Overview
The Sporting News: Baseball is a licensed baseball game from Now Production and Hudson Soft. It was released exclusively in North America for the SNES and features both the license of the popular sports magazine The Sporting News but also the MLBPA (Major League Baseball Players' Association), which allows the game to use the real names of baseball players from 1995's MLB season. However, the game lacks the core MLB license, so the team names simply refer to their city of origin and no logos are used.
The game features four play modes: Exhibition is a single game that pits two teams together; Pennant is the pennant race mode that allows one team to clinch victory within a league, and the player selects whether this mode requires 26, 52, 78 or 162 games; All-Star is like Exhibition, except the player selects one team from either league - American or National - that is comprised of its best players and takes on the other all-star team; and Home Run is the home run derby mode where the player tries to hit as many homers as possible with a player-defined number of pitches. The Exhibition and All-Star modes allow for up to four players, while the Home Run mode can be one- or two-player.
The game is somewhat based on and shares elements with Super Power League 2, another Hudson produced baseball game.
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