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Article: SENATE WHIFFS OVER BASEBALL'S ORIGINS.(NEWS)
- Article from:
- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- June 3, 1996
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Byline: George Will
WASHINGTON -- This could get ugly. Uglier. New Jersey and New York are at daggers drawn over bragging rights as the birthplace of baseball.
Some people think that is something to apologize for, not brag about. Remember the football fan who, told that the American hostages returned from Iran were given passes to major league parks, asked, ''Haven't they suffered enough?'' Still, the dispute poisoning relations along the lower Hudson River illuminates the problematic nature of our national fascination with pinpointing origins.
The fiercest skirmishing about baseball's birth is in the U.S. Senate, where the heat of passion often ...
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