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...Murakami was in the stands at Tokyo's Meiji-Jingu Stadium, watching a baseball game, beer in hand. He was verging on 30, and nearly a decade into running a jazz café with his wife Yoko. A journeyman American batter named Dave Hilton came to the plate for the Yakult Swallows, stroked the first pitch into left field, and safely reached second base. As he watched the batter swing at the ball, "I just felt all of a sudden that I could write," Murakami says, sitting today in his Tokyo office, a light jog away from the stadium...
Creating a completed digital picture of a plate with all the necessary file backups takes about two gigabytes of hard drive space...
...business can generate revenue. As ballpark operations and the lucrative salaries are staples of the game, the thrill of witnessing a Manny Ramirez homer over the light-towers or a ninth-inning rally must sometimes strike a cool accommodation with the business side that brings the batter to home plate or the pitcher to the mound...
...government purchases of treasuries have slowed, private investors have been stepping up to the plate and buying more dollar-based assets. Why? Because they see real value in U.S. stocks and bonds at current exchange rates. This might seem wrongheaded, because there are plenty of reasons to be bearish on the dollar (and on dollar assets like U.S. stocks). The massive U.S. current-account deficit, which consists of the trade deficit and other transfers, shows no signs of disappearing. So investors know that they will have to contend with an increasing supply of dollars for years to come...
...umpires, those stalwarts dressed in navy blue, divining balls and strikes and declaring men safe or out. Shag Crawford was proudly one of them, a tough ump from the old school, and he presided over plenty of drama in his two decades at the corners and behind the plate. He broke up one of baseball's scariest fights when an enraged Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants clubbed Los Angeles Dodgers catcher John Roseboro on the head with a bat. He also had the nerve to eject a manager in the World Series: Baltimore's voluble Earl Weaver...