They promise that they'll deliver a game that plays fast, but also remains true to the sport by carrying all of the nuances and strategies that make baseball what it is.Īs is the standard in most sports games, MLB will carry motion-captured, 3-D baseball players. Sony claims that most baseball video games are too slow-and you know what? They're right. Hoping to improve upon last year's title is MLB '98-a game with a whole new name and 3-D look. The procedure is banned by MLB.Īnother anonymous source confirmed Jammer's account to the newspaper.Sony's first baseball game, MLB Pennant Race, was the only weak link in their otherwise spectacular lineup of sports games. The process of corking a bat to improve its performance involves hollowing out a portion of the wood and filling that section with cork or rubber balls.

'The guy said that nobody checks him because he's a singles hitter.' 'He only did it a few times a year' 'The guy was saying Rose had been corking his bat for 20 years,' Jammer told the Gazette. Jammer said Greenberg told him the machine was used to cork Rose's bats. He took me into a room, a door to the left, and underneath tarps there was this machine.' So Bryan Greenberg, who worked in the visitors' clubhouse, did it. 'Pete was too smart to deal with Expos equipment manager John Silverman. Joe Jammer, then an Expos groundskeeper and now a musician in London, told the Gazette in a telephone interview, 'Pete Rose would have his bats corked in the visitors' clubhouse at Olympic Stadium. Rose played most of the 1984 season for the Expos before he was traded back to his original club, the Cincinnati Reds, that August. Pete Rose, already banned from Major League Baseball for gambling, is now accused of breaking another of the sport's rules.Ī former groundskeeper for the Montreal Expos recently told the Montreal Gazette that Rose routinely had an Olympic Stadium staffer cork his bats in 1984.

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