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How The Show Can Embrace Baseball's History

12:07 PM - March 14, 2014 by RaychelSnr

It’s a beautiful spring day in Brooklyn.

The smell of freshly cut grass fills your nose mixed with popcorn and hot dogs. A small murmur is coming over the crowd as it gathers in the stands at 55 Sullivan place for opening day of the 2014 Baseball Season.

This old ballpark has seen its share of history since opening in 1913, the year after Fenway Park opened -- if you are counting. The Dodgers have called this place home for years, full of its quirky dimensions including the short 297 foot right field.

As the GM, you’ve considered how your park was built and made adjustments accordingly. You want guys who can push the ball down the line here, center field does stand out there at an impossibly long 484 feet.

You see, at Ebbets Field, this place was built to have baseball played in it like it was being played in the early 1900s. Pitchers reigned supreme and the concept of the Babe was neither a ballplayer or a friendly pig from England.

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# 61 Ghost Of The Year @ 03/23/14 08:20 PM

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	In reality, all this is possible... The resources are there, the technology is there. I wonder if the demand would be there to make something like this financially viable, but in my world, including just 1 season from the past would make the game a every year purchase.

I'm not so sure the money is there, but you are correct "In reality, all this is possible". With enough money, a lot is possible.

# 62 Jeffster @ 03/23/14 08:38 PM

Can't like this enough. Right now I have no plans to get MLB 14, but there are some things that could be added to future games that would re-ignite my passion for it and these classic options are #1.

# 63 artdog5110 @ 03/24/14 01:06 AM

Another thing I forgot to add in my original post. The create a stadium when it does appear needs to be able to create a reasonable facsimile of the old cookie cutter multi purpose stadiums, Riverfront, three rivers etc. I know everyone hated them, but I know from my own experience in making classic rosters and using others that a lot of people like the '70's and 80's baseball. And like it or not the cookie cutters are needed.

# 64 Aeonix01 @ 03/25/14 09:41 PM

I think it might be interesting to bring being a club a bit more down to its roots. Start a club, and be a player. You get start up capital to buy or build a park and run it while playing as part of it. You make decisions in operating it which affect capital for the team and what you can upgrade. Playing as part of the team and contributing to its successes and failures increase and decrease fan base and growth opportunities with the goal of owning a major league park and running it while playing as part of the team. When you retire as a player, you can continue running the club or sell it off to the computer, or even another player online somehow. Perhaps a friend. Thoughts?

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# 65 artdog5110 @ 04/04/14 02:57 PM

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	Thought I'd mention this here. Just some thoughts about what would be ideal to me atleast. I was playing a 1988 mod for the show 13, and I was thinking. How amazing would it be if each release of the show, they included 1 season from baseball past. Just 1. Each new version they include 1 different season. What a great incentive to purchase each year. Imagine if the show 14 included the 1986 MLB season. Imagine if it included the amazing player models included for 2014 players. Imagine if it included era specific commentary. Imagine old ballparks, era specific overlays, uniforms, everything. In reality, all this is possible. I've seen what the show can do with the present. It's the best looking sports game out there. It plays amazing, and the presentation is arguably as good as it gets. The resources are there, the technology is there. I wonder if the demand would be there to make something like this financially viable, but in my world, including just 1 season from the past would make the game a every year purchase. 1 season of play. No franchise. Imagine recreating 1961. I'm sure Red Sox fans would love to replay 2004. Include 1994, and have the strike called off at the last second. There's a little OOTP in this idea obviously, but I'm dreaming of the possibilities of what this game could do with a full season from the past.

Actually, I love it. AS long as you can do season mode, w/ trades, etc. And specific stances and windups. I love it.

# 66 basketballer0385 @ 04/05/14 11:40 AM

The more I think about this the more excited I get I would love to play at the polo grounds with Jackie Robinson or at tiger stadium with cecil fielder Roberto clemente such possibilities

# 67 Jeffster @ 04/05/14 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by artdog5110


	Another thing I forgot to add in my original post. The create a stadium when it does appear needs to be able to create a reasonable facsimile of the old cookie cutter multi purpose stadiums, Riverfront, three rivers etc. I know everyone hated them, but I know from my own experience in making classic rosters and using others that a lot of people like the '70's and 80's baseball. And like it or not the cookie cutters are needed.

I didn't hate them! I love all those stadiums, and despite the "cookie cutter" label, they all had several differences from each other that anyone who paid attention could easily tell you. Just as one example, the turf played much faster at the Vet than it did at Riverfront, so the infielders could get to balls in Cincy that would bounce past them in Philly. And there were other differences too.

Anyway, I know I'm in the minority, but I miss circle stadiums and shiny green Astroturf. It's part of my baseball childhood and I don't just conform to the popular notion that those stadiums were some sort of abomination.

# 68 artdog5110 @ 04/07/14 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Jeffster


	I didn't hate them! I love all those stadiums, and despite the "cookie cutter" label, they all had several differences from each other that anyone who paid attention could easily tell you. Just as one example, the turf played much faster at the Vet than it did at Riverfront, so the infielders could get to balls in Cincy that would bounce past them in Philly. And there were other differences too. Anyway, I know I'm in the minority, but I miss circle stadiums and shiny green Astroturf. It's part of my baseball childhood and I don't just conform to the popular notion that those stadiums were some sort of abomination.

I agree, I just know that a lot of people don't consider them "classic". What I always loved was the contrast. LIke in the 75 WS, you go from old Fenway to, at the time, new, Riverfront. I loved that contrast.

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