economy, overwhelmed hospitals and infected more than 2 million people worldwide. 'My 5-year-old can't read yet, so it's tough, but he's holding the cards and rolling the dice.'īrogan resides in Brooklyn, New York, within the epicenter of a pandemic that has crippled the U.S. 'My 8-year-old is all in and has become completely obsessed with it,' Brogan, 45, said. His two young boys would soon learn the wonder of Strat-O-Matic Baseball, whether they wanted to or not. He pulled up the company website, ordered the 2019 version of the board game, paid the extra fee for express delivery and received it on his doorstep three days later. Recently, though, Brogan found out the company was simulating a 2020 baseball season that remains on indefinite suspension because of the coronavirus pandemic, and then suddenly something clicked. He played incessantly with friends, at one point staging an entire six-team season in two weeks, then got distracted by adolescence and mostly forgot about the game thereafter, a common path for the typical Strat-O-Matic user.
He was 8 years old, it was the early 1980s, and sports simulation games were all the rage. John Brogan was introduced to Strat-O-Matic Baseball by his two older brothers.
