Does Anyone Play Dice Baseball Today?

Jim LaBate
4 min readApr 1, 2019
Images from Pixabay

As spring arrives and the baseball season begins, young people everywhere are pulling their bats, balls, caps, and gloves out of the closet and heading to the nearest ballfield. There, they will choose up sides, argue over foul balls and close calls at first, and run the bases as if they were playing in the World Series. But what if it rains?

Sure, they could play a video game at home. They could even watch professional games on television or go to the Internet and watch highlights of old games and players. But what if a lightning strike takes out the power? Yes, some might play wiffle ball in the garage or the basement, but those spaces are pretty confining. Fortunately, when all else fails, they can still enjoy baseball indoors without the threat of broken household items. Dice baseball is the perfect, non-electric, indoor game for fans of the national pastime.

If you’ve never played before, go steal the dice from your Monopoly game and start rolling.

Baseball Positions Image from Wikipedia

As you can see from the illustrations (positions above and combinations below), each of the 21 number combinations has a specific outcome, and many of the outs mirror what you might see in an official scorebook…

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Jim LaBate

Jim LaBate is a writer and teacher who assists in The Writing Center at Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) in Troy, New York.