Ponisciak reviews the origins of the APBA and Strat-O-Matic board Would You Like to Manage in the Majors?: Baseball Board Games and Theirĭedicated Players,” which appeared in the Fall 2011 volume of the SABR Tim Ponisciak penned an exceptional article The original APBA dice and card game was designed by J. Produced in the final quarter of the 20 th Century, has its origins Professional Baseball Association”), like several competing computer products Baseball video games that are strictly arcade representations of baseball (based solely on reflex and hand-eye coordination) are excluded.īaseball, Advanced Draft, League Manager, StatMasterīaseball for Windows (version 1.0 through 5.5)Īlan Raylesberg, Doug Reese, Ed Rothschild The series focuses on baseball simulations – games in which the primary emphasis is on managerial strategy and the ability to replay entire seasons with a degree of realism. This is the thirteenth entry in a series focusing on computer baseball simulations to supplement the chapter “ Play Retro Baseball Video Games In Your Browser” from my Hardball Retroactive book along with the corresponding post at Baseball Analytics.
