I must confess that baseball is my favourite religion (sport).
Grown up in northern Italy in the 70's when both clubs and National team wons
a lot in Europe.

Now after a long break the National team is back to back European champion.
Hitting coach a guy that you may had heard before: Mike Piazza.

Use a bit copy program to get a copy of your original disk.
Now, to skip the quarter track check routine, use a disk editor and look at:

track $00 sector $00 byte $71 and change $4C $00 $C6 - JMP $C600 to $EA $EA $EA - NOP NOP NOP