Issue #2, February - March 2013
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Recommended On-line SOM and Baseball Resources
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(offered through the newsletter team)
{
Wolfman:
This
webpage will contain various on-line Strat-o-matic Game
resources (predominately for the Baseball game) and other
resources related to MLB baseball. It has been my experience in league
play there are many on-line tools one can use to help build
their teams or to supplement their game using historical tools.
This page will change over time as we have more and more
additions. If you have know of other resources that you feel should
be added to this list please feel free to contact us with your
suggestions. Our policy is to list those resources or
organizations which we have had direct contact with and who
agree with our governing principles to help and support each other
which provides a stronger environment for the SOM Baseball Game. This does not indicate
however, if one of your favorite resources is not listed here
that we are not supporting such, just that we may have a
differently philosophy and approach about how to create
partnerships and affiliations.}
Resources that we Recommend
(special on-line websites we have uncovered of great
value)
www.strat-o-matic.com
(Website for the Strat-o-matic (SOM) Game Company. This is the
website where you can purchase the Baseball game (board game or
computer game); all of the various baseball printed cards and
the computer teams plus various accessories. Of course the
game company offers various other sports games like football,
basketball and hockey. For 2013, besides releasing version 17 of
the computer game and cards based on the 2012 MLB season, plus
the following new full seasons were released: MLB 1891, 1938,
1961; Negro Leagues: 1920, 1931 and 1942; and a Japanese League
from 1973. Also the game company is offering an opportunity to
play SOM baseball on-line with the options to play various
teams.
Note - we are not connected nor endorsed by the
Strat-o-matic Game Company. Our newsletter is offered as a labor
of love by our newsletter support team to enhance the game playing of our members
and to be as supportive as possible for the success of the game company.)
http://stratomaticbaseballvillage.lefora.com/
("The Stratomatic Baseball
Village" -
a friendly
and supportive online forum community for Strat Baseball
enthusiasts. The key individuals who offer this wondrous forum
includes Ken "rezzdogg" Dunning, founder/admin and Michael McLaughlin ("67mantle2-7"), admin/moderator.
We also thank Ken and Michael for being our partners with this
newsletter.)
www.cba-bb.net
(The website for the Cyber
Baseball Association, a 24 team baseball league using the
computer game which has existed since 1997. Wolfman Shapiro is
the 2012 champion after seven years of hard work, Marc
Wasserman, our so called "secret consultant" and author of the
League Commissioner Column is the commissioner. The CBA is the
first league to officially support our newsletter. The website
contains the up-to-date standings of the league during the
season which normally begins in March and goes through
September/October. The free report by Wolfman you received
when you signed up gives his history in this league.)
www.somhoops.com
(A
Fan's Guide to Strat-O-Matic Basketball created by
Jason. Somhoops offers a rating guide for Basketball with the
permission of the game company. We recommend Somhoops as a great
site to visit for our members if you like Basketball plus we are
grateful for their support to announce our newsletter to their
members who similarly love the baseball as much as we do.)
www.facebook.com/ImbaStratOMaticBaseballLeague
(A face to face league
for Strat-o-matic Baseball located in the New York / New Jersey
area with 18 teams. They also have their own online forum linked
to the league at:
http://imbastrat.proboards.com/index.cgi
-- this becomes our second baseball league to support and help
us let others know about the newsletter)
http://www.stratfanforum.com/
http://www.stratfanforum.com/forums/forum.php
(Welcome to the
Strat-O-Matic Fan Forum. A dedicated online community who have
been discussing Strat-O-Matic's board and PC games since
February 2001. This forum covers all of the sports games offered
by Strat-o-matic. We interview the founder Dan Patterson in
Issue #2 of this newsletter)
http://www.oneforfive.com/category/strat-o-matic/
(Paul Dylan, WA, U.S. - blog site that contains all kinds of
articles about Strat-o-matic in this part of his site with some
powerful ideas and insights about the game, Paul is a member of
our newsletter as well and is doing an interview about us for
his site.)
http://flory.net/twsl/
(Ted William Strat-o-matic League, founded in
2002, 24 team netplay draft baseball league, one of several
baseball leagues supported by
Nick Flory
on his website. Mr. Flory doesn't have a main page for his site
that list all the other 67 baseball leagues he supports but you
can see a list of them by going to the Ted Williams league and
go to the menu on the left hand side of the page and click on
"Other Sites" and a list of all the baseball sites pop up. We
wish to thank TWSL heads Mike and Larry for introducing us to
Nick, who has our newsletter logo shown on his sites and shared
the newsletter with all the different leagues which saw a
substantial growth in our membership - thanks Nick, Mike and
Larry - interview with Mike and Larry in a future issue.)
http://somtour.net
(Strat-o-matic Face to Face
Tournament Club, Series of live and at times on-line SOM
Baseball Tournaments, predominately held in the Eastern Part of
the U.S. Hopefully we will be working with this group to help us
great our own on-line tournaments, in a different form that can
support hundreds of participants.)
http://www.strat-o-matic.com/community/glenn-guzzo-column
(Column by Glenn Guzzo - periodic articles by "Strat-o-matic
Fanatic" Author Glenn Guzzo shared on the SOM Website that
covers all the different games. We interviewed Glenn in our
first issue.)
http://www.strat-o-matic.com/community/podcast
(Podcasts done with well known SOM figures by Steve Reiter
shared on the SOM Website, in a future issue we will share an
interview we did with Steve.)
Column and Blog
by Jeff Polman
http://mystery58.wordpress.com
(his current blog postings, been involved with SOM since
1964. Is one of the few people to have a column on the
SOM website, along with Glenn Guzzo, is also a member
now of our newsletter)
http://www.strat-o-matic.com/community/jeff-polman-column
(Jeff's column on the
SOM website, rights about all kinds of ideas and stories linked
to the SOM Baseball Game)
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Special On-line Tools that are Available
(different newsletters and special reports )
www.outsiderbaseball.com
(This online weekly
baseball newsletter is offered by Scott Simkus. Mr. Simkus
is a base historian who in each issue offers another special
story related to various individuals and teams who have been
involved with MLB. There is a yearly subscription fee to receive
this newsletter.)
http://www.stratdraft.com/
(An online system that can help to
automate and make it easier to perform your draft for your
Baseball League. Wolfman:
The CBA, the league I am involved with, used this draft for the
first time and it was a joy to use as our picks were timed and
we had access to all the players still available. We hope to
interview the creator of this amazing tool in a future issue.)
Special Services that could Benefit our
Members
(in this section, we will mention, for the benefit of our
members, cerain services that we could across which might be of
interest to help our members on a more personal level. We hope
this newsletter will be seen in a way, that together we are
creating an extended family in the SOM community, and one of the
thing I {Wolfman} have always been consciously aware of is
helping other people. I have learned, as was discussed in the
book, "Think and Grow Rich" by Napolean Hill, who had the
opportunity to interview in the 1920's the most successful
people of his time, that if we do our best to help other people
(or tithe) through universal laws, if you will, this good always
comes back to you. So if we see something that might make
a difference in our members lives in some way, all we will do is
list it here. It is of course up to each member to decide,
without any pressure, if the service will be of value for them -
this is what happened when the energy of the "Wolfman" hits ya,
amongst other things, you want each project you are involved
with to benefit others and do your best!)
HELP TO CUT THE COST OF YOUR CELLULAR PHONE
(Recently we discovered a new cellular service in the U.S.,
which started last September, not far from where we live in
Seattle, that is assisting people to cut the high cost of
cellular service. But not only this (as we will being saving
$700 or more this year plus I believe eventually we will no
longer have to pay for our cellular service), this is the only
company I know who is sharing their profits with their members.
We have been using the service since early January and its
amazing, unlimited voice, text and internet, the same as we had
before but $60 less a month - some people are finding challenges
with their finances - so if this sound interesting, feel free to
email me privately at:
joshuashapiro@v-j-enterprises.com and show a subject of "I
wish to know more" - this could forever change your life. Thank
you.
Contained inside this exciting issue of Ultimate Strat
Baseball Newsletter:
(to view the various interviews, articles, columns and special sections click on
the links {underlined} and this will take you to the appropriate
webpage)
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RETURN TO NEWSLETTER MAIN PAGE
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INTERVIEW with BRYAN SWANK
SOM Gamer, league member.
(Sharing about his father, Thomas Swank)
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STRAT THOUGHTS with BRUCE BUNDY,
SOM Gamer, Creator of
Baseball Card Formulas, Baseball Strategy Advisor, Beta Tester
for the Game Company
(A new monthly column of "Strat Thoughts" from the mind of
legendary Bruce Bundy)
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ARTICLE with "REZZDOGG",
Owner/Moderator of
Stratomatic Baseball Village
(This Article is entitled "Fathers and Sons: Diamonds are
Forever".)
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INTERVIEW with DAN
PATTERSON,
Founder of Strat-o-matic Fan
Forum
(This forum covers all of the sports games offered by
Strat-o-matic)
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COMMISSIONER's COLUMN with MARC WASSERMAN--
commissioner of the Cyber Baseball Association (CBA) continues
his column about what it is like to be a League Commissioner. In
this article he discusses how to deal with challenges from
league members when there are heated disagreements or
communication breaks down.
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EARLY SOM
CONVENTIONS COLUMN with WOLFMAN SHAPIRO --
editor of "The Ultimate Strat Newsletter" and 2012 CBA Champion.
Wolfman takes us back in this article to the second national Strat-o-matic
Convention in 1973 held in Brooklyn, NY and co-sponsored by the
Game Company and the Strat-o-matic Review. Wolfman will be
taking us through the first nine conventions going through 1980
of which he was present at each one. From 1974-1980 Wolfman
along with his friends
from Chicago held these conventions in Illionies. We will continue to share one new convention in
each future issue till all of these early ones are shared.
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SOM BASEBALL CARDS QUIZ
- our test of your knowledge of the SOM Baseball Cards,
questions and answers provided by Marc Wasserman. In this issue
we give the answers to
Quiz #1,
interview our first winner (Art) and have two new questions to
ask for Quiz #2. Who will be our next winner?
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BOOKS TO
DIE FOR and Become a BASEBALL GURU
-- This page
is a new page we are adding for the newsletter that is
specifically about special books we are finding that either will
expand your insights about the game of Baseball, help you in the
creation of your current league teams or with your replays and
learn more about the Strat-o-matic Base Game and Game Company's
history. At the time of the release of this newsletter we
have a special arrangement with Acta Sports to offer our members
a 10% discount. We hope to add more books in the future.
Contact Us for Questions or Submissions:
Wolfman Shapiro
Founder/Editor, the
Ultimate Strat Baseball Newsletter
email:
wolfmanshapiro@gmail.com
facebook:
www.facebook.com/wolfman.shapiro
twitter:
@StratBaseball4U
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