According to the Kansas City Star, the Kansas City T-Bones are set to play a historic baseball game against their traditional rivals, the Schaumburg Flyers. Historic because they are only going to play the second half of the game. The first half will be played virtually, by two star videogamers.

Contests are underway to find the region’s top 16 players of MVP Baseball 2005 on the Xbox. The teams will then pick their virtual representatives from those lucky 16. The gamers will duke it out for two innings in front of the crowd on the stadium’s sixteen by twenty-four foot video screen. The real baseball teams will take over from where those two innings leave off, finishing the game in the real world.

What’s the bets that every fan leaves the game wanting to buy an Xbox and a copy of the game?