Baseball Mogul 2002

by Sports Mogul

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00005QJ2F
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: October 1, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #54,342 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #37 in Video Games > PC Games > Sports > Baseball
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

If you've ever wanted to own a professional baseball team, step into the owner's suite with Baseball Mogul 2002. This is the fourth installment in the award-winning Baseball Mogul series, in which you assume the role of the general manager for your favorite professional ball club.

As GM, your job is to build the best lineup of players to take your team to the championship series. You also have to manage all the finances for your ball club. Raise revenue for your team by setting the price of tickets and selling the TV broadcast rights. Manage your team's expenses by setting the budget for your farm system, player scouts, medical staff, and player payroll.

An advanced baseball simulator takes your team through each day of the baseball season, as you follow your team's wins and losses on the way to the playoffs. Start the season with the actual roster of players from your favorite big-league baseball team. As the season progresses your job is to make complex player trades and sign players to multiyear contracts to help build your team. Have your new players join your big-league team right away, or send them to your minor-league franchise for training and improvement. Then, as time goes by, you choose which players stay in the majors, which ones get sent down to the minors, and which ones get traded or released.

Manage your team over many simulated years or decades. As your players age, their abilities will peak and decline, while fresh new rookies will join your club. Don't forget to build your team for the long term. Watch your team rise and fall in the standings, watch your bank statement, and read the news stories to stay on top of what's happening with all the teams in both leagues. If you pick the right players, manage your finances well, and stick to a winning strategy, your team may win the championship, and you too may become a baseball mogul!

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Small batch Baseball, December 3, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Baseball Mogul 2002 (CD-ROM)

I feel obliged to write this review about Baseball Mogul in the same way I like frequenting mom and pop shops. If you like quality and care over empty substance, you owe it to yourself to check out Baseball Mogul.

I've been following the Baseball Mogul franchese for a few years now and watched the product evolve during that time. One of the things I find really striking about the game is that its really a continuous product that continues to improve with every version as opposed one with novel features purely for the sake of change. In this respect, I feel like the developers are more like craftsmen than just coders. In the same way that a favorite recipe evolves over time, Baseball Mogul seems to improve in ever aspect. Don't like the AI? Check the next version and you can be sure its smarter and nastier. Is there something about the UI you find awkward? Check the message boards and you can bet that the developers are discussing this with their users and already planning improvements. Have a gripe about the trading system? Write their president and he'll probably respond in real time. Its almost like having a favorite hobby that someone else is constantly making more fun for you, kind of like baseball itself. This is a seriously fun game that shows design thought and care in practically every component.

I've played this game for years now, occasionally putting it down but then picking up again a few months later. I've invested a lot of time in it and in some ways I feel like its 'my' game. I feel better than I can trust the developers not to mess up 'my' game and only make it better with each version.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not a kiddie game!, December 29, 2001

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"dacubz" (Lockport, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baseball Mogul 2002 (CD-ROM)

Baseball Mogul is just the thing for somebosy looking for a sports game that doesn't involve arcade play. If you have ever wanted to be a front office guru, this one's for you. The realism of dealing with the revenue of running a major league ballclub and keeping a winning team at the same time makes Baseball Mogul a challenge. It's fun to play alone, but league play really gives you the feeling of being a bigshot GM. The constant input given by the game's owners and the willingness to improve the game through the creator's internet forum makes the game forever evolving. It is the best sports sim on the market that doesn't involve hours of time and sore fingers from playing your kid's arcade games!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Substance over Style, December 11, 2001

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"holden_caufield77" (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baseball Mogul 2002 (CD-ROM)

You're not going to get arcade play with Baseball Mogul 2002. What you are going to get is one of the best, most comprehensive, and realistic baseball simulation games on the market. The game takes into account player peformance as it correlates to age and experience, salary demands and club revenues, obtaining value in trades with computer owners...almost everything a true baseball fan has longed for but which most software makers have overlooked. You really can't go wrong with Mogul 2002.