My high school was so small, baseball tryouts were really more of a first practice, because everyone would make the team. That’s a good thing, because in the spring of 1988 I was up there missing every pitch, terribly. In my mind’s eye, I was trying to replicate the swings I saw in Hardball! on the Commodore 64, which was one of the first sports video games to have a broadcast-like depiction.