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by davegauer 1302 days ago
I visited the article only to make sure it mentioned the novel "The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop." by Robert Coover.

I was thinking about that book just yesterday. I find something about the way it goes "all in" on a tabletop gaming system deeply appealing. Probably for the same reasons I find pencil and paper RPGs and programming computers appealing.

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The system in UBAInc is pretty well fleshed out in the book and at one time in the rings-era WWW there were people creating their own versions of the game -- some very good.
Universal Baseball Association, J Henry Waugh, Prop -- Dice Game

http://sagarin.com/sports/dice.htm

That book was a childhood favorite of mine.
Will definitely read that book next!