<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Baseball, the collectable card game</strong></span><br/><br/><strong>Required to play:</strong>A deck of playing cards and 9 baseball cards comprising a team.  Players on the cards have to fill the available slots:  3 outfielders, 3 basemen, a shortstop, a catcher, and a pitcher.<br/><strong>Setup:</strong><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Separate out the 9's and the face cards from the playing cards.  Each player gets one jack - a marker to call in an error.  And each player gets two of the nines for scoring.  Place the queens, the other two jacks, and two of the kings face up to start the discard pile, and shuffle the other two kings back into the deck.</li><li>Separate your pitcher from your baseball cards, and stack the remaining eight player to make your line-up.  The pitcher always bats last.</li><li>Visiting team starts.  If neither player has claim to home, decide who's playing home and who's playing visitor however you want.</li></ul><strong>Game Play:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>The game is played in nine 'innings'  battling a single batter against the opposing pitcher at the top of the inning, then swapping to finish the inning.</li><li>Half an inning is played by each player drawing a card from the deck.  The pitcher adds the first digit of his win percentage to the card drawn, and the batter adds the first digit of his batting average to their card.</li><li>Highest score wins - pitcher takes ties.  If the batter wins the player marks a score, if the pitcher wins, the batter is retired and you move to the next turn.</li><li>After 9 innings (18 opposed draws)  the player with the highest score wins the game.  You can only score while batting.  Ties are ties.</li><li>On a tie, it's all over except settling the bets - anyone put money on a tie?  payday!</li><li>If one player wins, then the Loser gets to select one card from the winner's lineup.  Loser gets that card to keep.  Loser can't select the other team's pitcher.</li><li>After the loser takes a card, the winner selects two cards from the loser's lineup - the winner can take the loser's pitcher, and keeps both cards they select. The winner may not take back the card the loser took.</li></ul><strong>Special Cards:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>Jacks:</strong>  Each player starts with one jack.  Pitcher usually takes ties, but once per game the batter can discard their jack and win the tie.  They score a point on an error. </li><li><strong>Kings:</strong> Kings are wild - if the batter draws a king from the deck, they set it aside and can discard it latter to replace the batter-up with one of their retired batters - a pinch hitter.  If the pitcher draws a king they discard it immediately and the batter scored.  The pitch 'beaned' the batter.</li><li><strong>Aces:</strong> If a batter draws an ace, they hit a 'homer' and automatically score.  If the pitcher draws an ace on the same turn, the batter hits a double (two points).  If the pitcher draws an ace when the batter draws anything else, it's a bad pitch and the batter will probably score.</li><li><strong>Nines:</strong> Nines are used to keep score.  Each player has two nines, one face-up and the other starts atop the first, face down.  each time a player scores, they uncover a pip on the bottom card by moving the top card.  If the score goes over nine, they flip the top card over.</li></ul><strong>Special Rules:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Player stats are career Batting Average and Win Percentage. Use only the first digit.  A batting average of .200 gives the same bonus as an average of .299</li><li>If the player's pitcher card has per-season stats, and their lineup includes at least three other players from the same team AND season as any of the listed season, the player can elect to use either career stats, or the matching season stats on the matching cards.</li><li>If all nine cards in the player's lineup are from the same team and season they must use the season stats, but they get a +1 bonus both pitching and battering.</li></ul>