About Outta Here Gaming and Productions
The Outta Here Gaming & Production website provides access to the results of some of our games played using Ball Park BaseballTM, a tabletop baseball simulation game invented by Dr. Charles Sidman. It also provides information for use by the participants in leagues and replays.
If you are interested in investigating Ball Park BaseballTM, further, please go to Ball Park Baseball's website for additional information.
We maintian our statistics using BallStat/BallScore scorekeeping solutions. If you are interested in BallStat/BallScore, click here to access their website.
Those Making This Possible
Ball Park Baseball
BallStat/BallScore
Outta Here Gaming & Produtcions is a recent incarnation of a love of the baseball experince. For those of you lucky to grow up in the Kansas City area, you might recall the Kansas City A's. Forever imprinted in memory was the game experience. The ritual of pre-game BBQ at Arthur Bryant's. The eternal hope the rookie sensation Catfish Hunter might pull the hometown nine out of the cellar... it did not happen.
As our baseball fixation moved to Oakland, we came to embrace the new kids on the block, the Royals. We lost our convenient ritual trip to Arthur Bryant's, but we gained one of the first of the new generation, baseball-dedicated stadiums; Royals Stadium. With that came a series of gradually improving teams featuring the likes of Lou Pinella, Amos Otis, Freddie Patek, John Mayberry and George Brett.
During this transition, came a hightened interest in the game in a broader sense. Timing is everything. Now steps in The Ball Park, featuring Ball Park Baseball. As a tweener and a teenager, we played in Ball Park Baseball leagues at The Ball Park with contemporaries and "the older guys" as we called them (college students and young professionals).
In combination with distractions that naturally come with growing up and the collapse of the game's emporium itself, Ball Park Baseball fell off the radar. Gone but not forgotten, with each trip past the old location on visits to the old stomping grounds, the question inexorable rose; "What ever happened to The Ball Park?"
After a nearly 40-year hiatus, a relatively random Google search
in late 2009 came up with answer to the question, "What ever
happened to The Ball Park?" The answer, the Ball Park
Baseball website.
With the reincarnation came angst. The game, when compared to the game that filled the past, was different. Why the difference? In no small part there is Bill James to thank. According to Dr. Sidman, James, via indirect suggestion and follow-up consultations, brought improvement opportunities to Sidman's attention. Sidman took those suggestions and, in conjunction with a "computer specialist", revised the basic algorithms, the card format, the stadium specific information and the book of play guidelines. Below are examples of the two generations of playing cards. The improvements brought the realism of the game to a new level.
With the revelation of the Ball Park Baseball website, the next step was to start playing. And that we did...
We are located in Houston, Texas.
Until we better understand how this website programming thing works, this will have to do.
You also might try this webiste. It is a treasure trove of all things Ball Park Baseball
"The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds." - Casey Stengal
"The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back." - Steve Garvey