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STRUCK OUT IN COOPERSTOWN; FINAL HALL OF FAME GAME RAINED OUT -- WON'T RETURN.(News)

Byline: Matt Michael and Hart Seely Staff writers

Lucia Colone grew up with an occasional home run crashing into her house.

Once a year, the lords of baseball would send two major league teams to Doubleday Field, the postcard vista ballpark on the other side of her family's backyard fence. Kids would lean a ladder to the wall and peep over it, a Norman Rockwell painting turned real.

Monday, the tradition ended.

The annual Baseball Hall of Fame Game, a Cooperstown rite since 1940, officially went the way of the barrel-handled bat and Sunday doubleheader. A heavy rain scratched Monday's game before a pitch could be thrown, just as Major League Baseball early ...

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