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...Griffey Jr. jerseys line the windows of every sporting goods store. Cal Ripken sets a new record for consistently showing up at work, and Kirby Puckett brings tears to the Land of 10,000 Lakes when he retires...
PHILADELPHIA: Tonight's Major League Baseball All-Star game may be the last to hold the mystery of National and American League players meeting for the first time. By next spring, interleague play, if approved by the players union, will be a regular part of baseball. Baltimore's Cal Ripken will have seen NL starting pitcher John Smoltz's best fastball; Cincinnati's Barry Larkin will know the break on AL starter Charles Nagy's curveball. Some players and fans, of course, fear the allure of the game may wear off if matchups like these aren't saved...
Hill is a transplanted Australian with little reverence for the national pastime. He was recently quoted in the New York Times Magazine as telling his executives, "If anybody talks about any dead guys during a broadcast, I'll sack 'em." (Good thing Fox didn't televise Cal Ripken's 2,131st straight game last year: "Cal Ripken has now played in more consecutive games than...anybody.") Hill explains himself: "What I meant when I said that was I didn't want the announcers just to drop names of dead guys without putting them in context. We now have someone going...
...rather moribund marketing of baseball with a series of fresh, wiseacre promos titled "Same Game, New Attitude." They include the Phillies' Lenny Dykstra jumping into a mosh pit, Yankee first baseman Tino Martinez on the couch of a shrink who happens to be a Don Mattingly fan, and Cal Ripken getting razzed by his mailman, who asks, "I don't suppose you've had to deal with any rabid Dobermans at shortstop, Mr. Streak?" Fox will also do a kids' pregame show, In the Zone, to lure future fans whose bedtimes have kept them from seeing the World Series...
...those ball parks have been leveled since the '60s, all in the name of progress, prosperity and Manifest Destiny. Now only four remain to connect fans to the past, to link Lou Gehrig to Cal Ripken. Of those, three have recently been given the kiss of death: Tiger Stadium, Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium. Going, going, gone...