Ken Heard posted an excellent list of required reading on his blog, Love, Life and APBA. The impetus for Ken was to help those of us who do replays and find good written resources to motivate us and get us in the right frame of mind for when we roll the bones.
Ken also solicited some suggestions on Facebook. My thought? I remember when I started my 1979 replay with my friend Brando years ago. To “get into the mood”, I got on Ebay and spent $20-25 on baseball magazines that were published that year.
What made it most interesting was that a lot of it was season preview material so it was truly looking at the 1979 season before it happened not just recapping the history of it. A lot of retro-hype over players who probably did very well in ‘76 and whether they will repeat in ‘79. Definitely, put me in the right time frame.
Good article and great blog, Ken. Keep it up!
I fully agree. That Blog played a major part in me getting back into Cards & Dice. Side benefit is that I discovered some season sets i bought 13 years ago were short some teams, but I have filled in some gaps. Of course, I discovered a set i recently acquired on eBay was short a team. The seller gave me a proportional refund and all is good. On the other hand, anyone have an extra 1927 Cleveland Indians team set?