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I did a search for this, but didnt get any results. Perhaps Im ignorant. Onto the question:

Whats the best baseball game for the consoles? Is there anything other than EA?

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:11 (twenty years ago)

I used to like "Bases Loaded" on Nintendo! But now I only really play hockey games on ps2.

― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:38 (twenty years ago)

that bases loaded game made me hate all sports games up until this point. IT FUCKING CHEATED. you'd be up like 10-0 and then in the 8th or 9th the computer would go on this homerun binge and kick the crap out of you. too much for my 10 year old self to handle gracefully.

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 23:02 (twenty years ago)

I used to play "RBI baseball" back when I spent most of my free time in arcades ... once time I made it all the way to the 6th inning on one quarter.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 11 November 2004 00:21 (twenty years ago)

ha bases loaded did totally cheat! that's what made the conquest so much sweeter tho.

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 11 November 2004 00:47 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

SNK Baseball Stars for NES was the best console baseball game ever. Stat tracking back in the day, you could create your team, develop your talent, all that.

― Shaun (shaun), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago)

oh fuck its RBI baseball easy. sweet sweet simplicity.

― John (jdahlem), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 01:46 (twenty years ago)

eight years pass...

http://kotaku.com/baseball-video-games-dont-decide-whos-left-only-who-899699321

I thought this was pretty interesting. Is it true that a lefty hasn't played shortstop in a major league game in over a century?

― polyphonic, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 21:45 (twelve years ago)

yeah the throwing angles are fucked up. thats why theres no lefty catchers with a few exceptions

― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 25 July 2013 00:00 (twelve years ago)

three years pass...

not quite the right thread but . . . it is a belief of mine, based on no evidence, that 70 years of having the outfield camera on the left-field side of center -- such that pitches move from left to right on your television screen -- have significantly overstated the advantage that left-handed pitchers have against left-handed hitters. *of course* it looks impossible when randy johnson is releasing the ball from off the screen.

several MLB parks now show a straight-on view, which i salute

thanks to the crappiness of the minors (this is a new ballpark, too), we now have examples of the opposite view -- a righty against a righty from the right-field side. i'm not exactly sure it bolsters my theory, but it's fuckin weird to watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f6622W-xmY

ps there is *no* good reason there are no lefty catchers mayor j

― mookieproof, Thursday, 20 July 2017 01:25 (eight years ago)

The best reason I've heard (and I still don't quite buy it) is that anybody who throws left-handed and has a strong enough arm to play catcher gets turned into a pitcher right away

― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 20 July 2017 03:54 (eight years ago)

Anecdotal obviously but as L/L, dreaded facing LHPs (in part because it was less common) and loved facing same-handed hitters (especially with a curve).

Bought a left-handed catcher's mitt around 11/12 and occasionally caught until high school. Don't recall having any trouble, but it was only Little League/Senior League/Koufax.

In a tournament, once threw a complete game then caught one immediately afterward. Today's players ain't shit (kidding).

― Andy K, Thursday, 20 July 2017 14:09 (eight years ago)

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