Strat-O-Matic Baseball 365

Hello all,

Can anyone recommend a baseball based board game suitable for kids about 7 or 8 years old? When I was in grade school/middle school a few decades ago, we played a game called Red Barber Baseball. It was great fun, but did require a minimum knowledge of baseball rules, which we learned painlessly along the way and used when we played real baseball.

I did a current online search, but no Red Barber game. There are plenty of others, but I can't tell which are the best, in the sense of fun and accessible to kids 7 - 8. The Red Barber game must have come out about 1950 and just used dice and cards to advance the game; very low tech; nothing electronic.

Any recommendations?






I didn't find the right solution from the internet.
References:
https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=189432

whiteboard animation

Perhaps Ethan Allen with the disks and spinner.

Stratomatic makes a very basic game for kids. You might want to look st that. In the past it was available at Toys R Us.

Back in the late 70’s my brother and I played Time Travel Baseball. I see there is a new version of that

Strat-O-Matic for kids: http://www.strat-o-matic.com/products/b ... rd-edition

Nothing beats SOM.

I played "Long Ball" as a kid. Wasn't quite that young though.

I recommend Strat-o-Matic. Played my first board game with dice and cards when my friends and I were 10 years old.

My just-turned-8 year old is playing the basic version of Strat-O-Matic. While he hasn't played it without me, the only parts he may stumble by himself are the special plays (X-Chart, Stealing, gbA, etc.), but he could always just ignore anything special. He picked up the rest really quickly.

There's a lot you can do just pilfering some dice from another game already in the house.

http://baseballgames.dreamhosters.com/BbDiceHome.htm

J-Pav wrote:There's a lot you can do just pilfering some dice from another game already in the house.

http://baseballgames.dreamhosters.com/BbDiceHome.htm

My computer is flagging that link as potential phishing, Anyone else get that?
My uncle taught me a baseball dice game 50 plus years ago.
2-double
3-triple
4-out
5-out and if applicable double play (lead runner out)
6-out
7-single
8-out
9-out
10 by 6 and 4 -out
10 by 5 and 5 -walk
11-single
12-homerun