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Article: A toast to the end of spring training
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- April 7, 2009
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CHARLES FOUNTAIN
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
04-07-2009
A toast to the end of spring training
By CHARLES FOUNTAIN
Date: 04-07-2009, Tuesday
Section: OPINION
Edtion: All Editions
IT MAY BE sports greatest anomaly. Is there anything we await as anxiously, celebrate more poetically, than the arrival of Major League Baseball spring training? Is there anything we are happier to see come to an end?
If spring training seemed longer than normal this year, thats because it was by a week or so in deference to the World Baseball Classic. It seemed endless. The games began way back on Feb. 25 and didnt end until Sunday afternoon: Thats 40 days of exhibition baseball, the equivalent of nearly one-quarter ...