The WordPress format of this web site passed the two-month milestone on Saturday. The 1967 football replay is complete,and the final standings and stats can be found at the links on the left. Reports of the playoffs “a second time through the order”will soon follow.
I wanted to take a moment to explain the “Which baseball season would you like to see a Second Time through the Order?”poll question. Thanks to all who have voted,and please continue to do so while the poll is still up. Baseball is the replay sport of choice here. As the opening month of this baseball season has unfolded,the itch to replay baseball grows. I do not want to mislead anyone with the question. The poll question is not meant to be for the next replay season. I plan to stay the course with my current project which is building an encyclopedia of replayed baseball seasons starting from my birth year. A 1968 replay is on deck,and a 1968 web site is in the works.
The poll question originated from my research on transactions for an upcoming upgrade to the 1920 home-brewed season for Diamond Mind Baseball. Simultaneously,I read The Pitch That Killed about Ray Chapman,Carl Mays and the 1920 AL pennant chase. As I was immersed in that season,the thought was to start,perhaps,a second replay project:1920 and forward. 1920,in my opinion,is a good starting point for another project. It is the first season of Babe Ruth as a Yankee,and for that and many other reasons,the dawn of a new age in baseball. Another thought for a second replay project was to work backward from 1965. The baseball seasons of the early 1960′s hold as equal intrigue to a replayer as the late 1960′s. To date,2/3 of you agree with that sentiment as 1964 is an overwhelming choice in the poll question.
The other seasons listed in the poll are 1940,1949 and 1960. I started a 1940 replay with Action PC Baseball 2007,and did not make it through the first week of May. My hiatus stemmed more from my dissatisfaction of the reports that version of the game generated and to some extent the game itself. The season itself is interesting and serves as a prologue to 1941. Read Robert Creamer’s book,Baseball and Other Matters in 1941,and you will find yourself wanting to replay that season. If you are reading this,you likely share my sentiments. Heck,I can’t watch The Sandlot without thinking about a 1962 baseball replay. 1949 was an option because it is where my Baseball for Windows replays stopped seven years ago. Unfortunately,the statistical database for my 1946-1948 replay project no longer exists. 1960 was a choice because it was the last sixteen team season,the first season of Mad Men,the last season of Ted Williams and one heck of a World Series.
As a frequent visitor to this site can attest,I am incapable of doing a simple baseball replay. A replay project is a year plus in the making as I encompass the news,the music,the life and times of a particular season. Accordingly,my replay web sites grow in complexity. As I mentioned earlier,a 1968 site is in the works as I am updating the code of previous sites line by line. I’m currently in somewhat of a recluse programmer mode. I would guess it will probably be a few weeks before the site is complete and the games begin. I’ve got some additions in mind. Some of which I may add on the fly during the season. If there’s any bells and whistles you would like to see in the site,please let me know. The start date for the 1968 baseball season will be announced on the Diamond Mind forums that are linked here,and of course,on this same Bat Channel. Subscribe to the RSS Posts feed (top right corner of this site) to receive notification of new posts. Time permitting (but right now it’s not) a second replay may happen. So many seasons,so little time.
