Baseball was the first-ever baseball computer game, and was created on a PDP-10 mainframe computer at Pomona College in 1971 by student Don Daglow. The game (actually spelled BASBAL due to the 6-character file name length restrictions) continued to be enhanced periodically through 1976. Baseball is a team sport, in which a fist-sized ball is thrown by a defensive player called a pitcher and hit by an offensive player called a batter with a round, smooth stick called a bat. ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... The PDP-10 was a computer manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from the late 1960s on; the name stands for Programmed Data Processor model 10. It was the machine that made time-sharing common; it looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the 1970s by many... Mainframes (often colloquially referred to as big iron) are large and expensive computers used mainly by government institutions and large companies for legacy applications, typically bulk data processing (such as censuses, industry/consumer statistics, ERP, and bank transaction processing). ... Pomona College Pomona College is a small private residential liberal arts college in Claremont, California, located 47 miles east of Los Angeles. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Its sabermetric style mathematical models were the basis for many later commercial baseball video games and computer games over the next three decades, including Intellivision World Series Baseball (the first video game to use multiple camera angles) (1983), the Earl Weaver Baseball series (1987-1991) and the Tony La Russa Baseball series (1990-1997). The game is documented at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Sabermetrics is the analysis of baseball through objective evidence, especially baseball statistics. ... Computer and video games A screenshot of Tetris for the Nintendo Game Boy A console game (better known as a video game) is a form of interactive multimedia used for entertainment, which consists of a moveable image displayed on a screen that is usually controlled and manipulated using a handheld... The Intellivision is a video game console released by Mattel in 1980; development of the console began in 1978 (less than a year after the introduction of its main competitor, the legendary Atari 2600 aka the Atari VCS). ... 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, located at 25 Main Street in Cooperstown, New York, United States, is a semi-official museum operated by private interests that serves as the central point for the study of the history of baseball in North America, the display of baseball-related... For a list of other places, see Cooperstown (disambiguation). ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki (R) Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ...

A version of Baseball was distributed by the Digital Equipment DECUS file sharing network in 1972 to a handful of universities and other PDP-10 sites, but it fell far short of the popularity of Daglow's 1972 Star Trek. Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering company in the American computer industry. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ...

The distributed version of the game printed the results of each play on a piece of paper in the computer terminal. Two human players could oppose each other, one person could play against the computer AI, or the computer could manage both teams and complete the game without human intervention.

At the start of each inning the batter's and pitcher's names were listed, and the player in the field could enter a number to choose whether to pitch to the batter, walk him intentionally, warm up a reliever or change the pitcher. In a later version the options for a pitchout and for a visit to the mound were added.

The player controlling the batter could choose to put in a pinch hitter. If runners were on base the player could direct them to try to steal.

Once the players had entered the desired orders, the game would print out the result of the at-bat, update the number of outs, the score and the location of the runners, and print the name of the next batter.

If a game ended in a tie after nine innings, extra innings would be played in accordance with baseball rules. When Daglow ported the game to a batch processing IBM 360/40 mainframe computer in 1973 this code malfunctioned during testing of the game's card deck and the game continued for thousands of innings, consuming an entire case of printer paper. Batch processing is the sequential execution of a series of programs (jobs) on a computer. ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ...

A separate version of the game, never distributed by DECUS, simulated the complete 1954 baseball season, printing out the results of each game and the final standings after several hours of computation. A more sophisticated version of the system was used in the first commercial computer game to simulate an entire baseball season, Earl Weaver Baseball, designed by Daglow and Eddie Dombrower and published by Electronic Arts in 1987. 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) is a leading video game developer and publisher. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...