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“Hardball Retro’s Compendium of Baseball Video Games and Electronic Handhelds” honored with the 2025 Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research Award

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I am honored and humbled to be recognized, along with my co-author John Racanelli, as one of the winners of the 2025 Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research Award for our book, “Hardball Retro’s Compendium of Baseball Video Games and Electronic Handhelds.” I’d like to offer a heartfelt thanks to everyone who contributed to our effort! Special … Read more

A Saturday Night Baseball Chinwag with Authors Derek Bain and John Racanelli

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Here’s a 3+ hour discussion on the Beatles Eternally YouTube channel about our book, “Hardball Retro’s Compendium of Baseball Video Games and Electronic Handhelds”. We talked about a wide variety of baseball sims, console, handheld, arcade and card & dice baseball games along with the designers, programmers, managers and broadcasters involved with the development of … Read more

SSI Computer Baseball – tutorial – create/edit teams

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I created a quick tutorial to discuss how to create and edit teams in SSI Computer Baseball. Here’s a rundown of the requirements: SSI Computer Baseball was released in 1981 for the Apple ][ and was later ported to the popular personal computers of the 1980’s: Commodore 64 (1983), IBM PC (1983), Atari 8-bit computers … Read more

MicroLeague Baseball – tutorial – create/edit teams with the GM/Owner Disk (Commodore 64)

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I created a quick tutorial to discuss how to create and edit teams in MicroLeague Baseball. Here’s a rundown of the requirements: MicroLeague Baseball was released in 1984 for the Commodore 64, Apple ][, IBM PC and Atari 8-bit computers. The Amiga and Atari ST computers received ports of the game in 1987. I’m utilizing … Read more

Discussion: Hardball Retro’s Compendium of Baseball Video Games and Electronic Handhelds

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Co-authors Derek Bain and John Racanelli discussed their recently released book, Hardball Retro’s Compendium of Baseball Video Games and Electronic Handhelds at the January 2025 virtual meeting for the SABR Games & Simulations Committee. Derek Bain is the author of five baseball books and co-chair of the SABR Games and Simulations Committee. John Racanelli is the membership director for the … Read more

Hardball Retro’s Compendium of Baseball Video Games & Electronic Handhelds

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Introducing – Hardball Retro’s Compendium of Baseball Video Games & Electronic Handhelds available now at Amazon for $29.99 (paperback) and $9.99 (Kindle) Celebrating 50 years of our pixelated National Pastime, this compendium documents the pertinent details for baseball video games and electronic handheld games released in the last half-century and follows the evolution of the … Read more

Survey for my book project – “History of Baseball Video Games”

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I created a survey for my latest book project – a history of baseball video games! This will encompass console, computer and arcade baseball games spanning more than 5 decades. I’m planning to include reviews, interviews, screenshots, box art and ratings from various sources. https://forms.gle/MfQp46x5BKVS2pJz5 Please consider filling out this survey – I’m looking for … Read more

Derek’s Podcast & Livestream Appearances, Interviews and Related Content

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The following page includes material such as podcasts, interviews and other content related to my ongoing Retro Computer Baseball Game Review series along with my article Play Retro Baseball Video Games In Your Browser. Podcasts, Interviews and Videos Box Scores From the Basement – The “Box Score” guys are joined by the co-chair of the … Read more

Retro Computer Baseball Game Review – MicroLeague Baseball II – III – IV

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This is the tenth entry in a series focusing on computer baseball simulations to supplement the chapter “Play Retro Baseball Video Games In Your Browser” from my Hardball Retroactive book along with the corresponding post at Baseball Analytics. The series focuses on baseball simulations – games in which the primary emphasis is on managerial strategy … Read more

Retro Computer Baseball Game Review – Monday Morning Manager

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Monday Morning Manager

This is the sixth entry in a series focusing on computer baseball simulations to supplement the chapter “Play Retro Baseball Video Games In Your Browser” from my Hardball Retroactive book along with the corresponding post at Baseball Analytics. The series focuses on baseball simulations – games in which the primary emphasis is on managerial strategy … Read more