Topsy-TURVY Baseball World Entices Fans
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The World Series has been over less than 48 hours and already I can&#39;t wait for the free-agent signing period to commence, for the Winter Meetings to unfold, for tensions between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees to escalate to unprecedented levels.
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Baseball in October is a capricious carnival of a crapshoot that produces the maximum possible number of thrills and shocks.
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This yearâs World Series was so full of odd, unscripted sights and moments that it sometimes seemed as if the laws of baseball probability had been temporarily suspended.
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Fans flock for his autograph. Cameras record his simplest moves. Batters look for his mysterious "gyroball" &#151; if it even exists. He's just one of hundreds of rookies at baseball spring training camps this year, but he's swooned over like a rock star.
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Baseballâs mass migration to Arizona for spring training is a development that would have been someoneâs spring fantasy a couple of decades ago.
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Since April, baseball fans attending San Francisco Giants home games at SBC Park have enjoyed wireless internet access if they bring a portable computer with them.
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YankeesÂ pitcher Chien-Ming WangÂs success has created a nation of Yankee fans halfway around the world.
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Baseball fans will soon be able to use their cell phones to take them out to the ballgame.
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Fans are now captivated by the unscissored styles of athletes like Johnny Damon of the Boston Red Sox and the Detroit basketball champion Ben Wallace and his jumbo Afro.
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Sports teams are putting high technology into stadiums to attract fans, generate cash and improve standings.
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On the eve of a major Test series, with the eyes of the cricketing world focused on it, one would have liked to write about the subtle intricacies of a five-day game that enthrall a sports fan.
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Let's say Boston is the sun of the baseball universe, where hope and criticism burn bright, where a city revolves around the game.
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As field gets increasingly crowded, advertisers become more audacious in grabbing our attention.
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Baseball&#39;s most star-crossed franchise is either on the verge of purging its demons or setting this town up for the ultimate tease and fall.
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Fans flocked to Fenway Park and tied the Boston phone system in knots yesterday trying to snare the few World Series tickets remaining after Major League Baseball, its corporate sponsors, and season ticket holders received their allotments.
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Some baseball teams are built for the long grind of the season, some for a short playoff series.
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By Nia-Malika Henderson, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 18--In their heyday, the Galesville Hot Sox drew hundreds of fans to lively baseball games on lazy Sunday afternoons.