28.3.08

PLAY BALL

How to even begin paying homage to America's greatest pastime - the only sport to really have an official anthem ? [Listen to the original 1908 phonograph version here.] Here are a few baseball-related internet snippets. More to come later !
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Thank God - August Anheuser Busch Jr. was born this day, 1899.
If that's not worth celebrating, I dont know what is !


Read about his baseball brew:

LINK !!

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On April 2, Slate.com's photo of the day section feature a collection of baseball-themed photographs from Magnum

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Ever actually read the poem Casey at the Bat ?

The Outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day:
The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play.
And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same,
A sickly silence fell upon the patrons of the game
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Read the rest here:

LINK !!
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You can't think of baseball without thinking of The Sandlot - if you're part of my generation, at least. Remember the insult scene ? What a great movie.

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