The first two innings of a real-life baseball game between the Kansas City T-Bones and the Schaumburg Flyers will be played on an Xbox, with the real teams picking up where the virtual game left off:Equipped with Microsoft Xbox game controllers instead of baseball gloves and bats, two video gamers will climb into recliner chairs around home plate at CommunityAmerica Ballpark and slug it out on the park’s 16- by 24-foot video screen.
Their scores from playing two innings of MVP Baseball 2005 on an Xbox will stand when the T-Bones and Flyers take the field to finish the last seven innings of the game.
Mike Stone, commissioner of the minor-league baseball Northern League, said the idea “brings new meaning to the term ‘fan involvement.’ ”
Old ballgame has newfangled twist via Boingboing
