Bally – Hardball Retro https://www.tuatarasoftware.com dedicated to the enrichment of casual and serious enthusiasts in all aspects of professional baseball Tue, 25 Mar 2025 20:44:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.10 https://www.tuatarasoftware.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cropped-hardball_retro_icon-1-32x32.jpg Bally – Hardball Retro https://www.tuatarasoftware.com 32 32 A Saturday Night Baseball Chinwag with Authors Derek Bain and John Racanelli https://www.tuatarasoftware.com/2025/03/23/a-saturday-night-baseball-chinwag-with-authors-derek-bain-and-john-racanelli/ https://www.tuatarasoftware.com/2025/03/23/a-saturday-night-baseball-chinwag-with-authors-derek-bain-and-john-racanelli/#respond Sun, 23 Mar 2025 14:32:43 +0000 https://www.tuatarasoftware.com/?p=20600 Read more]]> 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 those gems!

Many thanks to Beatles Eternally for organizing our chat and my co-author John Racanelli for joining us on short notice!

Check out the video here:

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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 Emil Rothe (Chicago) SABR Chapter, founder and Co-Chair of the SABR Baseball Landmarks Research Committee, and a regular contributor to the SABR Baseball Cards Research Committee blog.

Check out the meeting video here!

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