Why is this organization called the “Actuals”? When I wrote my first book, “Hardball Retrospective”, I placed every player on the first team which they signed a professional MLB contract with. I called those teams the “Originals” while calling their real-life counterparts the “Actuals”. I sometimes refer to the “Actuals” as the “Franchise Best Players”. … Read more
Introducing – Hardball Retro’s Compendium of Baseball Tabletop Simulations available now at Amazon for $44.99 (paperback) and $19.99 (Kindle) Features 589 full-color pages with 150+ baseball tabletop sims and 16 interviews with game designers! This compendium celebrates 100 years of baseball tabletop simulation games. Our goal with this book is to memorialize as many of … Read more
I created a survey for my latest book project – a history of baseball tabletop games! This is a collaboration with several co-authors who are subject matter experts. The book will focus on the baseball tabletop simulations published over the last century and include reviews, interviews, images and ratings from various sources. https://forms.gle/cFFJqoFngnnNxyue8 Please consider … Read more
I created a tutorial to discuss how to conduct a solo draft in Micro League Baseball 6.0. You can also execute drafts with multiple human participants using either the Standard or Fantasy draft methods (see the game manual or in-game Help for additional details). I elected the solo option with the computer general manager configured … Read more
I created a tutorial to discuss how to conduct a solo draft in Action!PC Baseball. I’m using Action!PC Baseball 23 but you can execute a draft in any of the recent releases. You can also execute drafts with multiple human participants using these methods – I elected the solo option with the computer general manager … Read more
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
I created a tutorial to discuss how to conduct a solo draft in Diamond Mind Baseball 12. You can also execute drafts with multiple human participants using these methods – I elected the solo option with the computer general manager configured to draft the remaining teams for the sake of simplicity. Here’s a rundown of … Read more
I created a quick tutorial to discuss how to create and edit teams in Front Page Sports Baseball ’94. Here’s a rundown of the requirements: Front Page Sports Baseball ’94 was developed by Dynamix and published in 1994 by Sierra for the IBM PC personal computer. Please note that while the tutorial utilizes Front Page … Read more
I created a tutorial to discuss how to conduct a solo draft in Front Page Sports Baseball ’94. You can also execute drafts with multiple human participants using these methods – I elected the solo option with the computer general manager configured to draft the remaining teams for the sake of simplicity. Here’s a rundown … 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 … Read more
