EA Games Announces Free Play for Top Down Baseball Challenge

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 28, 2004--It's time to step up to the big leagues. Electronic Arts™ Online Publishing (Nasdaq:ERTS), the online division of the world's leading interactive entertainment software company, today announced the debut of the 2-player version of "Top Down Baseball Challenge." "Top Down Baseball Challenge" allows users to test their skills against other players in three or nine innings of head-to-head baseball action. It is the first free web-based baseball game with batting, pitching, stats and base-running to support two players, and features high-action game play, and realistic graphics and sounds. Players can win tokens and potentially a cash jackpot for hitting homeruns, getting consecutive hits, stealing bases, or striking out batters. Tokens can be submitted into cash prize drawings that happen daily, weekly and monthly. Batter up at http://www.easports.com/free/home.jsp.