A former major league baseball player named John B. Wockenfuss died last week. Wockenfuss was not the type of player whose death would normally draw much attention. In the 1970s and 80s he was a ...

Then we are joined by the legend himself, Strat-O-Matic baseball game inventor Hal Richman! I am especially thrilled to finally meet the man who created the board game that meant so much to millions ...

Oct. 6—WILKES-BARRE — Many kids growing up in the 1960s or 1970s played baseball, and when they weren't on the sandlot or Little League field, chances are they were on a front porch or at a kitchen ...

I grew up loving sports. Pretty much all sports. When I was about 11 years old, I came across an ad for a baseball board game called Strat-O-Matic. It promised realistic results based on statistics of ...

Fantasy sports have boomed over the past several decades to become a multibillion dollar industry. Go back long enough, and its roots can be traced to an 11-year-old Hal Richman rolling dice on the ...

Here's a spring training stat for you: Strat-O-Matic is turning 50. The dice-powered baseball board game, a brainchild of Great Neck native Hal Richman, hits the half-century mark this year after ...

In 2020, Joe Beland was in the hospital, suffering acutely from COVID-19. He had collapsed at home and flatlined at the hospital. He recalls being told he’d lost 80% of his lung capacity. He spent two ...

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