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.

The guest speaker is Chris Witt, who has been playing and deconstructing tabletop baseball games for over 40 years. He is the developer of Deep Drive Baseball, which became available for sale in 2017.

Joe Bryan is a creator of tabletop sports games including Payoff Pitch Baseball. Joe has been an avid baseball fan and tabletop baseball player for more than 40 years.