Tabletop season
(Continued from pg. S)
But he "was always a great
bame player'' and took it up in
1963 after a magazine ad for
the Strat-O-Matic BasebaJi
Game caught his eye,
"They still use the same ad,
by the way," he said.
He still remembers the first
game. Vada Pinion homered to
lift Cincinnati over Houston,
2-0.
The highlight of his
game-playing career came five
years later, when Bob Givson
of the St. Louis Cardinals
threw a perfect game against
the San Diego Padres. ,
A close second was, when
Green Bay running back John
Brockington gained 2,000
yards in just 10 games a few
seasons ago.
"He had a lot of carries,"
Davison said.
During his earlier days, he
adnitted, "t used to cheat for
Green Bay and the Yankees"
(his favorite teams) by giving
them a second chance when a .
key play would fail. .
"I gave ail that up when I
gave Joe Pepitone four chances'
to win the game, and all four
times he was out."
This summer Davison is "off
to a slower start than usual,"
each of the 24 teams having
completed eight games.
Normally he would have
12-14 games per team played
by now, but summer schooS
has tightened his schedule.
He hopes to play 30 games
per team before the summer is
over. That's 360 games to
complete before fall, when he
will start right in on football.
"I play whatever is in
season," he said.
Each baseball games takes
30 to 45 minutes, while a
football game takes an hour or
so. After each game he records
the statistics, kept in vast piles
under his bed, on shelves and
in his closet.
Five thousand games means
a lot of time devoted to
tabletop sports over the past
1 2 jyars.'Why does he do it?
"It's a lot of fun." he said.
"I'm a great fan end I'd like to
know how players wouid do if
I were handling the strategy."
He said he doesn't think he
could handle coaching because
of its personal and
psychological aspects,
"And besides, if I weren't
playing, I'd probably be lying
around watching TV."
Sometimes friends kid him
for spending so much time
playing games at his age, but
it's not much of a problem
because "people who know me
just expect me to do it" since
he's been at it so long.
He also likes to match wits
with someone at an occasional
war strategy game, if he can
find a partner who knows how
to play.
Davison's athletic activities
aren't restricted to a card table.
The Omahan. , lettered in
football his senior year in high
school and shoots golf in the
mid-Bo's. ;
The 6-1, 185-pounder also
plays first base in two summer
softball leagues.
An avid Nebraska football
fan, he hasn't missed a Big Red
home game since 1963. When
the season starts in the fall, he
plans to be attending his 70th
consecutive home game.
A year from now, Davison
plans to be out of college and
in the marketing field, wearing
sharp-looking suits to work,
carrying ' a briefcase and
learning ( the ropes of the
business world.
Later could come a wife,
kids and a home in the
suburbs. Do the games he plays
fit into the picture?
"I see no reason to quit," he
said.
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