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Ep 59 | Making a league last 40 years: Professor creates game to replay MLB history from 1903 to present for PA/NJ Baseball League

Ep 59 | Making a league last 40 years: Professor creates game to replay MLB history from 1903 to present for PA/NJ Baseball League

FromAPBA Football Club Podcast Network


Ep 59 | Making a league last 40 years: Professor creates game to replay MLB history from 1903 to present for PA/NJ Baseball League

FromAPBA Football Club Podcast Network

ratings:
Length:
26 minutes
Released:
Aug 13, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In 1983, at age 24, Richard Sarkisian decided to replay the history of baseball with a few friends. Almost 40 years later, his PANJ Table Baseball League has replayed every MLB season from 1903 to 2002. And on Sept. 9, he and his 22-team league will meet in King Of Prussia not only to conduct their draft for the next season project but to replay the concluding season's World Series.

Not only does Sarkisian, an accounting professor, run the league — in which each team plays a 72-game schedule over five months — but he created the game the league plays. Sarkisian has crafted his version of a statistics-based game that refines the batter-pitcher duel, and he finds the process of creating cards year after year a rather "zen" exercise.

PA/NJ Baseball League site:
https://panjbaseballleague.blogspot.com/

PA/NJ Baseball League featured in The Berlin Sun:
https://thesunpapers.com/2019/05/13/local-tabletop-baseball-league-a-throwback-in-a-digital-age/

VIDEO VERSION: https://youtu.be/gBmTWUo59Zc
Released:
Aug 13, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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