Order by the year each player joined the Arizona Diamondbacks. You place all 52 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
Arizona Diamondbacks players fill these cards, sorted by the year each one joined the club. A single player begins on the line with his year shown. Each new card lists a name and a position like third baseman or relief pitcher, and you pick where he fits. Choose well and the year is revealed. Choose badly and he still moves to his correct spot, but you lose one of your three lives.
Arizona is one of the youngest clubs in baseball, so the deck is packed tightly, and cards are often separated by very little. The expansion roster and the early contending teams are well represented, while the later part of the deck is the most crowded. Relief pitchers make up the largest group. Short stays are common, and those players are the hardest to place.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
Here are 28 of the 52 cards you might be dealt, with 24 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.