An auspicious start...

Seeing as the 1967 Strat-O-Matic Baseball tournament is on Fulbright rain delay (with the Cardinals dangling precariously close to elimination at the hands of the shockingly hot White Sox), we're filling the, erm, void in Kaunas with a replay of the 1975 World Series...

...And I've got to say, Red Sox fans: you've gotten a rather auspicious start to the proceedings, with Dwight Evans going deep to lead off the Bottom of the 1st. After two innings in Game 1, Boston leads Cincinnati 1-0.

But let's back up a bit: that's the first home run EVER for me using this new game called Roster Card Baseball...and that was the first Red Sox batter EVER for me with the game. How great is that?

I remember playing a few warm-up games between the 1967 Red Sox and Yankees as I tried to sort out Strat-O-Matic... not only did Boston refuse to beat New York (twice, in fact--a preview of coming attractions in the tournament, it turns out), but it was good old Mickey Mantle who hit my first-ever Strat homer.

Sadly, my first Status-Pro Baseball home run has been lost to history. I can only say that the most famous homer was Willy Randolph (1979) hitting a walk-off homer for me with "HIS ONLY HOME RUN NUMBER! HIS ONLY HOME RUN NUMBER!" I wish I could remember the circumstances.

If I can get a little blogging momentum, I promise more to follow on how I came across this new Roster Card Baseball game, as well as how my writing about baseball board games resurfaced this spring @VMU...