SmallBall Baseball launched in 1999 and ran for twenty years. Owner/managers built 341,745 teams and drilled their ballplayers by hand, to greatness. The new age of SmallBall is about to begin.
Site under construction
It was all written in Java
Now we're modernizing it
The simulation, the players, the whole server side — the original SmallBall was Java from end to end. We're rebuilding it from that same simulation code to run in a modern browser.
It was always a game about running a club, not swinging a bat: you drafted men, you drilled them, and you sent them out to find out what the drilling was worth.
This page is the front of the construction site. There's no download yet and no launch date. If you want to know the moment there is one — or the moment your old roster is back on a server — leave an address below.
Roll call
One message when the servers come up. Nothing else, ever.
Your address goes on a list for this one announcement. It isn't sold, shared, or used for anything else.
The Game
The same simulation, behind a new renderer. WebGL, in a browser tab — no plugin, no install, no applet.
The Trainer
Skills grow by doing — drill a man and he gets better at the thing you drilled. Turn your virtual ballplayers into athletes.
The Archive
The original database survived. Teams, rosters and results are being rebuilt from it, so the first run stays on the record.
Reclaim your team
If you managed a club in the original SmallBall, it wasn't lost. The database came back intact, and it's being rebuilt as a permanent archive of the first run and as the seed for the new one — so when the servers come up, the club you built is there to claim.
Twenty years of SmallBall made a history — every club, every season, every box score of that last year. We kept it. The new game doesn't start over on a blank page; it picks that history up and carries it forward.
From the old servers
