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• W250096686 abstract "Clone Chronicles Installment Eighteen IN THE 23RD CENTURY, the Baseball Planet was perhaps the most successful of all the theme planets. This artificial planet drew more visitors and made more money for Corporation than other such enterprises, including the Dizney makers of the Baseball Planet had shown creativity and innovation in their reconstruction of the glorious days of 20th Century American baseball. Almost every art and technology available was used to evoke the nostalgia of that golden age, if one may call nostalgia this sweet longing for simpler days by those who had never actually experienced them, good times which may have never have occurred at all. In the visitor areas, only reproductions of pre-1999 baseball equipment was allowed. Baseball Planet stadiums, replicas of various beloved American stadiums, such as Wrigley Field, Yankee Stadium, and Ebbets Field, were built to look like their 20th-Century originals, except that certain unobtrusive features were added to increase the fans' comfort. Notable games were reconstructed play by play, performed by highly trained actors who had been cloned from the DNA of the original players. Since it is sometimes difficult to mimic a specific play, such as Babe Ruth's 60th single-season home run or Roger Maris' 61st single-season home run, these reenactments were assisted by state-of-the-art technology. For example, a smart-baseball, equipped with propulsion and navigation devices, would make its own way to the middle of the bleachers just as the original ball had done when Ruth broke his own single-season home run record, no matter how poorly the clone actor was batting that day. In a similar vein, smart bases would jump quickly out of the way, or move toward a sliding-- in player, and various force fields would slow or speed moving players to ensure that the game went according to plan. Baseball fans found much comfort in the predictability of these games. They knew when they would have to stay for extra innings, for example, and could schedule their vacation time accordingly. In a universe of general chaos, social unrest, and economic doubt, this formalized certainty provided much solace to a worried, stressed, and often unhappy populace. However, our hero the clone Pang Lawws felt disturbed by the way baseball was performed aboard the Baseball As part of his education and socialization, he had spent many happy hours watching historical archives of actual 20th Century baseball games, listening to commentary rendered by sportscasters, sociologists, and historians. One thing Pang loved about baseball was its unpredictability. You never knew what would happen next. He recalled one baseball pundit saying, covered the game for fifty years, and I've never seen that play before. Pang thought, The real game is simple, the possibilities are endless. In their secret accommodations aboard the Baseball Planet, Pang and Clonemaster Dolly Darling argued over Pang's dissatisfaction with the status quo. Each game on the Baseball Planet is a precise reconstruction of a 20th Century game, said Pang. It goes according to a script based on the records of the original game. know who will win even before it begins. The public wants that, replied Dolly. But it's not baseball, cried Pang in frustration. Let's not have one of those futile arguments about what it is or what it is not, said Dolly argumentatively. But it's essential that baseball is an unpredictable free-flowing game in real time with the results depending on the players' skill, weather conditions, and an intangible we call `luck.' We don't have real weather on the Baseball Planet. Yes, they even reproduce the micro-climatic events of the original game. How can those players stand the boredom? It's no challenge if you know who's going to win before you start. …" @default.
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