Griffs Jobs

As a kid, I loved my baseball card collection and believe it or not my
favorite card and player as kid was Doug Camilli who did not have the
most brilliant sports career …. Sounds familiar. I remember Doug was
the 3rd string Catcher for the Dodgers and as a Catcher in Little League
Doug was my favorite – I was bummed when the Dodgers traded Doug
to the Washington Senators
When I was in my early 30’s I was playing golf at least 1x a week usually
on Friday morning another passion from youth. I was no longer collecting
baseball cards which I believe probably were thrown away when
I was in high school (what was I thinking) I usually snuck in nine holes
before work with my 2 buddies from my childhood days at the course I
grew up playing Arroyo Seco in South Pasadena, CA … After Golf, we
would always have breakfast and talk about everything under the sun
usually sports related. Since my buddies Rich and Dave had played Dice
Baseball as kids we had that in common and we all loved sports. Baseball
Cards in the late 80s became popular again and many new companies
started producing cards other than Topps. One day after Golf we
were talking about the resurgence of Baseball Cards and got to talking
about the dice baseball game we played as kids and how great that game
was. We wondered why no one had ever made a game out of it. We
decided to publish our game since Baseball card shows were booming
across America. We came up with the name Roll-um Baseball… We
started a company call GRG to produce Roll-um and kept our day jobs
while we worked evenings and weekends over a few years to launch our
board game.
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