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The History of Beverage Baseball

Long ago (1997), in the land of ice and gophers, there lived two freshman roommates in a dormitory on the U of M campus. In the lowest levels of this dorm could be found a long, featureless, underground tunnel that led to the next dorm and most importantly, the food services cafeteria.

In the busy life of a college student, there isn’t always time to eat during normal serving hours. In response, the food services had the option of a “bag lunch.”

The contents of the bag lunch are not relevant to our tale. But along with the bag lunch, a student could choose one of several beverage options, all Coke products. Alas, in typical university style, the stock was replenished on only rare occasions. Within a week of restocking, popular choices such as Cherry Coke and the mind-altering Surge were rendered extinct, leaving naught but less preferable options for the next hapless student.

When faced with this daunting, Faustian conundrum, most would simply grab anything left that might be drinkable. But invariably, a better beverage would be available later and the original drink remained undrunk. So it came to be that in February of 1997, the dorm room decoration included a tower from floor to ceiling built almost entirely out of Lemon Flavored Fresca. The occasional Tab could be seen in the tower (included for color, of course).

Among the timeless philosophical debates that have plagued mankind since the earliest days of having philosophical debates, never before had such a momentous conversation taken place:

“What the hell do we do with 94 cans of Fresca?!”

“I have a 6D-cell Maglite.”

“Let’s go outside.”

Thus was born Beverage Baseball.

Beverage Baseball was created by members of VHU, but we consider it an “open-source” game. Have fun!