Statis Pro Baseball was a strategic baseball simulation board game. It was created by Jim Barnes in 1970, named after a daily newspaper column he wrote for an Iowa morning newspaper, and published by Avalon Hill in 1978, and new player cards were made for each new season until 1992. A licensing dispute with Major League Baseball led Avalon Hill to cease production of new cards. The game, however, came with instructions for players to create their own cards, so each year many people produce their own player cards, and some even sell them online.
Due to the nature of the gameplay, the game was suitable for both solitary and head-to-head play.
The game set included player cards for most Major League players from the previous season, for all of the Major League Baseball team, with position player and pitchers receiving different types of cards. In earlier sets, National League pitchers were assigned two cards - one for pitching and one for hitting - but this was changed by 1988, when...
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