MLB The Show 23 will make every baseball fan fall in love with the game again
For the greatest players of the sport of baseball, and especially for those who have labored to keep alive their memory and deeds,MLB The Show 23must seem like a dream come true. Its centerpiece game mode, an exploration of the Negro Leagues — one of the greatest shames and greatest stages of prewar American sport — brings true justice to those whose word-of-mouth adventures have been met with a cocked eyebrow or condescending smirk for almost a century.
It really takes an interactive museum exhibit, which Storylines: The Negro Leagues is, to understand what the stars of baseball’s segregated leagues accomplished in their time. “What they went through” is a topic explored by more competent authorities in film and book. But what they actually did hasn’t been embraced — in the same fashion as Willie Mays’ basket catch or Hank Aaron’s 715th home run — until now, simply because there is no visual record of it. MLB The Show23 supplies that proof.
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And it’s delightful. Oh, for sure, many of these scripted moments are easy for anyone to pull off if they’ve been playing MLB The Show for two or three years and know anything about baseball. But come on: Pitching as Satchel Paige, with all of his infielders kneeling at the mound like he’s reading a bedtime story — with a runner on first base, I might add? That’s a blast. It’s awesome, even if you know you can’t help but make the batting order of NPCs look silly with Satchel’s “bee-ball” and “dipsy-do” deliveries.
Storylines: The Negro Leagues depends a little too much on pitching, rather than hitting, in terms of the scripted moments that its first season offers. I understand that there will be future seasons of Storylines in future MLB The Show games that will address the
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