First, let me admit that I am a pack rat. I keep everything. Drives my wife crazy. Sometimes drives me crazy. But, when you run across a gem, it makes it all worth while.
While getting my current cards organized, I found a folder that included statistics and information for many of the past strat leagues we played in back in the day. Included was the very first strat team I ever drafted.
On that summer day in 1996, in my Downey home -across the street from the sheep farm - I selected Wade Boggs as my first-ever Strat-o-matic player. In the league were Chad, John Riehl, Bryce Miller, Mr. Klinkowitz himself and, of course, Tim Weber - the grandfather of strat to all of us since he introduced the game to Chad and I.
Some notes: We played a 36-game season in the AL. I was 4-2 against Chad making it possible the only season I had a better record against him. Alex Cole led my team in average, hitting .330, Jay Buhner (he of the -5 arm) slugged 9 HRs and Cole swiped 13 bases. Roger Clemens and Aaron Sele won 4 games each and Eric Plunk - as a reliever - had the third highest innings total. We had no innings or AB limits and our fatigue standards were very relaxed.
Anyway, if you want a flashback to baseball past, here is my complete team:
Hitters: Rich Becker, Mike Blowers, Wade Boggs, Jay Buhner, Alex Cole, Chili Davis, Eric Davis, Gary DiSarcina, Junior Felix, Rusty Greer, Dave Howard, Kent Hrbek, Chad Kreuter, Jose Lind, Paul Molitor, Junior Ortiz (making this likely the only team in history with two games named Junior), Tony Pena, Luis Polinia, Terry Shumpert, John Valentin, Greg Vaughn.
Pitchers: Joe Boever, Tony Castillo, Roger Clemens, Mike Fetters, Chuck Finley, Charles Nagy, Donn Pall, Eric Plunk, Aaron Sele, Woody Williams.
I also found the first draft that Greg, Biv and Paul were involved in. If interested, I can give you some highlights of that later.
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Scott, I desperately want more info about Strat of Yesteryear. I also remember constantly laughing at your Harry Caray-esque pronounciations, namely the one for Joe Boever.
How about the NL league.. I drafted a nobody named Eddie Williams to play third base for me. He had a good card due to the extremely limited ABs he had, but he went on to hit almost .390 and I think he led the league in HR.
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