The player can choose between five different captains: Mario and the unlockable captains Yoshi (Yoshi Park), Donkey Kong (DK Jungle), Wario (Wario City), and Princess Peach (Peach Ice Garden).

Shows MVPs of exhibition games, star players in challenge mode and high scores of the minigames.

Along with different styles of game mechanics, an important feature in Mario Super Sluggers is chemistry between the nine characters on a team.

Chemistry gives any team the opportunity to earn items, rob home-runs with a super jump and use a laser beam throw to catch any opponent in the base path.

[2] As part of the North American marketing launch, Nintendo created a series of collectible online cards along with a website that served as a virtual collector's album.

The site promises that the series will include a card for each of the 41 characters featured in Mario Super Sluggers.

When the Seattle Mariners played the New York Yankees on September 5, 2008, the game was promoted there at Safeco Field.

Whenever a home run or a good play happened, the Safeco Field video screen showed a gameplay clip with Mario, Luigi, or Bowser.

Nintendo of America's offices are based in the Seattle area, and was the majority owner of the Mariners at the time of the game's release (hence the promotion).