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 [...]

The Middle Atlantic Experiment

Imagine a rogue minor league baseball czar seventy-five years ago.  The game is segregated, but for the sake of his league’s survival, this renegade decides to include one of the all-black major league ball clubs in his circuit.  His existing (all-white) teams aren’t affiliated with any major league teams anyway, and they need to make money.  [...]

Thome Goes Deep…in 1936!

Last night, White Sox DH Jim Thome hit career home runs number 546 and 547. I figured this was as good an opportunity as any to share a box score I’ve been sitting on for some time. Turns out, Thome comes from a famous baseball-playing family in Peoria, IL. His father was a legendary softball star [...]

Navy beat the Pirates 3-0. Great Game!

Merry Christmas and all that…

CHICAGO-I want to wish everybody a Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah and all that stuff…  I’ve been putting the finishing touches on a major baseball project during the past week, and have neglected the virtual on-line universe.  Almost done with my off-line dirty work and look forward to hitting the blog with an angry vengeance very soon.  I’ve [...]