The guest speaker is Steve Shaw, creator of High Leverage Baseball, a tabletop simulation game that blends statistical accuracy with fast-paced gameplay. His passion for baseball—and his early introduction to tabletop and sports gaming in the 1980s—sparked a deep interest in mathematics, statistics, and programming, all of which now inform his work in game design.

Our guest speaker is Dean Patino, founder of the Baseball Classics Legends on the Diamond, bringing immersive MLB board game experiences to fans around the world. He is also the author of several books chronicling Major League Baseball history from 1901 to the present.

The guest speakers are Kenneth Miller and Roswell Miller. The Miller brothers designed APBA Major League Players Baseball for the Apple ][ and IBM PC along with the APBA Baseball for Windows / Broadcast Blast series.

The guest speaker is Steve Etzel. Steve’s interest in baseball sims began as a teenager when he created two separate baseball games. He spends most of his gaming time analyzing tabletop baseball sims and building spreadsheets to create player cards for sims that are no longer on the market.

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.