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March 22, 2008
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"The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball."
PAUL DICKSON
"The only way to prove you're a good sport is to lose."
ERNIE BANKS
"With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize.
I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are
physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But
while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them."
ART HILL
"Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after
you catch it is a business."
TOMMY HENRICH
"Most ball games are lost, not won."
CASEY STENGEL
"When you are ten, you know more about your team than you ever ...
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Is it any wonder baseball fans are flagging?
The Boston Globe;
October 25, 1997 ;
261 words
......are way out of their league. It's late October and baseball is still in progress. By the time this World Series...calendar, he might begin to understand the problem. Baseball begins in April. On occasion, ball games have actually been snowed out in Michigan. Last night...attendance at Cleveland. ...
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 "Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)")
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The Philadelphia Inquirer Morning Bytes column: Vukovich embodied a...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA);
March 16, 2007 ;
Fitzpatrick, Frank;
593 words
......Mar. 16--Fathers and sons. Baseball's enduring popularity is...Little League. Going to ball games. First gloves we recall as...thought about fathers, sons and baseball last week when John Vukovich...also swore he didn't bet on baseball. Then when it was obvious...while he might have bet on ...
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Baseball Swinging a Hot Bat This Season; TV Exposure Has Helped Lift Sport...
TelevisionWeek;
May 28, 2007 ;
787 words
......first four weeks of the MLB season, Fox's Saturday baseball package was off to its best start ever with an...highest ratings since 1997. On a local level, baseball's drawing as well: The Mets-Yankees game on May...since 1997. Television has played a big part in baseball's business success under Mr. ...
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The earliest reference to baseball has been unearthed in America, putting...
History Today;
July 1, 2004 ;
100 words
...The earliest reference to baseball has been unearthed in America, putting...Massachusetts library prohibiting the playing of ball games near the town meeting house. It states that' Wicket, Cricket, Baseball Football, Cat, Fives' are prohibited...who was researching the history of baseball, ...
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Bush opens White House lawn to monthly tee ball games.(The Dallas Morning...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;
March 30, 2001 ;
Hillman, G. Robert;
787 words
......small way, maybe we can help preserve the best of baseball at the White House, Bush said. We've got a pretty...back yard here. In short, the president is a big baseball fan. One of the great things about living here is you don't have to sign up for a baseball fantasy camp to meet your heroes. It turns ...
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 "Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)")
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Baseball strike could cost tens of millions; Dollars: Some analysts think...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);
August 29, 2002 ;
DAVE CARPENTER;
551 words
......one that wipes out the World Series - could cost baseball plenty by prompting companies to take their advertising...the sports market has a lot of choices besides baseball," says Paul Swangard, managing director of the Warsaw...one of these things since the early '70s, and that baseball seems to be the ...
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One batsman, two different ball games Leo McKinstry enjoys a professional...
The Sunday Telegraph London;
July 7, 2002 ;
Leo McKinstry;
623 words
......disparagement of the USA's national sport of baseball is one of the most common manifestations...superior and more cerebral game of cricket, baseball is often said to embody the worst characteristics...have the cheek to style their domestic baseball championship "the World Series". But...
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 "The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)")
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TUESDAY'S GONE FOR THE MAJORS, NOT FOR BASEBALL.(SPORTS)
The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);
May 13, 1998 ;
676 words
......gloom to the east threatening ball games all the way to the coast...overhead. They weren't playing baseball at War Memorial on Tuesday...Greensboro. They were playing baseball at Northeast Guilford, where...stormy political preseason, baseball season was doing fine on Tuesday...
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 "Portland Press Herald (Maine)")
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ROAD TRIP ; This devoted student of baseball also happens to be a teacher...
Portland Press Herald (Maine);
July 25, 2004 ;
RAY ROUTHIER Staff Writer;
787 words
......07-25-2004 ROAD TRIP ; This devoted student of baseball also happens to be a teacher of the game's history...SUNDAY CHAT Pop quiz: What Midwestern city has a baseball team called the Mud Hens? Who was the first African-Americ...space is being devoted to a frivolous exercise in baseball trivia, know that ...
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Lengthy strike by baseball players could send marketers walking, too
Charleston Gazette;
August 29, 2002 ;
Dave Carpenter;
557 words
......one that wipes out the World Series - could cost baseball plenty by prompting companies to take their advertising...the sports market has a lot of choices besides baseball," says Paul Swangard, managing director of the Warsaw...one of these things since the early '70s, and that baseball seems to be the ...
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 "Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)")
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Stop this ball games nuisance; COUNCIL TO TRY MOUNDS SOLUTION AFTER...
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);
July 24, 2002 ;
353 words
......signed a petition calling for action over ball games being played on green space opposite...lived here for the past five years and ball games have been an ongoing problem. I live...consulted. The problems caused by these ball games have gone beyond a joke and something...
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Baseball's Ancestry: tracking ball games through history.
The National Pastime;
January 1, 2001 ;
Baldassarre, Joseph A.;
787 words
......the same. Many of their ball games were similar to field hockey...As in Greece and Egypt, ball games appear occasionally in the...than competition. Medieval Ball Games--There are many procedural...modern America. The modern baseball fan cannot separate the...during ...
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Baseball as history and myth in August Wilson's: Fences.
African American Review;
June 22, 2006 ;
Koprince, Susan;
787 words
......In Fences Wilson taps into a history of black baseball that began in America in the decades following...until 1947, when Jackie Robinson finally crossed baseball's color line. Roger Kahn explains that no documents attest to baseball's apartheid. There was simply an understanding...that no blacks could ...
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Children's ball games banned from streets
The Northern Echo;
June 15, 1999 ;
Karen Smith;
324 words
......neighbours after complaints over nuisance ball games in Darlington. Youngsters living in the...for opinions on its plans to put up "no ball games" signs. The letter follows a number of...letters to some doors in the street where ball games are being played and where the issue...
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Baseball's genesis up for debate
Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME;
September 14, 2004 ;
TOM WEBER;
537 words
......where and when the game of baseball originated. The theories...historians proclaimed that baseball had been invented in Cooperstown...that referred to "base ball" games being played in Lower Manhattan...banning the playing of "baseball" within 80 yards of a big...historians say the first ...
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