Mike Silva is best known for his graphical recreations of historical ballparks and uniforms for Out of the Park Baseball. A computer baseball gamer since the days of MicroLeague Baseball, he conceived and constructed the Big Beautiful Baseball Bash, a tournament featuring all 2,676 major-league teams from 1901 through 2024.

Jamie Marshall is the editor and publisher of Sports Games Journal, which explores the history, and experience of sports simulation games. A lifelong baseball historian and simulation gamer, he joined Mike in conducting the Big Beautiful Baseball Bash.

Our guest speaker Glenn Guzzo, former editor of The Denver Post and executive sports editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, is the author of Strat-O-Matic Fanatics: The Unlikely Success Story of a Game That Became an American Passion. He also published STRAT FAN Magazine from 1991-99 and since 2007 has rated Strat-O-Matic’s baseball and football players each year.

Our guest speaker Jay Wigley (not Wrigley) is the author of How Retrosheet Saved Baseball History and is a long-time Retrosheet volunteer. His book delivers a comprehensive history of the organization that works to save the play-by-play of every game in major league history. Retrosheet was founded by a fan of baseball simulation (Dave Smith, APBA) and aided extensively by others like Tom Tippett (Diamond Mind Baseball) and Luke Kraemer (Pursue the Pennant). Wigley is a SABR member and has volunteered with Retrosheet since 1996.

Our guest speaker Len McKnight is a longtime orange and black bleeding Baltimore Orioles fanatic. He grew up reading daily box scores and analyzing baseball statistics to better understand why teams and players perform as they did. Now retired after many decades in the Information Technology field, he continues to follow baseball and uses sabermetrics to compare replay and actual baseball game simulations outcomes. Golden Era Replay Project

Our guest speakers, Marc Unger and Ron Juckett, will discuss the making of the upcoming documentary “Box Scores From the Basement” in which Ron’s story is one of many that will be told about people in the hobby and their passion for sports sim gaming. Marc is a long-time standup comedian, filmmaker and sports sim hobbyist. Ron covered the Washington Nationals for Fansided and did general baseball and golf for Bleacher Report before becoming a content creator on YouTube (Retro Sports Network) in 2018.

Our guest speaker is Craig Wessel, designer of All-Star Lineup Baseball (ASLB). Craig has a long history in gaming as an author of 40+ video game strategy guides for games like Doom, Quake, Unreal and more. In addition to ASLB, Craig also recently created the party game Bracketmania.