Ball Five Baseball 1920-1929

The Roaring Twenties: when baseball exploded.

The dead ball is gone and the home run is born. Babe Ruth smashes 54 homers in 1920, then 60 in 1927. Murderers’ Row, the 1927 Yankees with Ruth, Gehrig, Lazzeri and Meusel, might be the greatest team ever assembled. Rogers Hornsby hits .424. George Sisler hits .420. Walter Johnson finally wins his World Series in 1924, and Connie Mack’s 1929 Athletics with Foxx, Grove and Cochrane take over at the end of the decade.

Now you manage them, every team and every season from 1920 to 1929, played at-bat by at-bat.

What’s in the game

• Player cards built from each player’s real season stats, with lefty/righty splits on every hitter and pitcher
• Cards that flip like the ones you got in the mail, with real stats on the back
• Fielding checks based on each fielder’s range and errors
• Pitcher warm-up tosses set his form for the day, and fatigue colors tell you when he’s tiring
• Momentum: a pitcher can get in a groove or get rattled
• Steals, pickoffs, hit-and-runs, bunts, intentional walks and pitchouts. You make the calls.
• “At the wall” plays: robbed home runs, balls off the wall, and wind-blown homers
• Real schedules, standings, season stats, box scores and play-by-play

Microsoft Excel only, not a board game. Works in Windows or Mac Excel. Download right after checkout, set up and ready to play.

Bonus: comes with the 1985–86 English First Division season of 5 Minute Soccer, free.