Hal Richman, now 89 years old, will be honored as part of the New York State Baseball Hall of Fame’s Class of 2025 on Sunday during its annual induction ceremony at the Hilton Hotel in Troy.

Hal Richman's story is the stuff of authentic legend. While attending Bucknell University in 1961, the enterprising, Long Island-bred teen conceived of a cards-and-dice game that allowed sports fans ...

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 ...

The ‘Strat-O-Matic Baseball’ game was created by Hal Richman, who is married to the former Sheila Mednitsky of Hazleton. WILKES-BARRE — Many kids growing up in the 1960s or 1970s played baseball, and ...

Simulation Baseball Game Strat-O-Matic is the funny-sounding name for a modest-looking board game with a decades-long fan base. Now after 10 years of research, a version of Strat-O-Matic has been ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — For 25 years, the Strat-O-Matic baseball game has been living under the couch in our family room. Living seems to be the appropriate word, as it brings to life major league ...

At last, second baseman Barney "Bonnie" Serrell had his breakthrough season. Serrell finally was recognized for his masterful glove, his precise arm, his flair and his wicked lefthanded swing. This ...

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 ...

Baseball fever was running high on a Tuesday evening in late September, as it was the opening game of the American League Wild Card series between the Yankees and the Red Sox. Most fans were at home, ...

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 ...

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 ...