HISTORY OF THE FEDERATION

There has been no love between the Federation and Major League Baseball. Since the Federation’s inception, in the strike torn year of 1982, there has been heated animosity between both sides. It was in that monumental year of nineteen hundred and eighty-two that baseball sought new ways in improving player and owner relations, which principally concerned the freedom and eligibility of free agents. While players desired a settlement that hinged on a highly lucrative and accessible free-agency market, the owners, in turn, felt a salary cap as a more resourceful alternative. Although the players seemed to hold a stronger platform during negotiations, the owners managed to procure an ace in the hole.

The owners of Major League Baseball sought to invest in a new realm of genetic research that science and technology had just recently ventured into. As it would soon come to being, this exercise in combining science with the American pastime would forever change the League and the planet itself.

In that same year, scientists at the University of Arizona, with the assistance of super computers, loaned through grants from Tibetan merchants, made DNA linkage possible. In that summer tests demonstrated that by extracting DNA strands which had laid dormant or dead could be combined with a living embryo to recreate a replica of that organism. The test was a success. Although the finding was an immediate success, it needed sufficient funding. At its inception, the United States government was not capable of financing a project that at the time was sure to waste millions of dollars in taxes when it had to spend billions to protect and defend freedom.

Albeit, Major League Baseball wanted this inventive technology-It saw the recreation of old stars like Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson, and Lou Gehrig as a vehicle in enhancing attendance and revenue. Much felt that the recreation might work, however, no one thought it would be without deficiencies. Questions were posed in reference to the machine capabilities in recreating the person’s intellect, body composition, and memory. This idea was displaced when Albert Einstein was brought back. Einstein immediately displayed his genus by exclaiming:

Major League Baseball and the world had its proof, nevertheless, it wasn’t until a group of college students from State colleges throughout Arizona took the initiative and convinced the von Albrecht clan and Merrill Lynch to purchase the rights to the new technology. The investors were avid baseball fans and felt that a deal could be struck with Major League Baseball that would interest both parties. The deal was made and Major League Baseball gave the investors the ownership rights to two teams, the Chicago WhiteSox and Baltimore Orioles, in exchange for the use of the technology. The deal pleased both sides, the investors allowed Major League Baseball to borrow the technology, which in turn the investors still maintained the rights. In time, the selling of the use of the genetic technology to world governments, major corporations, and wealthy entrepreneurs produced tremendous revenue for Merrill Lynch and its investors.

By the year 1990, Major League Baseball had brought back over fifteen hundred players from the past. Although, in the beginning, the influx of Greats brought discontent to the contemporary player, the gamble paid off for Major League Baseball as fans came rushing to the ballpark. While Major League Baseball introduced players from the decades of the thirties to the seventies, the nineties generation player was ignored. To make matters worse for the players, nanotechnology had advanced to the point, whereby, ex-players that were presently alive could be brought back to their youthful vigor. In 1992, support from fans fell drastically and baseball hit its low point financially. The augmentation of past legends caused the game to lose its interest at all levels. In 1988, the farm system, which was the cornerstone to all player develop, was eradicated. It was more likely for a young athlete to pick another sport beside baseball to master because of the improbability in ever making a career playing it.

Merrill Lynch saw the floundering of their investment as their mighty Chicago Whitesox franchise was forced to merge with the Baltimore Orioles. In 1992, a coalition of owners, Merrill Lynch representatives, and world leaders came to a solution. The solution was to first, stop the flow of generated players and second, market the game globally.

The proposal for the stop of generated players was sent to Major League Baseball offices, Major League Baseball rejected it. Because the rebel-coalition of owners consisted of only a handful, and were incapable of changing MLB policy concerning generating players, they resorted to the second solution, promoting the game globally. The question of promoting the game globally was answered when air transport became so efficient that a team could get anywhere in the world in a two-hour span. With the concern of distance out of the question, the next issue was attracting foreign demand. On January sixth, 1992, a meeting was held in Tucson, Arizona. Incredibly, over one hundred leaders from nations, chiefdoms, and city-states arrived in Tucson with mindset of acquiring a franchise. The world leader presence made it apparent that many countries desired baseball and would bid highly on acquiring a franchise. Coupled with transport effectiveness, another league, a world league, became possible. At 9:30 P.M., at the residence of the soon to be commissioner of the Federation, James Franklin Marshall, terms were agreed upon that would commence and enable the creation of a new league. Marshall had these words for the press: