Have you ever imagined what it would be like to pit modern pitching ace Fernando Valenzuela against legendary slugger Babe Ruth? Have you ever wished you could field a baseball team composed of such greats as Willie Mays and Sandy Koufax and have them play against the likes of Hank Aaron and George Brett? Thanks to Computer Baseball, you can do these things and much more.
Computer Baseball contains data files for 28 famous, pennant winning Major League teams from baseball's storied past. Fourteen different classic World Series match-ups are described in depth in a manual included with the package. Team selection begins in 1906 with the Chicago White Sox vs. the Chicago Cubs and ends in 1980 with the Kansas City Royals vs. the Philadelphia Phillies. The description of each match-up includes star player statistics (batting average, hits, homers, RBI, steals, runs scored, walks, strikeouts, wins, losses, saves and more) that you can use to create your teams. Data discs of certain other teams and players are available separately.
After creating your team, imaginary or real, past or present, it's time to begin play. Computer Baseball is not an Arcade-style game, but a probabilistic simulation in which on-field events are influenced by the decisions you make as the manager and by the abilities of the players on each team. Managerial functions include positioning fielders, determining base-running aggressiveness, inserting pinch hitters and pinch runners, calling for bunts and hit and runs, calling for steals, changing pitchers, making substitutions for injured players, holding base runners and more. A partial animation accompanied by onscreen text describing what is happening follows each play.