Baseball fever was running high on a Tuesday evening in late September, as it was the opening game of the American League Wild Card series between the Yankees and the Red Sox.

Most fans were at home, or at a local watering hole, watching the game on TV.

But one group of baseball fanatics, the “Strat Pack,” of the Long Island Strat Club , was instead holed up in a meeting room at the Long Island Welcome Center off the Long Island Expressway in Dix Hills.

The eight teams in the club’s Northern Division (there are another 10 teams in its Southern Division) are there to draft players for their upcoming season of Strat-O-Matic baseball .

“It’s one of my favorite nights of the year,” said Jon Meyers, 65, one of the Northern Division’s three commissioners, who shares a table with his te

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