The Avalon Hill Game Company stopped producing Statis Pro Baseball, along with its NFL counterpart, Statis Pro Football, in the early 1990s.įrom what I've been told, player royalties became too costly for some of these companies to bear.īut recently, with the rise of worldwide yard sales such as eBay (my favorite Internet site), anyone grab a slightly used copy of any of these games. Unfortunately, both of these games are no longer in production. I was first introduced to the hobby in the mid-1970s through a game called Sports Illustrated Superstar Baseball, but my friends and I soon expanded our gaming to Statis Pro Baseball, which uses "Fast Action Cards," as opposed to dice, to control the flow of the game. Some of the video games on the market offer a coach or manager mode, but it's just not the same as rolling the dice and checking the result on the card of your favorite slugger or running back.
The entertainment value of these games is vastly different from games like Madden NFL 2004 or NBA Live, where you control the action with a joystick. In most of the sports board games that I grew up with, the player served as the manager of a professional Major League Baseball, NBA basketball or NFL football team.
I promised last week that I would offer more information on a great recreational hobby that has seen its popularity wane in the age of video games and the personal computer.
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