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 Facebook group, “Old Computer Baseball Simulations”, as a place to gather people who enjoy our National Pastime from a managerial and front office perspective – primarily games that are no longer actively supported by the publisher, designer or programmer. I would like to encourage the sharing of user-created season disks. In order … 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 Facebook group, “Old Computer Baseball Simulations”, as a place to gather people who enjoy our National Pastime from a managerial and front office perspective – primarily games that are no longer actively supported by the publisher, designer or programmer. I would like to encourage the sharing of user-created season disks. In order … Read more
I created a quick tutorial to discuss how to create and edit teams in Diamond Mind Baseball 12. Here’s a rundown of the requirements: Diamond Mind Baseball was developed by Tom Tippett and debuted in 1987 as Pursue the Pennant PC Baseball. Versions 1 through 5 were released through 1994 under the PTP license, then the … Read more
I created a Facebook group, “Old Computer Baseball Simulations”, as a place to gather people who enjoy our National Pastime from a managerial and front office perspective – primarily games that are no longer actively supported by the publisher, designer or programmer. I would like to encourage the sharing of user-created season disks. In order … 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 Facebook group, “Old Computer Baseball Simulations”, as a place to gather people who enjoy our National Pastime from a managerial and front office perspective – primarily games that are no longer actively supported by the publisher, designer or programmer. I would like to encourage the sharing of user-created season disks. In order … 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
I created a quick tutorial to discuss how to create custom libraries in Digital Diamond Baseball v13. Here’s a rundown of the requirements: Digital Diamond Baseball is developed by Mark Cohen and it was first published in 2011 for the IBM PC personal computer. I’m utilizing version 13.1.2 in my tutorial but the majority of … Read more
