Microsoft Baseball 2001

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title: "Microsoft Baseball 2001" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["2000-video-games", "microsoft-baseball-video-games", "microsoft-games", "north-america-exclusive-video-games", "single-player-video-games", "video-games-developed-in-the-united-states", "windows-games", "windows-only-games"] description: "2000 video game" topic_path: "technology/operating-systems" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Baseball_2001" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary 2000 video game ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox video game"]

Field	Value
title	Microsoft Baseball 2001
image	Microsoft Baseball 2001 Coverart.png
developer	Microsoft
publisher	Microsoft
engine	Baseball Mogul
released
genre	Sports (baseball)
modes	Single-player
platforms	Microsoft Windows
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| title = Microsoft Baseball 2001 | image = Microsoft Baseball 2001 Coverart.png | developer = Microsoft | publisher = Microsoft | designer = | series = | engine = Baseball Mogul | released = | genre = Sports (baseball) | modes = Single-player | platforms = Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Baseball 2001 is a baseball game made for the 2000 Major League Baseball season. It was developed and published by Microsoft, following the earlier games Microsoft Baseball 3D 1998 Edition and Microsoft Baseball 2000.

Gameplay

Microsoft Baseball 2001 uses the Baseball Mogul engine, which requires players to act as general manager of an MLB franchise, forcing players to deal with realistic payroll constraints and city-related issues along the way.

Development and release

Microsoft Baseball 2001 was announced in February 2000. It was developed and published by Microsoft for Windows. The cover art features Boston Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra.

Reception

| GR = 64% | Allgame = | CNG = 5/10 | CGSP = | GSpot =6/10 | GSpy = 78/100 | GameZone = 7.5/10 | IGN = 7.9/10 | rev1 = Sports Gaming Network | rev1Score = 60/100 Aaron Curtiss, writing for Knight Ridder, praised the game's simplicity but considered it inferior to Sammy Sosa High Heat Baseball 2001. Peter Olafson of GamePro wrote that the game "feels unfinished--more like a step in the right direction than a destination."

References

References

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