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The Shack has a tow headed stepchild

Off to swim with the fishees. The Shack'll be back the end of May.

I took my own advice and moved my historical baseball photos over to Tumblr. I'll be adding to this collection as frequently as time allows me to. If you enjoy this sort of thing then I hope you'll have fun with it.

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The olde days

Colorful players only

If you're interested. Here are the players' stats, averaged from 10 replays, of my Negro set Expanded.

Sepia League over 10 replays

Inquisitiveness is appreciated.

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Served up from my aleatory collection

First Rollins now Rolen, we're on a Roll.

These Heroes can footlong the bill as Subs. These guys are Grinders. They're brown, white, latin, irish, Italian, okie or Hoagie. They're college boys or Po' Boys, on a few million a year or on a Wedge. You can Samwich the cards onto your best 7 year old plates until SOM goes to market with its own tasty fillings.




Print-to-card, SADV sided, only. If you want an unmasked copy, then each time I add a p-t-c please email me and request it. In your request include your first and last name. You must adhere to this process in order not to be ignored.

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Fourth of an infrequent series


Our #4 of this series was a baseball lifer, like a Connie Mack.







In other words, when I feel like adding here from my collection.

Print-to-card, SADV sided, only. If you want an unmasked copy, then each time I add a p-t-c please email me and request it. In your request include your first and last name. You must adhere to this process in order not to be ignored.

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The Best of the 2000s

Apr 19 : Er, sorry, we had used the wrong Colon card for ANA (which would have knobbled their chances.) So please replace with today's set.


As in, 2000 - 2009.

From Ray and I, here's the "companion piece" to our Best of the 1990s decade set.

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BP Expansion #700 - 799

Apr 14 : Z found and loc'ed 712n(2)

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The Best of the 1990s

Apr 9 : Ray corrected the AL schedule, so you should grab the new version of the file and replace the original.

Here's something that Ray and I put together. It's just for the comp guys as it is a requirement that in order to use/view this set, you must have all of the 1990 seasons (1990-1999) authorized.

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BP Expansion #500 - 599

Apr 4 : 595n(2)

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BP Expansion #600 - 699

Mar 6 : From Z 628d; 628n

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Z answers his fan mail

Q: "I am loving the new Stratomatic 2012. Found lots of pics to edit and add. I even found a good 1923 Yankee Stadium in b&w. Just one question...how do u and what do u use to color the black and white pics? Thanks again guys!"

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Tools you can Use

Jan 24 : Larry Foster's Importable Team Nickname file for SOM2012.

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BP Expansion #800 - 899

Jan 24 : 855
Jan 12 : 808d

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BaseballJeff

A new (to me) entrant to the MyOp Strat-o-blog-o-sphere. Hop on over to read and digest his Baseball Musings, see what he has on offer, say Hi, and wish him well. Another Share in the Community project appreciates your support.

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International BPs

July 16 : 423n(2)
July 13 : 410d(2)
July 12 : 405d(2); 409d(2)
July 7 : 417d/n; 418d/n; 419; 420d/n; 422; 423d/n; 425

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Pro Yakyuu : Eiyuu, the Japanese Baseball Heroes

I wanted to model a Japan set that was quite similar in design to a hybrid of SOM's HoF and Heroes sets. This set draws from the player pool between the years 1936, the start of the professional game in Japan, right through to 2010. Some of the players you will be familiar with, by name if not by deed, like the stars Sadaharu Oh, Shigeo Nagashima, perhaps even Yutaka Enatsu. You'll recognize quite a few of the players who were ex-ML who became stars in the Japan leagues, like Charlie Manuel, Leon Lee, and Alex Cabrera. You may have read about, or perhaps encountered in my classic team cards or in one of Fred or Gary's sets, stars like Fumio Fujimura, Tetsuharu Kawakami, and Kohji Akiyama. And you will perhaps have watched at your ballpark the recent influx of Japan's best like Hideo Nomo, Ichiro!, and Hideki Matsui. Maybe you're curious about the buzz on the young star pitcher Yu Darvish.

The set is two-fold:
A computer set (V 16 required).
A pdf book that includes all of the Heroes in a print-to-card format.

Over the jump we bring you The Pro Yakyuu : Eiyuu (Japan's Professional Baseball Heroes) set for your delight, and maybe even your enlightenment.

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Steve Barkan's big 'un

May 19 : Texas Jeff and Friends have expanded the waistline. This version adds a heap more seasons with Super/Advanced ratings. Thanks to Steve for donating the original file, and thanks to all the merry men who added to the original.

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