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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27503 in Video Games
• Brand: Atari
• Model: 23417
• Released on: 2002-03-27
• ESRB Rating: Rating Pending
• Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95
• Format: CD-ROM

Amazon.com Product Description
Build your baseball dynasty through the minor leagues or buy it with high-priced free agents. Now the choice is yours! Season Ticket Baseball 2003 offers fans of the great American pastime the chance to run a big-league baseball club. You set the ticket prices, make the blockbuster trades, sign the big-name free agents, and negotiate TV broadcasting deals from the front office! You set all the lineups, handle the pitching staff, and make the decisions during the game from the manager's seat in the dugout!

Customer Reviews

The undisputed king of baseball text sims
First off, yes, this game can & will overwhelm you if you let it. Straight out of the box, there are no real player names in the game, but with minimal searching you can find not only the opening day 2002 rosters, but also the Lahman database, which will let you replay ANY season from 1901 to present day. This is a HUGE positive for such a game, because in ye olden days of yore with APBA Baseball, you had to pay for the privelege of having individual historical years on disc. Now, you can download the entire history of 20th century baseball for FREE! And Season Ticket 2K3 is indeed equipped to handle info from the Lahman database, though you might need the latest patch from Infogrames website.

So there are 3 downloads you might need to make to increase your enjoyment exponentially: current patch, 2002 rosters, Lahman Database (which I believe has recently been renamed as the Baseball Archive.)

Now, if you're wondering what the difference is between this and Out Of The Park Baseball 4, there is none. It's the same game. This is a fairly hardcore micro-management sim. It has the APBA on-field managerial aspects, like setting lineups, pitching rotations, deciding when to pinch-hit, bring in a reliever, double-switch, etc. But it also has the Baseball Mogul aspect (another fine game, I'll add) of being the GM, pulling the trigger on trades, managing your minor leagues, contract negotiation, expansion, fan promotions (bobbleheads!), and other front-office duties.

The stats are as wide as they are deep, meaning there's hardly any stat that you won't know about your players. This leads to a lot of pondering and thinking on your part, but if you've read this far then I think you can handle it.

The Out Of The Park engine (which the game is based on) is very sound and has a great history. It has been tweaked to almost perfection with this release, and I would say that there is no other sports sim that approaches it in terms of depth, except perhaps the immortal Championship Manager soccer series.

So if you think you're ready to graduate from the kiddie-land of games like Triple Play, step up to the plate and take a swing at Season Ticket 2003.

Be prepared to spend many hours playing this game!
Pure Baseball fanatics will certainly fall in love with "Season Ticket Baseball 2003". It is a "stat-geek's" dream! STB3K is a total package of baseball simulation. You can serve not only as your team's manager, but GM as well. Create some terrific teams through not only the draft, but the trade route as well!
I might add that the game's Artificial Intelligence makes it very difficult to take advantage of a computer-controlled team and make a steal through the trade route.

A game can be played in a little over 10 minutes and a whole season can be simmed in under an hour. It's your choice and you have total control in this game.

One of the game's most appealing features is email messaging. As GM or manager, you can receive emails offering trades from other teams, info from your coaching staff about the progress of younger players, and even comments from your PR director about the success of "promotional days".

The game comes "packaged" with fictional players playing for fictional teams in real cities. But, if you like, you can download historical players from The Baseball Archive which can be accessed from a great website (ootp4.com) that (sort of) accompanies STB3K. This website is run by the folks who created STB3K and it's sister program, "Out of the Park 4", which is the downloadable version of STB3K. This website has great tips for adding enjoyment to your gaming experience, while providing great support for the game.

For those interested in purchasing this game, please be advised that it is not loaded with dynamic graphics and sound. This is pure "stat" baseball and for those of you who grew up with "Statis Pro Baseball" of 'Sports Illustrated Superstar Baseball" you'll be absolutely thrilled with this program. Just be prepared to spend countless hours simming season after season watching your young players develop into major league stars and your veterans lead your franchise to championships.

Wow! A stathead's dream.
This is, quite simply, the best stat-orineted game out there. I've spent nearly 20 years playing baseball games from Ye Olde Strat-o-matic to the latest PC games. I've loved titles like Front Page Sports and High Heat (at least until they stopped providing actual support). What I particularly love is keeping track of stats and league history, making front office decisions about free agents and minor leagues. If I wanted to play joystick games -- well, that's what my playstation is for.

This is the best game out there -- yes, even better than baseball Mogul, which I know is blasphemy to many of you. It is not perfect -- no gold gloves, no user input on MVP's or Cy Young's and an akward stat interface (which is still yards better than the clunky leage leaders interface in Mogul). Minor league stats do not carry over from year to year and it does not give you the ability to build a unique stadium and doesn't appear to set conditions based on city location.

But it's awesome. Teams rise and fall like they do in real life. Sometime a team will dominate -- a few good players will propel them to success and the resultant flood of money will keep them going. Other teams can wallow in failure. Buy it's great to see how things change from season to season, year to year. Each player, even retired, has a "player card" that has scouting reports and his history, including contract signing, all-stars games and awards, career bests. You can change the game by changing eras to the dead-ball era or just custom-setting the stat norms to say, decrease homers and increase steals. And Hall of Fame? YOu can pick your own Hall of Famers or boot ones out you consider unworthy. It even keeps book of single season records.

This is definitely worth your time.