This year’s Major League Baseball opening day is the earliest ever, as teams take the field on March 29th. Luckily for us board gamers, we can get our fix of baseball much sooner than that.

Next for me was Cadaco’s All-Star Baseball, which first appeared in 1941 (no, I wasn’t alive then) and has been honored as one of the 50 most influential American board games of all time.

Russ Engel and Ed Walsh started playing the All Star Baseball board game together in 1972 when they were 16 years old - and they're still playing now in 2022.

Baseball board gaming has a rich history, stretching back all the way to 1869, nearly as old as the sport itself, with the release of Milton Bradley ’s “ The New Parlor Game – Base Bal l”, finding ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS — One of America’s most popular activities, fantasy baseball, traces its roots to a board game that failed during the Great Depression. Clifford Van Beek’s &#8220… ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- "The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased ...

Otero invented Homeplate USA, a baseball board game, when he was 11. Now retired at 67, he began producing and selling the game in March out of his apartment. Chris Torres [email protected] ...

Baseball Express, which is sold exclusively at Toys R Us, has simplified rules and smaller playing charts compared to the regular Strat-O-Matic game. And it's also designed to be taken anywhere.