This tip might be a shot in the dark but I thought it was useful for my 1966 replay.
For those of you who are doing replays of past MLB seasons and strictly follow its schedule, you more than likely have a copy of that year’s schedule. However, people like me might want a calendar of that year. Maybe a calendar so you can cross off the dates as you slog through your replay. Or maybe you can look up and say “oh, the game I’m playing right now is on a Sunday”. In essence, to make the replay seem more real.
Of course, finding a actual calendar from say, the year 1930, 1966 or whatever, is pretty much impossible. That said, you can go to timeanddate.com and create your own calendar. Just type in whatever year you want and you it will display that year’s 12 month calendar. There are multiple design formats available to choose from and when you’re ready you can either save it to your desktop or just send it to your printer.
It’s not mission critical. Just something to add a little more flavor and fun to your replay.
Useful? No?
Hey Tom,
A calendar is cool and also Retrosheet and Baseball reference give the days of the week. (Retro sheet gives the standings which I’m not sure Baseball reference does.)
When are you going to start rolling already? That’s amazing self-control.
Cluke
you should have seen my desk. I spent yesterday afternoon cleaning it off.
The plan is to start this afternoon. NYM vs Cin at 1pm while I watch the Illini vs WVU baseball game on Gametracker.
I see I already hit a snag in my effort in following actual pitching rotations. The two game series in Cincinnati was postponed.
Not too late to switch to an “as played” format. I’m rolling StL @ Cin 8/22/59 this morning.
Cluke
I’ll give it some thought. not what I had planned though.
Right on about the day of the week adding something to a replay. I use baseballrefrence.com for my 1930 replay, and always note the day of the week on any scorecard, be it for tabletop or real-life. It MATTERS if a game is palyed on a Sunday, or a Monday, or Thursday afternoon. It just does. ;-)
It can matter what day of the week a game is played on, if you don’t happen to have access to as-played information and want to try to maintain a semblance of realistic player usage. Sundays, for example, are a good day to rest certain starting players in more modern replays.
I’m a nostalgia geek. I’m doing a mini 1976 replay and I like to play commercials from 1976 between innings..if I’m playing games from the 40’s or 50’s I like to listen to old time radio programs. Kind of nerdy I know…..but some people would say that tabletop sports is also!!
I think I read someplace that the Yankees in the 1950s tried to pitch Whitey Ford on Sundays to boost attendance that day. Has anyone else heard that?
If so, That would explain why he Ford had fewer starts then the other quality pitchers in some of those seasons.