At 9:38 PM +0000 10/5/06, Todd Colegrove wrote:

>Old time stratomatic game since the 1970s...have a late 80's version
>of the board game and I'd bought thousands and thousands of cards back
>then...recently...last 15 years or so they've been stored away in a
>closet...
>
>Just broke out the game yesterday and started an 8 team league with my
>8 year old son...didn't realize how much I missed the board version of
>the game...rolling the dice and looking at the cards...and my son
>thought it was a total blast.
>
>Can't wait to get home tonight and play a few more games.

Hey, Todd, welcome to the group! Sorry it took so long to greet you. :-)

Welcome back to Strat. I and some others here also were hard-core
Strat fans as kids who came back to the game. It seems to be common.
That the game has noticeably improved its realism without bogging
down play *too* much with new rules is one reason why Strat is
remarkably successful at wooing back former kid customers who are now
middle-aged family guys. At least in my case.

Now that the real-life season is almost over and I'm not distracted
by *real* baseball, I'm sure I'll be playing a lot more! Except my
games will have the 2005 Cleveland Indians, which already have little
resemblance to the rookie-infested second-division team that wrapped
up play earlier this month. Oh well. :-)

Again, glad you could join us.

-Gary