OT - Does anyone have the 1911 Strat-O-Matic Card set?

[Cy2009]

Hi,

I know that this is a little off-topic. I didn't know where to put it.

Does anyone have the 1911 Strat-O-Matic Card set? I need to get help with one card, Al Bridwell, 1911 New York Giants. If you have this card, would you send a scan of the front/back of this card to: cyrilp@visuallink.com?

Thanks.

Cy

[vintagecpa]

I know a guy that played an entire season (all teams) playing strato-matic. It took him 7 years and he kept track of every stat. He is about 1/3 of the way through his 2nd season. Not my first choice to waste time, but a very interesting game. I had no idea this game went that far back.

[Rich Klein]

Is an "old-timers' set; Strat only goes back to the late 50's or early 60's

Rich

[Butch7999]

"Strat" debuted in 1961. "Old-timer" or "historic" card sets for seasons 1911-present are available.
Cy, check in at our own Baseball Games forum --
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/baseballgames/
-- one of our group's 1,100+ members is likely to have the 1911 season set and the Bridwell card you need.

[MDCook]

Never played Strat-o-matic but I played APBA when I was younger. Very fun way to pass the time.

[milkit1]

How is that played anyways?

[Butch7999]

How APBA plays:
http://www.apbagames.com/stadium/gam...all_guide.html

How Strat-O-Matic plays:
http://www.strat-o-matic.com/about/how-to-play/baseball

[milkit1]

neat!
which do you think i shoudl go for? Is there accessories that i need besides the team cards?

[familytoad]

I don't know how well it has aged now that we've all got computers, live streaming action, and XBox etc to compare it to, but I "rolled the dice" from 1976 up to about 1982 or so. I played complete seasons, compiling stats on notepaper and even joined a mail-league where we would play a portion of the schedule and mail the results off to our opponents for the "road" games.
Very sophisticated!
The amazing thing was, as you played out a season, the players would come remarkably close to their real regular season stats for the prior year...while I remember some anomalies, there were many hitters who ended up pretty darn close.
It was a big part of my teenage years...I invested in the old-timers and played the greats against each other. Oh how I can remember how hard it was to get 1922 George Sisler out!

So, I recommend APBA for purely selfish reasons. I still have my game and all of the cards somewhere...I never played much Strat, but I know their fan base is just as fanatic!

[Butch7999]

Sean, can't (won't...) recommend one over the other -- they're both evergreens with loyal followings. Both have computer versions as well as the standard boardgame versions, and there are loyal camps for both methods too -- although we will say that we much prefer rolling dice on cardboard to clicking icons on a computer screen. Follow the links at the webpages in our previous post (#7) for more info on what's included, what's needed, and what options are available for each game.

Have to add, too, that they're far from the only tabletop sims out there --
Pursue the Pennant [http://www.designdepot.com/] is hugely popular and highly regarded,
as is Replay [http://www.replaybb.com/], Sherco's Grand Slam!, and
Baseball Classics [http://www.playbaseballclassics.com/], among many many others.
Four other games you might want to look into, all officially out of print but kept alive by their own legions of fans, are
Statis Pro Baseball [http://statisprobaseball.wordpress.com/],
All-Star Baseball [http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/...BaseballGame/],
Big League Manager, and the Sports Illustrated Baseball Game.