Age

Well one thing is rather apparent, Strat needs to start getting this game into the hands of youngsters or it will be out of business in about 15-20 years.

45
Started with the online 2003 set.

Baseball fan in general since the 1985 playoffs.

48 - the 1985 board game was my first season. 4 of us played religiously through high school. our summers revolved around it. Remember Valenzuela, McGee, Parker, Guerrero and Brett on my inaugural season.

I'm 66. I started playing Strat in 1968. I was an avid Sporting News subscriber and finally decided to answer that curious little classified ad SOM always ran in the back pages. My siblings had left the nest and, living out in the sticks in Missouri, I had the time to replay the entire 1967 NL schedule, updating individual and team statistics each night by hand. I've been a Strat O Matic Fanatic ever since. I started playing the online game right at the tail end of ATG I, whenever that was. So, nearly 53 years total.

I'm 58. Been playing online Strat since the 2005 card set came out. Have played the board game version since I was in the US Army. An Army buddy and I drove to Cincinnati from Ft Benjamin Harrison to buy the board game in 1981. And I couldn't stop playing with myself ever since!

Yeah Fred i understand the undeniably compulsion to play with myself....wait...ummmm

59. Started with the board game in 1974 - my first team was the '73 San Diego Padres. Played for about 6 years until I went to college. Picked up the online game in 2004 (back when Barry Bonds' card was named Y.A.), and have played ever since.

Would be nice if the powers that be would give me credit for all the games I played before 2010, though.

Nowadays I play mostly ATG and the 20XX seasonal Keeper leagues, and this game helped me navigate the pandemic and quarantine without much difficulty, so I'm grateful for that.

I am 62. I started playing in 1976 with the 1975 cards. 4 of us played a mini league in each other's basements in Calgary. I remember stacking my team with Dodger pitching, but one buddy fielded a team with many Cardinals: Simmons, Smith, Sizemore, Forsch, and Hrabosky, and ended up winning the league. We went on to play SOM Hockey as well. I am a big Habs fan and the '77 Canadiens were an incredible team - until the Gretsky era came along!! Lots of good memories playing SOM Hockey while watching the Bruins, Flyers, Habs, and Leafs on TV.
I suppose I've played SOM most years off and on. Now I am strictly into SOM 365 baseball. Cannot find people my age who still play the cards.
Forever hooked in Canada!

72. I can still remember the summer of 1964, when I went half-evers with my cousin to buy a 6-team set of the 63-based cards. We answered that ad in a magazine that was a silhouette drawing of Warren Spahn (I think). We agonized for weeks on a choice between SOM and APBA. Others in the neighborhood joined us in 1967 and we played often until life took us in different directions about mid-1970s.. Rediscovered the online version/365 in 2016 and now play about 3 seasons at a time to enhance my chances of getting at least one win a night.
I have always played public leagues, and I noticed that I have not recognized any names among my frequent competitors. Do most on here play in private leagues?