Texarkana,
IM: Luggo1
Age: 40
Last Updated: August 13, 2007
Occupation: Attorney,
Atchley, Russell, Waldrop & Hlavinka L.L.P.
Trial lawyer; civil litigation docket.
Practice primarily defense of auto,
premise liability and toxic tort cases.
Occasional criminal work.
Family: Married 9 years to Stacy, 1 son age 2+. 2 French Bulldogs,
Skye and Termite and 1 Bulldog Flash.
Hobbies: Husker
Football. Shooting sports, fly-fishing,
reading military history.
Gaming: Started
with AH's Superstar Baseball at age 9, later added Statis Pro Baseball in about
'79,
Statis Pro Basketball, Football as
well. Also played Title Bout, Bowl Bound and SI's Golf along with
numerous of AH's war game titles.
Played various commercial leagues in college, mostly baseball.
Added Microleague Baseball for the
PC in the late '80's. Started with DMB in about '97. I have played
in a couple of DMB leagues that
were pretty sterile and not much fun. I also currently play Combat
In Addition: Favorite ML Team: New York Yankees Favorite
Player (any): Thurman Munson; (active) Derek Jeter Favorite Baseball
Moment: Chris Chambliss' 9th inning HR to beat the Royals in the '76 ALCS. Worst
Baseball Moment: August 2, 1979, my 12th birthday, and the day Thurman
crashed his plane in
Life's essentials: books, guns, Coca-cola, all things Husker, Mexican food, Jack Daniel's, Sinatra music, the Reagan Administration, Yankee games on the radio (thank God for the internet), the Andy Griffith Show
General personality traits: surly-curmudgeon, nostalgic, sentimental, thinker, blunt, quiet
Dislikes:
(good Lord my team now runs
this...), coach airline seats and Pete Rose.
Other activities: Elder, Trinity Presbyterian Church; Andy Griffith Re-run Watchers Club;
Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity;
N.R.A.; National Right to Life;
Founding Member, the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, occasional Sunday School
teacher
Parks I've been to: Ballpark in
Pac-Bell?? or whatever they call
the nice park in San Fran now...RoidDome?,
Camden Yards,
Fulton Co. Stadium....no I haven't
been to Yankee Stadium yet <hangs head in shame, and I still haven't.>
Picayune, MS
Last Updated January 28, 2007
I am 35 years old. Own my own business. Married way over my
head. Have one child, a 6 month old son. Season ticket holder of the New
Orleans Saints, (6 rows from the field) Die hard Houston Astros fan, have a 24
game mini ticket package to the Astros.
Waunakee,
IM: Blume16
Age: 43
Last Updated: March 13, 2008
Occupation: Part owner of a private contract manufacturing
company. Our home page is http://www.hankscraft.com. We have two manufacturing plants in
Family: Married to a woman who hates baseball, especially all the
time I spend watching it, reading about it, or playing DMB. We have two sons
(16 yrs and 9 years) and daughter who is 13.
Hobbies: Baseball, stock car racing, and beating the S&P 500.
Gaming: Started playing the baseball board game "Statis-Pro
Baseball" (Avalon Hill Game Co.) in 1978, joined my first league in 1979.
Switched to Pursue the Pennant when it came out and then DMB.
In
Addition: My
favorite baseball player is Cal Ripken Jr.
My daughter was born in 1995, the year he broke Lou Gehrig's record. If she
would have been a boy we were going to name her "
The
hardest thing in my life has been to admit I've been a huge Milwaukee Brewer's
fan since boyhood. But listening to the best announcer in baseball, Bob Uecker,
everyday makes it all worth it. However,
the Brewers are finally showing some promise.
IM: larrym24
Age: 60
Last Updated: November 14, 2007
Occupation: A nurse working in a chronic pain management program.
Family: Married, father of 2 adult children
Hobbies:
I
also love to play chess. I'm no longer active in tournaments, but my rating
hovered around 1800 when I was. Now I play mostly on-line, and occasionally
teach a class.
Gaming: Would
guess that I have been playing baseball sims for longer than many in the league
have been alive.
Played PTP prior to the development
of DMB. Have dabbled in a few other
games but never found anything as realistic and fun to play.
Tavis Craigie
Antelope, CA
IM: HomSimp
Age: 39
Last Updated: January 14, 2007
Occupation: Wine and Liquor sales for Young's Market Company
Family: Soon to be single again (divorce official March 20, 2007)
two children: Jessica 19(adopted) and David 7. I have a yellow
lab(Wylie), a black lab(Augur), and two cats Whiskers and Morris.
Hobbies: Working out, golf, coaching
my son's baseball and soccer teams, Buzztime Trivia, strategy games of all types,
watching Dallas Cowboys football games, reading a wide variety of books, scuba
diving.
Gaming: Started playing Superstar Baseball
with Ray(Braves) at age 9. Played in an APBA league at age 13.
Played Statis-Pro Baseball. Played in a league of Statis Pro(strike
season 1981). The season was shortened so player usage was averaged out
to allow a full season. Mickey Klutts of my A's team was a prolific HR
hitter with his ten homers worked out over a near full season of usage. I
also played almost the full Avalon Hill sports catalog including: Paydirt, Bowl
Bound, Title Bout, Statis-Pro Football, Statis-Pro Basketball. I also
played Strat-O-Matic Baseball as well as Pursue the Pennant. I tried out
just about any game I could find. I even invented Baseball and football
games as a child with the results of the action on cardboard squares pulled out
of variuos plastic sports slurpee cups. I called it Pick Baseball and
Football. The statistical results put the steroid era of baseball to shame.
I still have every boxscore from every Superstar Baseball game I ever played as
a home team as well as the updated stats from all the games. I was
usually NL and Ray was
In Addition: I am a huge Dallas Cowboys fan and never miss watching
a game. Roger Staubach is my favorite all time player. I see games
in person whenever they come to
Kevin
Blaine
IM: kpbecklinmn
Age: 51
Last Updated: March 22, 2007
Occupation: I’m the IT Director for a mid-sized fish and seafood
company (Morey’s Seafood International) .
In my younger years, I did a lot
of coaching as a secondary job, but I’m
taking some years off from that right now.
Family: Married to Doreen for 7 years. We have 6 grown children between the 2 of
us, and 3 grandsons. The kids are 28, 28, 26, 22, 20, and
19. Although it sounds like a lot, we
are officially empty nesters now.
Hobbies: Most sports are my hobbies. Baseball and NASCAR are my obsessions. I’m a huge Minnesota Twins fan, but my life
has brought links to a lot of other teams, and so I’m mostly just a fan of
baseball itself at all levels. I can sit and watch Little League games where I
don’t know any of the players. In the
past 5 years, I’ve also become a big hockey fan, specifically of the Minnesota
Wild. My oldest son (22) is almost as obsessed with Wild hockey as I
am with baseball, so it gives us something to maintain a connection with. I don’t miss many NASCAR races on TV, and
have attended a couple. Rusty Wallace
was my favorite driver, but he retired so now I just enjoy the racing.
Gaming: I’ve played most of the old
card and dice games, but pretty much settled on Strat-O-Matic. I liked Pursue the Pennant, but it’s run was
too short. When the age of the personal
computer came around, I became disenchanted with the Stat-O-Matic games, and so
have settled on DMB. It’s been 12 years,
and I really never look back. I run a
couple of leagues(DMBRA), and now have joined a few as manager.
In
Addition: I have several personal links to MLB players and
families through my years as a player, coach, and fan. My playing days (I was utility guy that
settled in as a catcher because of my lack of foot speed) ended in the low
minors when the year end advice I got in 1978 was, “Perhaps you ought to look
into coaching”. That was huge
compliment in terms of my knowledge of the game, but it spoke volumes about my
physical talent too. I came back
to
Michael
Bridgewater
IM: TheMurt
Age: 47
Last
Updated: March 2, 2007
Occupation: Clinical Psychologist, Assistant Professor of
Psychology
Family: Married 21 years to a wonderful woman named Anne who
has come to enjoy baseball and is in one of my fantasy leagues!! No kids, but
we have a rabbit who has no cage....
Hobbies: Baseball, playing on the computer, wildlife photography
when I use to live in
Gaming: I have always loved games since I can remember, was a whiz
at math due to playing monopoly way before kindergarten. I love
fantasy/rotisserie baseball, online magic, computer games like Civilization,
and lots of board games.
In Addition: I love a wide range of music from Harry Chapin to Meat
Loaf, and I have Alice Cooper's cane he threw to me at a concert...and an
autographed 1951 Brooklyn Dodgers baseball [real].... and a complete 1959 Topps
baseball card set.
West Allenhurst,
IM: obzebras
Age: 55
Last Updated: January 1, 2007
Occupation: Operations Research Analyst for the
Family: Married to RoseMarie as we celebrated our 31st
anniversary on Memorial Day. Most people call her St. Rose to be married to be
for such a long time. One daughter, Danielle who is 16. We adopted her at 19
months, the best move I ever made. Dogs names are Rusty and
Hobbies: Sports officiating, horse racing, harness racing, statistics
and probability.
Gaming: Started when 6 years old playing Action Baseball which had a
marble and if you hit marble to dead center it was a home run. Moved to All
Star Baseball with the cards and spinner. Bought APBA in 62 and played APBA for
years. Also owned Big League Manager and Statis Pro. Have never played a
strato-matic game. Eventually, bought Pursue the Pennant. It's a signed and
numbered copy but is incompatible to every other Pursue The Pennant Game
Season. Continued with Diamond Mind as the game of choice with their computer
version. All these games were played solitaire until I joined DMBRA in fall of
98. Also play in Scoresheet Baseball.
In Addition: Born in
Hilltown,
IM: psychometrika
Age: 47
Last Updated: January 28, 2007
Occupation: Marketing Manager, Pharmaceutical Company - not at all
what I trained/was educated for, but a very interesting job.
Family: Married 20+ years to Stacey Zaremba, who is a college
professor and glass artisan. Have a 14 year old daughter Olivia who has a 2
dogs and 3 cats.
Hobbies:
Gaming: Started baseball board gaming with Sports Illustrated All
Time All Star game in 7th grade, and have never really stopped. Eventually
moved to Strat-O-Matic, replaying Red Sox seasons, then, in the ever lasting
search for greater realism, to Pursue the Pennant. Finally decided to join the
20th century and moved to DMB, liking it so much I have purchased every season
they have published. Also dabble with Action PC football, which is a great game
in its own right..
In Addition: A lifelong Boston Red Sox fan, despite growing up in NJ -
I blame (or credit) a grandfather from Boston, who I spent a month or so with
each summer as a kid at his summer house on Cape Cod, listening to the Sox on
the radio with him and going into Fenway 2/3 times a year to see them live.
Earliest baseball memory is my mother straining to listen to the 67 series on
the radio from our home in northwestern NJ (no small feat). Favorite players as
a kid - Yaz, Ray Culp, a bit later El Tiante (saw him pitch in person only
once, but it remains one of my sharpest baseball memories despite being nearly
30 years ago). Had a brief flirtation with the Mets while going to grad school
in NY from 82-88. Now keep following the Bosox (don't like those Yankees too much)
and the Phillies, who are my most local option as we've lived in southeastern
PA for 17 years now. Don't really have current favorite players like I
used to - do like 'Big Papi', David Ortiz, and Ryan Howard of the Phillies
seems too good to be true so far. I do believe Julio Franco is the only
current big leaguer older than I currently am, but he can't keep going much
longer.
Location unknown
IM:
Age: 48
Last Updated: September 4, 2008
Occupation: Manager of a clothing store
Family:
Hobbies:
Gaming:
Ray Price
IM: carbofan
Age: ?
Last Updated: October 2, 1=2008
Occupation: Graphic Designer for a major metropolitan newspaper
Family: Wife - Vera and Dog Ladd (a rescued collie)
Hobbies: Baseball, reading, movies, replaying past seasons with DMB
Gaming: I've been playing baseball games since a kid back in the 60's - started with a Met's card flip game that each card you pulled had the results of the pitch - the Mets cards were stacked and they always won - went from there to Sports Illustrated, then 3M Big League Baseball, APBA, Statis Pro and then Pursue the Pennant - when the computer age came along I got most of them but kept coming back to Diamond Mind. Been in computer leagues for probably 15 years now, and it seems every trade I make the guy I trade for is never the same player again, sooooo, if your looking to improve your team - I'm your man!
In addition: Grew up a huge Mickey Mantle fan and the Yankees were my team
- when they got beat by the Cardinals (my moms favorite team) I had to
take a second look at them - so since 1964 I've rooted for the Yanks and the
Cardinals
Greg Nolen
VA
IM:
Age: 42
Last Updated: July 1, 2008
Occupation: US Postal Service
Family:
Hobbies:
Gaming: Been playing DMB for five years.
In Addition:
Chris Williams
IM: CAWSalzburg
Age: 37
Last Updated: January 14, 2004
Occupation: Music historian specializing in Central European music of the early twentieth century, with degrees from Yale and
Berkeley. Taught at
Family: My wife, Kristie Foell, is a
German professor at
Hobbies: Music, Baseball
Gaming: APBA in the 80s, computer versions in 1990, BBW in 92, DMB
in 94. Commissioner of the GSBL and PCBL, and the historical
league ECL (continuous ownership, 1930s).
In Addition: Grew up outside of
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