Baseball, My Life

I am an avid baseball fan and I think what interests me the most about baseball is the sport's history. I enjoy the way that much of the game's history is developed through the wealth of statistics and box scores generated by the game itself. For example, the 1998 Major League Baseball season underscores how the game creates excitement through numbers rather than language itself. In 1998, even non-baseball fans got caught up in the drama of …

…my thesis I will, first, explore the notion of simulations: what are they and how do they work. Secondly, I will examine how humans interact with simulations. Finally, I will draw some conclusions on what do simulations tell us about ourselves as human beings. In order to examine the concept of simulations I will draw on the work Jean Baudrillard, in his essay The Precession of Simulacra(1984), to explore baseball as an example of simulation.