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This site is to share events,simulated and historical,experienced and learned,during my re-creation of classic baseball seasons. See the links below for previous replays. And the memories are not just for the summertime as I am also replaying the NFL and AFL seasons of the Super Bowl era using Second and Ten Football.

The current baseball replays are 1968 and 1920 using Diamond Mind Baseball,and a 1968 AFL and NFL football replay. Enjoy!

Baseball for Windows

1946

1947

1948

1969

1971

Diamond Mind Baseball

1920

1965 - 1968

Second And Ten Football

1966 NFL

1966 AFL

1967 NFL

1967 AFL

1968 NFL

1968 AFL

 

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Image of Summer of '68:The Season That Changed Baseball--and America--Forever

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Image of The Last Hero:A Life of Henry Aaron

The Legend of Vada Pinson

For the first time in my fourteen month Twitter history,someone other than “Bad Henry”Aaron serves as the avatar for my account. Many in the Twitter-verse change avatars frequently,but I never felt a need for Aaron to leave as the icon for my account. But,my participation in Jeff Polman’s Mysteryball ’58 inspired [...]

A Legendary Voice Departed

As I prepared to write a post on the passing of legendary announcer Larry Munson of the University of Georgia,I surfed through the plethora of online tributes and obituaries. I came across this tribute compiled by the University. This video is better than anything I could have written. Anyone who watches this and bleeds [...]

First Month of 1920 Replay in the Books

The standings of the 1920 replay at the end of April may shed little or a lot of light on the remainder of the season. Rain has abbreviated what already is a short playing month so there is plenty of baseball to be played. The Boston Braves,enjoying a three game win streak that began [...]

Walt Bond...revisited

Today is the one year anniversary of the redesign of this web site. I am looking forward to continuing to share my replay experiences which include side stories I discover along the way. One such story is that of Walt Bond,a baseball player who played for Houston and Minnesota in 1965 and 1967. Walt [...]

Walt Bond

When I started my 1965 replay,the starting first baseman in Houston was Walt Bond,a 6’7″,228 pound hulk. Many viewed him as a younger Willie McCovey. He led the Colt .45′s with 20 home runs in 1964,and was the only Houston player to have a multi-homer game. He accomplished the feat twice. [...]