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Article: All-Star game always keeps fans coming back for more
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 13, 1986
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I haven't seen the program for the All-Star Game that will be played
in Houston Tuesday night, but if it's anything like some of those
printed in the past there will be one curious omission from the
cover.
The word baseball.
You wouldn't expect to go to the NBA
All-Star Game and not have the sport spelled out for you. The same
holds truefor the NHL. The NFL's Pro Bowl speaks for itself.
But baseball's big exhibition game is billed as simply the
All-Star Game. No further explanation is deemed necessary.
This could be marked down to arrogance, I suppose, or to the
historical fact that baseball's All-Star Game was the first one to be
played while the others are simply knockoffs of the ...