Description
WHAT’S INCLUDED
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– All 28 team rosters with full player cards (position players and pitchers) – Every major league ballpark, with ratings derived from 1994 park performance data – New ratings built from the 1994 season as it was actually played
CARD GENERATION
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Every card is generated from actual 1994 season statistics. Batter and pitcher ratings are built from real performance data across the games that were played before the strike, with park factors computed from each stadium’s run environment – so Tony Gwynn’s card reflects his run at .400, and every ballpark plays the way it played.
.394 – CHASING GREATNESS
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No one had hit .400 since Ted Williams in 1941. In the summer of 1994, Tony Gwynn looked like the man to finally do it. When the players walked out on August 11, the San Diego outfielder was sitting at .394 – the highest average the game had seen in more than half a century – and he was scorching, hitting .475 in his final ten games with a swing that teammates and rivals alike
believed would carry him past the line. He never got the chance. The strike ended the season with roughly fifty games left on the schedule and the question forever unanswered. In Game Pulse, the chase doesn’t stop in August. Every one of those at-bats – all baked into his card.
A SEASON FULL OF STARS
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Beyond Gwynn’s pursuit, 1994 was an offensive explosion cut short in its prime. Matt Williams of the Giants had launched 43 home runs and was dead on pace to chase down Roger Maris’s record of 61, with Ken Griffey Jr. (40), Jeff Bagwell (39), Frank Thomas (38), and Barry Bonds (37) all in the hunt – six players tracking toward 50. Frank Thomas hit .353 with a .729 slugging percentage on the way to his second straight AL MVP. Jeff Bagwell was a unanimous NL MVP at .368 with 39 homers and 116 RBI before a pitch broke his hand days before the walkout. Greg Maddux was untouchable, posting a 1.56 ERA for his third consecutive NL Cy Young. David Cone took the AL Cy Young carrying the Royals, while Bob Hamelin and Raul Mondesi claimed Rookie of the Year honors. Every star’s real 1994 performance is here, card for card.
THE FALL CLASSIC THAT NEVER WAS
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For the first time since 1904, there was no World Series. The strike wiped out the playoffs and the Fall Classic entirely, and no team felt it harder than the Montreal Expos, who owned the best record in baseball at 74-40 and never got their shot at October. Game Pulse gives 1994 the ending it was denied. Seed the postseason that vanished, send the Expos out to claim the title they were chasing, or run the bracket a few dozen times to see who history would have crowned. Every at-bat, every pitching change, every ballpark detail – all driven by the real 1994 cards and the roll of the dice.
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