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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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INTERVIEW with BRIAN
MCRAE,
ex-MLB player with Royals, Cubs and Mets.
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INTERVIEW
with JEFF MONTGOMERY,
ex-MLB player with the Royals.
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SOM BASEBALL WORLD NEWS,
a new page to share interesting news related to
Strat-o-matic Baseball.
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ARTICLE with JOSEPH
BOTTOM & ALAN DAVISON,
two SOM Baseball Fanatics
(Joseph & Alan) give permission for us to share with our members
their article called "Numbering the Days - Memories of SOM
Baseball", published in the Weekly Standard, Sept. 2013.
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ARTICLE with HANK SMITH,
former Star Tournaments Commissioner and Ambassador
Hank was one of the most beloved individuals in the SOM
Baseball World and a key for the success of the Star
Tournaments. In this report, Hank discusses how he won the 2007
Worlds Tournament held by Star to find their champion. This is
the beginning of a new direction by Wolfman Shapiro for his
Conventions Column and to honor Hank who passed away in 2013.
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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 ninth national Strat-o-matic Convention in
1980, held in Evanston, IL, at Northwestern University, as the Wolfman and his buddies organize
their seventh and final convention via their Chicagoland SOM
Club. Unfortunately, due to personal changes in the Wolfman's
life at that time, a report of what took place at the convention
was not sent to the SOM review. This article will transition us
to other types of tournaments that have been offered after 1980
and to honor Hank Smith. Also we hope this column will inspire our readers to help us
create a SOM On-line Baseball Convention
in the near future.
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COMMISSIONER's CORNER 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 turns his focus to discuss how the start of the CBA began with its Canadian roots
and once again is being strongly influence by our Canadian
members.
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RECOMMEND
ON-LINE SOM RESOURCES
-- On-line Strat-o-matic and Baseball related websites that offer amazing information, special tools and products to improve
your game play
that we strongly recommend. In most cases, we have had personal contact with
these sources who agree with the principle to work together and help promote each other.
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BOOK REVIEW with WOLFMAN SHAPIRO
Wolfman takes a peek at the
"Baseball
Prospectus 2014 Guide"
created by Baseball Prospectus and over 20 contributing writers.
This guide features predictions for over 2,100 players who will
or could be a part of the upcoming 2014 season. CEO, Joe Hamhari, helped us to get this book.
He is an avid SOM baseball
gamer who we interviewed in the August 2013 issue of the
newsletter.
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BOOKS TO
DIE FOR and Become a BASEBALL GURU
-- This page
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. We
have a special arrangement with Acta Sports, who is a publisher
of a number of great baseball books (including Bill James
Handbooks) to offer for our members
a 10% discount. We will continue to add more books to this page in the future
as we uncover other gems our members should know about.
Well
by now, those members who are in a draft league have had their
drafts - the MLB season started in Australia with the Dodgers
taking two games from the Diamondbacks -