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Do you love to try out new hobbies like playing sports board games?  Then, this blog site is for you.  As a huge sports fan and board game enthusiast, I decided to create this blog site to share one of my biggest passion-- playing sports simulation board games!  I will share with you some of the tips on playing sports board games as well as other popular hobbies.  In addition, I will provide various product/game reviews and story write ups of games that I have played. Currently, my favorite sports board games are from PLAAY.com , created by Keith Avallone .  There are a lot of great games from PLAAY.com, but two of my favorite games that I enjoy playing the most are Lacrosse Blast and Soccer Blast .   I am a huge fan of his games, and I've even created fictional teams and leagues using the fictional sets from these two fantastic games!  In fact, I have so much fun with these games that I also wrote game results on the PLAAY.com Delphi Foru...
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My First Sports Board Game My journey into sports board game started when I was a young kid, I received a football board game for Christmas called " All-American Football Game"   by Cadaco.  Although I knew that this game was a 'vintage' football game and that it was a college game (I noticed, for example, that the picture on the cover showed players wearing the old style Roger Staubach-type facemask instead of the kind that Joe Montana would wear, and that the rule book stated that the kick-off was from the forty yard line),  I didn't mind, however, because American football, whether it was college or professional, was my favorite sport, and I was eager to just start playing and creating my own fictional football season! The game was very unique in that it did not have any loose playing pieces or paper except for the playing discs.  The game used spinners instead of dice, for example, and the rules were cleverly printed on the back of the box cover. ...
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More Sports Games As I got a bit older, I started playing most of my sports board games from companies like Statis-Pro, Strat-O-Matic and Avalon Hill games.  I had played all of the American major sports on my table-top, including football, baseball, basketball, and hockey, and even dabbled with Avalon Hill's tennis, golf, college basketball ( March Madness) , boxing ( Title Bout ), and decathlon.  However, with the exception of Strate-O-Matic Baseball All-Star edition and Avalon Hill's Football games like ' Paydirt ' and ' Bowl Bound ', I really didn't enjoy playing those other sports board games very much.  I think it was because there wasn't much strategy except for just rolling six-sided dices and looking up charts or flipping fast action cards.  The games were shall I say, a bit   boring for me . I ended up playing mostly the 'Bowl Bound' college football game by Avalon Hill and enjoyed playing it for the most part.  The game included...
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Baseball On My Table Top The other game that I enjoyed playing during this time was   Strat-O-Matic Baseball All-Star Edition.    The game included both American and National All-Stars like Barry Bonds, Larry Walker, Mike Piazza, Frank Thomas, Mark McGwire, Ken Griffey Jr., Roger Clemens, Pedro Martinez, Randy Johnson, and Greg Maddux just to name a few.  These Strat-O-Matic cards also had nice color player photos on each of the respective playing cards.   Strate-O-Matic Baseball All-Stars set  A typical starting line-up for each team I used was as follows: National League  C. Biggio (2) T. Gwynn (DH) B. Bonds (LF) M. Piazza  (C) J. Bagwell (1) L. Walker (RF) K. Caminiti (3) R. Lankford (CF) J. Blauser (SS) Starting Pitchers: P. Martinez  G. Maddux D. Kile K. Brown Relief Pitchers: B. Jones R. Beck American League  N. Garciaparra (SS) K. Griffrey, Jr. (CF) T. Martinez (1) F. Thomas (DH) P. O'Neil ...
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Box or Indoor Lacrosse For those that may not be familiar with indoor lacrosse (also commonly called box lacrosse), or lacrosse in general, there are essentially two professional lacrosse leagues in North America.  The Major Lacrosse League, which is an outdoor lacrosse league, and the National Lacrosse League is the indoor lacrosse league.  A while back, there was the San Francisco Dragons of the MLL and the San Jose Stealth in the NLL , but unfortunately, both teams are now defunct, with the Stealth now currently playing as the Vancouver Stealth in the NLL.  For me, I prefer watching the indoor lacrosse game. One of the big differences between the two leagues is that there are a lot more scoring and in many cases, the scorings are more acrobatic.  For example, in indoor or box lacrosse, players would sometimes dive to make shots whereas, in the outdoor game, players usually don't.  Also, the indoor game has more hard-hitting defensive plays and there...
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Why I Enjoy Playing PLAAY.com Games My collection of PLAAY.com board games thus far There are many reasons why I am a fan of  PLAAY.com games so I wanted to create a post outlining these reasons: 1.  Outstanding Customer Service Yes, there are other game companies that have good customer service, but I find that the customer service with Keith and PLAAY.com are absolutely incredible.  Keith is very responsive to any questions that you may have regarding his fantastic games, whether it is a simple clarification on one of the rules or if you wanted to make a special or unique purchase, he goes out of his way to make sure that you are taken care of and are happy!  In addition, Keith is the only person that I know of that actually rewards you for completing a season or tournament with one of his games by sending you the renowned, PLAAY.com Cup! In addition, Keith provides a free monthly newsletter that is full of great information on upcoming gaming e...
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