Average age of online Strat community?

51..heading for 52. Played my first strat board game in 75. My friend had it and I would go to his house and play for hours. It also helped that he had a hot older sister....lol Bought the game in the mid 80's but I couldn't get anyone to play, all too busy playing DnD.Started playing Fantasy baseball in the middle 90's and got tired of these know nothing managers sitting my players and not telling me...then I found this game. I believe it was the last go round for ATG 2 when I started, hooked ever since.

First MLB game was 71 at 3- Rivers Stadium Cubs and Pirates. Saw Jenkins pitching, Billy Williams and Ron Santo. To this day I have never heard a stadium so loud as when Clemente hit the game tying homer in the 9th, then win it in xtra innings with another one. I have been a Pirates Fan since 1970 and always will be.

Wow - that's what I call being a Fan! Hope you are rewarded this year.

Okay, after about a month of reading this stuff, thought I should finally jump in here. I will be 58 at the end of this month. I don't remember my first game, probably when I was 4 or 5 years old, maybe younger. My folks were Dodger fans and went to games at the LA Coliseum, but probably didn't take me until the team moved into Dodger Stadium. My earliest memories are of Frank Howard hitting at least two homers while my dad took me to the restroom. Dad's partner at work was a Cardinals fan and I remember going to a few Sunday Cardinals-Dodgers games. My first autographs were Ted Savage (remember him) and Mudcat Grant. I was also one of the lucky 50,000 plus who attended the famous Kirk Gibson Homer game in the '88 series (sitting on the first base side in the blue reserved seats), took my stepson with me and we yelled ourselves hoarse for about 20 minutes after the game.

Growin up I played "All Star Baseball" with the neighborhood kids, where I learned who some of the all time greats were, such as Nap Lajoie (we mispronounced his name La-Joy) and Roger Bresnahan and Lefty O'Doul. We all graduated to APBA in '67 when one of the kids got that game. We were seriously hooked on stats and spent countless hours doing multiplication, and division LONGHAND (no such thing as a calculator...only adding machines lol ). I didn't hear of Strat until 1981 when a coworker and I were reminiscing about this stuff. He talked me into playing his childhood favorite game after we played APBA. Needless to say I was hooked.

We found a 6 team head to head draft league in '82 somehow, and travelled all over LA to play on Monday nights. I won the first pick of the draft and chose Mike Schmidt's strike shortened season card. I have related to Andy Cummings and the guys in our ATG 67-92 NL league how we were seriously crazy and had an official banquet at the end of the year (had to wear a suit), where we gave out MVP, Cy Young, Rolaids FOY, etc. awards. Schmidt won an award we created called Pig Of the Year because he seemed to only hit homers and drive in runs when they didn't matter, and fail when it was "Clutch Time". The award featured one of his SI covers with a pigs head covering his.

I started playing online during ATG IV sometime. And have been a regular player since. I LOVE THIS GAME, in spite of all it's online faults. I wish we had better control over HAL, but at least we all have to deal with the same bad decisions.

Long winded, I know...

Just saw this topic so I wanted to put in my age, and before I do I just want to say that I am probably the youngest one here.

I am ... 13