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PARLOR GAMES

Park Place and Boardwalk could wreck you if you landed on it.
But, you seldom did, and I’d usually take my chances.

Sometimes we played being in Jail voided you from collecting
when someone landed on your property. A get-out-of-Jail
card was good to have if it was late in the game. Otherwise,
being in Jail late in the game was an advantage.

We played for hours and sometimes days. If I learned about
strategy this was the game that taught me.
One other board game was high on everyone’s list. It was
Major League Baseball. It was a spinner game. Like baseball
there were nine players, and a few alternates. Each player was
a card, that had numbers on it representing the players batting
average. The game went like this.
A card was set into the spinner, and the arrow was spun.
Where it stopped pointed to a number on the card. #10
meant a strike-out. #13 meant a single and anyone on base
advanced 2 bases. There were doubles and triples. Babe Ruth
had the largest #1, and equal sized #10.

The game came with a collection of cards, the current players
in the 1940’s, but you could buy ‘All Stars’. That’s how you
got Babe Ruth, Rodger Hornsby, Ty Cobb, or Walter Johnson.
The greats of the game.

To start the game all the cards would be turned over and each
player would choose one card, in turn until they had 15 cards.
You always had to have several pitchers. My favorite was
either Warren Spahn of the Boston Braves; today’s Atlanta

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