"More than ten years ago, I found myself obsessed with a sports text sim, Championship Manager (now Football Manager), that was the best game I had ever played. I felt something of an outsider, an American playing a soccer sim. I would often think that it would be a great thing if someone created a baseball sim as complex and playable as CM/FM.

There have been some strong attempts, deserving of their solid reputations. But for me, the "dream come true" was, and is, Out of the Park. And a certain irony was not lost on me: even as I loved CM/FM despite being, as an American, an outsider to the soccer world, so, too, OOTP was created by an "outsider" to the world of baseball, a man from Germany.

To be honest, in the early years, there were small signs that the man behind the game was coming to baseball as a second love, the same way someone who has learned a new language occasionally gets a word wrong. But that was so long ago, I can no longer remember what those small signs were. Meanwhile, OOTP continues, and remains the best baseball sim around."

Community member Masoo