The guest speaker is Nate Edwards, a writer whose passion is baseball video games new and old, foreign and domestic. Nate learned how to read Japanese after a chance meeting with an imported PlayStation 3 baseball game, and his 30-30.club website and YouTube channel spread awareness on the many baseball titles that don’t get released in baseball’s homeland. His writing has appeared in Deadspin, The Hardball Times, and an interactive fiction game for PC and mobile called The Fielder’s Choice.

The guest speaker is Mike Cieslinski, the designer of Dynasty League Baseball Powered by Pursue the Pennant. Dynasty League Baseball resides in the permanent archives of National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown and received awards for best new sports game by Games Magazine and Top 100 Hobby Game of last 50 years.

Co-authors Derek Bain and John Racanelli joined us for a discussion about their recently released book, Hardball Retro’s Compendium of Baseball Video Games and Electronic Handhelds.

Derek Bain is the author of five baseball books and co-chair of the SABR Games and Simulations Committee. John Racanelli is the membership director for the Emil Rothe (Chicago) SABR Chapter, founder and Co-Chair of the SABR Baseball Landmarks Research Committee, and a regular contributor to the SABR Baseball Cards Research Committee blog.

The guest speaker is Scott Courlander, owner and CEO of Scorelander Games. An experienced and long-time fantasy baseball player, Scott designed and published the baseball card games Bat Flip and Bat Flip Dynasty.

The guest speaker is Glen Wolfram, an experienced software engineer, who spent nearly 20 years in the game industry. He was the primary league and statistics programmer for the Front Page Sports football and baseball franchises.

The guest speaker is Alex Ehrath, a German native who has worked as a software developer for several companies including Amazon and Roblox since 1989. In addition to programming ESPN Baseball Tonight for the Super Nintendo, he spent most of his career developing video games on a wide variety of hardware and software platforms spanning from the Atari Lynx to modern high-end PCs.