SNK's "baseball stars" for the NES.  it wasnt mlb, but it was soooo fun.  one team was made up of all chicks called the "lovely ladies".  another was a team of mythical beasts and movie villians called the "ghastly monsters".  

First off, the classic RBI Baseball for NES. That game was extremely fun back in the day.

Secondly, Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball for SNES. The gameplay was solid, but where it really stood out was with the names: all the players were fake except for Griffey himself, so they had a theme for just about any team. Some of them were hilarious.

From the Wiki article about the game:

    * The Cincinnati Reds are writers (B. Stoker, P. Dick, E. Queen).
    * The Detroit Tigers are famous Motown singers, (A. Franklin, G. Knight and R. Smokey).
    * The Houston Astros are cartoonists (G. Larson, W. Eisner, S. Lee).
    * The Milwaukee Brewers have a pitching staff consisting of superhero "secret identities" (P. Parker, K. Kent, B. Wayne), while their position players are fictional secret agents and detectives (J. Rockford, J. Bond).
    * The Los Angeles Dodgers are based on punk rock pioneers from Los Angeles and other areas around California including (Exene Cervenka, John Doe and DJ Bonebrake of X, Poison Ivy and Lux Interior of The Cramps, Jello Biafra and Klaus Flouride of the Dead Kennedys, and Lee Ving of Fear).
    * The San Diego Padres are based on punk rock pioneers from the UK including (Billy Idol, the members of The Damned, Johnny Rotten, and Sid Vicious).
    * The New York Mets are based on punk rock pioneers from New York including (Johnny Thunders, Joey Ramone, Tom Verlaine, Jerry Nolan).
    * The Kansas City Royals are based on U.S. presidents (the third batter is D. Ike, whose real-life counterpart is DH Hall of famer George Brett).
    * The St. Louis Cardinals are comedians (H. Moe is actually Bob Tewksbury, O. Hardy is famous shortstop Ozzie Smith).
    * The Oakland Athletics apparently hired more authors with H. Ernest (he replaces Mark McGwire), L. Byron, M. Twain, and L.Tolstoy.
    * The Colorado Rockies contain famous names from horror movies (including G. Romero, B. Lugosi, and T. Savini) .
    * The California Angels, unsurprisingly, have famous actors on their team (F. Astair, H. Bogart, J. Wayne).
    * The Texas Rangers, appropriately, have a Western theme (their best pitcher, T. Mix, "fills in" for Kevin Brown).
    * The Philadelphia Phillies feature a Rocky homage in R. Balboa (Darren Daulton) and A. Creed (Dave Hollins). They also have a Philadelphia landmark (L. Bell) and some of the musicians produced by Phil Spector (D. Love, B. Medley).
    * The Seattle Mariners have Nintendo of America employees on their team, except Ken Griffey Jr.
    * The Baltimore Orioles pay tribute to Baltimore native John Waters with B. Divine, P. Flamingo, (Mike Mussina) M. Trasho, and H. Spray, as well as Waters himself standing in for Cal Ripken Jr.
    * The Cleveland Indians have famous actresses and glamor girls on their team. (A. Margret, A. Hepburn, M. Monroe, G. Garbo).
    * The Boston Red Sox contain members from the show Cheers. Cliff Claven, Norm Peterson, and Sam Malone are all present. Also included are Boston landmarks (B. Common, M. Harvard) and figures from early American history (J. Adams, J. Hancock, A. Hamilton).
    * The Chicago White Sox are former basketball players from St. John's University (M. Sealy, C. Mullin, M. Jackson).
    * The Atlanta Braves are famous dance DJ's, such as Sasha & Digweed. A pitcher for the team is named G. Park, presumably in reference to Atlanta's famed Grant Park. In addition, D. Crime and D. Neon likely refer to Fred "the Crime Dog" McGriff and "Neon" Deion Sanders, respectively.
    * The Toronto Blue Jays are players from the Wigan Warriors rugby team (E. Hanley, M. Offiah, D. Betts).
    * The Montreal Expos are people from the 1980s music scene in Manchester, UK, including members of New Order and The Smiths.

And finally, MVP Baseball 2005. That was a great game, and I'm hella pissed that they didn't get to continue the series due to the license being bought out. They should do something like Ken Griffey Jr. Presents, in my opinion. It would rock.

I am a big fan of MLB '07 for the XBOX360, as well as the baseball game for the Wii for very different reasons.

The MLB '07 game has a lot of great features to it. Gameplay is tight, and although you have to really jack up the difficulty to get a pseudo-realistic game once you get the hang of hitting, I like the control structure in this game about as much as I have ever liked a setup. There are also Franchise and Dynasty modes and you can run many aspects of the organization, ala Baseball Mogul. There's a lot to like for just about everyone in MLB '07.

On the other end of the spectrum is the baseball game that is included in the Wii Sports pack. For those of us fortunate enough to have a Wii, this package comes with the console. The baseball game is not remarkable graphically (the players all look like Fisher Price Little People) and is not terribly realistic, but damn if it isn't a freaking hoot to play. You'll cackle with glee the first time your Mii whacks one out of the park. The difficulty automatically scales if you are playing against the computer, so it gives you a pretty good challenge every time out. A lot of fun.

In the classic division, I have to say my favorite baseball game of all time was the Intellivision baseball for the Atari 2600. That game was addictive, and I do not care to remember how many hours of my adolescence I wasted in front of a TV playing that game. We set up leages and scored the games. Ah, memories.

Wow, I just noticed I was prattling! :)

...the only one I've played is MVP 2005.  PC version.  I have a Playstation around here somewhere, but I prefer PC games.

After the Angels knocked the Yankees out of the postseason in 2005, I went through the entire Halos lineup and plunked every batter.

There are supposedly people still modding MVP 2005, keeping it up to date, adding winterball, etc.  I keep meaning to download the mods, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

is pretty decent for PS2.  The career mode is pretty interesting, especially having your character play at Chattanooga and Louisville on the way to the bigs.  Although it's tough to see "myself" with a 103 MPH fastball, 12-6 curveball, 61 MPH circle change, and deadly screwball getting stuck in AAA behind Joe Mays... I guess the GMs are simulated pretty well too...

As for classic games, nothing compares to RBI Baseball '94 for the Sega Genesis.  Me and my buddies would pull all nighters and leave the TV on for days playing every game of the 162 game seasons (because you couldn't save games).  

Another interesting one for Genesis was Super Baseball 2020 (bonus points for anyone who actually remembers this).  Basically the game was set in the year 2020, and all the players were robots.  It was interesting.

was one of the better adult sports oriented videos. It was right up there the well known "1st Base, 2nd, 3rd Then Slide" That was defiantly a 'home run' video. Of course on the Homophonic side there was the old fav "Towel Boy Takes One For the Team' and my favorite "You Catcher - I Pitcher" Starring the well endowed Richard Pole.

I'm not familiar with "Baseball Stimulator 1000" Was it a Sci-Fi thing? Ooops it is time for bed - gotta run.  

Great Baseball for Sega Master System. If you pushed both the A and B button at the same time, you'd hit a homerun everytime. 90% of the time, it worked every time. Loved it. Great Basketball was worse, but not by much.

Will always be my favorite.  MLB 2K7 is freaking incredible though.

My pick is Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball for the Sega Game Gear (probably for other systems too). It was released in 1995 so the Reds were good, but the gameplay was atrocious. First you chose what type of pitch to throw (every pitcher had at least 5), then you chose the location, then you selected fast medium or slow. It took about 40 seconds to deliver every pitch. And whenever a batter was retired there was an animation of him walking back to the dugout followed by an animation of the next batter walking to the plate. These couldn't be skipped and it faded in and out for each one, adding about ten seconds. Each game took three hours and ended 1-0 or 2-1 (my theory was that I never played enought to become good at batting, but maybe the game was just really skewed toward pitching). I never had the patience to play anything resembling a full season. The one saving grace was that when I was struck with insomnia I'd take the Game Gear to bed and be asleep by the fourth inning.