Strat-O-Matic is Here!!

“It may not happen when you want it to, but it’ll be right on time.”
 
I remember watching a documentary where a grizzled blues musician sipped flat beer and coughed up those little pearls of wisdom during the course of an interview.  Not sure if it’s a lyric from an old song, or a dated Mississippi [...]

The Right Field Wall at Greenlee

There’s been a lot of interest in Pittsburgh’s long, gone Greenlee Field.  With the impending release of the Strat-O-Matic Negro League Set, I’ve been asked whether or not this park is going to be included as part of the project.  The answer, hardcore baseball simulation fans, is YES!  Greenlee, along with several other venues from [...]

Strat-O-Matic Negro League Set

According to Steve Barkan at Strat-O-Matic, the highly anticipated Negro League set (and new company web site), is getting very, very close.  As in…any day now.  So stay tuned.
I want to publicly thank Hal, Steve and Bob for their work on the set.  The bells and whistles on this product, as well as the superior [...]

Gunthers/ Pyotts Photos

Gary Ashwill has an interesting link at his blog, showcasing the newly digitized Spalding Baseball Guides which covered the semi-pro baseball scenes in several major cities during the first half of the twentieth century.  He’s posted a photograph of the famous Leland Giants from one of these guides.  They were, of course, an all-black team [...]