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Over 30 years ago in Knowlton, Quebec, a physical education teacher, Bill Busteed  at the local high school got together with a few of his colleagues; Bob Douglas and Steve Trew and some friends (also somewhat fanatical) and started talking about a game he had read about in Baseball Digest. The game was a simulation baseball game based on the actual stats of players the year before. It was a board game played with cards and dice. It was from the  Strat-O-Matic Game Company just outside New York City. These baseball fanatics ordered a game and drafted teams and went on to play a 60 game schedule with six or so managers. They played in the late fall and winter months to give them something to do during these cold and boring seasons where they couldn't watch baseball live.

Text Box: Bill Busteed  
That was then and now, a few other fanatics and baseball diehards continue this winter pastime in Knowlton, Sweetsburg, Granby and Cowansville. The League consists of ten teams this year. The commissioner has played for over thirty years and is a retired school teacher. In the league, there are two employees of IBM (Bromont) , a couple of retired IBM guys, a  financial wizard, a part-time banker, the retired school teacher, a  new kid (past champion) in his 5th year (a son of a past strato player), another second generation player from Cowansville (3rd year) and the new kid on the block with a strange team name.

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