He would then (in most cases) look up the 13 on an on-base board, of which there are eight. When the player looks up the 64 on the batter’s card, the matching red number is 13. Each black number is followed by one, or in some cases two, red numbers. The player would then refer to the batter’s card.Įach card contains three columns of black numbers, starting at 11 and ending at 66, that covers all 36 possible dice combinatons. For example, if the red die showed a six and the white die a four, the result would be 64. To play the board game a player would roll two dice, a large red one and a small white one and then combine, not add, the numbers on the dice. That game contained 320 player cards, which amounted to 20 players for each of the 16 teams in the major leagues in 1950. Among those influenced by Seitz’s efforts were Hal Richman, developer of the Strat-O-Matic baseball game. His game emphasized realism based upon a statistical foundation and influenced the genre’s development.

Seitz created a baseball board game that inaugurated the era of sports board games. For most baseball fans, Dick Seitz isn’t a household name however, he embarked on a journey that changed the lives of many baseball fans.