Out of the Park (OOTP) Baseball

Mike D. · #1 07-27-2022, 02:05 PM

For 43 seasons, across the better part of 20 years, I was part of the Ted Williams Memorial Leaugue (TWML) that ran first on OOTP 2 and later OOTP 6. We had a few of us who were in the league that entire time.

We saw somewhere north of a dozen babies born to owners over that time, and several generations of "fictional" players come and go.

It was a lot of fun when we were younger and active, but eventually kind of died out.

frankbmd · #2 08-06-2022, 11:54 AM

Every baseball sim thread deserves mention of the Universal Baseball Association, J Henry Waugh, Prop. published in 1968 by Robert Coover.

An unusual, but critically acclaimed, fictional tale of a long standing Table Top baseball league created by J Henry, the proprietor.

It has been reprinted more recently and you can find it if interested. I recommend it.

BobbyStrawberry · #3 08-06-2022, 12:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frankbmd

Every baseball sim thread deserves mention of the Universal Baseball Association, J Henry Waugh, Prop. published in 1968 by Robert Coover.

An unusual, but critically acclaimed, fictional tale of a long standing Table Top baseball league created by J Henry, the proprietor.

It has been reprinted more recently and you can find it if interested. I recommend it.

Thanks, Frank! I'm going to read this.

You ever do sim leagues? I have this idea of a Net54 sim league if there is enough interest...

Butch7999 · #4 08-06-2022, 12:22 PM

Indeed, Frank, we too can't recommend it strongly enough. "UBA" is a brilliant thing, although we'd caution anyone who expects
a book "about" a tabletop baseball game to be trivial and boring that it's only "about" a tabletop baseball game as much as, say,
the movie Diner is only about a diner. It's a metaphorical, sometimes almost phantasmagorical, look into almost everything,
an amazingly brisk read in paradoxically concise yet beautiful prose.
We'll add that Coover is a wonderfully cool fellow in person and his many other books are great reads as well.

In a shameful bit of self-promotion while we're here, we'll also invite anyone on board who's into tabletop baseball games,
current, recent, or antique, to visit our website and forum, linked in our sig below...

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