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 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
Hardball Retrospective rosters are available in Digital Diamond v8 format for download here – (1901-1910 and 1911-1920 available now – more coming soon!) ______________________________________________________________________________ Hardball Retrospective rosters are available in Out of the Park (OOTP) 20 format for download here –https://www.mediafire.com/folder/s7ra5w92610c1/ (1901 through 1912 and 1950 through 1961 available now – more coming soon!) ______________________________________________________________________________ Earl Weaver … Read more
