Statis Pro Baseball was a strategic baseball simulation board game created by Jim Barnes in 1970 and first published by Avalon Hill in 1978. Barnes named the game after Statis Pro, a daily newspaper column he wrote for an Iowa morning paper. Rather than relying on ordinary dice, the game used a deck of Fast Action Cards paired with an octal numbering system to generate results, letting outcomes for each at bat be drawn from real statistical performance data for the actual major league players represented on the cards. The system supported both solo play, with one person managing both teams, and head to head competitive play between two managers. Avalon Hill issued a new set of player cards for the game every year through 1992, keeping its rosters current with the ongoing baseball season, before production stopped after a licensing dispute with Major League Baseball ended the company's ability to keep using real player names and statistics.
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Statis Pro Baseball was a strategic baseball simulation board game
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accommodated both solo play and competitive two-player formats
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created by Jim Barnes in 1970
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