Baseball Mogul 2003

by Softek International

Product Features

• Over 1,500 real-life MLB players are here, complete with photos and stats -- hire them, fire them, trade tham and more!
• Keep track of the different goings-on of the different teams & players with the unique newspaper-style stories and photos
• Simulate games a day at a time, or a whole season at once, to keep the game moving
• Ensure your ball club is profitable by seting up profitable merchandising from t-shirts to stadium hot dogs
• You determine ticket prices, concession prices, and TV broadcast contracts

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006AMBL
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: July 1, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #50,558 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #36 in Video Games > PC Games > Sports > Baseball
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Baseball Mogul begins in any year you choose, from 1900 to 2003 with the full roster of your favorite team.

As General Manager (GM), your job is to build the best lineup of players to take your team to the Championship Series. You can make complex player trades and sign players to multi-year contracts as you build your team, but you'll have to compete with the other team GMs, and negotiate with the player's agents. If your new players are good enough, have them join your team right away, otherwise send them to your minor league franchise for training and improvement. Then, as the season progresses you choose which players stay in the big leagues, which ones get sent down to the minors, and which ones get released or traded.

As GM you also have to manage all the finances for your ball club, making sure that the team doesn't go bankrupt. Raise revenue for your team by setting the price of tickets and concessions, and selling the TV broadcast rights, while you manage your team's expenses by setting the budget for your farm system, player scouts, medical staff, and player payroll. But be careful, because fans can be fickle if your team doesn't win or if your tickets become too expensive!

Your involvement as GM does not stop in the team's front office--you also help to manage your team on the field. You set the starting defense, batting order and pitching rotation for your team. Of course, once a ballgame starts, you retire to the luxury box and its up to your team's coaches and players to get the win! A powerful game engine simulates each at-bat of the game based on historical stats and real player performance, assuring you the maximum realism possible!

Baseball Mogul is designed to help you manage your team over many simulated years. Manage your team one day at a time, or let the computer simulate weeks or months at a stretch so you can play for virtual years or decades. As your players age, their abilities will peak and decline, while fresh new rookies will join your ball club. Don't forget to build your team for the long term, rather than spending all your money on free agents this season.

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 ball clubs 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!

Product Description

Baseball Mogul 2003 puts you in charge of an entire baseball franchise -- you're in charge of every aspect of your favorite Major League Baseball team! Set batting order, defensive positioning and more Put together farm teams, scouts and medical staff to keep your team healthy and on top Analyze play-by-play and box scores See if you can take your team to the World Series!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So do you think that you can do it better?, August 15, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Baseball Mogul 2003 (CD-ROM)

This the the game that gives you a chance to be the owner of the next baseball dynasty. Whether that is the Tampa Bay Devil Rays or San Degio Padres. This game gives you a chance to run real players in fictional team names (guess they didn't get the owners premission) in real citys. Or just trash it all and use real players and create your team for you own hometown. Think you can bring in the "Rocket" to your home market and afford him for more then what the Yankees are paying? Can you make it to the World Series and win and bring a profit to your team? These are all answers that you can answer with this game. You have the chance to become an owner and set everything from the price of the beer and hotdogs with the ticket prices to decided whether people in your city need to pay-per-view your games or be able to watch in on the local channel. Make the big trades, trash the current stadium and build another. Make your farm system one of the best in the league so that when your modern day heros start to age you have some young bucks willing to keep your team running hard. This game does model the aging process and you can watch as some of your most important players are retired, hopefully you have planned well and got some new ones online. Even better with this game you can set up a Email game and be the Commish and run a league. Fanasty Baseball at its best. With being a single player the hardest decision sometimes that can be made is whether to set up and watch a play-by-play of a game or have the game play out a week or month in a couple of minutes. I have been playing this game for about 3 months and I have taken the Mariners (or in the game Sailors) to the Series 5 times in 9 seasons and won all five times.
The other big thing about this game is the number of stats that you can ask for. Just about any stat that some one can think of this game will have it. RBI's, Home Runs, ERA,Win Precentage, Fielding Precentage, Errors, etc.
There are a few faults that I hope the Sports Mogul company can fix with this program. First off the designers didn't model in the possiblity of strikes or lock-outs. THe other thing that they didn't model in is player-owner fueds. Those are minor faults when compared to all that this game has to offer.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best of it's kind, August 13, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Baseball Mogul 2003 (CD-ROM)

By far, Baseball Mogul is the best in the very scarce Sports ownership games. Why? It's the only game with the MLBPA license, meaning it has REAL major league players. You can also delete teams, add teams, make new cities, sign free agents, change names of teams, and accept or deny trades by a computer controlled opponent. There is also a fantasy draft, where you can build your dream team. All of the games in this genre have the same options, but I've played a lot of them, and nothing even comes close to what Baseball Mogul offers. There might cheaper games like this, but this is the game you want to buy. I highly recommend this game over the others.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Must LOVE baseball to enjoy this game, August 14, 2002

By 

J. McVie "shipreich" (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baseball Mogul 2003 (CD-ROM)

This game is a stat hound's dream come true. If you check MLB.com every day to see who did what, and actually enjoy reading box scores, you will have a blast with Mogul 2003. It recreates the frustrations of players demanding higher salaries every few years and also the incredible satisfaction of realizing that the rookie left fielder you have been cultivating in the minors for two years will not only be in the next few All-Star games and MVP voting, but he is also signed for the next five years to a dirt cheap contract.

Make trades, set ticket prices, dump excess baggage players, and even watch as games take place on a play by play screen, but don't expect to see players actually playing the game. This baby is all words, numbers, and player portraits. If you really LOOOOOVE baseball that much, you must have this game. It will take away hours upon hours of you life. If you must have arcade action, stay very far away from this game or any other stats based sports simulator.