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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru
I will interrupt you guys just a minute by sharing this quote from the Wikipedia article on Hardball:
"Entertainment Weekly picked the game as the #11 greatest game available in 1991, saying: "With its oversaturated colors, ultrarealistic sound effects (when the umpire shouts 'Play ball!' it sounds as if he’s in the room), and detailed managerial options, HardBall! is the closest you may ever get to playing in a real major-league ballpark."
That last sentence made me chuckle, seeing what we have now.
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My recollection of one of the Hardballs (3?) was that there was some arbitrary number of HR (around 8-10?) that a batter had to have hit the previous year otherwise they were incapable of hitting a HR in simulations (it was possible in actual game play though).