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Back in the Day

Posted on February 24, 2012 at 10:10 PM.

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Years ago, the most fun I had with a baseball game was playing the tabletop "The World's Greatest Baseball Game."

Basically, you would flip over a couple of numbered cards to check against the batters' card, eventually coming up with some kind of play: walk, double, flyout to right field etc ...

It was quick and easy to play - and to keep box scores in a notebook. Each season, you would get a boatload of perforated sheets of cardboard-like sheets of players.

Split 'em up and start flipping - great to play solo. The manufacturer was fairly good in making the overall stats consistent over a full season, with the only glitch overrating minor-league call-ups from the previous year who would hit .350 with seven homers and 22 RBIs in September.

The following season - I played with the Brewers - you'd have some "superstars" like Mark Brouhard, Randy Ready and Dion James.

Were they? No, never. But unless you took a pen and made their hit ranges and speed factors lower, Paul Molitor and Robin Yount would become part-time players, something not going to happen in real life.

Of course, this went both ways as you had to "redesign" players who weren't rated highly enough.

And guess what, some things never change. Add some Performance Enhancing Points (PEPs) and the unknown (and made-up) Adrian Fernandez and Tim Grissom become stars in "MLB: The Show '11." Aaron Conner sets the all-time home-run mark.

So, to PEP or not to PEP?

It's still your choice.