Talk:Earl Weaver Baseball

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Added a bunch of stuff -- but my experience is limited to the Amiga version. JAF1970 04:34, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Added box cover JAF1970 22:19, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Errors in Innovations section - As much as I liked EWB and consider it one of the more innovative baseball games out there, many of the firsts attributed to EWB in this article are incorrect. MicroLeague Baseball came out in 1984 (EWB came out in 1987) and it had: manager arguing with the umpire, annual roster and stat disks for major league players, MLBPA license and I believe it had single pitch mode as well. --Nechevo (talk) 07:09, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

I loved MicroLeague Baseball, but it did not feature an ump arguing with a manager. It also did not have an MLBPA license - at the time, there was no MLBPA licensing for computer games, and they only used last names, skirting the legal issues. JAF1970 (talk) 14:04, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

According to the cover of the the main MicroLeague Baseball game it had the MLB license which is why it used team names in the game itself and had a few MLB team logos on the cover.[1]The cover sheet for the Player Stats/Team Disk I managed to dig out of my collection has the MLBPA logo and copyright so ya MicroLeague Baseball did have a MLBPA License even though they only used the player's last name and first initial. (Unfortunately mobygames doesn't have a pic of the stat disk's cover and since I don't have a digital camera I can't take a pic of it and post it). And it did have manager/umpire arguments I distinctly remember those particularly I remember my dad getting mighty upset when his team's manager argued and was ejected since that meant the computer took over for the team. Check out the manual file for MicroLeague on Home of the Underdogs as that confirms it. [2] --Nechevo (talk) 06:25, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

It specifically did not have manager arguments. And having real baseball players <> MLB licensing agreement. JAF1970 (talk) 14:49, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes MicroLeague Baseball DID have manager arguments. Not only do I remember them, the manual (which I provided a link to in my previous message) actually mentions them and tells you how to turn them off (since they slowed the game down because you had to sit and watch your manager run out, argue with the umpire, kick dirt on his feet and run off. And sometimes the umpire would throw the manager out and the computer would manage the team for the rest of the game.). I know that having real baseball players doesn't always equal having a MLBPA License. But if MicroLeague didn't have a MLBPA License then why did they sport the MLBPA logo and copyright on the boxes? --Nechevo (talk) 14:02, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

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