Tommy Lasorda Baseball is a baseball game released for the Sega Mega-Tech arcade system and later the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis console.

Summary

This video game was endorsed by Tommy Lasorda

Tommy Lasorda

Thomas Charles Lasorda is a former Major League baseball player and manager. marked his sixth decade in one capacity or another with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers organization, the longest non-continuous tenure anyone has had with the team, edging Dodger broadcaster Vin Scully...

, who was then the manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers

Los Angeles Dodgers

The Los Angeles Dodgers are a professional baseball team based in Los Angeles, California. The Dodgers are members of Major League Baseball's National League West Division. Established in 1883, the team originated in Brooklyn, New York, where it was known by a number of nicknames before becoming...

. The game is not licensed by any professional baseball league, so the teams and player names are fictional. Game modes include single game exhibitions and a 30 game season mode. A pre-game difficulty switch makes the game biased either towards the pitcher

Pitcher

In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...

, batter, or an equal game of skill between pitcher and batter. Due to an agreement with Sega

Sega

, usually styled as SEGA, is a multinational video game software developer and an arcade software and hardware development company headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, with various offices around the world...

, this game was never released for any other home consoles aside the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.

This game was released in Europe and Japan as released in Europe and Japan as .

External links

• Tommy Lasorda Baseball at arcade-history.