2001 World Series into a forceout. After Bautista singled, Matt Williams's three-run home run put Arizona up 4-0. They won the game with that score and led the series two games to none as it moved to New York City. The game was opened in New York by President George W. Bush, who threw the ceremonial first pitch, a strike to Yankees backup catcher Todd Greene. Bush became the first incumbent U.S. president to throw a World Series first pitch since Jimmy Carter in . He also threw the baseball from the mound where the pitcher would be set (unlike most ceremonial first
Intellivision World Series Baseball its companion software titles sold particularly well... and since "IWSB" was one of the last titles made for the ECS system, very few copies were sold, making it one of the rarest Intellivision titles in the collectors' market. Daglow and Dombrower went on to create the hit "Earl Weaver Baseball" game at Electronic Arts in , where they more fully implemented the ideas behind "Intellivision World Series Baseball". This set the stage for the EA Sports product line. In the early and mid-1990s Daglow led the development of the "Tony La Russa Baseball" games, further refining baseball simulations. "Intellivision World