The Northern League initially approves the idea of having fans watch the 16-by-24-foot video stadium monitor, alongside the Kansas City T-Bones and Schaumburg Flyers players looking on from their respective dugouts, as two kids using an X-Box and the MVP Baseball 2005 software determine the outcome of the first two innings of tonight’s scheduled game. The individual player statistics generated by the video game would not have counted, but league officials later decide against the promotion, and instead replay the final two innings of the game on the game system.

On July 16, 2005 The Northern League initially approves the idea of having fans watch the 16-by-24-foot video stadium monitor, alongside the Kansas City T-Bones and Schaumburg Flyers players looking on from their respective dugouts, as two kids using an X-Box and the MVP Baseball 2005 software determine the outcome of the first two innings of tonight’s scheduled game. The individual player statistics generated by the video game would not have counted, but league officials later decide against the promotion, and instead replay the final two innings of the game on the game system.

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