A Note About My Old Site
The cover of an official score card from the 1887 World Series
This Game of Games V.1 was my old blog. After almost six years and more than two thousand posts, I decided it was time to move on and create something new. And hopefully better. But that's still up in the air.
It was a good site and I had a ton of fun running it but, in the end, there was just way too much information spread out through those two thousand posts and over 500 different tags. I wanted to organize the information that I had a bit better and tell the story of 19th century St. Louis baseball in a more coherent manner. Plus, since blog years are like dog years, six years is a long, long time for a site like that to be active and I think it was getting a bit long in the tooth. It was time to just take it out behind the shed and put it down. I'm sure it's gone to a much happier place and is playing with other blogs out there in the cloud.
But there's a ton of great stuff over there and you should go check it out while it still exists. God only knows when the whole thing is going to disappear into the ether. I'm going to try and keep it up for as long as I can but you never know.
Over time, of course, all the great stuff from TGOG V.1 will end up here but for now it's still one of the best 19th century baseball sites out there and it's easily the second best 19th century St. Louis baseball site on the web, behind only TGOG: The Sequel.
A quick update on the old site: It appears that I, through a series of events that I won't go into here, deleted all of the pictures at the old site while I was still putting this site together. It's a shame but I didn't lose all of the old box scores and player/team pictures that I've posted over the years. All of that stuff is still on my laptop and backed up in four different ways. I was in the process of moving over here anyway so I didn't lose too much sleep over it. Eventually, all of the lost stuff will get posted here.
It was a good site and I had a ton of fun running it but, in the end, there was just way too much information spread out through those two thousand posts and over 500 different tags. I wanted to organize the information that I had a bit better and tell the story of 19th century St. Louis baseball in a more coherent manner. Plus, since blog years are like dog years, six years is a long, long time for a site like that to be active and I think it was getting a bit long in the tooth. It was time to just take it out behind the shed and put it down. I'm sure it's gone to a much happier place and is playing with other blogs out there in the cloud.
But there's a ton of great stuff over there and you should go check it out while it still exists. God only knows when the whole thing is going to disappear into the ether. I'm going to try and keep it up for as long as I can but you never know.
Over time, of course, all the great stuff from TGOG V.1 will end up here but for now it's still one of the best 19th century baseball sites out there and it's easily the second best 19th century St. Louis baseball site on the web, behind only TGOG: The Sequel.
A quick update on the old site: It appears that I, through a series of events that I won't go into here, deleted all of the pictures at the old site while I was still putting this site together. It's a shame but I didn't lose all of the old box scores and player/team pictures that I've posted over the years. All of that stuff is still on my laptop and backed up in four different ways. I was in the process of moving over here anyway so I didn't lose too much sleep over it. Eventually, all of the lost stuff will get posted here.
