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...Moinesity (or Omahaness) is a bigger issue in Minneapolis than in St. Paul. In St. Paul--a city with not so many Sunday brunches, whose residents look on bathrooms as places you go in and do your business and come out--we have our own ballpark, next to the railroad tracks south of the State Fair Grounds, where our baseball team, the Saints, plays against teams from Duluth, Sioux Falls, Sioux City, Fargo-Moorhead, Madison, Winnipeg and Thunder Bay. We wave at the trains as they go by, and we always have a good time regardless of what happens...
...expected, but when we arrived at the park, it was surprisingly busy. Walking down Main Street U.S.A., one felt transported to a small town of America's past, only this one was much, much more crowded. "Disneyland, Population 300,000,000" a suspicious sign read. Was this a ballpark guess of how many people squeeze inside the park each day? Or a cryptic suggestion of how Michael Eisner intended to consume the entire country into his corporate structure? It was far from clear...
...There was drama on the field--the pitcher's duel between probable Cy Young Award winners Andy Pettitte and John Smoltz--and off the field--Frank Torre getting a new heart on the off day before Game 6. There was the quiet goodbye to Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, a ballpark distinguished not by architecture but by its history of great post-season games. The Series also put the World in World Series, presenting Atlanta's 19-year-old outfielder, Andruw Jones, from Curacao and New York's reliever, Graeme Lloyd, from Australia. "I hesitate to say it because the word...
...water pipes" are made in an "undisclosed location in Arizona" but cautions that Graffix is no longer "stressing" them. "It's a very lowkey deal," he assures me and he'd just as soon not talk about the pipes. I pepper him with questions about the company's history, ballpark production figures, etc. But he won't budge...
Lampoon President Michael H. Schur '97 estimated the cost of the renovation to be "between $700,000 and $800,000, ballpark." That figure could not be confirmed...