Babe Ruthless: Baseball Gets Violent In Lethal League

Sports hooliganism seems inefficient: if you’re going to behave so childishly, why not build that violence into the competition in the first place? Rollerball, The Running Man, Death Race 2000, the Thunderdome… we have countless examples of it going just dandy for everyone involved. Lethal League.

It’s a delightful little sport whereby up to four competitors attempt to smash a baseball into their opponents’ faces. A fighting game where you’re aiming for the ball rather than your opponent, bouncing it off the walls and floor and using special moves to cause terrible violence.

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