


Ray gives an update on his 2022 Yankees and Aaron Judge, Roy on his 1905 Giants and Christy Mathewson.ĭunlap began playing APBA in 1964, wrote for the APBA Journal for many years, co-created the Suncoast Football League in Tampa in 1979 and served as the Tampa Bay Bucs' official statistician for most of the 1980s. Joining VGCUSA and creating a school game club: 1:13:54Ĭatching up with APBA Hall of Famers Ray Dunlap (Class of 2016), Roy Langhans (2001) and Jim Sce (2008) between the fast-paced competition at the first-ever tabletop sports gaming tournament at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Video Game Clubs of America and its mission: 1:09:22 on tabletop: 52:38įunding Lords of Baseball and potential expansions: 56:50įuture of board games and accessibility to audiences: 1:02:35 Playing SOM and Baseball Stars on Nintendo with his dad: 45:40Ĭoaching football and playing football games (Legends of Football, Pizza Box): 46:37 Mechanics used in Lords of Baseball: 32:05 Lords of Baseball is still available by Kickstarter late pledge at the time of posting this video L4 Studios will be selling the game at conventions - and a retail option is likely. Helping kids socially through gaming is “the best thing I’ll ever do in education,” he says.


In the last part of the interview, Max discusses the mission and methods of the VGCUSA, how he came to be involved, and how the organization fosters social and emotional learning for students in more than 800 schools in the U.S., Canada, Brazil and Europe. Max also discusses his take on tabletop football games Legends of Football, Pizza Box football and 1st and Goal from his perspective as a coach. Jamelli recalls how he came to know key collaborator Jeff Horger, who took on the role of streamlining LoB’s mechanics, vowing to “tear (the game) apart and build it back up.” Offering a complete picture of baseball team ownership, from stocking talent to winning games - even building a stadium - Lords of Baseball is a Euro-style take on the game of pro baseball. Now, after 50 revisions, nearly 90 iterations of the rule book and more than 1,500 playthroughs, LoB is ready to hit the market. The seed of the idea for Lords of Baseball came to Max’s father after a trip to the World Boardgaming Championships inspired by the Cold War game Twilight Struggle, Bob Jamelli began sketching out ideas for LoB. Max, a high school teacher and former football coach, walks us through the development of LoB, his thoughts on the future of gaming, and his work as national director of tabletop gaming for the Video Game Clubs of America (). Lords of Baseball, a Euro-style game of baseball franchise ownership and management, took father-and-son team Bob and Max Jamelli 12 years to refine and fund via Kickstarter.
