Dice baseball is an inside joke in my family. We always make fun of my dad for playing "way too much when he was a kid, instead of going outside" -- this is at least according to my Grammy.
He stopped playing dice baseball when his older brother got his first computer. It allowed you to make super basic spreadsheets (or something that felt like spreadsheets, I don't trust his memory a ton) -- and the first spreadsheets he made were about dice baseball. From there he made spreadsheets about his highschool baseball team, and from there he decided he loved computers and went back to school to study them.
He stopped playing dice baseball when his older brother got his first computer. It allowed you to make super basic spreadsheets (or something that felt like spreadsheets, I don't trust his memory a ton) -- and the first spreadsheets he made were about dice baseball. From there he made spreadsheets about his highschool baseball team, and from there he decided he loved computers and went back to school to study them.
30 years later, here I am on HN :)