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Article: BASEBALL A SCRAPBOOK, NOT A VIDEO.(Sports)(Column)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- April 4, 2003
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Byline: Bernie Lincicome
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
Batter up. Baseball is back. Or what passes for baseball at Coors Field, always a special and random adventure.
Never has baseball been more welcome. An anxious nation needs baseball's calming lack of urgency, its lazy promise of matching tomorrows, its long and linked memories, its threads to common culture, its reminder of what we were and what we are.
Those who would understand the mind of America must study baseball, it has been famously said. This was said a long time ago.
Basketball has become the MTV game. Football gets all the loose wagers. Hockey seems unconsciously happy ...