The name Dombrov comes from a user name that was assigned to me more than twenty years ago by a proprietary online/BBS service before the days when Internet had yet started. It is actually my last name but drops the “ski” from Dombrovski. The Dombrov name has just sort of stuck with me - is easier for people to remember and pronounce - and definitely doesn’t mean I am trying to hide my Polish ancestry.

My primary motivation for producing Dombrov Baseball is the enjoyment and passion I get out of playing sports replay games, especially baseball. The Sports Illustrated Baseball board game (which became SuperStar Baseball) was my first experience at playing such a game and that was followed shortly after with Sports Illustrated Football which later became PayDirt. I was thoroughly fascinated by the colorful presentation of the game and throughout the 1970’s I spent countless hours enjoying both of these games. Eventually as personal computers became part of the every day lives for many of us I evolved away from the SI board game and tried several different computer baseball games. While many of these games had some fine qualities I’ve always felt that I get my best gaming satisfaction from the SI game.

So a few years back I started searching the web for SI Baseball and was very pleased to see that there was still an interest, albeit a niche following. This was a great discovery for me but the geek in me also thought it would be cool if this fine board game was computerized. I looked around for a while but soon realized there wasn’t such a thing. Since I had always wanted to develop my own baseball game I thought it would be a good fit for me to design and code the program using SI Baseball as a base gaming engine. My original objective was to present the game in a way similar to if you were playing the board game on your kitchen table, but also be able to use the computer to keep stats. So this is what brought about the development of Dombrov Baseball. The game has since evolved and had many enhancements but the original table top concept is still an available option for playing the game. 

This is now the fifth major release of Dombrov Baseball and as I would be expected to say the game keeps getting better every year. One thing significantly different is that this release is being offered for free! Please consider this my contribution to the game of baseball and to the ever growing niche of text based simulation games. This won’t run on the game console but definitely gives most people the feel of playing a baseball game.

Thanks for visiting the site and reading this page.

Richard Dombrovski, Developer

March 18, 2011