A return to Deadball
Things have been crazy for the last several months: various family members dealing with medical issues, changes at work, skunks spraying my dogs and causing chaos in the household, and on and on. One constant I've had through all of it, though, has been enjoying watching baseball. As I noted in my previous article, Deadball 1904 , I'm still a fairly new convert to watching MLB, but I've surprisingly taken to it in a big way. Before life got in the way again, I'd just finished generating a collection of eight ball clubs to run a small league: a 28-game season, sort of a round robin where the top four teams get a shot at the inaugural pennant. At the time, I was still using the freely available starter rules along with Season 2 and 1909; there wasn't even an initial pitch. A year and a half later, I now own a copy of the 2nd edition, and I'm glad I picked it up. The layout is great, the rules are clear, and knocking out a game is, for the most part, a breez...
