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Article: STRUCK OUT IN COOPERSTOWN; FINAL HALL OF FAME GAME RAINED OUT -- WON'T RETURN.(News)
- Article from:
- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- June 17, 2008
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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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