Finger Baseball

I prefer Wiener Baseball, with frankfurters as stand-ins for the bats.

Imperfect, but a pretty good, fun game. Requires practice to do well. Hardly any strikeouts occur in the game and absolutely zero walks; the home plate area could have been designed better. Home plate should be bigger, for example. Fortunately, house rules are easy to apply.

Brutally difficult game, but in a way that has you want to keep playing (unlike the dire Finger Football). Hits and especially home runs are hard to come by, leading to scores that reflect real baseball games.

Works great as a simulation, though my group wrote in a sac-fly rule. My favorite aspect is pitching gets more difficult every three innings by moving the mound back, reflecting a pitcher getting tired as the game goes on.

Good flicking, dexterity game.

July '10: It's a love it/hate game. I love it and so do Wyndham and Ed Roman. But some other folks hate it.

Played a demo at a conference and immediately was struck by the brilliance of this little flicking game.

I like how one player 'pitches' and the 'batter' then is challenged to respond. Finger football and soccer are a bit of a letdown as dice are used for defensive play.

Great first play. Fun and surprisingly realistic.

Update. Continues to be appropriately difficult, realistic and great fun!

A dexterity game for baseball fans that plays really well.