I just happened to be on this site that gives cheats for various games. I looked up RBI Baseball to see if they had anything on it.
http://www.gamewinners.com/nes/RBIBaseball.htm (http://www.gamewinners.com/nes/RBIBaseball.htm)
It says that if you pick a pinch hitter witht he last name beginning with the letter H, you have a better chance of getting a hit. What the hell?
this looks like a bunch of shit
we've heard this one before. its a load of crap.
It's impossible to say for sure, since we don't have the exact algorithm used to determine what happens once a ball is hit.
My best educated guess? "a bunch of shit," as sucka so succinctly put it.
Nightwulf
Shit.... It seemed to propagate to a few cheat sites out there, a bunch of those NES tip pages simply copy from each other....
I wouldn't shut out the notorious "H-factor" so quickly. If you think about it, there is some truth behind it. Didn't we agree awhile back (thanks to nightwulf and some meticulous ROM hacking) that the substitution of a pinch hitter boosted that player's power ranking for that particular at bat?
So wouldn't it kind of make sense that people would believe in such a theory if you consider the fact that the first two of the 4 "H-players" (Hendrick, Henderson, Heath, & Heep) have solid batting averages and homers?
Overall, I feel that it's a bad rumor. Yet, if you combine the extra boost received with the "Sub-factor" and the fact that Hendrick & Henderson are good players (largely my opinion), I think you can begin to see how this myth may have started.
SmokedUBad
www.dee-nee.com/rbi/mbeales - The Official R.B.I. Baseball COTUT
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