That article was not what I was expecting. I played APBA baseball as a kid and loved it. You were forced to learn strategy. Lineup, sacrifices, hit and run, ste

That article was not what I was expecting. I played APBA baseball as a kid and loved it. You were forced to learn strategy. Lineup, sacrifices, hit and run, stealing, advancing on throws (or throwing behind the runner), hold runner on 1st or not, L/R splits, the list goes on. It gave me a much deeper appreciation of the game. I was also able to “experience” teams and players of the past by managing them. The first game I bought from APBA also included the 51 Dodgers and Giants so I could replay that famous LCS. I also bought some notable Cubs teams from the past, the 08 and 35 teams were great. The completely random dice games in the article aren’t really baseball games as much as they are dice games with baseball framing. APBA is still going strong. They have complete card sets for seasons ranging from the late 1800s till today. I bought the newest version of the game along with the 1935 season. I wanted to get to know the 35 Cubs better and had grand plans of replaying their season. Didn’t quite get to that but did have fun playing some of great teams of the past against each other. I’d still rather play tabletop baseball games than the computer based ones. I don’t know about Strat-o-Matic but the quality of the dice rolls stays constant but the results vary by the player and pitcher. It uses 2d6, classically one white and one red and you read the numbers sequentially. So it would be 66 instead of 12 and 11 instead of 2. 66 is always the best roll you can have but all double number rolls are good. What’s nice is that it is similar to a real game in that you can tell when a player squares up a ball but you have to consult the chart to see what actually happens. I find it a similar rhythm to seeing/hearing a batted ball and then waiting to see the result. You can also do some role playing. Roll a 65 instead of a 66 and you can say he “just got under” the ball because an 65 inevitably ends up fouling out instead of hitting a homer.