat-O-Matic for hours at a time...sometime stretching overnight....there were many days when we would sleep after classes and then play the game all night only to have to suspend a game because we had to go to classes.

We had one renegade friend who refused to play SOM and instead started his own APBA league.

Those were the days.

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Posted By: Max Weder

Dennis

The first year of SOM was the 1960 season, when I believe they produced a 40(?) card set that is very very rare. Only a small number were sold.

Max

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Posted By: dennis

well, there goes that theory. wonder what that '60 set would be worth?

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Posted By: Joseph J.

Now you've hit a nerve. Strat-O-Matic has been a part of my life for as long as
I can remember. To understand the madness this game causes in grown men (beyond
paying insane money for a 1965 edition) take a look at this web site, a league I've
been involved with off & on for over 20 years:

http://bvlaction.com/

Also of note to readers of this forum: In the mid 1960s, Topps and Strat-O-Matic were the first two companies targeted by Marvin Miller in his quest to increase the coffers of the oppressed American & National League laborers.

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Posted By: Max Weder

Dennis

I passed on a 1960 set that sold around 1974 or so for about $250, fairly big money at the time. I think I have some individual cards from the original 1961 set, which I believe also didn't produce full team sets. They are larger than the 1962 and subsequent year cards.

Max

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Posted By: Anonymous

One of my recollections is that the Homerun slot on the Ruth card was a good inch & half wide.

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Posted By: Rob Ray

Tried SOmatic for a time when younger...but I got hooked on APBA dice/cards/playing boards game about 35 years ago and have been playing it ever since. With its ease of adaptability for the basic game as well as the more-involved master game,nothing beats it for realism. For some reason,older SOM games as well as APBA games sell for very high prices nowadays. As with baseball cards,I guess it's a reflection on trying to recapture one's youth.

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Posted By: barrysloate

I remember somebody consigned a 1952 APBA game to one of my auctions about 10 years ago, and even at that time it sold for something like $1500. I was truly shocked.

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Posted By: Chad

I think that's All Star Baseball you're thinking of. Ethan Allen, the ballplayer, invented that game. I played that game a lot and strat-o-matic which I loved and obsessed over for a few years. And, I'm sure you know this, but Christy Mathewson invented a table top game called Big 6. I love the way that gameboard looks and would love to own it one day.

--Chad

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Posted By: David Goff

This is thread made me think of all the old time games. Two that came to mind was the 1988 Starting Lineup Talking baseball game...loved it!! And the Mattel Football game...

From Seinfeld
"She even has the old Mattel football game we all love!!"
"Come on, you got to get me over there!!"