Category: Explanation

Pre-MLB Season Sale!

The 2024 Superbowl is over, friends! What a great game… It recedes in memory. Somehow, a few more birds are chirping. Now is the brief moment… when we blink, we remember… when we turn our gaze… from the eclipsed, “prolate spheroid” that is the American football… to the sphere-and-diamond realm… of springtime BASEBALL!

To celebrate the coming-soon of spring and baseball adventures in 2024, I’ve lowered the price of the RallyBird Baseball Board Game!

The RallyBird Baseball by Sir Deer & Owls is a game designed to PLAY:

  • 1-Hour Board Game of Baseball Choices 
  • Meaningful decisions by Offense & Defense EACH at bat 
  • Your call! Focus on tactics. Easy. Engaging, quick turns. 
  • Teach the game in 10 minutes. Play it in less than 1 hour. 
  • Video Support on YouTube: Quick Play, Examples

Get your copy at this lower price!

Here’s an unboxing video that shows the latest art and all that is included in the box:

New RallyBird Baseball ScorePage

Download the 2023 RallyBird Baseball scorepage pdf here.

Hello! It’s June, 2023! Baseball is well underway. The RallyBird Baseball Board Game is available and selling! MLB’s rule changes this year has cut game time by 41 minutes! How do you feel about it? So far I like it, as I think the time that crept in was not essential to the game (bloat), and returns it to more of a classic game flow. I also like that it arguably can increase the appeal of baseball to casual viewers.

I have conjured up a new, improved RallyBird Baseball scoresheet, which you can view and download below. Over time I’ll post some of my own filled-out scoresheets. My idea is that for those who want to try it, this scorepad can increase the enjoyment of the game, and increase rivalry and provide data for lively discussion (including but not limited to chatter, gloating and bragging). It also could lead to the fun of trying different tactics and seeing, over time, how they play out. There’s plenty of space for you to name the players if you wish.

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I’ll look into including one of these double-sided pages in future releases of the RallyBird Baseball Board Game. I pause, however, because I wonder if I should include a small section in the rules that shows how to fill it out. Redoing the rules would be a huge project. Or maybe I should include a copy of a score page of a game I myself played out… What do you think?

Baseball Season 2023

The RallyBird Baseball Board Game is coming back in April 2023 with new board art and more, but it’s the same game.

Baseball Season has returned! I’m ready for it to be GREAT.

If we’re talking about Major League Baseball, I am rooting for the new pitch (and batter) clock that keeps the game pace moving. Total game lengths seem to be returning to ~two hours after an epoch of some time bloat.

If we’re talking about the Rallybird Baseball Board Game by Sir Deer & Owls Company, I think the new edition, due out in late April 2023, will also be GREAT.

This edition is mostly the same, but here are the changes:

New Original Art for Board and Tiles

The new board with players in action replacing the Gloves
A couple glove tiles, front and back

Smaller Box–It’s a new, slim design of box that opens with a hinge. It has tabs that lock on the other side. Aside from the art, the components haven’t changed. The board and cards are the same size. The rules booklet are the same size. Still, the new box is slimmer and a little smaller in length and depth.

Other than some of the art, and the box, it’s the same game.

RallyBird Baseball has been out in the world since 2018 and has proven itself to accomplish what it aims to do–provide a ~1-hour playable baseball board game for two people, with easy rules, meaningful decisions, real baseball spirit, and appeal for fans, casual or serious.

–Peter Gelman RallyBirdBaseball (at) gmail (dot) com

New Edition of RallyBird Baseball Coming Fall 2022

Hello! The RallyBird Baseball board game sold out. (I recently sold the cache I reserved for conventions. As I write this, I think there is 1 copy left, lost in amazon’s warehouse, for sale when they locate it.)

I updated the graphics of the game’s board and Glove tiles and will soon be manufacturing this new edition. I’ll offer it for sale on amazon and on another site.

The new graphics show a silhouette of a fielder in action, where before there was a big glove.

In addition I updated the shape of the infield, to mimic the actual outward curve of the clay area, the arches around the bases.

I updated the rulebook to reflect the new artwork. There are no rules changes.

Pictures coming soon!