Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 6—WILKES-BARRE — Many kids growing up in the 1960s or 1970s played baseball, and when they weren't on the sandlot or Little ...

A former major league baseball player named John B. Wockenfuss died last week. Wockenfuss was not the type of player whose death would normally draw much attention. In the 1970s and 80s he was a ...

I grew up loving sports. Pretty much all sports. When I was about 11 years old, I came across an ad for a baseball board game called Strat-O-Matic. It promised realistic results based on statistics of ...

In 2020, Joe Beland was in the hospital, suffering acutely from COVID-19. He had collapsed at home and flatlined at the hospital. He recalls being told he’d lost 80% of his lung capacity. He spent two ...

Hal Richman's story is the stuff of authentic legend. While attending Bucknell University in 1961, the enterprising, Long Island-bred teen conceived of a cards-and-dice game that allowed sports fans ...

ONLY LEAD. HOME RUN MIKE TROUT GOES DEEP. THIS IS STRAT-O-MATIC THE FUNNEST HOBBY. I’VE GOT A SPORT SIMULATION BASEBALL GAME WITH A SYSTEM OF PRINTED CHARTS AND TABLES WE DRAFT OUR OWN TEAMS AND SEE ...

Simulation Baseball Game Strat-O-Matic is the funny-sounding name for a modest-looking board game with a decades-long fan base. Now after 10 years of research, a version of Strat-O-Matic has been ...

Major League Baseball will not be having their own All-Star game this year due to the covid-19 pandemic as teams continue to get ready for a 60-game regular season. Popular board game Strat-O-Matic ...

Here's a spring training stat for you: Strat-O-Matic is turning 50. The dice-powered baseball board game, a brainchild of Great Neck native Hal Richman, hits the half-century mark this year after ...

Oct. 6—WILKES-BARRE — Many kids growing up in the 1960s or 1970s played baseball, and when they weren't on the sandlot or Little League field, chances are they were on a front porch or at a kitchen ...