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LAMANNA’S BASEBALL BULLETIN (LBB), in our 24th year, is a Strat-O-Matic Baseball newsletter devoted to assisting SOM Baseball managers in evaluating every card in the SOM card set. All of the LBB ratings and LBB player evaluations are published between the end of the baseball season and opening day at the SOM Game Company.

The LBB card projections, for fielding, stealing and card chances, are a must for confident drafting and trading before the cards are available. Then, the New Card Rating issue gives you all the actual rating numbers! Get the information that the other guys in your league aren’t telling you about, because this is their edge for trading and drafting against you!

Don’t try to log into the Word Press software, that’s for me only! The only password protected page is the rookie page and when I get to writing it, i’ll protect a Q&A page too.

Jan. 4th, 2009: An complete list of 241 carded rookies has been added to the rookie list page with no written comments yet. I don’t have any dates yet for the Card Ratings or the Draft Guide but both issues have been started. I do anticipate having both issues ready by opening day. All feedback on the rookie list will be welcomed. Thanks in advance. Happy New Year to all! John

The classy Tom Glavine took the time to pose with me and Terry!

To all, The only change for the upcoming season of LBB is that I will now be mailing the Draft Guide on the Monday after opening day in New York.

Last year, in the rain, was my last trip up to Strat for opening day. This will give me an extra weekend to prepare the Draft Guide issue and save me a lot of stress.

I had to do rehab on my back in both January and again in May, so I need to find ways to reduce stress, like deadlines and schedules. I’m fine now and want to stay that way. I hope everyone is having a great summer and good luck with your leagues.

Take care,

John