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STRUCK OUT IN COOPERSTOWN; FINAL HALL OF FAME GAME RAINED OUT -- WON'T RETURN.(News)
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The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
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June 17, 2008
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2008 All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of The Herald Co. by the Gale Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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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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