Order by the year each player joined the Cincinnati Reds. 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.
Cincinnati Reds players make up the deck, and you arrange them by the year each joined the club. One player opens the timeline with his year visible. The cards you draw show a name and a position, perhaps second baseman or starting pitcher, and you choose a gap. A correct guess reveals the year; a wrong one still moves him to his true place and takes away one of three lives.
Cincinnati has been playing professional baseball longer than almost anyone, and the oldest cards come from the club's early days in the American Association. The Big Red Machine years are the busiest stretch in the middle, while some earlier periods are thin. Starting pitchers are the largest group. Players who spent their whole careers in Cincinnati are easy to put too late.
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.