Article: All-Star game pays tribute to Yankee Stadium

NEW YORK -- In most cities, the All-Star game comes with giddy welcoming stories anticipating the annual gathering of baseball's best.

Well, the front page of one New York newspaper Sunday was devoted to baseball, all right, but with a different sort of headline: "A- ROD LOVE NEST."

Only in New York, where players' off-the-field lives and wives are scrutinized as intensely as their batting averages and won-lost records. And while the All-Star game is a season highlight in the Big Apple, it's also an interruption of the daily obsession of the pennant races.

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