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April 15th, 2004

Strat-o-matic Memories

In a post about the rise of Sabermetrics, Martin Devon reminisces about the glories of Strat-o-matic Baseball:

Regular Yankee fans could argue about who was the best hitter on the 1977 Yankees -- was it Reggie Jackson with his .280 average and his 32 homeruns? Thurman Munson hitting .308 with 18 homers? Or was it Craig Nettles who hit .255 with 37 homers?

We were all Expos fans, but we could tell you in a New York minute that the best Yankee hitter that year was Cliff Johnson by far. He hit 12 HR's in 142 at bats, and because he walked 20 times he had the best Strat-O-Matic card on the team. Had he played for Billy Beane he probably would have started!

I still have my copy of Strat-o-matic, including cards from the 1984, 1982, and 1978 seasons, packed away somewhere in my house. I have to break them out again sometime soon.

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 15th, 2004 at 11:04 pm by Eric McErlain and is filed under Baseball. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “Strat-o-matic Memories”

  1. Scott says:
    April 15, 2004 at 11:42 pm

    Strat Hockey was my thing. I have complete sets from 1978-1990. You can’t find the ’94 Rangers team anywhere….[sigh]

  2. Martin says:
    April 16, 2004 at 12:26 am

    Jim Rice was all the rage in 1978 but from his card you could see that he didn’t walk enough for a guy that led the league in HR’s.

  3. Robert Daeley says:
    April 16, 2004 at 10:22 am

    I pined after Strat-o-matics in the wargame/boardcame catalogs as a pre-home-videogaming kid — they always looked like loads of fun. Were they as fun as they looked?