Earl Weaver Baseball

Earl Weaver Baseball was the first commercial computer sports game to allow players to simulate an entire season without showing each game play-by-play on the screen. The Amiga version featured voice synthesis, a first in a sports computer game. Unlike baseball games released since, names were represented phonetically, so that even custom-created players could be announced by the synthesized voice. For the first time, different stadiums were shown graphically on the screen, with gameplay adjusted for their actual dimensions.

), Ebbets Field (Brooklyn, New York), and Sportsman's Park (St. Louis).

Earl Weaver Baseball was very successful for EA. Computer Gaming World in 1987 called the game "undoubtedly the most exciting sports simulations to be released in years". It praised the game's graphics and audio, and noted its extensive offensive and defensive options. In 1988, the magazine noted that "wind, ball and player speed, and playing surface can all affect a given play's result.

To offer all this and the ability to play in both strategy/action and strategy only mode is simply awesome". Game reviewers Hartley and Patricia Lesser complimented the game in their "The Role of Computers" column in Dragon #126 (1987), calling it "the finest computer simulation for baseball we’ve ever seen" and "impressive beyond belief". The Lessers reviewed the IBM version of the game in the following issue (#127), and gave the game 4½ stars. They later reviewed the Commodore Amiga version in 1988 in Dragon #132, giving it 5 out of 5 stars.

A sequel, Earl Weaver Baseball II, was released in 1991. In 2002, Dombrower released a version called I Got It Baseball as shareware, where the player can only manage, not participate. The 2009 iOS game EWB Baseball is also based on Earl Weaver Baseball II.