Out of the Park Baseball

Out of the Park Baseball, abbreviated as OOTP, is a text-based baseball simulation for career, historical, and fictional play. OOTP was originally written in 1998, when lead developer Markus Heinsohn sought to combine realistic replay baseball simulation with career play to satisfy hardcore fans and casual gamers alike. “A friend of mine brought home a bat and a glove from a trip to Miami, so we started hitting tennis balls into the neighbor’s gardens. That was in 1991,” Heinsohn told Inside Mac Games in a July 2012 interview. “We then formed a baseball club and started playing in organized baseball leagues in 1994. In the meantime I played all sorts of baseball computer games, but there was no management-related game that I liked, so in 1998 I decided to simply develop my own game, just for fun. When it was done in 1999, I figured it was probably good enough to earn some money with it, and that’s when it all started.”
Starting with OOTP 16, the game has licenses for Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball. The license covers historical MLB teams too. The mobile version is covered by the license too, and was renamed from iOOTP Baseball to MLB Manager.In September 2013, OOTP Developments released Franchise Hockey Manager, which features 23 ice hockey leagues, including the NHL and KHL. In January 2014, the company announced that an American football sim named Beyond the Sideline Football was in development with a release date to be announced.On March 20, 2020, Out of the Park Developments released OOTP Baseball 21.On October 12, 2020, Com2uS acquired an 100% stake in Out of the Park Developments.