Order by the year each player joined the Tampa Bay Rays. 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.
Tampa Bay Rays players are on these cards, and you order them by the year each one joined the club. One player starts on the line with his year visible. Each new card shows a name and a position, maybe designated hitter or relief pitcher, and you choose the gap he belongs in. Land it right and you see the year; a wrong one still sends him to his true place and takes one of your three lives.
The Rays began as the Devil Rays, and the earliest cards come from those lean expansion seasons under the old name. The deck is squeezed into a short history, so cards often land almost on top of each other. The club is known for moving players on before they get expensive, which means a lot of short stays. Relievers and center fielders show up often.
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.