@broken_toy1_PSN said in Why I play and enjoy MLBTS.:
@Ericulous1_PSN said in Why I play and enjoy MLBTS.:
Solid post. I’m a baseball history nerd so I appreciate that about this game. Love playing with old legends.
If you’re a baseball book enthusiast. There are so many solid ones, lately I’ve grabbed a biography of a player I’ve been using on the show or a book about that team and time period. I’m a nerd though haha.
When I was a kid my dad gave me "My Turn Up at Bat," by Ted Williams. He's from MA so he grew up a Sox fan. At 11 I started loving the stories behind the game. He told me stories of Williams and Yaz, and ditching school for a day game. We'd watch Boggs and Mattingly on TV and saw Gwynn play live in SD. This was all started by guys like Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb, and Walter Johnson. Such a wonderful History.
That’s awesome man. My Grandpa was from Brooklyn. He was heart broken when they moved to LA, so he moved to his second favorite NL town of St Louis (also happened get a job there). He met my grandma who was from Chicago and they had my mom.
I was taught at an early age all about the Bums Jackie, Duke, Pee Wee, Gil Hodges, Roy Campanella.
Meanwhile my mom told stories of Bob Gibson and taught me that we root for the Cardinals or we eat elsewhere. At 2 that is daunting.
Also my dad was from San Fran and would try to usurp this order with stories of the Mays and McCovey, all the while I’m growing up watching Gwynn in San Diego (birth place of one Ted Williams). To say I was a confused young fan was an understatement.
Eventually my mom and Grandpa who’d converted to the Red Birds won out. After taking a big break from baseball after the strike, I rediscovered my love for it in 2001 when a young unknown prospect by the name of Albert started waving his magic wand in St Louis.