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Wow, no idea Goreds54 has a strat playing son.
Interestingly I too replayed every game of the 1970 season although with Sports Illustrated's Baseball game, which was a more advanced game than SOM was at the time. For example they had lefty and righty cards for hitters; at that time SOM was basic only. My father brought the game home early summer in 1971 and we drafted whole teams, as the game was organized by teams. I had first pick and like an absolute moron, I drafted the Mets. He took the Reds and Orioles (snake draft) and I then took the Pirates and Giants. Leaving him the Twins and Cubs. And on it went. We played 162 game schedules for each team and he laboriously kept paper and pencil records of everything. Every AB, every outcome. It took us three years to play the entire season. In the end, one of my teams, The Oakland A's won the World Series against the Red Sox (another of my franchises). The A's were the luckiest team ever that year, dad should have mopped me up with the Reds and Orioles which were qualitatively better than any other teams. We were both super intense about every game but in the end I was just luckier with the dice. It was an incredible bonding experience between my Dad and I and I owe whatever success I have achieved here to that experience.
Interestingly I too replayed every game of the 1970 season although with Sports Illustrated's Baseball game, which was a more advanced game than SOM was at the time. For example they had lefty and righty cards for hitters; at that time SOM was basic only. My father brought the game home early summer in 1971 and we drafted whole teams, as the game was organized by teams. I had first pick and like an absolute moron, I drafted the Mets. He took the Reds and Orioles (snake draft) and I then took the Pirates and Giants. Leaving him the Twins and Cubs. And on it went. We played 162 game schedules for each team and he laboriously kept paper and pencil records of everything. Every AB, every outcome. It took us three years to play the entire season. In the end, one of my teams, The Oakland A's won the World Series against the Red Sox (another of my franchises). The A's were the luckiest team ever that year, dad should have mopped me up with the Reds and Orioles which were qualitatively better than any other teams. We were both super intense about every game but in the end I was just luckier with the dice. It was an incredible bonding experience between my Dad and I and I owe whatever success I have achieved here to that experience.