The outstanding Inside Pitch game offers cards in PDF format. Just some personal notes here. (I hate perforations!) The goal is to remove the cut lines and get a nice 9×9 grid that minimizes cutting.

Here’s a short demo video from the ABL League Office.

In Strat-O-Matic, outfielder errors result in the batter reaching second or third. What kind of errors do outfielders really make? I looked at the 2,386 errors made in MLB 2005-2009. (From Retrosheet, natch.) That’s about one every five games. I divided them into the five categories shown in the chart below. Only a quarter involve [...]

Nice article in the Times about the recent APBA Convention/Tournament. Includes a video. Also spawned a blog entry about a 1956 replay.

USA Today article about APBA & Strat

An article on TTB from a new webzine, “The Baseball Chronicle.”

The new Triple Play Baseball cards arrived in upstate New York today.

I started out with APBA back in ’74, but have played only a handful of games in the last 25 years. I’ve been trying out a few different TTBB games over the last year, and the other week I started thinking about APBA again. After losing an eBay auction for an 80s edition, I ordered [...]

Custom-perforated stock available from PerforatedPaper.com.

I recently acquired some old baseball mags from the time I started following the game. The 1974 Street & Smith’s yearbook was a particularly important specimen, as it was there I first saw anything about tabletop baseball. The APBA ad must have grabbed my imagination more than the others, because I sent away for their [...]

A very old d20. Only $17,925.

A few ads for baseball card games from Baseball Magazine sometime in the teens.

Ran across this site that sells double-sided APBA cards—vs. L on one side, vs. R on the other. Seems obvious now, but I certainly never thought of it.

Put it on the board: Old games still play, Strat-O-Matic, APBA alive and well even in Internet age via mlb.com

Century of baseball board games to open April 12 Exhibit features collection of 100 years of leisure entertainment, 1860s-1960s National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — For anyone who’s ever said, “baseball is just a game,” a collection of baseball board games, soon to be featured in a temporary exhibit at the [...]

A top ten list from a site called Board Game Geek. Strat is #1. A list of 13 (!) different games played by a Nationals fan. A good list at tabletopbaseball.org. A HUGE list compiled by a Dan Nichols. One of the few places I’ve seen TPB listed.