Baseball.TV to Webcast Inaugural Cal Ripken World Series; Sports Technology Leader First to Provide Live Interactive Coverage of Series to Fans Worldwide.

Sports Editors & Writers

MATTOON, Ill.--(BW SportsWire)--Aug. 23, 2000

Baseball.TV, a leader in the development of interactive broadcast and marketing technologies exclusively for baseball, announced today that the final eleven games of the inaugural Cal Ripken World Series, August 24-27 in Mattoon, Ill. will be shown "live" via Baseball.TV's unique webcasting system. Baseball.TV will also webcast a graphically enhanced play-by-play analysis of each pitcher's performance and batter's results online in real-time during the final games of the series. This unprecedented undertaking will allow town followers of teams from around the U.S. and five other countries to keep track of their favorite players from anywhere in the world as the tournament progresses.

The four days of live online coverage culminates with the first-ever live webcast of the Championship Game Sunday, August 27, 2000 at 4 p.m. CDST. The live webcast will be available at www.baseball.tv. As the championship tournament of the ages 10-12 division of the renowned Babe Ruth League, Inc., the Cal Ripken World Series allows youngsters to enhance and develop their baseball skills through local, regional, national and international competition.

Using the revolutionary SportMaster PRO(TM) hand-held computerized tracking device, every pitch, swing, hit, run and error during the final seven games of the series will be instantly charted by Baseball.TV's engineers. This information will then be uploaded to the Baseball.TV web site. Visitors to this site will be able to follow the games by accessing multiple levels of information about each player and team, including team and individual hitting and pitching tendencies, batting averages and fielding percentages.

"As the leader in interactive baseball broadcast technology, we are pleased to be able to bring the element of interactivity to this historic event. Through this webcast, we will bring the important final results and key statistics from every game back to the fans in each team's hometown," said Tom Heshion, president and CEO of Baseball.TV. "Never before has there been such an ambitious undertaking in the history of amateur baseball. It's exciting."

Heshion points out that Baseball.TV engineers will be using the same technology and equipment currently being tested and implemented in Major League ballparks across the country as part of baseball's entry into the new age of modern technology.

In addition to providing complete statistical breakdowns and information from each game on the Baseball.TV web site, Baseball.TV will generate a personalized interactive eBaseball Card -- a custom mini CD-ROM featuring video highlights, photos and personal Series statistics -- for each of the tournament's participants. The cards will be distributed following the Series Championship Game and will also be uploaded to the Baseball.TV web site, where they can be enjoyed by players' families and friends.

To access the site, go to www.baseball.tv and click on the Cal Ripken World Series icon. Baseball.TV will webcast the final four Round Robin Competition games on Thursday, August 24 and all seven of the Single Elimination games beginning on Friday, August 25 and culminating with the World Series Championship Game at 4:00 p.m. CDST Sunday, August 27. Each of the final eleven games will be broadcast live via Baseball.TV's webcasting system. Baseball.TV is the official site where hometown fans can watch live feeds from the tournament.

On July 6, 1999, Babe Ruth Baseball's Bambino Division was renamed "Cal Ripken Baseball, a Division of the Babe Ruth League, Inc." The 2000 Cal Ripken World Series will mark Babe Ruth League, Inc.'s entrance into the global baseball arena. The ten participating World Series teams from the United States will be joined by teams from Australia, Canada, Korea, Italy and The Netherlands.

Baseball.TV is the forerunner of the (dot).TV age, the new Internet domain for interactive media and streaming video. A subsidiary of Kansas City-based Recreational Technologies, Baseball.TV is the first interactive broadcast and marketing technology company devoted entirely to the sport of baseball. For more information, go to www.baseball.tv.

                          WEBCAST SCHEDULE:

   Former Orioles right-hander Milt Pappas, who started the All-Star
 Game for the American League in 1965, will provide "live" commentary
            for the Webcast of the Cal Ripken World Series.


                        ROUND ROBIN COMPETITION
Thursday, August 24, 2000
Game 27:     1:00 p.m.(a)  American Division   New England vs.
                                               Pacific Northwest
Game 28      3:00 p.m.     National Division   Middle Atlantic vs.
                                               Southeast
Game 29      5:30 p.m.     International       Australia vs. Italy
                           Division
Game 30      8:00 p.m.     American Division   Ohio Valley vs.
                                               Mattoon, Ill.

                        SINGLE ELIMINATION PLAY
Friday, August 25, 2000
Game 1:      1:30 p.m.     2nd place International vs. 3rd place
                           International
Game 2       3:00 p.m.     1st place National vs. 2nd place American
Game 3       5:30 p.m.     1st place International vs. 4th place
                           International
Game 4       8:00 p.m.     2nd place National vs. 1st place American

Saturday, August 26, 2000
Game 5       3:30 p.m.     International Championship Game between
                           the Winners of Games 1 and 3
Game 6       5:30 p.m.     American Championship Game between the
                           Winners of Games 2 and 4

Sunday, August 27, 2000
Championship Game --       International Championship Winner versus
                           American Championship Winner

(a) CDST
                           www.baseball.tv