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...moonlighting Milwaukee Brewers owner, said last Monday. Selig and Budig did manage to stave off the Tuesday walkout by promising to hear Alomar's appeal on Thursday. To add to the bad taste, 50,000 fans cheered and only a few booed as Alomar took the field at Camden Yards against the Cleveland Indians in Game One of their division series. In New York City for the Yankees-Rangers series later that night, umpire Al Clark watched on television as Alomar and the O's defeated the Indians 10-4 and said, "The only way to describe it is beyond...
...could have set Camden Yards inside Yankee Stadium and not even brush a coat of paint. We had power alleys of 457 feet and it was 461 feet to center." --Former Yankee Johnny Blanchard on the Orioles breaking the 1961 Yankees' record of 240 home runs in a season...
After just one day of my iron-firsted regime, the pitching in baseball would be automatically improved. I would go even further by eliminating the designated hitter and pushing back the walls of such little league parks as Coors Field and Camden Yards...
...will be the first of the three to go. Twice in the past few years loyalists have surrounded the ball park and given it a hug to demonstrate their affection, but they are down to their last, futile lawsuit, and ground will soon be broken for a Camden Yards knockoff in a better neighborhood...
Fenway, which dates back to 1912, will be the next to fall, if only because Boston sees another Camden Yards knockoff as a fait accompli. There are a few holdouts, most notably Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy, but he's up against no less a personage than Ted Williams, who says, "I would not be sentimental about moving into a new ball park." And you won't find any Fenway supporters on the current Red Sox, either. "Blow it up," slugger Mo Vaughn said one day last year. "Blow the damned place up." The Red Sox may as well...