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seamheads.com - 3/29/2008
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"We-e-e-a-ah!" and likewise "Stri-i-ke tuh!" They're here today,
both of them, and so is the baseball season...
of 1908. – Chicago Tribune The reign of bat and ball is supreme.- New York Times Another interminable off-season will draw mercifully to a close today when the first true rays of the summer sun pass over ball-fields and batter's boxes across the United States.
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Opening Day: 1908
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Dave Rouleau
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seamheads.com - 3/3/2008
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Since writing the opening piece (no pun intended)
on puzzles, my Deadball Era opus has been framed...
and now stares at me in my office. I am struck by how these images from 1900 and earlier remind me of a family album. It is easy to forget that photography was once new, and that some of our ancestors were not schooled as kids on how to pose for the camera.
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A Baseball Family Album
feeds.feedburner.com - 3/29/2008
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"We-e-e-a-ah!" and likewise "Stri-i-ke tuh!". They're here today,
both of them, and so is the baseball season...
of 1908. – Chicago Tribune The reign of bat and ball is supreme.- New York Times Another interminable off-season will draw mercifully to a close today when the first true rays of the summer sun pass over ball-fields and batter's boxes across the United States.
(more)
An Ode to Opening Day