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MicroLeague Baseball II

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Download microleague2_dsk.sit (1.95 MB)
For System 1 - 5 - System 6.x
Download microleaguebaseball2.zip (12.07 MB)
For System 1 - 5 - System 6.x
Emulation
This game works with: Mini vMac

With the shipment of MicroLeague Baseball, a tremendous gap in the Mac gaming market has been filled: at last we have a baseball simulation that uses real players and the statistics they accumulate.
- MacWorld

That's the raison d'être here: not reflex action à la Hardball, but pitting historical teams against one another. On each turn, click the "Offense" or "Defense" button for a menu of strategic options. Alternatively, let the computer play both teams in "Quik-Play" mode and study the box score of your chosen matchup.

The game is archived in its original format of two 800K disks, as well as a combined 1.4MB image for more convenient use under emulation. You can also copy everything but the System Folder from the 1.4MB disk to your hard drive and play from there.

Important: One of the 25 teams included with the game, "Tigers Greats," is missing from this copy due to a bad sector on the original disk. If you have a copy of that file, please add it to the archive. (It would be possible, if very time-consuming, to manually enter the Tigers Greats data from the MS-DOS version of the game. However, this wouldn't include the phonetic pronunciations of the players' names, which seems to have been a Mac-only feature.)

Version: 1.21 (US)

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Architecture: 68k

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MCP's picture
by MCP - 2012, January 23 - 6:28pm

Hmm... the archive I uploaded triggers Avast! anti-virus on my Windows machine when I try to download it, saying that there's a Wdef virus on MLB_1.dsk, but it downloads anyway and the old anti-virus stuff on my Pismo doesn't detect anything. The copy I had on MediaFire has disappeared also, which almost never happens with my files.

Could it be the Wdef was removed from the disk image at some point but there's still something left that triggers Avast?

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by MCP - 2011, July 19 - 2:38pm

I got my hands on an original package of this game, and the disks are in horrible condition, unable to be copied, but I did manage to get that "Tigers Greats" file and add it to the existing upload, which is actually the same version number as what I have anyway. I've uploaded it as a second archive, together with all the docs in PDF format.

Also, from the documentation it seems there were add-on disks available for this game; if anyone has any, please let us know on this page!