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The 2012 baseball season is approaching another exciting climax, what with so many teams pushing for that extra one-off game for the wild card spot in each league. Fans of baseball know that there are numerous apps dedicated to the beloved national pastime, but few are much better than Bill James Ba ... Full Article »
For a certain segment of app-friendly sports fan, Topps BUNT Baseball can be viewed as a gateway drug to real fantasy nirvana. BUNT has enough similarities to fantasy sports, namely providing an avenue to create rosters of real players whose cumulative stats count towards your own personal glory, w ... Full Article »
Last year, I had a chance to speak with Sebastian Palkowski, the lead developer for Out of the Park’s first foray into the mobile world, iOOTPBaseball 2011. Palkowski and his team faced a number of challenges in bringing a stat-filled, simulation-heavy baseball game to the mobile market, but afte ... Full Article »
Out of the Park, the universally beloved manage-only baseball sim, enters its second season on the iPhone as iOOTP Baseball 2012 Edition. It avoids any talk of a sophomore slump by beefing up the core game modes in all the right places. The baseball games in iOOTP are essentially made up of a serie ... Full Article »
Opening Day for Major League Baseball is just around the corner. If you can’t make it to the ballpark or in front of a television screen for any game you want to watch this season, know that there are dozens of Grand Slam apps you can call up to dial into all of the action. There are apps that let ... Full Article »
Baseball season is officially upon us, and while the game is all about hanging out in the bleachers and being outside, there are still some very cool ways that tablets and smartphones can keep you tied in to Major League Baseball. The biggest app on the market is MLB At Bat, the officially sanction ... Full Article »
Videos of equipment bags being loaded into trucks! Still photos of a group of pitchers lined-up doing stretches! Quotes from a bad player who is totally going to turn it around this season! All of these things can only mean one thing – it’s the start of MLB Spring Training. Spring Training might ... Full Article »
Some would argue that the MLB playoffs don’t inspire quite the excitement of the NFL playoffs or even the NHL playoffs, which are discussed in mythic terms among even casual fans of the sport. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t apps worth your time to help you follow the best October tradition ... Full Article »
It takes a special kind of baseball fan to get interested in the minor league baseball season. After all, the MLB regular season offers basically non-stop baseball from April through October. But because baseball prospects take longer to marinate in the minor leagues than the average NBA or NFL draf ... Full Article »
Chicago sports fans are living in the worst of times. The White Sox are underachieving while the Cubs are historically bad. Who knows how the Bears will look after a long layoff and if there will even be a Bulls season this year. Now there is a new iPhone app to quantify our anguish. Aptly named Ch ... Full Article »
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