Can you really learn basic probability by playing a sports board game?

This article considers the use of sports board games to introduce or illustrate a wide variety of probability concepts to introductory statistics students in an integrated manner. We demonstrate the use of a single game (Strat-O-Matic(R)Baseball) to introduce probability distributions, sample spaces, the laws of addition and multiplication of probabilities, independence, mutual exclusivity, randomization and independence, conditional probability, and Bayes' Theorem. Empirical and anecdotal evidence suggests that student comprehension and retention are enhanced by use of examples constructed from the simple and interesting contexts provided by a sports board game.