Average age of online Strat community?

I am 21. Bought the 2003 game and had Pedro Martinez outpitch my dad 1-0 in some 13 inning or so game. Wasn't long before I got my hands in this here digi version. It really is a spectacular game.

55 years old. First game was a Doubleheader Crosley Field Giants at Reds 1964. Marichal and Perry started for Giants, Maloney and Nuxhall for Reds. Jim Ray Hart hit a homer in one game and 2 in the other. Mays sat one game and Duke Snider played CF for the Giants. I had to go back and look up the boxscore at retrosheet.org since I was only 6 at the time.

49. On this Father's Day nice to remember dad taking me to one of the very final Senators games...a 4-2 win over the Yankees. Thankfully he didn't decide to take me to the very last game (which was a minor riot and forfeit) that would have blown my 8 year old mind.

I am 21. Bought the 2003 game and had Pedro Martinez outpitch my dad 1-0 in some 13 inning or so game. Wasn't long before I got my hands in this here digi version. It really is a spectacular game.

nels52 not only adds youth to our profile, but he succeeded in whuppin' us oldsters by winning the 2012 Barnstormer Championship. Nice job, nels52!

I, on the other hand, pull our average age in the other direction, since I'm 61. I saw my first big league game in 1961, when I was not quite 10, and saw Mantle and Maris each hit HRs in a Yankee win at the Stadium, en route to Maris's record-breaking home run total of 61. This victory was cool with me, and made me a life-long Yankee fan. Do I now hold the record for the most 61's in a single paragraph?

I first played the Strat board game in 1965, replaying the entire '64 Yankee season--in their last pennant winning year in a long time, and becoming addicted to Strat and to baseball statistics. One thing I learned from Strat cards, early on, was the importance of walks, which were barely discussed on the sports pages in those days.

Sometime during my first Strat season, Jim Bouton's 1964 card pitched a 1-0 no hit victory--a highlight of the season. It was great to rediscover Strat again online when I came to the game a few years ago. Talk about a second childhood!

I am 21. Bought the 2003 game and had Pedro Martinez outpitch my dad 1-0 in some 13 inning or so game. Wasn't long before I got my hands in this here digi version. It really is a spectacular game.

nels52 not only adds youth to our profile, but he succeeded in whuppin' us oldsters by winning the 2012 Barnstormer Championship. Nice job, nels52!

I, on the other hand, pull our average age in the other direction, since I'm 61. I saw my first big league game in 1961, when I was not quite 10, and saw Mantle and Maris each hit HRs in a Yankee win at the Stadium, en route to Maris's record-breaking home run total of 61. This victory was cool with me, and made me a life-long Yankee fan. Do I now hold the record for the most 61's in a single paragraph?

I first played the Strat board game in 1965, replaying the entire '64 Yankee season--in their last pennant winning year in a long time, and becoming addicted to Strat and to baseball statistics. One thing I learned from Strat cards, early on, was the importance of walks, which were barely discussed on the sports pages in those days.

Sometime during my first Strat season, Jim Bouton's 1964 card pitched a 1-0 no hit victory--a highlight of the season. It was great to rediscover Strat again online when I came to the game a few years ago. Talk about a second childhood!

We must have been bruthas of different muthas - you in NY, me in St. L. As I stated earlier in this thread, that was the same season (1964) I started with Strat as a kid, having just witnessed first hand, or maybe second - didn't get to go to any of the Series games in Sportsmans Park, but got to watch them on TV, even at school because they let us watch (what a break!!) the Cardinals Series win over the Yankees in seven games. The only real shame in all that was that Ol Stan had retired the year before in '63 and didn't get to enjoy that as a player.

I've been playing the online Strat game since ATG 1 after being introduced to it by my son (bujinkan1--who no longer plays). I am addicted to the online version and, while I prefer ATG, I have played several of the other baseball years offered.

As a boy, I got started with the 1968 football board game. My friends and I created some leagues and kept stats. I also participated in some play-by-mail leagues (now I'm really dating myself) in those days. I have several different years of the football board game (I wish Strat would bring back the online version of the football game). I also have a several different years of the Strat baseball board game, too. Every so often, I'll pull this stuff out of the closet and remember the "good ol' days" while playing a few games solitaire style, or against my son. In this age of video games I am hoping my grandchildren will have some interest in these things when they are older. I'll be 60 years old in September.

I saw my first major league baseball game at Arlington in the early 90s when the Rangers played the Red Sox. Juan Gonzales won the game with a huge home run. What was especially fun about this game was that my friend was able to get us seats in an air conditioned luxury box. I have gone to Cardinals games in St Louis and Rays games in Tampa-St. Pete. Living in Colorado gives me the opportunity to see several Rockies games each year. Coors Field is a great place to watch a ball game!

I've become acquainted with a lot of great people in this Strat community over the years. I appreciate the banter, friendship, and help with the game that I have gotten from so many.

I'm 67 and counting - slowly. My first "major league" memory was an exhibition game in Winston-Salem between the Redlegs and White Sox. and Lloyd Merriman hit 2 homers and Ted Kluszewski hit one out. First real time major game was in the mid-50s - Baltimore vs. the Yankees. Yogi was my favorite player - so seeing him was a treat.

Like Doc, I also started out in ATG-1 - there arent many of us left from those days, I guess that's 2001 ? I'm a techie - nerd, so this type of electronics thing fascinated me. I never played the board game. I think I ordered the computer game from SOM once many many years ago, and it wasn't the graphical ooohhh and ahhhh that I was expecting, so I sent it back. I might buy it again some day, try the netplay features.

Well you all know what I do here, I just like to keep some of the early traditions going back when we were brand new. When dobak put up a records page and when someone started some ATG tournament and then abandoned it. I didnt want those fun things to die.

Along the way, I work in I.T. in the Bay Area. I have some family video of being about 8 years old when I lived in Indiana, my dad took me to Chicago to see the Cubs, or was it the W.S. ?!? Then growing up in Arizona, I used to go watch AAA Phoenix Giants at municipal stadium. I somehow got to know the manual rightfield scoreboard operator and got to sit back behind the sign and watch the game through the slats. Once in a while, at the end of the inning, I slid the number in place on the sign. It was a good place to be, I got lots of balls hit over the fence near where I was because no one was allowed back there, except for me and my connection. I felt priviledged and important. This was before anyone ever heard of DBacks. I think the stadium is still there for spring training. No more manual scoreboard.

In the Bay Area, I live close enough to take the subway to see the A's once in a while, too far for me to trek to see the Giants. - Oh, and I am 56 now.

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I am 59. Started playing the board game in 1970. Started playing on line during ATG 1. Went to my first major league game in 1964 with my little league team to old Crosley Field and saw the Reds play the Cardinals. I was at the last game ever played at Crosley Field in mid season 1970. The Reds played the Giants and Juan Marichal started and Jim McGlothlin started for the Reds. Lee May and Johnny Bench hit back to back homeruns off Marichal in the bottom of the eighth and the Reds held on for a 5-4 win. Introduced my oldest son to the board game and we played hundreds and hundreds of games together. We would broadcast the games sometimes like a radio announcer. It was great fun and one of my favorite memories with him. He actually introduced me to the on line version. I always loved baseball. Playing little league and sandlot every day we could get a game up during my childhood. I still play church league softball.

49 last week. Been playing Strat since 73 when my brother brought the board game home with the entire '71 and '72 sets. Started playing on-line in ATG3, but have only won 3 championships. My first game was also at Crosley Field in '69 where I saw the Reds lose to the Cubs. I'm pretty sure Banks homered so not a total loss. Transplanted in 1977 to New England, live in S. New Hampshire for last 15 years, but still root for the Reds and never for the Red Sox. Introduced my two kids to the Strato (15 and 12) and they play both the board game and on-line. I try to convince my friends that it's 100 times better than Fantasy Baseball, but everyone thinks I'm crazy.