B & Baseball

File	b-&-baseball.hqx
Size	545.2 KB
Category	Game
Architecture	PowerPC

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B and Baseball is a small-scale Macintosh baseball simulation distributed as shareware during the System 7 era. It belongs to the broad family of black-and-white and early color sports games that ran on 68k Macs, where compact stat-driven engines stood in for the arcade-style action of larger console titles.Mac shareware baseballThroughout the late 1980s and 1990s, dozens of independent developers wrote baseball games for the Mac, ranging from text-and-icon stat simulators to sprite-based action titles. They were distributed through Info-Mac, ZiffNet, and Compuserve.Typical playCompact Mac baseball titles of this era usually offered batting and pitching against a CPU opponent, simple lineup management, and a scoreboard view rendered in the standard Mac toolbox. Saved games and customizable team names were common features.PreservationThe title is preserved on Macintosh Garden as part of its catalog of obscure Mac sports shareware, much of which has no surviving developer documentation beyond the bundled Read Me.