136 Pages. Print Version. Issue 008 of Sports Sim Magazine features Geoff Giordano's History of APBA Football, one of the grand-daddies of football simulation, James Cast on History Maker Baseball Manager Strategy Card usage, S.T. Patrick on a homebrewed rule to make real-life managerial success or failure matter in History Maker Baseball, Donald Weed on the history of racing games, Matt McKeever on co-creating the popular Pocket Pennant Run baseball game, Ed Morgans on Downey Games' Fast Action Football, Zachary Browne on the battle of the cards - Kershaw vs Verlander, Kurt Bergland and Brien Aranov on the importance of Japanese baseball to sims, Eric Simon on replaying the 1976 NBA season and two horse racing projects, Clay Dreslough on the difficulties and solutions of incorporating runner advancement into a baseball sim, Regular Season Basketball's new 68-team all-time set (Set II), a Strat-O-Matic Baseball quiz from Cary Cardinale, and the SSM community sounds off on whether this is truly the Golden Age of Sports Gaming. Also, Roberto Chiavini has kindly allowed SSM to print Chequered Flag Formula Racing and the 1946-1952 seasons for readers to play.