Over the years, I’ve been amazed at the accuracy of the player cards in the Strat-O-Matic baseball game. The good players really do come through when they need to … most of the time unless you can’t roll a 20-sided die successfully. As my 1975 Cincinnati Reds season replay has progressed, two things have happened […]
Category: 1960s Baseball History
Editor’s note: How good were the 1975 Cincinnati Reds? The best way to end the speculation is to challenge the team with a 162-game season against some great teams. This is a series that will include each game played with the Strat-o-Matic cards and dice, while hoping to reach the 108-54 record that the Reds […]
Editor’s note: How good were the 1975 Cincinnati Reds? The best way to end the speculation is to challenge the team with a 162-game season against some great teams. This is a series that will include each game played with the Strat-o-Matic cards and dice, while hoping to reach the 108-54 record that the Reds […]
Editor’s note: How good were the 1975 Cincinnati Reds? The best way to end the speculation is to challenge the team with a 162-game season against some great teams. This is a series that will include each game played with the Strat-o-Matic cards and dice, while hoping to reach the 108-54 record that the Reds […]
Many baseball players who are not well known often have the timing to create a historic moment. Bob Oliver is one of those players. As a rookie with the Kansas City Royals during the 1969 season, Oliver went 6-for-6 in a game against the California Angels at Anaheim Stadium on May 4. Oliver’s six-hit performance […]
Editor’s note: Throughout this year, Press Room Pass will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1969 baseball season with a variety of stories from the covering personal accomplishments, unique moments, major league expansion and the amazing New York Mets. This is the latest installment of that series. One day after Cincinnati’s Jim Maloney beat […]
Editor’s note: Throughout this year, Press Room Pass will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1969 baseball season with a variety of stories from the covering personal accomplishments, unique moments, major league expansion and the amazing New York Mets. This is the latest installment of that series. There were a total of six no-hitters […]
Editor’s note: How good were the 1975 Cincinnati Reds? The best way to end the speculation is to challenge the team with a 162-game season against some great teams. This is a series that will include each game played with the Strat-o-Matic cards and dice, while hoping to reach the 108-54 record that the Reds […]
Editor’s note: How good were the 1975 Cincinnati Reds? The best way to end the speculation is to challenge the team with a 162-game season against some great teams. This is a series that will include each game played with the Strat-o-Matic cards and dice, while hoping to reach the 108-54 record that the Reds […]
There is always a team on the wrong side of a no-hitter. Ken Johnson of the Houston Colt 45s is the ultimate case of things going awry because he is the only player in major league history to throw and complete game no-hitter and lose on April 23, 1964. On the scoreboard, Johnson and Cincinnati’s […]