1908 NPIII Replay

1908 New-York Daily Tribune
From New-York Daily Tribune, April 15, 1908, page 16.

I am currently conducting a 1908 Major League Baseball replay using the Skeetersoft NPIII computer game.

NPIII was originally a board game created by Bill Staffa. The underlying game engine is an updated and expanded version of the original National Pastime game by Clifford van Beek, a game that is impossibly difficult to find an original copy of (and even reprint copies are quite scarce).

You can read an introduction to this project here. You can also learn more about NPIII on the Skeetersoft Delphi Forums.

I have uploaded several videos of myself playing NPIII onto YouTube. You can find the playlist here. Please note that games come out on YouTube before they are featured on the blog.

As usual, I am using the original as-scheduled schedule, complete with full original transactions and my own lineups.

Standings

Skeetersoft NPIII Standings
Standings current as of April 22, 1908

Game Recaps

Please note that I do not write recaps for every game that I play. I only provide recap posts for games that were particularly memorable.

4/16/1908

Small Ball, Big Runs

Rolling the Late Night Dice

Cobb Caught

My Favorite Game

4/17/1908

Comeback Central

Thriller!

Drama in Detroit

Who Needs Offense?

4/18/1908

Hitless at Huntington Avenue

Great Deadball Entertainment!

Flaherty vs McQuillan

Extra Inning Thriller!

4/19/1908

Can the Pirates Squeak By?

4/20/1908

Cicotte’s Big Start

The Comeback

Seesaw On the Hill

4/21/1908

Results

George Davis Saves the Day

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May 24, 2023
George Davis Saves the Day

George Davis Saves the Day We’ll jump straight into the top of the 6th in this one. The score was tied, 1-1. Catcher Billy Sullivan came up for the White Sox with two outs, Freddy Parent standing on second, and Jiggs Donahue on at first:

Results

Turning It Around In Detroit

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May 28, 2023
Turning It Around In Detroit

Turning It Around In Detroit The defending American League champion Detroit Tigers haven’t had the best start to the season. It’s early, but the Tigers have a 2-4 record, and are near the bottom of the league. But this one at home against the Browns might turn it around for them.

4/22/1908

Results

Don't Count Brooklyn Out!

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June 5, 2023
Don't Count Brooklyn Out!

Don’t Count Brooklyn Out! Baseball journalism has never quite equaled the heights it reached back in the glory days of the New York Sun. Seriously — there’s nothing more fun than reading the extremely detailed accounts of the old New York Giants home openers in 1900 and before within its pages.

4/23/1908

Results

Cobb Blows It

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June 21, 2023
Cobb Blows It

Cobb Blows It I was going to write about how surprising it is to see Detroit in last place this early in the season. It turns out that they were just as bad in real life: