this is eddie murray with the dodgers. what he's done here is every time murray was up at bat against him, he kept notes on the right-hand side, but he also used colored pencils representing each of his pitchers to see how murray did against them. with that, he was able to figure out how to set up his defense and also to figure what pitcher should go against murray. the eddie murray spray chart covers a couple of seasons. this is from '88 to 1990. all of this information, of course, is stuff that kind of comes out in some form through this game strat-o-matic, which was hugely popular when it first came out in the '60s. it's kind of the forerunner for fantasy baseball, actually, where you're automobile to pick your own players, you're able to pick your own teams based on how they perform. what you had was a game that was updated every year with cards showing statistics of players from the previous year and then you built your own team. with the roll of the dice, the game proceeded. so many players and so many people in the

the eddie murray spray chart covers a couple of season. this is from '88 to 1990. all of this information, of course, is stuff that kind of comes out in some form through this game strat-o-matic which was hugely popular when it came out in the '60s, kind of the forerunner of fantasy baseball, you're able to pick your own players and teams based on how they perform. this was a game that was updated every year with cards showing statistics of players of the previous year. you built your own team and with a roll of the dice, the game proceeded. so many players and so many people in the front office of different baseball franchises used strat-o-matic when they were kids to learn the ins and outs of managing a team. during the 1981 baseball strike a number of newspapers used it to figure out how some of the games might have proceeded that had been canceled. here we have from the washington nationals this original lineup card from april 28, 2012, against the dodgers. it's the first time that bryce harper appears as a rookie. and you're using statistics, of course, to fig