Hardball Retro’s Compendium of Baseball Tabletop Simulations

We have attempted to catalog the website addresses for games that are currently available, as well as various URL’s referenced throughout this book. As a convenience to our readers, we created a web page to gather all of those hyperlinks in one location.

A Brief History of Baseball Tabletop Simulations

Baseball Games: Antique to Modern – a Brief History

Evensen, Daniel. “New National Pastime Research Findings.” The Baseball Replay Journal

“How Would You Like to Manage in the Majors?: Baseball Board Games and Their Dedicated Players,” Society for American Baseball Research, Fall 2011

Evensen, Daniel. “New National Pastime Research Findings.” The Baseball Replay Journal

“Variety of Die Rollers and FAC Flippers”

Baseball Tabletop Sims

4th Street Baseball

All-Star Baseball

All-Star Baseball Card Game

All-Star Lineup Baseball

APBA Major League Baseball Game

APBA Major League Baseball Master Game

Ball Park Baseball

Ballhalla / Big K Baseball

Baseball 5.0

Baseball Card GM

Baseball Classics

Box Seat Baseball

Cardboard Baseball

Crack of the Bat Baseball

Deadball

Deep Drive Baseball

Diamond Dice Baseball Game

Diamond Legacies

DICE Baseball

Dice Nutz Baseball

Diggin Deep Baseball

Dugout Steps Baseball

Eighties Baseball

Extra Innings / Top of the Tenth

Fall Classic Baseball

Field Day Baseball

Five Tool Baseball

The Game of Dice Baseball

Gil Hodges’ Pennant Fever / Everyday Player Baseball

The Guru’s Famous Baseball Board Game

Hardball Wars

Here’s the Pitch

High Leverage Baseball

History Maker Baseball

Hughie Jennings Ee-Yah! Baseball Game

The IBL Game – Internet Baseball League

Inside Pitch Baseball / Inside Pitch Baseball Advanced

LF (Len Feder) Baseball

Long Tater!: The Game of Professional Baseball

MLB Showdown

Nine Inning Classic

NPNG+

On Base Baseball

On-Deck Baseball

Payoff Pitch Baseball

Pine Tar Baseball

Pitcher’s Count Baseball

Playball! Baseball

Pocket Pennant Run

Precision Baseball

Program IV

Pursue the Pennant / Dynasty League Baseball Powered by Pursue the Pennant

Replay Baseball

Repro Baseball

Roster Card Baseball

Sabertooth Baseball / Saberfast Baseball

Season Ticket Baseball

Sher-Co Baseball / SherCo Plus

SkeeterSoft Baseball

SPI Baseball

Statis Pro Baseball Advanced

Strat-O-Matic Baseball

Time Travel Baseball Game

Triple Play Baseball

True To Life Baseball

Ultimate Baseball The Game / (Facebook group)

Japanese Baseball Tabletop Simulations

Exciting 12 Team Pennant Race / (fan site)

PFB – Pro Baseball Simulation

Baseball Quick-Play Sims

1-2-3 Baseball / (demo)

4 Dice Baseball

4Score Baseball

Fast Inning Baseball

FastScore Baseball

Inning Baseball 1 / Inning Baseball 2 / Series Baseball

Pennant Race / demo

Quick Play Baseball

Scoreboard Baseball

Ultra Quick Baseball

Warming Up In The Bullpen

AIG Baseball

Designer Interviews

Bryan Aldrich – 4th Street Software

Keith Avallone – Plaay Games

Derrick Beckner – (Facebook group) / (Delphi forum) / (eBay store)

Joe Bryan – Sideline Strategy Games

Domenic Carota – email

Mike Cieslinski – Design Depot (online game) / (board game)

Chris Davis – Inside Sports Games

Clay Dreslough – Sports Mogul / Season Ticket Baseball / Paint The Black / Blankball

Brian Haferkamp – The Clark and Addison Gaming Co.

Dave Koch – Action! PC Sports Games

Steve LeShay, Ph.D. – ASG Games / SherCo

Matt McKeever and Craig Harris – Pocket Pennant Run / d12 Gaming Company

Dean Patino – Baseball Classics

Dr. Charles Sidman – Ball Park Baseball

Selected Resources

Out of Print Newsletters

APBA Journal

All-Star Replay (Avalon Hill)

All Sports Digest

Extra Innings Newsletter

Strat Fan Magazine

Strat-o-Matic Review

Current Magazines and Newsletters

Sports Sim Magazine

The (New) Sports Game Journal

Web Sites and Forums

Baseball Games

Board Game Geek

SABR Games and Simulations Committee

Delphi Table Top Sports Forum

Table-Top Sports.com

Tabletop Sports Games Archive

Tapa Talk

Variety of Die Rollers and FAC Flippers

YouTube Channels

ASN Pull up a Chair (John Alexander)  

Baseball Demos

Baseball Maelstrom

Baseball Replay Journal

Boxscores from the Basement

Kurt Bergland’s Baseball World

Digital to Dice Podcast

RJL Network

Steve Etzel Fun & Games

Tabletop Baseball Plus

Tabletop SportCast

The Pesky Pole

The Replay Gamer

Universal Baseball Association

Facebook Groups

All-Star Baseball Classic (Cadaco)

APBA Baseball

APBA BASEBALL CARD BANK

Astra Batter Up! and Other Lost Baseball Games

Ball Park Baseball Group

BASEBALL CARDS, DICE Sports GAMES & APBA Stats & great stories

Baseball-C&D Tabletop Accessories

Baseball Classics

Cadaco All-Star Baseball Board Game

The Clark & Addison Gaming Co

Clubhouse Baseball Dice Game

d12 Gaming Community

Deep Drive Baseball

Dynasty League Baseball Powered by Pursue the Pennant

Fall Classic Baseball

Field Day Baseball Group

GreenFox Baseball Spreadsheet

Here’s The Pitch Baseball

Hot Corner Baseball Game Fans

I love Strat-o-Matic Baseball

INSIDE PITCH Community

Longball Baseball Board Game

On-Deck Baseball

Original Payoff Pitch Group

Payoff Pitch Baseball Community

Pine Tar Baseball

Pine Tar Baseball Fan Group

PLAAY Games Community

Replay Baseball

Season Ticket Baseball

SI Baseball Group

Sports Board Games

Sports Simulations and Replays

Sports Games Trading Post

Star Power Baseball

Statis Pro Baseball

Statis Pro Baseball Advanced

Strat-O-Matic/APBA Marketplace

Strat-O-Matic Baseball

STRAT-O-MATIC DIY

Strat-O-Matic Homebrew Exchange

Strat-O-Matic Marketplace

Tabletop Baseball+

Tabletop Baseball Ads 1950-1980s

Tabletop Sports Board Games

Time Travel Baseball Game

Works Cited

APBA Major League Baseball Game. Ponisciak, Tim. “How Would You Like to Manage in the Majors?: Baseball Board Games and Their Dedicated Players.” SABR Research Journal. 2011.

APBA Major League Baseball Game. Board Game Geek. 2021.

APBA Major League Baseball Game. Board Game Geek. 2024.

APBA Major League Baseball Master Game. Board Game Geek. 2017.

APBA Major League Baseball Master Game. Board Game Geek. 2018.

APBA Major League Baseball Master Game. Board Game Geek. 2025.

MLB SportsClix. Michail. Board Game Guys.

Sherco Classic Baseball Game. Board Game Geek, 2024.

Sherco Classic Baseball Game. Board Game Geek, 2011.

Sherco Plus Baseball Game. Board Game Geek, 2021.

Updates

 

Errata

PageLocationFor (Incorrect) Read (Correct)
198High Leverage Baseball – paragraph 2, line 1HLB is driven by three six-sided diceHLB is driven by three ten-sided dice
296Pursue the Pennant – Doug Palmer’s take, paragraph 1, line 3Any game with dice rolling with have randomnessAny game with dice rolling will have randomness