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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The fans of the St. Louis Cardinals are considered the best in baseball, or at least the most polite and supportive. They embrace their team with the fervor of a college
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Curt Schilling and Pedro Martinez are revved up. Roger Clemens and Roy Oswalt are rarin&#39; to go. Baseball fans are ready, too. The shadows are getting longer, the leaves are starting to turn and pumpkins are showing up.
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People are hearing the Red Sox loudly and clearly this season while watching them succeed in somewhat unorthodox ways.
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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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It was the kind of game Phillies fans had seen thousands of times before.
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com. Major League Baseball has expanded its availability to fans everywhere in yet another important way, announcing on Wednesday an 11-year, $650 million agreement with XM Satellite Radio
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Games between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox have, for at least the last half-century, attracted a media mob fascinated with every scrap of information about the famous rivalry.
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A crowd of American sports leagues are racing to widen international appeal and revenue by playing more games abroad and expanding foreign marketing.
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For a frugal baseball fan smitten with the romance of the old parks, itâs an ideal time to make a sweep through the fields.
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Multimillion-dollar baseball dealmaker by day, garage-band guitarist by night, Theo Epstein found refuge one brutally cold night last January a few blocks from his childhood home in the warm cocoon of a couple thousand Red Sox fans stoking the embers of their unrequited dream: a new world championship banner fluttering over Fenway Park.
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When the twin obsessions of India, cricket and cinema decide to pitch it out, fans are in for a bonanza.
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Pro sports can seem driven by commercialism, as team owners lust after fancy new stadiums, fans jeer losers and true believers seem quaint. Then there's Red Sox Nation, an island that seems almost immune to modern sports marketing. Now the club is cashing in on its World Series championship.
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This time of year in baseball, there is nothing quite so dangerous as a franchise or a general manager with a thirst for headlines and big splashes.
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Baseball players may not be the only animals looking to gain an advantage by using steroids.
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While this postseason may not have been the best ever, it certainly provided baseball fans with plenty of fantastic thrills.
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Some baseball teams are built for the long grind of the season, some for a short playoff series.