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Favorite Childhood toy?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by schiezainc, Mar 4, 2010.

  1. three_bags_full

    three_bags_full Well-Known Member

    A valuable player, indeed. Great plate umpire, too.
     
  2. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

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    And I had a hockey game like JRs, circa 1966, with players from all the original six teams.

    Also, spent hours on hours bouncing a tennis ball off the next-door neighbor's three-story garage and pretending I was a big-league outfielder, or playing home run derby in the summer and shinny in the winter in my back yard.
     
  3. farmerjerome

    farmerjerome Active Member

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  4. qtlaw

    qtlaw Well-Known Member

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    Can still hear it "zzzzzzzzz"

    Sweep left, "he touched you"

    "no he didn't"

    Look at Larry Little clear out that hole.

    Sweet.
     
  5. txsportsscribe

    txsportsscribe Active Member

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  7. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    My dad and I used to play that game for hours. We had the 1980 card set and set up a two-team league. We drafted two 25-man teams and later added two 10-man minor league teams. We had this board from another baseball game that was shaped like a field and had little pieces for each position. We'd use that to follow the game and even kept score. I don't remember if we ever finished the season, but one summer we must have played 100 games.
    Good times, man. And thanks to APBA, I learned that Mike Norris and Ben Ogilvie were beasts in 1980. I "threw" a 17-inning no-hitter with Norris against my Dad's team one time.
     
  8. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    I know a guy who played the entire 1981 baseball season - every game - on Strat-O-Matic. I think it took him 11 years.
     
  9. txsportsscribe

    txsportsscribe Active Member

    somebody needed an intervention
     
  10. murphyc

    murphyc Well-Known Member

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    My brother and I used this for racing Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars. As long as they were normal width, two cars could fit side-by-side. We would qualify them one at a time, then race the fastest vs. the slowest, on down the line.
    We also loved to play car football. Take 11 cars vs. 11 cars, smash them face-to-face. Destroyed a car or two.
     
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  11. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

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  12. Hank_Scorpio

    Hank_Scorpio Active Member

    We'd set that up and send the Matchbox/Hot Wheels cars down the ramp one at a time. Then, the 5-10 cars that didn't go the farthest and were cut. Think we did about 3-4 rounds before getting down to the final two.
     
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