Present Major League Baseball truly timeless. Sporting News Baseball, at the time, had every extra feature that to me would have made Ken Griffey. DOE.” Players could also make errors – it wasn’t a column just for show anymore. When Mike Piazza stepped into the batters box it said “PIAZZA,” not “J.
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Sporting News Baseball even attained the MLBPA license unlike in Griffey, hours no longer had to be dedicated scouring a Sports Illustrated almanac and tediously renaming everyone in the game. This kind of flexibility prevented it from ever growing old. You could now stack your line-up with every team’s clean-up hitter, or lead-off hitter, or merely throw together a ragtag bunch of everymen and bench players. You could edit the all-star teams! Whereas Griffey tortured by always forcing one-year wonders Scott Cooper and Dave Hollins upon your roster, now you could replace them with Matt Williams and Dean Palmer. There were other novelties I absolutely adored. Graeme Lloyd and Juan Bell were poised to lead me to the pennant… if only it wouldn’t have taken two months of playing time to do it. Though his statistics from the previous season (and his entire career, no doubt) said otherwise, the Brewer backup was actually a beast (for some reason, baseball games released during this time had to turn one career bench player into a stud – see Kevin Maas in Ken Griffey Jr. One was that left-handed side-armed pitchers were unhittable Graeme Lloyd threw many a no-hitter for me, and lost so many more in the later innings when the best batters could just barely graze his curving sphere slung from the most awkward of angles.
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I never completed a full season in Sporting News Baseball – never even came close – for one of its drawbacks is that it’s a slow, plodding game. Moreover, there were other quirks, the kind that stick with you, ones that are easily recalled as the memories rush back.
Could Greg Vaughn really have more raw power than Danny Tartabull? Was Darryl Strawberry better than Bobby Bonillia? I had to know. I’d be surprised by results, and forced to test them again. I’d run every top slugger of the time (1993) out there, 100 pitches each, and afterward record their totals in spreadsheets. I spent so many summer days slugging the hell out of the ball, the cornfield always my sanctuary. Moreover, any of the eighteen batsmen each team boasted could be selected to compete, and they all hit with raw power the eighteenth man on the roster could easily club at least 55 out of 100 over the fence, while titans like Griffey or Barry Bonds could blast upwards of 90. Though there were only three generic stadiums in the entire game – a traditional 1970s cookie-cutter, a steely dome, or a Costner-inspired cornfield – all three were selectable.
Rather than basing it on the traditional ten outs, you now began by selecting the number of pitches, with options ranging from ten to one hundred. Sporting News not only was less restricting, but suddenly there were no restrictions. It didn’t matter that the game had hundreds of other players, or twenty-seven other stadiums these were your limited options, and you had to take it or leave it. himself – and take on the computer one on one in a ten-out finale at Camden Yards in Baltimore. In Griffey you could choose from six competitors – only one of them based on a real likeness, Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball and you’ll see why I was so enamored.
For comparison’s sake, stand its derby side by side with the compelling, ageless Ken Griffey Jr. Sporting News Baseball featured a homerun derby mode that, as far as Super Nintendo baseball was concerned, went above and beyond, trumping anything thereto released on the system. I remember it well, and I remember exactly why. Could Greg Vaughn really have more raw power than Danny Tartabull? Was Darryl Strawberry better than Bobby Bonillia? I had to know." "I spent so many summer days slugging the hell out of the ball, the cornfield always my sanctuary.
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