30 Day Baseball Card Challenge

Monday, August 11, 2014

Let's Play Some Ball! 

Thirty years ago, Milton Bradley produced a board game called Championship Baseball.  At the time, I was twelve years old and if I had to guess... I'd say that this game'starget audience was my age group. 

However up until a few years ago, I had no idea this game existed. 

Each game included a set of thirty cards produced by Topps.  Over the years, I've seen my fair share of singles from this set in quarter bins, but didn't know too much about them. 

Then a few months ago I stumbled across the actual board game, while walking around the flea market.  I was pretty impressed with the overall setup of the game.  When constructed, the board becomes a pretty cool looking stadium with an actual score board. 

But if you know me, the baseball cards were the key reason I was interested in the game.  They have a solid card design that sort of fits the "oddball" genre.  The only downside (at least for me) is the airbrushing of the team logos. 

Most of the card backs feature 1983 statistics, along with dice combinations that were used in the game.  The game was obviously designed to be high scoring, because based on his card Rickey would have reached base safely ten out of twenty-one times. 

The four pitchers in the set didn't have the dice combinations printed on their cards.  Instead they had the standard 1983 statistics on their backs. 

Complete board games will typically cost you $20 to $30 on eBay.  I picked up a sealed game for $24.99 (free shipping) back in May. If you're interested in just the cards, they'll typically run you $6 to $12 delivered on eBay. Alright... are you ready?Let's play some ball...

When we were kids we created our own game much like that using our baseball cards.  If we would have known that a game already existed with a cool stadium set up.  Our lives would have been so different. 

All we had was a huge green piece of fabric we drew a baseball field on.  The opposite side had our much more popular football field that got tons more use. 

About Me

I've been collecting cardboard off and on since the early 80's.  I'm presently collecting.  But who knows what the future holds in store for me. 
One thing is for certain... I'll have my blog to help relive some of my favorite hobby moments.