How The Show Can Embrace Baseball's History

[Senrab34]

There was a game on the Xbox that had old stadiums like the Polo Grounds, the Astrodome, Crosley Field, etc. and you could play as Babe Ruth, Mike Schmidt, Nolan Ryan and several other all-time greats. I can't remember if it was MVP baseball or another one, but you could also do an expansion team and draft. I don't remember if you could use the players in franchise mode, but you could choose an old stadium for your expansion team. The other cool feature was when a team was opening a new stadium in the future in real life when you got to that year in your franchise the game would have the new stadium and it would build a new stadium for teams that needed one like Oakland and at the time, Miami. It is amazing to think a game had all of this 10-12 years ago and we haven't had one close to that since. If SCEA decided to do something like this it would be amazing. Great article.

[Senrab34]

I guess I should have read the post directly before my last one. It was All-Star baseball that I was referring to. Sorry about that.

[pirates1fan]

This forum gives me chills. This! This is why I love the game of baseball and it will never compare to any other sport.

Oh, and the Field of Dreams speech is incredible. Whoever wrote that needs to be in the baseball hall of fame.

[Knight165]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ghost Of The Year

I love the old stadiums of yesteryear & would enjoy them being in the game, but I'd like to see a way to have two eight team leagues set up without having all the expansion teams cluttering things up. With import-a-player, The Show is already ahead of the curve over madden & nba2k in regards to historical rosters.

Online franchise....you can set up the league the way you like....including the playoffs and how many teams make it.....and you can use a custom roster in it as well.

M.K.
Knight165

[Moose Factory]

I've thought about a historic mode too and wondered why The Show didn't have some kind of aspect that celebrated baseballs history.

I think something called "Cooperstown Mode" would be perfect. I mean think about how last years Tiger Woods had The Evolution of Golf mode that spanned historic to modern day scenarios. It was a really fun mode. Recreating hall of fame moments from Baseball hall of famers would be amazing! With those historic items spreading out into other modes too.

[WB1214]

This is the first post that really made me want to play with an old time roster and league setup. I would love to form a team Ebbets Field

[NicoFrost]

The older I get the more interested I am in the history of baseball. I love the old stadiums being included. And I absolutely love the idea of playing a "replica" season from the 30's or 50's or something. That'd be sweet!

[Scooter3]

The classic Baseball alarm just went off and I just woke up!...This is what I have been clamoring about for years. Been reworking my 16 classic teams for 6 years including 2013. I reworked 90% of my classic players faces and added new players this year. I didn't put them on the vault though.
A friend was going to help me with the attributes but was too busy with school and couldn't finish.
my verizon air card won't let me on the vault it keeps dropping off. All I can say is that my players faces improved from last year"BigTime".
I would love to see my players in baggy uniforms in the old classic stadiums kicking some old classic dust around! The Milwaukee Braves vs the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field sounds like Baseball Heaven...

If SCEA ever decides to go this route I would like to volunteer to work with SCEA with my classic faces. What I could do is create generic faces....and it wouldn't be my fault if my created faces looked like the greats...It would be up to the people who bought the game to pick the best match out of 400-500 faces then add a name a number a stance etc. to that face....This way I would get paid you guys would get everything when you buy the game...and I wouldn't have to remake every player every year...I could play the game ....what a concept.....Love the idea.