{"id":22448,"date":"2021-10-26T17:58:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T17:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/relive_the_glory_of_japanese_fighting_baseball_with_faker_js_and_cloudinary"},"modified":"2021-10-26T17:58:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T17:58:30","slug":"relive_the_glory_of_japanese_fighting_baseball_with_faker_js_and_cloudinary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudinary.com\/blog\/relive_the_glory_of_japanese_fighting_baseball_with_faker_js_and_cloudinary","title":{"rendered":"Relive the Glory of Japanese Fighting Baseball With faker.js and Cloudinary"},"content":{"rendered":"

The year was 1994. South Africa held its first fully representative democratic election, Netscape Navigator became the first commercially successful web browser. Coconuts Japan re-released EA Sports\u2019 MLBPA Baseball<\/strong> video game under the perhaps surprising title Fighting Baseball<\/strong>. Unlike MLBPA Baseball<\/strong>, which was licensed by the Major League Baseball (MLB), Fighting Baseball<\/strong> could not infringe on MLB trademarks, reference the National League or American League by name, or adopt actual team or player names.<\/p>\n

To get around that limitation, the team invented an entire league\u2019s worth of fake American names. That\u2019s thanks to a simple procedure concocted by some clever internet sleuths<\/a>: Take a player\u2019s last name, change a letter or two, and pair that last name with another player\u2019s first name, which was occasionally edited in a similar way.<\/p>\n

The results were simply beautiful with long-lasting appeal. After all, who wouldn\u2019t want to play baseball with Todd Bonzalez, Bobson Dugnutt, and Sleve McDichael?<\/p>\n

apropos of absolutely nothing at all, here is one of my all-time favorite things: a list of american baseball player names japanese engineers made up for the 1994 super famicom (SNES) fighting baseball game pic.twitter.com\/9gyB2C5h8h<\/a><\/p>— jane c. hu (@jane_c_hu) April 22, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote>