Baseball Classic Replays

  There was only one game played today, so by sheer process of elimination...it is the game of the day.  The funny thing is, though, it was actually a great game anyway and would have been a contender for a Game of the Day tag even with a normal day's action.   Game of the Day 4-17-1940 (Day Game): 1940-Yankees (1-1) vs. 1940-Athletics (1-1) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E 1940-Yankees 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 3 0 7 11 2 1940-Athletics 1 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 2 8 13 0 The Athletics jumped out to an early lead with a solo homerun in the bottom of the 1st by Wally Moses and added another run in the bottom of the 3rd.  There was a flurry of runs scored in the 5th and 6th innings by both teams, but the real drama started in the 8th inning.  Trailing 6-4 coming into the top of 8th, the Yankees got two men aboard as Joe Gordon stepped to the plate...one pitch later and the ball was flying over the fence for a three-run homerun to give the Ya

And we are off and running with the 1940 season, using Payoff Pitch for a complete replay of the season where my beloved Cincinnati Reds won their first World Series since the infamous 1919 Series!  I'm still thinking/working through how to present results, but I'm thinking I will make daily (in game terms) posts with these pictures of all the box scores - I love this screen in Digital Diamond Baseball to display all the day's action. I will then choose a "Game of the Day" to recap and rundown the day's best performers.  I'll also likely be doing "weekly" (again, in game terms) type posts to update standings, league leaders, etc.  Digital Diamond is a big help in that regard as well, as it has a very cool feature with league leaders, MVP candidates, etc - I can't recommend the software highly enough as a board game companion tool!  And with that...take a look at the full scoreboard above for all of today's score and then scroll down to se

I am still loving and having a blast playing my 1929 replay using National Pastime III/Skeetersoft - hopefully those that are following along are enjoying it as well.  So, I have no intentions of abandoning that project.  But, as someone who is still relatively new to baseball sims (be it cards and dice or software), I haven't yet experienced so many outstanding looking games that I see being played and I'm itching to start taking a shot at some of the others.  I've bought a few game systems/seasons that I want to give a shot, but something about my personality doesn't get much out of playing one-off games or series - as evidenced by my jumping right into the 1929 replay, I enjoy the idea of making my way through an entire season.  So as crazy as I may have been to start the 1929 project, I'm now about to launch a different replay to begin while I'm still playing the NPIII 1929 season... A number of my favorite baseball sim-related YouTube channels have featured

 6/15/1929 Cleveland Indians (24-28) at Philadelphia Athletics (33-17) Teams             1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9          R  H  E -----------         -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --             -- -- -- Indians           0  0  0  0  0  1  1  2  0            4  6  0 Athletics         1  0  0  0  2  0  2  0  x           5  8  0 Al Simmons (PHA) When Al Simmons stepped to the plate for the fourth time today at Shibe Park, he was a single away from hitting for the cycle...but Al had other plans.  Rather than settling for the cycle, Simmons went ahead and blasted his second home run of the day (his second two-run homer of the game).  The A's needed all of his offense today to hold onto a one-run win over the Indians and extend their American League lead to 4 games over the second place St. Louis Browns. Simmons, meanwhile, remains the best hitter in the AL and seems poised to make a legitimate run at winning a Triple Crown - he leads the league in home runs and RBI and is hitting .366, whi