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2007 Top 10 Baseball Rookie Picks
Without getting too much into the details of how big the 2007 Rookie Class is, I just have to say WOW! Bill James even admitted in the 2008 Handbook that he was not aware of just how many good young players there are in baseball today until he did some analysis. This is very good news for the Strat-O-Matic Baseball enthusiast. With 30 Major League teams in the modern era, good players seem to have become fewer and further between, and the pitching is so watered down that it is quite difficult to field and good pitching staff in Strat-O-Matic leagues with 20 or more teams. Read More
Featured Article: Biggest Surprise of the 2007 Season
Carlos Pena
What was the biggest surprise to you in 2007? Was it the Phillies winning the division and stunning the Mets over the past week plus of the season? Was it the Cubs getting rolled out in three games by the D-Backs in the NLDS? Was it perhaps Magglio Ordonez hitting .363 and winning the AL Batting Title? No? Read More
Featured Article: Technical Difficulties with SOM Baseball
SOM Technical Issues
This may be of some interest to many SOM gamers that have had the following experience with the CDROM version. During a regular season game or a playoff game once you have finished the game you get an error message that says something about having two players with the same first initial and last name, cannot continue and the game scrams automatically. Read More
Good Sportsmanship
Sportsmanship is, in a basic sense, conforming to the rules and the proper spirit of sport. This is a term called etiquicy. More grandly it may be considered the ethos of sport. It is interesting that the motivation for sport is often an elusive element. Sportsmanship expresses an aspiration or ethos that the activity will be enjoyed for its own sake, with proper consideration for fairness, ethics, respect, and a sense of fellowship with one's competitors. More
STRAT-O-MATIC BASEBALL
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