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Baseball means so many different things to different people. Not just a nine inch (circumference) circle shaped object with cork at the center, wrapped in yarn with white cowhide sewn with red stitches.
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To some, it is a way of life, while others may view it strictly as a business.
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To a little kid growing up in in the 1940's, in East Slumville, it was a way to escape the poverty and hopelessness found in the "hood". His game could consist of a garbage lid for first base, a discarded pizza box for second, an old newspaper with a rock holding it down for third base.
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I couldn't sum up baseball in one word, one sentence or one paragraph.
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Pull up a chair and I will attempt to tell you what baseball is to me.
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Baseball is the smell of freshly c ...
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Article written by Cliff Eastham
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