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Total Classics 1984
By Jim825 & dennisjames71
The best teams of the 1984 baseball season had previously posed little threat of contention. The San Diego Padres, who closed the year as National League West winners, had just one winning season in their 15-year existence.
Neither the Cubs nor Mets, who duked it out in the National League East, had challenged for the pennant in over a decade. And the Tigers, who became 1984 World Series Champions, hadn't been to the playoffs since 1972.
The Tigers were the premier team of 1984, going 104-58. Their pitching was solid, with Jack Morris, Dan Petry, and Milt Wilcox all winning at least 17 games. Reliever Willie Hernandez won both the Cy Young and MVP Awards, posting 32 saves in his first 32 opportunities.
The Detroit offense, powered by Kirk Gibson, Lance Parrish, Alan Trammell, and Chet Lemon, led the league in homers and runs scored. Their up-the-middle defense, with Parrish, Trammell, Lemon, and Lou Whitaker, was the best in baseball. With this attack, the Tigers opened the season 35-5, easily capturing the division.
In the West, Kansas City edged out the Angels and Twins, despite winning only 84 games. The Royals' only standout player was Dan Quisenberry, who notched 44 saves.
The 1984 World Series was a formality, as Detroit rolled through the Padres' starting pitching and won the 1984 World Series four games to one. To show how dominant Detroit was in 1984, check out this stat: Including the postseason, the Tigers were 100-0 when leading after eight innings.
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The Total Classics 1984 mod brings you the sights and sounds of the 1984 baseball season. Besides rosters, portraits, uniforms and audios, the mod provides themed menu screens and loading screens, stadium select screens with actual stadium photos, 1984 jukebox music, 1984 batter walkup music, an accurate 1984 schedule, a 1980's era overlay and correct 1980's era stadiums for every team.
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*** INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS ***
- After you download the total_classics_1984.7z file, double-click to open it.
- Extract the contents of the file into a folder.
- Double-click the explodeme.exe file
- Find the location of a CLEAN (or patched) copy of MVP Baseball 2005 and click "Extract".
- Allow the program to extract all of the new content.
- Play the new Total Classics 1984 mod.
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*** VERSION HISTORY ***
v3.0
- Added correct face for Dave Parker
- Added correct face for Milt Wilcox
- Fixed incorrect Montreal Expos team name text on some screens
v2.0
Added dennisjames71's 1984 stadiums that were mistakenly left out of the v1.0 release.
v1.0
Initial release
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