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At one point data for every MLB game was available from MLB.com. I started writing a RBI baseball simulator using said data and the graphics from the NES game. But then I realized I'm not that good at programming but I still think it would've been neat to watch game 3 of the 1970 world series as played out by 1985 video game graphics.

this 100% sounds like a project I'd see at the top of the front page on a Saturday

You can ask Claude / Cursor to do most of it these days

MLB does something similar called Gameday 3D. https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-gameday-3d-guide

The main difference is that it's rendered client side so you can control the camera for yourself. You can watch in real time during the season, the latency is around 30 seconds behind live action.

MLB StarCast generates ~7TB of data per game. I assume the bulk of that is video from the high speed cameras.