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malthaussen

(17,672 posts) Sat May 20, 2023, 02:09 PM May 2023

"Watching" old baseball games...

There is, or was, a site where one could watch a graphic play-by-play of a past baseball game based on the box score. The screen was similar to one of the text-driven simulation games: a generic ballpark with the names of the players in their positions, and then a textual description of the result of each at-bat, with runners set on base when appropriate and the official scoring of the play in a box under the field. The site drew on the box scores of thousands of games dating back at least as far as the 1950's, maybe more.

I can't remember the URL of the archive, which I lost in my last computer meltdown, so in desperation I'm, asking if anybody here knows WTF I'm talking about. Mr Google has been of no help.

-- Mal

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"Watching" old baseball games... (Original Post) malthaussen May 2023 OP

I like watching old boxing matches. One that is great is LaMotta vs Murphy II. brewens May 2023 #1

For current games there's MLB's Gameday TxGuitar Jun 2023 #2

Not quite what I had in mind, but a worthy site on it's own. malthaussen Jun 2023 #3

brewens

(15,359 posts)

1. I like watching old boxing matches. One that is great is LaMotta vs Murphy II.

Reply to malthaussen (Original post)

Sat May 20, 2023, 03:02 PM

May 2023

Talk about guys going toe to toe and throwing leather. It's not quite the whole fight, but there is not one clench in what is there.

I'm not a fan of modern boxing and the other MMA crap. Those days are gone. You couldn't support a sport that brutal as it was back in the day. You could never let guys fight that much. Sugar Ray Robinson didn't even know his own name the last couple years of his life.

TxGuitar

(4,278 posts)

2. For current games there's MLB's Gameday

Reply to malthaussen (Original post)

Sat Jun 3, 2023, 09:49 AM

Jun 2023

which looks a lot like what you are describing, you could start by searching on that maybe? I don't know if they archive them but this is what the interface looks like:

Gameday link: https://www.mlb.com/schedule/gameday

malthaussen

(17,672 posts)

3. Not quite what I had in mind, but a worthy site on it's own.

Reply to TxGuitar (Reply #2)

Sat Jun 3, 2023, 11:09 AM

Jun 2023

The layout of the site I remember was quite simple. There were no pictures of players, no video of play (both of which would violate MLB's monopoly, a problem their own site doesn't have!). It was just a graphical layout of a ball field with the pbp printed in a box underneath the diamond. Almost like listening to a radio broadcast, but in text, not audio.

-- Mal

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