Who are the youngest and oldest online strat players?

Postby schnoogens » Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:30 am

I'm 32.

I didn't discover Strat until I was 22 but I have heapfuls of stat notebooks from playing a "Baseball Card Game" that was based on dice rolls using stats from the back of baseball cards. No pitching factored into the plays, although that didn't stop me from "warming up" pitchers if the current one was struggling.

Since then, being an accountant, I revised how the dice rolls SHOULD have been in order to properly replicate AVG/OBP/SLG, but again, this is still without pitching factored in. I also created a dice rolling function within Excel so I'm never without dice!
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Postby oldhat2 » Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:33 am

That must make you senior (Smoke) Citizen? That Cellar sounds like the one I started playing in! :lol: Lets do a new league Artie!
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Postby katzenjammer » Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:54 am

[quote:0abb6fcff0="Artie412"]61 . . . I cut my Strat-teeth on the 1963 Set in my pal's cellar, rats and all (yep.)[/quote:0abb6fcff0]



Same here, Artie - but a year younger at 60 and started with the '64 set - also in my neighbor's basement. We built grandstands and used an old carpet remnant as the field. Also used "retired" Marx Civil War soldiers as players. Jeeze - that was the 100th anniversary of the Civil War - now we're recognizing the 150th anniversary. DOH!!!!


BTW - still have the original cards from '64 thru '68. Did someone else mention they were of value?
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Postby tcochran » Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:14 am

Ah, you youngsters!

66 here. Started playing APBA board games in 1957 or '58.

Also had my first subscription to the Sporting News when I was 10. I remember running home from school at lunch time on the regular weekly delivery day. Loved all of the minor league box scores...
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Postby fredpaii » Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:49 am

Anyone play "Longball"? Another table-top baseball board game. I loved it back in the late 70's or early 80's when I played it.
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Postby katzenjammer » Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:21 am

[quote:66d9412657="tcochran"]Ah, you youngsters!

66 here. Started playing APBA board games in 1957 or '58.

Also had my first subscription to the Sporting News when I was 10. I remember running home from school at lunch time on the regular weekly delivery day. Loved all of the minor league box scores...[/quote:66d9412657]


You forgot to add that it was uphill both ways (running back and forth to school), right?
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Postby 1959elroy » Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:31 am

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Postby tcochran » Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:08 am

[quote:2ac3abb032="tuvthomas"][quote:2ac3abb032="tcochran"]Ah, you youngsters!

66 here. Started playing APBA board games in 1957 or '58.

Also had my first subscription to the Sporting News when I was 10. I remember running home from school at lunch time on the regular weekly delivery day. Loved all of the minor league box scores...[/quote:2ac3abb032]


You forgot to add that it was uphill both ways (running back and forth to school), right?[/quote:2ac3abb032]

Nah, flat streets of Detroit -- but my young legs could have done the uphill and down thing back then (not so much today)
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Postby SteadyEddie33 » Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:36 am

39 y.o. here.. :roll:

Grew up on 70's APBA cards in the 80s, taught by geezers like some of y'all here ;) My mom threw in the Strat baseball with my Strat Football game b-day present ..'83 sets were my intro (guess I was a good boy that year, lol). After the '84 set, I was leading a dual life: apba baseball/Strat football, except for an occasional league here and there.

The online game brought me back to the SOM baseball World...and I am poorer for it :lol:
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