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Another great place for people-watching: Camden Yards, the greatest ballpark on earth. I go on a night when the O’s are playing the Anaheim Angels. Cal Ripken has recently been named All-Star MVP, and when he comes up to bat, we all fall silent, like it’s an audience with the Pope...
...eyesores, striking examples of an architectural period my friend’s mother once dubbed “Early Ugly.” But a sign on the Bedford Avenue side reveals the site’s significance to the uninformed: Ebbets Field. There used to be a ballpark here...
...Brooklyn would have survived the various corrupting influences of modern professional sport. I wonder if the days of walking down Flatbush Avenue and hearing Dodger broadcasts blaring from a million windows would have lasted through those four lost decades. Aging fans now exult at the sight of a Brooklyn ballpark and relive old memories; I wonder what my memories would have been...
...Yankees have Clemens and Derek Jeter and Bernie Williams, who are at least in the same Q-rating ballpark as Rodriguez and Griffey, but for the most part they're a team (if a deep and well-paid one) of hard-working below-the-fold-ers who happen to add up to championship after championship. After championship...
...Professionally hit? I refrain from saying "Single A short-season," though I do think it-which I take to be a pretty good sign. My real sense of humor, not that macabre mindplay I suffered at the ballpark, is returning. The doors to the room swing open and those two nice EMTs come in, bearing a gift. "The game ball," one explains, and for the first time I think: Hey, some kid grabbed the ball that hit my daughter on the head! That's okay. We've got this game ball signed by the Single A short-season Spinners...