baseball games

The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics
$14.99
This book traces the evolution of baseball statistics as well as the fight to have accurate historical records. We go back to pioneers such as Henry Chadwick,Ernie Lanigan,John Heydler,the Elias brothers,George Lindsey,Earnshaw Cook,Elton Mills, Seymour Siwoff to the more modern figures such as David Neft,Bill James, John Thorn, and Pete Palmer. Good space is devoted to Allan Roth who was the first statistician employed by a team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, back in 1947 till the early 50's. The tremendous influence exerted to force modern accurate record keeping by project scoresheet, retrosheet and sabr over the years is duly noted. Today, many baseball executives who were first exposed to strategy and statistics thru the realistic dice and card games produced by APBA and Strat-O-Matic are now in decision making positions. Currently we even have computer games like Diamond-Mind which give accurate simulations as well as keeping sophisticated, comprehensive records for player and league statistics in a data base that updates after every play. I found this to be a great book about numbers. And, actually I surprisingly didn't find it to be boring at all. In fact I found it to be a fascinating read.

Bulls Eye Baseball
$24.99
It's a little too difficult for the 7 year old to play right, but it doesn't matter. They love running up big scores by just dropping the ball through the scoring hole from higher and higher up. It's been a hit even for his 5 year old brother!

Harry's Grand Slam Baseball Game
$24.99
Harrys Grand Slam Baseball Game simulates a real baseball game. The Visiting Team bats in the top half of each of the nine innings and the Home Team, in the bottom half. Runners move around the bases, and runs and innings are recorded on a stand-up scoreboard screen. The game uses a special deck of 54 cards, which represent typical baseball plays. When a managers team is at bat, that manager will try to play cards that will help score runs. When not at bat, that manager will try to play cards that will result in outs for the other team. / / The designer on his original edition: "The scoring rules are simple and logical, and differ only slightly from the official rules of baseball. The elements of luck and skill are balanced carefully, so as to make each game an interesting and different contest." / / The game includes rules for the Heirloom edition as well as the original 1962 rules, which contain instructions for playing with 3 or 4 players plus "Slugfest" and "Shutout" variants. / / GAMEPLAY / Each player draws a hand of 3 cards, which when played will result in a play result. At the beginning of each half inning, the batting team plays a card for the first batter. The play is then resolved and the player draws a card to bring his hand back to three. The pitching team then plays a card to derive a result for the second batter and draws a card to replace into his hand. Play goes like this until three outs are made. / / There are two different types of special cards in the game. Substitute cards, when drawn, are immediately played face down in front of the player drawing them, along with another card drawn from the deck and placed, unseen, on top of it. A player may use the substitute card as a "pinch hitter" or "relief pitcher" in the game when his hand does not have a useful card (i.e. a hit when he is at bat or an out when he is pitching). The substitute card is then flipped over and played. / / Wild cards are those which only affect base ...

APBA Pro Baseball Board Game
$24.99
For well over 50 years APBA has been the unchallenged king of quality baseball entertainment products! Now, step up to the plate as APBA Pro Baseball puts you right in the middle of the action with a revised, spiral-bound instruction/play result booklet, complete with a quick start guide that will have you swinging for the fences in no time! The game also includes the New York and Brooklyn teams from the 1953 Fall Classic, 25 players per team.