The SeasonTool utility was created by Daniel Guenther in the late-1990’s to facilitate the creation of season disks for Earl Weaver Baseball 1.5 for the IBM PC (EWB). SeasonTool relies on CSV files derived from the Lahman baseball database. However, modern Lahman releases (including SABR Lahman 2025) differ significantly from the Lahman 5.1 schema that … Read more
I created a quick tutorial to discuss how to create custom libraries or season disks in Earl Weaver Baseball 1.5 for the IBM PC using Daniel Guenther’s SeasonTool utility. You can download SeasonTool from the Files section of my Facebook group, Old Computer Baseball Simulations. Here’s a rundown of the requirements: Earl Weaver Baseball was … 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
I created a quick tutorial to discuss how to create and edit teams in Earl Weaver Baseball II. Here’s a rundown of the requirements: Earl Weaver Baseball II was developed by Mirage Graphics and published by Electronic Arts in 1991 for the IBM PC personal computer. View the tutorial video here: I also created a … Read more
I created a quick tutorial to discuss how to create and edit teams in Earl Weaver Baseball. Here’s a rundown of the requirements: Earl Weaver Baseball was developed by Mirage Graphics and published by Electronic Arts in 1987 for the Amiga and IBM PC personal computers. An enhanced version (1.5) was later released solely for … Read more
This is the twelfth 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
