I was there back in the day on Prodigy as well, very fond memories of checking my headlines on my ibm ps\2? monochrome monitor as a teen obsessed with baseball and statistics.

NPKV80A here.  On my 8088 then, in Alpharetta AL BBM year one, then Mantle AL since.  Visited Dan et al in White Plains, got to see the huge floor full of PC computer banks.  Took some of the pics posted on BBM of the first BBM picnic in NJ.  Killer softball game. Gotta have that BBM!

One more of many memories:  Running an Australia tour in '93, sneaking off from the clients to find a Sears store where they agreed to let me online in the Computer Sales department to then Sears-owned Prodigy to check my results.  Addiction . . .

 

The Beagles were there in '92 and every year since then.  We have many pennants on our wall.  Really wish BBM still made those.  Really miss David Godwin (Hummingbird) this year.  What a class act he was - Mr. Pinetar!!  I think in honor of him we should allow Home Field Advantage once again for all teams regardless of Stadium Factor.  Art, I appreciate all you do for BBM -don't think it would survive without you,

I never played in the Prodigy days, but I found BBM when I started college in 1997. I've been around ever since.

Oh yes, I remember my Prodigy ID - FMDM64C - and those early days of BBM. I actually started playing BBM on Prodigy in my early teens and in my early 40s now -- one of the very few activities that has really followed me throughout my life.

 

I grew up in the Pittsburgh area, I remember my first draft when I pretty much drafted all Pittsburgh Pirates on my roster and quickly realized that was not the way to win BBM... 🙂

Ha. I did the same thing my first year. Had a boat load of Tigers. Ha. Needless to say, I did not win the league. 😂

For sure. Almost forgotten about those old modems. Younger people won’t understand what we endured just to get connected. And then for no appearent reason disconnected or poorly connected, and have to do it all over again. 😂

Oh, the anticipation of waiting to get draft results! Such a great way for an early teenager to wake up in the morning! 

those were the days!  in my house in order to get on Prodigy I had to unplug an extra long telephone cable from my room, drag it across the hallway into the office, and plug it into the modem.  then I would reverse the process when I was done so people wouldn't trip over it.  and we thought that was high tech back then.  

Don't I remember the warning "COMMIT keeps phone lines open"--or something like that--letting us Prodigy users know to keep hitting the COMMIT button on our draft lists, or we'd lose the connection and all our changes would be lost.

That’s right, Youngblood. I’d forgotten that. Good memory. 😁

I forgot what year that Dan Hecht decided to have 'coaches' assist him. Art Dameron, Jan 'Tex' Larson and myself, Bob Kessler, were the first ones. (I think we only had three at the start).  And then the great effort to thwart Prodigy from totally ditching BBM. And of course, the early wild, wild west days of the online chat board where almost anything went on (G).

The Bagwell rule!   #$%(!]!