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1941 Card Set and Disk Review

I started doing the prep work for my upcoming 1941 BBW replay and that means one of the first things to be done was to purchase a 1941 card set and a 1941 BBW disk . No, I don't really need both, but I do like to flip through the card set from time to time and after all, old habits are hard to break. The 1941 set is listed as a revised set (all 546 players are carded). The Master Game numbers are all included on the cards as we have come to expect from a revised set, plus a stats line is included for pitchers and hitters. It is a very good-looking set of cards. One of the first things that gets done to get this replay preparation started is that a spreadsheet is set up, including dumps of the batting, pitching, and fielding stats, all pulled from Baseball-Reference.com (BBR). Using the player names and team names from the batter’s spreadsheet tab, a new tab was created and the Master Game ratings from the BBW disk were entered by hand into the new tab. I suppose it is a bit obs