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Baltimore and Boston have the same number of people in their metropolitan areas, but the Red Sox are the only baseball team in New England and draw fans from a five-state area. Crabtown has Philadelphia and plush new Veterans' Stadium to the north, and Washington, D. C. to the south. The Senators may have moved to Texas, but their ex-fans have been too busy burning Bob Short in effigy and waiting for Congress to do something to cast their toward the Chesapeake...

Author: By Dave Clarke, | Title: We Don't Have to Like It Even If It May Be Right | 11/9/1976 | See Source »

...late have been busily writing some modern history. Last week, after decades of stand-pat government, the state's general assembly concluded its most productive, innovative session in memory. As a result, Annapolis-which once was proudly dubbed the Athens of America, but is better known today as Crabtown, after the Chesapeake crustaceans for which it is famed-fairly steamed with bipartisan mutual admiration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maryland: The Athenian Touch | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

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