[2] According to a 1978 New York Times interview with Nolan Bushnell, the engineer who was first assigned to develop the game didn't know the rules of the sport of baseball.

A review in the December 1982 issue of JoyStik magazine was heavily critical of the game, stating that it was "nothing like real baseball", and describing the graphics as "primitive".

[4] A review in the January/February 2003 issue of Digital Press was overwhelmingly negative, describing it as "a big stinker", "one of the worst games ever designed" with graphics that are "inexcusably bad".

[10] Bret Weiss writing in Classic Home Video Games, 1972–1984: A Complete Reference Guide praised the variety of the options for pitching but found the graphics and gameplay lack-lustre.

[5] In an aggressive marketing campaign by Mattel Electronics, the game was compared to its graphically and gameplay-wise more advanced Intellivision counterpart Major League Baseball, sparking off the first console war.