Hello again dear Strat Baseball Family. Well the last time we put out a newsletter was December last year, a time when people began to speculate on what the new cards would be like. But, here we are in March and leagues have already begun to use the 2015 cards, tournaments have already played with these cards so its a brand new ballgame.

For those members who picked up all those bulletins we sent out in February, you probably had a chance to view our videos already about "Opening Day", February 6th at the Game Company and Billy Sample playing our member Bryan Swank in Strat for the 1st time on February 7th. But just case you didn't, as we know how busy everyone can be, we linked them into this newsletter. We also were able to obtain a nice discount for our members on the latest "Rookie Review" by Stratogists.com, thanks to our friends over there.  To make sure that none of our members missed all this cool stuff as well as for those new members who will join us in the future, again its here in this issue. So if you lost our emails for those bulletins (or what, never read them :-( ), this newsletter has it all here.

We have been told (pretty soon after the newsletter comes out) the Game Company will be sharing our story about the "Billy Sample Challenge" which could open up some new doors that might allow us to do even more interesting future activities. Plus, we are hoping in the future to give a few other members the same chance as Bryan, to see if we might find other ex-ball players who will take up a similar challenge. I of course, (again going back to the December issue), want another shot to play against Tony Brizzolara as well. 

Anyway even if you already have viewed the videos and such, this issue includes more interviews (we talk to the Strat Tournament Player's Club again with two new interviews including their World's Champ and, we brought back Jim Callis, who has played strat and is now linked to MLB.com reporting on all the new Prospects headed into the majors) plus we also talk more with Baseball HQ via their general manager Ray Murphy, who we came into contact with through Matt Beagle in December. Ray talks about their site which has some of the most amazing baseball related information I have seen for an on-line fantasy site.

You should have received a special projection file I found on MLB.com of the current players attached to the email that invited you to our newsletter.  We have make sure that you are aware of all the wonderful new teams the game company is offering this year along with the new version of the computer baseball game.  We review two of the most prolific baseball guides around, more links to on-line projection systems and finally, I work with one of the most prolific and successful on-line strat gamers (that's the online baseball game at Strat) Bruce Foster, who has developed a system that he consistently wins with and I challenged Bruce to see if his system could also work for me. As you may or may not know, usually a system that works for one person is very difficult to duplicate. Thus this month I joined an "All Time Great" DH draft league which began March 2nd.  We have added of course, a few updates to the on-line resource page and the book resource page as well.

Now while I am here, before you go crazy through the contents of the March issue - we once again want to encourage any and all of our members, if you have something to share with others, an interesting story, an unbelievable experience in a league, tournament or replay or even, some new strategies to share with others, please contact us.  We have always believed that this newsletter in truth is a co-creation by all of us.  Or if you have some suggestions of things you wish to see in newsletter and we can do it, let us know. If any of you personally know an ex-ball player who might be open to speak to us for an interview, again we would be happy to receive such a suggestion. Lets all make this the finest newsletter out there for Strat-o-matic Baseball ... getting back ...