The Cooper Collection of Vintage Baseball Games
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Via SPORTS COLLECTORS DIGEST posted December 21, 2011: – The finest collection of vintage baseball-themed board and arcade games ever assembled, The Dr. Mark W. Cooper Collection, is currently being offered in its entirety via private treaty sale from Heritage Auctions. “The best-known documentation of baseball’s rich history comes in the form of the rare [...]
What Might Have Been: Roberto Clemente
Click the image above to read the actual newspaper report from December 31, 1972 in Google Archives. December 31, 2012 marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Roberto Clemente. We are daydreamers, we lot of baseball simulation aficionados. With names and cards and dice and numbers and pencils and spreadsheets we imagine whole worlds [...]
Exclusive: 1933-34 Pittsburgh Crawfords Negro League Strat-O-Matic Cards by Scott Simkus
In the tabletop-sports hobby, Scott Simkus is known as the genius researcher behind the critically acclaimed 2010 release of Strat-O-Matic’s Negro League 108 card set. Simkus compiled an unprecedented collection of Negro Leagues boxscores, game accounts, and period literature on the leagues and its stars, and used that information to help create the Strat-O-Matic Negro [...]
Jimmy Dunn Never Played at Ebbets Field
James “Jimmy” Dunn (b.1897-d.1987) was an outstanding American soccer player of the early 20th Century. He scored the winning goal of the 1920 National Challenge Cup final, netting a victory for his hometown Ben Millers soccer club. He was elected to the US Soccer Hall of Fame in 1974. Before tonight, I had never heard [...]
Still Alive!
I had a dream last night that Don Mattingly was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. For some reason I was sitting with him, Eddie Murray, Cal Ripken, and Rickey Henderson on some bleachers overlooking a driving range. Rickey kept getting up to show us some nifty gymnastic moves he could do. We were [...]