Earl Weaver Baseball

[Senator]

Who loved that game?

[RainMaker]

I can't tell you how many hours I put into the game. Built my own rosters and everything as a kid.

[pbot]

Absolutely. In college a group of friends would draft teams, build our own stadiums and play out seasons.

[BillJasper]

Earl Weaver: 1930-2013 | HardballTalk

RIP Earl.

[Blackadar]

That game was awesome and I don't even like baseball.

[sovereignstar v2]

Can't remember exactly which was my first computer game, but it was either EWB II or Sierra's Conquest of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood.

I spent more time playing with the rosters than anything graphical. This would've been at the age of 10. I definitely credit the game with getting me into sports simulations.

Earl Weaver Baseball II for DOS (1991) - MobyGames

[heybrad]

Since one of the Earl Weavers let you trade players around, many, many years ago a bunch of friends and I got together and did a draft to start a league. We had a friend who didn't have the greatest sports knowledge and it sort of became a legendary story among us when he drafted Lee Gutterman with his 1st round pick.

[Desnudo]

I remember the paper wheel although I don't remember what it was for

[frnk55]

Hardball 4 I believe was my first PC baseball game. Not sure why I missed out on Weaver.

[rowech]

I had Microleague instead.

[pbot]

Originally Posted by BillJasper

Earl Weaver: 1930-2013 | HardballTalk

RIP Earl.

Damn. Had not heard the news about Earl. Growing up as an Orioles fan while he was still managing the team was cool. I really liked the game but the fact that it had his name on it made it even better. Billy Martin baseball would have been far less appealing to me.

I'm glad the O's finally got around and did the correct thing and gave him a statue last summer while he was still around to see it and get one last chance for the fans to salute him again.

R.I.P Earl.

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by Desnudo

I remember the paper wheel although I don't remember what it was for

It was the security lock. You had to line up the answer to the question (if I remember correctly). I played that game for hours on end. I was working overnights, and loaded on the sad little computer at work to play it in EGA.

I loved that game, until Tony Larrussa's baseball came along. Then Front Page Baseball. Those were great games.

[BYU 14]

RIP Earl, hated the O's growing up as a Yankee fan but have grown to respect what Earl brought to the game.

A true legend and one of the most fiefy guys around.

[Glengoyne]

Originally Posted by RainMaker

I can't tell you how many hours I put into the game. Built my own rosters and everything as a kid.

Originally Posted by pbot

Absolutely. In college a group of friends would draft teams, build our own stadiums and play out seasons.

Originally Posted by GrantDawg

It was the security lock. You had to line up the answer to the question (if I remember correctly). I played that game for hours on end. I was working overnights, and loaded on the sad little computer at work to play it in EGA.

I loved that game, until Tony Larrussa's baseball came along. Then Front Page Baseball. Those were great games.

All of the above. Except that EWB was better than tony larussa's baseball. I tried to recreate the league my friends and I played through using eddie Dombrower's EWB baseball on the iPad. He just never invested the time to make it what the old PC game was on an 8088 in CGA.

[corbes]

Yup yup yup. Can't tell you how many elementary-school hours were spent at my friend's house printing out rosters on the dot-matrix printer, drafting teams, trading them up, and then playing endless games against each other. Let it be said: Roger Clemens, 2-2-2, 1-4-5, 1-4-5, K.

[Eaglesfan27]

Originally Posted by Desnudo

I remember the paper wheel although I don't remember what it was for

I think it was a password system for security.

I LOVED the original and put so many hours into it.

[Maple Leafs]

My all time favorite game on any platform. Used to spend hours entering each year's rosters and playing out the season in manage mode.